document
stringlengths 15
174k
⌀ | summary
stringlengths 1
5.19k
| id
int64 10.1M
41.1M
| chapter_length
int64 1
39.5k
| summary_length
int64 3
1.02k
| is_stacked
bool 2
classes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Acting dean, the Reverend Canon Nigel Hand, said it was taken to put increased security arrangements in place.
The building will reopen on Thursday, he said.
Some services took place publicly in Cathedral Square while the building was closed.
See more stories from across Birmingham and the Black Country here
Nobody takes a decision to close a cathedral lightly. For centuries they have been places where people have sought sanctuary. The modern expression of that is often seen in the numbers visiting them to light candles and say prayers at times of national grief.
Birmingham has done its best to recognise the public need while still closing its doors. It has continued with acts of worship in its grounds - aided by good weather. The dean and others will have been uncomfortable at having to close.
Birmingham Cathedral does appear to have gone further than any other in the country. Closing its doors outstripped the response at York Minster where security has been tightened. Other cathedrals have seen a higher police presence too.
However, it was doing what it's been told it should by security advisers outside the church. They were mindful that to do the opposite of the agreed policy would leave them open to severe criticism especially if something happened. Better to take time to consult and reflect. Having done that they can now feel confident to adopt a change of direction and reopen.
The decision was made following Monday's Manchester Arena attack, which left 22 dead and 64 injured.
Read more: Manchester attack
The Rev Canon Hand said: "We have relationships with counter terrorism, who have encouraged us to have a rapid response policy in place should the terrorist rating go to critical.
"The closure of the cathedral afforded us the time to make the necessary decisions and arrangements to ensure that we will open the cathedral tomorrow, with increased security presence in place."
Elsewhere, York Minster said it had increased security measures following the terror attack with extra high visibility patrols by its cathedral constables around the cathedral and its precinct.
It also introduced random bag searches at its visitor entrances, while large bags and suitcases are no longer allowed inside the cathedral.
Saudi Arabia protested after the UN released a report saying the coalition was responsible for 60% of the child deaths and injuries in Yemen last year.
It said the casualty figures were "wildly exaggerated".
The UN said it would now carry out a joint review with the coalition of the cases listed in the report.
But the Saudi envoy to the UN insisted the removal of the coalition from the blacklist was "final".
The human rights campaign group Human Rights Watch sharply criticised the move, saying the UN chief's office had "hit a new low".
The coalition - which comprises Saudi Arabia and nine other Arab and Muslim nations, supported by the US and UK - began fighting the Houthis in March 2015, two months after the rebels drove Yemen's government from power and took full control of the capital, Sanaa.
Since then, at least 6,200 people - about half of them civilians - have been killed and 2.8 million others have been displaced, according to the UN.
Last Thursday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued his annual report on children and armed conflict, which described the situation in Yemen as "particularly worrisome".
A year that has set Yemen back decades
No end in sight to war in Yemen
Practising medicine under fire in Yemen
A young girl and a city struggling for life
It said there was a five-fold increase in the number of children recruited and used by armed groups in 2015 and that six times more children were killed and maimed compared with 2014.
The report attributed 510 child deaths and 667 injuries last year to the Saudi-led coalition, most of them caused by air strikes, and 142 child deaths and 247 injuries to the Houthis. In 324 incidents, the responsible party could not be identified.
Just under half of the 101 verified attacks on schools and hospitals were attributed to the coalition.
On Monday, Saudi Arabia's permanent representative to the UN, Abdullah al-Mouallimi, complained to Mr Ban about the report.
"If there are any casualties from the coalition side, they would be far, far lower," he said, adding that it used "the most up-to-date equipment in precision targeting".
Later, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Mr Ban had accepted a Saudi proposal to remove the coalition from the blacklist pending a joint review of the cases and numbers cited in his report.
The secretary general had invited the coalition to send a team to New York as soon as possible for detailed discussions before the UN Security Council examines the report in August, he added.
However, Mr Mouallimi described the removal of the coalition from the blacklist as a "vindication", and said the decision was "irreversible and unconditional".
"We were wrongly placed on the list," he added. "We know that this removal is final."
Human Rights Watch accused UN officials of "political manipulation".
"After giving a similar pass to Israel last year, the UN secretary general's office has hit a new low by capitulating to Saudi Arabia's brazen pressure and taking the country off its just published list of shame," said the US-based group's deputy director for global advocacy, Philippe Bolopion. "Yemen's children deserve better."
The UN left Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas off the blacklist in the 2014 report, after they had been included in an earlier draft.
The 27-year-old Germany defender was booed and whistled by sections of the crowd during a 5-1 home win over Wolfsburg on Saturday.
Hummels started his career at Bayern before joining Dortmund in 2009.
"Nothing has been decided yet," Hummels told supporters waiting outside the club's training ground on Wednesday.
"This dirty statement created a different impression."
Should Hummels join Bayern he will become the third player to make such a move in the past three years after midfielder Mario Gotze in 2013 and striker Robert Lewandowski in 2014.
The body of Andrew Bow, 36, was discovered on 23 March 2016.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) found officers were not sent to his home on four occasions when concerns were raised.
Police Scotland apologised to Mr Bow's family for "shortcomings" over the events surrounding his death.
Commissioner Kate Frame said it was not possible to say whether he would have been found alive if there had been an earlier response.
The investigation centred on Police Scotland's handling of telephone calls about Mr Bow's welfare in the week before his body was found.
The control room at Bilston Glen had previously been criticised in 2015 following the deaths of John Yuill and Lamara Bell, who lay undiscovered for days after a crash on the M9 near Stirling despite a sighting of their wrecked car being reported to the control room.
Mr Bow, who had Asperger's Syndrome, was last seen by police officers on 12 March last year when they found him in a confused and paranoid state.
The Pirc report said staff at the City of Edinburgh Council had sent a report to Police Scotland on 16 March asking for checks to be carried out following reports that the windows in his flat were broken. However, no action was taken.
Five days later, a local shopkeeper called 999 to report the broken windows and offered to help police find the house, due to the confusing house numbering system in the area.
However, area control room (ACR) staff at Bilston Glen did not send officers to the scene as they did not consider that any police resources were available at that time.
The shopkeeper contacted the control room again the following morning, and again staff decided that no police resources were available to be dispatched.
Later that same day another neighbour contacted the control room to raise concerns for Mr Bow's welfare.
Pirc said: "At this point, ACR staff were aware of the two previous un-actioned 999 calls and of concerns being expressed for the occupant to the effect that he may have 'hurt himself' or 'committed suicide'.
"Again, no officers were sent to Mr Bow's flat at that time."
On 23 March, a police sergeant in the Edinburgh area read details of the incident on the police system and decided to send officers to Mr Bow's flat.
They forced entry and found Mr Bow dead inside. The post-mortem examination was unable to provide an estimated time, date or cause of death.
In her findings, the commissioner said: "It is particularly concerning that despite several members of the public contacting the police to express their concerns, Police Scotland appear to have taken no action in relation to the first approach and thereafter in response to the subsequent calls, failed to dispatch officers who were available, timeously, to investigate.
"Whilst there may have been confusion in identifying the correct address from the original report, the person who contacted the police on the second occasion offered to remain at his premises and point out the flat to officers.
"Had that opportunity been taken, the police would have been able to identify the deceased's flat and investigate matters sooner."
She added: "Since it has not been possible to establish precisely when Andrew Bow died, it is not certain whether an earlier response by police could have led to him being found alive and his life saved.
"I have made a number of recommendations to the chief constable to ensure the handling of calls by staff at Bilston Glen are managed better, within the required timescales and that all available officers are sent to priority calls, especially those of concern about a vulnerable person."
Police Scotland Assistant Chief Constable Nelson Telfer said the force had made "significant changes and improvements" since the incident.
"Even after the passage of time, our thoughts remain with Andrew's family and friends," Mr Telfer said.
"We do, however, note the recommendations within the Pirc report and acknowledge the fact that there were some shortcomings in relation to the events that led to Andrew's death in March 2016. We would like to offer our sincere apologies to Andrew's family and friends for that.
"We must learn from these findings to further improve our call handling and management and deployment of local policing resources."
Match ends, Kilmarnock 0, Aberdeen 4.
Second Half ends, Kilmarnock 0, Aberdeen 4.
James Maddison (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock).
(Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Wes Burns (Aberdeen).
Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Luke Hendrie (Kilmarnock).
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Ash Taylor.
Foul by Andrew Considine (Aberdeen).
Jordan Jones (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Dicker (Kilmarnock).
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Miles Addison replaces Jonathan Burn.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Miles Storey replaces Jonny Hayes.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Wes Burns replaces Niall McGinn.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Jayden Stockley replaces Adam Rooney.
Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Luke Hendrie (Kilmarnock).
Goal! Kilmarnock 0, Aberdeen 4. Adam Rooney (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Joe Lewis.
Adam Rooney (Aberdeen) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Foul by Anthony O'Connor (Aberdeen).
Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Adam Rooney (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Jordan Jones (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrew Considine (Aberdeen).
Goal! Kilmarnock 0, Aberdeen 3. Ash Taylor (Aberdeen) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by James Maddison with a cross.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Nathan Tyson.
Jonathan Burn (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
James Maddison (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Burn (Kilmarnock).
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Jamie MacDonald.
Attempt saved. Adam Rooney (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Jordan Jones replaces Greg Kiltie.
Foul by Gary Dicker (Kilmarnock).
James Maddison (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Souleymane Coulibaly (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Gary Dicker (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Maddison (Aberdeen).
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Nathan Tyson replaces Charlee Adams.
The striker's first came from a controversial penalty when referee Willie Collum ruled goalkeeper Jamie MacDonald had impeded James Maddison.
Kilmarnock were found wanting from second-half corners as Andrew Considine and Ash Taylor added powerful strikes.
Rooney then passed up two great opportunities before squeezing a shot past MacDonald on 72 minutes.
The comfortable victory lifts Aberdeen back up to second in the Scottish Premiership stay second bottom.
Kilmarnock have tried to improve their home form by making the most of their pitch. They narrowed it some time ago. Today they decided against watering it, to slow the game down. There were also black pellets all over the artificial surface.
But there was nothing sluggish about Aberdeen, with Niall McGinn stinging the palms of MacDonald with an early free-kick and and the home keeper did well to keep out a curling effort from the same player on 20 minutes having made a good block to deny Jonny Hayes.
There was some nice one touch football from Aberdeen as they kept up a fierce tempo. And once they got ahead they had all of the momentum. At times in the second-half they were rampant.
There were a few flurries of activity in the final third from Kilmarnock but they were sporadic and ultimately fruitless.
The opening goal arrived on 25 minutes and it was a tough call for Collum since the penalty incident happened at pace.
But did MacDonald really foul Maddison? Initially, it seemed that the goalkeeper had been fouled by the Dons playmaker, losing the ball from his grasp then tugging Maddison down.
The home fans expected a free-kick and were horrified as it dawned on them that a penalty was coming. MacDonald was booked and then sent the wrong way as Rooney swept in the spot kick.
The home supporters were incensed and further angered when Collum waved away a penalty claim involving Kris Boyd.
The Kilmarnock fans had planned a protest against former chairman and current company secretary Michael Johnston in the 18th and 69th minutes - 1869 the year the club was formed.
Such is Johnston's lack of popularity that the first disgruntled chants arrived after just six minutes when it became clear the object of their ire was absent.
Despite all the acrimony, there was a generally vibrant atmosphere among the home ranks but this swiftly changed to gloom as the game went against them.
Considine cracked in a smart finish when the ball dropped at his his feet and Taylor was unchallenged at the back post for the Dons' third goal.
With Killie in disarray, Rooney scuffed a shot wide with just MacDonald to beat and crashed a shot against the crossbar but he made it third time lucky when Hayes released him and his shot squirmed past the keeper to complete the rout.
Kilmarnock manager Lee Clark: "What's the point in having a go [about the penalty]? I will only lose a few quid. It was a strange one, that's all I'll say. I've seen the footage back as well. A strange decision to say the least.
"First goals are always important. Whether it's changed the game, in the fashion that it ended up, I don't particularly believe so.
"Second half we never performed at all. I take full responsibility for that. It's been men against boys in the last two games
"It became too easy in the end for Aberdeen. We are very, very disappointed."
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes: "The pitch being a bit narrower, shorter and drier, you have to fight and work hard to get space to operate. Kilmarnock are a very competitive team, they had only lost to Celtic in the past four games, so we knew we had to get on top of them.
"Your focus will probably be on some of the movement and brilliant goals, but I thought our tenacity to get after them from the first whistle, play the conditions and get them turned and work hard to get space to get Maddison and McGinn on the ball, overlapping full-backs, Shinnie and McLean up on the game, centre-halves dominating... I thought it was almost a perfect performance."
Many people, including vegans, Hindus and Sikhs, got angry about tallow being used to make bank notes because it comes from animal fat, and they do not agree with this because of their beliefs.
But many people don't agree with palm oil being used in products like this either. So what is it and why is it causing a debate?
Palm oil is made from the fruits of trees called African oil palms.
The trees originally came from west and south-west Africa, but they were introduced to Indonesia and Malaysia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
They grow naturally in tropical rainforest areas, but they also are being planted and farmed especially to produce more palm oil.
The trees may be produced on small-scale family farms called smallholders or large plantations.
Dr Emma Keller from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), a charity that works to protect the planet, told Newsround: "Palm oil is in close to half of the products we buy in the supermarkets - in everything from shampoos and soaps, to pizzas and biscuits. It's everywhere."
It is a type of vegetable oil, like sunflower or rapeseed oil.
Some people say palm oil is the best type of vegetable oil to produce.
Emma explained: "Palm oil is a super-efficient crop, meaning that we can produce a lot more palm oil per area of land compared to other oil crops like soybean oil or coconut oil."
It is also reported that oil palm trees do not require as many pesticides or fertilisers to be used when growing them.
Finally, the palm oil industry offers jobs to people living in poverty in developing countries.
"Palm oil has provided jobs for millions of small farmers, helping them to get out of poverty, earn more money and have a better life for them and their families," explained Emma.
Environmentalists argue that this farming of oil palm trees is extremely bad for the planet.
Deforestation is when forests and trees are cut down to clear the land to use it for something else
Palm oil production is said to have been responsible for about 8% of the world's deforestation between 1990 and 2008.
This is because forests are burned to clear areas where people can grow oil palms - even if it's illegal.
Burning forests like this destroys the places where plants and wildlife live, meaning the area has less biodiversity.
Species like orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers can be affected.
A report for the Bank of England about palm oil explains: "Forest fires, started to clear land for oil palm, release high levels of carbon dioxide and black carbon (soot) into the atmosphere, contributing to climate change."
Burning forests like this was blamed for extreme air pollution levels in Singapore in June 2013, when a thick haze covered the city. Children had to stay inside to protect themselves from the unclean air.
Amnesty International also reported at the end of 2016 that young children were being used in Indonesia to work in the production of palm oil - although the BBC has not been able to check what the report said.
Some also say that eating palm oil is not good for health, as it is high in saturated fat.
It is believed that the amount of palm oil that people around the world will consume is expected to go up over the coming years.
Work is being done to stop palm oil production from damaging the planet.
A group called the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was formed in 2003 to get those in the palm oil industry to work together to do this. Members of the group, which the WWF help to set up, are given strict guidelines about how they produce their palm oil.
Some manufacturers have said they will only buy palm oil that they know has been produced in a sustainable way - meaning in a way that won't damage the planet. But many say it is difficult to know for sure whether or not farmers have actually followed the rules.
There has also been a change to make people who are buying things in the supermarket more aware of palm oil.
In the past, labels on food didn't used to have to say if palm oil had been used as an ingredient. They only had to say 'contains vegetable oil'.
But at the end of 2014, EU labelling laws changed so that products now have to state specifically if they contain palm oil.
Campaigners say that it is difficult when looking at a palm oil product on a shelf to know if the oil has been produced in a way that is damaging the planet or not.
So should we just avoid palm oil completely?
The expert Emma does not think that the solution is to do this. She thinks we should still produce and use palm oil - as it is more efficient to produce than alternative vegetable oils - but do more to make sure that the palm oil being bought and sold is sustainable and certified.
"You are really important in helping us get to a world where sustainable palm oil is the norm and that it is unacceptable to produce palm oil in a way that damages the environment, and the health of the people working and living in palm oil producing areas," she said.
Members of the European Parliament have just called for an EU scheme to make sure unsustainable palm oil is not being bought.
We will have to wait to see what happens.
He will join team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton when the new series returns on 2 October.
Clarkson pulled out of hosting the BBC One panel show in April, after being sacked from Top Gear after a "fracas".
He is set to front a new motoring show for Amazon next year, alongside co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond.
Clarkson's appearance on Have I Got News For You will be his first on the BBC since his departure from Top Gear.
He was suspended in March after assaulting producer Oisin Tymon, and the BBC later confirmed his contract would not be renewed.
At the time, BBC director-general Tony Hall said "a line has been crossed" and that "there cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another".
Clarkson signed up to present Have I Got News For You on Friday, and his appearance will mark the start of the show's 50th series.
When he pulled out of hosting in April, production company Hat Trick had suggested the presenter would appear on the show soon.
A statement said: "On reflection, Jeremy Clarkson has decided not to host Have I Got News For You. We fully expect him to resume his hosting duties later in the year."
Pointless assistant host Richard Osman will be one of the two guests joining Clarkson for the opening episode.
Two Uber drivers claimed the company was acting unlawfully by not paying holiday or sick pay.
It has been described as a test case not only for the business model of ride-hailing firm Uber, but for the whole so-called "gig economy".
Uber insists its drivers are self-employed and says it will appeal.
The firm has more than 40,000 licensed drivers in 20 UK towns and cities making more than a million trips per week.
Drivers and campaigners hail Uber ruling
The outcome of this case may not only affect its business model, but could also change the relationship between many firms and their self-employed workers.
Two drivers, James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam, argued that they were employed by Uber but didn't have basic workers' rights. The cases were brought by the GMB union.
The drivers said they should be entitled to holiday pay, and that they should be paid the National Minimum Wage.
For example, Mr Farrar (who no longer drives for Uber) said his net earnings in August 2015 after expenses were £5.03 an hour.
The drivers also argued that their actions were controlled by Uber, so in effect they were employed by the firm.
Once a driver accepts a job he or she is not notified of the destination, and faces punitive measures if they don't perform well enough, for example, following a customer complaint.
The two drivers claimed sums of money were frequently deducted from their pay, often without advance warning.
A further 17 claims have been brought against Uber, according to law firm Leigh Day.
Uber argued that there are more than 30,000 drivers in London and 40,000 in the UK using its app to find customers. Many do so, it says, because it allows them to work flexibly.
The firm says drivers, whom it calls "partners", can "become their own boss".
It also doesn't set shifts or minimum hours, or make drivers work exclusively for Uber.
Uber said that in September, drivers for UberX (the most basic private car service that Uber offers) made £16 an hour on average, after Uber's service fee, and that only 25% logged in for 40 or more hours per week.
Alex Bearman, partner at law firm Russell-Cooke, says the outcome is likely to have "significant implications for other operators in the fast growing 'gig economy'".
Similar cases are currently being brought against the courier firms CitySprint, eCourier and Excel as well as taxi firm Addison Lee.
But Martin Warren, partner and head of labour relations at Eversheds, says the fact the Uber claimants have won their case does not mean that cases brought by others will have the same success.
"Each case will depend on the specific terms and arrangements between the individual and the company they work for."
Uber is appealing against the decision, but it may have to give drivers back-pay for unpaid benefits in the UK, and pick up the future cost of those benefits.
"We may not see a final determination for some time to come," says Mr Bearman.
They may have to, as Uber may pass on any higher labour costs to its customers. "Consumers will see prices rise and a less stable, predictable service," believes Sam Dumitriu, head of projects at the Adam Smith Institute.
Luke Bowery, a partner at Burges Salmon agrees. "[Higher fares will] disrupt Uber's ability to offer a flexible and responsive service to its customers - potentially hitting at the heart of service delivery, as well as its profit margins," he says.
The ruling applies only in the UK. Different countries have different employment laws.
However, the tribunal's decision "may have an impact on how Uber operates in other countries and we have already seen similar significant claims from drivers being settled in the US," Mr Bowery says.
The trend of firms taking on self-employed workers who engage with work through apps may have to change radically, says Mr Bowery.
Faced with similar employment tribunal claims, these firms may either have to change their business models, or pass the increased costs onto customers.
"When operated in the right way, many individuals, including some Uber drivers, highly value the benefits the gig economy can bring," adds Mr Bowery.
"These benefits do need to be balanced, however, against potential exploitation and we are unlikely to have seen the last of claims of this type as the gig economy continues to grow."
Daw'r brotest wedi i'r heddlu gael eu galw i "helynt sylweddol" ym mhentref Cil-maen yn y sir nos Fawrth.
Mae'n debyg bod pobl leol yn credu bod troseddwr yn byw yn y pentref.
Dywedodd Cyngor Sir Penfro ddydd Mercher eu bod "wedi cau'r swyddfa achos pryderon am ddiogelwch ein staff".
Dywedodd Heddlu Dyfed-Powys bod swyddogion yn bresennol ar Stryd Argyle, Doc Penfro, ble mae'r dorf wedi dod at ei gilydd.
Mewn datganiad, dywedodd y llu bod y plismyn yn siarad â'r protestwyr ac yn trafod eu pryderon.
Yn ôl adroddiadau o'r safle, mae rhai yn y dorf dweud na fyddan nhw'n gadael nes eu bod yn cael "atebion".
Fe gaeodd y cyngor y swyddfeydd yn gynnar am 15:00.
Yn gynharach, dywedodd yr heddlu bod torf wedi ymgasglu yng Nghil-maen tua 21:30 nos Fawrth wedi adroddiadau ar gyfryngau cymdeithasol.
Daeth digwyddiad nos Fawrth i ben ar ôl tua chwe awr wedi i'r heddlu orchymyn y dorf i wasgaru. Chafodd neb ei arestio.
Nine other people who had also been arrested have been released by the investigating judge, the federal prosecutor's office said.
Searches were conducted overnight in 16 municipalities, mainly around Brussels, with checks on 152 lock-up garages.
PM Charles Michel said security would be stepped up at public events.
He tweeted (in French) after a meeting of the Belgian security council to say events would go ahead as planned, urging the public to remain calm.
Belgian media had earlier reported that militant Islamists may have been planning to attack the football fan zone in Brussels, where Belgium's games in the Euro 2016 tournament in France are screened.
On 22 March, bombs killed 32 people at a Brussels airport and a metro station.
The three men charged on Saturday were named as Samir C, aged 27; Moustapha B, 40; and Jawad B, 29.
The charges they face include attempting to commit murder through terrorism and participating in a terrorist group.
No arms or explosives were found during the searches, which passed off without incident, the federal prosecutor said in an earlier statement.
Forty people were initially taken in for questioning.
Among the areas where searches took place was Molenbeek, a Brussels district which has become notorious because of its associations with jihadists.
Officials said the operation had been launched after investigations which "necessitated an immediate intervention".
The country is under a level three terror alert, one below maximum.
There were several warnings of further attacks in recent days.
On Friday evening, four federal ministers including Mr Michel were placed under heightened police protection along with their families, Belgian media report.
Belgian police are said to have recently received a warning that a group of militants from the so-called Islamic State (IS) group had left Syria en route for Europe, planning new attacks in Belgium and France.
An unnamed security source was quoted by Belgian newspaper DH (in French) on Wednesday as saying the group had "left Syria about a week-and-a-half ago aiming to reach Europe via Turkey and Greece by boat without passports".
Meanwhile, a Belgian national named as Youssef EA was arrested on Friday and charged on suspicion of terrorist activities in connection with the March attacks, which were claimed by IS.
Belgian media report that he is the eighth person to have been charged over the attacks, which were carried out by three suicide bombers.
Investigators have established connections between the Brussels bombers and the IS attacks on Paris on 13 November, in which 130 people were killed.
Several of the Paris bombers came from Belgium and some of the bombs were made in a flat in Brussels.
PC David Rathband was blinded by Moat in Newcastle on 4 July, 2010 and took his own life in February 2012.
His twin brother Darren said the family were "still fighting for acknowledgement that David was let down" by Northumbria Police.
The force said the family's legal case against it would go to court in 2016.
Family members claim Northumbria Police did not do enough to warn staff that Moat had told a 999 call handler he was hunting for officers on the night of the shooting. The force denies this.
Traffic officer PC Rathband was finishing his shift in a marked patrol car when he was shot twice by a shotgun fired by Moat.
He survived but lost his sight in both eyes.
Moat had shot Samantha Stobbart, who survived, and Chris Brown, who died, in Birtley, Gateshead, the previous day hours after his release from prison.
Following a week on the run, the former nightclub bouncer turned the gun on himself during a stand-off with police in Rothbury on 10 July.
After he was shot, PC Rathband founded the Blue Lamp Foundation to help injured 999 workers, wrote a book about his experiences and became a national figure.
However, he struggled to cope with the consequences of losing his sight and the father-of-two, 44, killed himself at his home in Blyth, Northumberland.
His brother, who lives in Australia, said of the 4 July anniversary of the shooting: "As a family we obviously reflect on past events that had such a tragic outcome for David.
"It means we understand more than most the risks the emergency services, especially police, are asked to face on a daily basis."
He said the dangers faced by officers from acts of terror was "very pertinent" following attacks in Tunisia, France and Kuwait.
"Sadly, David will not be the last police officer injured in the line of duty; three officers have been shot and numerous have been hurt in the UK since 2010," he said.
He said 4 July was a important date for the family, but that the "significant anniversary" was the date of PC Rathband's death when they lost a "very special man".
He has held the role since 2014 and has been the ward councillor for Llanfihangel for more than 20 years.
Mr Thomas said he was "taking a complete break from local government".
He said he had enjoyed the roles although it had "not been an easy task" during a period of "unprecedented financial pressures".
Mr Thomas, part of a non-political group of councillors, had assumed the leader's role after the previous incumbent was ousted in a vote of no confidence.
The 48-year-old has joined the Trotters from fellow League One side Bradford City after the two clubs agreed a compensation deal.
Parkinson will be joined at Bolton, who finished bottom of the Championship last season, by assistant Steve Parkin.
Nigel Adkins and Steve Cotterill had also been in the running to take charge at the Macron Stadium.
Bolton had been without a permanent manager since Neil Lennon left by mutual consent in March, with academy boss Jimmy Phillips taking charge for the end-of-season run-in.
Former Hull, Colchester and Charlton boss Parkinson is best known for leading Bradford to a series of cup upsets.
In the 2012-13 season, he led the Bantams to the final of the League Cup, having beaten Premier League giants Arsenal on penalties in the quarter-finals before knocking out Aston Villa over two legs in the last four.
Media playback is not supported on this device
But City could not cause the ultimate upset, as the then-League Two side were humbled 5-0 by Swansea City in the final.
In January 2015, Bradford again made headlines under Parkinson as they came back from 2-0 down to beat Chelsea 4-2 in the FA Cup fourth round - the only time any side came back from a two-goal deficit to win at Stamford Bridge while Jose Mourinho was in charge.
City went on to beat Sunderland in the next round before losing 3-0 to Championship side Reading in a quarter-final replay.
The Bantams were recently bought by a German consortium, but Parkinson said the club's change of ownership was not a factor in his decision to take the Bolton job.
"It was a very tough call to leave, and I just felt that I wanted a fresh challenge," he told BBC Radio Manchester.
"I'd like to thank the new owners, who've been very reasonable and fair about this and they haven't for one minute pushed me out of the door. I wish them all the best for the future and I think they'll be very successful.
"I just fancied a new challenge and got this great opportunity, and it was too good to turn down."
Bradford have also released a statement on the club's website, describing Parkinson's departure as being on "mutually good terms".
Bolton's relegation from the Championship means they will be playing in the third tier of English football for the first time since 1992-93.
The Sports Shield consortium, led by former Wanderers striker Dean Holdsworth, took over the Lancashire club in March, along with chairman Ken Anderson's Inner Circle group.
It is believed former owner Eddie Davies has written off the majority of the £172.9m debt that was owed to him, but recruitment could still be hampered with Bolton still under a transfer embargo for breaking Financial Fair Play regulations.
Scottish Water engineers have been working through the night to repair the burst to a 24in main in Brediland Road.
A spokesman said measures had been taken to maintain water supplies, but customers may experience poor pressure, discolouration or loss of supply.
He said: "Our squad have been on the scene since 11pm working to repair what is a complex burst on this major main."
The Scottish Water website recommended that customers in the area should avoid using washing machines, dishwashers or electric showers until the main was repaired.
It said this was to ensure filters, that may be fitted to appliances, do not become blocked.
Sean Williams (51) and Sikandar Raza (50) hit half centuries but Murtagh's four wickets helped bowl Zimbabwe out for 187 in 49.2 overs.
After Paul Stirling hit 51, Ireland slid to 160-8 as a home win loomed.
But the late partnership from Murtagh and McBrine ensured Ireland's victory with 3.1 overs to spare.
The win keeps Ireland in 11th place in the ICC rankings - just ahead of Afghanistan, who start their series against Zimbabwe later this week.
Ireland started the three-match Harare series 10th in the world rankings but Zimbabwe's two opening victories saw them move above their opponents.
Murtagh's best one-day international bowling figures contributed to Zimbabwe collapsing from 159-4 to 187 all out.
Williams stroked eight boundaries in a fluent 51 before being dismissed by Paul Stirling while the dangerous Raza was bowled by Murtagh immediately after reaching his half century.
George Dockrell then produced two brilliant run outs in the space of six balls as the Zimbabwe innings imploded.
William Porterfield got the Irish run chase off to a fast start as 18 runs came off the first over before he was out for 20.
After Ed Joyce (7) went cheaply, Stirling's knock helped take Ireland to 94-2 before Balbirnie (24) ran himself out for the second game in succession.
Stirling reached a cautious 50 from 92 balls but after the opener's dismissal, Gary Wilson (19), Kevin O'Brien (10) and George Dockrell (13) all departed despite getting starts as Ireland slumped to 160-8.
However, Murtagh helped settle Ireland nerves with two boundaries in his unbeaten 19 and was supported by Donemana's McBrine with an unbeaten 14.
South Africa's Sundowns hosted the first leg in Pretoria as the top-ranked clubs entered the competition at the last-32 stage.
The hosts set off to a blistering start, going 2-0 up inside the first six minutes, before KCCA's second half strike.
KCCA FC's coach Mike Mutebi, who had warned his opponents that his players could cause a shock, could not have predicted a worse start for his side.
Soumahoro Bangaly put Sundowns in front after just 2 minutes with Brazilian Ricardo Nascimento making it 2-0 to the South Africans just four minutes later.
However, the Ugandans frustrated the hosts, and their resilience was rewarded in the second half.
KCCA's goal came from in-form Geoffrey Sserunkuma in the 68th minute which could prove to be vital ahead of the return leg next weekend.
Click here for Champions League fixtures and results from the Caf website
On Saturday, record 8-time African champions Al Ahly of Egypt beat South African league leaders Bidvest Wits 1-0 in Cairo.
Centreback Ahmed Hegazy, who starred when Egypt finished Africa Cup of Nations runners-up last month, scored the winner on 57 minutes.
Former African title-holders Esperance of Tunisia and Wydad Casablanca of Morocco also used home advantage to build leads ahead of return matches next weekend.
Ferjani Sassi put Esperance ahead against Horoya of Guinea in Rades and restored the lead after Burkinabe Yacouba Mando levelled before half-time.
Fakhreddine Ben Youssef added a third goal for the two-time African champions with 15 minutes left.
Liberian William Jebor scored late to earn Wydad Casablanca a 1-0 win in Rabat over Mounana of Gabon, who had David Massamba sent off just before half-time.
Wydad, semi-finals losers to Zamalek of Egypt last season, squandered numerous scoring chances.
On a profitable day for north African clubs, 2015 Champions League runners-up USM Alger of Algeria defeated Rail Kadiogo of Burkina Faso 2-0 in Algiers.
The school's foreign language department arranged for the pledge to be read in a different language each day for a week.
Complaints were received from people who lost family in Afghanistan and from Jewish parents, an official said.
Neither the US nor New York state has an official language.
The school district superintendant, Joan Carbone, told the Times Herald-Record newspaper that the Arabic pledge had "divided the school in half" and that she had received numerous complaints.
A statement from the district apologised "to any students, staff or community members who found this activity disrespectful" and said the reading was intended to "promote the fact that those who speak a language other than English still pledge to salute this great country".
An Arabic-speaking student read the pledge during morning announcements at Pine Bush High School in Pine Bush, New York, on Wednesday.
Officials said the school's foreign language department organised for different pledge translations to be read in celebration of National Foreign Language Week.
Many students reportedly shouted their disapproval during the recitation, and later complained on social media.
Later in the afternoon, the school's principal made a school-wide announcement to explain why the pledge was read in Arabic and to apologise to those who took offence.
Ms Carbone said the pledge would only be read in English in the future.
The school's student leader, Andrew Zink, who is in charge of the morning announcements, told US media that he knew the reading would attract controversy.
He permitted it to go forward, because he believed it was "the right thing to do".
"What makes you American is not the language you speak, but the ideas you believe in," he said.
Sadyia Khalique, a spokeswoman for the New York chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations, said: "All Americans who value our nation's history of religious and ethnic diversity should be concerned" by the reaction and subsequent apology.
Arabic is not widely spoken in Afghanistan, where the major languages are Dari and Pashto.
During her final appearance on the show on Monday afternoon, she thanked viewers and her fellow panellists for their support over the years.
Hewson said: "Thank you to everybody out there who has cared about me and my family, and watched them grow up.
"It has been fantastic. Thank you so much for everything, every tweet, every message you have sent me."
Hewson received a collage of some of her most memorable moments on the show and one of her co-stars, Coleen Nolan, sang her a song in tribute.
She thanked her fellow panellists for being there for her during "those very bad times" over the years.
"I love them all, they've been so good and wonderful," she added.
Hewson was also surprised by appearances from her Benidorm co-star Jake Canuso and former Coronation Street co-star Kevin Kennedy.
This Morning presenters Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes also paid tribute to Hewson in pre-recorded messages.
Hewson announced in August that she would be stepping down from her role as a Loose Woman, stating that the programme was "in my DNA".
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected].
The loss mainly reflects E.On's move away from generating electricity from fossil fuels and a greater focus on renewable energy.
Charges last year included a €13bn writedown on the value of its recently spun-off power business Uniper.
E.On also paid €2bn towards a domestic policy of phasing out nuclear energy.
The company, which recently raised gas and electricity prices in the UK, said: "E.On has now fully accounted for the impact of its new strategy. Its balance sheet for the 2016 financial year will be the last to reflect the burdens of the past."
The full-year figure is more than double the €6.3bn loss it reported in the previous year. However, stripping out one-off costs, E.On reported a profit of €3.1bn
The company has promised to reduce its debt by €7bn to around €20bn.
Chief executive Johannes Teyssen described 2016 as "a transitional year" and a "turning point" which "clears E.On's way into the new energy world".
Scotland's Finance Minister John Swinney is meeting his Treasury counterpart Greg Hands in the hope of meeting the 23 February deadline.
Both sides will be called to give evidence to Holyrood's devolution committee on that date.
Mr Swinney and Mr Hands hope a deal can be struck this week.
However, both men have said the onus is on the other to give some ground.
Ahead of the meeting, Mr Swinney said he remained "committed to reaching an agreement that is in line with the principles of the Smith Commission".
He said: "For both parliaments to have adequate time to scrutinise an agreement, it is important that we make progress."
No deal. No further devolution. Holyrood can't take on extra tax and welfare powers unless there's a fiscal framework to underpin them.
Any framework will include a system to reduce the grant Holyrood gets from the Treasury, to reflect its growing ability to raise its own revenue.
The two sides are struggling to agree the fairest way to achieve that. The Scottish government says the Treasury's current offer would leave it out of pocket. The Treasury disputes that and says SNP ministers can't expect taxpayers in the rest of the UK to underwrite all the risks that come with extra responsibilities.
The Scotland Office minister, Lord Dunlop, says the UK government is "committed to go the extra mile to get a deal". But First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she "will not sign up to a deal that's unfair to Scotland".
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has written to Prime Minister David Cameron calling for him to step in over the matter.
He has said that "no one is keener" than he is to reach an agreement, but also warned the Scottish government would have to be ready to "move towards" his position.
Despite months of talks, the deadline for agreement was pushed back earlier this month.
On Wednesday, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson proposed a compromise that would see both sides give some ground to agree a shorter-term deal that would be reviewed in five years.
Earlier this week, Mr Hands was criticised for being on holiday with his family while negotiations were taking place.
A Treasury spokeswoman has said the UK government had shown it was willing to compromise and "go the extra mile" to secure an agreement.
The two sides differ on key parts of the deal, in particular their interpretation of the "no detriment" principle called for by the Smith Commission on further powers for Scotland.
This means neither the Scottish or UK budgets should be left worse off in future by the finalised agreement.
The Scottish government claims the Treasury's latest offer would amount to an "almost £3bn cut", while Mr Hands insists an offer tabled by Mr Swinney is "not logical" and "not fair" to taxpayers across the rest of the UK.
The deal proposed by Ms Davidson would see both parties give some ground.
She wants the Scottish government to agree to the UK government's new method of calculating the amount of money it receives each year from the Treasury.
In return, she wants the UK government to guarantee the devolved administration would not receive "a penny less" than it would under its preferred mechanism, effectively insuring Holyrood against any budget shortfall.
This deal would then be reviewed in full after a five-year trial period.
The funeral for Daniel Sheridan is to take place in his native Dublin later.
The schoolboy was taking part in a practice session when he came off his motorbike and was then struck by another bike driven by his brother, Jake.
"There was nothing I could do, it was like a bad dream," Jake, 18, told BBC Radio Foyle.
The brothers, who were from Tallaght, were regular visitors to the County Londonderry track where the crash happened last week.
Daniel was airlifted to Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, but died later from his injuries.
"Me and Daniel were out practising, it was a beautiful day, but we had a crash and he passed away," Jake said.
"It was really a shock for something like that to happen. There was nothing I could do, it was like a bad dream."
Both brothers raced motocross bikes in competitions in England and had a close relationship.
Jake said Daniel had looked up to him and wanted to "be the best" at everything he did.
"I know he would want me to be strong, he was a very strong human being, even though he was very young," he said.
"I know he knows we loved him.
"It's been one of the hardest weekends of my life. We just need to stick together as a family now."
The 26-year-old, who scored 18 goals in 70 Bundesliga starts, has signed a five-year deal with the Serie A club.
"I had a good time in Wolfsburg and I would like to thank them for making my move to Italy possible," Perisic said.
He was the second high-profile departure from Wolfsburg over the weekend, after midfielder Kevin De Bruyne joined Manchester City for £55m.
Perisic, who signed for Wolfsburg from Borussia Dortmund in 2013, has been capped 38 times by his country, scoring nine goals.
But for the audience at the Hydro Arena, it was all about the music.
Forty thousand people entered a public ballot to get into the awards, while 2,000 others secured their much-sought-after tickets by attending auditions, after MTV advertised castings for local music fans to be part of the audience.
Amy Hamilton, 17, and Hannah Selley, 16, were second in the queue for the local auditions, having arrived at the venue at 07:00 in the morning for auditions that didn't begin until 10:00.
Amy says they impressed the judges at the auditions with a specially-created dance routine to Nicki Minaj song Anaconda.
Others won their tickets through online competitions, travelling a great distance to take up their place in the audience.
Wendela Mathyssen, 17, from Belgium, Elfa Stendhel, 15, from Italy, Ayla Houstra, 17, from the Netherlands, and Kizzy Moore, 20, and Elaine Scarry, 22, from the Republic of Ireland all travelled to Glasgow especially for the awards.
But was it worth the journey?
Ariana Grande opened the show in style, soaring above the crowd in a plastic chair as she performed two of her best known hits, Break Free and Problem, a collaboration with Australian rapper Iggy Azalea - which won her the award for Best Song.
She was still out of breath from the performance as she collected the gong, and said she had hosting last year's EMAs alongside Azalea to thank for the song coming about.
Grande was not the only one using impressive and elaborate staging to keep the audience entranced.
Canadian artist Kiesza performed much of her hit single Hideaway from inside a red telephone box, before leaving the stage to dance among the standing audience.
Light flashing wrist bands had even been distributed to the audience in preparation for Enrique Iglesias performance of I'm A Freak which saw a stunning light show thrill those in the back rows, while Spanish dancers flamenco-ed on podiums among the standing crowd during Bailando.
U2, meanwhile, kept it simple and let their music do the talking with a soulful performance of their ballad, Every Breaking Wave.
Despite the host of international stars, there were constant reminders of the city and country that was hosting the event.
Rocking bagpipers The Red Hot Chilli Pipers joined Ed Sheeran for a duet in one of the short videos played while sets were being changed, much to the audiences delight.
Later in the evening, the pipers also made an appearance alongside David Hasselhoff who had dressed in a kilt and Braveheart war paint for the occasion.
Host Nicki Minaj was particularly keen to undergo a cultural awakening in the host city - having written the audience a special "Scottish rap", leading the audience in an rendition of "500 miles", attempting to pick up the local lingo by repeatedly referencing a "Glasgow kiss", and referring to herself as the Queen of Scots.
Even with Calvin Harris' absence, Scottish representation on stage was high.
Emeli Sande presented Ariana Grande with her second award of the night for Best Female, while Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro rounded off the night's proceedings by performing alongside Slash, Myles Kennedy, and The Conspirators in a tribute to Global Icon winner Ozzy Osbourne.
The big winners on the night were One Direction, who came away with awards for Best Pop, Best Live and Biggest Fans. None of the boys were there in person to collect their awards, and despite having pre-prepared videos thanking MTV and their fans, their absence was greeted by boos from some fans.
But Australian boy band 5 Seconds of Summer, who supported One Direction on the most recent tour, were close on their tail, coming away with two awards - Best New and Best Push.
Boos could also be heard when Kanye West's nomination for Best Hip Hop was read out - an award which went to Nicki Minaj.
While Ariana Grande came away with two of her nominations, other artists like Pharrell Williams didn't manage to convert any of his five nominations into a win.
But while Katy Perry made good on two of her seven nominations, she appeared to be taking her award for Best Look as a "tongue in cheek" win, thanking her parents "for the genes" in her acceptance speech.
With a winning combination of old school greats, such as Alicia Keys, and rock legends like Slash and Ozzy Osbourne performing on the same bill as relative newcomers like Ariana Grande and Charli XCX, there was something for everyone in the show.
By looking at the faces of the audience as they trooped out of Glasgow's Hydro arena shortly after 22:00, it was clear to see that they were a crowd well satisfied.
The Paralympic star was jailed for five years in 2014 for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp.
Ms Steenkamp's parents have said that the time he has served is "not enough for taking a life".
A state appeal against his acquittal on murder charges is due in November.
Under South African law, Pistorius is eligible for release under "correctional supervision" having served a sixth of his sentence.
South African Commissioner of Correctional Services Zach Modise told the BBC that the case management committee at the Kgosi Mampuru II prison in Pretoria, where Pistorius is being held, made the recommendation last week.
The decision is likely to mean a spell under house arrest for Pistorius.
The double amputee shot and killed Ms Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door at his Pretoria home, believing she was an intruder, he told his trial.
In March a Johannesburg court blocked his legal team's attempts to stop the prosecutors' appeal.
State prosecutors say Pistorius should have been found guilty of murder - if convicted he could face a much more lengthy jail term.
Tania Koen, a lawyer for Ms Steenkamp's parents Barry and June, said that while the two had forgiven Pistorius, "ten months is not enough".
"It also doesn't send out the proper message and serve as the proper deterrent as the way it should."
The decision will reignite a national debate in South Africa about the rule of law, says the BBC's Milton Nkosi.
Pistorius was born without the fibulas in both of his legs, and had surgery to amputate both below the knee while still a baby.
He went on to become one of South Africa's best-known sports stars, and was the first amputee to compete against able-bodied athletes at the 2012 London Olympics.
Supporters in the south stand tore down hoardings displaying Tottenham slogans.
Ten spectators were arrested at the League Cup tie for a range of offences, including criminal damage. The FA will leave the matter to the police.
"We don't want any violence. We are at the disposal of the authorities to help them to sort it out," said Wenger.
Arsenal won the match 2-1, through two goals by Mathieu Flamini, and will play Sheffield Wednesday in the next round.
He trailed centre-right opponent Bronislaw Komorowski in the first round, but gained enough votes to force a second-round run-off on 4 July.
Mr Kaczynski, 61, is a combative conservative former prime minister who was voted out of office three years ago.
But following the plane crash which killed President Lech Kaczynski, he has presented himself as a man of compromise.
The disaster, in which 96 people were killed, including many senior Polish figures, is thought to have boosted both Kaczynskis' popularity.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski was born in 1949, 45 minutes before his brother Lech.
The twins became child stars, acting in The Two Who Stole the Moon, a Polish film that was released in 1962.
Both took part in the Solidarity movement that opposed communism, though they fell out with Solidarity leader Lech Walesa after he became Polish president in 1990.
In 2001, they formed the Law and Justice Party to unite Poland's right wing.
The pair's staunch defence of Polish sovereignty and emphasis on traditional Catholic values won them support in rural Poland, but provoked stiff opposition from many younger and urban voters.
Lech Kaczynski was elected president in 2005, and the twins held the two top jobs in Polish politics after Jaroslaw became prime minister the following year.
The right-wing coalition, which collapsed in 2007, had difficult relations with the EU and Russia.
Lech Kaczynski had been expected to run for re-election in October against Mr Komorowski, though opinion polls at the time suggested he would lose.
In the weeks that followed the crash, Jaroslaw Kaczynski announced that he would stand in an earlier vote in order to continue his brother's mission.
"Poland is our common, great responsibility," he said.
"It demands that we overcome personal suffering to take action despite a personal tragedy."
On 18 June, when the twins would have celebrated their 61st birthday, Mr Kaczynski laid a wreath on his brother's tomb.
Mr Kaczynski had accused his centre-right Civic Platform opponents of selling out to foreign investors and neglecting poorer Poles.
Mr Komorowski and his patron, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, had portrayed Mr Kaczynski as a populist who would wield his presidential veto to block economic reforms.
For years, Syria's actors and musicians have been one of its most precious exports, proving a hit with audiences across the Arab world, and making Syria something of a centre for television and music production.
Syria's soap operas are especially popular, and are beamed into homes across the region.
Since the anti-government unrest erupted in March, relatively few Syrian celebrities have shown their opposition to the government's crackdown by appearing in protests and speaking out in interviews.
Those who have dared to speak out, however, have put themselves at risk of arrest and even violent retribution.
In August, the prominent cartoonist Ali Farzat had his fingers broken - reportedly by security forces personnel - after he published cartoons mocking the president.
The composer Malek Jandali said the next month that his parents, who live in Syria, were beaten by supporters of the government after he dedicated a song to protesters at a US concert.
And Fadwa Sulayman, an actress from President Assad's ruling Alawite sect, was filmed alongside protesters in November in the restive central city of Homs. It was not long, however, before she was forced to go into hiding.
Prominent figures who live abroad, and are not subject to the scrutiny of the notorious security services, have been more able to criticise the government.
The pop star Asala Nasri comes from a family of distinguished Syrian musicians, and her voice is known across the Arab world.
In May, she said: "Even if the government oppressed one person out of a thousand, then… we [artists] would follow the people".
While the principled stand of a few artists has grabbed headlines, the reality is that the majority of Syria's artistic community has kept quiet about the protests, and many have even come out publicly to back Mr Assad.
Sulaf Fawakherji, who has acted in some of Syria's best loved dramas, has spoken out to state her support for the president.
In a TV interview, she said she wanted Mr Assad to stay in power because "the government, especially President Bashar Assad, has been very supportive of Syrian artists".
But she added that this was not the only reason she supported the government, pointing to what she called "important reforms" over the past 10 years.
Perhaps the biggest shock came when the actor Duraid Lahham voiced his support for the president.
Lahham is known in the Arab world for playing roles in films satirising authoritarian regimes.
However, Mr Assad's most ardent celebrity fan is the actress Raghda, who has starred alongside Lahham in several films.
Speaking on television in Egypt, she claimed that she had supported the protests which forced President Hosni Mubarak to step down in February, but that she did not back those taking place against the government in Syria, arguing that the situation in her country was different.
Raghda recently told a Kuwaiti newspaper that she would support "the devil, or any Arab dictator who makes a stand against Nato and Israel and the USA".
Celebrity support for President Assad has sparked a backlash on social media websites.
Opponents of Mr Assad have set up a Facebook page called the "Syrian List of Shame", which names and criticises public figures who have pledged their support for the government.
The page has attracted more than 30,000 members since it was set up and is growing in popularity.
The page's owners post photographs of the public figures featured on the list, insulting and taunting them for opposing the protests.
A similar page has been set up for neighbouring Lebanon, where a number of public figures have expressed sympathies for the Syrian government.
Although more and more of Syria's artistic elite are speaking out to support protests, they are still outnumbered by those who are guarding their silence.
It is possible that if the government's position becomes weaker and Syria's opposition gains more ground, more singers and actors will take a stance, but for the moment it seems most are biding their time to see what happens.
BBC Monitoring selects and translates news from radio, television, press, news agencies and the internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages. It is based in Caversham, UK, and has several bureaux abroad.
The Arctic convoys carried food and military equipment across treacherous seas to support the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945.
Veterans from Hull and East Riding were honoured by the Russian government at a ceremony in Beverley.
Families of deceased veterans were also presented with medals.
A total of 12 awards were given out, with four surviving veterans accepting theirs personally.
Among them was Frederick Moore, 90, who served on HMS Whirlwind.
Describing it as one of the "proudest days" of his life, he paid tribute to those who took part in the convoys alongside him, describing them as "the bravest men I have ever known".
Freda Crawley collected a medal on behalf of her husband John, who died two years ago. He served on HMS Offa.
She said: "He would have been thrilled, and he was always aware of how Russia felt towards the men of the convoys, and he would have been most appreciative."
She added the crews in no way saw themselves as heroes, but more like "young lads on a great adventure".
Representatives from the Russian Embassy handed out the Medal of Ushakov and said the veterans deserved to be recognised for their part in "a most dangerous and difficult operation".
The medal is named after Fyodor Ushakov, an 18th Century naval commander who never lost a battle and is the patron saint of the Russian navy.
The 21-year-old was last week released by Sydney Roosters to return to Wigan on a three-year deal from next season.
He made just four appearances for the Roosters, whom he joined in 2015.
"He sees an opportunity to play more first-grade football for the rest of the year with our club," said Rabbitohs coach Michael Maguire.
Burgess, who made three appearances for England in 2015, will join namesakes Sam, Tom and George Burgess at the NRL side.
|
An "unprecedented" decision was taken to shut Birmingham Cathedral in response to the national terror threat level being increased to critical.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen has been removed from a UN blacklist of states and groups that violate children's rights in conflict.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Mats Hummels has accused Borussia Dortmund of issuing a "dirty statement" after his club recently said he wanted to leave them for rivals Bayern Munich.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The police watchdog has highlighted failings in the way police responded to concerns about a vulnerable man who was later found dead in his Edinburgh home.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Aberdeen cruised to an 11th consecutive victory over Kilmarnock, with Adam Rooney scoring twice at Rugby Park.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Bank of England has announced it is considering using palm oil to make the new £20 notes, instead of something called tallow, which has been used to make the new plastic £5 note.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson will return to the BBC to host an episode of satirical news quiz Have I Got News For You next month.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An employment tribunal in London has ruled that Uber drivers can be classed as workers - and are not self-employed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Mae degau o bobl wedi bod yn protestio tu fas i swyddfeydd Cyngor Sir Penfro yn Noc Penfro brynhawn Mercher.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Belgian authorities have charged three men with terrorism offences, including attempting to commit murder, following a huge overnight operation.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The family of the police officer shot by gunman Raoul Moat say they are still waiting for justice five years after the attack.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Powys council leader Barry Thomas is to quit the role in May and will not stand for re-election during the forthcoming local elections.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bolton Wanderers have appointed Phil Parkinson as their new manager on a two-year contract.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Residents in parts of Paisley are being warned about possible problems to their water supply due to a burst main.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A ninth-wicket partnership of 29 by Tim Murtagh and Andy McBrine helped Ireland edge a consolation win in the last game of their one-day series in Zimbabwe.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The African Champions League holders Mamelodi Sundowns began the defence of their crown with a 2-1 win over Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) of Uganda on Friday, but conceded what could be a costly away goal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A school in New York state has apologised after receiving complaints because a student recited the US Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sherrie Hewson has bid an emotional farewell to Loose Women after 14 years on the panel.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
German energy giant E.On claims it has left "the burdens of the past" behind after reporting a record €16bn (£13.9bn) full-year loss.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Scottish and UK governments are due to resume talks on the fiscal framework for new devolved powers, with just four days to go for a deal to be reached.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The 13-year-old boy who died after a motorbike crash in Magilligan was hit by his brother's bike.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Inter Milan have signed Croatia striker Ivan Perisic from German side Wolfsburg for reported £14.5m.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
With thousands of international guests flying into Scotland and 8,000 hotel bookings made across the weekend, the MTV EMA awards have certainly put the focus on Glasgow and are estimated to have brought a £10m boost to the city's economy.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Oscar Pistorius is set to be released on probation on 21 August, South African prison authorities say, after serving 10 months in jail for shooting dead his girlfriend.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has condemned fans involved in disturbances in the away end during Wednesday's win against Tottenham at White Hart Lane.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Jaroslaw Kaczynski stood as a candidate in Poland's presidential elections following the death of his twin brother Lech, who was killed in a plane crash on 10 April.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The uprising in Syria has divided the county's thriving artistic community, with a handful of musicians, actors and directors coming out in support of protesters calling for the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Veterans who transported vital supplies from Britain to Soviet ports have been presented with medals in recognition of their service during World War Two.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
England winger Joe Burgess has joined South Sydney Rabbitohs for the rest of the 2016 season, before his return to Wigan Warriors.
| 40,033,330 | 15,596 | 1,019 | true |
Police located the vehicle crashed on the Marble Arch Road, Florence Court, after 21:00 BST on Thursday.
Inside, they found what could be up to eight kilos of cocaine.
No-one was in the van. Det Insp Alan Pyper said the suspected drugs were being analysed.
"We are delighted to have recovered this quantity of illegal drugs and our inquiries are continuing to establish a quantity and value," he said.
"I would appeal to anyone who saw a red van in the vicinity of the Marble Arch Road between 21:00 and 22:00 BST last night to contact detectives on the non-emergency number 101."
John, Keith and Finlay MacRae were all on-target, while the other joint-title favourites Kyles also had a 5-0 victory over Lochaber at Tighnabruich.
Defending champions Newtonmore had already lost ground the previous evening due to a 1-1 draw with local rivals Kingussie. Oban Camanachd recorded the league's third 5-0 scoreline of the weekend as they eased aside Glasgow Mid Argyll.
Meanwhile, Skye went top of the National Division with a resounding 6-0 home win over Oban Celtic.
John MacRae was first on target for Shiel midway through the second half but within 10 minutes, brother Keith stretched the lead to 3-0 with a snappy double. Finlay made the half-time score 4-0 before Keith completed his hat-trick just after the restart.
Five different scorers, led early on by Gordon Whyte, netted for Kyles who were 3-0 up by half-time with further contributions from Colin MacDonald and Roddy MacDonald. There was then a 45-minute lull in the scoring before Grant Irvine and Scott MacDonald brought Lochaber's surge away from the relegation zone to a halt.
The previous evening, Michael Russell had given Newtonmore an advantage in the second half at The Dell before Ryan Borthwick equalised late on. That settled the points but to decide the destiny of the Sir Tommy MacPherson Trophy, which is also contested by these local rivals, there had to be a penalty shoot-out which Newtonmore won 3-2.
At Yoker, Oban Camanachd's Malcolm Clark and Daniel Cameron both got doubles after Andrew McCuish's opener for that 5-0 scoreline, which compounded Mid Argyll's relegation concerns.
Kinlochshiel top the table on 22 points from 13 outings while Kyles are two points behind, having played a game fewer. Kingussie are a further point back but are beginning to run out of games. Newtonmore have also played 12 but are on just 16 points.
With two teams to be relegated, Mid Argyll and Kilmallie are three adrift of the pack, propping up the table on five points with Kilmallie bottom on goal difference.
Six different scorers helped Skye brush Oban Celtic aside in Portree in what was their game in hand - the island club now top the National Division on 17 points. Skye are one clear of Caberfeidh, who had no game, while Fort William's 4-1 defeat at Inveraray now leaves both these sides with a mountain to climb.
Inveraray's reserves defeated Strachur 3-0 to win the Bullough Cup, the south area junior championship.
It is well documented now that Isis is comprised of individuals who have successfully merged religion, politics, and military expertise to form a potent force that has swept away fleeing Iraqi soldiers, and executed those who are foolish enough to stay behind.
These methods, in combination with Isis' implementation of Sharia (Islamic law) including bizarre acts such as cutting electricity to prevent people from watching television, have given the group a fearsome reputation.
Furthermore, Isis has inspired extremists of all stripes to join its operations in Syria and Iraq through a social media and mass propaganda campaign that hints at its jihadist goals.
But the extent to which the movement actually contains hardline committed jihadists is extremely difficult to ascertain. It is fair to say, however, that the true size of the jihadist element in the Isis operations in Iraq is far smaller than many suppose.
Indeed, as in Syria, it is often the case that many individuals in extremist movements use them as a vehicle for their own interests, adopting the garb and mannerism of a committed Islamic radical as a pathway to greater political goals.
The case of Iraq is no different. Joining the jihad are an amorphous bloc of different players, who have come together in an alliance under the banner of Isis.
Whilst the instability in Iraq has connections to the Syrian conflict next door, and many individuals who fought for Isis in Syria are now present in Iraq, the Iraqi insurgency is more acutely focused on solving the problems of Iraq's fractured polity than it is the goals of more radical Islamic groups.
In a recent interview with the Daily Telegraph, member of the Batta tribe and leader of the Islamic Army of Iraq Sheikh Ahmad al Dabash stated: "All the Sunni tribes have come out against (Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri) Maliki.
"There are parts of the military, Baathists from the time of Saddam Hussein, clerics, everyone (who) came out for the oppression that we have been suffering," he added.
To dismiss what is happening in Iraq as the product of the maniacal whims of a few radical fanatics is to ignore the very real social inequality that exists in Iraq.
Travelling around the country in recent days, I have been shocked at the levels of deprivation that some of Iraq's citizens have endured.
The grouping of fighters that has swept through Iraq to within 60km (40 miles) of the capital is not a nihilistic jihadist group hell bent on the establishment of an Islamic caliphate.
It is a more general uprising by large groupings of disaffected communities throughout north-western Iraq and a product of years of social exclusion, poor governance and corruption by the Iraqi government.
On the military front, the key giveaway is the relatively strong performance of Isis militants against more established military forces.
Officials I have spoken to in the Kurdish Peshmerga forces have indicated that the level of training is high and that their own forces have at times struggled to hold key positions around the city of Kirkuk.
"For the most part we've been able to hold our positions, but it hasn't been easy. They [Isis] are well armed and well trained," one Kurdish security official told me on Tuesday.
Such performances are consistent with the assertion that key former Baathist military officers are coordinating Isis military operations, which was confirmed in my conversations with security officials in Kirkuk on Wednesday.
It is a strange alliance - the goals of secular pro-Saddam Baathists and radical Islamists would appear antithetical - and ultimately it may prove to be the movement's undoing.
The hope in Iraqi government quarters is that before long, when the Iraq army - along with 300 US trainers and Iranian-backed militias - begins to stem the tide of the Isis advance, the insurgents' morale will begin to fall and the cracks among its diverse membership will begin to appear.
For now, however, the alliance holds, and as Isis moves towards Baghdad, the fighting will intensify as Iraq's embattled government launches a fight back to stem the advance.
In the long run, however, if Baghdad cannot understand the need for political reform is as important as enforcing security then Iraq's problems could last a very long time.
Michael Stephens is the Deputy Director of RUSI Qatar currently blogging from Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan in RUSI The Iraq Crisis: Dispatch from the North
Gerry Adams made the comments at Sinn Féin's National United Ireland conference at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast, on Saturday.
He said it was important to "embrace" positive aspects of shared history.
It comes as talks to restore devolution continue at Stormont.
Mr Adams told the conference that recent election results at the assembly and Westminster showed a "deep political schism" in Northern Ireland.
He said: "Instead of concentrating on the negative aspects of our four centuries of shared history, I suggest that we embrace the areas of agreement and of co-operation; of good neighbourliness and the common good.
"Rarely have we lived through so much change in such a short space of time.
He added: "Our task must be to ensure that it is a shared future which looks after every citizen, and in which everyone accepts the right of the other to be Irish or British - to be unionist or nationalist or republican."
Mr Adams also said that the economic case for unification "will not on its own win some unionists over".
He therefore called for groups, including the Orange Order, to engage with Sinn Féin for further discussions.
"We need to address the future role of the Orange, its place in an agreed Ireland. Of course, that is a challenge also for the Orange and I invite their leaders once again to meet with Sinn Féin," he said.
"It is unacceptable for the Orange to refuse to meet at leadership level with our leadership.
"I have met with Orangemen as have other republicans.
"These have been useful and necessary engagements. They need to be built upon."
Former Irish President Mary Robinson, director at the US Institute of Peace Kathleen Kuehnast, and poet Michael Longley will be speaking at a gala in Belfast City Hall on Friday.
The organisation was founded by Ray Davey and students from Queen's University in 1965 to promote dialogue between Catholics and Protestants.
Robinson will be speaking about her work in climate justice at the event.
A service at St Anne's Cathedral on Sunday will also commemorate the establishment of Corrymeela.
The service will include the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, Roman Catholic Archbishop Eamon Martin and a number of other Christian leaders.
The organisation works with a range of community groups throughout Northern Ireland in an attempt to foster social cohesion.
Volunteer Beni Stuckelberger said that he can see tangible results in the centre's work.
"You can measure it by just looking at groups when they come at the beginning of the week how they interact with each other at the beginning and how they interact at the end," he said.
"At the start of a week with them I might see them in their own little groups and not interact with other groups and at the end they're all just interacting all together, having fun - that shows me we did something right."
The centre has broadened to embrace new members of Northern Ireland, he said.
"It builds bridges between different communities. Between Catholic and Protestant, and also new members of Northern Ireland society like immigrants and people who've lived here for generations, and between LGBT communities and straight people."
Prince Charles visited the centre in May this year to commemorate the centre's 50th anniversary.
He said: "It is time that we become the subjects of our history and not its prisoners.
We have all suffered too much. Too many people's loved ones have been killed or maimed."
"Surely it is time that we become the subjects of our history and not its prisoners. Surely too, through the roots of Corrymeela, we can discover lessons that can serve as a model to all who strive for peace."
Woods, 41, pulled out of the Dubai Desert Classic before the second round this month because of a back spasm.
He only returned to action in December after two back operations.
"There were a lot of times I didn't think I was going to make it back. It was tough, it was more than brutal," Woods told Dubai magazine Vision.
Woods' first return to competitive action after a 15-month lay-off came in December at the Hero World Challenge - an 18-man tournament in the Bahamas - and he finished 15th at the PGA Tour event.
He hopes to compete in the Masters at Augusta from 6-9 April.
"There have been plenty of times when I thought I would never play the game again at the elite level," added Woods, who has won 79 titles on the PGA Tour.
"It was tough, it was more than brutal. There were times I needed help just to get out of bed.
"I feel good, not great. I don't think I will ever feel great because it's three back surgeries, four knee operations.
"I'm always going to be a little bit sore. As long as I can function, I'm fine with that."
Woods has not won a tournament anywhere since 2013, while his title drought in major championships dates back to 2008.
"There is a changing of the guard," he said. "My generation is getting older but if I'm teeing up then the goal is to win."
Shakers striker James Vaughan had the best opportunity of the first half but when through on goal, Lions skipper Tony Craig made a magnificent last-ditch recovery tackle.
Bury's resolute defence frustrated the Lions as they failed to find a way past in-form goalkeeper Joe Murphy, with the Shakers stopper making a stunning save to deny Jed Wallace in the 51st minute.
Steve Morison thought he had put the hosts ahead in the 68th minute when he finished off a swift counter attack, but his goal was chalked off for offside.
Millwall cranked up the pressure in the latter stages with Byron Webster and Lee Gregory having good chances in front of goal, but Murphy's heroics between the sticks earned Bury a share of the spoils.
The win lifts the Shakers up to 17th in the table, four points above the relegation zone, and maintains manager Lee Clark's unbeaten run away from home.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Millwall 0, Bury 0.
Second Half ends, Millwall 0, Bury 0.
Joe Murphy (Bury) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Callum Butcher (Millwall).
Kean Bryan (Bury) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Millwall. David Worrall replaces Shaun Cummings.
Callum Butcher (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Hallam Hope (Bury).
Attempt missed. Jake Cooper (Millwall) left footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the left.
Foul by Aiden O'Brien (Millwall).
Paul Caddis (Bury) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Callum Butcher (Millwall).
Hallam Hope (Bury) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Lee Gregory (Millwall) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Hallam Hope (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Callum Butcher (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Vaughan (Bury).
Substitution, Millwall. Callum Butcher replaces Ben Thompson.
Attempt saved. Byron Webster (Millwall) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Cameron Burgess.
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Paul Caddis (Bury) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Antony Kay (Bury) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Millwall. Aiden O'Brien replaces Shane Ferguson.
Jed Wallace (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Tony Craig.
Attempt missed. James Vaughan (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Ben Thompson (Millwall).
Jacob Mellis (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Steve Morison (Millwall) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Paul Caddis (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Bury. Hallam Hope replaces Ryan Lowe.
Jed Wallace (Millwall) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Paul Caddis (Bury).
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Antony Kay.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Antony Kay.
Attempt missed. Jake Cooper (Millwall) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Joe Murphy.
Attempt saved. Jed Wallace (Millwall) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Vijender Singh, an Olympic medallist, beat Zulpikar Maimaitiali on Saturday, winning the WBO Oriental Super Middleweight belt from him.
But he dedicated his win to the "India-China friendship", and said he wanted to give the belt back.
India and China have been feuding over a disputed border area since June.
The row erupted when India opposed China's attempt to extend a border road through a plateau known as Doklam in India and Donglang in China.
Mr Singh, 31, has been widely praised in India for his win in the much-anticipated fight in Mumbai.
But some appear not to share his message of reconciliation.
"Chinese met a grand defeat in Mumbai and same will happen in Doklam," a yoga guru and businessman called Baba Ramdev tweeted.
Why is the India-China border stand-off escalating?
It is unclear if the Chinese competitor has responded to the offer, or if competition officials would allow the belt to be returned.
The disputed plateau lies at a junction between China, the north-eastern Indian state of Sikkim and Bhutan.
It is currently disputed between China and Bhutan. India supports Bhutan's claim over it.
India is concerned that if the road is completed, it will give China greater access to India's strategically vulnerable "chicken's neck", a 20km (12-mile) wide corridor that links the seven north-eastern states to the Indian mainland.
On Thursday China's defence ministry warned India that it would not back down.
2 January 2016 Last updated at 01:16 GMT
Romy Paris' device ingests small capsules with different functions - for example hydration, UV filtration and anti-ageing - and mixes them into a bespoke serum.
BBC technology reporter Chris Foxx met the cosmetics company's president Morgan Acas in Paris and asked if his device would cost a lot more than ready-made products.
Read more coverage from CES
Lawwell was speaking after Celtic were drawn against Barcelona, Manchester City and Borussia Monchengladbach in their Champions League group.
"Before we qualified, we discussed the squad and the requirements for Brendan [Rodgers]," he told BBC Scotland.
"We'd like to add one more before the deadline. We'll do some work on that."
Lawwell, who said "nothing can be guaranteed" about a new arrival, praised Rodgers for the "remarkable" job he has done since taking over in June.
"Brendan has got off to a great start," he said. "He's been really fantastic and it's been quite a remarkable first couple of months for him.
"To achieve what he has done in such a short space of time has been remarkable.
"He's an outstanding manager. Hopefully, he'll be with us for a number of years and take our great club forward."
Rodgers, who replaced Ronny Deila in the summer, guided his side through qualifiers against Lincoln Red Imps and Astana before a 5-4 aggregate win over Hapoel Beer Sheva in the play-off.
Celtic will open their group campaign away to Barcelona in the Nou Camp on Tuesday, 13 September, before hosting Manchester City on 28 September.
They then face home and away games against Monchengladbach on 19 October and 1 November before tackling Barcelona at home on 23 November and concluding away to City on 6 December.
Lawwell quipped: "It could've been easier. There's some real glamour ties in there.
"It's where we should be. It gives us the financial upside but also the opportunity to increase our profile. The prestige of the tournament gives us a platform to show people what Celtic are and tell the story."
Celtic have played Barca in the Champions League eight times over the past 12 years, famously beating them 2-1 in Glasgow in 2012.
In recent seasons, the Scottish champions have made several signings from Manchester City, including current defender Dedryck Boyata and winger Patrick Roberts, who joined on an 18-month loan deal in January.
"We know Barcelona very well from the last few years," added Lawwell.
"City, we've got a great relationship with and I believe Monchengladbach are a great side as well, so there are great nights ahead at Celtic Park."
Approaching Red Road by car, the buildings loom into view - intimidating as much as they are awe-inspiring.
These towers were built as the solution to a post-war housing crisis, the ultimate in modern communal living.
And for a time they lived up to the promise.
But quickly Red Road came to embody everything that was wrong with high-rise living - symbols of alienation and poverty, the very problems from which they were designed to provide an escape.
Initially, the plans for the eight buildings were fairly modest, but by the time they were completed in 1969 they had become something of an architectural experiment.
They were the highest residential blocks in Europe and provided homes to almost 5,000 people. They have inspired a film, a novel, and fascinated photographers and artists.
So what was it like as an inhabitant of the estate?
As one of Red Road's earliest residents Jean McGeough, initially at least, saw the towers at their best. Her new home meant a vast improvement in living conditions. She tells the now famous local story of being handed a ticket with her floor and house number on it.
"We got up to here with my friend and I'm like, we're gonna be late, we're gonna be late," says Jean.
"And my friend went 'look at the crowds, are they all getting houses up here?' - but it was people taking pictures as well as new residents. I had a wee card and they told us to pick for a house and I had my neighbour with me and said 'you pick it for me,' and she said 'no you pick it' - so I did. I got 9-3 and I was very, very happy."
For Ms McGeough the flats meant community. She shared cleaning the hallways on a rota system with her neighbours and children would run through her flat to get to the only stairs in the building when the lifts failed.
She went to The Brigg, the famous thousand-seater Bingo hall that was built under the flats and she worked in the bar at Red Road. She concedes it did not last, but for a time, they were everything.
"They were lovely the houses and it's breaking my heart to see them coming down."
By the time Azam Khan and Peter McDonald lived in Red Road in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Red Road had a very different kind of community.
It was no longer a desirable place to live. They describe it as a "dumping ground" and Mr Khan's new neighbours robbed for a living.
"A black cab dropped us off at the back of the building," he says. "And when you get out and see this big huge monster building in front of you and you're like 'is this it?'"
The new home that greeted Mr Khan was coated wall-to-wall in pigeon excrement and he was quickly introduced to the story of the previous occupants.
"The two residents beforehand had both jumped out the kitchen window, so when you looked out the window you could see where they'd landed because that's where it had been patched up."
"It was very rough, drugs took over the place. There was a lot of unemployment. They were closing down the shipyards, there were no jobs about and crime seemed to be the best way to pay for things. It was hard times."
"If you were a single guy and you put your name down for a flat you probably got shoved here," says Mr McDonald.
"That was just the way it was, a dumping ground. Look at them - they just look rotten don't they? Big gravestones."
Both men say they learned a lot at the flats and that they toughened them up at least.
The horror stories of Azam Khan and Peter McDonald could have been the end of the story for Red Road and in fact for many they were.
But there was to be another wave of residents to come. As well as council tenants, the flats were in turn used to house students and finally became a home for asylum seekers. Red Road briefly shot to fame again when a family of Russians jumped to their deaths in 2010.
But amid the despair was a final wave of hope.
For Mohsin Ali and his family the flats provided security and in fact echoed their original purpose - a place that inspires awe and creates communities. Mr Ali was a police officer back home in Faisalabad, Pakistan and he has been in Scotland seeking asylum since 2007.
"We were afraid when we arrived here - going higher and higher, it's just like being in a plane," says Mr Ali. "But after that we saw many families like ours and we thought we were lucky to be here. I like the Red Road flats and so do my children. The only thing was that when the wind blows, the flats would move."
Mohsin Ali talks of not having to leave the building to see his new friends. For many that would mean feeling trapped, but for him it was safety.
"The children feel very secure here, especially when we arrived because we were threatened in Pakistan.
"My children are now integrated and are used to it here and have friends. They cannot go back. My younger daughter was born here, she was born in the Red Road flats - she is Glaswegian - we've got a Red Road baby."
Watch Catrin Nye's full report on BBC Newsnight on Monday 11 June at 22:35 BST on BBC Two.
26 July 2016 Last updated at 16:29 BST
That could soon be reality - the government's got together with Amazon to start testing it out.
Naz has been finding out more...
Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that officials in Brussels had identified Raghavendran Ganeshan as one of the victims.
Mr Ganeshan, 28, was working for Indian IT firm Infosys in the Belgian capital.
Last Tuesday's attacks on the airport and the city's metro system killed 35 people and injured more than 300.
Mr Ganeshan was hit during the attack at the Maelbeek metro station.
The Indian embassy in Brussels said it was "supporting the IT expert's family in this hour of grief".
"RIP Raghavendran... Mortal remains are in process of being handed to family to be taken to India from Amsterdam airport," the embassy tweeted.
Infosys has also expressed "deep regret" over Mr Ganeshan's death in "the terrible attack in Brussels".
"Our thoughts and prayers are with Raghavendran's family and with those who were injured or lost a loved one in these attacks," the company said in a statement.
Twin blasts struck the main terminal of Zaventem international airport, in the north-east of the city, on 22 March.
Another explosion hit the Maelbeek metro station in the city centre, close to several European Union institutions.
The attacks were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
IS, an extreme Sunni Muslim group known for its ruthless tactics, has seized large tracts of territory in Syria and Iraq in recent years, attracting hundreds of young Europeans to its ranks, many of them Belgians.
A young lieutenant barks out orders. They form a wobbly line and march up and down on the spot.
Inside another group of kids are learning how to handle weapons - firing blanks down an empty hall way to improve their aim.
This after-school club is ostensibly part of a drugs prevention programme: a programme of evening activities with a patriotic military slant, aimed at keeping local kids away from drinking and shooting up.
But for the club's organiser, Stepan Zotov, it is much more than that.
It is an invisible army getting ready to defend the Fatherland.
"This rise in patriotic feeling during the last years must have had a foundation. And we are this foundation," he explains with a gleam in his eye.
"For the last 10 years, clubs like ours have worked tirelessly, fanatically I could say, to raise a generation of young people who believe in the mission and idea of Great Russia."
Mr Zotov's English is near perfect - polished at international conventions of the table top fantasy war game, War Hammer, through interaction with other fans.
He exacts demanding standards from his young charges.
What is being instilled in them is not just patriotism, but self-discipline and obedience.
"Russia is a military power. Our state is in a state of constant readiness to repel aggression.
"To be a warrior in Russia is not just a profession, it is a sacred calling. It is actually sacred, holy."
The teenagers are lapping it up.
One boy, 14-year-old Alexander, wants to go into the army.
A girl, 16-year-old Anna, would like to join the Russian border guards or the intelligence service, the FSB.
And now there is an actual war to fight in - the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, or Novorossiya as these patriots call it.
Stepan does not hide the fact that he and some of his cadets have been there to fight.
"We couldn't be regulars there, but for a week or a month or two, as much as we can give. This is all part of a great territory which has been part of Russia for many centuries.
"Part of our nation and our cultural space and we must protect them."
Not surprisingly Mr Zotov would like to see these eastern Ukrainian regions become part of Russia.
The vision is part Russian nationalist, and part Soviet: a return to the state of affairs before the USSR collapsed in 1991, when Russia and the territories around it were one country.
A curious hybrid of nostalgia for the Soviet era - multicultural and secular - and a more nationalistic religious adherence to what are described as Russian Orthodox ideas and spiritual values.
Either way, it is a vision of Russia as a country with a unique destiny, perpetually under threat from abroad, alone and misunderstood.
In a warehouse in another Moscow suburb, a woman called Elena and a man called Andrei are busy sealing up boxes of aid for the suffering civilians of Donetsk and Luhansk in Eastern Ukraine.
A monastery has donated bags of maize and buckwheat, dry macaroni, sugar and dried milk.
There are huge sacks of second-hand clothes and shoes donated by well-wishers too.
Andrei is coy about his background but indicates that he is a former FSB intelligence officer who has also served in Eastern Ukraine.
"I was in the Ghost battalion with the rebels, but I didn't fight. I was engaged in information questions," he says.
He reveals he also served in the last war in Chechnya and took part in the operation last year to take Crimea.
He is dismissive of the current ceasefire in Ukraine, but won't be drawn on what he thinks should happen to Eastern Ukraine.
"The decision about where Novorossiya should go - Ukraine or Russia - should be taken by the people there," he says.
He plays down the idea that the current crisis will lead to a war with the West.
But it is clear that for these Russian patriots, the Ukraine conflict is only a symptom of a much deeper confrontation, where Russia's real opponent is and always has been Europe and the West.
"Whoever tried to wage war against us, France, Germany, the Polish and everyone else - there were never any friends, only interests - a desire to destroy Russia and make her a donor of natural resources for other states," says Andrei.
Back at the after-school patriotic club, Stepan Zotov puts it more bluntly.
In his view, even the alliance against Hitler in World War Two was only a temporary arrangement, born out of mutual defence interests. Russia and the West were never on the same side.
"We understand very sharply the great and undeniable gap between Russian culture and Western culture," he says.
"For 60-70 years, there has been no fundamental change. Then or now, you are our enemy. And we have no illusions about this state ever changing. You are a different civilisation."
What is curious is that he manages to make this sound both chilling and somehow amicable at the same time, as though the aggressive ultra-nationalistic rhetoric against foreign enemies is on one level, and day to day dealings with individual foreigners is on another level altogether.
But when it comes to what these patriots call "national traitors"- Russia's enemies from within - the benevolence disappears.
Behind a tall fence on the edge of Moscow lies the territory of Russia's most famous bike club, the Night Wolves.
It looks like a cross between a medieval fortress and film set for Mad Max movie or Kevin Costner's Waterworld.
Carcasses of old motorbikes have been crafted into gothic sculptures.
The main entrance is flanked by two stuffed snarling wolves.
In the workshop a scary looking biker with a shaved tattooed head who goes under the name of Bulldog shows off the show bikes, on the orders of his chief.
Alexander Zaldostanov, known as The Surgeon, is a long-time Russian nationalist.
His club enjoys President Vladimir Putin's patronage.
He is on the Western sanctions list. And he was one of the instigators of the so-called 'Anti Maidan movement in Moscow, set up to stop a Kiev-style uprising from happening in Russia.
Its big rally in Moscow in February included banners vilifying both the West and Russian opposition figures, and came just days before the assassination of opposition politician, Boris Nemtsov.
Interviewed at his headquarters, Mr Zaldostanov blamed the Nemtsov murder on provocateurs, but was in no doubt that the biggest danger facing Russia at the moment was the so-called Fifth Column of national traitors.
"This issue is very important. Is it one of my duties - to resist the actions of the Fifth Column - that is those people who work for other governments and not for their homeland and for other people's money," he says.
"It has happened to us before, an entire army composed of traitors fighting against their own people. It is a terrible enemy, the number one enemy facing Russia."
Mr Zaldostanov was quick to add that the way to combat this 'internal enemy' should not be through violent means.
But a national campaign against the Fifth Column in Russia has already been espoused by Mr Putin and enshrined in a new law against so-called Foreign Agents - non-governmental organisations, especially those engaged with political or human rights work, who have links or funding from abroad.
Sipping tea in her antique-filled apartment, Elena Nemirovskaya does not look like a threat to anyone.
But her legendary School of Civic Education was recently added to the Ministry of Justice blacklist of Foreign Agents, so she and her husband have decided to close it.
For more than 20 years she brought European political experts to Moscow to educate young Russians from all over the country in the importance of the rule of law and democracy. But not any more.
"We are not continuing this school because they have humiliated us. How can we come to Russian regions and work with people?" says Mrs Nemirovskaya.
"Foreign Agents in Russian means foreign spy. We cannot agree with this title. We are not."
Nonetheless she is not entirely giving up. She still runs e-seminars via Skype for those interested enough to phone in.
"One day civic society will be strong again," she says. "It may take a long time, but we have so much more work to do."
Golos is another Russian non-governmental organisation, a nationwide election monitoring network, which has found itself on the Ministry of Justice blacklist.
Ironically it had voluntarily cut foreign funding to protect itself, but fell foul of the new law when it was sent prize money for an international human rights award.
Roman Udot, who runs the Moscow office, explains that they fought back by changing their status from 'association' (a legal entity in Russia) to 'movement', in other words a group of individuals with no legal status.
Then they used the publicity from the court case to ask supporters online for funds to pay off the fine of 400,000 roubles.
The crowdsourcing appeal worked. Before long they had collected 1.8 million roubles - an interesting insight into the extent of quiet support for oppositional activity which still exists below the radar in Russia.
Mr Udot says their new unofficial status has restricted their access to polling stations, though they still manage to do some monitoring with the help of sympathetic election observers and journalists.
But he is worried about the future.
Already the head of one Golos branch in the lower Volga region has been targeted as an individual, facing multiple charges of acting as a 'foreign agent', tax evasion and criminal activity.
So what does the future hold?
Alongside his anxieties about how his civic activism will survive, Roman Udot is not down-hearted.
He even wonders if the apparent strength of the Putin government conceals a lack of resilience, and actually the current state of affairs might change unexpectedly fast, as it did in 1991.
"Will Putin be in power for a long time? Nobody knows, but this is Russia," says Mr Udot.
"Remember the attempted coup (by hard line communists) in 1991? Those of us who were resisting, we were expecting to be killed right under the walls of the White House. But we won! In just three days!
"The Soviet system had tortured people for 70 years, but in three days it was over, almost without a shot. So nobody knows."
But this scenario is dismissed as fantasy by Russia's patriots.
They believe they are in the ascendancy and that the current crisis in relations with the West has only advanced their cause.
They are convinced that many people in Russia support them and they have the backing of the Kremlin.
"There is no opposition actually," says Stepan Zotov.
"It just exists to create an illusion maybe for Western countries that we have some kind of opposition.
"Putin might have his mistakes but obviously he is the best option," he adds.
"There is no-one else. He is the best hope for a united future, for the resurrection of Russian destiny."
The number of police officers has been increased for when the two British sides meet in Lens on Thursday.
There were already concerns about security surrounding the match.
But that has intensified following Saturday's clashes between English and Russian fans in Marseille.
Crime and security expert Dr David Lowe said the level of the antagonism between Wales and England was lower than England-Russia.
But he added the British and French forces had markedly different methods of policing.
"Both sides of supporters will be used to the British way of policing, but they need to be respectful of how policing is done there," said the former Special Branch counter-terrorist detective, who is now an expert on crime and security at Liverpool John Moores University," he said.
"There will be spotters from the British football intelligence unit looking for known individuals and trouble-makers who have injunctions out against them.
"There will always be one or two idiots who will have been drinking all day and are looking for trouble and they will be identified quite rightly and eliminated," he added.
Six England fans were jailed following violence in Marseille at the weekend while French police said 150 "well-trained" Russian hooligans were behind the trouble at the end of the match at the Stade Velodrome.
Russia has received a suspended disqualification from the tournament and the Russian FA was also fined 150,000 Euros (£119,000) over the crowd trouble.
Meanwhile, Wales supporters were praised by police for their behaviour in Bordeaux when the team beat Slovakia 2-1.
England supporters are due to be in Lille ahead of Thursday's match against Wales in nearby Lens, while Russia play Slovakia in the city on Wednesday.
Ticketless Wales fans have been advised not to travel to Lens or Lille.
But for those who go with or without tickets, Dr Lowe said UK officers would be advocating a "softly-softly" approach as riot gear and tear gas would be a shock for most supporters.
"Our officers tend to build up a rapport with supporters and are more used to the banter," he added.
Ian Whitfield, a former public order commander with Merseyside police who has policed Premier League, European and international football matches, said: "It's going to be a difficult situation because the French police have a fundamentally very different approach and don't have a model of active engagement with the fans.
"Our officers can't dictate operational policing, they can only advise, but on the ground they will be chatting to supporters and known offenders before the game and gauging the mood.
"They will also be getting the message across about keeping a low profile which can help the supporters to self-police when people are causing trouble."
Mr Whitfield is also a senior lecturer at the Liverpool Centre for Advanced Policing Studies and has a specialism in researching crowd behaviour.
Gerry Toms, a former chief superintendant with South Wales Police, and ex-general manager of Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, said there was very little historical evidence of problems between Welsh and English supporters and most of the interaction around the match would be "friendly banter".
He said: "The UK football intelligence system is one of the best in Europe and where the English and Welsh officers will be helping is by advising that if French officers are not comfortable with fans' behaviour, early intervention and talking to supporters works best.
"They will be gauging the mood and trying to see that boisterous singing isn't read as a threat so the French police don't make an inappropriate or heavy-handed response.
"The problem is if the French riot police use tear gas indiscriminately as happened in Marseille, you create the opposite effect.
"You don't want a riot with everybody against police - that breaks troublemakers up into smaller groups which makes the problem spread wider."
He said there are fears Russian fans will try to get from their next match in nearby Lille to cause trouble with English fans.
"Lens is a very small place and these people work best under cover of a large crowd so I don't think it will be as effective.
"The ban on alcohol in bars will also help those who could be caught up in violence from drinking too much and the French police will be listening to the English police and saying to supporters: 'This is an historic occasion with two UK teams playing in an international tournament - enjoy the occasion and don't antagonise each other."
Star Randel-Hanson killed Derick Marney, 70, at a flat in Vernon Terrace, Brighton, in May 2015.
He broke down and confessed to the murder 10 days later he went to tarot reader Jayne Braiden on Brighton seafront.
She alerted police but was told it was a "non-emergency" so she waited an hour with the killer for an officer to come.
Ms Braiden told BBC Radio 5 Live: "By the time we got to the devil card he broke down and started crying.
"It's the first time I've dealt with murder before. It was a shock but you have to be professional and I needed to keep him calm."
Mr Marney died from a six-inch (15cm) stab wound to his side, which punctured his vital organs.
Sussex Police said it was "not clear" what motivated Randel-Hanson - who was jailed for life on 9 May - to carry out the murder.
After gaining the defendant's trust, Ms Braiden asked him whether she could go outside to call the police. He agreed.
She said: "I explained [to the 999 operator] I was a tarot reader and told her a man had confessed to murder.
"She told me it was a non-priority call and I needed to ring the non-emergency number.
"Unfortunately they didn't believe me, but I'm not surprised at that."
She said she then bought Randel-Hanson a drink from a shop next door and waited 55 minutes for police to arrive.
"I asked him if it was ok if I took notes... I took names, places, where he had been stabbed and where the body was," she said.
"I didn't ask him why, and to be fair I don't think he wanted to talk to me about that.
"We joked about the time it took the police to come.
"He was getting tense at that point as I was not only looking for police through the glass doors, he was as well."
Sussex Police later admitted the call had been given the wrong level of priority.
A spokesman said it has been discussed with the call handler concerned and "suitable advice was given".
The 41-year-old makes the step up into management after spells coaching at Palace, Bolton Wanderers and most recently Nottingham Forest.
He has signed a deal until 2019 after Ricardo Moniz was sacked last month with the Magpies 15th in League Two.
The former Scotland U21 international also played for St Mirren, Dundee United, Brentford and Southend.
Notts County chairman Ray Trew said: "I don't think I have ever been as impressed by someone at an interview as I was by Jamie. He had us all captivated throughout what turned out to be a lengthy assessment of his suitability for the role."
The Magpies have lost one game since Moniz's departure, a 4-2 defeat by Oxford, and are now 18th in the table - nine points off the play-off places.
The proposals - which are separate to plans to cut the number of councils in the county - were submitted to the government in July last year.
Under the plans, Dorset's nine councils and the Local Enterprise Partnership, would work together on key issues.
The government previously said a decision would be made in early 2017.
Speaking in the Commons on Monday, Mr Chope urged Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, to bring forward an order that would allow the combined authority to be set up on 1 April.
Mr Javid told Mr Chope the government had "only just received the proposals" and wanted to "take the right amount of time to consider it carefully".
The plan would see Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership and the county council work with the borough and district councils as equal partners on issues of strategic economic development, regeneration and strategic transport.
Mr Chope said he had previously raised concerns that residents did not understand the difference between the combined authority plan, which would see all the councils retain their identities and boundaries, and a separate plan to cut the number of authorities from nine to two, which has been the subject of a recent public consultation.
During the consultation, residents were told cutting the number of councils would protect frontline services, reduce costs and stimulate jobs.
But the Conservative MP, who called the two-council plan a "dilution of democracy", said those benefits could also be achieved with the creation of a combined authority.
Poole chief executive Andrew Flockhart, who is lead officer for the Dorset Combined Authority, said Dorset's councils remained committed to the combined authority proposal and officials were working with the government to iron out some "technical issues".
He said the creation of the combined authority was aimed at tackling transport and economic issues and was a "very different proposition" to cutting the number of councils.
Karl Law, a 34-year-old father-of-one from Fareham, Hampshire, disappeared on 15 November on the second night of the trip with 12 other men.
Lee Cross, the party's stag, told BBC News a body found in the River Vltava on Sunday was identified as his cousin.
His family had run a campaign and hired an investigator to find him.
Mr Cross said he and the family were "devastated" at the news.
"It's been awful. I know people say these things, but he was such a lovely person," he said.
"He was amazing. He was the kindest person you could meet and didn't have a bad bone in his body. He's a great dad to Lenny and a great partner.
"He was the dream cousin."
Mr Cross had been due to marry on 29 December but has now postponed his wedding until March to allow family and friends to grieve.
A group of about 20 friends and family members came together earlier to have a drink in Mr Law's memory and celebrate his life.
Hundreds of tributes have also been paid to Mr Law on the Facebook page set up to find him.
Kez Abbatt said: "I'm so sorry to hear this tragic news. I'm literally speechless, was convinced that you'd find him and bring him home safe and sound in time for Christmas! Deepest sympathy to you all."
But a funeral is unlikely to take place before Christmas because Czech authorities plan to keep the body for up to four weeks.
Family and friends had initially believed the body found by police was not that of Mr Law, who worked in the building trade and had a fiancée and son, Lenny, who turned three in November.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We can confirm the death of a British national in Prague and are in touch with the local authorities, we are in close contact with the family and are providing consular assistance at this difficult time."
Thousands of pounds were raised through events to support the family's search efforts and more than 14,000 people liked a Facebook page set up to find him.
At the end of November, relatives looking for Mr Law had found the body of a Czech man, who proved to be unconnected to Mr Law's disappearance.
Family had criticised Czech police for what they said was a lack of help in finding Mr Law.
Mr Law's mother Sue and her brother joined the search on Sunday.
Directed as ever by Anthony C Ferrante, Sharknado 5 will see returning stars Ian Ziering and Tara Reid travel to London to avert a global shark tornado.
Since it began in 2013, the TV movie series has been met with glee by viewers - and derision by critics.
Here are five critically-panned movies that audiences have grown to love.
Often cited as the worst movie ever made, Tommy Wiseau's self-financed opus came and went in 2003 but has since developed an enthusiastic fan following.
Audiences at special screenings regularly congregate to yell abuse, recite lines from the script in unison and throw plastic spoons at the screen (don't ask!)
Wiseau, who also appeared in the film, has taken this in good humour, appearing at screenings to take questions and even taking part in a live reading of his script.
He's since reteamed with co-star Greg Sestero for a new film called Best F(r)iends, while James Franco has made a film about The Room's production, entitled The Masterpiece.
Read more about The Room from BBC Culture.
Made for less than $10,000 (£8,000), this ultra low-budget attempt to replicate Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds on a shoestring had audiences flocking to revel in its awfulness.
James Nguyen's film was particularly derided for its special effects, which consisted mainly of shoddy CGI eagles interacting unconvincingly with the film's cast of unknowns.
US distribution company Severin Films saw potential in its ineptitude and took the film on a "Birdemic experience tour" that included a visit to London in 2010.
Not to be deterred, Nguyen released a sequel, Birdemic 2: The Resurrection, in 2013 and has plans to round out the franchise with Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle.
Riding high on the success of Basic Instinct, Dutch director Paul Verhoeven reteamed with writer Joe Eszterhas for this torrid tale about a Las Vegas dancer stripping her way to stardom.
Their labours were met with derision by the critics, who poured scorn on the script, Elizabeth Berkley's lead performance and one particularly ill-judged swimming pool sex scene.
As is the way of these things, though, the film developed a cult following on home video and is now a staple on the midnight screening circuit.
Verhoeven, incidentally, is currently getting some of the best reviews of his career for Elle, a dark drama about rape that won two Golden Globes last month.
Just three years on from Return of the Jedi, George Lucas laid an almighty egg with this disastrous stab at bringing Marvel's wise-quacking alien to the big screen.
Released as Howard: A New Breed of Hero in the UK, the film's crimes against cinema include putting an actor with dwarfism in an inexpressive duck suit that reportedly cost $2m (£1.6m) to make.
Since its release in 1986, though, the film has come to be embraced both by lovers of bad movies and fans of the original comic book character.
Howard's brief appearance at the end of 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy, meanwhile, has prompted talk that a movie comeback may be on the cards.
Edward Wood Jr's status as the world's worst director is largely down to a 1959 black-and-white creature feature that languished in late-night TV obscurity for 20 years.
But after film critic Michael Medved declared it the worst movie ever made in 1980, it found a new audience among those who saw a camp value in its cheap effects and cheesy sci-fi storyline.
Many were particularly impressed by Wood's billing of Bela Lugosi as the film's star, despite the fact that he barely appears and actually died three years before the film's release.
The film and Wood himself were subsequently granted the ultimate accolade when Tim Burton made a film about the director's life, starring Johnny Depp as Wood and Martin Landau as Lugosi.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected].
The 29-year-old is one of the original members of pop trio Sugababes and more recently of girl group MKS.
She is the latest star to be declared bankrupt by a court after being chased for an unpaid tax bill earlier this month.
Buena's comeback project, MKS, was launched last year with her original Sugababes band members, Siobhan Donaghy, Keisha Buchanan.
But their first single, Flatline, as a reunited trio didn't enter the top 50 in the Official Singles Chart.
They haven't released any music since.
It's thought Buena boosts her income with PR appearances and modelling.
Sugababes formed in 1998 with founding members Siobhan Donaghy, Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan.
Their debut album, One Touch, achieved moderate success peaking at number 26 in April 2001.
Donaghy left the group after rumours of a rift with Buchanan and the group were dropped by their record label.
With the introduction of Heidi Range, the group began to experience more commercial success.
They released three studio albums before Buena announced her departure in December 2005, leading to Amelle Berrabah being brought in to replace her.
Mutya Buena is the latest in a line of pop stars who have struggled financially.
Blue band members Duncan James, Simon Webbe, Antony Costa have all filed for bankruptcy as have Westlife singer Shane Filan, S Club 7 singers Jo O'Meara and Paul Cattermole and Fazer from N-Dubz.
Kerry Katona from Atomic Kitten has been declared bankrupt twice.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube
Informa said almost 19 billion messages were sent per day on chat apps in 2012, compared with 17.6 billion SMS texts.
The shift is likely to have a big impact on mobile operators, for whom texts have been a key revenue source.
Pamela Clark-Dickson of Informa said some operators were already "seeing a decline in their messaging revenues".
According to separate estimates by research firm Ovum, more than $23bn (??15bn) of SMS revenue was lost in 2012 due to popularity of chat apps.
Informa said that it expected the messaging on chat apps to grow even further in the coming years.
It has projected that nearly 50 billion messages will be sent per day using these apps by 2014, compared with just over 21 billion traditional SMSs.
However, it said that despite the growing gap between the two, SMS will continue to remain a key player in the sector.
"There is a lot of life still in SMS," said Ms Clark-Dickson of Informa.
She explained that most of the chat apps were used by consumers who own smartphones. However, she said, there are a large number of consumers, especially in emerging and lesser developed economies, who use normal mobile phones and rely on SMS as the preferred messaging tool.
"They don't have mobile data plans, so there is an awfully big base of mobile phone users who are going to still find that SMS is the best messaging experience for them for a while," she added.
At the same time, she said that businesses were starting to look at SMS more seriously, as it can be used on all mobile phones and they do not need smartphones to use it.
"There are a few things that, I think, will keep the SMS alive for a few years yet."
Informa expects SMS revenue to grow to $127bn by 2016, from $115bn last year.
Fear because, for the first time, longer-range missiles from Hamas and other Palestinian groups reached the outskirts of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; and euphoria because of the remarkable success of Israel's Iron Dome defensive system.
Experts claim that this had up to an 85% success rate in engaging missiles heading for populated areas. In the wake of the conflict, some Israeli experts claim that Iron Dome and other similar systems - that are either operational or in development - have changed the strategic rules of the game in the region.
As Israeli strategic analyst Ofer Shelah told me: "Since Syria's defeat in the air-battles during the Lebanon War in 1982, when some 82 Syrian aircraft were shot down for no Israeli losses and Syria's anti-aircraft defences were destroyed, Arab forces around Israel have sought to balance Israel's air superiority by amassing vast arsenals of rockets and missiles."
What was good for Syria was also good for its ally Hezbollah in Lebanon and for Hamas and other Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip. They both saw rockets and missiles as a way of striking back at Israel despite its overwhelming military superiority.
Some estimates suggest that Israel faces some 60,000 rockets from Hezbollah alone and Hezbollah spokesmen have warned that rocket fire will rain down upon Israel's major cities in the event of any future confrontation.
Israel's military were for a long time sceptical about developing anti-missile defences which appeared to go against the traditional Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) doctrine that has always placed the emphasis upon offensive operations. It was only after the Second Lebanon War in 2006 that steps were taken to defend against short and medium-range rockets.
Israel's Iron Dome missile shield
Ofer Shelah believes that the success of Iron Dome, "changes the equation drastically, back, in favour of the more technologically-superior nations".
"They can avoid a war of attrition against organisations or countries relying on missiles," he says, "and this creates a high degree of freedom for decision-makers."
Mr Shelah told me that, in this recent confrontation, Iron Dome had bought time for Israeli leaders. If it had not existed, he argues, then Israel might have felt compelled to make a decision on a ground operation much earlier.
Israel already operates the Arrow 2 system intended to tackle long-range ballistic missiles, like the Iranian Shahab, that actually leave and re-enter the atmosphere. Its successor, the Arrow 3, which is already in development, expands the potential engagement envelope up to four times.
Advanced US-supplied Patriot surface-to-air missiles also have some capability against incoming ballistic missiles.
The Iron Dome has performed credibly during the recent Gaza operation, tackling rockets with ranges of between four and 70km. A new system, David's Sling, which was first tested this past weekend, will tackle missiles in the 70-250km range band.
"In a few years," says Mr Shelah, "Israel will have an active defence system which could neutralise the enemy's main threat."
Not everyone though is as convinced that Iron Dome has changed the military balance.
"Iron dome is not a strategic shift," said Jeffrey White, a defence expert at the US think tank, the Washington Institute for Near East Studies.
"It gives Israel some important advantages in responding to rocket fire, including reduction of casualties and damage; greater flexibility in responding to attacks; and some ability to frustrate the enemy's goals. But, it does not end the threat."
Indeed he argues that, for an attacker, a number of responses are possible.
On the one hand, an attacker could seek to saturate or overwhelm the defensive systems by firing large salvoes of rockets.
He also notes that some of the missiles available to Hezbollah are more accurate, enabling them to mount precision attacks. Longer-range ballistic missiles, say from Iran, could one day also carry penetration aids to try to fool Israeli defences.
While it is US funding that has provided the bulk of the money for Israel's anti-missile defences, the fact remains that it is a hugely expensive business.
The interceptor missiles for Iron Dome, for example, are estimated to cost up to $50,000 dollars each. Hundreds could be used in a matter of days during a full-scale conflict.
Missile defence may not yet be a game-changer, but it must now be a growing consideration in the calculations of Israel's enemies.
The technological progress made is remarkable. Iron Dome's recent success will do no harm to its potential sales chances abroad, since more and more countries are becoming concerned about the missile threat.
But these defensive systems, however successful, do not offer some new cloak of immunity to civilian populations.
The whole panoply of civil defence, shelters and so on, will still be needed for those missiles that get through, and civilian life during any future conflict will continue to be disrupted.
These defensive systems fail to address the wider strategic picture in a more fundamental way too.
Reducing civilian casualties on the home front is clearly an understandable goal.
But, as a recent editorial in the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz, noted, "bragging over the performance of Iron Dome" is not a substitute for the policies that Israelis should be thinking about. "One cannot indulge in the delusion," it went on, "that a way has been found to maintain the diplomatic stalemate at a bearable price."
The party confirmed it would launch a Holyrood member's bill in the summer to introduce the so-called Frank's Law.
It is named after former Dundee United footballer Frank Kopel, who died in 2014 after being diagnosed with dementia.
Mr Kopel's wife, Amanda, has been campaigning for a change in the law.
People under the age of 65 who require personal care have to pay for it - however, it is free to those over the age of 65 who are assessed by their local authority as needing it.
Mrs Kopel has been calling for the rules to be changed in order for people under 65 who are diagnosed with dementia and other degenerative conditions such as motor neurone disease, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis and cancer to also be eligible for free care.
Her husband, who started his career at Manchester United before playing more than 280 games for Dundee United, was 59 when he was diagnosed with vascular dementia and Alzheimer's in 2008.
His family had to pay out about £300 a week on personal care towards the end of his life - with Mr Kopel eligible for just 19 days of free care before his death at the age of 65 in April 2014.
Mrs Kopel was given a standing ovation at the Scottish Conservative conference in Glasgow after telling delegates there was "blatant discrimination" against dementia patients aged under 65.
The Conservatives say there is a majority of MSPs at Holyrood who are in favour of changing the law - with only the SNP currently opposed.
Conservative mental health spokesman Miles Briggs told the conference that he had met with the Scottish Parliament authorities and would table the bill in the coming months.
Mr Briggs had previously announced he would act if the Scottish government did not.
He said: "It is a shocking indictment on this SNP government's record on health that terminally ill patients under the age of 65 are being charged for the basic help they need.
"Many patients and families have told me, when you're on your deathbed, worrying about where you'll find money to pay for vital care is the last thing you want to go through.
"That's why Frank's Law is needed today, it was needed yesterday, and I will not let the SNP kick this into the long grass."
A spokeswoman for Health Secretary Shona Robison said the Conservatives "know full well that the Scottish government is already committed to examining the extension of free personal and nursing care to those under 65 while protecting existing provision.
"And we have acted to expand current provision. People with terminal illnesses already qualify for free care, and we have invested £6m to increase the income threshold at which someone becomes liable for charges.
"From 1 April 2017, armed forces veterans will have income from war pensions disregarded from social care financial assessments. And we are transforming the way we treat dementia so more people have their independence for longer and working towards greater supported self-management at home."
Here are some of the sophisticated, brazen or audacious methods thieves have used to relieve the rich, famous - and the ordinary jewellery stores - of their stones.
A gang of "brazen burglars" raided the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd and stole jewellery and cash worth £14m.
The heist, which has become known as the "largest burglary in English legal history", occurred over Easter weekend in 2015.
During the raid, the gang used heavy cutting equipment to get into a vault and ransack 56 safe deposit boxes.
Seven men have been convicted.
An armed man stole jewels worth about 40m euros ($53m; £34m) in the French Riviera resort of Cannes in 2013.
The robbery took place on a Sunday morning during a jewellery exhibition at the Carlton Hotel.
The hotel is located on the Croisette promenade - one of the most prestigious locations in the town.
The theft was the largest in a series of high-profile robberies in Cannes.
The Carlton Hotel is where Alfred Hitchcock filmed To Catch A Thief - his 1955 film about a jewel thief operating in the French Riviera.
Between 2008 and 2009, a group of teenagers went on a theft rampage, stealing jewellery and designer goods belonging to celebrities in Hollywood.
The stolen items were valued at more than $3m.
The homes of Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Audrina Patridge and others were burgled by the group who were known as the "Bling Ring".
According to police, the teenagers were motivated by celebrity worship and had a taste for luxury brands. They were arrested by police in 2009.
Their exploits formed the basis of the movie, The Bling Ring, starring Emma Watson.
Axe- and bat-wielding robbers rode their motorbikes into an indoor shopping centre and raided a jewellery store in London in November 2012.
Six people on three bikes raided Fraser Hart in Brent Cross Shopping Centre in north London.
The raid happened 15 minutes after the centre had opened to shoppers for the day.
The pillion passengers got off the bikes and smashed the windows, leaving with jewellery. The haul was thought to be worth up to £2m.
A cat burglar entered Spider-Man star Willem Dafoe's home in Rome and stole goods including jewellery in 2011.
While Italian reports valued the missing goods at $4,200, Dafoe's representative said it was $3,000.
The actor and his wife were not home at the time. The thief was said to have used ropes and mountain-climbing gear to get into the apartment from the roof.
Willem Dafoe once portrayed the archenemy of Spider-Man, the Green Goblin.
3 October 2016 Last updated at 13:52 BST
He told a press conference on Monday that Northern Ireland would be "collateral damage" in the time ahead.
Prime Minister Theresa May announced on Sunday that the UK would begin to formally leave the EU by the end of March 2017.
But Mr McGuinness said Northern Ireland would suffer economically and politically.
Two men were arrested by Dyfed-Powys Police after the woman's body was found at a property in the Pentop area of Cardigan on Sunday.
Her cause of death is yet to be established and a post-mortem examination is being carried out.
The men who were arrested are still in police custody while investigations continue.
|
A "substantial" quantity of suspected cocaine has been found in an abandoned van in County Fermanagh.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Three brothers, all from Kinlochshiel's MacRae dynasty, accounted for the club's five goals without reply against Kilmallie at Balmacara which kept Shiel top of the Marine Harvest Premiership on Saturday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
As Iraq has spiralled into violence and instability following a lightning-fast advance by the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), questions have arisen as to who exactly comprises this group which has posed the most serious threat to Iraq since US and coalition forces removed the dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sinn Féin's leader called for nationalists and republicans to adopt a new approach to "unlock unionist opposition to a new Ireland".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Northern Ireland's oldest reconciliation centre Corrymeela is celebrating its 50th anniversary today with a series of events this weekend.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Fourteen-time major winner Tiger Woods says he will "never feel great" again because of the number of injuries suffered during his career.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Millwall dropped out of the League One play-off places as they were held to a goalless draw by Bury at The Den.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An Indian boxer who beat a Chinese rival has offered to return the championship belt he won as peace gesture, amid a tense border stand-off.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A machine that can mix a custom-made moisturising cream to suit an individual's needs will be shown later this week at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Chief executive Peter Lawwell says Celtic will aim to add one more player to their squad before the transfer window closes next Wednesday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
As the first of the Red Road tower blocks in Glasgow are demolished, former residents have been remembering what life was like in the epic structures.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Imagine this - instead of waiting days for the postman to come and deliver your parcel, a drone could just come and drop it off in your garden.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An Indian man who has been missing in Brussels since last week's terror attack has died, India's foreign ministry has confirmed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
In a car park outside a block of flats in Moscow, a dozen Russian teenagers in camouflage are practising army drills.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Violence at Wales' Euro 2016 match against England could be minimised if French police heed their British colleagues' advice, security experts have said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A killer confessed to his housemate's murder during a tarot card reading as the devil card was dealt.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Notts County have appointed former Crystal Palace midfielder Jamie Fullarton as their new manager.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Christchurch MP Christopher Chope has urged the government to speed up the creation of a combined authority for Dorset.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A British man who went missing on a stag weekend in Prague has been found dead in a river in the Czech capital, a family member has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sharknado fans rejoiced this week at the news that the Syfy channel is pressing ahead with a fifth instalment in the trashy disaster franchise.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Mutya Buena has been declared bankrupt by a High Court judge.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Instant messaging on chat apps, such as WhatsApp, has overtaken the traditional SMS text message for the first time, according to research firm Informa.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
For many Israelis, the recent fighting in Gaza provoked mixed feelings of both fear and a certain euphoria.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Free care for dementia patients could be extended to those under the age of 65 under proposals set out at the Scottish Conservative conference.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
In the wake of Kim Kardashian West's Paris ordeal, BBC News looks at the recent high-profile jewellery heists.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said the British government is on a "collision course" with the European Union as a result of the Brexit vote.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Police in Ceredigion are continuing to investigate the death of a 57-year-old woman.
| 34,596,870 | 16,127 | 883 | true |
Councillors are to consider the possibility of adding a £1 surcharge to fares, to compensate taxi drivers for new airport drop-off rules.
The airport introduced a £1 fee to drop off passengers at the forecourt in January.
Although official airport taxis are unaffected by the new rules, other cabs have to pay the charge.
Aberdeen City Council is reviewing fares and the new surcharge is being considered to compensate cab drivers.
Under the proposal, passengers not wishing to pay the surcharge would be given the option of being dropped off at the long-stay car park.
The airport charge came into effect on 7 January.
Minister for Transport and the Islands, Humza Yousaf, said Road Equivalent Tariff (RET) would be introduced on Pentland Firth routes, with a variant for Aberdeen to Kirkwall and Lerwick.
RET allows fares to be realigned with the equivalent cost of travel by road.
It is expected to see foot passenger fares cut by an average of more than 40%, with car fares down more than 30%.
Mr Yousaf said: "During my first visit to the Northern Isles as Transport Minister I committed to ensuring we would reduce ferry fares as soon as practically possible.
"These significant fare cuts will be rolled out in the first half of 2018.
"It is also our intention to include the commercial operators on the Pentland Firth in this scheme, and we will work with them to put a suitable system in place to allow that to happen.
"This reduction in fares will make ferry travel to and from the Northern Isles even more attractive for islanders and tourists.
"It also brings fares into line with those on the Clyde and Hebrides network, ensuring parity and supporting our aim of having one overarching fares policy across our ferry services."
Northern Isles MSPs Liam McArthur and Tavish Scott both welcomed the news, and praised campaigners.
Orkney Lib Dem MSP Mr McArthur said: "I am grateful to all those in Orkney and Shetland who supported the campaign for fair ferry fares.
"It has been a long time coming but shows the importance of standing up for what's right and not taking no for an answer."
Having sold Ryan Colclough to Wigan in the transfer window, the Alex have now lost Southampton loan man Ryan Seager with a cruciate knee ligament injury.
Added to that, they again face losing Marcus Haber on international duty.
The Canadian is set to miss the Easter games with Sheffield United on 25 March and Bradford City on 28 March.
Having already missed four Crewe games this season, he is now called up for the back-to-back qualifying group games for the 2018 World Cup against Mexico, in Vancouver on 25 March and in Mexico City's Aztec Stadium on 29 March.
"We have looked at alternative strikers and wingers," Alex boss Steve Davis told BBC Radio Stoke.
"It is extremely difficult. Not many clubs want to let players out. The better ones have already gone. But this is a player we already know about."
League One strugglers Crewe stand second from bottom, five points adrift of safety, following last Saturday's first defeat in seven games at Chesterfield.
Hitchcock will be expected to make an appearance in Saturday's home game against much-improved Barnsley.
The son of ex-Chelsea goalkeeper Kevin Hitchcock, he has hit 15 career goals to date in 71 league appearances, over half of which have come from the bench.
Three of those goals came in a five-week loan to Crewe from Queens Park Rangers in the 2013-14 season.
The23-year-old followed that up by being sent back out on loan with a similarly successful stay at Rotherham United, scoring five times in 11 games to help the Millers win promotion to the Championship.
Hitchcock then signed for MK Dons in the summer of 2014, since when he has had two more loan spells at Fleetwood Town and Stevenage.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Across the political divide there is a recognition that the NHS will be crucial when it comes to how people cast their votes on 7 May, hence the pledges in the manifestos.
But the challenges ahead in London are very real ones.
In the last year, the capital's hospital trusts were £300m in debt - £93m of which is at the country's biggest trust, Barts Health.
Across the city, hospitals are struggling to recruit staff, with shortages in nursing, emergency departments and maternity.
Many have been bringing in staff from overseas, with recruiting trips to Portugal, Spain and Ireland.
Research by BBC London last year showed the trusts were also increasingly having to use temporary agency nurses, with the bill for the whole of London pushing £400m in the last year.
All this at a time when most of the capital's hospitals have failed to meet the A&E target of seeing patients within 4 hours, and one trust was the worst performing in accident and emergency department over the winter.
It is a similar story for the London Ambulance Service.
It has just had its busiest year on record and has struggled to meet attendance times.
The service had to go as far afield as Australia and New Zealand to recruit an extra 400 paramedics.
The re-organisation of health care in the capital continues to provoke strong local campaigns.
Protestors in Lewisham won a high court battle to keep their local emergency department but since the last election, four accident and emergency departments have closed at Chase Farm, Queen Mary's in Sidcup, at Hammersmith and at Central Middlesex.
Five more remain under threat of closure or being downgraded - those at King George in Ilford, Charing Cross, Ealing, Epsom and St Helier.
Plenty of challenges at a time when the NHS nationally is being told it's going to have to save £30bn.
So what are the parties offering?
Increase NHS spending by at least £8bn a year over the next five years
GP surgeries open from 8am - 8pm and seven day access to doctors
Integration of health and social care
An extra £2.5bn a year funding for the NHS
Access to a GP appointment within 48 hours
Integrate health and social care and scrap the Health and Social Care Act
Increase real terms NHS spending by £8bn by 2020
£3.5bn extra for mental health
Integrate health and social care budgets
Extra £3bn a year to frontline services
GP surgeries open at least one evening per week where there's demand for it
Scrap hospital parking charges
Increase NHS budgets by £12bn a year
Make mental health more of a priority
Repeal the Health and Social Care Act
Sutton went ahead after 23 minutes when Dan Wishart curled home a 20-yard free-kick and the hosts found themselves a man down shortly after the goal as Bradley Wood was sent off for stamping on Roarie Deacon following an altercation.
But the Imps equalised six minutes after half-time when Sam Habergham spotted Ross Worner off his line and lobbed the goalkeeper from 45 yards.
Sutton made their numerical advantage tell late on as Jamie Collins headed home a corner with five minutes remaining and Deacon finished off a counter-attack in stoppage time.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Lincoln City 1, Sutton United 3.
Second Half ends, Lincoln City 1, Sutton United 3.
Goal! Lincoln City 1, Sutton United 3. Roarie Deacon (Sutton United).
Jamie McCombe (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Jamie McCombe replaces Lee Beevers.
Joe Morrell (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Lincoln City 1, Sutton United 2. Jamie Collins (Sutton United).
Substitution, Lincoln City. Terry Hawkridge replaces Nathan Arnold.
Substitution, Sutton United. Chris Dickson replaces Maxime Biamou.
Lee Beevers (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Sutton United. Joe Morrell replaces Gomis.
Substitution, Sutton United. Ryan Burge replaces Simon Downer.
Goal! Lincoln City 1, Sutton United 1. Sam Habergham (Lincoln City).
Second Half begins Lincoln City 0, Sutton United 1.
First Half ends, Lincoln City 0, Sutton United 1.
Alex Woodyard (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Roarie Deacon (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Bradley Wood (Lincoln City) is shown the red card.
Goal! Lincoln City 0, Sutton United 1. Daniel Wishart (Sutton United).
Sean Raggett (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Adam Marriott replaces Matt Rhead.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
At the bottom of the table, Instonians remain five points from safety after losing at Glenanne.
In the women's IHL Ulster Elks were beaten by Ards and remain a point behind Pembroke Wanderers in the battle to avoid relegation.
Pegasus revived their chances of a top-four finish with a win over Loreto.
With a place in the Irish Senior Cup final secured, Banbridge remain on course for a potential domestic treble after a 4-1 home win over Pembroke Wanderers maintained their two-point advantage at the top.
Jonny McKee scored twice with the other goals coming from Eugene Magee and Ross Beattie.
Three Rock Rovers came from 2-0 down to beat Monkstown 3-2 to keep up the pressure on Bann while Lisnagarvey are only a further point off top spot after a 6-1 home win over Cork C of I.
Matthew Nelson scored twice for Garvey with Daniel Buser, James Lorimer, Timmy Cockram and Sean Murray netting the others.
Nelson and Murray will be hoping to be named by Irish coach Craig Fulton on Monday in his squad for World League 2 at Stormont next month.
Instonians were beaten 4-0 by Glenanne and are five points behind Railway Union at the foot of the standings but the Ulster side have two games in hand.
In the women's league, Ards edged out Ulster Elks 2-1 at Londonderry Park after goals from Chloe Brown and Tamara Macleod with Danni Wilson's last-minute reply a mere consolation.
The win leaves the Elks a point behind Pembroke who were beaten by leaders UCD.
Pegasus are up to fifth and back in the race for the end of season play-offs after a 1-0 win at Loreto thanks an early Rachael McMillan goal.
The Belfast club are just two points behind the Dublin side with fourth place guaranteed a spot in the end of season play-offs.
Two goals from Irish international Anna O'Flanagan were enough for Monkstown to beat Railway Union 2-1 and they are just a point behind UCD at the top with a game in hand.
It comes as a government-commissioned report sets the recommended levels at 10 micrograms of the vitamin a day.
But officials are concerned this may not be achievable through diet alone, particularly when sunlight, which helps in vitamin D production, is scarce.
Low vitamin D levels can lead to brittle bones and rickets in children.
Limited amounts of the vitamin are found in foods such as oily fish, eggs and fortified cereals.
But, for most people, the bulk of their vitamin D is made from the action of sunlight on their skin.
And official estimates suggest one in five adults and one in six children in England may have low levels.
Now, an extensive review of the evidence, carried out by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), suggests everyone over the age of one needs to consume 10 micrograms of vitamin D each day in order to protect bone and muscle health.
And public health officials say, in winter months, people should consider getting this from 10 microgram supplements, if their diet is unlikely to provide it.
Its main function is to regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in the body, which are vital for the growth and maintenance of healthy bones, teeth and muscles.
In extreme cases, low levels can lead to rickets in children - where the bones become soft and weak and misshapen as they continue to grow.
In adults, vitamin D deficiency can lead to osteomalacia - causing severe bone pain and muscle aches.
But there is a balance - too much vitamin D can lead to high levels of calcium in the blood which can cause heart and kidney problems.
Anyone with a chronic condition or taking medication should seek advice from their doctor.
Vitamin D: Q&A - Why do we all need to take a pill a day?
Meanwhile, children aged up to four should take supplements each day all year round, as should babies under one year - unless they already consume this in infant formula.
Prof Peter Selby, at the University of Manchester, welcomed the advice.
He said: "In particular, it dispels any doubt of the place of vitamin D in the maintenance of bone health and should ensure that all people will now be encouraged to receive vitamin D to reduce their risk of bone disease and fracture."
Previous advice that recommended top-up daily supplements for a few at-risk groups, including pregnant or breastfeeding women, and over-65s, still stands.
For example, people whose skin has little exposure to the sun, or who always cover their skin to go outside, should take the supplements throughout the year.
Black and Asian people should also consider the supplements all year round.
Dr Louis Levy, head of nutrition science at Public Health England, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "This is a change in advice, previously we have said that babies from six months to five years should have a supplement and only those people at risk of deficiency should take a supplement.
"Previously we felt that everybody would get enough from the sunlight.
"This is new advice based on evidence looked at over the last five years."
He said those who apply sunscreen in the way the manufacturer recommended would not make enough vitamin D.
"When you go out, you do need to have short bursts without sunscreen and make sure that you don't get sunburnt," he said.
NHS England says vitamin D supplements are available free of charge for low-income families, through the Healthy Start scheme.
Separately, health officials in Scotland and Northern Ireland say they have updated their guidance in line with the new recommendations, but only for people aged over six months.
They are currently considering whether to extend the advice to babies from birth.
SACN reviewed a growing body of evidence linking vitamin D to bone and muscle health.
It also looked at studies suggesting Vitamin D levels might have an impact on cancers, cardiovascular disease and multiple sclerosis but found there was insufficient evidence to draw any firm conclusions.
FA Cup finalists Palace have two league games to play before meeting Manchester United at Wembley on 21 May.
They face Stoke City and Southampton and Kaikai, 20, hopes to figure soon for the Premier League club.
"My aim is to break into the first XI as soon as possible and take my chance when I get it," he told BBC Sport.
Shrewsbury secured their safety with a game to spare on Saturday despite losing 4-3 at home to Peterborough United, having been 3-0 down with 16 minutes left, as Blackpool and Doncaster Rovers both lost.
Striker Kaikai will now not have to turn out in Town's final game of the season at Swindon on Sunday.
He leaves having scored 12 goals for Shrewsbury in two separate loan spells to finish as the club's leading marksman this season - and some of them have been memorable strikes.
"It's down to self-belief and practice," he said. "I put a lot of time in after training working on my shooting and dribbling. I'm confident that, when I get the ball, I can do something with it.
"It's been a pleasure being here, learning different aspects of the game and I'm grateful for the opportunity.
"Going into next season, it will benefit me. My all-round game has improved. I need to have a solid pre-season and see what happens."
The Crewe United players were charged with bringing the game into disrepute for bets placed on their Irish Cup tie against Warrenpoint Town on 4 February.
Attempts were made to bet large sums on more than four goals being scored in the game, which Crewe lost 5-0.
The players are suspended from all affiliated football until 31 May 2018.
The IFA's Disciplinary Committee also imposed fines of £400 on each player, whose names have not been released.
Prior to Wednesday night's hearing, all five players admitted to a breach of rules but claimed they had acted independently in placing bets.
However, committee members "were not convinced" this was the case, according to an IFA statement.
"The committee wishes to express its concern at the negative impact betting on games can have on the game and urges all clubs, officials and players to familiarise themselves with the rules and regulations in relation to football."
Reaching the sixth round of the Irish Cup was seen as a significant achievement for the Crewe United club, which is located in Glenavy near Lisburn.
The team, managed by former Northern Ireland international Peter Kennedy, won five matches to get to the last 16 stage of Northern Ireland's premier cup event.
The club co-operated fully in the investigation and at no point was accused of any wrongdoing.
In a statement the club said it was "deeply disappointed to be in the position of dealing with this matter, however, we hope that this case will help all players to understand their responsibilities".
Crewe added: "It has also been acknowledged that player education around the subject of betting, and how information is disseminated to [players] by all clubs and the governing body could be improved.
"As a club we hope action is taken by the IFA in this regard and would support any initiatives to assist players in their awareness of such matters."
There is no suggestion that anyone from Warrenpoint was involved in any wrongdoing.
Eve Watson's close range header nine minutes before half time sealed the win in front of 1500 people at Springfield.
The hosts withstood sustained pressure from their opponents in the second half to prevail in their debut final.
Aland had won gold in each of the last three Island Games they had played in, having not been beaten since losing to the Faroe Islands in 2005.
"We're so happy we could win gold on our home turf in front of our home fans," said Jersey midfielder Libby Barnett.
"We've been so positive the whole time, we've always said we wanted a medal, and it's even sweeter that it's gold.
"After getting into the final the only thing we set our sights on was gold and we're over the moon," she added.
Jersey needed a last-minute winner to beat Greenland 3-2 in their opening match, before beating Hitra 2-1 to top their group.
Their 3-1 win over Gotland on Thursday in the semi-final ensured a first-ever appearance in an Island Games final.
"The crowd deserve a big gold medal," added captain Jodie Botterill.
"We've had tough times in this tournament and the crowd has really lifted us," she added.
And yet, there is a surprisingly tenuous relationship between the amount of money spent per student and the results of international Pisa tests, at least when comparing relatively wealthy nations.
South Korea is one of the highest-performing OECD countries, but spends well below the average per-student expenditure.
Students in Poland, which spends around $68,000 (£52,000) per student between the age of six and 15, perform at the same level at age 15 as the United States which spends over $115,000 (£89,000) per student.
That means despite spending much more money the US does not gain any advantage in results.
More broadly, the world is no longer divided between rich and well-educated countries and poor and badly educated ones and success is no longer just about how much money is spent, but about how that money is spent.
The teacher-pupil ratio in China and the United States is almost identical. But the Chinese chose much larger class sizes than are seen in the United States, up to twice the size. That enables the Chinese to give teachers much more preparation time, lesson-development time, time to collaborate with other teachers, time to work with parents and time to tutor students who are behind in class.
It is the same cost, but very different approaches. Chinese policymakers traded larger class size for more professional collaboration and more favourable working conditions for teachers, while American policy-makers opted for smaller classes, lower salaries and less time to plan and collaborate.
For the first time, the OECD has now looked at the ways in which countries fund their schools. It has not been an easy task.
In most countries, how schools are funded reflects decades of layers of decisions on school financing, often with shifting priorities. No one would design a system of school financing that resembles anything close to what we found in the countries that we studied.
Global education
Ideas for the Global education series? Get in touch.
In some systems, fragmented governance structures are reducing the clarity, co-ordination and transparency of funding flows.
In others, the formulas used to calculate per-student funding are so complicated that even those who use them don't fully understanding them.
In Uruguay, we found over 130 different programmes targeted at improving equity in education which involve the funding of specific groups of students or schools.
Targeted funding can help to deliver policy objectives, such as promoting greater equity, promoting school choice or a form of market regulation.
But a multiplication of different funding streams can lead to inefficiency and extra costs in administration.
Not surprisingly, one of our main recommendations is for school systems to be much more transparent about their funding policies and how resources are distributed to reconcile quality, equity and efficiency.
The presentation of clear criteria that can be scrutinised can help stimulate public debate about what is a fair method of funding.
Promoting equity in school funding has two main dimensions. It needs to make sure that funding levels are similar across a system for students in similar circumstances - and at the same time that there is extra funding, above the basic amount, for any additional needs.
Looking at funding systems across countries, there seem to be four main components:
As well as the amount of funding, how it is distributed is also important, because many different layers can be involved, whether national or local government or agencies and down to individual head teachers.
Whatever level of governance is responsible, they need to be able to make sure that funding decisions are equitable and accountable.
Since the 1980s, many countries have devolved budgets to schools or groups of schools.
School autonomy over budgets can give schools much more flexibility over how they use their funding, so that they can adapt to local needs and priorities.
But there needs to be adequate transparency and a wider framework of checks and balances to make sure that autonomous, individual funding for schools does not begin to widen inequality.
But when school autonomy and accountability and support are intelligently combined, they can provide the leverage to make a very positive impact.
A good example is the pupil premium scheme in England, which provides schools with additional resources for each disadvantaged student.
On the one hand, the pupil premium is not unique, as many countries have made major strides to better link resources with needs.
On the other hand, the way in which the pupil premium has sparked ideas in England's schools is unique.
The discretion which England has given schools in how they use the pupil premium, and the accompanying accountability requirements, are exemplary.
Creating this kind of ownership for innovative solutions seems to be a very important ingredient.
Last year, as the chairman of the selection committee for pupil premium awards, I was intrigued by the diversity of approaches in using the pupil premium, and I wonder whether government could ever be equally imaginative.
Many of the schools went beyond exams and results to prioritise efforts around student well-being, such as pastoral care, safeguarding, school uniforms, or breakfast clubs to improving student attendance.
Some schools focused on parents, conducting workshops for parents to understand current teaching methods or to engage parents in academic work and assessment, or introducing students to the world of work.
But in terms of making the best use of funding, it shows how schools can own the whole process and try to fulfil the potential of disadvantaged students.
On constituency votes, ITV and Cardiff University research puts Labour on 34% (-4 since December), Conservatives 22% (-1), Plaid Cymru 19% (-1), UKIP 18% (+3) and Lib Dems 5% (unchanged).
Prof Roger Scully said the poll showed a "three-way fight" for second place.
He projected Labour would win 27 seats, three short of a majority.
His analysis suggested the Tories would have 12 seats, Plaid 10, UKIP nine and the Lib Dems two - unchanged from his projection in December.
It takes into account regional list voting for the 20 of the 60 AMs elected using a form of proportional representation.
That data puts Labour on 31% (-3), Conservatives 22% (-1), Plaid Cymru 19% (+1), UKIP 18% (+2), the Lib Dems 4% (unchanged) and Greens 3% (-1).
Prof Scully, from the university's Wales Governance Centre, said Labour remained "a long way ahead of the field" but was continuing to lose the support it gained when Jeremy Corbyn was elected UK leader in September.
"Labour's saving grace continues to be the divided nature of the opposition to them," he said.
"The two main opposition parties in the assembly are essentially stagnant in this poll, a finding that does not bode well for the chances of either the Conservatives or Plaid Cymru making the large numbers of constituency gains that they would need to challenge Labour's dominance in the assembly.
"Unless the Liberal Democrats can stage some sort of revival by May even holding two seats may be an optimistic prognosis for them.
"The clear gainers in this poll are UKIP. This is, in some respects, very strange; the party has been subject to significant internal divisions recently, particularly in Wales, and has attracted substantial negative publicity.
"For 'normal' parties you would expect such developments to generate a loss in public support. But for UKIP this does not appear to be the case. Indeed, the opposite is true - their support continues to grow."
On the question of Europe, a clear lead was opening up for those who would said they would vote to leave the EU in the forthcoming referendum, Prof Scully said.
The survey found 45% would vote to leave (+3) and 37% voting to remain (-3), with "don't knows" on 16% (+2) and those who said they would not vote on 3% (-2).
Governor Jay Nixon signed an order to "help restore peace and order".
An independent autopsy has found Michael Brown, 18, was shot by a Ferguson police officer six times, including twice in the head.
On Sunday evening police dispersed angry crowds shortly before a second consecutive night under curfew began.
The mother of Michael Brown has called for the arrest of the officer who killed her son on 9 August. He has been suspended pending a full investigation.
Officials last week confirmed that Darren Wilson, a six-year police veteran with no previous complaints against him, has been on paid administrative leave since the shooting.
In an interview with US media, Mr Brown's mother said the only way to restore peace in Ferguson was by "arresting [Mr Wilson] and making him accountable for his actions".
A preliminary post-mortem examination by the St Louis County Medical Examiner's office on the day after Mr Brown's death found he had been shot, police said, without disclosing how many times.
But a preliminary private post-mortem report has since revealed that he was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, the New York Times reports.
The probable fatal shot entered the top of Mr Brown's head, forensic pathologist Michael Baden was quoted by the paper as saying.
Missouri National Guard
Gunpowder residue suggested he was not shot at close range, but that finding could change once Mr Baden has access to the clothes Mr Brown was wearing at the time of his death, the newspaper reported.
He flew to Missouri on Sunday to conduct a separate autopsy at the request of the family.
After dark on Sunday, police in Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis, said they came under attack and had no alternative but to respond.
Capt Ron Johnson said protesters had shot at officers and thrown petrol bombs and bottles before the five-hour curfew started at midnight local time (05:00 GMT).
He described the violence as "premeditated criminal acts" intended to provoke a reaction. A number of people were injured during the unrest, and police made several arrests.
No major incidents were reported during the curfew, which has now ended.
Missouri declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew on Saturday in response to the escalating violence.
The killing of Mr Brown by a white policeman in a street has inflamed racial tensions in the largely black suburb.
Officer Darren Wilson shot the teenager after reportedly stopping him for walking in the street.
The governor of Missouri has criticised police for releasing CCTV footage which apparently shows Mr Brown stealing cigars from a local shop some hours before his death.
Mr Nixon said the release of the footage "appeared to cast aspersions" on the dead man, saying "it made emotions raw".
But he also condemned the protesters: "These violent acts are a disservice to the family of Michael Brown and his memory and to the people of this community who yearn for justice to be served and to feel safe in their own homes."
21,205
Population of Ferguson, Missouri
65%
Black or black African
6% Police officers are black
9% Unemployed
21% Families living below the poverty line
In Pictures: Clashes in Ferguson
The 18-year-old reached 91 not out on the first day of the final game of the season against Gloucestershire.
Donald could now reach three figures on the first anniversary of his senior debut, after helping his team to run up 338-4 at Bristol.
"That would be a massive bonus (to get the record)," Donald said.
"But there are are still nine more runs to get first, so I'll worry about them and then we can talk about all that.
"Hopefully I'll sleep otherwise it'll be a very long night, but I'll be fine."
Matthew Maynard is the previous record holder, hitting a century on his debut aged 19 against Yorkshire in Swansea in 1985.
"I'm pleased so far but first and foremost it's a good day for the team with everyone getting starts and getting a few runs," added Donald.
"It's a good batting wicket and I'm feeling nice so hopefully we can go on.
"I was aware of my career-best but more aware of the big three figures hopefully."
The innings of 81 by opener James Kettleborough, who joined the club this season from Northants, was also his first-class best.
He has returned for a second spell in the Championship side at the tail-end of the season.
"I had the career-best at the back of my mind, mainly because I've got to get a round in!" said the 22 year-old batsman.
"I was aware of it so it was nice to go past it. It's been an incredibly frustrating season personally, so I'm grateful to get the opportunity and really pleased to get a couple of scores at the back-end of the season."
"A few of the lads were saying we haven't had too many days like today so hopefully we can make it count and take control of this game."
Should Donald get the Championship record he would still be outside the county's first-class record for the youngest to three figures.
That record is held by Mike Llewellyn aged 18 against Cambridge University at St Helens in 1972.
Leighann Davidson, 29, and Kevin Anderson, 33, also known as Neilson, both of Peterhead, faced drugs charges at the town's sheriff court.
They made no plea and were released on bail.
Police said the seizure was one of the biggest drug recoveries in the north east of Scotland in recent years.
Media playback is unsupported on your device
10 November 2014 Last updated at 03:34 GMT
But in Australia, the most commonly used fuel - unleaded petrol - is taxed, not subsidised.
Now plans for a rise in the fuel tax has provoked debate among Australian drivers.
Phil Mercer reports from Sydney.
Ouseph, 29, beat Japan's Sho Sasaki 21-15 21-9, dominating throughout in a promising display.
Compatriot Kirsty Gilmour failed to progress in the women's draw however, losing 21-12 17-21 16-21 to Linda Zetchiri of Bulgaria.
"I hope I'm only at the start of my career and I've got many more lessons to learn on the way," she said.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board approved a business plan to make Glan Clwyd, in Denbighshire, the main centre for vascular surgery in north Wales.
But there are concerns Gwynedd patients could be put at risk if services are centralised in north east Wales.
The scheme was approved in principle in 2013 and the business plan will now be submitted to the Welsh government
It has the backing of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
The Royal College of Surgeons, which carried out a review of vascular surgical services across the region in 2015, said in calling for them to be retained at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, surgeons and consultants were putting their own rivalries ahead of patients' care.
The study found poor communications and on-call systems for emergency patients "not safe", with staff not knowing who to call in a crisis.
It warned if progress was not made it was possible the services could be merged into a larger network of hospitals in England and south Wales.
But Arfon AM Sian Gwenllian argued last year that centralising the service would put vascular patients and others at risk.
"If the vascular service goes elsewhere the expertise goes with it, meaning a compromised service for north west Wales," she said.
About 300 complex vascular surgery operations are carried out in north Wales each year - about 20% of the total vascular procedures - and the remainder will continue to be carried out at the patient's nearest acute hospitals under the plans.
Evan Moore, the board's medical director, said: "Units such as these, which provide a hub for major vascular arterial operations, are being created across the UK and there is strong evidence that such sites improve clinical outcomes and patient safety, while attracting the best staff and helping to develop the best infrastructure."
The board is seeking funding from the all-Wales Capital Programme and there could also be a contribution from a health-related charity.
The gene controls the development of hormone-regulating neurons that tell the body when to reach sexual maturity.
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London identified the fault by studying cases of delayed puberty within seven families.
The finding, reported at the Society for Endocrinology annual conference, may point to a new way of treating the condition.
Girls normally show signs of puberty before they reach 13, and boys by 14 or 15.
If a teenager older than this is not showing any such signs - breast development in girls and growth in testicle size in boys - then this should trigger alarm bells with their doctor.
Four in every 100 adolescents experience early or late puberty.
The GnRH gene error may account for many of such cases, Dr Sasha Howard and colleagues told the Society for Endocrinology annual conference.
Their work looked at seven families from Finland, but they say the findings are applicable to the UK and other Western European countries.
By scanning DNA samples, they identified 15 candidate faulty genes, but one stood out.
This, as yet, unnamed gene error interrupts the development of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons in the brain of the foetus in the womb.
And puberty is affected by varying degrees, according to the severity of the gene error.
A small gene error could delay puberty by a couple of years, for example, while a larger error might block puberty altogether.
Dr Howard said: "This is useful to know and could ultimately lead to better treatments and diagnostic tests.
"If we had a gene panel that we could test we could reassure some patients that they will go into puberty eventually."
She said the search was on for other genes that influence puberty onset.
"There's a small handful of genes that have been implicated in early or late puberty so far. There will undoubtedly be more.
"Our discovery is exciting though because it reveals a novel mechanism that we didn't know about before."
Prof Richard Sharpe, an endocrinology expert at the University of Edinburgh, said: "Delayed puberty can be extremely embarrassing and distressing and, in some cases, can have health consequences, such as bone problems from prolonged growth."
Knowledge such as this could help doctors better judge which patients need treatment to help them reach puberty, he added.
A 21-year-old woman was attacked at the junction of Craiglockhart Road and Craiglockhart Quadrant at about 22:30 on Wednesday.
Detectives said the suspect was white, in his 20s, between 5ft 9in and 5ft 11in tall, of an average to lean build.
He had dark, messy, medium-length hair and was wearing a dark grey hooded zip-up top and dark denim jeans.
The woman was walking home when the man approached her from behind and indecently assaulted her.
Following the attack, the suspect ran back along Craiglockhart Road, past the junction with Craiglockhart Park.
He is believed to have either turned right towards Elliot Road or left along Craiglockhart Road towards Colinton Road.
Det Ch Insp Alwyn Bell said: "As a result of our ongoing inquiry we have obtained a more detailed description of the suspect and the potential routes he has taken after this attack.
"I would ask that anyone who can help us trace this male contacts police immediately.
"In addition, we are also keen to speak to the drivers of two cars that were within Elliot Place around the time of the incident and would ask these motorists to also get in touch to assist with our investigation."
UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had recorded no civilian deaths in the first 15 hours of the truce.
Residents in the embattled northern city of Aleppo reported calm.
Separately, Israel denied on Monday that Syria had shot down one of its jets over the contested Golan Heights.
In a statement on state TV, Syria's military said it had downed a jet and a drone flown by Israel's military.
An Israeli military statement said: "Overnight two surface-to-air missiles were launched from Syria after the mission to target Syrian artillery positions. At no point was the safety of [Israeli] aircraft compromised."
Some reports said the truce in Syria was broken by sporadic attacks carried out by both government forces and rebels after the ceasefire had come into effect.
The Observatory said they had seen reports of aerial bombardment of some villages in Hama province, and shelling near Damascus.
The Syrian army has said the truce will be applied throughout Syria for seven days, but that it reserves the right to respond decisively to any violation by armed groups.
A number of rebel factions have given a guarded welcome to the deal but expressed reservations about its implementation.
The Syria truce was described by US Secretary of State John Kerry as possibly the "last chance to save a united Syria".
The deal was struck on Friday in Geneva after months of talks between Russia and the US. It also requires both sides to allow unhindered access for humanitarian aid to besieged areas.
Humanitarian groups are hoping to make aid deliveries to the worst-hit areas, especially the war-torn city of Aleppo.
If the truce holds for seven days, the US and Russia will carry out co-ordinated air strikes on militant groups - including so-called Islamic State and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (known until recently as the Nusra Front).
The opposition Free Syrian Army group has said that while it will "co-operate positively" with the ceasefire, it was concerned it would benefit the government.
Another major rebel group, the hardline Islamist Ahrar al-Sham, initially rejected the deal but later appeared to have softened its stance.
Opposition sources quoted by Reuters said a forthcoming statement supporting the cessation "with harsh reservations" would be backed by "the largest groups", including Ahrar al-Sham.
Speaking earlier, President Bashar al-Assad welcomed the deal but said the Syrian state was still "determined to recover every area from the terrorists, and to rebuild".
The strength, or otherwise, of the ceasefire is a big test of what appears to be a less sour, more workable relationship between the foreign ministers of the US and Russia.
Diplomacy failed in the first, critical years of the war. A major reason for that was diplomatic deadlock between President Bashar al-Assad's ally, Russia, and the US, which demanded his immediate departure from office.
Since then Russia has become the most influential outside power in Syria. The US and its Western allies have struggled to keep up.
Perhaps Moscow is now ready to build on a ceasefire, if it lasts, to push President Assad towards a political transition that might end the war.
Or perhaps, as enemies of President Assad and the Russians believe, the ceasefire will be a chance to regroup and rearm.
The conflict in Syria, which began with an uprising against Mr Assad, has raged for five years and claimed the lives of more than a quarter of a million people.
More than 4.8 million have fled abroad, and an estimated 6.5 million others have been displaced within the country, the UN says.
Jihadist groups like so-called Islamic State and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham face the joint might of the Russian and US air forces
Moderate rebels and civilians in the areas they hold will no longer face the threat of indiscriminate air strikes such as barrel-bombing although the Syrian air force will not be grounded completely; aid deliveries will be allowed to areas currently under siege
President Assad will be in a stronger position as the US and Russia engage two of his most effective military opponents while moderate rebels observe the truce with his forces
February 2012: Syrian government "categorically rejects" an Arab League plan calling for a joint Arab-UN peacekeeping mission
June 2012/January 2014/January 2016: Three failed UN-sponsored peace conferences in Geneva
September 2013: Kerry and Lavrov negotiate a deal to strip the Syrian government of its chemical weapons in return for the US backing away from air strikes. Since then, the government has again and repeatedly been accused of using toxic chemicals against rebel-held areas
February 2016: World powers agree in Munich on a nationwide "cessation of hostilities" in Syria excluding jihadist groups. There is no agreement on any joint US-Russian operations. The "pause" quickly unravels as Assad promises to regain control of the whole country
March 2016: President Vladimir Putin declares "mission accomplished" in Syria and orders removal of "main part" of Russia's air army in Syria. Russian air strikes have continued ever since
Premiership clubs had voted to withhold players from international duty over alleged outstanding injury bills.
Captain Greig Laidlaw, Matt Scott, Tim Visser and Sean Maitland are among the Scots playing in England's top flight.
A Scottish Rugby spokesman said: "We are in positive talks with PRL and expect our players to be available."
Australia, Argentina and Georgia visit Scotland in November and head coach Vern Cotter names his squad on Tuesday.
PRL is also reported to be seeking remuneration from the Italian, Samoan and Tongan unions.
Full marks if you guessed titanium dioxide, a nearly ubiquitous but wholly unsung material.
Its brilliant white has made it a staple in pigments - hence Wimbledon - but its eco-credentials are still coming to the fore.
Titanium dioxide does a couple of clever tricks that mean we may well be seeing a lot of it in the future: it's self-cleaning, and it breaks down pollutants in the air.
And the fact that thin films of it are clear is the reason that a number of manufacturers use it in glass applications such as skylights.
The self-cleaning aspect comes about because one processed form of titanium dioxide is what is called superhydrophilic - literally, "water-loving", which means that when water hits a dirty titanium dioxide surface, that surface will draw in a whisper-thin sheet of water across its whole surface, displacing grime that then washes neatly away.
But its second trick of removing pollutants is what has made it an increasingly popular choice for environmentally-minded building projects.
A bit of the ultraviolet light in sunlight frees up electrons from the material, creating "free radicals" that actively break down pollutants including so-called NOx gases (molecules of varying proportions of nitrogen and oxygen) or VOCs (volatile organic compounds).
A number of pilot projects around the world have seen the material used in, for example, concrete - hence the Jubilee Church in Rome. In Japan, Mitsubishi markets a brand of titanium dioxide-treated paving stones and Toto makes coated ceramic tiles.
The material hit the news again this week when the aluminium firm Alcoa announced its new product Ecoclean, a titanium dioxide coating on aluminium panels for cladding buildings.
The firm claims that 1,000 square metres of the coated panels eat up the equivalent NOx output of four cars.
"What we see, especially in Europe, is more and more legislation... about the air quality in cities, and I think that Ecoclean is a product that can really help mitigate the effects of emitters such as cars by its air-cleansing characteristics," Alcoa spokesman Jasper Van Zon told BBC News.
The fact that such a large manufacturer has joined the ranks could mean that the real-world use of the material can finally be assessed on a large scale, says Anne Beeldens of the Catholic University Leuven in Belgium.
Dr Beeldens has been working with colleagues for years to establish, with rigorous experiments, the full scope of titanium dioxide's effects in a built environment.
"We were really sceptical when we started with this, but it really works on the extraction of pollutants out of the air," she told BBC News.
"The problem is that you have so many parameters that it's sometimes hard to prove it. We got some promising results in the lab, but it was still in the lab; I think now it's all shifting to real applications."
Dr Beeldens is involved with the European project Photopaq, which has among other experiments coated the interior of the Leopold II tunnel in Brussels, carrying out detailed measurements of the before-and-after effects over the course of two weeks.
In London's borough of Camden, a two-year trial of titanium dioxide-containing paint by a firm called Cristal showed significant reductions in pollutants - up to 65% - a short distance from the wall on which the paint was applied.
However, larger-scale trials will be needed to establish that titanium dioxide's convenient self-cleaning nature really can make an environmental difference in a real, open urban scenario.
And while the propensity of titanium dioxide to break down NOx and VOCs is well established, the full circle of chemistry that takes place is not entirely known.
"We will see from those results if any extra pollutant is formed by the reaction; you have to look not only at the reduction of the pollutants, but also to see if nothing more harmful is produced," she explained.
Laboratory experiments have shown, for example, that the breakdown of NOx chemicals can result in the creation of other pollutants such as nitrous acid or ozone. But Dr Beeldens said that real-world tests in Japan had not shown significant production of the chemicals.
The data from the tunnel test will help settle the question. And as large building projects make use of titanium dioxide-coated products, such as "The Iceberg" in Aarhus, Denmark, further large-scale experiments can be carried out.
Dr Beeldens said: "When I look at it in the last year, a lot of projects are starting where there's a link between application of the material and real air measurements, and I think once that link is really made, then it will start to be used all over the place."
Investigators probing the former F1 driver's accident said he was eight metres off-piste when he crashed.
Prosecutor Patrick Quincy said he could not as yet estimate the 45-year-old's speed but said it was "not an important element of the investigation".
Schumacher suffered a severe head injury in the 29 December accident.
He is currently in a medically induced coma at a clinic in Grenoble where doctors describe his condition as critical but stable.
Fans gathered outside the hospital on 3 January to mark the racing legend's 45th birthday.
Speaking at a news conference in the French city of Albertville, the investigating team said they had so far attended the scene of the accident in the resort of Meribel, spoken to witnesses and the medical team.
They have also reconstructed events leading up to the crash, examined the helmet and skis and viewed footage filmed on a camera attached to his helmet, they said.
Mr Quincy, who is heading the investigation team, refused to be drawn on Schumacher's speed at the time of the accident saying they needed to go through the two-minutes of footage "image by image".
But another investigator, Lt Col Benoit Vinneman said the video appeared to show "completely normal behaviour by a good skier on this terrain".
Schumacher had deliberately chosen to go off piste, an area between a red and blue piste that was clearly signposted, the investigators said.
He hit a rock that was 8m (26ft) from the piste, and landed 9m (30ft) away from the piste, they outlined.
"[Mr Schumacher] is evidently an extremely good skier, but one of his skis hit a rock that was sticking out... it caused him to fall and he hit his head on the rock," Mr Quincy said.
Stephane Bozon, one of the local policemen involved in the investigation, said the skis were in "perfect condition" and had not been the cause of the accident.
Mr Quincy stressed their investigation into Schumacher's accident was no different to that given to other skiing similar skiing accidents. He said they had investigated 50 such cases.
Schumacher's family have been by his bedside since the accident, and have appealed for privacy in recent days, asking journalists to leave the clinic where he is being treated.
Michael Schumacher won seven world championships and secured 91 race victories during his 19-year career.
He won two titles with Benetton, in 1994 and 1995, before switching to Ferrari in 1996 and going on to win five straight titles from 2000.
Researchers recruited 220 diabetic patients for their study and asked half to use Nintendo's Wii Fit Plus for half an hour a day over three months.
The gamers not only lost weight but also achieved lower glucose levels.
When the other group later switched to play the Wii they had similar benefits, BMC Endocrine Disorders reports.
Experts said exercise in any shape or form could be good, but that some activities would offer greater benefits than others.
Being active is particularly important for people with diabetes. It helps the body use insulin more efficiently as well as stay generally fit and keep a healthy weight.
For some, exercising and sticking to a healthy diet may be enough to keep diabetes in check.
Prof Stephan Martin and colleagues from the West German Centre for Diabetes and Health, who carried out the study, say exercise computer games offer an alternative way to get people physically active.
But they also note that getting people to stick at it could be harder - a third of their study participants dropped out of the trial.
Those who did persevere saw significant improvements in a measure of blood sugar control called HbA1c.
And they reported improvements in wellbeing and quality of life.
Dr Richard Elliott, of Diabetes UK, said: "Physical activity and a healthy balanced diet, along with taking doctor-prescribed medications if necessary, can help people with type-2 diabetes to control their condition and minimise their risk of diabetes related complications over time.
"To make physical activity part of your daily routine it's important to find an approach that works for you and is enjoyable, as this will make it easier to keep active in the long run.
"Computer games that promote a healthy lifestyle might be one way to achieve this, but different forms of physical activity might work better for different people. Further research will be needed to identify the long-term effects of such games compared to other approaches."
Sandwood Primary in Penilee said there had been a rising number of incidents of family members shouting at staff, or using offensive language.
Glasgow City Council said a minority of parents had caused problems.
The school has set up a new system for contacting teachers and making appointments to discuss concerns.
The head teacher has sent a letter to parents and carers saying the procedures have been implemented "with regret".
But she said she was not prepared to allow staff to deal with anyone acting aggressively or inappropriately, or for pupils to have to witness such behaviour.
She said anyone breaking the rules would be issued a written warning, and that "this could result in not being allowed within the grounds of the school."
The letter said the school was "more than happy to speak with parents/carers" and had operated an open doors policy.
But a rising school roll and commitments of senior staff meant an appointment "is required."
In a statement a Glasgow City Council spokeswoman said: "As the school roll has increased significantly over the last couple of years, the head teacher has devised a playground layout for parents and carers to collect their children at home time that will help in the smooth running of the school day and ease any congestion.
"As in any Glasgow school, inappropriate behaviour towards staff is unacceptable, will not be tolerated and action taken to set a good example to our children and young people."
The city council added that there was no intention to suggest that a parent could not say hello to a teacher.
However, it believed the school gate was never the best place to discuss a child's school performance. Any parent who wanted to do this should make an appointment with the school.
The council also stressed its duty of care to protect staff from any aggressive or inappropriate behaviour.
The prime minister said his mother would advise the Labour leader to "put on a proper suit, do up your tie and sing the national anthem".
He was hitting back at a jibe from a Labour MP about his mother.
The Labour leader took a few moments to respond as Tory MPs barracked him, before offering some "motherly advice" about standing up for a free NHS.
"My late mother would have said, 'stand up for the principle of a health service free at the point of use for everybody', because that's what she dedicated her life to, as did many of her generation," he said.
A tweet then went out from Mr Corbyn's official account that quoted Albert Einstein.
"'If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes & shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas & shoddy philosophies' Einstein #pmqs," the message said.
The PM later appeared at a Conservative EU rally without a tie or jacket, joking that he had "ignored my mother's own advice".
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan defended his decision to criticise Mr Corbyn's dress sense, which followed a heckle from a Labour MP.
"What was really noticeable on Monday during the EU statement was that Jeremy Corbyn's top button was not done up, his tie wasn't straight," she told BBC Radio 4's World At One.
"Actually I think there are standards in Parliament. If you bring families or mothers into it you can expect to have a pretty firm bite-back from any politician."
A senior Labour source said: "I think when you are losing an argument, you resort to personal insult. When you are not able to answer questions on the NHS, you resort to silly insults. It's got no place in politics."
The source said Mr Corbyn had "several suits", adding: "I don't think he will be taking sartorial advice from David Cameron or his mother."
Mr Cameron's mother Mary hit the headlines earlier this month after signing a petition against cuts to children's centres in his constituency.
The two leaders were arguing about the junior doctors dispute when they began trading jibes about what their mothers would say.
Mr Corbyn asked if the PM would be "writing another letter to himself, asking on behalf of his constituents asking for the health secretary to intervene and support his local NHS?"
The prime minister was heckled by Labour MPs as he made his reply, with one shouting "ask your mother".
"Ask my mother?" said the prime minister.
"I think I know what my mother would say. I think she would look across the despatch box and she would say 'Put on a proper suit, do up your tie and sing the national anthem'."
Mr Cameron's attack delighted Tory backbenchers who cheered uproariously for more than 30 seconds.
But Labour MPs on twitter accused him of making a personal attack and of bringing Prime Minister's Questions to a "new low".
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron tweeted: "When #PMQs descends into a series of 'Your mum' comments it shows all politicians up. It's school-ground antics that demeans."
The 22-year-old is out of contract at the end of the current campaign and has been linked with the Scarlets.
"We are disappointed that Rhys has turned down a contract offer and will move elsewhere at the end of this season," Blues coach Danny Wilson said.
"He has played well for us at both full-back and fly-half this season."
Wilson added: "I know he will continue to give everything he has for the region until the end of the season."
Gareth Anscombe's arrival at the Blues in July 2014 from Waikato Chiefs in New Zealand saw Patchell moved to full-back to accommodate the newcomer.
"We have good competition for the number 10 jersey and it is a shame that Rhys will not be a part of that," Wilson added.
"We want players who want to be here and fight for a place in the team."
Scarlets confirmed in November they were in talks with Patchell, and head coach Wayne Pivac said: "He's certainly one who is of interest to us."
Gene therapy injections increased the retina's light sensitivity, showing potential for the treatment.
Children with Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) lack night vision and lose daylight vision.
Scientists from the UK and the US published their study results in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Leber's congenital amaurosis affects the functioning of the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.
About 10% of people with LCA carry a mutated form of the gene RPE65 which is normally essential for vision.
But in people with LCA, the light-detecting cells eventually die and disrupt communication between the retina and the brain, leading to loss of vision.
Researchers at University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital studied the effects of injecting healthy genes into the retinas of 12 young patients over six years.
They found that although half of patients experienced some improvements in their night vision, this peaked at six to 12 months after the treatment.
Also, their daytime vision did not appear to improve.
Prof Robin Ali, head of genetics at UCL's Institute of Ophthalmology, said: "Gene therapy improves night vision but there is no evidence that it slows progression of the disorder.
"We now need a more potent gene therapy vector."
He said the research team had developed a new, more powerful way of carrying and delivering the gene to its target cells.
The team is aiming to test the new vector soon in a second clinical trial funded by the Medical Research Council.
Another smaller trial, led by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, found a similar pattern of improving eyesight in some patients lasting between one to three years after treatment with gene therapy.
Dr Samuel Jacobson, from the University of Pennsylvania's Scheie Eye Institute, in Philadelphia, said the trial results were important, even though the therapy doesn't appear to be a permanent treatment.
"The gain in knowledge about the time course of efficacy is an opportunity to improve the therapy so that the restored vision can be sustained for longer durations in patients."
He said the results highlighted the potential benefits of gene therapy as well as the problems still to be solved - for LCA and other diseases of the retina.
The only goal of the game came in the 59th minute when Ricky Modeste's cross was powered in with a diving header from Joe Healy.
After a quiet opening quarter of an hour, the home side nearly took the lead when Moses Emmanuel evaded a couple of challenges and his shot from seven yards was pushed against the post by Bromley keeper Ross Flitney.
Toby Sho-Silva had the best chance of the first half for the visitors, but his shot from seven yards was blocked and a defender beat Bradley Goldberg to the rebound.
The hosts dominated the second half, but Bromley went close to earning a point five minutes from time when Alan Dunne's header was cleared off the line by match-winner Healy.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Dover Athletic 1, Bromley 0.
Second Half ends, Dover Athletic 1, Bromley 0.
Ross Lafayette (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Aswad Thomas (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Mitchell Pinnock replaces Ricky Modeste.
Ben Chorley (Bromley) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Aswad Thomas replaces Moses Emmanuel.
Substitution, Bromley. Ryan Hall replaces Bradley Goldberg.
Substitution, Bromley. Blair Turgott replaces Louis Dennis.
Sam Magri (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Bromley. George Porter replaces Connor Dymond.
Goal! Dover Athletic 1, Bromley 0. Joe Healy (Dover Athletic).
Second Half begins Dover Athletic 0, Bromley 0.
First Half ends, Dover Athletic 0, Bromley 0.
James Hurst (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
"It's convenient, quick and it's customisable," she says.
The sandwich chain is also "everywhere". "I was craving a Subway, walking around looking for one, and then, 'Oh there's one.'"
Subway is already the UK's largest High Street fast-food chain and is looking to open another 500 stores by 2020.
That would bring its total to 3,000 across the UK and Ireland - significantly ahead of its closest rivals, Greggs and McDonald's.
So what's behind its popularity?
Speaking to people in a busy Subway at lunchtime, the same words keep coming up.
Cheap, convenient, and - perhaps surprisingly for a fast-food chain - healthy.
The chain's main menu is "subs" - long, US-style sandwiches made with soft bread - and customers then pick from a variety of fillings and salad.
It might seem unlikely, but those salad toppings mean a six-inch "sub" counts as one of your five-a-day, at least according to Subway's UK boss Peter Dowding.
Subway and other fast-food sites are increasingly looking to offer healthier choices, as customers at least want the option to count the calories.
"Health is something that lots of outlets are looking to add," says Simon Quirk, a director at retail consultants Kantar Worldpanel.
But it's still only a small consideration, with 86% of consumers saying they buy food on-the-go for practicality or enjoyment, he adds.
It's a growing sector, with food-to-go specialists like Subway forecast to increase sales by 9% to £7bn by 2021, according to grocery specialists IGD.
In a crowded market, the distinctive Subway smell helps it to stand out from the competition.
"It's like walking into a supermarket. They entice you in with that smell of bread," says Michelle O'Connell, another Subway customer.
The smell comes from the sandwich bread, which stores bake at least three times a day, Mr Dowding says.
Subway outlets, which are run by businessmen and women as franchises, also have a reputation for opening early and closing late.
That partly comes from a stipulation that they are open at least 98 hours a week, according to Mr Dowding.
But it's not all been plain sailing for the US company.
It has faced questions about staff pay after the UK tax authorities found some of its franchisees were not paying the minimum wage.
Mr Dowding said the company took action, but declined to say what sanctions it imposed on the seven franchisees.
"It came up, we dealt with it. HMRC at the time was happy how we dealt with it and we moved on," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
The Subway boss also had an ambiguous message on zero-hours contracts.
With such long opening hours, "it's not in the franchise's interest to offer zero-hours contracts, but we need a flexible working force and it is right for some people," Mr Dowding said.
Mr Trump has described the agreement - implemented a year ago - as "the worst deal ever" and threatened to scrap it.
But Hassan Rouhani said the comments were just "slogans" and that there was no chance of any renegotiation.
Under the deal, Iran agreed to curb its sensitive nuclear activities in return for the lifting of economic sanctions.
Outgoing US President Barack Obama says the deal will prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Iran says it has the right to nuclear energy - and stresses that its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes only.
During the US presidential election campaign last March, Mr Trump told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that his "number-one priority" would be "to dismantle the disastrous deal".
He said his biggest concern was not that Iran would violate the agreement, but that it could "keep the terms and get to the bomb by simply running out the clock".
At a news conference marking the first anniversary of the lifting of sanctions on Tuesday, Iran's president was asked about Mr Trump's comments.
"The respected president-elect has so far expressed the opinion that he is unhappy about it [the deal], or that it is not a good deal, or the worst deal ever," he answered.
"These are all slogans and I deem it unlikely that he would act on it once he enters the White House. Since this is not a bilateral agreement, it is not up to him to say whether he likes it or dislikes it."
Mr Rouhani went on to stress that "any renegotiation" was "out of the question".
On Monday, Mr Obama issued a statement saying the deal had "achieved significant, concrete results in making the United States and the world a safer place" by rolling back Iran's nuclear programme and "verifiably" preventing it from developing a nuclear weapon.
He noted that Iran had reduced its uranium stockpile by 98% and removed two thirds of its centrifuges, which are needed to separate out the fissile isotope U-235 from uranium hexafluoride gas.
Low-enriched uranium, which has a 3%-4% concentration of U-235, can be used to produce fuel for nuclear power plants. But it can also be enriched to the 90% needed to produce nuclear weapons.
Iran was also not enriching any uranium at the underground Fordo facility, nor using advanced centrifuges to enrich, according to Mr Obama.
In an apparent warning to Mr Trump, he said: "The Iran deal must be measured against the alternatives. A diplomatic resolution that prevents Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is far preferable to an unconstrained Iranian nuclear programme or another war in the Middle East."
Work started in December 2014 which has seen departments cut from six to four and the number of heads of service reduced to 14 from 18.
The council said that had delivered more than £500,000-a-year in savings.
Another restructure is ongoing in a bid to save more than £1.5m-a-year but the final number of management posts to be cut has not been revealed.
A council statement said it had been working on reducing management costs as one way of ensuring its "reducing resources" were directed "as far as possible" towards frontline services.
To that end, it said it had already reduced department numbers and the number of heads of service.
The local authority said the introduction of "simplified, flatter and streamlined service management and service delivery structures" was ongoing.
Savings from that process have been estimated at £1,550,000 per annum.
"This represents an identified reduction in management posts across the council," the statement said.
"We will continue to provide updates to full council until this work is complete, at which point final figures will be available."
|
Additional charges could be added to taxi journeys to Aberdeen International Airport.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A scheme to reduce ferry fares to and from the Northern Isles is to be rolled out next year.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Crewe Alexandra have re-signed striker Tom Hitchcock on loan for the rest of the season from MK Dons, to cover a sudden shortage of man power up front.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The promises could be summed up pretty simply - more money, more staff and better care.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sutton United earn their first win in English football's fifth tier in 16 years, overcoming a Lincoln City side that played for an hour with 10 men.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The top three in the Men's Irish Hockey League, Banbridge, Three Rock Rovers and Lisnagarvey, all won on Saturday to extend their advantage over the pack.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Everyone should consider taking vitamin D supplements in autumn and winter, public health advice for the UK recommends.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Crystal Palace have recalled Sullay Kaikai from his loan at Shrewsbury after the relegation-threatened League One side secured survival.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Five players from a Mid-Ulster League club have been banned for over a year by the Irish FA following an investigation into match fixing.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Jersey's women beat Aland 1-0 to seal an historic first ever Island Games football gold medal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Investing in education is one of the most promising ways for countries to secure their future.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Support for UKIP is on the up as the assembly election approaches, despite a row within the party over candidate selection, a new poll has suggested.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The US state of Missouri is sending the National Guard to the town of Ferguson as protests escalate over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Teenager Aneurin Donald is in with a chance of becoming Glamorgan's youngest ever century-maker in the Championship.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A woman and man have appeared in court after heroin and crack cocaine with an estimated street value of £130,000 was recovered in Peterhead.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
By some estimates, fuel subsidies cost Asia's developing economies more than $100b (£62b) a year, and they're a big drain on government budgets.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Britain's Rajiv Ouseph won his second pool game to progress to the last 16 of the Rio men's badminton.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Plans for a new £2.7m operating theatre at a north Wales hospital have moved a step closer.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
UK scientists say they have discovered a gene error that delays puberty.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Police have released a new description of a man who carried out a sex attack in the Craiglockhart area of Edinburgh.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The cessation of hostilities in Syria that came into effect at sunset on Monday is holding well into its first day, reports suggest.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Scottish Rugby expects to have all England-based players available for the autumn Tests, despite a funding dispute with Premiership Rugby Ltd (PRL).
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
What material can you find in toothpaste, sunscreen, solar cells, on the baseline at Wimbledon, in a Roman church, and along a tunnel in Brussels?
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Footage from Michael Schumacher's helmet camera shows him going at the speed of "a very good skier" when he hit a rock and fell, investigators say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Playing "active" computer games can help people with type-2 diabetes better control their blood sugar, a medical trial has indicated.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Parents have been told not to talk to teachers at a Glasgow primary school, when dropping off or collecting children.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
David Cameron has told Jeremy Corbyn to smarten up his appearance during Prime Minister's Questions.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Cardiff Blues fly-half Rhys Patchell will leave the region at the end of the season after rejecting a new contract.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two trials of gene therapy on an inherited form of blindness in children have shown some patients' eyesight can be improved - but only temporarily.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Dover got their play-off bid back on track by ending their three-match winless run with a victory over Bromley.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Just before she tucks into an Italian BMT - a meaty sandwich filled with salami, pepperoni and ham - Dominique Santini explains why she loves Subway.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Iran's President, Hassan Rouhani, has dismissed US President-elect Donald Trump's criticism of the nuclear deal that it signed with world powers.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Dumfries and Galloway Council hopes to save more than £2m-a-year with an overhaul of its management structure.
| 31,921,418 | 15,710 | 996 | true |
The "virtual voiceover" tool was developed in-house by the broadcaster's News Labs division.
All content will still have to be checked and edited by bilingual journalists before transmission.
One expert suggested the move would benefit the public.
"We're all used to online language services, but voiceover translation for video has been stuck in the past," said Ian Maude, from the media consultancy Enders Analysis.
"This is one step closer to the Babel fish universal translator from [BBC comedy science-fiction series] the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Audiences already have several free-to-use tools to translate online news articles, including Google Translate and Bing Translator.
Skype is also testing a service that translates video chats between two speakers in near-real time.
But until now, there have been few options when it comes to TV reports that have not been converted from one language to another by a human.
The BBC's Japanese-language news service is the first to adopt the new technology, and the plan is to roll it out to the Russian Service in January.
Other languages, including Spanish, are planned for later in 2016 - but this will depend on the unit involved securing enough funds when its budget is refreshed in April.
"Technology like this means we can bring more of our international journalism to more people," said the BBC's digital development director James Montgomery.
A demonstration of the tool in action has been posted to YouTube.
At present, the technology does not involve speech recognition, so a journalist still needs to provide a script before the process can start.
Once the computer has translated the text, the journalist makes the necessary tweaks and then chooses from a selection of synthetic voices.
The chosen one is then used to replace the original English voiceover.
The government recently announced extra funds to enhance the BBC's international digital, TV and radio services.
However, as a whole the organisation is facing sizeable cuts.
The shift towards an automated process may therefore fuel concerns the tech could be used to help cut jobs.
But a source in the BBC suggested the intention was instead to free up reporters to do more journalism rather than administrative tasks.
Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 closed 4% higher at 15,708.82 points.
The broader Topix gained 3.8% to end at 1,255.79.
Mr Abe's party won in an election for the upper house of parliament despite concerns the country's pacifist constitution may be amended.
Mr Abe said the election result reflected support for his economic policies, which have been dubbed Abenomics.
He said their efforts at ending Japan's deflation problem and spurring growth are only "half done" which has fanned speculation they may release a new stimulus package soon.
Investors also took a positive cue from US jobs data on Friday, which came in stronger than expected.
US shares had finished higher last week on the back of the optimistic data.
China's Shanghai Composite added 0.23% to close higher at 2,994.92, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index rose 1.5% to end at 20,880.5.
In Australia, the ASX/200 finished 2% up at 5,337.10. Markets there were reacting to the country's Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, declaring victory for his Conservative coalition in last week's closely fought general election.
South Korea's benchmark Kospi was also in line with the broader regional trend, wrapping the day 1.3% higher at 1,988.54.
Mae'r blaid yng Nghymru yn cyfarfod yn Abertawe dros y penwythnos ar gyfer ei chynhadledd flynyddol.
Dywedodd Ms Williams bod datblygiadau diweddar ledled y byd yn dystiolaeth bod "ein byd wedi newid yn llwyr".
"Mae pobl yn teimlo eu bod yn cael eu hanwybyddu, a'u hanghofio, ond rydyn ni'n gwrando," meddai.
Awgrymodd hefyd bod gan y blaid "hyder newydd".
Wedi cyfres o etholiadau anodd, mae'r Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol yn gobeithio adeiladu ar eu cyfanswm o 75 cynghorydd wedi'r etholiadau lleol fis Mai.
Mae'r blaid wedi cynyddu'i siâr o'r bleidlais mewn cyfres o is-etholiadau seneddol dros y flwyddyn ddiwethaf, gan gipio Richmond Park oddi ar y Ceidwadwyr ym mis Rhagfyr.
Nid yw arweinydd y blaid, Tim Farron yn mynychu'r gynhadledd, a dywedodd Ms Williams wrth BBC Cymru ei bod yn "deall fod y gynhadledd yn digwydd ar yr un pryd â digwyddiad pwysig yn nheulu Tim".
Fis Mehefin diwethaf penderfynodd y Prif Weinidog Carwyn Jones benodi Ms Williams i'w gabinet, wedi i'w blaid Lafur fethu o drwch blewyn i ennill mwyafrif yn yr etholiadau fis ynghynt.
Ers iddi gymryd y swydd bu'n rhaid iddi ymateb i gyfres o adroddiadau beirniadol, gan gynnwys un gan Estyn a oedd yn awgrymu fod safon y dysgu mewn ysgolion yn "wan".
Dywedodd wrth y gynhadledd y byddai ysgolion angen "arweinwyr cryf" os yw Cymru am godi yn safonau addysg rhyngwladol PISA, gan ailadrodd cynlluniau ar gyfer academi i ddysgu arweinyddiaeth i athrawon.
Ychwanegodd y byddai ei chynlluniau i wario £36m ar ostwng niferoedd mewn dosbarthiadau meithrin yn siŵr o ennill pleidleisiau yn etholiadau lleol mis Mai.
Dywedodd arweinydd y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol yng Nghymru Mark Williams, yr AS dros Geredigion, bod yr etholiadau cyngor yn "allweddol" i ddyfodol y blaid.
Ychwanegodd y byddai'n "siom enfawr" os na fyddai'r blaid yn llwyddo i gynyddu nifer eu cynghorwyr ym mis Mai.
Tweed, who is now an elected councillor in Ballymena, County Antrim, had faced a total of 14 abuse charges relating to two girls, over an eight-year period.
Crown Court Judge Alistair Devlin told Tweed his crimes were "vile, wicked, dastardly and distasteful" and would be treated very seriously.
Tweed, whose victims are now adults, will be sentenced in the New Year.
On Tuesday, he was cleared on one count of indecent assault by the jury of ten women and two men.
He was found guilty on another 13 charges on Wednesday.
As the jury left the courtroom, Tweed shook his head.
Victim impact assessments are now being carried out.
The 53-year-old, who played rugby for both Ireland and Ulster, is currently suspended from the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) party.
He joined the TUV in November 2010 after defecting from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) but when charged with the offences, his membership was put on hold.
Tweed was elected as a DUP councillor in Ballymena in 1997 and was re-elected at the subsequent two polls.
He was prominent in a series of sometimes violent loyalist protests outside a Catholic church in the Harryville area of the town.
He was criticised by the Police Federation when shortly after his election he said it was not "astonishing at all" that police officers homes were being attacked due to the way loyalist parades had been policed.
In a 2006 council meeting he "questioned the upbringing" of 15-year-old Michael McIlveen, a Catholic teenager beaten to death in a sectarian attack in Ballymena,
He later left the DUP when it embraced power-sharing at Stormont. He stood successfully for the TUV in the 2011 local council elections.
In 2009 he was cleared of sexually abusing two girls.
In 2008 he was convicted of drink-driving. In 1997 he was fined for assaulting a man in a Ballymoney pub.
An issue with its power supply meant it would now be sent out "after Christmas", said a spokesman.
The tiny computer has been designed to boost interest in coding.
The problem had "affected a small number of devices", the spokesman said, but the priority was making sure it was as robust and reliable as possible.
"We're expecting to start sending them out to teachers before Christmas and to children early in the new year," said a BBC spokesman
"As a result of our rigorous testing process, we've decided to make some minor revisions to the device - getting it right for children and teachers before we manufacture one million units is our priority."
The Micro Bit was unveiled in March and since then has added features including a built-in motion sensor.
Up to one million Year 7 pupils (aged 11 and 12) will be given the Micro Bit.
The pocket-sized codeable computer is the BBC's most ambitious education initiative for 30 years. In the 1980s, the BBC launched the Micro, which introduced many children to computing.
BBC director general Tony Hall hopes the Micro Bit will "equip a new generation with the digital skills they need to find jobs and help grow the UK economy".
The push to persuade more children to get involved in computing and coding comes as the UK faces a critical skills shortage in the technology sector.
The Micro Bit is a collaboration between 29 partners including Barclays, Microsoft, Samsung and Lancaster University.
Product champions, including Cisco, Code Club and Teen Tech, are helping provide educational resources.
Right-back Naughton (hamstring) and left-back Olsson (ankle) both missed the 2-0 defeat at Bournemouth.
Naughton was also ruled out of the loss at Hull, but both are fit to face Boro at the Liberty Stadium.
"We are in good shape going into this game," said Swansea boss Paul Clement.
After reverses at Hull and Bournemouth, the Swans are 17th in the table, five points ahead of Middlesbrough, who are one from bottom of the table.
Clement, who confirmed all his players had returned from international duty fit, says the returning defenders have been missed as he had been forced to reshuffle his resources.
"I think so because of the way we have played going into those games," the former Bayern Munich assistant manager added.
"They have been very influential both defending and particularly attacking from those positions, so we are very happy to have them back."
Clement says the pressure to avoid relegation has to be embraced by his players, but realises the importance of the game against Middlesbrough.
"Nine games to go and the fact that we did not pick up any points in the last two it's important to get back points on the board again," he said.
"We are going to use our home form momentum to do our very best to get points against Middlesbrough.
"If we win, I think it would put them in a difficult situation. It would not be over for them but would make things more difficult, of course."
Asked whether he had set a points target for his side, Clement said: "What's the highest amount of points a team has gone down with? 42? So we have to get more than that."
Last October, the Unicode Consortium - which represents many of the tech giants - had proposed including the weapon as one of several new Olympic-themed chat message graphics.
At the time, the BBC reported that a British gun control campaign group had criticised the proposal, saying it was "offensive" to gun injury victims.
A boxing glove and sword-wielding fencer were approved.
However, another emoji - which showed a person firing a pistol to represent the "modern pentathlon" - was also dropped.
According to a report by Buzzfeed, Apple and Microsoft both opposed the inclusion of new gun-themed graphics in the Unicode 9.0 list.
Neither company has confirmed whether this was the case.
"There was consensus to remove them - I can't comment on the details," Unicode president Mark Davis told the BBC.
The decision does not affect the existing pistol emoji, which was added in 2010.
The move was welcomed by the campaigner who first criticised the rifle graphic.
"All those who have been traumatised by gun threats and gun violence will be grateful for this significant gesture of respect and support," said Chrissie Hall on behalf of the Gun Control Network.
"Images of guns can no longer be regarded as light-hearted additions to messages. They represent threats, and evoke fear of violence, suffering, pain and loss."
The Unicode Consortium maintains the emoji list to ensure different manufacturers' devices and apps can recognise chat graphics sent to and from each other.
The images do, however, have a different look on each platform.
Google had already added both of the new gun-related emojis to test versions of its next Android operating system ahead of the Unicode 9.0 list being approved.
However, Mr Davies explained that this did not necessarily mean the search company had supported their inclusion.
"A beta version of a product will often use a beta version of an upcoming Unicode release, but then pick up the final version of the Unicode release before going into production," he said.
"That way they can be tested with an almost-final version of the Unicode characters and character properties."
The Unicode Consortium's attention now switches to its 10.0 list, due for release next year.
Current suggestions include a dumpling, a fortune cookie and a face with one eyebrow raised.
The Indomitable Lions are in the quarter-finals after finishing as Group A runners-up and Broos is delighted with their development.
"This young team has shown something really good, they've gained vital experience," said the Belgian.
"We have young players hungry to play, keen to win. Everything is open to us. We have to show ambition."
I know some young talent in Europe that I hope will agree to come and play for us
Cameroon are four-times Nations Cup champions and have been to more World Cups than any other African country.
But they have not won a major trophy since 2002 and have suffered in the recent past from player bust-ups, rows over bonuses and poor performances on the pitch.
They failed to win any of their group games at the 2015 Nations Cup and lost all three of their group games at the 2014 World Cup.
But Sunday's goalless draw with Gabon in Libreville ensured a first last-eight appearance at the Nations Cup since 2010 - even though seven Cameroon players refused the call-up to play in the tournament, leaving the side weakened.
Among those who stayed away are Joel Matip of Liverpool, West Bromwich Albion full-back Allan Nyom and Schalke striker Eric Maxime Choupo Moting.
Broos says he is moving forward with those who want to compete. After the Nations Cup, Cameroon have World Cup qualifiers against arch-rivals Nigeria.
"We still need someone who scores and this is maybe what we have to work on for the future," Broos said.
"In the past Cameroon always had good strikers, like Roger Milla and Samuel Eto'o. They scored with their eyes closed. When we can find another, we can create a really good team.
"Now I'm hearing from the federation that others would like to come, because they see the change in the team dynamic. I know some young talent in Europe that I hope will agree to come and play for us."
The 24-year-old has been with the Gunners since 2011 but struggled for first-team football.
He scored four goals in 30 appearances for Arsenal last season, with three of those coming in 19 league outings.
Costa Rica international Campbell has previously been on loan at Lorient, Real Betis, Olympiakos and Villarreal.
"Everyone at Arsenal wishes Joel a successful season in Portugal," said a statement on Arsenal's website.
Campbell has not been in Arsenal's squad for either of their two opening Premier League games so far this season.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.
Scotland goes to the polls for local authority elections on 4 May.
The first minister and SNP leader will set out her party's manifesto for the vote at an event in Edinburgh.
She said every vote for her party in the poll would be "a vote against Tory austerity".
And she said SNP councillors would "always put their local communities first".
In the last set of council elections in 2012, the SNP on 32.3% of the vote, taking 425 seats across the country, just ahead of Labour.
However, the SNP ultimately ended up running fewer of Scotland's town halls than their rivals, a position they aim to change in May.
Ms Sturgeon said: "The council elections are a clear choice between the SNP who stand for strong and vibrant local communities - and a Tory party which has become a single-issue, Brexit-at-all-costs machine.
"SNP councillors will always put their local communities first - they are not there to simply make up the numbers and be used as a proxy war in national political games.
"From the abolition of ring-fenced funding and our transformational Community Empowerment Act, the SNP has a long track record of pushing power down to local communities.
"Every vote for the SNP on May 4th is a vote against Tory austerity, and a vote to protect vital services and jobs. All of our candidates are working hard every day to earn the trust of the people they want to represent and after the election will continue to work every day to preserve it."
The Halifax, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said that the average home in the UK cost £213,930.
Prices in the three months to the end of August were 0.7% higher than the previous quarter - marking a slowdown in the pace of growth.
Property values fell by 0.2% in August compared with July, the lender added.
"House price growth continued the trend of the past few months in August with a further moderation in both the annual and quarterly rates of increase. There are also signs of a softening in sales activity," said Martin Ellis, housing economist at the Halifax.
"The slowdown in the rate of house price growth is consistent with the forecast that we made at the end of 2015. Increasing difficulties in purchasing a home as house prices continued to increase more quickly than earnings were expected to constrain demand, curbing house price growth."
Analysts said that the slowdown may have come in part as a result of the typical summer lull in housing activity, but the long-term outlook was difficult to judge.
"On the ground we are not finding a huge change in prices, just a determination for buyers and sellers to get on with moving but at more realistic price levels," said estate agent Jeremy Leaf.
"Of bigger concern is whether there is the confidence among developers to take on debt for longer-term supply. We hope that the Bank of England has these factors in mind when making an interest rate decision this month and formulating other polices over the next few months."
Where can I afford to live?
The effect of the event on dinosaurs is well known, but the fates of smaller creatures have been less certain.
Now, a rich record of reptile fossils - including the new Obamadon gracilis - suggests 83% of snake and lizard species became extinct at that time.
The study appears in the journal PNAS.
In it, researchers from Harvard and Yale universities in the US name eight more lizard and snake species that are new to science.
Obamadon gracilis was a tiny lizard that draws its name also from the Latin "-odon" meaning tooth and "gracilis" meaning slender.
Lead author of the study Nicholas Longrich, of Yale University, said there were no political undertones in the choice of name.
"We're just having fun with taxonomy," he said.
Besides bringing new species to the textbooks - and relegating them immediately to the "extinct" category - the study sheds new light on the extinction event, widely thought to have been caused by an enormous asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65.5 million years ago.
Dr Longrich said that it had affected every ecological niche on Earth.
"The asteroid event is typically thought of as affecting the dinosaurs primarily," he said.
"But it basically cut this broad swath across the entire ecosystem, taking out everything. Snakes and lizards were hit extremely hard."
The study hinges on the analysis of existing fossils found in western North America, from Canada through to the south-west of the US, where the fossils of small reptiles are much better preserved than in other parts of the world.
The specimens were determined to range from tiny lizards such as O. gracilis, to snakes as large as a modern boa constrictor, to meat-eating lizards up to 2m (6ft 6in) long.
"Lizards and snakes rivalled the dinosaurs in terms of diversity, making it just as much an 'Age of Lizards' as an 'Age of Dinosaurs,'" Dr Longrich said.
Russia's foreign ministry said it was a "cynical" move aimed at deliberately harming bilateral ties.
Poland said it acted to ensure "the protection of public order".
The bikers - including the pro-Kremlin Night Wolves group - want to ride through Poland as part of a Moscow-Berlin trip to mark the end of WW2.
In a statement (in Russian), the Russian foreign ministry said Warsaw's decision "mocked the memory of those killed fighting against fascism" during the war.
Its response comes a day after the Polish side notified Moscow about the ban in a brief statement (in Polish).
Last year, Poland refused entry to a similar Russian motorcycle rally. However, a number of bikers then managed to get into the country.
Night Wolves leaders Aleksandr Zaldostanov again pledged that his bikers would be in Berlin on 9 May to raise their Victory flag there.
The planned 6,000km (3,720 mile) road trip would take them through Russia, Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria, before reaching the German capital.
The nationalist Night Wolves group has close links to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has taken part in their rides.
The Night Wolves are subject to US sanctions for alleged active involvement in Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and for helping to recruit separatist fighters for Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine.
The story features prominently on all the main Russian TV channels.
State-owned Rossiya 1 TV leads its main afternoon bulletin with the summoning of the Polish ambassador.
It highlights the Russian foreign ministry's statement saying the ban is a "particularly cynical and ill-intentioned gesture".
State-owned rolling news channel Rossiya 24 also pegs its report to the foreign ministry's "robust protest" over the ban.
Other TV channels - state-controlled Channel One, Gazprom-owned NTV and privately owned REN TV - report that some 30 bikers have already left Moscow for Berlin.
The hashtag "Dorogi Pobedy" ("Roads of Victory") is among the top 10 trending on Russian Twitter since the mid-afternoon.
Relations between Poland and Russia are currently difficult, the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw reports.
Poland has strongly criticised Russia's actions in Ukraine in recent years.
The previous Polish government called last year's planned motorcycle rally a deliberate provocation by the Kremlin, and more than 10,000 Poles signed up to a petition against it on social media, our correspondent says.
In recent months, Moscow has also complained to Warsaw about the dismantling in Poland of several WW2 Red Army memorials.
The Met Police said the incident happened at a residential address in Tilson Gardens in south Brixton.
At 09:45 BST, unarmed police and a housing officer tried to enter the property to evict the man. Police then withdrew and armed officers and a negotiator were called to the scene.
The man was shot at 16:46 outside the premises, the Met said.
Neighbour Jay Elwes said on Twitter that he had heard "what sounded like shots" and about 15 minutes later a person was "brought out".
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said the 36-year-old man was in a critical condition at King's College Hospital.
It said that during the incident "shots were fired, injuring the man".
The IPCC said it was in the process of identifying and contacting the man's family.
Centre-half Mirfin headed home Josh Morris's free-kick in time added on at the end of the first half.
Shrewsbury made much of the early running with Jim O'Brien firing a free-kick from the edge of the penalty area just over the crossbar before Shaun Whalley's 20-yard drive was saved by Luke Daniels, diving low to his right.
Paddy Madden saw a shot comfortably stopped by Shrewsbury goalkeeper Jayson Leutwiler and Kevin van Veen then drilled a low effort from 20 yards wide of the near post.
Scunthorpe moved ahead deep into stoppage time at the end of the first half when an inswinging free-kick from Josh Morris from the right was glanced into the bottom corner by Mirfin.
The visitors should have doubled their lead 20 minutes from time but Madden fired wide from close range.
Shrewsbury found chances hard to come by at the other end with Scunthorpe goalkeeper Daniels never seriously extended.
Junior Brown bent a 25-yard free-kick just off target before a late effort from Louis Dodds was deflected wide as Shrewsbury slipped into the bottom four.
REACTION: Scunthorpe United manager Graham Alexander speaks to BBC Radio Humberside
Reports supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Shrewsbury Town 0, Scunthorpe United 1.
Second Half ends, Shrewsbury Town 0, Scunthorpe United 1.
Louis Dodds (Shrewsbury Town) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Gary Deegan (Shrewsbury Town).
Richard Smallwood (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jack Grimmer (Shrewsbury Town).
Harry Toffolo (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jack Grimmer (Shrewsbury Town).
Harry Toffolo (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Jack Grimmer (Shrewsbury Town) is shown the yellow card.
Junior Brown (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United).
Foul by Abu Ogogo (Shrewsbury Town).
Neal Bishop (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Jack Grimmer.
Attempt blocked. Abu Ogogo (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Shrewsbury Town. Conceded by Harry Toffolo.
Attempt blocked. Louis Dodds (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Junior Brown (Shrewsbury Town).
Gary Deegan (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United).
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. George Waring replaces Jim O'Brien.
Corner, Shrewsbury Town. Conceded by Charlie Goode.
Attempt saved. Charlie Goode (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Scott Wiseman replaces Paddy Madden.
Foul by Junior Brown (Shrewsbury Town).
Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Oliver Lancashire (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United).
Attempt missed. Paddy Madden (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Junior Brown (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Foul by Neal Bishop (Scunthorpe United).
Oliver Lancashire (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Paddy Madden (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Abu Ogogo (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Neal Bishop (Scunthorpe United).
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. A-Jay Leitch-Smith replaces Shaun Whalley.
Foul by Jack Grimmer (Shrewsbury Town).
Harry Toffolo (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The Leicester potter, 33, was beaten 10-3 by Barry Hawkins, the 2013 runner-up and two-time semi-finalist.
World number 32 Ford led early on but said he then found it a "struggle".
"I just felt completely different when I went back out," he told BBC Sport. "It's not a good place to be when you are not feeling good."
Ford, who also fell at the first hurdle of snooker's showpiece event in 2010 and 2014, said the mid-session break interrupted his flow.
"It can be a nightmare sometimes," he added. "Barry came out firing and I felt like a couple of things went against me and it's an uphill battle.
"People always think you get to the Crucible and you bottle it, but you always play a really good player.
"Barry's a great player. He is a such tough match player and his safety is spot on. When he gets in front, it's difficult to get back."
But Ford remained upbeat about a season which has seen him climb from 43 in the world rankings and reach the first ranking event final of his career.
He lost 4-2 in the final of the Paul Hunter Classic to fellow Leicester player Mark Selby and also reached the quarter-finals of the German Masters and made the fourth round of the English Open.
"There are a lot positives," Ford added. "I have played well in patches and need to push on."
He could now be liable to buy all the shares in the holding company Rangers International Football Club, held by other shareholders - at 20p a share.
The Takeover Appeal Board (Tab) made the ruling after deciding he worked in "concert" with three others when he bought shares.
Mr King said he did not agree with the ruling or the share price.
The Tab ruling said Mr King, along with George Letham, George Taylor and Douglas Park, had acted as a "concert party" to acquire shares in the company, rather than acting as an individual.
It said he was therefore required to make an offer to buy all the shares in the holding company.
There are approximately 87 million RIFC shares, and Mr King and the three others own 33% of these, with the rest held by individual supporters and other investors.
A concert party, in company law, isn't as entertaining as it might sound. It's when a group act in concert, together, and thus get round the intention of the law.
Company law recognises that takeovers, sometimes hostile, are not to be discouraged. But if they take place, they ought to be fair, and to some extent open.
A basic element of that is that, as a potential bidder buys up shares in a target company, often in small quantities, the bidder has to declare her/his hand.
In publicly traded shares, as a series of ownership thresholds are passed, the market has to be informed. And when you get to 30%, the bidder has to go for it, or back down.
At that level, it is possible to have effective control of a company, even if you don't have more than half the voting rights. And the law seeks to protect the interests of small-scale shareholders. Theoretically, a bidder with a controlling stake could act solely in her/his interests, and act against the interests of other shareholders.
A concert party is when more than one person or company is building up stakes in the company, having agreed a takeover strategy in advance.
The takeover law requires them to declare their co-operation and if they don't, retrospective action can be taken.
That's what has happened in Rangers case. At least one outcome of the legal process is that it has laid out the unhelpful attitude Dave King has towards such regulators, and the extraordinary complexity of the trust network - Virgin Islands, via Gibraltar via Guernsey - by which he acquired his stake in the Ibrox club.
Mr King, who led a successful boardroom takeover in 2015, said he would take time to reflect upon the ruling and consider the best course of action for himself, RIFC and its shareholders
In a statement on the Rangers Football Club website, he said: "I am only one of a vast number of Rangers supporters and shareholders who fought to rescue our club.
"The Rangers Football Club should never have become caught up in a takeover struggle.
"Those who placed it in that position bear a heavy responsibility."
He added: "I do not believe that there is any substantial group of RIFC shareholders that would be willing to sell its shares in RIFC at the price at which the Tab has determined I should make an offer.
"20p is not a price that I personally believe represents a fair price for RIFC's shares, nor is it the price at which shares in RIFC are currently trading."
He said that even if he proceeded with an offer, it would be rejected by an "overwhelming majority of RIFC's shareholders".
A BBC reporter in the city says the burial had to be halted at one stage as police struggled to control the crowd.
Mr Kanumba was famous for roles in Tanzania's soap operas and films shown all over east and central Africa.
Police say Mr Kanumba, 28, died after an accidental fall during an argument with his girlfriend Elizabeth Michael.
Ms Michael - also an actor, known as "Lulu" - is being held for questioning, Kinondoni Regional Police Commander Mr Charles Kenyela told the BBC.
The BBC's Erick Nampesya in Dar es Salaam says many people flocked to the funeral service to see for themselves that Mr Kanumba was dead.
President Jakaya Kikwete said he delayed a foreign trip when he heard the news of Mr Kanumba's death.
He praised the "talented young man who was playing a big role to develop the movie industry and marketing Tanzania abroad".
Nicknamed "The Great", Mr Kanumba was a household name in Tanzania.
He starred in most major "Bongo" films, as local movie industry is called.
He had also recently become popular in Ghana and starred in Nigeria's Nollywood films.
The 66-year-old South African, who stepped down as Edinburgh boss in September, has previously coached Northampton Saints and Ulster.
He arrives with Bristol bottom of the top flight, six points below Worcester.
"Alan is a hugely experienced operator who understands the game," head coach Mark Tainton told the club website.
"With seven games remaining, it's vital that Bristol rediscover our form from over the Christmas period and Alan's arrival as a consultant should give everyone a boost."
Meanwhile, Tainton - who has worked as interim boss since Andy Robinson's departure in November - is to become Bristol's chief operations officer at the end of the season, overseeing the club's recruitment policy.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Connacht boss Pat Lam has already been appointed as Bristol's new head coach from the start of next season.
Chief executive Steve Gorvett will also step down at the end of the current campaign.
Gorvett has been with Bristol for 12 season, initially arriving in 2005 as finance director before taking on the chief executive role in 2008.
"I took the decision to step down at the end of the season after 12 enjoyable years at Bristol," Gorvett said. "It's been a period of huge transition for the club and we have faced a series of significant challenges along the way.
"At the end of the season, we aim to still be in the Premiership with a world-class head coach already committed, a stadium that we are proud to call home and a state-of-the-art training ground on the way."
Plants with a potential street value of between £27,000 and £80,000 were found at the home in Trelawnyd in January.
Ian Anderson, 24, of Liverpool, was jailed for 16 months after admitting cultivating cannabis and abstracting electricity.
Mold Crown Court heard the fire was caused by an electrical fault.
Anderson agreed to care for the plants as a means to pay off a £5,000 drugs debt and had no influence on those above him in the chain, the court heard.
Judge Niclas Parry said the operation had all the hallmarks of a professional set up and while Anderson was a gardener and not the organiser, it was an important role.
Medical expert Dame Carol Black is to examine the support given to addicts - and obese people - on sickness benefits to "better support them in work".
David Cameron, who ordered the review, says there is currently no requirement for such groups to undertake treatment and suggested that this could change.
But one Tory MP said it was "ethically unacceptable" to coerce people.
The idea of requiring drug users to seek treatment or lose their benefits was first suggested by the last Labour government although it was not adopted following a consultation.
During the last Parliament, the Conservatives floated extending the concept of sanctions to those with serious alcohol conditions and the clinically obese but the idea was not pursued by the coalition government.
In February, the prime minister said he would ask Dame Carol to examine the support that the 90,000 drug and alcohol addicts estimated by the government to be on sickness benefits get, a pledge included in the party's election manifesto.
Ministers said on Wednesday that the review was under way and is calling for evidence by 11 September.
Dame Carol, a former president of the Royal College of Physicians who advises the Department of Health on improving the welfare of working people, will look at the support given to those with drink and drug-related illnesses in employment or seeking to return to work.
She said she wanted to speak to addicts and employers as part of the exercise. It will examine a range of options, including the case for linking benefit entitlements to the take-up of appropriate treatment.
"It will be important to identify the most cost effective treatments and programmes both here and internationally; and how employment support services, health care, and the benefits system, interact to provide support," she said.
While support and treatment would continue to be provided for everyone, Mr Cameron said the system had to look at what to do when addicts simply refused help and expected taxpayers to continue funding their benefits.
But Sarah Wollaston, the Conservative chair of the Commons Health Select Committee and a former GP, said the government must proceed with caution if it wanted to directly link welfare payments to medical treatment.
"It is a form of coercion for consent," she told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire Show.
"I think that is ethically unacceptable. I think it would be very difficult for any doctor to take part in treating a patient without valid consent and this would invalidate their consent if it was linked to conditionality to benefits. After all, it would not be effective - we know coerced treatments tend not to work."
Labour said that despite the government's rhetoric fewer than one in ten sick and disabled people on the government's flagship welfare-to-work scheme had found permanent employment.
And the Lib Dems said those suffering from such illnesses needed to be shown more compassion.
"It is entirely right we make sure people suffering alcohol, drug or weight-related problems get effective help and support. But Tories need to realise: not everyone is a scrounger," a party spokesman said.
"They would rather treat people with an air of suspicion and frogmarch them to therapy with a threat to strip away lifeline benefits than work on ways to help."
But campaign group, the Taxpayers Alliance, welcomed the move, saying access to treatment and benefits "need not be mutually exclusive".
"We must provide a sturdy safety net for the most vulnerable, but taxpayers can't continue to fund benefits for people who show no inclination or effort to get back into employment," said its chief executive Jonathan Isaby.
"It is paths to treatment - and personal responsibility - that will get people off the benefit rolls and into work."
Almost eight years later he doesn't look quite so crazy. Airbnb - the room letting website he helped to create - has been used by 60 million guests in 190 countries around the world, and has been valued at a staggering $25.5bn (£17.8bn; €23.4bn).
That's more than many of the established players in the hotel sector.
Yet in the early days Mr Blecharczyk said the idea was ridiculed by both investors and friends alike.
"So many people thought this was a crazy idea when they first heard it. They said certainly no one is going to allow strangers into their home, and so it was dismissed very quickly.
"A lot of these disruptive innovative ideas can easily be dismissed at first glance because they're so novel that you just think it's not possible."
It all began in 2007 when fellow co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia couldn't afford the rent on their San Francisco apartment.
There was a design conference coming up in the city and all the hotels were full so they put some air mattresses in the loft and created a simple website to advertise the room for rent.
Instead of a bed and breakfast they called it an airbed and breakfast - the name and the idea was born.
The fact that a company which didn't even exist a decade ago can now be one of the big players in the accommodation industry is indicative of how technology is shaking up the status quo in established industries.
Taxi hailing app Uber, commercial music-streaming service Spotify and the mighty Amazon have all wreaked havoc on their less technology-savvy rivals.
The changes mean that the qualities required in the boardroom are also shifting.
Traditionally the best route to the top has been from a management or financial background, but increasingly tech know-how is valued.
"Suddenly all of this technology that you used to have to go to your computer to use is going to be embedded in every aspect of your life and really driving the offline world.
"So I think as a CEO thinking about where the future is going to lie and knowing that it's going to be something completely different today is important," says Mr Blecharczyk.
It's a shift that CEO coach Steve Tappin, who works with many top chief executives around the world, says he's noticed.
"In the past, the idea of a geek in the boardoom was unthinkable. But technology is having a profound impact not just on products but the way businesses are run," he says.
Telstra chief executive Andrew Penn rose to the top via the traditional route; he was previously the Australian telecommunications firm's chief financial officer.
Nonetheless, he says that having a good grip on the technical side of the business is essential to his role.
"You've got to get your head around it.
"I don't know that means we necessarily all need to become software coders, but you do need to know enough as a CEO of a company to ask the right questions, to formulate a point of view about whether or not we had the right strategy, to get the right quality people around you that can make a difference from a technology standpoint."
Of course, as the rise of new start-ups such as Airbnb indicate, tech is also a fast-moving world. Staying on top of it means not only being aware of the changes, but ensuring the company is agile enough to react to them.
Victor Koo, chief executive of video-sharing giant Youku Tudou, often dubbed China's YouTube, says since the firm launched just under a decade ago the demands of its audience have already shifted dramatically.
In 2006, the company's customers were accessing content almost entirely on their desktop computers, now more than 60% of users access the firm's content via their mobiles.
He says such a rapid pace of change means that the structure of the organisation and the traditional reporting hierarchies within it need to be shaken up, even if temporarily.
"When you draw an organisational chart - it's really things that we came up with back in the industrial change, right?" he says.
"And we're in the internet world where the world's changing very quickly, and the traditional kind of reporting lines and kind of pyramid structure needs to be adapted."
He says this could mean short-term changes, such as bringing together people for a particular project, before they return to their usual roles.
To help keep up with the rapid pace of change, the Chinese company has created "quick task teams" which work across different departments, can brainstorm ideas and come up with new ways of doing things.
His advice to fellow chief executives is "act now".
"In terms of mistakes it's often not acting quickly enough. I'm not saying you need to bet the farm. But if you spend too much time thinking about it the opportunity has already passed," he says.
This feature is based on interviews by CEO coach and author Steve Tappin for the BBC's CEO Guru series, produced by Neil Koenig.
Sex work expert Prof Phil Hubbard said there was an inconsistent approach in England and Wales leading to appeals over the refusal of licences.
But the strip clubs' trade association warned against imposing a "draconian regime" on local authorities.
The comment came as parliament was considering new licensing legislation.
Prof Hubbard, from Kent University, told the Scottish Parliament's local government committee: "What we have in England and Wales is a situation that I would like to see avoided in Scotland, where we have a licensing regime for these establishments in one local authority but not in a neighbouring one."
He added: "We have a situation where some local authorities will ban nudity and others will not.
"The whole situation has led to a whole range of appeal cases and litigation in which legal unreasonableness and inconsistency have been raised as valid concerns, and some of these appeals have been upheld."
Prof Hubbard also said tough regulations were needed to restrict massage parlour owners from effectively licensing their premises as brothels.
His comments were backed by Zero Tolerance, which campaigns to reduce violence against women.
Co-director Laura Thomson said sexual entertainment was linked to prostitution, adding: "Women involved in prostitution are much more likely to be victims of violence, women feel unsafe around the venues, women working in the venues face abuse and harassment."
However, Janet Hood, licensing specialist at the Association of Licensed Adult Entertainment Venues Scotland, warned against a one-size-fits-all approach for councils.
She said the one-time ban on religious comedy film Life of Brian in Glasgow was an example of the diverse moral sensibilities in Scotland's communities.
Ms Hood argued: "We have to allow for local decision making, whether it is for sexual entertainment venues, alcohol licensing or any other form of licensing.
"I don't think it should be the purpose of the Scottish government to try to impose a draconian regime that had to be followed by elected members who are considering the requirements of what should happen in their communities."
The patient is being monitored at London's Royal Free Hospital and does not currently have a diagnosis or symptoms of the virus.
Public Health England says there is no risk to the general public.
The patient will be watched for 21 days to see if they develop Ebola.
Another military health worker was sent to the UK on Saturday following a similar incident and is also being observed at the hospital.
Prof Paul Cosford of Public Health England said: "We can confirm that all the appropriate support is being offered to this individual and that strict protocols have been followed to transfer them back to the UK.
"We would like to emphasise that there is no risk to the general public's health.
"Our thoughts are with both of the healthcare workers, and their families, affected at this time."
Minister for the Armed Forces Mark Francois said: "This is entirely a precautionary measure and our priority is the wellbeing of the individual involved.
"Their family has been informed and will receive all possible support from the government."
He said although the two similar incidents had occurred within a short space of time, they appeared to be unrelated.
"Our personnel receive the highest standard of training and briefing prior to deployment," he said.
Needle-stick injuries involve a piercing of the skin by a sharp instrument or object, typically a needle.
Experts have said such injuries are one of the most dangerous risks for infection as the virus could be delivered directly into the bloodstream.
Siavash Khatiri was in Luton Crown Court's public gallery when Dappy, real name Costadinos Contostavlos, appeared via video link from prison on 14 June.
Khatiri, 36, of Totteridge Lane in Barnet, was arrested after taking three mobile phone photos, including one of Contostavlos on a courtroom TV screen.
He pleaded guilty on Tuesday to contempt of court and was fined £300.
Judge Richard Foster told him he had been "very stupid" and that there was a clearly-visible sign in the courtroom warning people not to take photos.
He said pictures like the ones he had taken had the potential to "go viral around the world in a few seconds" and risked identifying police officers and court staff.
Khatiri's barrister, Tom Flavin, told the court Khatiri had taken the photos, not to distribute them, but to teach Contostavlos a lesson.
"It was to serve as a reminder to his client that if ever he fell off the wagon again these were the consequences that flowed," he said.
Mr Flavin said Khatiri had not realised taking photos in court was prohibited.
Contostavlos had been appearing in court after brandishing a knife on the pavement outside his home during an argument with his partner.
He pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing a bladed article and will be sentenced on 26 June.
But the DUP leader said it should not be seen as a referendum on her handling of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
She made the comments to the BBC's Inside Politics programme on Friday.
She said Sinn Féin had used RHI as a "useful way to bring the assembly down" and re-run last year's election.
The former first minister claimed republicans wanted to weaken unionism and pursue their wider aims regarding the Irish language, Brexit and increasing the number of cross-border bodies.
She said there had been plenty of occasions when the DUP could have brought the assembly down, but had chosen not to in order to make politics work.
She accused Sinn Féin of walking away from an agreement made between the two parties in mid December on how to handle the controversy over the heating scheme.
Until mid December, Mrs Foster insisted, she and Martin McGuinness had "been working quite well together".
She said it was "absolutely wrong" to characterise her as someone who could not work with Sinn Féin and did not want to make devolution work and that after the election she would have "to try to put it (devolution) back together again".
Mrs Foster repeated her assertion that she had done nothing wrong with regards to RHI and said none of her friends or family "were even remotely connected with the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme, directly or indirectly".
She said rumours to the contrary on social media were incorrect and were "in the hands of my husband's solicitors".
Mrs Foster claimed there was now a "feeding frenzy" around the scheme, and she wishes a public inquiry had been put in place in mid December.
She also said she wishes the cost-cutting measures passed by the assembly earlier this week "had come to the fore sooner".
RHI was also the subject of an exchange between DUP party chairman Lord Morrow and Mrs Foster earlier on Friday.
In response to a comment about it being "a lovely sunny day", Lord Morrow said: "It's hot. Yes, the boilers are all working."
Mrs Foster replied: "Stop".
A BBC reporter says unidentified people attacked the rally alongside the Dnipro river with smoke bombs and stones.
Several people were arrested, Kiev's police say. At least one of the attackers was injured, reports say.
Ahead of the LGBT march, a number of Ukrainian politicians, including the radical Right Sector movement, had pledged to disrupt the event.
Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko had called on the organisers of the Equality March to cancel the event to "avoid confrontation" in the capital.
Hundreds of police officers were deployed to prevent clashes during Saturday's event.
But unidentified attackers later began throwing smoke bombs.
One of the policemen suffered "a serious neck injury", a Red Cross official at the scene was quoted as saying by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
Kiev police later said the officer was being treated in hospital.
Ukrainian lawmaker and journalist Serhiy Leshchenko wrote on Twitter that 25-30 "radicals" were arrested.
He also praised police for preventing "direct clashes" between gay activists and the radicals.
The rally finished shortly after the scuffles.
The Ukrainian authorities say the rights of sexual minorities are guaranteed and protected in the country.
But critics say homophobia is widespread and generally accepted in the predominantly Orthodox Christian nation.
The move will come into effect in September and will affect all 39 special schools in Northern Ireland.
It will mean pre-school children with moderate to severe learning difficulties will attend school for 2.5 hours instead of at least 4.5 hours a day.
The cut was revealed by the Education Authority (EA) in a letter to a parent.
It confirms that from September 2016 "all pre-school children will receive 2.5 hours in pre-school per day".
The EA said the move "is designed to increase the opportunity for children to access special school places," and will provide "greater regional consistency".
However, a body that represents special school principals and governors said the cut will "hold back and restrict the development of children with complex needs".
In a submission to the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Strategic Leadership Forum for Special Schools (SLFSS) said they "totally disagree" with the move.
They said it will have a range of impacts including:
Francine Wilson's three-year-old son Aodhan, is due to start pre-school at a special school in September.
"Aodhan has Down's Syndrome and we were hoping in September 2016 he would get five hours of nursery placement," she said.
"Receiving two and a half hours will, I believe, result in delayed development in Aodhan, both educationally and socially."
However, a spokesperson for the EA said the reduction was "in line with the Department of Education's 'Learning to Learn' policy".
"There has been a progressive move towards part-time places in all sectors," the spokesperson said.
"This policy recognises the research evidence that there is no discernible difference in children's development at the start of primary school between those who received part-time and full-time pre-school provision.
"This move is designed to increase the opportunity for children to access special school places, preferably nearer to their homes."
"The provision of increased access and greater regional consistency is a priority," they added.
The Glovers broke the deadlock when Otis Khan took a short corner and - with the O's defence slow to react - the ball reached the unmarked Eaves who was left to head home from close range.
The opening half got off to a slow start with little to show for it from either side.
Nathan Smith enjoyed the best opportunity for the visitors when his angled effort was collected by Alex Cisak at the near post, whilst at the opposite end, Liam Kelly's powerful drive from 20 yards went narrowly over the crossbar.
The game improved after the break as a spectacle with the visitors growing in confidence against a lacklustre Orient before Eaves gave headed home to claim them the three points after 76 minutes.
O's only came to life with the introduction of last season's leading striker Jay Simpson, who had missed the past few matches through injury, and he came closest to salvaging a point only for his effort to be cleared off the line on the dying minutes.
Orient left the field to boos with a section of the crowd venting their anger against club owner Francesco Becchetti.
Report supplied by Press Association.
Match ends, Leyton Orient 0, Yeovil Town 1.
Second Half ends, Leyton Orient 0, Yeovil Town 1.
Attempt saved. Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Tom Parkes.
Attempt missed. Liam Kelly (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Bevis Mugabi replaces Otis Khan.
Foul by Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient).
Otis Khan (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient).
Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Goal! Leyton Orient 0, Yeovil Town 1. Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Matt Butcher following a corner.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Aron Pollock.
Attempt saved. Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ryan Hedges (Yeovil Town).
Attempt missed. Ryan Hedges (Yeovil Town) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt blocked. Otis Khan (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Jay Simpson replaces Jordan Bowery.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Nigel Atangana replaces Robbie Weir.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Aron Pollock.
Yvan Erichot (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Yvan Erichot (Leyton Orient).
Nathan Smith (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient).
Darren Ward (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Robbie Weir (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town).
Attempt missed. Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt missed. Callum Kennedy (Leyton Orient) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt blocked. Harry Cornick (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Tom Parkes.
Robbie Weir (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town).
Second Half begins Leyton Orient 0, Yeovil Town 0.
The 27-year-old Algeria international spent one season at West Ham after joining the Premier League club on a three-year deal from La Liga side Valencia last year.
Feghouli scored four goals in 27 appearances for the Hammers, including one against NK Domzale in the Europa League in West Ham's first match at the club's new London Stadium last July.
After the deal was announced, Feghouli expressed his gratitude to West Ham supporters following his brief spell at the club.
Paris-born Feghouli came through the ranks at French club Grenoble before joining Valencia.
Having played for France at youth level, he chose to play for Algeria and scored their first World Cup goal in 28 years with a penalty against Belgium in 2014.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
|
The BBC is piloting a service that automatically translates short news packages to provide subtitles and computer-generated narration in different languages.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Japan's share market rallied after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government claimed a major election victory over the weekend, spurring hopes of further economic stimulus under his leadership.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Mae angen i'r Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol ddangos arweinyddiaeth mewn "amseroedd pryderus", yn ôl unig Aelod Cynulliad y blaid Kirsty Williams.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former Ireland international rugby player David Tweed has been found guilty on 13 child sex abuse charges.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The BBC's Micro Bit computer, due to be given to one million schoolchildren in October, has been delayed, the corporation has acknowledged.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Swansea City will welcome back defenders Martin Olsson and Kyle Naughton for Sunday's Premier League match against relegation rivals Middlesbrough.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A hunting rifle has been dropped from the latest list of official emojis.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Cameroon coach Hugo Bross believes his side now have the right mentality for success at the Africa Cup of Nations.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Arsenal forward Joel Campbell has joined Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon on a season-long loan, subject to international clearance.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Nicola Sturgeon is to launch the SNP's campaign for the forthcoming council elections, characterising the contest as a "clear choice" between her party and the Tories.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
House price growth slowed in August but buying a property was still 6.9% more expensive than a year ago, new figures show.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Researchers say the giant extinction event that saw the end of the dinosaurs also killed off most snakes and lizards - among them a newly discovered species named after US President Barack Obama.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Russia has summoned the Polish envoy in Moscow to protest against a ban on Russian bikers from entering Poland as part of World War Two commemorations.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man is in a critical condition after being shot by police following a siege lasting seven hours in south London.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
David Mirfin's goal in first-half stoppage time secured victory for Scunthorpe at Shrewsbury and put them top of the League One table.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tom Ford says he found it difficult to come to terms with playing at the Crucible after his third straight first-round World Championship exit.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Rangers chairman Dave King could face a bill of up to £12m after a ruling on how he took charge of the Ibrox club.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
More than 30,000 people in Dar es Salaam have attended the funeral of Tanzania's most popular film star Steven Kanumba, who died on Saturday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former Edinburgh head coach Alan Solomons has been appointed as a coaching consultant at Premiership club Bristol for the rest of the season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Firefighters called to a house blaze in Flintshire discovered a cannabis farm capable of producing "industrial quantities", a court has heard.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Drug and alcohol addicts could lose their sickness benefits if they refuse treatment under a review now under way.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
"You're crazy" was what people said when they found out that Nathan Blecharczyk was working on a website which would allow people around the world to rent their spare room or property to strangers.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
National restrictions should be imposed on Scotland's strip clubs to prevent new brothels being opened, an expert has advised MSPs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A second UK military healthcare worker has been flown to England following "likely exposure" to the Ebola virus via a needle-stick injury in Sierra Leone.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The manager of former N-Dubz star Dappy has admitted taking photos of the rapper's court appearance.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Arlene Foster has said the March election could be the most important since 1998 and would decide the future direction of Northern Ireland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Five policemen have been injured in scuffles during a gay pride march in Ukraine's capital Kiev, officials say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The amount of nursery and pre-school provision for children in special schools is to be reduced.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tom Eaves' second-half goal proved enough to hand Yeovil Town their first win in six League Two matches as they claimed maximum points at Leyton Orient.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Galatasaray signed West Ham winger Sofiane Feghouli on a five-year contract for $5.01m, the Turkish club announced on Monday.
| 35,115,208 | 14,740 | 1,006 | true |
Abdul Abbasi, from Hull, appeared via videolink and did not enter a plea during the hearing at Hull Crown Court.
The court heard a 65-year-old pedestrian suffered "grievous injuries" when she was hit by a reversing car on Redmire Close in Hull on Sunday.
Mr Abbasi, 32, of Thorndale, was remanded in custody and will appear in court again on 16 December.
More on this and other Hull stories
|
A taxi driver accused of deliberately running his mother over has appeared in court charged with attempted murder.
| 37,574,389 | 109 | 20 | false |
Its pre-tax profit for the 26 weeks to 2 August was £16.45m, compared with £6.09m for the same period last year.
Executive chairman Peter Cowgill said the company was "well positioned to deliver results towards the upper end of current market expectations".
JD Sports has 850 stores, mainly in the UK, but also trades in mainland Europe.
Mr Cowgill said the group now had 12 stores in Germany and 21 in France. It had also opened new outlets in Spain and the Netherlands.
"There will be further openings in all of our international territories in the second half," he added.
The retailer has a strong presence in UK shopping malls and online, but Mr Cowgill told the BBC's Today programme that a High Street presence was "still very important to JD Sports".
"The High Street is alive and well," he added.
The firm said its UK and European Sports divisions had made "encouraging progress".
At the same time, its outdoor division, which includes the Blacks, Millets and Tiso brands, had reduced its operating loss from £8.9m to £5.6m.
The group said its fashion stores, with the exception of Scotts, had had "a difficult half", but performance was expected to improve later in the year.
Easdale was one of four directors who faced being voted off the board at an extraordinary meeting on 6 March.
He said that surviving such a vote would be "a hollow victory" without the backing of the fans.
Easdale's brother and business partner, Sandy, is football club chairman and controls more than 20% of club shares.
Former Rangers director Dave King, unhappy with the current direction of the club, has been behind a move to remove the current four-man board.
He wanted shareholders to vote off Easdale, chairman David Somers, chief executive Derek Llambias and finance director Barry Leach.
Llambias and Leach are close business associates of Newcastle United and Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley, who is also a Rangers shareholder.
Ashley has loaned substantial sums to the Glasgow club to stay afloat in recent months.
The present board is fighting to remain in place, but its chances of winning a vote on 6 March suffered a blow on Tuesday when the Rangers Supporters Trust announced it had bought a chunk of shares from Beaufort Nominees.
Those shares had previously been controlled by Sandy Easdale through a proxy.
James Easdale, who has been involved with the club along with his brother since 2013, issued a statement explaining his reasons for stepping down.
"I drew great comfort from the shareholder votes in my favour at the AGM on 22 December - almost 90%," it read.
"However, it was clear that this cut little ice with the fans who attended Ibrox on that day.
"I personally feel to remain on the board even after securing shareholder backing once more would be a hollow victory for me without the fans' support to help the club go forward.
"I also want to dispel any remaining doubt that I received any remuneration from Rangers. I did not. Instead, I chose to work for free to benefit the club.
"I want to see Rangers flourish again with both fans and shareholders working in harmony.
"To help achieve that objective, I think it is in the best interests of the club that I step aside and resign from the board of Rangers FC."
Easdale's brother, Sandy, owns 6.45% of Rangers shares and had proxies for another 19.7% until the supporters' trust bought 450,000 from Beaufort Nominees to increase its own shareholding to 2.12%.
It also holds another 1.7% in proxies and intends to vote for King's group, which wants to replace the present board with himself, former Rangers director Paul Murray and former Tennent's Brewery boss John Gilligan.
"After what the fans have been through with previous owners and managements, it is hardly surprising they are heartily sick of the whole affair and they now seek another way forward," added Easdale.
"If a pragmatic solution is not achieved, we will see this endless acrimony continue and it would make the job of attracting fans back to Ibrox even more difficult.
"The club requires big match-day attendances and big investment to thrive, or in turn the performance on the pitch will continue to suffer."
Howe received the accolade at the 10th annual Football League awards ceremony as recognition for his achievements with Bournemouth.
In two spells, the former Cherries player has guided the club from Football League survival after a 17-point deduction in 2008-09 to within two games of reaching the top flight for the first time.
The 37-year-old is on course to become one of only a small selection of managers to have guided a team through three divisions into English football's top flight, but how has he done it?
Here BBC Sport speaks to three men who know Howe better than most.
John Williams was in charge of Bournemouth's centre of excellence, first meeting Howe as a shy 13-year-old. The former Cherries defender has been a summariser for BBC Radio Solent for over 10 years, watching Howe learn his craft as a manager.
"He was quiet as a mouse. If you can imagine your first day at school, Eddie was like that for quite a while," Williams told BBC Sport. "In fact it nearly hindered him. There was an awful lot to come out in terms of personality and character. Tony Pulis [Bournemouth manager at the time] wasn't that sure whether he could come through. We had to get Tony to come down and watch him on a number of occasions before he took him on.
"Once he got in the changing room, he found his feet. He was one of the boys. When you get in the first team, it's another cup of tea. I remember him being man of the match in his first game.
"He is a fantastic, polite lad, who has become determined, super hard and that's the reason why he is hopefully going to be picking up the Championship in two weeks' time.
"He's learned things from managers he's played under. He's had some crackers like Harry Redknapp at Portsmouth.
"This is the best Bournemouth side I have seen going back to 1986. I speak to fans of 50 and 60 years and they say they have never seen such dynamic football.
"The attention to detail is the one. He is always looking for that different edge, that little angle. How your team, plays, defends - he is always trying to pick up on something that is going to make a difference."
Steve Fletcher was Howe's team-mate at Bournemouth and played under him in the final years of his career. Fletcher is Bournemouth's record league appearance holder and now works in their player recruitment and scouting department.
"He's so dedicated, he is meticulous," Fletcher told BBC Sport. "He works so hard and has a passion for this football club.
"He eats, breathes and sleeps football. It is his club. He watched as a boy from the terraces and he'd do anything to see Bournemouth get to where he wants them to be. He'll stop at nothing.
"I played for 24 years under some fantastic managers and he stands out. He is a million miles ahead of everybody else. He is just different. Every little thing you wouldn't think matters, matters to Eddie. I believe he will go on to do bigger and better things - hopefully with Bournemouth but he's definitely a unbelievable manager in the making.
"He is so meticulous on the training ground, his attention to detail is phenomenal and his man management skills are brilliant.
"He was my room-mate for a while - looking back I always realised he had an old head on young shoulders and he thought about things in more detail. He was a very deep and private man.
"Nobody could foresee the success he's had in such a short space of time. It's phenomenal what he's achieved. The award just proves how highly thought of he is. To have played with him for 11 years and then under him for five years and to have been his friend for 22 years, I'm so proud."
Harry Redknapp has always been considered Bournemouth's greatest ever manager - until this season. Redknapp signed Howe as a player at Portsmouth.
"I produced teams that play good football," Redknapp told BBC Sport.
"I had 10 years at Bournemouth, I was the most successful manager in their 100-year history. Eddie Howe has come along and blown me out the water. He is fantastic - I love watching them play.
"If I wasn't involved next year, I'd buy a couple of season tickets and watch them every week."
But European Commissioner for regional policy Johannes Hahn says there should be fewer projects receiving aid money in future.
He also said there will have to be "quantifiable results."
Billions of pounds has been received over the last 10 years and qualifying for a third time has drawn criticism.
"The Labour government have said themselves in the past that we shouldn't be receiving money in the future at this present point," said Monmouth AM Nick Ramsey.
"Because that money should've been spent on creating business and creating enterprise in a way that we wouldn't need these sorts of handouts."
In 1999 European funding was hailed as a once-in-a-generation chance for the poorest parts of Wales.
But performance per head has fallen - gross domestic product (GDP) at 68.4 % of the European average in 2009, compared to 79% in 2005.
The Welsh government says the figures which suggest the economy in poorer parts of Wales has fallen further behind the European average are misleading.
It says GDP does not take into account people commuting to work in the cities.
Opposition parties say billions in European aid has failed to work.
And qualifying for another round of aid means the funding to date has not had the desired effect.
Many have asked why they have not seen the improvements that were originally promised.
But Mr Hahn said: "If all the investments which have been launched which have not yet been finished are finished, I think the positive impact will be there."
And the Welsh government's Europe Minister Alun Davies is optimistic over the needs for even further funding.
He said: "The sort of investments that many have seen in our communities up and down Wales are the investments that I hope will mean the qualification this time is the final qualification of European funding of this sort."
Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway, will also feature Hollywood stories.
The 42-year-old frequently treads the boards - he appeared in a 1998 revival of Oklahoma! at London's National Theatre, and won a Tony award for his role in 2004's for The Boy From Oz.
He will perform at the Broadhurst Theater from 25 October to 20 December.
"I can't believe it's been seven years since I was singing and dancing on Broadway," Jackman said in a statement.
"There is nothing like performing on the Great White Way and I'm so excited to be coming 'home'."
The actor, who hosted the Oscars in 2009, has previously taken the show to San Francisco and Toronto.
Jackman last performed on Broadway in 2009, taking a non-musical role alongside Daniel Craig in Keith Huff's police thriller A Steady Rain.
Following his Broadway stint, the Australian actor will reportedly star with Russell Crowe in Tom Hooper's film adaptation of Claude-Michel Schonberg's musical Les Miserables.
The Tory peer, sacked as a government adviser after defying the whip over Brexit, said the Germans had lost World War Two but the UK was now giving them the "opportunity to win the peace".
"I find that quite unacceptable," he told the House Magazine.
UKIP said the comments showed Lord Heseltine was "utterly out of touch with the modern world".
"If I was German I would be deeply offended," a UKIP spokesman told the BBC.
In a wide-ranging interview, Lord Heseltine questioned how Theresa May could campaign to remain in the EU as home secretary but "within a few weeks" of becoming PM, insist "Brexit means Brexit".
The prime minister, he added, had seemed to change her mind on the issue, suggesting "this lady was for turning".
Lord Heseltine, who was deputy prime minister between 1992 and 1997, said he would continue to argue against the decision to leave the EU, believing it was against the UK's historic national interest.
The 83-year old said he was "now free" to speak out after he was relieved of his five economic advisory roles after defying party managers to vote against Brexit in the House of Lords.
"If anyone is listening, I will continue to play a role in trying to avert what I perceive to be a disaster of British self-interest," he was quoted as saying.
"The letters keep flowing, the invitations keep coming...They haven't kicked me out of the party yet. They kicked me out of my advisory jobs but as yet there is no suggestion I should be asked for my membership card."
Not only would Brexit alter the balance of power in Europe, he suggested that for many people of his generation, the UK's decision might be regarded as a betrayal of the country's fight against the Nazis.
"For someone like myself, it was in 1933, the year of my birth, that Hitler was democratically elected in Germany. He unleashed the most horrendous war.
"This country played a unique role in securing his defeat. So Germany lost the war. We have just handed them the opportunity to win the peace."
He dismissed those who argue Britain's standing in the world would be unaffected by EU withdrawal, saying the UK would lose its ability to act as a bridge between both the Commonwealth and the US and Europe.
"The Americans will shift the focus of their interest to Germany."
Lord Heseltine has long been one of the most pro-European voices in his party but has rejected the Europhile tag often given to him - saying that EU membership is about enhancing the UK's national interest not giving up power and identity.
He said he had "no complaints" about the way he had been treated by the prime minister, saying they came from a different political generation and had never met, let alone discussed Europe.
But he suggested that she had not shown the iron resolve of her predecessor Lady Thatcher, who the peer served under and later helped to depose as prime minister.
Lady Thatcher famously told the 1980 Conservative party conference, at a time of intense calls for the government to reverse its economic policies, "you turn if you want to, this lady's not for turning."
Pointing to a speech Mrs May made two months before the EU referendum - in which she called for Britain to "stand tall and lead in Europe" - Lord Heseltine said: "I don't know how someone who made that speech can, within a few weeks, say Brexit is Brexit and ask the nation to unite behind it...This lady was for turning."
Lord Heseltine also urged Chancellor George Osborne not to rule out a return to frontline politics and disclosed that he did not vote for Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith as London Mayor because of Mr Goldsmith's pro-Brexit stance.
He also advised the prime minister to resist the "powerful" temptation to call a snap election, suggesting the result of the Richmond by-election, won by the Lib Dems, showed the "deep and bitter fury" of many voters who wanted to remain in the EU.
Conservative MP David TC Davies said he respected Lord Heseltine and the generation whose world view was shaped by war but their outlook was not shared by others.
"For them the EU was not just a trading arrangement. It was a way of avoiding a third world war," he said.
"But it is an analysis that is decades out of date. We can't carry on as if we are all still living in the 1950s."
Mr Davies, who is vice chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British-German relations, added: "There is no chance of a war between Germany, France and Britain. We all share the same values and we are all open to each other for trade."
Responding to Lord Heseltine's comments, a UKIP spokesman said: "What an extraordinary thing to say. Has he lost his marbles?
"I never realised the purpose of Britain's membership of the EU was to stop German domination of Europe.
"For someone who is deeply pro-European to basically say he doesn't trust the German people not to misbehave shows how utterly out of touch he is with the modern world and the modern, democratic and free Germany."
The 28-year-old lock succeeds Steve Borthwick, who retired at the end of last season.
"Alistair has shown exceptional leadership qualities since arriving at the club," Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall said.
"He is unequivocally respected by staff and players alike and we feel certain he will lead the squad brilliantly."
Hargreaves joined Saracens from Super Rugby outfit Sharks in 2012 and has played 44 games for the Premiership club.
He made his Test debut for South Africa against Wales in 2010 and has won a total of four caps.
In a BBC interview, Mr Ghani said IS was "not an Afghan phenomenon" and its atrocities had "alienated the people".
"Afghans are now motivated by revenge," he said. "They [IS] have confronted the wrong people."
Mr Ghani also called for anti-IS action at regional and international level.
"There is no denial that we are dealing with very significant risks," he said, during a visit to the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos.
"A lot of my diplomacy has been to create the regional consensus, and a region with the inheritance of previous animosities and short-sighted behaviour is something that is going to require effort and focus."
The US state department said last week that it had designated the IS offshoot in Afghanistan as a terrorist organisation.
It said the group had formed in January last year and was made up of former members of the Pakistani Taliban and Afghan Taliban.
Afghan security forces have struggled to contain militant groups in the country - in December, the Taliban seized much of the strategic town of Sangin, and in September they briefly overran the northern Afghan city of Kunduz in one of their biggest victories since 2001.
However, the Taliban's rivalry with the Islamic State group for dominance has also limited IS's influence in the region. The Taliban say they have set up a "special forces" unit with more than 1,000 fighters that aims to crush IS.
In other comments, Mr Ghani warned that if peace talks with the Taliban did not start by April the conflict would intensify, with consequences across the region.
"Time is not a friend," he said. "We all understand that February and March are crucial."
The Afghan president said observers should understand that the war in his country was "just one component" of a wider war that also encompassed Pakistan.
"The problems... are interrelated [and] cannot be solved by use of force in one country.
He suggested Pakistan should take action against Taliban groups that did not agree to talks.
"We need to see that we have common interests and we need to act together to preserve the state system and consolidate it," he said.
Asked what message he had for Afghan migrants arriving in Europe, Mr Ghani said: "What I say to them is that you have no future in Europe. Europe is shutting down its borders.
"You've just had an interview with the French prime minister - broadcast that to them. The future is Afghanistan."
R&B Distillers is asking whisky drinkers to choose a location for the region's first distillery since 1837.
The firm has launched an online poll asking people to choose between Borders destinations including the Tweed Valley, Peebles, Kelso and Melrose.
Work would not start on the new project until the company's Raasay Distillery is complete and open to the public.
Company co-founder Alasdair Day said: "It's really quite remarkable that somewhere as iconic as the Scottish Borders has remained untouched by whisky distilling for such a long time.
"Just like whiskies from the Highlands, Speyside or Islay, a small batch whisky distilled in the Borders will have its own unique flavour, informed by the provenance and terroir of the region."
Voting will run for three months and the most popular site will be announced in November.
Any distillery in the Borders would be subject to the purchase of a suitable site, planning permission, and the successful establishment of the Raasay Distillery.
Last year Mossburn Distillers revealed proposals for a £40m distillery near the Jedforest Hotel at Camptown, three miles south of Jedburgh.
Aid workers and officials are also warning that flooding could lead to a sharp rise in cholera cases.
Sandy is blamed for some 70 deaths in the Caribbean. Of these more than 50 were in Haiti.
In Jamaica and Cuba, which took direct hits from the hurricane, the clean-up is also continuing.
Sandy, which was a category one hurricane when it clipped Haiti last week, brought heavy rain and flooding.
At least 54 people died in what Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe called a "disaster of major proportions".
By Mark DoyleBBC international development correspondent
Haiti was hit when it was already down. At least 20,000 people have been made homeless by the storm.
But the astonishing truth is that a casual visitor to Haiti probably wouldn't even notice this new wave of misery; that's because hundreds of thousands of people were already living in flimsy shelters after their homes collapsed in an earthquake two years ago.
Heavy rains rushed down mountainsides denuded of most of their forest cover by generations of over-farming. Most rivers in the south of the country burst their banks, according to latest UN reports, causing extensive damage to agriculture.
There is also concern about a new upsurge in the current cholera epidemic. The disease is spread by dirty water. Every time there is heavy rain, Haiti's decrepit sewers overflow. More than 7,500 people have died from the current epidemic. More will die now.
Haiti's cholera epidemic
There is concern that floods and unsanitary conditions could led to an increase in cholera cases.
More than 7,500 people have died in the cholera epidemic in Haiti since late 2010. Hundreds of new cases are still being registered every week.
Another big worry is the damage to the agriculture sector.
More than 70% of crops - including bananas, plantains and maize - were destroyed in the south of the country, officials said.
Food insecurity, particularly in this part of Haiti, was already a major concern.
Rising food prices have in the past triggered at times violent demonstrations in Haiti.
In Jamaica, Sandy caused extensive damage to crops, including coffee and bananas.
Dozens of houses were destroyed and many more damaged.
"Even before the hurricane we faced serious economic challenges. This has been made worse by the passage of Hurricane Sandy," Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said.
Eleven people died in Cuba, making Sandy one of the deadliest storms there in recent years.
The eastern province of Santiago was the worst-hit, with flooding and landslides destroying crops, knocking out power and damaging buildings.
President Raul Castro, who toured the area on Sunday, warned that recovery would take a long time.
"It's been hard. But Santiago is Santiago. It's resisted gales and wars of every type. It will overcome this," he was quoted as saying by the Communist Party newspaper Granma.
On his way to Australia for annual security talks, Mr Gates said closer ties with Australia would help the US expand its role in South East Asia.
The US would focus on fighting piracy, improving counter-terrorism, disaster aid and cyber-security, he said.
He said the US move was not to contain China, which is engaged in various territorial disputes in the region.
Mr Gates said Washington had no plans for more bases in the region.
But he expressed hopes for increased co-operation on issues such as missile defence and "space surveillance".
"We're looking at a number of different options," he said.
Concerns have intensified around the region since China published maps earlier this year claiming the entire South China Sea as part of its territory.
But Mr Gates said: "This isn't about China at all."
"It is more about our relationships with the rest of Asia than it is about China," he told reporters travelling with him.
A senior US defence official told reporters that the Pentagon is "looking at how we can make sure our forces are not just oriented in north-east Asia, but are looking down to south-east Asia and then into the Indian Ocean as this part of the security environment becomes more important".
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said everyone hoped China could play a larger role in regional co-operation.
"I think we will be talking about the geopolitics of our region, and that means of course we'll be talking about the rise of China and as China rises, what sort of force it is going to be in the world," she said.
"I believe we have a shared perspective with the United States that we want China to be a force for good, strongly engaged in global and regional architecture, strongly engaged in a rules-based framework."
She spoke of the benefits for Australia of closer military ties with the US.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is also visiting Australia.
"We have made the point to China, both privately and publicly, that there does need to be transparency about China's military strategy," said Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith.
"Australia believes that China will emerge... to use the Chinese phrase, into a harmonious environment. It will be a responsible international stakeholder. And that's what we want to see," he added.
Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said Australia would "welcome the United States making greater use of our ports and our training facilities, our test-firing ranges. That has been the case in decades past and will be the case for decades in the future".
There is controversy in Australia on the idea of sharing bases, which could mean more US soldiers present in the country.
The original party was forced to leave the ship Endurance in 1915 after it became icebound.
The family of James Wordie, chief scientific officer, had set out to "complete unfinished family business".
The feat means funds will be raised to digitise Wordie's and other explorers' work papers deposited in Cambridge.
Wordie's diaries and relevant papers by other members of the expedition will be made available for research at St John's College where Wordie was a student, fellow, and later master as well as the Scott Polar Research Institute.
Twelve people, led by explorer David Hempleman-Adams, walked and skied the final leg of Shackleton's intended route to the Pole.
They arrived on 17 December - 100 years and two days after the original party hoped to do so.
The trip was conceived by Tim Holmes and his wife, Alice, who is Wordie's granddaughter.
Speaking from the Antarctic, Mr Holmes said: "It has been a very rewarding trip and very hard at times too, with extreme cold, wind and snow ridges to deal with."
Wordie's detailed volumes capture the spirit, courage and determination of the men trapped in gruelling conditions in Antarctica for nearly two years after setting off in early 1914, he said.
After being forced to abandon ship, the crew drifted on ice floes for several months before reaching uninhabited Elephant Island.
From there, Shackleton and five others made a daring, 800-mile sea crossing to South Georgia from where a rescue was mounted.
The Metropolitan Police says it will consider manslaughter, health and safety and fire safety charges.
Seventy-nine people are feared dead after the blaze destroyed 151 homes in the Kensington tower block.
The government has ordered immediate testing of the Hotpoint fridge freezer that was involved.
Whirlpool, which owns Hotpoint, said: "We offer our most profound condolences to the victims, those who have lost loved ones, homes, and possessions, and to their friends and families."
Nine of those who died in the 14 June have been formally identified so far. Nine people remain in hospital, with three people still in critical care.
Police said the fire had not been started deliberately and the speed with which the fire spread was "unexpected".
127 flats
24 storeys
20 residential levels
4 mixed levels of community areas and residential flats
2016 refurbishment completed
Preliminary tests on the samples of insulation showed it burned soon after the test started, and more quickly than the cladding tiles.
However, they both failed the police's safety tests - which are similar to those being carried out by the UK government.
By Kevin Peachey, BBC News
Anyone who has a white Hotpoint fridge freezer model number FF175BP or graphite fridge freezer model number FF175BG should register their appliance with the manufacturer to receive any updates.
Generally, the model number is found on a bar code on a sticker behind the salad container in the fridge.
These models were discontinued in 2009, but 64,000 were sold between March 2006 and July 2009. It is not known how many are still in use.
Owners should ring 0800 316 3826 or visit the Hotpoint website.
Fires connected to fridge freezers and other electrical appliances are relatively common.
More general advice on registering an appliance, should there be a recall, and other safety tips are available online on charity Electrical Safety First's page.
Some 250 specialist investigators have been deployed to find out what happened.
All criminal charges are being considered "from manslaughter onwards".
Every company involved in the building and refurbishment of Grenfell Tower will also be looked at as part of the investigation.
Det Sup Fiona McCormack said police had been in the tower "from top to bottom", adding that next week a lift would be installed to the outside of the building.
But she did say the forensic search "may not be complete until the end of the year".
"There is a terrible reality that we may not find or identify everyone who died due to the intense heat."
Det Sup McCormack says the tests carried out on the cladding and insulation were "small scale" but added: "All I can say at the moment is they [the tiles and insulation] don't pass any safety tests."
The cladding, insulation, fixings and installation will be examined both individually and how they worked together.
"The investigation will be exhaustive," said Det Sup McCormack.
"As we learn more, the scope and scale may well grow. We will look at the refurbishment. We are looking at the panelling and the entire facade of the building."
She said she wanted to hear about anyone who was in the tower, whether or not they were meant to be in the building.
She said: "I do not want there to be any victims of this tragedy that we do not know about.
"Our priority is to understand who was in Grenfell Tower. We are not interested in people's reasons for being in Grenfell Tower."
She said she was concerned they did "not have the complete picture" and reassured people not to be nervous about contacting them.
"There may well be people who no one has contacted us about - who they know were in the building or have close links to Grenfell Tower.
"The Home Office has assured us that they are not interested in people's immigration status and we are not interested in looking at that.
"What we are interested in is making sure that we know who is missing and we take every possible step to establish if they are safe and well."
Whirlpool said it was working with the authorities to obtain access to the appliance so that it could assist with the ongoing investigations.
Ibrahim Halawa was 17 when he was arrested during a siege at the Al-Fath mosque in Cairo.
He has been accused, along with more than 400 others, of inciting violence, riot and sabotage.
Mr Halawa's solicitor, Darragh Mackin, tweeted that it was "disappointing, but not surprising" that his trial had now been adjourned until 12 November.
He said it was the 15th time the trial has been adjourned.
The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs said that the hearing did not proceed on Sunday as 2 October was designated the start of Hijra (Islamic New Year) and a public holiday in recent days.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan spoke to Egypt's Ambassador to Ireland, Soha Gendi, about the matter.
"I am very disappointed that the case hearing did not go ahead," Mr Flanagan said .
"We are working closely with Ibrahim's family and with his lawyers in Dublin and Cairo."
He said Ireland's Ambassador to Egypt, Damien Cole, spoke to Mr Halawa's Egyptian lawyers.
"We are seeking urgent clarification from the Egyptian authorities in respect of the next hearing date," said Mr Flanagan.
"I want to reaffirm to Ibrahim, his family and his friends of my own and the government's ongoing commitment to secure his return to Ireland as soon as possible and to ensure his welfare during his detention," he said.
Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste, who shared a cell with Mr Halawa for a time, tweeted: "There can be no justification for yet another adjournment in this trial. This is imprisonment by administrative neglect."
Ibrahim Halawa, from Dublin, is the son of Ireland's most senior Muslim cleric.
Three of his sisters were also arrested at the Al-Fath mosque, but were later released on bail.
The family say they were on holiday at the time and had sought refuge in the mosque to escape the violence outside.
They deny claims that Ibrahim Halawa is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is Egypt's oldest and largest Islamist organisation.
The strike of 40,000 teachers in the Canadian province began in June. A last-minute attempt to bring teachers back failed last week.
Key sticking points between the provincial government and the teacher's union include pay and class size.
The British Columbia government says it will not pass a law to force teachers back to work.
Extended summer camps and childcare options were filling up across British Columbia, broadcaster CBC reports.
The province has offered C$40 ($37; £22) per day per child under 12 to pay for childcare costs, but it will not be paid out immediately.
Sperm becomes more prone to errors with age, increasing the risk of autism, schizophrenia and other disorders.
Dr Kevin Smith, from Abertay University in Dundee, says sperm-banking on the NHS should "become the norm".
The British Fertility Society said such a move would "provide a very artificial approach to procreation".
It called for a greater focus in the UK on supporting young couples to have work and have children.
Men are having children later - the average age of fatherhood in England and Wales has increased from 31 in the early 1990s to 33 now.
But while it remains possible to have children well into old age, there are consequences.
Making his case in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Dr Smith said even small increases in the risk of disease could have a big effect when scaled up across a whole nation.
He told the BBC News website: "I think on a society-wide basis, we do need to worry about it - it is a very real and pronounced effect.
"It's time we took seriously the issue of paternal age and its effect on the next generation of children."
His solution is sperm banking for everyone on the NHS so that in older age men can turn to the sperm from their younger selves.
He said there was no fixed age when someone could become an "older dad" but that people in their 40s might want to return the sperm bank freezer.
He said sperm should be banked ideally around the age of 18.
It costs £150-200 per year to keep sperm privately, although an NHS equivalent should be cheaper to run.
Allan Pacey, a professor of andrology at the University of Sheffield, said: "This is one of the most ridiculous suggestions I have heard in a long time."
He said the risks from fathering children later in life were "really quite small".
"We know that the sperm from the majority of men won't freeze very well, which is one of the reasons why sperm donors are in short supply," he added.
"Therefore, men who froze their sperm at 18, and returned to use it later in life, would essentially be asking their wives to undergo one or more IVF procedures in order to start a family."
Professor Adam Balen, chairman of the British Fertility Society, disagreed with the need for a universal sperm bank.
He said: "Not only does it provide a very artificial approach to procreation, but also a false sense of security as the technology does not guarantee a baby."
He warned that frozen sperm were less fertile than fresh ones and couples would be likely to have to depend on IVF.
Prof Balen argued: "I don't think we should be advising all women and men to freeze eggs and sperm for an uncertain future, but support young couples to have work and have children - that may require a societal shift in philosophy."
He said other countries, particularly in Scandinavia, were better than the UK at providing childcare and maternity and paternity leave.
Sheena Lewis, the chair of the British Andrology Society, said: "Men should think about their families much earlier in their lives.
"We need to get the message across that it's really a much better idea for men as well as women to have their children in their 20s and 30s."
It said there had been a "worrying" trend since 2007, with more and more new cases each year.
Nearly half of the 6,280 people diagnosed last year were men who had sex with other men (MSM).
Overall, one in 20 MSM are infected with HIV.
Of those diagnosed in 2011, nearly two-thirds had not been to a sexual health clinic in the previous three years.
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus and on its own it does not kill you.
The virus can survive and grow only by infecting, and destroying, the immune system.
This continual assault on the immune system makes it weaker and weaker until it is no longer able to fight off infections.
Without treatment, it takes about 10 years from infection to the development of Aids - acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
It is then that "opportunistic infections", ones a healthy immune system could fight off, become deadly.
People can die from pneumonias, brain infections, diarrhoeal illnesses as well as certain tumours such as lymphoma and cervical cancer.
BBC Health: HIV and Aids
The HPA said the figures showed there was "room for improvement" in testing people in at-risk groups.
Dr Valerie Delpech, the organisation's head of HIV surveillance, told the BBC: "Obviously this is a serious illness and it is worrying that we're still seeing a lot in men who have sex with men and this is a record year.
"Transmission in the UK is largely sexual, so safe sex is the best way to prevent yourself getting HIV."
The total number of people living with HIV in the UK rose to 96,000, up from 91,500 the previous year. The issue is most intense in London.
Due to advances in drug treatment, having HIV should not affect life-expectancy.
However, the data suggests that one in four people with HIV are completely unaware of the infection, meaning they cannot receive treatment and may still be spreading the virus.
The chief executive of the National Aids Trust, Deborah Jack, said: "It is vitally important that gay men test at least once a year for STIs [sexually transmitted infections] and HIV, and every three months if they're having unprotected sex with new or casual partners.
"HIV-negative gay men diagnosed with an STI should really treat it as a 'wake up call'. You are at serious risk of getting HIV in the near future and need to take steps to prevent that happening - such as consistent condom use and reduction in number of sexual partners."
Sir Nick Partridge, the chief executive at the Terrence Higgins Trust, said: "HIV is an entirely preventable condition, yet each year we see thousands more people across the UK receive this life-changing diagnosis.
"Reducing undiagnosed HIV by encouraging those in high-risk groups to test more regularly is one way we can put the brakes on the spread of infection."
With about 96% of areas reporting, he has secured 51% of the vote. His Democratic rival Rob Quist has 43%.
Mr Gianforte has apologised for the incident in which he is accused of "body slamming" Ben Jacobs who works for the UK's Guardian newspaper.
In a victory speech he said he had "learned a lesson" and was "sorry".
A Fox News journalist who saw Wednesday's incident said Mr Gianforte had "grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground" after the reporter persisted in trying to question him.
Mr Gianforte had previously said Mr Jacobs had grabbed his wrist, pulling them both to the ground.
"When you make a mistake you have to own up to it, that's the Montana way," he said, after initial laughter among his supporters as he began to speak about the incident.
"Last night I made a mistake, I took an action that I can't take back.
"I am not proud of what happened, I should not have responded in the way that I did, and I'm sorry," he said.
"I should not have treated that reporter that way, and for that I'm sorry Mr Ben Jacobs," he added.
He has been charged with misdemeanour assault, for which the maximum penalty is a $500 (£385) fine and a six-month jail term.
Mr Gianforte, a multimillionaire technology executive and Christian conservative, beat Mr Quist, a banjo-playing folk singer, to fill an empty seat in the House of Representatives.
Mr Quist said he was "sure that Montanans will hold Mr Gianforte accountable."
The vacancy in Montana arose after President Donald Trump appointed the previous holder of the seat, Ryan Zinke, as interior secretary.
Three of the state's largest newspapers withdrew their endorsements of Mr Gianforte after the violent incident on the eve of the vote.
The state's Democratic governor, Steve Bullock, described it as "a wake-up call to all Montanans and Americans".
"It is unsettling on many levels that Greg Gianforte physically assaulted a journalist and then lied, refusing to take responsibility for his actions," he said in a statement.
More than a third of the votes were cast by mail before it took place, an electoral official told Reuters.
Republicans have held the state's single seat in the House for two decades.
The party has, in general, been downplaying the case and casting it as an errant mistake, BBC North America reporter Anthony Zurcher says.
But critics are drawing the line between the rhetoric of President Trump - in which he has dubbed certain media outlets as "enemies of the American people" - and the incident, our correspondent adds.
Yet compared to only a few years ago the category is no longer a byword among Oscar voters for baffling obscurity.
And this year one of the films shortlisted is already lined up for a Hollywood remake.
Here's a look at this year's nominees:
Country: Denmark
Language: German with some Danish and English
Denmark's track record in this category: 11 nominations including 3 wins
Director: Martin Zandvleet
Story: Immediately after World War Two on Denmark's west coast, a group of teenage German soldiers are to clear some of the two million landmines which Germany deployed on beaches and along the shoreline to deter an Allied invasion. They are supervised by the Danish Sergeant Rasmussen who at first seems filled with violence.
Will it win? Voted Best Danish Film at last year's Danish film awards. It's well acted both by Roland Moller as the sergeant and by the young actors who play the Germans. When early on Rasmussen delivers a savage beating for no clear reason, we guess that the story will see him humanised by his contact with the soldiers he appears to despise. A couple of incidents late in the film seem there only for dramatic convenience and don't convince. The scenes of defusing mines are impressively tense and hard to watch.
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Sweden's Track Record: 14 nominations including three wins (all for Ingmar Bergman)
Director: Hannes Holm
Story: Ove is a cranky old widower living alone. He expends a lot of energy trying to police the behaviour of his neighbours, who treat him warily. Ove's not pleased when the house opposite is taken by a new family: he finds it hard to accept the warm-hearted Parvaneh (who's Iranian) and her Swedish husband. Yet a relationship builds and in flashback we encounter the younger Ove, a man more open to life's possibilities who marries the beautiful Sonja.
Will it win? The film is attractively shot and Rolf Lassgard makes Ove sympathetic as an old man without totally sentimentalising him. Some of the humour is a bit clunky and the process of discovering Ove's latent nice guy within runs along predictable lines. But in the extensive flashbacks Filip Berg and Ida Engvoll make an attractive and likeable young couple which gives the film an unexpected sweetness.
Country: Iran
Language: Persian
Iran's track record: 2 nominations including a win for the same director in 2011
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Story: Emad and Rana are middle-class inhabitants of Tehran: he teaches but their joint passion is acting. After a tip-off from a fellow actor they find a new apartment. It seems a good move until they discover more about the previous occupant who left one room locked. As they work on a production of Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, the couple's relationship becomes more tense. There is a violent incident and Emad becomes obsessed with revenge.
Will it win? It may be that no film can overtake the German nominee this year. But Farhadi has written a superbly tense and unsettling screenplay whose mastery of dread Alfred Hitchcock would have relished. The couple are superbly played by Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini. Previous winner Farhadi has indicated he will refuse to attend the Oscar ceremony in protest at President Trump trying to restrict Iranians entering the USA: could this create a sympathy vote for him? The most memorable of this year's films.
Country: Australia
Language: Nivhaal (The film was shot on location on Vanuatu.)
Australia's Track Record: First nomination in this category
Directors: Martin Butler and Bentley Dean
Story: On a Pacific island, Dain and Wawa live in a primitive village where life is virtually untouched by the modern world. The spirited young Selin watches as her sister Wawa is betrothed to a man outside the village - but Wawa wants to be with Dain. The lovers run away. Selin follows as the villagers set off to find her sister - and tragedy looms.
Will it win? The least mainstream of this year's nominees is exactly the kind of film the Academy hoped would benefit from reforming the voting system. It's a well-shot and mainly well-acted story filmed on a South Pacific island far from the usual movie-world support systems. The story, with its echo of Romeo and Juliet, is engrossing and in its early stages charming. Locations are attractive without resembling an ad for upmarket beach holidays. It won't take the Oscar but it's worth catching.
Country: Germany
Language: German, English and Romanian
Germany's track Record: 18 nominations (including one for East Germany) and a total of 3 wins
Director: Maren Ade
Story: Winfried (who adopts the name Toni) has a distant relationship with his daughter Ines, a business consultant working in Bucharest. He decides to leave Germany to pay her a visit, not wholly to her pleasure. Ines is climbing in her career and finds some of her eccentric father's activities a pain. But she tries to tolerate him and passes him off to colleagues as her life coach. A late scene suggests they have re-established some kind of family intimacy, but the question is left open.
Will it win? The film got a lot of attention at last year's Cannes Festival - often along the lines of 'Amazing - a German comedy!'. The fact that large sections are in English won't harm its chances and it's built up a head of steam which may well grab it the Oscar. The simple description comedy underplays the story's ambiguities and some audiences will be surprised that certain scenes are far from comic. The film's half an hour too long. A Hollywood remake has been announced, to star Jack Nicholson and Kristen Wiig. Could that incline Academy voters to back the original?
The Academy Awards are held on 26 February.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected].
"This song is about our tragedy, and it was sung on an international stage," said Emine Ziyatdinova.
"Yes!" tweeted Ukraine's President, as he offered Ukraine's "heartfelt" thanks for "an unbelievable performance and victory!"
Petro Poroshenko spoke on the phone to the winning singer late last night.
The EU's Ukraine delegation also sent its congratulations.
And a senior Western diplomat I met last week was keen to sing Jamala's praises as a face of the "new Ukraine".
How Twitter reacted to Jamala's win
How political was this?
Beating Russia, the favourite, at a time when the conflict in the east of Ukraine drags on will add poignancy to Ukraine's victory.
Then there is the subject matter of the song. Jamala has always insisted that it's a personal tale because her great-grandmother was one of those deported by Stalin from Crimea.
But like it or not, anything linked to Crimea in Ukraine today has, at the very least, political overtones because Russia's annexation of the peninsula remains an emotive topic and point of grievance for many Ukrainians.
That is especially true for Tatars like Jamala, who have left the peninsula and say they cannot return.
But the sombre nature of the song had appeared in some ways to be its Eurovision Achilles heel.
That's because the lyrics, in both English and Tatar, are hardly the type of catchy pop number that all too often comes out on top.
It makes Jamala's victory all the more remarkable.
However, for all the animosity between Moscow and Kiev over the course of the past two years or so, there is a very interesting footnote to this year's Eurovision, provided by the popular vote.
Ukrainian voters gave Russia a massive 12 points. Russian voters nearly returned the favour, giving Ukraine 10 points.
It could be a reminder that the recent disputes between the two countries are to some extent political, not popular, affairs.
That is to say, strong family, cultural and linguistic ties mean relations between many Ukrainian and Russian people are still cordial.
New Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said his party could not disappoint the voters which had elected them.
Greek five-year bond yields jumped to 13.5%, reflecting fears investors may not get their money back.
Share prices also fell for a third consecutive day with the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) losing more than 9%.
The biggest losers were bank shares, which plunged 26.67%.
In the two sessions since Sunday's election, banks have seen 43% of their value wiped off, with investors fretting that the possibility of Greece leaving the euro would see bank accounts converted back into a new Greek national currency.
And bond yields are now at their highest since a 2012 restructuring which wrote off a large proportion of Greek debt held by private investors.
The dramatic movements came after new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in his first cabinet meeting that he planned to negotiate with creditors over the €240bn (£179bn; $270bn) bailout.
"We are coming in to radically change the way that policies and administration are conducted in this country," he said.
Mr Tsipras has already appointed a team of anti-austerity ministers and pledged to halt the full privatisation of Greece's biggest port, Piraeus Port Authority, a sale made as part of its international bailout.
It also said it would also stop the planned sale of its 51% stake in Public Power Corporation of Greece, its biggest utility.
Shares in the port were down nearly 8%, while shares in the utility dropped 13%.
Mr Tsipras also plans to reinstate public sector employees deemed to have been laid off without proper justification and has announced rises in pension payments for retired people on low incomes.
Germany's Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel criticised the decision to halt the privatisations, saying Athens should have discussed the decision with its eurozone partners before making an announcement.
"Citizens of other euro states have a right to see that the deals linked to their acts of solidarity are upheld," he said.
The EU has repeatedly warned the new government to stick to its commitments. A default could force Greece out of the euro.
Felix Herrmann, a market strategist at DZ Bank, said: "Now Tsipras has announced his new cabinet and his new finance minister seems to be a rough guy from the very far left of the political spectrum. This is raising fears that there's a clash coming up between Athens and its lenders."
Obina Ezeoke, 24, of no fixed abode, is charged with murdering Annie Besala Ekofo, 53, and 21-year-old Bervil Kalikaka-Ekofo.
They were found dead at their flat in Elmshurst Crescent in East Finchley, early last Thursday.
Mr Ezeoke was remanded in custody at Hendon Magistrates' Court.
He will next appear at the Old Bailey on 19 October.
A post-mortem examination found that Mr Kalikaka-Ekofo, a psychology student, died from a gunshot wound to the head.
A cause of death has no yetbeen confirmed for Mrs Ekofo.
Emergency services were called to the accident on private land at Fingle Woods on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon at about 14:25 GMT on Saturday.
The passenger was injured and taken to the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital.
Organisers said the accident happened when an open car failed to climb a steep hill and backed down before rolling.
The driver of the vehicle is yet to be formally identified.
The incident occurred during the 88th Exeter Trial, organised by The Motor Cycling Club (MCC).
More than 300 cars and motorbikes were taking part in the event across large parts of the South West.
As part of the event, there are several sections on private land where the vehicles use rough tracks.
Roger Ugalde, clerk of the course for the MCC, said: "We don't know why it happened. The car has been taken away by the police for forensics to be carried out."
"It's thought something like this might have happened in the 1950's but since then there has never been a fatality at an MCC event," he added.
The Motor Sports Association (MSA) said: "A trial is a low-speed type of motorsport in which competitors aim to drive as far as possible up a hillside course.
"The MSA sends its sincere condolences to the family and friends of the deceased and offers the injured competitor its very best wishes for a full recovery".
Burke, 18, has made three Europa League appearances for the Hammers this season and has signed a one-month deal.
Evans, 21, who will stay with the Bantams until 9 January, has made 46 league appearances for Wolves since joining from Newport in January 2013.
The pair could make their debuts for the Bantams in Saturday's trip to Yorkshire rivals Barnsley.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
It was seen as a step forward in the challenge to make business courses, particularly MBAs, less male-dominated.
Business schools don't just sell courses, they create an opportunity to rub shoulders with other business students, to share ideas and to build networks that are going to be useful in opening doors for future careers.
That's why business schools around the world now put so much effort into making their classes as diverse as possible in terms of nationality and background experience. But when it comes to gender, they have have been up against the long-standing male domination of the best business education.
But does this male-biased image only really apply to business schools in the West?
Because the most ambitious work on addressing gender balance seems to be taking place in Asia. Women in the region are showing a real appetite for business education.
Across the world, women make up 43% of those taking the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) widely used for admission to business courses. But in central and south Asia, women account for 60% of candidates.
The figure in China is even higher, with women accounting for 65% of those taking the test.
This is translating into greater representation of women on what is still perhaps business education's best-known product - the MBA. At Fudan University School of Management in China, 59% of its full-time MBA students are female.
This increase in female enrolment at business school even seems to have reached Japan, a nation where there are still remarkably few females holding senior roles in commerce, industry or government.
At the MBA programme run in Tokyo by the Desautels Faculty of McGill University, for example, nearly half of participants are women.
"There are signs of a cautious, but genuine move here to bring more women into management roles," says director, Philip O'Neill.
More stories from the BBC's Knowledge economy series looking at education from a global perspective and how to get in touch
For Amber Zhu, an MBA student at the China Europe International Business Schools in Shanghai, the growth of the Chinese economy is providing more and more career opportunities for women, and as a consequence she believes they are less worried about the "return on investment" of their business studies.
"Women are confident that the experience provides good value while developing important skill sets."
Zhu sees an increasing number of women taking senior positions alongside their male counterparts.
"There really should be no gender issues - women can contribute so much, and really are worth it. An MBA is one of the best ways for women to increase their self-belief and confidence," she said.
It seems that women in Asia, buoyed by the opportunities for growth in the region, have few doubts about investing in themselves and finding their place in the business world.
However, if women are making inroads into MBA programmes across the region, some of the most dramatic steps forward in terms of rebalancing the gender divide are happening at a slightly more junior level in the growing number of so-called "pre-experience" masters programmes, usually taken directly after an undergraduate degree.
At Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for example, while the percentage of female students on the full-time MBA programme is currently at 33%, women are now in the majority on the school's Masters in Management.
And on its CEMS Masters in Management - a course from a global 29 school alliance which allows students to study both at home and abroad - women now account for more than 70% of the class.
According to Chris Tsang, director of the CEMS programme at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, there are some clear reasons for this high level of interest from women at such a relatively early stage in their career. They don't want to delay and want to get on with seizing a growing number of opportunities.
"With such a rapid pace of economic development in the region, ambitious young professionals don't want to wait to develop the capabilities that can come from targeted education like this," he says.
"And a lot of women in this group benefit from the support of very close family networks which can help free them up to pursue their careers."
The Masters in Management can also be the opportunity for young women to gain an international experience, through their studies and company internships.
For Micaela Saeftel, head of the global trainee programme at the Swiss-based multinational ABB, this international exposure can really set candidates apart.
"We operate in 100 countries around the world, and really need employees who are open to working in different cultures. We like the pre-experience graduates such as CEMS students because they are open, flexible, and can adapt."
For the students, the appeal of such international programmes is straightforward enough, improving the likelihood of finding a well-paid and rewarding job.
"There's substantial and growing demand from both domestic and international companies in the Asia-Pacific region for professionals, who can combine in-depth local knowledge with a global perspective," says Steve Greenwood of Singapore-based recruiter, Berkley Group.
"At the moment there are simply not enough people who have either trained or worked overseas to satisfy this demand, which means that the war for talent in the region is likely to remain a fierce one for some time until the pipeline can start to deliver sufficient numbers."
And thanks to the region's business schools it seems that the winners of this Asian war for talent are just as likely to be women.
Androulla Farr, 50, of West Wick, Weston-super-Mare, admitted one count of bribery or corruption while working for North Somerset Council.
Ms Farr accepted the £2,000 bribe, even though the child's details were protected by an adoption order, North Somerset Magistrates' Court was told.
She is due before Bristol Crown Court for sentencing on 6 June.
North Somerset Council confirmed Ms Farr left the authority in 2006.
"We have been helping the police with their inquiries regarding this case," the spokesman added.
When asked by BBC Stoke what he was up to, the songwriter said he had been out filming a documentary recently, and was seen speaking with Labour's Jack Dromey, MP for Erdington, at the count.
He said he could not be interviewed - he has a contract with the film makers.
Labour's Gareth Snell won the seat, with UKIP, whose leader Paul Nuttall had stood, coming second.
Pro Green - real name Stephen Manderson - did chat to BBC Stoke's Emma Thomas and stay for a selfie with her, which she said caused a bit of a stir among the press section.
"Of all the things I was expecting from last night's by-election count, meeting a music icon was not one of them," she said.
"He wouldn't give me many details on why he was in the Potteries, but did say he's in town making a documentary.
"He was doing pieces to camera and interviewing people like Jack Dromey. He chatted to some members of the press... He was relaxed."
His team did not let much detail out about the documentary. His cameraman however, had been filming with UKIP leader Paul Nuttall a few weeks ago when it emerged he falsely claimed he lost close friends in the Hillsborough tragedy.
After spending several hours at the count, the rapper, who has previously made documentaries with the BBC looking at homelessness and the murky world of illegal dogs, departed after the result came in at about 02:30 GMT.
Ex-Plymouth midfielder Young, 24, won player of the season at the National League club as they avoided relegation.
Brendan Moore, Sean McGinty, Ruairi Keating, Dan Sparkes and Aman Verma are the others offered contract extensions.
The Gulls have released Ben Gerring and Charlie Duke, while Damon Lathrope and Sam Chaney are already under contract.
Top-scorer Brett Williams is among five players yet to be offered terms, along with Giancarlo Gallifuoco, Shaun Harrad, Lathaniel Rowe-Turner and Myles Anderson.
They, along with the club, are free to consider their options, but could yet stay at Plainmoor.
"I want to make it very clear that any one of these players would be a valuable asset to our squad for next season and the door definitely remains open," said Torquay boss Kevin Nicholson.
The batsman, 23, from Cardiff, played for his county in the t20 game against Kent on Sunday.
Monday's incident involved a District Line train at Wimbledon Park station.
Police said a man matching Maynard's description ran away after a car being driven "erratically" was stopped shortly before. The police watchdog IPCC is investigating.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "At approximately 04:15 BST on Monday, 18 June, officers stopped a vehicle after it was seen being driven erratically in Arthur Road, SW19.
"The male driver of the vehicle - a black Mercedes C250 - made off on foot. Officers were unable to locate the man.
"At approximately 05:10 BST the body of a man fitting the same description was found on tracks near Wimbledon Park station."
London Ambulance Service medics were called but Maynard was pronounced dead at the scene.
British Transport Police (BTP) said the death was not being treated as suspicious.
The BTP said: "The incident was reported to BTP at 05:03 BST and is currently being treated as non-suspicious.
"A file will be prepared for the coroner."
A statement from the IPCC: "The IPCC was notified of an incident near to Wimbledon Park station in which the body of a man was found on the tracks.
"Prior to the incident, officers from the Metropolitan Police Service stopped a vehicle being driven by a man matching the same description as the deceased.
"Once a formal referral has been received from the MPS an assessment will take place regarding the level of IPCC involvement."
In a statement, Surrey described Maynard as "an incredibly talented young batsman".
Maynard, who came through the ranks at Glamorgan, was considered a rising star in the game and earned himself a place on the England Lions tour to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka at the start of this year.
He moved to The Oval at the start of last season following his father Matthew's departure from the Welsh county in 2010 after claiming his position had become "untenable".
Surrey added: "His future potential was unlimited, with experts both inside and outside the club predicting he would soon follow in the footsteps of his father Matthew by graduating to full England honours."
Chairman Richard Thompson said: "Our thoughts at this awful time are with Tom's family and friends and all those that were close to him.
"Tom Maynard was a prodigiously talented young batsman who had made an incredible start to his career and was clearly destined for far greater things.
"The impact Tom made in such a short period of time for Surrey CCC spoke for itself. There is a profound sense of loss at the passing of Tom. To lose anybody at such a young age is an utterly senseless tragedy."
ECB chairman Giles Clarke said: "This is a very sad day for everyone connected with Surrey County Cricket club and for Glamorgan County Cricket club where Tom spent the early part of his career.
"Tom was a player of enormous potential who had already represented England Lions and had an exciting future ahead of him. Our hearts go out to the Maynard family for their tragic loss and we send them and all Tom's many friends and colleagues within the game our deepest sympathies."
Surrey's Friends Life t20 game against the Hampshire Royals at the Kia Oval on Wednesday has been postponed.
England cancelled their press conference at Surrey's home, the Oval, ahead of the one-day international with the West Indies on Tuesday.
Former club Glamorgan said they are "deeply saddened" to hear of Maynard's death.
A statement added: "The club's thoughts are with Matt, Sue and their family at this difficult time.
"Most of our playing and coaching staff were close friends of Tom and understandably are still trying to come to terms with this sad news."
Tributes have begun coming from leading figures in the cricketing world.
Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff said on Twitter: "Tragic news that a great lad, Tom Maynard is no longer with us. All my thoughts are with his family at this awful time x x."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan Tweeted: "Thoughts are with Matt Maynard and his family.. Words can't describe the Terribly sad news that Tom Maynard has died aged 23... #RIPTOM."
"Can't believe the news about Tom Maynard !!!! Life can be so cruel ! Thoughts go out to his family !! Top bloke much talent ! R.I.P" tweeted former England bowler Matthew Hoggard.
Surrey teammate and former England batsman Mark Ramprakash tweeted that Maynard was "a really nice guy who was a pleasure to play with".
The force "requires improvement" in efficiency, according to Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC).
Its report raised concerns over the number of officers available and stated that "on occasions priority incidents are attended late or unallocated".
Chief Constable Justine Curran said the force was improving its call handling and recruiting 300 new officers.
More on this and other Humberside stories
Last year, the force was the only one in England and Wales to be classed as "inadequate" at keeping people safe and reducing crime.
Earlier this year, it was also rated "inadequate" at investigating crimes.
Mike Cunningham, from HMIC, said the force's rating "is a standard that is not good enough".
"We set a standard when we assess forces as good," he added.
"That's the standard that the public can expect. That's the standard that the public deserves."
Ms Curran said the force had "worked really hard" to achieve an improvement on its previous inadequate rating.
"We know we have more to do and we will do it, but this is a long-term plan and, as with all long-term change, I expect there will be ups and there will be downs along the way."
Talking to broadcaster CNBC Arabia, he said the country was in a good position to manage low oil prices.
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporting country, has maintained its production levels despite a collapse in the price of oil.
Oil is trading at less than $50 per barrel, half the price of a year ago.
"We have built reserves, cut public debt to near-zero levels and we are now working on cutting unnecessary expenses while focusing on main development projects and on building human resources in the kingdom," he said in the interview.
Some areas of the economy will still receive investment, he said, as the country tries to improve industries outside energy.
"Projects in sectors such as education, health and infrastructure are not only important for the private sector but also for the long-term growth of the Saudi economy," he said. He did not give details of where cuts would happen.
It may issue bonds, or Islamic bonds known as sukuk to finance some spending, he said.
The kingdom has more than $600bn in reserves it can draw upon should expenditure outstrip income from oil exports.
|
Retailer JD Sports says it achieved record trading in the first half of this year, with a big increase in profits.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bus tycoon James Easdale has resigned as a Rangers director following opposition from the Scottish Championship club's supporters.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Eddie Howe has only been a manager for six years but has already achieved enough to be named as the first Football League manager of the decade.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Wales' poorest areas are set to qualify for a third round of European funding to help pull them out of relative poverty.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
X-Men star Hugh Jackman is to perform a one-man Broadway show, singing songs from musicals with the backing of an 18-piece orchestra.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The UK is handing control of Europe's destiny to Germany by leaving the EU, Lord Heseltine has claimed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Saracens have appointed South Africa international Alistair Hargreaves as their new captain.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has promised to "bury" the Islamic State (IS) militant group, whose local offshoot has clashed with government forces and Taliban fighters.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Scotch whisky firm has launched a bid to get the Scottish Borders "back on the whisky map".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Fears are growing of food shortages in Haiti, after the strong winds and heavy rain of Hurricane Sandy caused extensive crop damage.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said the US wants a larger military presence in Asia.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Relatives of a scientist on Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctica expedition in 1915 have reached the South Pole 100 years later.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Grenfell Tower fire in London started in a fridge freezer, and outside cladding and insulation failed safety tests, police say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An Irish man jailed in Egypt since 2013 has had his trial delayed again.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A teacher's strike in British Columbia has postponed the first day of school for about 500,000 children.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The sperm of all 18-year-olds should be frozen for use in later life because of the risks attached with being an older father, a UK bioethicist has argued.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The number of gay and bisexual men being diagnosed with HIV in the UK reached an "all-time high" in 2011, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA).
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
US Republican Greg Gianforte has won a special congressional election in Montana, just hours after he was charged with assaulting a UK reporter.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
On Oscar night the winner of the award for Best Foreign Language film probably won't get much publicity - it seldom does.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
One Ukrainian Crimean Tatar supporting Jamala in Stockholm described her victory as "a big day for Crimea".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Greek financial markets were in turmoil on Wednesday after the new anti-bailout government appeared determined to defy the country's international creditors.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has appeared in court charged with killing a mother of nine and her nephew in a shooting at their north London flat.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has died after the car he was driving rolled while trying to climb a steep hill at an organised motor event.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bradford City have signed West Ham defender Reece Burke and Wolves midfielder Lee Evans on loan.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
It was hailed as a success story this year when a group of leading US business schools managed to increase their proportion of female students on MBA (Master of Business Administration) courses to 40% - up from 30% a decade before.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A former support worker has admitted selling details of an adopted child's whereabouts to their birth mother.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Rapper Professor Green caused a stir when he unexpectedly turned up at the Stoke-on-Trent by-election count.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Torquay United have offered new deals to seven players, including Luke Young and skipper Courtney Richards, with a further five waiting on their futures.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Surrey cricketer Tom Maynard has died after being struck by a London Underground train.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Humberside Police's efforts at reducing crime and keeping people safe is still "not good enough", a watchdog has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Saudi Arabia will cut spending and delay some state projects after the recent decline in the price of oil, Finance Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf said.
| 29,234,665 | 16,323 | 929 | true |
Stevenson had made 24 appearances but had been dropped to the bench for the last four games and moves to Kirkcaldy until the end of the season.
Striker Nade, who is also 32, had played as a trialist with Annan Athletic in League Two after being released by Stranraer in November.
He had moved to the Scottish League One club from the Sons in the summer.
The Frenchman made 12 appearances for Stranraer, scoring twice, but had scored seven times in 14 games for Dumbarton last season.
Stevenson had joined the Sons after helping Ayr United win promotion from League One last season.
Joe Thomson has also left Dumbarton, the midfielder returning to Celtic at end of his loan spell after making 24 appearances for the Championship club.
Meanwhile, fellow 19-year-old Ryan Hardie has joined Rovers for a second loan spell from Rangers, having scored six times in 12 appearances in early 2016 and then scoring three in 17 games on loan at St Mirren later in the year.
He and Stevenson were on the bench for Monday's Fife derby at home to Dunfermline Athletic.
|
Ryan Stevenson has joined Raith Rovers, with Dumbarton having re-signed Christian Nade as his replacement.
| 38,490,036 | 252 | 27 | false |
While the drivers were on their formation lap in China, BBC Radio 5 live's Tom Clarkson commented on air: "The pressure is on Ferrari. Their president, Sergio Marchionne, is watching here in person. It's a big race."
Less than two minutes later, the red cars were crashing into each other. Oops.
Cue an awkward silence and much shuffling in the team garage.
Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel was quickly on the team radio, blaming Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat for coming up the inside like a "madman" and, allegedly, forcing him into Kimi Raikkonen. After the race he was back on the wireless, describing the Russian's move as "suicidal".
Was he overcompensating because he felt a bit embarrassed?
You see, crashing into your team-mate is the biggest no-no in Formula 1 and whenever it happens, repercussions and recriminations inevitably follow.
Vettel - a four-time champion, no less - has been here before, colliding with then Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber at Turkey in 2010 when they were running first and second. The German was eliminated on the spot and walked away pointing his finger to his head while twirling it around, suggesting he thought the Australian was crazy.
For his part, Webber said: "We'll probably have a difference of opinion until we go to our graves."
In China six years on, while the collision was between two Ferraris, the argument was between Vettel and Kvyat and we were able to to eavesdrop on their very entertaining cross words in the waiting room before the podium ceremony.
Listen to the Vettel-Kyvat row
Kvyat, with a knowing glint in his eye, knowing full well how angry Vettel was, gently dropped the bait into the water by asking: "What happened at the start?"
Vettel swallowed it hook, line and sinker: "You - asking what happened at the start?! If I don't go left, you crash into us and we all three go out - you are like a torpedo."
A laughing Kvyat responded: "That's racing," and added: "We didn't crash." To which Vettel replied: "You didn't. You were lucky this time." Kvyat shrugged: "I'm on the podium; you're on the podium."
In the post-race interviews, Kvyat added: "You see the gap, you go for it on the inside. You see one car, it is hard to see both. It was a risky move - I agree with Seb - but you have to take risks and I am on the podium."
While assessing where any blame lies, it's worth nothing the stewards took no action. In fact, they didn't even consider it worthy of investigation. So, in their opinion, it was very much a racing incident.
And for Kvyat, his "torpedo" move paid off spectacularly, lifting him into third place, which is where he would finish the race. It was also hugely important for the 21-year-old, with rumours his seat at Red Bull is under threat and following a qualifying in which team-mate Daniel Ricciardo beat him by four places and more than four tenths of a second.
Luckily for Ferrari, both Vettel and Raikkonen were able to continue and eventually crossed the line second and fifth respectively. So all's well that ends well.
Well, kind of. Marchionne was not happy, telling Sky Sports: "This is the first time that the two drivers have ever collided and it isn't something you usually see with Ferrari. I'm more embarrassed for them than me, if I'm honest.
"They know how to fix the problems though and it was an oversight that we paid for, but the comeback was a masterpiece so I'm happy about that."
Just don't do it again, lads.
The pet charity PDSA says there's a big increase in pets being diagnosed as clinically obese in the last two years.
Being overweight can cause health problems for animals. It can lead to heart disease, cancer, diabetes and arthritis.
The charity's now running a six week Pet Fit Club to help animals lose weight and fat.
It will also teach owners how to feed their pets more healthily.
Official figures published by the Scottish government showed that 28% of offenders were reconvicted in 2014/15.
Reconvictions have dropped by 19% since 1997/98.
But the statistics also revealed that, of the people released from short-term prison sentences of six months or less, more than half (57%) were reconvicted within a year.
Of those given a community payback order (CPO), around a third (32.7%) were reconvicted.
Justice secretary Michael Matheson said: "These figures show we are continuing to make good progress on tackling reoffending - a key goal of this government's justice strategy.
"The continued fall in reconvictions is down to hard work from partners across Scottish justice, working together to prevent offending and keep our communities safe.
"This is further evidence to back up our position that robust community sentences, particularly CPOs, are more effective at reducing reoffending than short custodial sentences.
"I want to see a Scotland where people are held to account for their offending behaviour, but are also given the opportunity to address the underlying causes of their offending behaviour and become contributing citizens in their communities.
"Our new model for community justice encourages that approach through its fundamental focus on preventing and reducing reoffending."
Johnson, 61, absent on the touchline for the previous two games, was taken to hospital a week earlier and "may take some time" to return to work after the operation.
Despite the off-field drama, Cheltenham almost scored in the opening minute when Carl Winchester's cross was nodded back by Jack Barthram and Danny Wright nearly turned it in, but Scott Wharton made an important intervention.
Cambridge then took the lead with their first attack, with Luke Berry's perfect cross headed in by a diving Elito at the far post.
The former Cheltenham loan player was forced off in the 29th minute with an injury.
Winchester curled an effort just wide from 20 yards after a quickly-taken corner from Liam Davis.
Cambridge looked certain to make it 2-0 in the 39th minute when Piero Mingoia's cross found Paul Lewis, but Scott Brown made an outstanding one-handed save to keep it out.
Billy Waters headed a cross from Barthram wide from a good position as Cheltenham pressed for a leveller in the second half.
A mistake from Emmanuel Onariase gave Gerry McDonagh a chance to add a second in the 73rd minute, but Brown made another good block.
Wharton cleared a looping header from Wright off the line as Cambridge held on.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Cheltenham Town 0, Cambridge United 1.
Second Half ends, Cheltenham Town 0, Cambridge United 1.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Harrison Dunk.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Aaron Downes replaces Jack Barthram.
Carl Winchester (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Barry Corr (Cambridge United).
Attempt saved. Barry Corr (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Manny Onariase (Cheltenham Town).
Barry Corr (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card.
James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Barry Corr (Cambridge United).
Liam Davis (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jake Carroll (Cambridge United).
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Scott Brown.
Attempt saved. Gerry McDonagh (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Carl Winchester (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Scott Wharton.
Attempt saved. Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Gerry McDonagh (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. James Dayton replaces Billy Waters.
Attempt missed. Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town).
Leon Legge (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Manny Onariase (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Barry Corr (Cambridge United).
Substitution, Cambridge United. Barry Corr replaces Paul Lewis.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Kyle Wootton replaces Dan Holman because of an injury.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Scott Wharton.
Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luke Berry (Cambridge United).
Substitution, Cambridge United. Harrison Dunk replaces Ben Williamson.
Attempt saved. Jack Barthram (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Luke Berry.
Attempt saved. Carl Winchester (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Dan Holman (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Liam Davis (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
It had previously been reported that the Spanish-born winger, who has represented his country of birth at under-16, under-17 and under-19 levels, was set to swap national allegiances to his parents' homeland of Mali.
But the 19-year-old says he is not contemplating his international future, despite a formal overture from Mali's Football Federation.
International football is for another time but what stands before me now is to be fit and give my best performance to my club always
"A decision about international football isn't something that I am thinking about right now," Traore told BBC Sport.
"My priority is to concentrate on what I do for Aston Villa because that is the most significant part of my professional career.
"I want to play well for Villa and give my best because as a young footballer I need to challenge myself to reach the top.
"After that I will sit down and honestly look at my international opportunities and where they fall."
Adama's brother Mohamed, who plays for Spanish club Cordoba in their B team, has already featured for Mali Under-23s this year.
Football's world governing body, Fifa, has told BBC Sport as yet it has not received an official request for a change of allegiance.
Aston Villa signed Traore from Barcelona in August on a five-year deal for a fee reported to be around £7m (US$11m).
He scored his first goal for the club in a Capital One Cup tie against Notts County but was forced off on the hour mark with an injury after a series of heavy challenges against the League Two side.
Traore however made a return with a substitute cameo in last weekend's defeat at Liverpool but he got injured on under-21 Premier League duty this week.
The former Barcelona attacker was not listed for the game against Stoke City this weekend as he is not completely fit.
"It's nothing serious and I hope to be 100 per cent as soon as possible," said Traore.
"My head and heart wants to play right now but I guess it is not possible to rush myself back.
"After spending two months in England I have experienced great support from the fans and staff of Aston Villa.
"International football is for another time but what stands before me now is to be fit and give my best performance to my club always."
The remains were discovered at about 12:20 on Thursday near Benderloch.
Police Scotland said enquiries were ongoing to establish the identity of the person.
A post-mortem examination will be held and a report prepared for the procurator fiscal.
Sales rose 12% year-on-year to £7.7bn for the year to 31 December 2015.
But operating profits fell 1.8% to £255.6m which it attributed to "continued investment in prices".
Aldi said it would invest more in fresh produce, alcoholic drinks, ready meals and refurbish 100 stores.
Chief executive Matthew Barnes said the move was the result of a "listening exercise" involving more than 50,000 shoppers.
The German-owned firm added that it would open 70 new stores in the UK next year as part of plans to increase the number of its outlets from 659 to 1,000 by 2022.
Aldi said it had doubled revenue in just three years and attracted 761,000 new customers in the UK. Its share of the UK grocery market now stands at 6.2%.
Aldi added that its future investment plans were unaffected by the UK's decision to leave the EU.
The retailer is planning to increase the size of its two existing distribution sites, open a new one in Cardiff and re-develop its UK head office in Warwickshire.
Aldi's growth story is remarkable but the price war is eating into its profits. It says its cut prices on 30% of its products, to maintain the price gap with its bigger rivals who have sharpened their offer.
Tesco's new farm brands range, for instance, has given Aldi a run for its money. So how far is Aldi prepared to go to win on price?
Its UK boss, Matthew Barnes, repeatedly said this morning that Aldi would invest "whatever" it takes to retain its position. He even hinted that Aldi would tolerate losses in order to win long term.
In other words, price is a battle that that the big four grocers simply won't be able to win.
And, for now at least, Aldi continues to set the tempo.
"There's no reason why there can't be an Aldi in every town and city," says Matthew Barnes.
The march of the discounters shows no sign of abating any time soon.
Aldi said it had increased the number of products it sourced from British suppliers to 77% from 69% in 2014.
Mr Barnes said Aldi would continue to concentrate on maintaining "a significant price advantage over our competitors".
The majority of consumers in the UK still shop at the big four supermarket chains - Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons.
But the influence of Aldi and Lidl's low-cost model has been huge and they have cut into the big four's share of the market.
They remain Britain's fastest growing supermarkets with a combined market share of 10.8%, according to recent industry data.
Their presence has sparked a prolonged supermarket price war and changed consumers' attitudes towards no-frills shopping, eroding snobbery towards discount retailers.
Neil Wilson, market analyst at ETX Capital, said: "What's good news for Aldi is bad for the Big Four supermarkets.
"What will worry the boards of those firms the most is the loss of market share - Aldi is enticing more and more customers away from the likes of Tesco and Sainsbury.
"And with bold plans to have 1,000 stores in the UK by 2022 it's hard to see the retailer not taking more market share. The question is how much."
The pair have been linked with other clubs and, with 18 months remaining on their Arsenal contracts, are in talks with the Gunners about new deals.
"Eighteen months is quite long in football. These players have 18 months, they will be staying 18 months and, hopefully, much longer," said Wenger.
"I don't believe that it is a problem."
He added: "A contract is between two parties and on my side the best position is to achieve it early.
"You have to accept that negotiations are private and secret and we don't have to explain what we do with negotiations."
Asked if he is willing to break the club's wage structure to keep the players, Wenger replied: "Like always we will do the maximum of what we can for every single player."
Chile international Sanchez has 11 top flight goals so far this season and is the joint leading goalscorer in the Premier League along with Chelsea striker Diego Costa.
Newspaper reports suggest he is a target for the Blues and a Chinese club.
"Why should you go to China when you are playing in England?" said Wenger.
"We live in a world where the great players like Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil earn a lot of money and have the privilege to choose where they want to play.
"The commitment of Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil is absolutely total and I'm very pleased with that."
The test comes at a time when its rival Apple is preparing to make it easier to prevent videos from self-starting within its web browser.
Facebook has also faced criticism for recently automatically turning on sound for auto-play videos on its platform.
One expert said the feature could be a fresh money-spinner for Google.
But for now the firm is unwilling to reveal its intentions.
"We are constantly experimenting with ways to improve the search experience for our users, but have no plans to announce at this time," a spokesman said.
The BBC understands, however, that Google will reveal more about its plans on Thursday.
Google's auto-play feature was first reported by industry site The SEM Post earlier in the week.
The videos appear on the right-hand side of results and appear to be limited to queries involving films at this time. Only a limited number of users are affected.
In the examples that SEM Post saw, the viewer still had to turn on the sound if they wanted to hear it and the feature was restricted to desktop searches.
The news site was able to see the feature on the international, UK and Canadian versions of Google's Search service. However, when tested by the BBC, the videos appeared but did not auto-play.
The clips were sourced from YouTube. At this time they do not feature pre-roll adverts, which are included when the same trailers are viewed directly on the video-streaming site.
Even if Google opts not to pursue an ad-based model, it could still profit from the feature if it charges film studios and other industries to pay for the privilege of having their clips start without prompting.
"Auto-play videos are deeply annoying to a vast swathe of users, so if Google decides to go down this route it will no doubt enrage a very vocal part of the internet community," commented Ben Wood from the CCS Insight tech consultancy.
"However, there is always a commercial angle to any of these decisions and there are clearly some significant benefits to being able to auto-serve content even if people don't necessarily want it."
The inclusion of auto-play video adverts in Facebook, Twitter and Instagram has already proved to be a revenue-spinner for the three platforms.
"I think that we proved that having a quick start auto-play can be a good experience," said Facebook's chief Mark Zuckerberg in 2013 after adding the feature.
"If it's good content then that can be really good."
However, Apple revealed last month that it had felt compelled to make it easy for users to block the technology in the next version of its MacOS operating system.
"Sometimes you go to read an article and instead of finding something to read you get... video that auto-plays and disrupts your whole reading vibe," said software engineering chief Craig Federighi at Apple's developer conference.
"Safari detects the sites that shouldn't be playing video and puts you in control - you can always push play."
It is as yet unclear whether Apple's blocking facility would apply to Google.
Chris Turner died in April 2015 aged 64, after being diagnosed with a form of dementia in 2006.
He spent nine years as a player with Posh before winning back-to-back promotions as manager in the early 1990s.
Sculptor Sean Hedges-Quinn has created a statue which will be unveiled at the club's London Road ground.
Images of the bronze statue will not be released ahead of its unveiling on 1 September.
When fundraising began in November 2015 fans said they wanted it "to have a large plinth, all lit up and covered in granite and very tall, because Chris Turner was a very tall man".
They also hoped it would depict Turner's face as it was "when we won at Wembley, absolutely laughing his head off and having the time of his life".
The original fundraising target of £80,000 has been passed and the total stands at just over £100,000.
The surplus will pay for landscaping the area around the club's North Stand where the statue will be placed, and its maintenance.
Turner was a defender with Peterborough United from 1969-1977, and later played for Luton, Cambridge United, Swindon and Southend before retiring in 1984 and going on to manage both Cambridge and Peterborough.
Before his death, Turner's wife Lynne said doctors told her his dementia was "caused by heading too many balls".
The incident, which happened during Saturday's game in Hippach, Austria, led to the match being abandoned.
Ajax said Nouri, 20, had suffered "cardiac arrhythmias" - heart rhythm problems - during the game.
An open training session by the 33-time Dutch champions planned for Monday has been cancelled.
Nouri was part of the Ajax squad for the Europa League final against Manchester United in May.
However, the Netherlands youth international played no part in the game, which United won 2-0.
Nouri played 15 league and cup games for Ajax in 2016-17, scoring one goal in a Dutch Cup tie.
Former Netherlands captain Ruud Gullit posted on social media: "#abdelhaknouri we pray for you."
Ajax Cape Town, a feeder club for the Dutch side, also sent a message of support.
"We would like to wish speedy recovery to Abdelhak Nouri from @AFCAjax who collapsed in a friendly game," it posted on Twitter.
An Ajax statement, released on Sunday, said: "Should anything change in the situation of Nouri, Ajax will report through its official channels."
Aston Martin has been without a chief executive since Ulrich Bez stepped down after turning 70 in November 2013.
Mr Palmer, 51, will take over at Aston "after he completes a transition period from his current employer", the carmaker said in a statement.
The departure of Mr Palmer, who oversaw Nissan's Infiniti unit, sparked a reshuffle at the Renault-Nissan group.
He will be replaced at Nissan by Renault's Philippe Klein.
Mr Palmer is a UK-born chartered engineer who has spent 35 years in the automotive industry, starting as an apprentice at Automotive Products and then moving to Austin Rover.
He joined Nissan in 1991, and has been based in Japan for the past 13 years.
Mr Palmer joins Aston Martin at what the company called "its most significant and ambitious period of investment to date".
Aston Martin is in a competitive battle with larger premium carmakers, and is investing heavily in vehicle and engine technologies.
It is investing about £500m, including more than £20m to extend its manufacturing facility at Gaydon in Warwickshire.
The UK carmaker has also forged closer co-operation on engines and electronics with Germany's Daimler.
The German company owns 5% of Aston Martin, but its three big shareholders are Kuwait's Investment Dar and Adeem Investment, and Italian private-equity firm Investindustrial.
Media playback is not supported on this device
All the goals came in the third quarter, with Ricardo Sanchez giving Spain the lead, Alan Sothern levelling, and Alvaro Iglesias scoring the winner.
Ireland now take their place in the fifth to eighth place play-offs, their next game against France on Friday.
The team which finishes fifth will guarantee World Cup participation.
If Ireland fail to secure a top-five position, they must wait on the results of the continental championships to see if they can progress.
Ireland beat France on penalties in the final of World League 2 in Belfast in March.
Ireland accumulated 10 penalty corners but found Spanish goalkeeper Quico Cortes on top form, while Eugene Magee saw his final reverse shot skim past the post.
The Spanish appeared to come out with a bit more fire in the second half and Davy Harte had to make a smart save following a crash ball into the circle.
Spain won their first penalty corner in the 37th minute and brave first running by Johnny McKee saw him block the shot but land hard on his shoulder, resulting in a stretcher being called for the young Banbridge player.
Despite two great saves by Harte from the following penalty corner, Sanchez managed to flick the rebound into the net to give his side the lead.
Ireland equalised in the 44th minute from a powerful drag flick by Sothern.
Just a minute later, Spain took the lead when a mis-trapped penalty corner was sent crashing back into the circle for the free Iglesias to sweep in at the back post.
Fine efforts from Magee and Jeremy Duncan called Cortes into action once more and the goalkeeper excelled again to parry away.
Ireland head coach Craig Fulton said "We're happy with our performance, but they took their chances on the day and we didn't.
"It was a good game and it could have gone either way, we know the chances we created and on another day we'll definitely finish those".
Ireland: D Harte, J Jackson, C Cargo, A Sothern, E Magee, S O'Donoghue, J McKee, P Gleghorne, C Harte, S Loughrey, S Cole
Subs: J Carr, J Bell (Captain), M Bell, M Nelson, N Glassey, S Murray, J Duncan
It is hoped the new facility will handle double the capacity of the one in Dar es Salaam.
The project will cost about $11bn (£7bn), with much of the funding for construction coming from a government-owned Chinese investment firm.
It will take two years to complete, and includes building rail and road links.
The BBC's Alice Muthengi in Dar es Salaam says officials hope the new port will not only transform the economy of the sleepy tourist town, but also put the country in good stead to compete for regional business, especially with neighbouring Kenya.
It should be able to handle 20 million containers annually, she says.
Kenya's Mombasa port is currently being upgraded and it is also building a huge facility at Lamu, including an oil refinery near its border with Somalia.
Bagamoyo, which is 75km (50 miles) up the coast from Dar es Salaam, is the home town of outgoing President Jakaya Kikwete, who laid the foundation stone.
The project is being funded by China Merchants Holdings International and Oman's State Government Reserve Fund.
Bagamoyo was the original colonial capital of German East Africa and during the slave trade was a major holding centre before slaves were transported across to markets on the island of Zanzibar.
Sophie Dowsley 34, and her Canadian partner Gregory Tiffin, 44, had left for a day-long walk in British Columbia on 8 July.
Police began a search after they did not return. Mr Tiffin's body was found near a waterfall last week.
Ms Dowsley's relatives have said she "may never be found".
Her brother, Jamie Dowsley, said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had "no plausible or conceivable areas left to search" in the rugged landscape near Harrison Lake.
"After visiting this area and gaining an understanding of the terrain and conditions our family fully accept this decision," Mr Dowsley wrote on social media.
Ms Dowsley's sunglasses and some of Mr Tiffin's personal items were found near the waterfall.
The missing woman's family thanked search teams for putting their "lives at risk".
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been contacted for comment.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made the statement during a meeting with top security officials, state media said.
The reports did not give details of what the measures might entail.
North Korea has issued a series of warnings since the UN tightened sanctions against the country this week over a recent rocket test.
On Thursday, the North said it would proceed with a "high-level" nuclear test in a move aimed at the US, its "arch-enemy".
A day later, it promised "physical counter-measures" against South Korea if it participated in the UN sanctions regime.
North Korea's nuclear tests
Q&A: North Korea's nuclear programme
North Korean state media reported on Sunday that Mr Kim had "advanced specific tasks to the officials concerned".
The latest warning came after Rodong Sinmun, a state newspaper, carried an essay on Saturday saying that a nuclear test was "the demand of the people".
"It is the people's demand that we should do something, not just a nuclear test, but something even greater. The UN Security Council has left us no room for choice."
North Korea has conducted two nuclear tests in the past, in 2006 and 2009. It has given no time-frame for its third test.
The UN resolution, passed on Tuesday, was proposed by the US and backed by China, North Korea's closest ally and biggest trading partner.
It was a response to a rocket launch in December that the US, Japan and South Korea say was a test of banned long-range missile technology.
The three-stage rocket put a satellite into space in what was Pyongyang's first successful test of such technology.
The UN resolution pledged "significant action" if North Korea carried out a third nuclear test.
Fabián Urbina, 17, was shot as security forces and demonstrators clashed in the Altamira neighbourhood.
Interior Minister Néstor Reverol spoke of a possible "improper and disproportionate use of force" by the security forces.
He said that a number of officers were being investigated.
Mr Reverol also condemned "the violence and the calls for an uprising made by the Venezuelan opposition".
Rights ombudsman Tarek William Saab tweeted [in Spanish] that two members of the National Guard had been detained over the "undue use of a firearm".
There have been almost daily anti-government protests in Venezuela for the past 80 days as the country's economic and political crisis has worsened.
Many of the marches have ended in violence as protesters threw petrol bombs and stones and police fired tear gas.
More than 70 people have been killed in protest-related violence since 1 April, according to figures released by the chief prosecutor's office.
A list published by the information ministry puts that number higher and suggests most of those killed were taking part in anti-government demonstrations.
But among the dead are also members of the security forces, people caught up in the violence, and a group of men who were electrocuted when a bakery was looted.
Monday's opposition march was called to denounce government plans to convene a citizens' assembly to draw up a new constitution.
Opposition activists say the constituent assembly is an attempt by President Nicolás Maduro to consolidate his power and bypass the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
The president argues that the aim of the new constitution is to safeguard social programmes created by his socialist government and that of his predecessor in office, Hugo Chávez.
While anti-government protesters clashed with the security forces in Altamira, supporters of the government took part in a "anti-imperialist march in support of the constituent assembly" in the city centre.
The aim of that march was to send a message to members of the Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Mexico not to interfere in Venezuelan affairs.
Foreign ministers of OAS member states have again discussed the political and economic crisis in Venezuela, but failed to agree on a resolution criticising the Venezuelan government.
The draft resolution which called on President Maduro to drop his plans for the constitutional assembly was backed by 20 countries, opposed by five and eight abstained.
Twenty-three votes were needed to adopt the resolution.
Sean McAllister's A Syrian Love Story won the grand jury award at Sheffield Doc/Fest at a ceremony on Wednesday.
His film follows a family as they flee the country during the civil war.
McAllister was detained in Damascus in 2011 and has spoken about how he heard activists being beaten and tortured before his release a week later.
His film depicts two opponents to the Syrian regime who fell in love while communicating through a tiny hole in a wall between neighbouring prison cells 15 years ago.
After being released, they got married and started a family but moved to Lebanon and then France after the Syrian uprising began in 2011.
McAllister, from Hull, said he wanted the film to provide viewers with "time to be with Syrians who laugh and cry and are not just dead news items".
Sheffield Doc/Fest grand jury member Ruby Chen said: "The jury were enamoured by this Bergmanesque portrait of a relationship and love, taking place against an ever-changing and tumultuous backdrop."
It is hoped the latest truce, which came into effect at 21:00 GMT, will help negotiators agree a longer peace.
Egypt brokered a similar truce last week, but fighting resumed after the three-day window ended.
About 2,000 people have died in the conflict, which began on 8 July when Israel launched an operation to deter militant attacks from Gaza.
Those killed include more than 1,900 Palestinians, mostly civilians, according to the UN. Sixty-seven people have died on the Israeli side, including three civilians.
Israeli media were reporting warning sirens for rocket attacks right up to the new ceasefire deadline at midnight local time. Israeli air strikes also continued through Sunday evening.
However, an hour into the ceasefire there were no reports of attacks from either side.
After tense talks that both sides had threatened to abandon, the surprise announcement of the truce came late on Sunday.
"Israel has accepted Egypt's proposal for a 72-hour ceasefire," a senior Israeli official told the BBC.
The official added that Israel would send negotiators to Cairo on Monday if the truce holds.
Izzat al-Reshiq, a Hamas negotiator in Cairo, told Reuters news agency: "In light of Israel's acceptance of the truce and their return without pre-conditions, we will inform the Egyptian brothers of our positive response."
In a statement, Egypt's foreign ministry urged both sides to resume indirect negotiations and "work towards a comprehensive and lasting ceasefire agreement".
Correspondents say Israel is likely to continue to push for Gaza to be demilitarised, and Hamas will continue to demand the blockade of Gaza to be lifted.
The issues have scuppered previous talks, conducted through intermediaries.
However, an unidentified Hamas negotiator said their demands were likely to be "more modest" this time.
Since the last 72-hour truce ended on Friday, there has been regular exchange of fire.
Israeli air strikes have killed at least 20 Palestinians. Two Israelis were injured by mortars.
The BBC's Wyre Davies in Jerusalem says the ceasefire should allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza, where thousands have been left homeless.
On the Israeli side, where dozens of communities have been evacuated, residents will also be able to return home.
Human cost of the conflict
Palestinian deaths
Israeli deaths
(Source: OCHA; 0800 GMT on 9 August)
Lee Seungwoo gave South Korea a first half lead in the Group A encounter.
The hosts secured the victory through second half strikes from Lim Minhyeok and Paik Seungho.
Earlier in the day, England beat Argentina 3-0 in the first match of Group A, also at the World Cup Stadium in Jeonju.
Click here for Under 20s World Cup results from the Fifa website
Guinea are making only their second appearance at the tournament, having last played at the Under 20 World Cup in 1979.
The young Syli National along with Senegal, South Africa and Zambia are representing Africa at the 2017 edition of the tournament in South Korea.
Zambia, who won their continental trophy on home soil earlier this year, have been drawn in Group C alongside Iran and Costa Rica and will also play twice former champions Portugal in their opening match in Jeju on Sunday.
Senegal will take on Ecuador, USA and Saudi Arabia in Group F and South Africa will be in Group D against Japan, Italy and Uruguay.
Peter Nunn, was sentenced to 18 weeks in jail last year for sending indecent, obscene or menacing messages.
Nunn, who has already served his sentence, had lodged an appeal which was due to be heard at the Old Bailey.
However, the 34-year-old, part-time delivery driver from Bristol backed out at the last minute.
The court heard his circumstances had changed "quite considerably" since his release.
Nunn's lawyer, David Patience, said he decided not to go ahead because his mother had been sick and he had childcare commitments after his partner had broken up with him following the trial.
He said his client wanted to abandon both the appeal against conviction and appeal against sentence.
The judge said he would not order him to pay costs but warned Nunn he must continue to abide by a restraining order to stay away from Ms Creasy or face prison again.
Mr Farage should only be used "sparingly" when Brexit campaigners target blue-collar workers, because of his potential to alienate voters with "a divisive or reactionary tone on issues like immigration". That's according to a report produced for his own allies.
A strategic analysis commissioned by the Leave.EU movement said that campaign themes "should be delivered by someone other than Nigel Farage". It argues that some voters view Mr Farage negatively, which "hurts the message", and "the Leave campaign does not have the luxury to allow this to happen".
But it also says that Mr Farage could be deployed to "keep the pot boiling" and "at times of a specific crisis in migration, for example, to underline the negative effects of immigration on working households".
Mr Farage is well-established as a figure in British politics who provokes starkly diverse reactions, deeply inspiring many voters while equally profoundly infuriating many others.
His appearance on Tuesday night in ITV's special EU debate, on the same programme as David Cameron, has aroused controversy - mainly from the official Leave campaign who said ITV's choice of Mr Farage rather than a Conservative was an "outrage".
But what is surprising is that this analysis does not stem from Mr Farage's enemies, but from his allies. He backed the application by the Grassroots Out movement (which included Leave.EU) to be designated as the official leading Leave campaign in the referendum.
Grassroots Out included this research as part of their lengthy submission to the Electoral Commission to justify why their group (with Mr Farage playing a prominent role) should have been designated, rather than the rival Vote Leave organisation which actually succeeded. It is hard to see why it would have encouraged the Commission to pick GO.
There are some other interesting features of this strategic report, which is a detailed 50-page demographic and geographic analysis of voter characteristics aimed at helping Leave.EU target the Labour vote. It says that voters in blue collar working households have "closed personality traits, which are associated with social conservatism".
It goes on: "They tend to hold dogmatic and closed positions on issues such as immigration, Europe and welfare ... They are also slightly neurotic, which leads them to emphasise the unfairness in issues such as welfare or immigration. The combination of closed and neurotic personality types means they have fairly stark and blunt views".
The report was produced by Ian Warren, an elections analyst who runs the Election Data website. He has provided expert advice for a range of political forces, including Labour at the last general election and UKIP previously.
A Grassroots Out spokesman said: "This report was about the Labour vote. The fact that Nigel Farage isn't the best person to get across to Labour voters isn't exactly shocking news. The reason why it was included in our submission is neither here nor there."
All political campaigning organisations commission this kind of strategic research to help their target their communications, but it is unusual for it to become publicly available.
The Electoral Commission redacted large sections of the applications to be chosen as the lead campaigns on each side before releasing them in April, particularly the evidence on campaigning capacity, but included this report in the published material. However, I have not seen it reported anywhere until now.
The woman, who is in her 20s, was in the house in the Craighill area of Antrim when a bin was placed against a door and set alight at about 04:50 BST.
The door and the hallway of the house were damaged in the attack.
Firefighters and police were called to the scene. The woman was treated in hospital for the effects of breathing in smoke.
Det Insp Christopher Millar appealed for anyone with any information to contact detectives.
The actor, who is from the state of Kerala, suffered from a heart attack early on Monday, his family said.
Thilakan began his career in the theatre before playing his first role on screen in 1979.
He starred in more than 200 Malayalam films and received a Padma Shree, one of the top civilian honours from the government, in 2009.
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said that Thilakan's death was a "big loss to the world of art".
In his early years, the actor was part of various drama troupes, including the Kerala Peoples' Arts Centre and Kalidasa Kalakendram.
Well known as a character actor, Thilakan's films included Nirmalyam, Ekantham and Keeridam and he acted in several films with top star Mohanlal.
The last movie he starred in was Ustad Hotel.
Thilakan was also a well known voice in radio plays.
The veteran actor was admitted to hospital on 23 August with a cardiac problem.
Wrexham took the lead through Alex Reid who made it two in two for his new club, but the hosts turned the game around thanks to goals from Alex Wynter and Jack Richards to lead at the break.
The second half got worse for Wrexham who saw Manny Smith sent off for a professional foul.
That led to a penalty - saved by Christian Dibble - before Mark Carrington also saw red for dissent.
Wrexham manager Dean Keates told BBC Radio Wales:
"It is very disappointing, the fans came in great numbers and deserved better than that.
"Ultimately we've let them have too many chances and our goalkeeper was absolutely outstanding.
"Things are going against us at the moment, but we will keep working hard and hopefully it will change.
"We will appeal Manny Smith's red card, because he's made a clear attempt to get the ball."
Match ends, Maidstone United 2, Wrexham 1.
Second Half ends, Maidstone United 2, Wrexham 1.
Jai Reason (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Jack Paxman (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Jack Paxman replaces Delano Sam-Yorke.
Substitution, Wrexham. James Hurst replaces Marcus Kelly.
Mark Carrington (Wrexham) is shown the red card.
Manny Smith (Wrexham) is shown the red card.
Zavon Hines (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Wrexham. Akil Wright replaces Paul Rutherford.
Substitution, Wrexham. Ntumba Massanka replaces Scott Boden.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Zavon Hines replaces Jack Richards.
Second Half begins Maidstone United 2, Wrexham 1.
First Half ends, Maidstone United 2, Wrexham 1.
Kevin Roberts (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card.
Manny Smith (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Maidstone United 2, Wrexham 1. Jack Richards (Maidstone United).
James Jennings (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card.
Mark Carrington (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Maidstone United 1, Wrexham 1. Alex Wynter (Maidstone United).
Goal! Maidstone United 0, Wrexham 1. Alex Reid (Wrexham).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The Lady Boys of Bangkok will be moving to the Fountainbridge Brewery site, two acres of derelict land formerly used by the NoFit State circus.
It lost the Meadows location to promoters Underbelly after the council introduced a tendering process.
The Lady Boys of Bangkok can apply for the Meadows site again in two years.
Phillip Gandey, Lady Boys of Bangkok founder and promoter, said: "We are aggrieved by the whole tendering process over the Meadows site and would have preferred to have remained there this year.
"We are, however, delighted that we are able to come back to Edinburgh this year as the Lady Boys started at the Fringe and now perform around the world."
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) said it believed there was a strong interest among people with disabilities to take up climbing.
However, this year's British Mountaineering Council/MCofS Paraclimbing Series saw no Scots reach the final.
MCofS sport development officer Kevin Howett hopes to appeal to more Scots to get involved.
A come-and-try event held by the Scottish council last year attracted more than 30 participants.
Mr Howett said: "We know there are more people north of the border with disabilities interested in climbing and who enjoy taking part in events and we want to encourage them and others to help paraclimbing competitions become an established part of the Scottish climbing scene.
"Our first event in 2014, was supported by quadruple amputee climber Jamie Andrew, who is also an ambassador for the British Paraclimbing Team.
"There was a lot of interest and enthusiasm, and it would be great to see this carried on."
Mr Howett added: "I would encourage any climber, or even non-climbers, whatever their ability, to come along and have go at the 2016 ParaClimb Scotland event."
19 December 2016 Last updated at 08:34 GMT
Triathlete Alistair Brownlee was second and show jumper Nick Skelton came third.
The award ceremony celebrates all the great sporting achievements over the last year.
Martin caught up with all the stars on the red carpet to ask them their sporting highlight of 2016.
The actor suffered a heart attack at his residence in Mumbai early on Friday, reports say.
Om Puri, who acted in both mainstream and art films, was known for his gritty performances in a number of landmark Indian films in the 1980s.
He also appeared in a number of British films, including a cameo in Richard Attenborough's epic on Mahatma Gandhi.
A versatile actor, Puri was known for his roles in Indian, Pakistani, British and Hollywood films. He was awarded an honorary OBE for his contribution to the British film industry in 2004.
Puri, who was born in 1950 in the north Indian state of Haryana, made his film debut in the 1976 film Ghashiram Kotwal.
He became a well-known figure in the Indian film industry in the 1980s before he found international fame in the following decade.
His roles in American and British films included the 1999 British comedy East is East about a Pakistani immigrant adjusting to life in the north of England.
Puri also appeared in City of Joy, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Charlie Wilson's War and most recently starred in The Hundred-Foot Journey alongside Dame Helen Mirren.
At home, Puri was best-known for his performances in critically-acclaimed films like Ardh Satya, Sadgati, Paar and the satirical Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro.
Puri was one of India's truly successful crossover actors, doing films with stars such as Jack Nicholson and Tom Hanks, the BBC's Soutik Biswas said.
His roles in Govind Nihalani's Aakrosh as a tribal man falsely accused of murder and a policeman in Ardh Satya beaten back by the system remain among the finest performances on Indian screen, Biswas added.
Puri is survived by his wife Nandita Puri, who he married in 1993, and their son Ishaan.
The actor is being mourned in neighbouring Pakistan with newspapers reporting prominently on his death.
He had recently spoken out against the ban imposed by India on Pakistani actors working in Bollywood films, following tensions over Kashmir.
"Pakistani artists are not terrorists," he told an Indian TV channel. The remark led to criticism by sections of the Indian media.
The actor made several other comments that caused controversy in the country.
These included statements on the Indian army, politicians who "loot" the country, and a comment on the controversial lynching of a Muslim man in 2015 over beef, when he said, "Those who wanted to put a ban on slaughtering cows in the country were hypocrites."
Actor and director Ananth Mahadevan, who was a close friend of Puri, paid tribute to the star.
He told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme: "It's a personal loss and a loss to cinema because he was truly India's international star."
Mahadevan praised Puri's "sheer versatility", adding: "He was a man that proved that you needn't be a very handsome-looking, tall, strapping guy to be a leading man.
"You needed loads of talent and that is what Om proved with his sensibility and sensitivity."
In a tweet two weeks ago, the actor reflected on his life and career, saying he did not have a "conventional face" but was "proud" of his success.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office led the tributes to the actor:
A number of leading filmmakers and actors also remembered Puri:
Gog the dog, from Leicester, was known for wearing clothes and being wheeled around in a buggy by its owner Monti Shortt.
Dozens of people responded to a social media campaign and helped hand out leaflets to help find the dog.
Police said someone walked off with the buggy when Ms Shortt briefly popped into the Haymarket Shopping Centre.
Mrs Shortt told BBC News that Gog had clearly been well looked after since she was taken nearly three weeks ago in Leicester.
"It hasn't quite sunk in yet," she said about her dog's return, adding that a man had called her saying the dog was at his home.
Ms Shortt, 69, who has cancer, said she wanted to get her pet back urgently because Gog needed surgery on her knees.
The pet was found by police after they "attended an address in the city" and the force is still investigating the incident.
"Thank you to everyone who gave information and shared the appeal for her safe return," a Leicestershire Police spokesman said.
One force, West Mercia, saw the equivalent of more than five call-outs a day to homes in 2014-15, the Howard League for Penal Reform found.
It said children were being wrongly "criminalised" because staff often called the police over minor incidents.
But the Independent Children's Homes Association said homes were "rigorously inspected" and staff well-trained.
The majority of children legally defined as "looked after" in England and Wales are placed in foster care, but in 2014, some 5,220 were living in residential care homes.
The Howard League's findings included:
The report also highlighted Department for Education figures which show a 13 to 15-year-old in a home is almost 20 times more likely to have contact with police than a child living with their family.
Taken together, the Howard League said it was clear children living in children's homes were "being criminalised at excessively high rates".
Staff are calling police too frequently, often over minor incidents that would never come to officers' attention if they happened in family homes, the charity said.
"There appears to be a 'tipping point' around the age of 13, at which time these children lose society's sympathy and, rather than being helped, they are pushed into the criminal justice system," the report added.
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League, said: "They are wonderful young people who have had a really bad start in life.
"Private companies, charities and local authorities that are paid a fortune by the taxpayer should give these children what they need and deserve."
The report also said:
Figures from different forces are not directly comparable because some include call-outs for missing or absent children, while others only relate to reports of criminal behaviour.
Children's homes are also not evenly distributed across the country, and West Mercia Police pointed out that its area contained more than any other force in England.
It said in a statement: "We work closely with partner agencies and each reported incident is carefully managed on a case-by-case basis. Police work with care homes and children exploring alternatives including restorative justice."
Restorative justice enables victims to meet or communicate with offenders to explain the real impact of the crime.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said: "Clearly there are times when an arrest is the most appropriate course of action when a serious offence has occurred and the suspect is a child; however for more minor incidents we utilise a variety of resolutions rather than an arrest."
Jonathan Stanley, from the Independent Children's Homes Association, said children's homes were "the most scrutinised and accountable service for young people".
"It seems that what is being reported here is history. Police and children's homes work closely together and meet regularly in local areas," he said.
"That's not to say there aren't some particular issues but this needs real life, detailed evidence in order for them to be understood."
Olivia Pinkney and Nick Ephgrave, from the National Police Chiefs' Council, said police "should not be called to minor incidents which would otherwise be dealt with in a family environment".
They said where intervention was necessary, officers should consider tools like restorative justice, and make every effort to avoid holding young people in cells overnight.
They added: "By engaging with 'looked after' children in non-crisis situations we can help build positive relationships and earn their trust.
"All of this will be impossible, however, without better data - which is currently lacking."
Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield said: "Ensuring that staff are able to work in partnership with the police to positively deal with difficult behaviour will be essential if we are to offer children with particularly challenging behaviour the guidance and support of a parent - in this instance a corporate parent."
It was a huge disappointment for the 37-year-old who had been hoping to repeat his victory last year.
The Citroen driver from Dungannon had been in a battle for the lead with Jari-Matti Latvala and Hayden Paddon.
M-Sport driver Ott Tanak of Estonia leads by 4.6 seconds, ahead of Dani Sordo and Sebastian Ogier.
Meeke had been running in second position before the midday break, hitting the front on the first stage of the afternoon.
He stopped with a puncture on stage seven, the longest of the day, however the battle to fix his C3 was in vain as he was then forced to retire with left-rear suspension damage.
Toyota driver Latvala rolled at the beginning of SS7, while Paddon lost nearly 11 minutes with a mechanical problem.
It has been another disappointing day for Citroen, who only have Waterford driver Craig Breen in the top five as team-mates Stephane Lefebvre and Khalid Al Qassimi both hit problems.
The Premiership champions beat last season's runners up 34-13 without the likes of George Kruis, Owen Farrell, Chris Wyles and Duncan Taylor.
Sean Maitland crossed twice in the bonus-point win as Sarries went top.
"The really encouraging thing for me today was that a lot of what people consider to be the big players for us weren't playing," he said.
"Jackson Wray is just getting better and better. He probably doesn't get enough attention but he's been incredibly consistent for us for a while.
"He stepped up even further today and that was a really good top level performance," McCall said.
Saracens became the first team to win at Sandy Park since January 2015 and they expect to be further boosted by the return of England fly-half Farrell, who has missed the opening two games of the season with a back injury, for the visit of Northampton on Saturday.
"There was a brilliant focus before the game today," McCall added.
"Sometimes you can sense that it's not quite right or that it is right, and there as a big contrast between last week and this week.
"They knew it was a big game, they knew it was serious and I thought they performed that way."
But for 21 years, a small courtroom in this bustling tourist town has heard some terrible things and has handed down some extraordinary rulings.
In the months that followed the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the UN Security Council established the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
On Monday, the tribunal delivers its 45th and final judgement - an appeal ruling against six convictions - then it will formally close.
It wasn't the only body set up to judge those responsible for perhaps 800,000 deaths in a hundred days of killing, but it became the first international court to pass a judgement on genocide.
Four years after the massacres took place, Jean-Paul Akayesu, a former mayor, was convicted on nine counts of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Dozens more were to follow - among them the former Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda, who became the first head of a government ever to be convicted of genocide by an international court.
In all, 93 individuals were indicted - politicians, businessmen, high-ranking military and government officials, heads of media and religious leaders.
Two-thirds of them were sentenced, and more than 3,000 witnesses appeared in court to give their personal accounts of crimes against humanity.
The tribunal was also the first international court to recognise rape as a means of perpetrating genocide, but it has no shortage of critics over its estimated $2bn (£1.3bn) price tag.
It's seen as a huge amount for a relatively small number of convictions, given the scale of the killing.
Critics, like Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu from Ibuka, an umbrella group for genocide survivors in Rwanda, says the ICTR has "delivered nothing for either the victims or the survivors of the genocide".
"Delivering no compensation for the horrific atrocities committed during the genocide planned, and perpetrated, by the government."
Rwanda: How the genocide happened
Rwanda timeline
Supporters, such as the tribunal's Danish president Judge Vagn Joensen, believe its judgements serve as "powerful deterrents to those committing similar crimes in the future".
"That all those who commit genocide or other atrocities, regardless of their position, will no longer go unpunished," he told the UN Security Council in his final report last week.
Tim Gallimore was the spokesman for the ICTR prosecutor between 2004 and 2008, and he said the fact the tribunal was held outside Rwanda and worked in three languages (English, French and Kinyarwanda) made it extremely expensive.
"I don't think there's any jurisdiction anywhere in the world that if you did a comparable assessment of the price and the number of people involved that would say the investment was a good return," he said.
"It needed to be done and still needs to be done. The kinds of precedents it set - over what it means to commit genocide, and to establish a regime for protecting human rights is a significant accomplishment.
"But I'm disappointed about the justice aspect of it," he said referring to cases which have collapsed and prisoners released early despite the weight of their crimes.
The majority of those convicted in connection with the genocide were tried not in the ICTR, but in Rwandan community-based "gacaca" courts which completed their work in 2012.
Yolande Bouka is a researcher from the Institute for Security Studies, specialising in Rwanda, and she studied the tribunal, which focussed on the more senior perpetrators.
"Ordinary people would tell me one of the greatest frustrations about the tribunal was the disconnect between the people and the process - they couldn't look at those accused and get a sense of who organised the genocide.
"They also felt they had not been harshly sentenced in comparison to some of the executors in Rwanda who were sentenced in the first year of transitional justice... some were executed."
She felt the tribunal never fulfilled its full jurisdiction to try all crimes against humanity whether perpetrated by ethnic Hutus or Tutsi rebel group the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which is now Rwanda's governing party.
"This political aspect of the tribunal is very frustrating, as it offers an official narrative: Where genocide crimes against the Tutsi population have been highlighted as the only crimes.
"The reality is… the RPF committed a tremendous amount of crimes throughout the country during the civil war and during the genocide, and because the tribunal has failed to properly investigate them or try to prosecute them, I think this is going to be one of the biggest failings of the tribunal."
And what of those still on the most wanted list?
It's perhaps ironic that as the tribunal was winding down, Ladislas Ntaganzwa was arrested last week in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Accused of organising mass rapes and killings, the US called him "one of the main instigators of the genocide."
His case will now be tried in Rwanda.
Eight other men have been indicted as senior figures in organising the genocide, but they remain on the run.
If arrested some will be tried in Rwanda, while others will be dealt with by something called the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, which will continue the work of the tribunal.
"The Mechanism" has no police force, nor powers of arrest, relying on national governments to act on its behalf, but 21 years after the genocide, is still committed to finding the last genocidaires.
Many politicians seem to think so, spending ever more time and resources campaigning on social media.
The power of Barack Obama's victories in the 2008 and 2012 US presidential elections proved the power of digital campaigning. He amassed 23 million Twitter followers and 45 million Facebook likes, using this massive digital following to organise more than 300,000 offline events and raise $690 million.
Since then, politicians around the world have tried to follow suit. During the 2014 Indian election Narendra Modi enlisted 2.2 million volunteers using online tools, engaging with hundreds of thousands of people to crowd-source his Bharatiya Janata Party's manifesto, as he swept to power.
Now British parties have been importing highly prized experts in digital campaigning. The Conservatives are reportedly spending £100,000 a month on personalised advertising via Facebook, while Labour has been organising an army of volunteers to not only fight the "ground war" on the streets but also to pound the digital pavements at #labourdoorstep.
Politicians are making increasing use of digital platforms, with around 80% of MPs elected to the last parliament using Twitter - most every day - and about half using Facebook once a week. More than 1,000 of this year's parliamentary hopefuls are sending a deluge of digital campaigning in the direction of the electorate: around 20,000 Tweets a week.
BBC Asian Network and Demos are teaming up to look at the digital campaign from the point of view of the voters. Throughout the campaign, we'll follow the social media experiences of three people firmly in the crosshairs of the parties' online armoury: young, enthusiastic users of social media and, most importantly, undecided.
Iram is voting in the West Lothian constituency of Livingston. Labour held the seat with a massive majority in 2010 but, with polls suggesting the SNP could make dozens of gains, the seat is now on the front line of the contest between the parties. Iram, a full-time mother, is wavering between Labour and the SNP because of the volume of information available.
Sakib is a first-time voter in north London's Brent North constituency, where Labour is trying to see off a Conservative challenge. Both parties have policies he likes and dislikes, and he's struggling to pick. It's one of only two seats in England and Wales where more than 50% of eligible voters are predicted to be foreign born. Sakib, a student originally from Bangladesh, is among them.
Simmi is a recruitment consultant, voting in Wolverhampton South West which was once held by Enoch Powell. Narrowly captured by the Tories in 2010, the seat is a key battleground, with the latest round of polling putting the Labour challenger ahead. She hasn't thought much about the election so far but is determined to change that.
The trio don't have a history of following politicians or parties on social media but, as Sakib says, social media has given all of these politicians a platform to reach them. For the campaign, they'll be following the candidates in their constituency, the accounts of local parties and campaigns, and a number of national political figures.
Each thinks social media could have a big effect on how they will vote, if the politicians get it right.
Iram wants clear ideas over political tactics. For Simmi, it'll be politicians responding to Tweets that'll be important, to help her learn what they are really like, and how much they understand what "average Joes" are dealing with.
Sakib agrees, it's all about interactivity: "Whether they'll pay attention or respond... you feel like you can get more involved with what's happening." He's particularly keen to hear what's going on in his own constituency and what will affect people there.
In the coming weeks, we'll be asking them about the type of messages they received, what caught their eye and why. We'll see whether it's politicians, spoof accounts or pictures of cats that made it into their social media streams.
We'll learn about the kind of messages that caused them to think, and maybe to change their mind - and whether it was all worth the parties' efforts.
Beyond the frenzy of the political campaign, one final question is important. At a time of declining party membership and decreasing voter turnout, are these digital platforms a new way of engaging people with politics?
Hughes, 52, was sent to the stands during the first half of Stoke's 4-0 loss to Tottenham on Saturday.
The Welshman reacted angrily on the touchline after two separate incidents, prompting referee Anthony Taylor to take action.
The FA said "his behaviour amounted to improper conduct" and he has until 18:00 BST on Friday to respond.
Defeat for the Potters, their third consecutive loss in the Premier League, kept them bottom of the table.
Hughes' outburst, some of it directed at the fourth official Jon Moss, came shortly before Spurs' 41st-minute opener, after a booking for Marko Arnautovic for diving and what he thought was a foul on Jon Walters.
The former Manchester United striker said after the game he was "disappointed" by the decisions and by his own reaction but added: "I don't think my departure had an effect on my team's performance.
"There were two decisions I thought should have gone our way so I reacted in a forceful manner. When you come out of your technical arena, it's not allowed, sometimes you forget that.
"Mr Moss, bless him, decided that warranted a sending off, which, by the letter of the law it did, so I have to hold my hands up."
Stoke's only point of the season so far came on the opening day when they drew 1-1 against Middlesbrough at the Riverside.
|
It's never good to mess up in front of the big boss.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Have you been feeding your dog, cat or rabbit too many treats, leftovers or special snacks?
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The number of people receiving a second conviction within a year has fallen to the lowest level for 18 years.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Medy Elito scored the only goal of a scrappy game as Cambridge United overcame Cheltenham Town, who were without manager Gary Johnson after he underwent heart surgery on Thursday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Adama Traore insisted he is not rushing into a decision about his international future, as he concentrates on his club career with Aston Villa.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A body has been found on the shore at Ardmucknish Bay in Argyll, police have confirmed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Discount supermarket Aldi has reported record sales in the UK and Ireland for 2015 and says it will invest £300m in store revamps, but profits have been hit by the supermarket price war.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Arsenal will do the "maximum" they can to keep key forwards Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil in north London, says Gunners boss Arsene Wenger.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Google has confirmed that it is trialling videos that automatically start playing when they appear in its search results.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Peterborough United fans have raised more than £100,000 for a statue to memorialise their former manager.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ajax midfielder Abdelhak Nouri is "out of danger" but remains in intensive care after collapsing during a pre-season friendly against Werder Bremen.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Luxury carmaker Aston Martin has hired senior Nissan executive Andy Palmer as its new chief executive.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ireland retain hope of World Cup qualification despite losing 2-1 to Spain in the quarter-finals of World League 3 in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tanzania has begun building what it says will be the biggest port in East Africa, in the coastal tourist resort of Bagamoyo.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Canadian police have called off a search for an Australian woman who went missing while hiking earlier this month, according to her family.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
North Korea has warned of "substantial and high-profile important state measures", days after announcing plans for a third nuclear test.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Venezuelan teenager taking part in an anti-government protest has been killed in Caracas, the chief prosecutor's office has confirmed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A British film-maker who was arrested while making a feature about a Syrian family has won the top award at the UK's leading documentary festival.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A three-day truce has come into effect between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, after a day of intense diplomacy.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Guinea began their Fifa Under 20 World Cup bid with a 3-0 defeat to hosts South Korea in Jeonju on Saturday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man who sent abusive Twitter messages to politician Stella Creasy has abandoned an appeal against his conviction.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
UKIP leader Nigel Farage takes part alongside David Cameron in Tuesday's ITV special debate on the EU, but research from his own supporters questions his helpfulness to their cause.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A woman has been treated in hospital after the house she was in was set on fire in an overnight arson attack.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Leading southern Indian stage and film actor Thilakan has died at the age of 77.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Nine-man Wrexham's woes continued as they lost at Maidstone United.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
One of the Fringe's bestselling and longest-running shows has found a new site after losing its prime spot on the Meadows.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
More Scots are to be encouraged to take up paraclimbing.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Andy Murray was crowned Sports Personality of the Year for the third time last night.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Veteran Indian actor Om Puri, star of British hit East is East, has died aged 66.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Yorkshire terrier that was taken from its elderly owner who has cancer has been found.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Police in England and Wales are being called to children's homes thousands of times a year, according to figures.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Northern Ireland's Kris Meeke is out of the World Rally Championship round in Portugal after suffering suspension damage near the end of day two.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall has hailed his side's lower-profile players after their win at Exeter.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The small, dusty town of Arusha in northern Tanzania is the gateway to Mount Kilimanjaro, to the beauty and the wildlife of the Serengeti.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
With voters increasingly looking online for their news, updates and commentary, could the digital world offer political parties a crucial, decisive edge in May's election?
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Stoke City manager Mark Hughes has been charged with misconduct by the Football Association.
| 36,066,515 | 15,770 | 1,011 | true |
She was replaced as Northern Ireland secretary by James Brokenshire on Wednesday as Theresa May appointed her first cabinet.
Ms Villiers quit after turning down the new prime minister's offer of a non-cabinet post at the Home Office.
She was the third longest-serving Northern Ireland secretary, having held the portfolio since 2012.
"I believe that I leave the political situation there in a more stable position than it has been for many years." Ms Villiers said.
"I was able to to help tackle the crisis, which a year ago left us on the brink of a collapse of devolution and a return to direct rule."
But she said she was "confident that progress will continue to embed peace, stability and prosperity" in Northern Ireland.
"Northern Ireland and its people will always have a very special place in my heart," she said.
"I send my very best wishes to Northern Ireland's leaders as they continue the crucial process of implementing the two historic agreements that the cross-party talks I chaired were able to deliver."
First Minister Arlene Foster said she "enjoyed working with" Mrs Villiers and wished her "all the best for the future".
But Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson said Mrs Villiers "will be no loss".
"All British Secretary of States (sic) should stay over there," she tweeted.
Her party colleague John O'Dowd MLA said Ms Villiers "played a negative role in dealing with the legacy of the conflict" and had "placed obstacles in the path of families seeking access to truth".
Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan, who worked closely with Ms Villiers during negotiations with the Stormont parties, said he "appreciated the effort and commitment she invested" in the role.
Ms Villiers confirmed her departure from the government in a post on Facebook.
She said Mrs May had been "kind enough to offer me a role" but added that it was "not one which I felt I could take on".
"I am very grateful to have been given the opportunity to serve on the front bench for 11 years," she added.
Joseph McCloskey, who operated the page, is also to appeal the decision.
In February, a judge found him and Facebook Ireland Limited liable for misuse of private information.
The plaintiff, CG, was convicted in 2007 of a number of sex offences. He was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and released on licence in 2012.
In 2014, he brought an action seeking damages and an injunction on the basis that Facebook and Mr McCloskey had misused private information, in breach of Articles 2, 3 and 8 of the European Court of Human Rights, and were guilty of actionable negligence.
A judge awarded £15,000 against Facebook and Mr McCloskey in respect of the postings on the page.
The judge also awarded £5,000 against Facebook over the postings by the father of one of CG's victims, who operated a separate page.
He also ordered Facebook to close the page Keeping our Kids Safe from Predators 2.
Since the verdict, two of CG's victims have gone to court to sue him.
An injunction was granted to freeze any payouts until those cases are dealt with.
On Wednesday, lawyers for Facebook and Mr McCloskey lodged papers at the Court of Appeal.
The appeals are expected to be mentioned in June.
Prosecutors have charged 34-year-old Reda Kriket over an alleged plot to carry out an attack.
In his apartment, police found five assault rifles, seven handguns and the same type of explosive used in the attacks in Paris and Brussels.
Kriket has been linked to the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks.
The possible target of the alleged plan was not identified, but Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said the attack was imminent.
In Kriket's flat in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil, officials also found chemicals, false passports, brand-new mobile phones and two computers with information about bomb-making and jihadist groups, Mr Molins added.
The arsenal also included the TATP explosive that was used in suicide bombs set off in Paris and Brussels by militants linked to so-called Islamic State (IS).
"Everything suggests that the discovery of this cache avoided an act of extreme violence by a terrorist network," Mr Molins told a news conference.
Links between Brussels and Paris attacks
Kriket has been charged with participating in a terrorist group, possessing and transporting arms and explosives, and holding fake documents, the prosecutor said.
Officials believe he spent time in Syria in 2014 and 2015 and made several trips between France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Last July, he was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison by a Belgian court for recruiting Islamist fighters for Syria. Investigations showed he played a key financing role with money from robberies and stolen goods.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, believed to have been the ringleader of last year's Paris attacks, was also absent for the trial.
In questioning by French investigators, Kriket said he was not a terrorist but gave up little information, Mr Molins said.
Three other men are being held in suspicion of involvement in the same alleged plan.
One is 32-year-old Frenchman Anis Bahri, who is believed to have travelled to Syria with Kriket. He is being held in the Dutch city of Rotterdam at the request of the French police and is resisting extradition to France, the prosecutor said.
The other two have been identified as Algerian nationals Abderahmane Ameroud, 38, and Rabah M., 34. They have been charged in Belgium and will face a hearing on 7 April.
Deputy Gavin St Pier said that despite a "sound economy with growing confidence", this was not reflected in tax receipts.
The last annual budget predicted a deficit of £20m but the figure is now £24.5m.
Deputy St Pier said it was due to lower revenues and pressures on health care.
He told fellow States deputies: "The current forecasts show a deterioration in income tax of some £5-8m against the budgeted position.
"In addition, customs duties and document duty were also lagging against expectations in the first three months of the year which could translate into a budget shortfall of some £2-3m.
"This is despite the growth and increasing confidence in the economy."
He said as well as falling revenues, health and social care services were forecasting an overspend in 2016 despite an increased budget for the department in 2015.
Responding to the announcement in the Assembly, Deputy Matt Fallaize said: "Since 2009 our economy has grown in real terms by more than 10% and yet the size of the deficit is essentially the same as it was then.
"It's quite clear that it would take spectacular levels of economic growth to deal with the deficit."
He asked Deputy St Pier's committee, Policy and Resources, to come back to the States with plans to raise additional revenue.
Deputy St Pier said: "The Policy and Resources Committee has commenced its work on the 2017 budget and aims to propose a package of measures to the States which will start to deliver sustainable public finances for 2017 and the longer term."
The Business Growth Fund, set up by the UK's five big banks, invests up to £10m to take minority stakes in firms.
RiverRidge is Northern Ireland's biggest independent waste firm.
It will use the investment to support its growth strategy and develop its existing treatment and operations infrastructure.
RiverRidge is the primary developer of the Energy-from-Waste facility which is being built to provide power to the Bombardier's wing factory in Belfast.
That £107m project, which is nearing completion, was co-financed by Green Investment Bank, Equitix and P3P Partners.
Brett Ross, managing director of RiverRidge, said the new investment is "a significant endorsement" of the business.
The Business Growth Fund (BGF) was set up in 2011.
The deal is its second Northern Ireland project after its investment made in Derry-based house-builder Braidwater in 2015.
Paddy Graham from BGF said the fund is "keen to meet ambitious entrepreneurs in Northern Ireland".
Following the deal, Jim Meredith, chairman of Augean Plc, one of the UK's leading specialist hazardous waste management businesses, has co-invested alongside BGF and has been appointed by RiverRidge as non-executive chairman.
Mr Graham will also join the board of the company.
All of those who have been sworn in at a ceremony in Kabul are new faces. For the first time four of them are women.
But the crucial post of the defence minister remains empty because of disagreements in the unity government.
Forming a cabinet has been problematic because Mr Ghani's opponent in last year's elections, Abdullah Abdullah, holds the position of chief executive.
Afghanistan now has 24 out of 25 posts filled in its cabinet, and so after nearly seven months of political wrangling finally has a fully-fledged government in place, says the BBC's Shahzeb Jillani in Kabul.
Many are young, educated and come from professional backgrounds. For the first time, the 24-member cabinet includes four women. It's all in line with President Ghani's promise to allow technocrats to run the government, instead of warlords and former fighters. But the new cabinet faces daunting challenges ahead. Afghanistan's economy is in a shambles. And, with the emergence of the militant group Islamic State in parts of the country along with the Taliban's refusal of peace talks, security fears are growing.
The four female ministers are reported to be Farida Momand at the Higher Education Ministry, Nasreen Oryakhil at the country's Labour Ministry, Dilbar Nazari at the Women's Affairs Ministry and Salamat Azimi at the Counter-Narcotics Ministry.
Mr Ghani attempted to unveil his cabinet in January but ran into a number of problems.
But the biggest issue has been the question of dual nationality - parliament refused to ratify a number of the president's nominees because they held dual citizenship.
The Afghan constitution does not explicitly bar such candidates, but it also grants parliament the authority to either approve or reject nominees with dual citizenship.
The building society said prices rose by 0.6% compared with July, making the average cost of a home £206,145.
Prices in August were 5.6% higher than a year earlier, compared with 5.2% in July.
"The pick up in price growth is somewhat at odds with signs that housing market activity has slowed in recent months," Nationwide said.
On Tuesday, Bank of England figures indicated the number of mortgages approved by banks and building societies in July was at its lowest for a year and a half.
But Nationwide added that while buyer demand had softened, the number of new homes coming to market had also been low. That has kept the balance of demand and supply in check, which in turn has kept prices higher.
The future for property prices would be determined by the labour market and confidence amongst buyers, said Nationwide chief economist Robert Gardner.
He said High Street sales had held up well so far, but noted that most forecasters expected the economy to show "little growth" over the rest of the year.
However, the Bank of England's decision to cut its benchmark interest rate to 0.25% earlier this month would provide an immediate boost to many mortgage borrowers, he added.
The typical saving for a borrower on a variable rate is around £15 a month.
Some other economists said they expected house price growth to be weaker in the months ahead.
"We believe housing market activity is likely to be limited over the coming months, and prices will weaken as prolonged uncertainty following the UK's vote to leave the EU constrains consumer confidence and willingness to engage in major transactions," said Howard Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Global Insight.
He predicted that house price growth will ease further towards the end of 2016, with a 5% fall in prices next year.
"While data from Nationwide point to resilient house price growth in August, leading indicators suggest that this won't last," said Hansen Lu, property economist with Capital Economics.
Where can I afford to live?
James Paul Colton, 34, from Swansea, died in hospital after complaining about back pain for months.
He was serving life for the murder of a friend following a drunken argument.
The inquest at Worcestershire Coroners' Court heard that healthcare staff at Long Lartin prison accept they failed in a duty of care to Colton.
He died four months after he was transferred from Cardiff prison, jurors at the hearing were told.
Previously, the inquest in Stourport-on-Severn heard that an inmate had told staff that Colton was "exaggerating his pain" in order to get out of the prison.
GP and nursing experts who compiled reports for the coroner, Geraint Williams, concluded that the quality of care received by Colton fell below acceptable standards.
In extracts read out to the jury, they said that Colton's pain level and worsening condition should have been properly assessed and the failure to do so meant that "significant milestones" in his illness, and an opportunity to provide him with effective palliative care, had been missed.
Sarah Campbell, a mental health development lead nurse at the prison, said that "a whole range of changes in protocol, procedure and practice" had emerged from staff "dismay" about what had happened.
The inquest continues.
Just who is Ireland's #PintBaby?
Last week, a 20-year-old clip of a Guinness-guzzling toddler sitting on his mother's lap surfaced on social media.
The footage was originally broadcast by Irish national broadcaster RTÉ in 1997. RTÉ's Cian McCormack uploaded the clip with the description: "You won't see this on TV nowadays."
It was filmed during a television report on the scarcity of single women in County Kerry, when the camera inadvertently caught the thirsty baby with two hands firmly around a pint of stout.
Since then Ireland has been caught in a similarly tight grip, and Pintbaby mania was born.
Satirical comedy duo The Rubberbandits posted a clip on Facebook which attracted almost 800,000 views and over 6,000 likes.
"90s Ireland. When a child is just swigging a pint and it's just an aside, it's not even the focus of the story. Just something that's happening in the pub," they wrote.
Now, Cian McCormack has gone one better and tracked down Pintbaby - or Stephen Barron, as he is better known - in Prosperous, County Kildare.
The 20-year-old's mother Caroline told RTÉ that they ended up in front of the cameras after going into Daly's Pub in Ennistymon, County Clare.
"We were there and there was great fun and atmosphere and craic going on and Stephen was sitting on my knee and took a shine to a pint of Guinness and had a drop out of it," she recalled.
While the conversation around the Pintbaby phenomenon has largely been light-hearted, some have criticised this attitude.
Jennifer Whitmore, a councillor in County Wicklow, tweeted that the Pintbaby "national icon" status was "evidence that Ireland has an unhealthy relationship" with alcohol.
However, Caroline said: "There's plenty of parents even to this day that will dip a doody [dummy] into a pint of Guinness."
"It wasn't an everyday occurrence or a weekly occurrence or anything, it was just the situation we were in at the time and he had a drop and a camera happened to be there at the time," she said.
She added that the reaction had been "very good, a lot of people have been commenting: 'Ah sure we were all reared like that.' And there have been a lot of positive comments."
As for Stephen, he told RTÉ he was working part-time and that he had graduated from the occasional sup of the black stuff to blacksmithing.
As for being called PintBaby, he said: "I don't really mind, but I'd rather be called Stephen now."
Invista is seeking 48 voluntary redundancies at its plant at Clooney Road, Maydown, but said it has no current plans for compulsory job cuts.
SDLP Foyle MP Mark Durkan, Sinn Féin MLA Maeve McLaughlin and DUP MLA Gary Middleton have been meeting management.
Mr Middelton said he was told there are no plans for compulsory redundancies.
"I will remain in contact with the firm over the coming weeks and months and have told them of my willingness to assist them in any way so they can continue operating here in Londonderry and providing very valuable employment in the area," he said.
Mr Durkan said the Invista decision was disappointing.
"On previous occasions I have worked with Invista's local management to lobby on regulatory proposals which they were afraid would threaten the Maydown site's capacity to compete for future in-company investments," he said.
"I will be seeking clarification on how this disappointing news fits with the local management's previous active anticipation on risks to future investment and employment prospects at Maydown."
Ms McLaughlin said information was needed on workers' options and redundancy terms.
"First and foremost, it's a difficult time for employees," Ms McLaughlin told BBC Radio Foyle.
"There's no easy time to get news like that, but I think particularly this time of year, coming up to Christmas when people have families, there's extra consideration."
She said she wanted the firm to clarify its redundancy terms after complaints from the workers' union and added she would be asking about retraining opportunities.
In a statement, the firm's site manager Kevin Kelly, said: "Given the increasingly global competitive market, Invista has offered employees at its Maydown site the opportunity to apply for severance under a voluntary severance offer to improve the site's productivity.
"This offer aims to help create a sustainable staffing profile, appropriate for Invista Maydown's operations plans and needs for the future.
"We intend to assess the level of interest of the voluntary offer before considering our next step. There are no plans for a compulsory redundancy exercise at this time," Mr Kelly added.
Archaeologists made the discovery at Woodsford, near Dorchester, where they have been carrying out excavations for several years.
Thames Valley Archaeological Services said the man died in his 20s or 30s.
Tests are being carried out to determine how he died and to understand more about his "unusual grave".
For more archaeology stories visit our Pinterest board
The limestone sarcophagus was found in a 1.80m (5ft 11in)-long, 0.55m (1ft 10in)-wide and 0.3m (1ft)-deep grave.
Thames Valley Archaeologist Services said an initial examination of the bones had revealed no signs of disease or other unusual conditions.
Dr Steve Ford, from the group, said: "In the Roman period, burial in a sarcophagus was moderately common in Italy but very unusual in Britain, where even wooden coffins seem to have been rare.
"A stone sarcophagus was certainly a very prestigious item, and their distribution across the country is restricted."
He said about 100 had been discovered in England with only 11 previously found in Dorset at Poundbury.
He added: "This sarcophagus may have been reused, as it was several centimetres too short for the corpse, whose feet had to be tucked under him."
Officers in the West Midlands will radio details of "close-pass drivers" for patrol car colleagues to intercept.
Cyclists should be given at least the same space as vehicles, widely considered to be 1.5m (4.9ft), and offending drivers risk prosecution, the force said.
Drivers stopped will initially be offered warnings at the roadside.
Read more news for Birmingham and the Black Country
But repeat offenders, or anyone deemed to have driven "dangerously close," could expect to be prosecuted for driving without due care and attention, the force said.
The force is carrying out an operation on some of the region's busiest routes, including Hagley Road, Pershore Road and Bristol Road, in Birmingham.
Traffic officer PC Mark Hodson, said: "Cyclists may suddenly need to avoid uneven road surfaces or obstacles like drain covers so it's important to afford them plenty of room."
David Cox, chair of trustees at cycling charity Cycling UK, said the problem "may be due to ignorance of the Highway Code and carelessness but sometimes it is done deliberately and aggressively".
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) road safety manager Nick Lloyd said: "Ideally cyclists would not need to mingle with traffic on the roads, and a lot is being invested in road infrastructure to make this a reality."
But he said "until this happens we need to make sure we are educating".
Driver Harry Clarke, 58, was unconscious when the vehicle veered out of control on 22 December 2014.
The inquiry has previously heard that Mr Clarke had a history of fainting and dizziness going back 40 years.
Glasgow City Council said he would not have been employed if it had known about his background.
Mr Clarke was taken on by the council in January 2011 to drive a minibus transporting disabled schoolchildren. At the time of his recruitment he had been suspended by his previous employer First Bus over a dispute about his timekeeping while driving buses, but the council was not aware of this.
On the ninth day of the fatal accident inquiry into the crash, Glasgow Sheriff Court also heard that Mr Clarke failed to disclose his medical history on a Bupa form for the council when he was promoted to driving heavier vehicles.
Dorothy Bain QC, representing the bereaved Morton family, questioned Geraldine Ham, a human resources manager at the council, over the authority's recruitment processes.
Talking the witness through various employment documents, the lawyer put it to her: "At the stage that Mr Clarke was employed by the council to transport children with special needs, we can see significant shortcomings in the council process for recruitment."
Ms Ham said the local authority tried to ensure that the necessary employment processes were in place.
Ms Bain said the inquiry had seen that where Mr Clarke "doesn't tell the council the truth, the recruitment process was not adequate in order to prevent his employment". The witness agreed.
The QC went on: "For that reason you would agree, I presume, that the recruitment process wasn't adequate?"
Ms Ham responded: "There's room for improvement, yes."
She also agreed that Mr Clarke would not have been given the job if the council had received full disclosure of his medical history.
And Ms Ham said he would have been suspended from driving and removed from duties had his medical history come to light.
The inquiry heard last week that Mr Clarke had suffered bouts of dizziness in 1976, fainted at work while a lorry driver in 1989 and suffered dizziness for months in 1994.
He is also reported to have fainted while at the wheel of a bus in 2010.
Solicitor advocate Ronald Conway, representing the Tait family, said: "I suspect at the end of this inquiry were are going to find out that Mr Clarke is not a monster, a monster of depravity, he's not a criminal mastermind, but he's a person who has lied repeatedly to find a job and get a job.
"There are lots of Harry Clarkes out there. Lots of fantasists and fabulists who lie to get what they want.
"How does the council deal with job applicants who may not tell the truth?"
He asked if there was anything to prevent the council from asking successful applicants for driving jobs to produce their medical records.
Ms Ham replied: "No, but they would have to give consent."
The HR manager was also cross-examined by Peter Gray QC on behalf of Glasgow City Council.
Mr Gray highlighted the issue of Mr Clarke's "exit form" from First Bus, which had no reference to absence issues or to his suspension, and judged him "suitable for re-engagement".
The inquiry was previously told that Mr Clarke's records showed he had been off work for almost a month after reportedly passing out at the wheel of a bus in April 2010.
Mr Gray put it to Ms Ham that any reference for Mr Clarke based on the First Bus exit form would have been "utterly misleading, inaccurate and untrue".
Ms Ham agreed that an inaccurate form "fundamentally undermines the recruitment process".
The Crown Office has already concluded that there will be no criminal prosecution over the crash, with senior lawyers deeming it a "tragic accident".
In a statement on Friday, the prosecution service said Mr Clarke was unconscious when the bin lorry veered out of control in Glasgow city centre "and therefore not in control of his actions".
The Crown Office statement said Mr Clarke did not "have the necessary criminal state of mind required for a criminal prosecution".
It also said that all the relevant evidence was known to the Crown counsel at the time the decision to take no proceedings was made.
Erin McQuade, 18, her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and his 69-year-old wife Lorraine, all from Dumbarton, died in the incident in the city's Queen Street and George Square.
Stephenie Tait, 29, and Jacqueline Morton, 51, both from Glasgow, and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh, were also killed when the truck mounted the pavement before crashing into the side of the Millennium Hotel.
A further 15 people were injured.
The 26-year-old Belgian was carried off in the Asia Trophy defeat against Sunderland in Hong Kong on Wednesday.
"He's going to be most likely out of training for two to three weeks," Spurs boss Andre Villas-Boas said. "Hopefully we can have him back sooner."
Tottenham's Premier League campaign begins at Crystal Palace on 18 August.
Vertonghen joined Spurs from Ajax in July 2012 and quickly became a key figure last season, at centre-half or left-back, making 49 appearances and scoring six goals.
18 August: Crystal Palace (A)
25 August: Swansea (H)
1 September: Arsenal (A)
He injured the anterior talofibular ligament in his left foot after slipping on a saturated pitch at the Hong Kong Stadium, sections of which were under water, shortly after being introduced as a second-half substitute.
"Jan is just about on the deadline for the first game of the season," Villas-Boas said. "Hopefully we can see a bigger recovery time with him."
Spurs play a third-place play-off match in the Asia Trophy against South China on Saturday and further heavy rain is expected in Hong Kong.
Villas-Boas added: "The conditions are extremely poor but there is nothing we can do about it. We've lost one player through injury - and if I can be sincere I would prefer not to go ahead, but that's the reality.
"It's our responsibility and if the authorities decide to go ahead, we will play the game."
Kimberly Rivera, a mother of four, had claimed refugee status in Canada, but she was ordered to leave last month.
On Thursday she voluntarily went to a border crossing in New York State, where she was placed into military custody, anti-war campaigners say.
She faces between two and five years in prison, her lawyer said.
Ms Rivera served in the Iraq war in 2006, but on her return to the US said she had become disillusioned with its cause and thought it was "immoral".
She went to Canada with her husband and children while on leave and between deployments in 2007.
In 2009 Canada ordered her deportation, a decision over which Ms Rivera lost an appeal.
Ms Rivera presented herself at the border between Gananoque in Ontario and Fort Drum in New York, according to the War Resisters Support Campaign, which has been backing Ms Rivera and other veterans who have defected.
The group says an estimated 200 military personnel resisted the Iraq war by fleeing to Canada.
Two men were deported to the United States in 2008. They were handed sentences of about one year each.
Some 500,000 women in their late 50s were affected by the decision of the coalition government.
It added up to 18 months onto the start date of their state pension.
Speaking to the BBC's Money Box programme, she said her job was to implement the past government's policy.
Many of the women affected say it has left them trying to bridge the gap at an age where re-entering the labour market is very difficult.
One of those affected was Wendy, who started work in her teens in Manchester and who expected her pension at 60.
"I intended to stay in employment, but that came to an end at 61. I claimed Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) and so far have applied for almost 4,000 jobs," she said.
She gets £65 a week JSA and has to find £25 from that to go towards her rent.
"Gas and electric take up most of the rest of the money. I am dependent on the generosity of neighbours for food. It is not a position I expected to find myself in," she said.
Baroness Altmann said: "I have so much sympathy for people whose pension age was increased at relatively short notice by up to 18 months.
"I don't have billions of pounds to spend on keeping state pension age unequal for longer.
"My job is to implement the laws that have been properly passed."
The minister claimed that when these women do get their pension they will be on average £8 a week better off on the new state pension.
Campaigners argue that these women will still lose money.
Lin Phillips, who helped found Women Against State Pension Inequality, said: "She's missing the point. We are losing just over £5,000 a year from the pension we have not had. If we had have known we could have prepared for that."
The pressure group wants a transitional payment to tide women like Wendy over the gap between what they expected and what they got.
Baroness Altmann said that was not possible.
"I have been looking at ways in which we might be able to help. I have been looking at it but I can't see any way of doing it," she said.
When asked if she had rejected the idea, she replied: "I haven't rejected anything. I have been looking and I will continue to look but I haven't been able to find anything."
Listen to the full interview on Money Box on BBC Radio 4 at 1200 BST on Saturday 26 September.
Michael Cura, 16, of Bishop Vaughan Catholic School, died on Thursday while on a 560-mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in the Galicia region.
Medical reasons are understood to be the cause of his death.
Friends from Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, where Michael was an altar boy, paid tribute to him.
Michael, of Morriston, had been on the Camino de Santiago - also known as Way of St James and St James's Path - on the pilgrim route to the Catholic shrine.
He and 20 other pupils and eight staff were nine days into the cycling journey near the end of their trip when he died.
Michael's family flew out to Spain on Friday and Swansea council said the school had arranged for the remaining pupils and staff to return home on Saturday.
Family friend Heather Harris said: "I remember Michael as a very quiet, studious, thoughtful, just a lovely, lovely boy. He will be greatly missed by everybody.
"There's a great sense of disbelief. I don't think we've taken it in yet."
She said he was "always willing to help" and was involved with a church charity organisation which takes disabled and able-bodied children on pilgrimage.
Mary-Ellen Courtney, 19, said there was "heartbreak and sheer shock" among the congregation.
"Mikey was quite possibly the most selfless person I have ever met on this planet," she said.
"He was one of the happiest, joyous people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.
"He was so generous in giving himself to so many people, sharing who he was."
Friend Emily Davies described him as an "inspiration" and a "real gentleman" who "lit up the room".
"He has made such an impact on so many of us... he spent his whole life helping other people," she said.
Parish priest Father Jason Jones said Michael was very involved in setting up a parish youth group and showed "care and compassion".
"This particular pilgrimage he was on while cycling to Santiago was also in one way a fundraiser for different acts of charity in the area," he said.
"The outpouring of grief, the sadness of the situation and the numbers who have been coming here for mass... have been a wonderful testimony to the affection that they have for Michael, their friendship towards him and also their support for the family."
The school said staff and pupils were "devastated by the sudden death".
School sources said Michael's death was not the result of an accident and no other pupils were involved.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are providing support to the family of a British national following their sad death in Spain."
Mr McGuinness died last month at the age of 66.
His headstone was unveiled as part of an Easter Rising commemoration in Derry's City Cemetery on Sunday.
Gregory Campbell said the inscription "ought to serve as a reality check" for those "caught up in the hyperbole" at the time of Mr McGuinness' death.
"The news that there has been the unveiling of a headstone at the grave of Martin McGuinness with two references to his IRA membership will come as no surprise to most people," he said.
"The inscription of 'volunteer' along with the use of the Irish term for the 'IRA' are there as lasting testimonies to terror, long after the eulogies have faded, those who got carried away with some of the media's attempted elevation to statesmanship can now see for generations to come what those closest to him want everyone else to remember him as.
"A volunteer in Irish republican parlance didn't work in a charity shop, they terrorised people, they strapped an innocent man to his car and turned him into a human bomb, they shot a young innocent woman collecting census forms, that's what a 'volunteer' in the IRA did.
"The only good that can come from this engraving is that now those who are prepared to look for the unvarnished truth, can do so, on a headstone that will be there for generations to come."
Ulster Unionist Doug Beattie said he was neither angry nor outraged by the inscription on the gravestone.
He said it cemented what was already known, that Mr McGuinness was an IRA volunteer and that the gravestone would be no different to those of any other IRA member.
"He was a physical enemy of mine when he was in the IRA as I was a British soldier and he was a political opponent because I am unionist and he was a republican," Mr Beattie said.
"But in death he was neither of these, he was a frail old man."
The Bath winger scored twice on his return to Test rugby against Fiji, but was sent back to his club on Tuesday.
"Roko acquitted himself pretty well, and this is one game he is not chosen for," Gustard said ahead of Saturday's meeting with the Pumas.
"It is not a reflection of anything that will come after that."
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, Gustard added: "We need to make sure we get the results that we want, and we feel the group we have picked is the right group."
Rokoduguni won his first cap against New Zealand in 2014, but was dropped soon after and did not feature again on the international stage until last weekend.
Coach Eddie Jones had spoken about how the winger was badly affected by his previous experience of international rugby, but Gustard does not believe the player's confidence will be dented this time.
"He's had a good chat with Eddie and he knows where he stands, and [he knows] the areas of improvement [he needs to look at]," Gustard added.
"We need to exploit the opportunities we think Argentina will present, and counter any threats they may have. Roko's exclusion - like Jonny May's from round one to round two - is indicative of that."
May is expected to return in place of Rokoduguni on the right wing on Saturday, with Elliot Daly likely to continue on the left with vice-captain Mike Brown at full-back.
Furthermore, George Kruis has made a speedy return to the squad following ankle surgery and is expected to start in the second row.
The Saracens lock has been sidelined for the past month.
"You set yourself goals to get back as quickly as possible," Kruis told BBC 5 live.
"The specialists said four to seven weeks [recovery], so I tried to target between four and five weeks and work as hard as I could."
England will confirm their starting XV and replacements on Thursday morning.
The cost of student finance for these "alternative providers" quadrupled in four years to £382m, says the study.
The report warns against a "high-speed" process of allowing new providers to award their own degrees.
The Department for Education says the plans will give students "more choice".
But the report co-author Robin Middlehurst said the experience of the United States showed "overly generous rules for alternative providers are a magnet for questionable business practices".
"Better protection of the public purse is overdue, especially given the growth in the number of for-profit providers," said Prof Middlehurst.
The Higher Education and Research Bill, currently before Parliament, proposes a combined system for regulating traditional universities and so-called "alternative providers", with the aim of encouraging a wider market for students.
There are more than 700 alternative providers, with almost 300,000 students - including for-profit colleges offering below degree-level courses, overseas-based colleges as well as well-regarded private institutions providing their own degree-level courses.
More than 120 of these providers run courses eligible for student finance, with the cost of tuition fee loans and maintenance loans to this sector rising from £94m to £382m between 2010-11 and 2014-15.
But creating a common set of rules for established universities and a wave of newcomers could turn into a "bed of nails", said the report co-author, John Fielden.
The report warns that more than two-thirds of alternative providers could still remain outside of the regulations.
The study highlights the experience in the US, which saw a rapid expansion in for-profit higher education colleges, raising concerns about recruitment tactics, dropout rates and access to student finance support.
There have been repeated warnings in the UK about the need to safeguard public funding.
The Public Accounts Committee warned last year that the government had ignored "repeated warnings" about the financial risks of alternative providers expanding "without sufficient regulation".
There had been previous warnings from the National Audit Office of millions of pounds being lost to students who were not really eligible, high dropout rates and inadequate systems for recording students.
But Alex Proudfoot of Independent Higher Education said: "The greatest risk to UK higher education is not independent providers but stagnation in the face of a rapidly changing world.
"Independent providers have proliferated as students continue to choose modern, innovative and industry-led provision," said Mr Proudfoot.
The government's higher education plans are intended to give more consumer choice for students, who in England are facing tuition fees that will rise this autumn to £9,250.
But Lord Patten, chancellor of Oxford University and former Conservative party chairman, has criticised "ham-fisted" plans to create an over-arching regulator, the Office for Students, as a threat to university independence and integrity.
There have also been concerns about plans to grade universities as gold, silver or bronze in terms of teaching quality - with warnings about the impact that this could have on the recruitment of students for those at the bottom.
Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said "all higher education institutions were new entrants once" and alternative providers could offer more flexible opportunities for students.
"But, as the higher education market continues to change shape, we must be vigilant in ensuring bad apples do not contaminate the sector as a whole."
The UCU lecturers' union general secretary, Sally Hunt, said the report should "sound alarm bells in government".
A Department for Education spokeswoman said: "More alternative providers than ever will be regulated thanks to the reforms being introduced through our Higher Education and Research Bill.
"As well as regulating all those receiving public funding, the Office for Students will have the ability to regulate alternative providers outside of public funding.
"The bill, which is currently going through Parliament, will build a higher education system that offers students high quality teaching, more choice and greater competition."
Gavin Reid, 28, was on board the Mission Performance yacht in January last year when the crew detected an SOS signal off the Australian coast.
He swam to the other yacht and helped rescue four crew members and save a fifth who had been tangled in lines at the top of the mast for nine hours.
He won the award over Giles Scott who won yachting gold at the Rio Olympics.
Mr Reid, 28, who went to school in Edinburgh and now lives in Cambridge, won the accolade from the Yachting Journalists' Association (YJA).
He was born profoundly deaf and had no sailing experience before taking part in the Clipper Round-the-World Yacht Race, a 40,000-nautical mile challenge.
The SOS signal was picked up off the New South Wales coast from a boat returning from the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
Mr Reid volunteered to swim to the yacht where he found four crew members incapacitated and unable to help their crewman.
He climbed up to the man, taking about two hours to untangle the lines, and helped lower him to safety
Picking up his trophy at a ceremony in central London, Mr Reid said he did not expect to win the award and thanked those who voted for him.
"A year ago I did not know the difference between a halyard, a sheet or a jib. I knew nothing about sailing," he said.
"To be here with so many amazing names and people who have achieved so much is quite daunting."
He added: "To have won such a prestigious award is beyond anything - I am delighted."
"I'm sure Giles Scott is thinking 'how did I not win it?' But it was a real honour to beat someone with such amazing credentials."
The vote was cast by more than 200 members of the YJA, with just two ballots between the top two nominees. The shortlist also included Round-the-Island Race record holder Brian Thompson.
The award has previously been won by Olympian Sir Ben Ainslie.
Mr Reid has won a number of other sailing awards for the rescue.
Clipper Race founder Sir Robin Knox-Johnston said Mr Reid "impressed tremendously" during his time competitively sailing around the world.
He said: "Mission Performance, who are fully trained with a safety-first mentality, upheld the tradition of the sea that you do not hesitate to go to the assistance of another sailor in distress, setting an excellent example of seamanship which is a crucial attribute for all good ocean-racing sailors.
"This is the pinnacle of British sailing awards and amongst the most prestigious accolades in the sailing world. I'm very proud of Gavin and the entire crew."
James Ibori was released in December after four years in a British prison, but prosecutors have since admitted they have documents suggesting police officers involved in the case took bribes.
The UK government spent years and millions getting Ibori out of Nigeria and into a British court in one of the most expensive and complex police investigations undertaken.
Ministers wanted to prove their determination to tackle corruption in Africa.
Ibori, a former London DIY store cashier, was jailed for fraud totalling nearly £50m in April 2012.
But now the tables have been turned with Ibori claiming the British authorities were themselves corrupt.
"I have been unfairly treated, that's all I can say," Mr Ibori told the BBC, confirming that he plans to appeal against his conviction for money laundering.
"Yes, I am, of course. I have made that decision personally and I have instructed my solicitors."
Ibori was believed to have laundered large sums in the UK, just part of hundreds of millions of dollars it was claimed he had embezzled from the Nigerian people.
On a state salary of just £4,000 a year he had bought a fleet of luxury cars and expensive properties. He was also looking to buy a private jet.
In 2005 the Department for International Development funded a special police unit inside Scotland Yard to go after corrupt African politicians.
Its prime target was Ibori. Its aim: to get him into a British court and convict him for corruption.
Having been extradited to London in 2010, Ibori was convicted and sentenced to 13 years for money laundering two years later.
But since he was jailed, documents have emerged suggesting that at least one officer involved in the Ibori investigation had taken thousands of pounds in bribes.
Last year, after repeatedly telling judges there was no evidence of police corruption, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) admitted they had found substantial material that supported the allegations.
Last summer, defence lawyers learned more about an undercover Scotland Yard investigation called Operation Limonium.
"There exists intelligence that supports the assertion that [a police officer] received payment in return for information in respect of the Ibori case," the CPS admitted.
The officer in question has always denied taking bribes and internal police investigations have previously exonerated him.
Details of how Scotland Yard tapped phones and conducted covert surveillance on a number of officers in the unit investigating Ibori emerged for the first time.
Other documents alleging officers had taken bribes were sent to the authorities anonymously in 2011 by a lawyer convicted as part of the Ibori case.
Former solicitor Bhadresh Gohil says he was trying to alert them to the police corruption.
"I brought this case to the attention of the Met police, the commissioner of the Met police Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, I brought it to the attention of Alison Saunders, the head of the CPS. I also drew it to the attention of the then Home Secretary Theresa May," Mr Gohil says.
"Unfortunately, no-one did anything about this."
What they did do was attempt to prosecute Mr Gohil for perverting the course of justice by faking the documents. With the CPS release of the new documents, that case collapsed.
The British authorities managed to get their man before a judge in 2012, but now James Ibori is willingly returning to the courts looking to put the reputation of the UK's criminal justice system on trial.
The irony will not be lost on government ministers.
In few other democracies in the world, let alone other nation states, would a meaningful conversation about the legal protection of such vile communication have taken place on such a high level and with so much at stake.
Most countries would long ago have outlawed or limited such odious displays of publicity seeking, or at least enabled and encouraged the victims of such cynical protests to use the courts of law to punish the perpetrators.
Can you see eternally tolerant Canadians tolerating similar nasty picketing at the funerals of their fallen soldiers? Can you see it happening in Great Britain? Neither can I.
But America generally endures even deliberately cruel expression. Not only endures it but gives it a vast protective berth under the auspices of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
By design and execution, and like it or not, even the most repugnant ideas, offered for the worst reasons, are not supposed to be killed in their cribs by judges but are instead to be duly vetted in the public marketplace of ideas.
That's why no one seriously suggested during the whole long case, now known to the world as Snyder v Phelps, that the hateful speech at issue be criminalised, restrained prior to communication or, Heaven forbid, judged on its merits.
Indeed, one of the striking components of the oral argument in court was its complete lack of attention to the content of the protests - such as placards reading "God Hates Fags" - supported by Fred Phelps.
Mr Phelps picketed with individuals holding such signs on the day and at the time that Albert Snyder had to bury his slain-in-battle son, Marine Lance Cpl Matthew Snyder.
The content, timing and location of Mr Phelps' speech, a Maryland jury found in 2007, intentionally inflicted $11m (£7m) worth of emotional distress upon Mr Snyder.
Mr Phelps' conduct invaded Mr Snyder's right to privacy, jurors determined - the poor man's basic human right to bury his son in peace and quiet.
But the Supreme Court for an hour barely uttered a peep about the jury's verdict, which was subsequently overturned by a lower federal court.
And the justices had even less to say about the substance of the message Mr Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church minions from the US state of Kansas were trying to communicate to America on what was surely one of the worst days of Albert Snyder's life.
Short of presenting a clear and present danger to national security, the substance of the message is not supposed to matter under a free speech doctrine.
The most venal speech often needs, and receives, the most protection from the justices.
Indeed, the main goal at the High Court was to determine if the justices should recognize some sort of exception for funerals, looking specifically at whether Mr Phelps' anti-gay, anti-military, anti-America speech is protected under the First Amendment.
During the oral argument, the justices effectively said to Mr Snyder that he had been wronged. But the justices also conveyed the message that the First Amendment places upon Mr Snyder a burden to convince them, even in these grim circumstances, that he warrants that particular remedy.
And the court effectively said to Mr Phelps that he may have done wrong. But the First Amendment precedent generally protects him from the sort of official punishment reflected in a jury's verdict.
Despite an outpouring of national sympathy for the Snyder family and despite near universal abhorrence at the methods the Phelps family employs to disseminate its views, few commentators publicly blamed the nine justices for approaching such a gut-busting case from a starting point so heavily advantageous to the church.
Many media outlets, in fact, formally supported Mr Phelps' right to engage in such speech.
In the wake of the argument, some commentators even wondered why the Supreme Court had even decided to interject itself in such a lopsided dispute in the first place.
"The Snyder's pain is the kind of pain free speech requires us to bear," wrote American legal scholar Garrett Epps.
It is virtually impossible to predict how the Supreme Court will resolve Snyder v Phelps. That decision is several months away.
But in many ways America itself already has reacted to the Phelps' family's cynical strategy of interjecting itself for publicity's sake into private moments of grief.
And even the reaction is a testament to America's foundational commitment to free speech.
Forty-eight states now have passed laws reasonably limiting funeral protests to a certain time, place and manner - restricting, but not prohibiting the cruel act.
Based upon the tone and tenor of the oral argument in Snyder v Phelps, those funeral protest laws appear safe for now from constitutional challenge.
They may not help Mr Snyder in his quest for damages against Mr Phelps.
But they will back Mr Phelps off a bit the next time he and his church members seek to picket a funeral. And that's a compromise most Americans are willing to accept.
Thanks to a durable commitment to protecting even the most unpopular speech, few want to deny Fred Phelps his right to speak out so harshly against innocent people in their most anguished and vulnerable moments.
But even fewer, apparently, want to hear what he has to say.
Andrew Cohen is the legal affairs columnist for Politics Daily and Senior Legal Analyst for CBS News Radio.
Roedd Liz Saville Roberts yn siarad cyn y bleidlais gan ASau i ganiatau i'r etholiad ddigwydd ar 8 Mehefin.
Mae Theresa May angen cefnogaeth dwy ran o dair o'r Tŷ Cyffredin er mwyn cynnal yr etholiad.
Ond mae Nia Griffith, llefarydd y blaid Lafur ar faterion amddiffyn wedi dweud eu bod yn barod am y frwydr.
Dywedodd Ysgrifennydd Cymru, Alun Cairns fod Mrs May wedi gwneud y penderfyniad iawn i alw etholiad, er mwyn cael sefydlogrwydd yn y wlad.
Wrth siarad ar BBC Radio Wales, dywedodd Ms Saville Roberts y byddai Plaid Lafur Cymru yn gwneud eu gorau i gyflwyno eu hunain fel plaid sydd yn cael ei harwain gan Brif Weinidog Cymru, Carwyn Jones.
"Ond mae pobl Cymru yn gwybod mai Jeremy Corbyn yw arweinydd Llafur," meddai.
Dywedodd nad yw rhai o hoelion wyth Llafur wedi dangos "unrhyw angerdd am y frwydr".
"Mi ydyn ni'n mynd i weld rhai seddi Llafur bregus yng Nghymru."
Fe wrthododd Nia Griffith drafod beth fyddai noson wael yn golygu i Jeremy Crobyn ond dywedodd bod yr etholiad yn "gyfle i bobl ddewis" a bod y blaid yn barod.
Yn ôl Alun Cairns fe benderfynodd y prif weinidog alw etholiad er mwyn bod mewn sefyllfa gryfach yn y trafodaethau Brexit, os bydd y blaid Geidwadol yn ennill mwy o fwyafrif.
Mae gan Lywodraeth y Deyrnas Unedig fwyafrif bach ar y funud, rhywbeth y gallai arweinwyr yr UE ei "ecsbloetio" meddai.
Dywedodd y byddai'r etholiad yn "her" i'r blaid a bod yna "risg" ond mai dyma "yw'r peth iawn i wneud".
Mae Neil Hamilton, arweinydd grwp UKIP yn dweud bod y system gyntaf i'r felin yn "annheg iawn" i bleidiau bach, ac y bydd UKIP yn "warchodwyr Brexit".
"Dydyn ni ddim yn ymddiried yn Theresa May i gyflawni'r hyn mae wedi ei ddweud, yn enwedig ar reoli mewnfudo."
Yn y cyfamser, mae Rhodri Morgan, cyn brif weinidog Cymru wedi dweud y dylai Jeremy Corbyn gael "negeseuon clir nerthol" yn yr ymgyrch etholiad.
Dywedodd yng Nghymru nad oedd yna reswm i beidio cael etholiad ynglŷn â Brexit.
"The Statue of Liberty says, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free'," CNN's Jim Acosta told Stephen Miller.
"It doesn't say anything about speaking English," Mr Acosta added.
Mr Miller said the poem on the iconic American statue was "added later".
The immigration overhaul, backed by Mr Trump on Wednesday, would curb the number of permanent, legal migrants allowed in the US each year and prioritise those who can speak English or are highly skilled.
Mr Trump's senior policy adviser at the White House, Mr Miller, said at a press briefing that the policy was "compassionate".
The question-and-answer session turned into a fiery row as Mr Miller and Mr Acosta clashed on the issue.
The pair verbally sparred over the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of freedom and what it represents in relation to US immigration policy.
In response to Mr Acosta's point about the famous poem, Mr Miller countered by saying that it was "not actually part of the original Statue of Liberty".
"The poem that you're referring to was added later," he told Mr Acosta.
But Mr Acosta, visibly unsatisfied with this response, used the daily briefing to accuse the Trump administration of "trying to engineer the racial and ethnic flow and people into this country".
Mr Miller said the accusation was "outrageous", describing the policy as "pro-American immigration reform" that enjoyed "immense" support among the public.
"Jim, that is one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant and foolish things you have ever said," Mr Miller said, adding: "The notion that you think this is a racist bill is so wrong and so insulting."
Mr Miller said the bill, which also proposes to limit family-based migration to spouses and children, was a step towards realising the administration's plan to introduce an Australian-style, points-based immigration system.
The bill still has a long way to go before becoming law and would be likely to face resistance in Congress from members of both parties.
It is not the first time that Mr Acosta has raised hackles at the White House. In January he was warned by then incoming press secretary Sean Spicer that he would be banned from future press conferences if he continued to "argue" with Mr Trump.
Aberdeen's Kenny McLean converted a penalty on the stroke of half-time.
Scott McDonald levelled with an opportunistic header and Louis Moult made it two in two minutes when he clipped the ball beyond Scott Brown.
The Dons then had Barry Robson sent off for elbowing McDonald moments after coming off the bench.
It has been a remarkable week at Fir Park, ending with a fifth win in six matches for the Steelmen.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Before kick-off there was bad news for the hosts when it emerged that James McFadden, whose season has been peppered by dreadful luck, had broken his ankle in training.
And Mark McGhee confessed the former Scotland star would have started in a line-up which showed three changes after a midweek virus had threatened to tear the manager's plans apart.
Aberdeen did everything but score in the opening spell in the glorious Lanarkshire sunshine, with Connor Ripley saving well from Dons skipper Ryan Jack and Simon Church pulling a shot wide, while McLean should have hit the target with a free header.
Motherwell's first real effort arrived after 21 minutes and it was beautifully engineered. Moult's cross was taken first time on the half volley by Marvin Johnson and the ball only just cleared the crossbar.
Moult then rattled Brown's right hand post after a headed lay-off from McDonald.
But the decisive period of the half came on 44 minutes after Motherwell were denied a free kick for a foul on Johnson right in front of the home dug-out. Referee Don Roberston waved play on and, following a sequence of fizzing passes, Jonny Hayes broke into the box only to be floored by Kieran Kennedy.
McLean scored from the penalty spot and as the teams left the pitch at half-time a clearly furious McGhee and Johnson waited to confront the official about the absence of a foul in their favour.
But the hosts' fury turned to delight after a spirited comeback in the second period.
Ripley was at full-stretch to push away a fierce McLean strike and an improvised overhead kick from Church grazed the crossbar as Aberdeen threatened on the break.
But McDonald, who once famously denied Celtic a title in a Motherwell jersey, this time did the champions a favour when he finished a game of head tennis with a looping equaliser on 72 minutes.
Moult then stunned the title hopefuls with a cute lob, taking advantage of a mix up between Mark Reynolds and goalkeeper Brown.
Aberdeen's afternoon got even worse when substitute Robson was red carded after catching McDonald with a leading elbow and there was no way back for the 10 men.
But maybe they've been looking at the wrong monetary tool and the wrong economy, in respect of what matters to the flows of capital across borders and economic activity.
Because the decision of the People's Bank of China (PBOC) to devalue the yuan by 1.9% will have global ramifications, in the short, medium and long-ish term.
Immediately it will increase the competitiveness of China's exports at a time when the country's economy is growing at its slowest rate for six years - and when many economists fear that the slowdown will become much more painful and acute.
And for all the spur to growth it may give, the devaluation will reawaken concerns that Beijing is still a million miles from having re-engineered the Chinese economy to deliver more balanced growth based on stronger domestic consumer demand.
The weakening of the currency will also put the US Fed on the spot.
In effect China is exporting deflation to the US - and so some will argue that the Fed should find an elegant way to back away from its recent signalling that September will see the first rise in interest rates since the Crash of 2008.
Or to put it another way, in terms of US manufacturers and exporters, Beijing has done the monetary tightening that arguably the US economy needs.
As for the medium term ramifications, China will yet again spark concern in Congress that it engages in unfair trade competition.
Doubtless presidential candidates, especially on the Republican side, will complain more about China's attempt to rebuild export market share than fret about the implications of its seemingly unstoppable slowdown.
In the longer term it is unclear whether the devaluation will set back China's ambitions for the yuan (also known as the RMB) to become a reserve currency, as per the IMF's definition.
IMF economists and central bankers who adjudicate reserve currency status take into account whether a central bank forces devaluations or revaluations in a way that distorts the operation of a free market.
The PBOC is saying that in weakening the yuan overnight it is also moving to a more market-determined exchange rate.
And that may be so, in the sense that in recent weeks all the market pressure on the yuan has been downward - because of the unfortunate fact that the flaws in China's economy have become more and more conspicuous.
|
Theresa Villiers has said she is "sad" to end her work in Northern Ireland after quitting the government.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Facebook is to appeal a High Court ruling that ordered it to pay £20,000 in damages to a convicted sex offender who featured on its site.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A French national arrested in Paris last week had an "unprecedented" amount of weapons and was planning an act of "extreme violence", officials say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The government budget deficit has grown to leave Guernsey's States £4.5m worse off than expected, its most senior politician has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An investment fund has bought a £10m stake in RiverRidge Recycling, a waste management firm based in Coleraine, County Londonderry.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has sworn in 16 new ministers - nearly completing his cabinet after months of delay.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
August saw a "slight pick-up" in house price growth, says the Nationwide, but the outlook is still "clouded".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The death of a murderer whose cancer was discovered two days before he died has led to changes in prison procedure, an inquest heard.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
It's the viral mystery that has captivated social media from Belfast to Blarney, and generated its own hashtag.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Management of a US textile firm that plans to cut almost 50 jobs at its Londonderry site have met politicians to discuss staffing.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The skeleton of a Roman man who had his feet bent backwards to fit in his coffin has been found in a quarry in Dorset.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Motorists who drive too close to cyclists as they overtake are being targeted by police officers on bikes.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The inquiry into a bin lorry crash which killed six people in Glasgow has heard of "significant shortcomings" in the council recruitment processes.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen could be a doubt for the start of the season after being ruled out for up to three weeks with ankle ligament trouble.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A US army soldier who fled to Canada five years ago to avoid serving in Iraq has been arrested in the US after losing her deportation case.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Pensions Minister Baroness Altmann has told the BBC she considered helping women who have had the start date of their state pension put back twice, but could not find a way to do so.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The friends of a teenager from Swansea who died on a cycle trip through Spain have described him as an "inspiration" who always put other people first.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The unveiling of a gravestone for Martin McGuinness, which refers to him as an IRA volunteer, "tells the true story", a DUP MP has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
England assistant coach Paul Gustard insists Semesa Rokoduguni "knows where he stands" after his surprise exclusion from the squad to face Argentina.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The government's plans to expand private providers in the UK's university sector are a "risk too far", a report from the Higher Education Policy Institute has warned.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A deaf amateur sailor has been named Yachtsman of the Year for his part in a daring mid-ocean rescue.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Nigerian politician is appealing against his British conviction for corruption, claiming the Metropolitan Police investigation was itself mired in corruption.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
When the US Supreme Court sat this week to hear a privacy case about the right to protest at a private military funeral - to scream hateful, slogans and bear signs saying "Thank God for dead soldiers" - it was an opportunity to show the earnest commitment most Americans have to free speech values more than two centuries after the Bill of Rights came into existence.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bydd rhai o ASau Llafur mewn "sefyllfa wan" mewn etholiad cyffredinol buan meddai Aelod Seneddol Plaid Cymru.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Statue of Liberty was the focus of a monumental exchange between a White House adviser and a reporter after Donald Trump backed an immigration policy favouring the better-educated.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Aberdeen slipped four points behind Premiership leaders Celtic as they lost a lead and ended with 10 men against resurgent Motherwell at Fir Park.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The world's investors have been obsessing with when the US Federal Reserve will end the era of near-zero interest rates, as America's economy returns to almost-normal shape.
| 36,793,163 | 14,828 | 1,004 | true |
No wonder he's struggling in the polls with women voters - it would be remarkable if he wasn't.
Before we get to the latest brouhaha over abortions, let's take the last point first.
Donald Trump says he loves women. He says he employs lots of senior women in his company. His daughter, Ivanka, is clearly a powerhouse. He also claims that he will be the best candidate for women.
But how, in 2016, does that square with having such an old-fashioned view of parenting duties?
One of the biggest things holding professional women back from participating full-time in the workforce is not having husbands who are prepared to share 50% of all child-rearing chores.
It is really hard for a woman to put in the time needed to succeed at work if her husband won't pitch in fully at home. By saying, almost boasting, that nappy changing isn't for him, Mr Trump is not being a good role model for other men.
He is sending a subliminal message that women should do mother's work while he gets on with the business. Not helpful - or, in Trumpish - sad!
Full US election coverage
Trump, Clinton and the "none-of-the-above" era of politics
Who's funding Trump's campaign?
Five ways Republican nomination could end
It is part of an old-fashioned machismo that the Trump campaign has cultivated. A lot of it is about sex and sexual conquests. Boasting about the size of your penis on a TV debate was only one incident.
Years ago Mr Trump called Tucker Carlson, a TV presenter who'd insulted the famous "Trump coif", and left him a message saying Carlson had better hair but Trump had more sex with women (and he said it in a far more indelicate way).
In 1997, Mr Trump triumphantly told a radio host he could have "nailed" Princess Diana.
And - in what must count as two of the more bizarre statistics of this campaign - according to a recent study by dating site Match (formerly match.com) single Donald Trump supporters are 1,104% more likely to expect sex on a first date than Hillary Clinton supporters.
They are also 99% more likely to film themselves having sex. I think this means they are more likely to be men.
Promoting your sexual prowess works well with men who feel threatened by the growing influence of women in the workforce, and by the realisation that women are now better educated than men.
In the New York Times, conservative columnist David Brooks, refers to it is as the enabling of a "bad-boy protest movement". But this regressive gender stereotyping is less appealing to women.
According to a March NBC/WSJ poll 47% of female Republican primary voters cannot see themselves voting for Trump while only 32% say the same about Ted Cruz.
And Mr Trump consistently has a 20-odd point gap in support between men and women. A gap he has acknowledged he needs to do something about.
Which brings us to the unique U-turn Mr Trump performed on Wednesday after saying in a televised town hall event that women who have abortions should be punished. He quickly put out a statement reversing that position.
He did so after howls of protests from both pro-life and pro-choice groups.
It isn't easy to bring these two deeply divided sides together in common cause, but, for a few moments, Mr Trump succeeded. Punishing the woman has never been the position of even the most ardent anti-abortionists here.
Sticking to that original town hall statement would have made it very difficult for Mr Trump to close his gap with women voters.
Since single, suburban women will probably decide the outcome of this election, that is something Mr Trump has to do to become president.
The Staffordshire attraction's gates are shut for a second day while the Health and Safety Executive investigates Tuesday's crash.
Nick Varney, of Merlin Entertainments, which runs the park, said it could only reopen when they knew the problem was isolated to the rollercoaster.
However, he did not give a time frame.
Two carriages collided at the park's £18m ride The Smiler at about 14:00 BST on Tuesday.
The accident left people trapped 25ft (7.6m up) at an angle of 45 degrees for up to four-and-a-half hours.
Writing in the Sun, Merlin Entertainments chief executive Mr Varney said: "At this point I don't know if it was a technological or a human error.
"We want to know if this issue is isolated to The Smiler. We can't open again until we're sure."
A total of 16 people were hurt, including Joe Pugh, 18, and his girlfriend Leah Washington, 17, both from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and 27-year-old Daniel Thorpe from Buxton in Derbyshire.
They suffered serious injuries, along with a woman aged 19.
All four were airlifted to major trauma centres across the West Midlands.
Mr Thorpe's father has said his son is being treated at Coventry hospital. A spokesperson for Royal Stoke University Hospital said it continues to treat the other three, "following serious injuries sustained in the incident at Alton Towers on Tuesday."
Among those on board The Smiler was Vanisha Singh, who was in the second row of the carriage with her mother Chanda, 49, and her sister Meera, 26.
She told the Sun there had been "technical difficulties" moments before they embarked on the ride, as several test cars were sent ahead of them.
Paul Kelly, from the British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions (BALPPA) said the industry was "shocked and devastated" by the news.
"It's very rare and a lot of people are very upset. This is something which happened outside normal parameters."
Mr Kelly said the investigation into what happened would cover everything, including the people working the ride, the manufacturer's instructions, and the climactic conditions.
He added: "I would like to reassure the public that theme parks are a very safe environment on a normal day out".
The rollercoaster, which has a world-record 14 loops, has been closed twice over safety concerns since opening two years ago.
An Alton Towers spokesman said: "The decision has been taken that Alton Towers theme park will remain closed on Thursday following the incident on The Smiler.
"Guests with pre-booked tickets and those arriving at the theme park will have the choice of a full refund or an alternative dated ticket.
"Guests with pre-booked tickets have the option to use their tickets tomorrow at an alternative attraction. See website for more info."
Were you at Alton Towers on Tuesday? Do you know anyone affected by the accident? If you have any information you would like to share with the BBC please email [email protected].
During the Troubles, some viewed him as a hate figure.
For others, he was a peacemaker - a man who shifted his movement from violence to peaceful politics.
He was born in October 1948 in Ballymurphy, west Belfast, to a family steeped in Irish republicanism.
He became an active supporter of civil rights.
In 1972, Mr Adams was interned - imprisoned without charge - but later released to take part in IRA ceasefire talks with the government.
In 1983, he became West Belfast MP on an abstentionist platform, refusing to take his seat at Westminster.
Soon after, he supplanted Ruairí Ó Brádaigh as president of Sinn Féin, an all-Ireland party. In 1986 Sinn Féin dropped its policy of refusing to sit in the Irish parliament.
From the late 1980s onwards, Mr Adams was a key figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, initially following contact by the then-Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader John Hume and subsequently with the Irish and British governments.
The Hume-Adams process eventually delivered the 1994 IRA ceasefire that provided the backdrop against which the Good Friday Agreement was brokered four years later.
That paved the way for devolved government in Northern Ireland.
Mr Adams won a seat for Louth in the Irish Parliament (Dáil) in 2011 after stepping down from his jobs at Westminster and Stormont.
He was re-elected in 2016.
After the election, Mr Adams said Sinn Féin met its own poll expectations, dismissing claims that he failed to lead his party to bigger targeted gains.
In October 2013, his brother, Liam Adams, was convicted of raping and abusing his daughter, Áine, in the 1970s.
The attorney general, John Larkin, subsequently concluded that the Public Prosecution Service was right not to prosecute Gerry Adams for allegedly withholding information about his brother.
In 2014, Mr Adams was arrested in connection with the IRA murder of Belfast woman Jean McConville in 1972.
He was freed without charge and a file sent to the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland. Mr Adams has always strongly denied the allegation.
For years, Mr Adams has stated repeatedly that he has never been a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).
The case against Steven Thomson, 29, took a jury just under three hours to return a not proven verdict by majority at the High Court in Livingston.
He had denied killing Duncan Banks by repeatedly hitting him on the head with a blunt object and robbing him of a money, heroin, a wallet and a key.
Mr Banks was found dead on 28 September 2015 in Skye Road, Dunfermline.
He had suffered horrific head injuries including "extensive fracturing" to his skull and deep cuts and tears in his scalp which caused "traumatic" damage to his brain. The court heard him described as a likeable character who "wouldn't hurt a fly".
Judge Lady Rae told father-of-three Mr Thomson that he was free to leave the dock.
During the 14-day trial the jury heard that the murder weapon, thought to be a rusty claw hammer, was never found.
A spare key to Mr Banks' flat and the heroin and cash the dead man had from selling drugs to addicts in the Abbeyview area of Dunfermline were also missing.
The court heard that Mr Thomson, 39, was one of a select few people who Mr Banks allowed into his council flat in Skye Road.
The accused had even stayed over at Mr Banks' flat in the week leading up to his death in September 2015.
Giving evidence in his own defence, he told the jury he had been taking heroin in the flat less than two hours before police believe Mr Banks was murdered.
Mr Thomson's DNA was found on cigarette ends in an ashtray in Mr Banks' living room.
However, he insisted he was not guilty of murder and lodged a special defence blaming another man, Jamie Curtis, 44, for the crime.
He said the large sum of money seen on CCTV stuffed in his wallet later that morning was the proceeds from his own heroin dealing.
He said a fellow inmate at Perth Prison who claimed Mr Thomson confessed to him and another drug user - who gave evidence Mr Thomson had told him he was going to "rob" Mr Banks - were both lying.
Mr Banks' mother Dorothy Banks, 73, had told the jury her son had been in the grip of a drug habit for more than 20 years before his death and said heroin had changed his personality.
She said was being "threatened" over a drugs debt in the week before he was murdered and she last saw him four days before she learned he was dead.
Chris Duggan picked out Paul Woods on the left of the box and the Spiders midfielder slotted the ball into the back of the net.
The hosts struck back as Gary Fraser's free-kick from just outside the 18-yard box floated into the top corner.
The away side had numerous chances to clinch a winner but the spoils were shared at Links Park.
Dennis Hutchings, 75, was the senior soldier of a patrol that shot dead John Pat Cunningham near Benburb in 1974.
Mr Cunningham, who had the mental age of a child aged between six and 10, had a fear of men in uniform and was apparently running away from the patrol when he was shot.
A preliminary enquiry will decide whether the case proceeds to trial.
A retired military police officer, Alan Mews, told the preliminary inquiry at Armagh Magistrates' Court that he had seized an SLR at the scene from then Colour Sergeant Hutchings.
Asked why he had seized the gun, he said it would be normal procedure to seize any weapon that was suspected of having been fired.
He was then asked what made him suspect this weapon had been fired.
"I was told that it had been," he replied.
"Who by?" asked a prosecution lawyer.
"The defendant," replied Mr Mews.
Mr Cunningham's nephew, Charlie Agnew, watched from the public gallery, while a large group of family and friends were also present to support Dennis Hutchings.
A lawyer for Mr Hutchings said his client was "not a well man" and that kidney failure would soon see him requiring dialysis for up to five hours every day.
White-haired Mr Hutchings was dressed in a light grey suit and wore his regimental tie.
He listened intently throughout with the aid of the court's audio loop system.
Due to his poor health, however, and at the request of his legal team, he took regular breaks.
A former member of the Army's Special Investigation Branch, John Cooper, also gave evidence but told the court he had no memory of the incident and did not know the identities of other members of the patrol.
Anas Abdalla and Mahamuud Diini, both from Birmingham, had been on trial for almost a month at the Old Bailey.
The men, both 26, deny preparation for acts of terrorism by seeking to leave the UK in a lorry in April last year.
Judge Christopher Moss QC said a matter had arisen that required him to restart proceedings.
"Circumstances have arisen and there is no blame to be attached to any party which means that this trial, with this jury, cannot continue," he said, discharging the jury.
"The reason is that further inquiries must be made before the trial can continue - and they will take longer than we can reasonably retain you.
"I must discharge you from returning verdicts in this case and order a retrial. This happens from time to time."
The date for the retrial of the men will be fixed later.
Hove MP Peter Kyle (Labour) told a Commons debate how Jane Clough's killer Jonathan Vass was able to cross-examined her family.
Vass was jailed for life for stabbing nurse Ms Clough in Blackpool in July 2010 on her way to work.
He was arrested outside her parents' house the day after the murder.
Mr Kyle said Vass was on his way to either murder his baby child, Jane's parents, or both.
The killer had started demanding parental rights over his child from behind bars, he said.
"The child he would have, by all likelihood, murdered himself if only he had had the opportunity," the MP added.
The MP told a Commons debate how several of his constituents who suffered domestic violence found abusers were using the family court system to continue their torment.
But he added: "If there is one example that sums up the sheer horror of abuse and its continuation in the family court, it is that of Jane Clough."
A family member started adoption proceedings in 2011 to break the link with Vass.
But the MP, who has spoken with Ms Clough's family as part of his research, said they experienced a legal system "stacked" in favour of the killer.
The would have had to sell their house to cover the costs without free help from a law firm.
Vass represented himself at the hearing, Mr Kyle said, adding: "The man who brutally murdered their sister, their daughter, would be cross-examining them.
"Jane's sister told me that she simply cannot find the words to do justice to the brutalising effect this had as the court date approached.
They were "stunned" to discover the hearing was by video-link due to concerns for his safety.
Vass asked personal questions and asked Jane's sister what would she tell the child about him.
"To her husband, he asked 'what makes you think you can be a dad to my daughter'?
"The trauma meted out by the family court process is simply inhuman. This family had suffered enough."
Media playback is unsupported on your device
23 January 2015 Last updated at 15:18 GMT
The triplets were born earlier this month, and keepers recorded this great footage of them playing with their mum, Kirana.
Sumatran tigers are one of the most endangered species of big cat, with fewer than 400 left in the wild.
They can only be found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, but the jungle where they live is increasingly being destroyed and they are at risk of poaching.
These little cubs will be spending a lot of time bonding with their mum, and the keepers will be keeping a close eye on them too.
Women on Boards carried out a study in 2014 which looked at how many governing bodies had women among their leaders.
Its first report since that study has found the number of women in some sport organisations has actually fallen.
However it admitted there had been "variable progress within individual sports and at country level".
Women are under-represented on sport boards - and those playing sport are often underpaid when compared to men.
A BBC Sport study in 2014 found men received more prize money in 30% of sports.
Women on Boards says having more women in positions of power and helping to run sport will have a trickle down effect and help to close the gender gap.
UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl said there were other benefits to getting more women into leading roles in sport governance. She said: "When you inject female perspective into the sector, as with business, everything and everyone benefits."
Writing in the Women in Board report, she added: "Women's sport has come a long way in many countries. In the UK, governance of publicly funded sport organisations is relatively strong.
"We must continue to strive for more gender-balanced boards and diversity of thought in the governance of sport."
The 21-year-old is a former Everton Ladies and Durham Women stopper.
"It's a dream to have signed for Arsenal Ladies," she told the club website.
Manager Pedro Martinez Losa added: "Anna is a powerful, towering keeper who is very driven and eager to develop. I'm looking forward to working with her."
The forward, 36, has recently revealed he will quit the game at the end of this season after a glittering career. But he is determined not to get carried away by the occasion.
"You've every right to get a little excited. I want to go out there, I want to enjoy it and I want to take it all in," said Ellis.
"But I know the difference between winning and losing so it's important that I'm disciplined enough to get the balance right."
Ellis is retiring after 18 years as one of British rugby league's most successful players.
After starting his career at Wakefield, he moved to Leeds before switching to the NRL and West Tigers in 2009, winning that club's player of the year award three years running. His return to Hull saw him lead the club to a first ever Wembley final win last year.
"People ask me about games gone by, and I really can't remember because you're constantly trying to be better, you're constantly moving on from one game to the next.
"It will be nice when I do eventually finish. I can have a little bit of a reflection of 'oh, that was good'."
Ellis' first memory of rugby league's oldest knockout trophy was on his fifth birthday, watching home town team Castleford win at Wembley against Hull KR in 1986. But he never dreamed he would ever emulate his boyhood heroes.
"I remember Jamie Sandy scoring and just carrying on running over the dog track towards the fans.
"But I don't think I ever thought I would play at Wembley. I probably just thought 'I hope Cas can get there next year so I can watch them again'.
"So to get to the level that I've got to, and have the opportunities I've had, is quite remarkable really.
"I spoke last year about not knowing whether you are going to play in another one again, and here I am. This really is the last one."
A report by the Accounts Commission, which scrutinises council spending, said a "frank, wide-ranging" debate was needed on the issue.
They said an ageing population, budget cuts and legislative changes were all putting pressure on the system.
Scotland's 32 councils currently spend about £3.1bn on social care.
That money was used to provide support to more than 300,000 people in 2014/15 - about 70% of whom were aged over 65.
The commission also said the public and service users needed to be more involved in shaping future care.
Councils plan to save £54m from their social work budgets over the next financial year, with most now only providing services for people aged over 65 assessed as being at "critical or substantial risk".
The report said: "Councils' social work departments are facing significant challenges because of a combination of financial pressures caused by a real-terms reduction in overall council spending, demographic change, and the cost of implementing new legislation and policies."
£3.1bn
Annual spending in 2014/15
300,000 people supported
759,000 unpaid carers in Scotland
£54m planned saving in 2017
27% more pensioners by 2037
The report added: "If councils and integration joint boards continue to provide services in the same way, we have estimated that these changes require councils' social work spending to increase by between £510m and £667m by 2020."
Social work departments also cover services for vulnerable children, with 17,357 youngsters being looked after by local authorities or appearing on child protection registers as of July 2015.
That represents an increase of 36% since 2000, said the report.
The overall aim of the audit by the Accounts Commission was to examine how prepared social work departments were for future financial and demographic changes.
The commission's report said that between 2012 and 2037, Scotland's population was projected to increase by 9% - that included a 27% rise in the number of people of pensionable age.
Although life expectancy had continued to rise, the number of years that a person can expect to live in good health has not changed significantly since 2008, said the report.
Recent legislative changes have seen the increased integration of health and care services and a real-terms reduction in overall council spending.
Spending on social care now accounts for a third of overall council spending in Scotland.
However, the Scottish government estimates that there are 759,000 unpaid carers aged 16 and over in Scotland, while Carers UK estimated the value of unpaid care in Scotland at £10.8bn.
The commission said that there was a recruitment issue in the care sector and low pay, anti-social hours and difficult working conditions were all adding to the crisis.
They also said that some care providers had expressed concerns that Brexit and the possibility of a future points-based immigration system could add to this.
They cited a 2008 survey which indicated that 6.1% the workforce in Scottish care homes were EU - non-UK workers, and a further 7.3% were employed under work permits from places such as the Philippines, India and China.
Just over 200,000 people work in social work and social care services, representing about one in 13 people in employment in Scotland - 85% are women.
Responding to the report, Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "The integration of health and social care services is one of the most ambitious programmes of work that this government has undertaken and we have committed over half a billion pounds towards making the integration of services a success.
"Integration will support better provision of care within communities and in people's homes - helping people to lead longer, more independent lives."
Nine years on, Brent Sancho can look back on the moment that sent both players into the footballing history of two small Caribbean islands with a bit of pride and dry humour.
There were eight minutes left of the goalless group match between England and Trinidad and Tobago at the 2006 World Cup in Germany when Crouch, then a Liverpool striker, used the defender's dreadlocks to help lever himself up to head home a trademark David Beckham cross.
Despite the clear infringement the goal stood.
"It is folklore here in Trinidad. It is one of those things that anywhere I go, people will always remind me," Sancho told BBC Radio Kent.
"Everyone has their spin on it - where they were when it happened and their dislike for him."
Crouch's goal saved England's embarrassment and Steven Gerrard added another goal in stoppage time to seal a 2-0 win.
England had almost slipped up against the smallest nation to ever qualify for the World Cup, and a squad containing 15 players who played in England or Scotland.
The Three Lions went on to exit the tournament at the quarter-final stage, losing to Portugal on penalties, while Trinidad and Tobago finished bottom of the group.
However, Sancho, who was then at Gillingham, has not rued what might have been and is proud to have been part of the first Trinidad and Tobago squad to play at the World Cup.
"I remember the game very vividly - holding off the English for 82 minutes until Peter scored that infamous goal," the 38-year-old added.
"Those things are part of football. I hold no animosities towards Peter - I think he is an absolutely fabulous player.
"It was such a brilliant fight from the guys. We really held our own and we walked out of that game being able to hold our heads up high.
"The performance against England, as a Trinbagonian and one of the 11 participants on the field, is something we can always look back at as something that was truly magnificent.
"We have struggled with our crime rate here in Trinidad and during games in the World Cup, crime went to practically zero. It is a testament to sports and what sports can do."
Sancho has not followed a traditional path since retiring from playing. Rather than go into coaching, management or punditry, the giant defender is now Minister for Sport in the government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
"It is a lot different walking the streets of Gillingham to the offices of the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago," he said.
"It is a bit of a change but at the same point in time it is such a great achievement to be able to continue to represent my country.
"I got involved in the administration side of football when I finished playing. Politics was nowhere near my agenda.
"I don't view myself as a politician. I view myself as a sportsman with a task of implementing and changing the projection of sports in this country.
"I am very proud of being part of this government. I think the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago has done a tremendous job in putting sports at the front and changing the scope of sports in this country.
"That was one of the things that really attracted me to the job."
Sancho believes his playing career in Britain - including spells at Dundee and Ross County - has played its part in his move into politics.
"My life experiences in the UK in general, living in Scotland and Maidstone and playing for Gillingham, has contributed heavily towards who I am now," he said.
"Being able to meet various people, living in the English culture and being part of the professional set-up in England has paved the way for me, in terms of where I am now.
"It is a lot different to being here on the island. The professionalism, mentality and work ethic of the English and the Americans has really sculpted me as an individual.
"It has probably put me on the platform for this new career I am just starting in."
Interview with Brent Sancho by BBC Radio Kent's Matt Cole.
The visitors took the lead when John Akinde kept his cool after being played in by Gavin Hoyte.
Akinde could have made it 2-0 but lobbed just wide when one-on-one.
Luke Berry headed in Harrison Dunk's cross with 19 minutes to go before Barry Corr won it for the U's when he drilled a low shot into the corner just over one minute later.
Cambridge boss Shaun Derry told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire:
"Football is about fine lines, fine margins, take your chances at the right time, and we sure did that today.
"We were clinical with the two chances that we had, up against a stern opponent.
"We knew it was going to be that in the second game in three days. The turnaround was incredible, we didn't really have a lot of options to go into today's game with.
"It was a physical game and the boys were absolutely dead on their feet, but with with a massive smile on their faces."
Barnet manager Martin Allen told BBC Radio London:
Media playback is not supported on this device
"I thought we were excellent. That's probably one of the best performances of the season for our team.
"First half, we totally controlled the game and had about four good chances to go ahead. Second half, it was always going to be different with the wind but, even so, we were on top.
"After being so comfortable and then to be 2-1 down, it's very disappointing for all the players and the supporters.
Abererch on the Llyn Peninsula in Gwynedd topped the list, with speeds of 2.7Mbps, followed by Llandinam in Powys and Devauden in Monmouthshire.
MP Liz Saville Roberts said half her constituents had download speeds below the government's baseline level.
BT said people needed to upgrade their services to access superfast speeds.
Superfast Cymru means speeds of 24Mbps plus are now available in about nine out of every 10 homes and businesses in Wales, a spokesman said.
The top 10 list ordered by wards and constituency with download speeds in megabits per second is:
Wales also had 13 out of the 20 slowest download speeds.
The UK government's own minimum acceptable download level is 10Mbps, Ms Saville Roberts said.
The Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP said her Gwynedd constituency had slower than average download speeds and worse superfast availability than the UK average.
"It's shocking that out of the 10 worst performing areas for broadband speeds, seven are in Wales," she said.
"Many of my constituents are unable to access what Ofcom recognises as the speed necessary to deliver an 'acceptable user experience', required for basic tasks such as web browsing, streaming and video calling.
"What we need in Wales is parity of access to the country's telecoms infrastructure. I hope the separation of BT from Openreach will signal an end to the monopoly in broadband provision, which has so far failed to meet the specific needs of many rural communities."
A BT spokesman said the focus on average download speeds was "disappointing" as Wales had better coverage than any other devolved nations following the roll out of Superfast Cymru.
"What this report does highlight to us is that more families and businesses now need to make the most of this new technology and upgrade their services if they want faster internet speeds," he said.
"For small parts of Wales we appreciate that upgrading isn't currently possible but we continue to work hard to roll out fibre broadband across the country."
Bob Crane, 61, who had bipolar disorder, died from smoke inhalation, at his home in Carolina House, Dove Street, Bristol, in September 2014.
The court heard Mr Crane had burnt wood at his flat to cook and keep warm because his gas and electricity had been cut off.
Deputy coroner Peter Harrowing recorded a verdict of accidental death.
Mr Harrowing accepted the view of the local health and social workers that Mr Crane had the mental capacity to "understand and decline their offers of help".
He said at the time of Bob Crane's death "there was no real and immediate risk to Mr Crane's life that the State should have been aware of".
Eritreans - struggling ashore or picked up at sea - form the second-largest group of migrants risking their lives to reach Italy, after Syrians.
Eritrea, in the Horn of Africa, is not in the grip of war or famine. Yet around 5,000 Eritreans flee every month. Why?
A damning United Nations Commission of Inquiry report blames the country's "gross human rights violations".
"Faced with a seemingly hopeless situation they feel powerless to change, hundreds of thousands of Eritreans are fleeing their country," the UN says.
Indefinite national service is one of the main drivers, according to the report. Everyone from the age of 17 can be conscripted into the military, and it continues for years. Some conscripts have served for more than 20 years.
UN investigators say "slavery-like practices" are widespread, with conscripts subjected to hard labour, with poor food, bad hygiene and wretched pay.
The Eritrean government has dismissed the UN's findings as "totally unfounded and devoid of all merit".
Yet for most Eritreans, it is impossible to get an exit visa to leave the country legally. And by fleeing conscription they risk being arrested as "traitors" if they return.
The EU cannot send Syrian refugees back to their war-torn country.
And Eritreans' asylum claims have generally been treated as legitimate in the EU.
But despite the abuses in Eritrea, documented by the UN and human rights groups, some countries are now considering sending Eritreans home.
A Danish Immigration Service report, from November 2014, suggested that Eritrea's policy towards returnees had become more lenient. It was based on a fact-finding mission, but did not name its sources.
It quoted the Eritrean Foreign Ministry as saying Eritreans abroad could now "regularise their relationship with the authorities" by paying a 2% income tax at an Eritrean embassy and signing an apology letter.
"This has been done by a number of people and they have returned to Eritrea without any complications," the report said, quoting a ministry statement.
But the ministry gave "no specific information" about whether Eritrea's national service would be changed.
The report was criticised by Danish media and Human Rights Watch, which described it as "more like a political effort to stem migration than an honest assessment of Eritrea's human rights situation".
The Norwegian government sent its own assessment team to Eritrea. It was led by Norway's Deputy Minister of Justice Joeran Kellmyr.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Kellmyr said he had received an assurance from Eritrea's foreign minister that national service would be reduced to 18 months.
"It's important for everyone," said Mr Kellmyr.
"If national service is reduced, according to human rights standards, this could mean that a lot of Eritrean people don't any more have the right to seek asylum."
In December UK officials also visited Eritrea to discuss the migration problem.
And in March this year a new UK policy towards Eritrean asylum-seekers was announced.
New guidelines stated that conscription would no longer be automatic grounds for granting asylum, since national service would no longer continue indefinitely.
But an Eritrean migration expert, Prof Gaim Kibreab, said there was "no evidence" for the UK guidelines' assertion that "national service is generally between 18 months and four years".
Eritrea - key facts
Eritrea country profile
Inside the secretive state of Eritrea
The lone seven-year-olds fleeing Eritrea
In 2011 the UN Security Council condemned Eritrea's collection of a 2% tax on the incomes of all of its citizens living abroad - the so-called "diaspora tax".
UN Resolution 2023 accused Eritrea of using the tax to fund armed opposition groups in the Horn of Africa, including the Islamist al-Shabab in Somalia.
That was denied by the Eritrean government, but many Western nations backed a UN arms embargo and other sanctions against Eritrea. They also suspect Eritrea of using mining revenue to fund Horn of Africa rebels.
The UK government told Eritrea that the "use of coercion or other illicit means to collect the [diaspora] tax in the UK must cease".
Yet Eritreans in the UK say they are still being pressurised to pay up.
Eritrean opposition activist Selam Kidane, based in London, said "they examine your pay slips and calculate how much your 2% tax comes to, but the actual payment is made in Asmara".
She said the payment was necessary before any official transaction could be made in Eritrea - whether it was selling a parent's home or getting a visa. "It is clear coercion," she said.
The UK Home Office has decided that Eritreans are not at risk if they refuse to comply with a "reasonable request to pay diaspora tax". So their fear of the consequences of not paying the tax cannot be grounds for UK protection.
"Previous country guidance indicated that those who had left illegally were at risk on return to Eritrea.
"However, up-to-date information from inside Eritrea suggests this is no longer the case," the UK Home Office says.
The Eritrean government maintains those who leave are economic migrants and says Eritrean "victims of human trafficking" who return home will not face punishment.
Yet the recent UN report spoke of some Eritrean returnees suffering detention for eight months to three years and maltreatment "to the point of torture".
Would more aid for impoverished Eritrea help to stem the exodus, by boosting growth and making life more bearable?
That seems unlikely, as many want to escape conscription and human rights abuses.
Unless ordinary men and women can be convinced that they will not have to face years in the grim trenches on the desolate border with Ethiopia they are likely to continue to risk everything and flee the country.
The Youth Offending Board says there is a shortage of places in London and the South East.
It plans to build new accommodation and education blocks at Cookham Wood, taking its capacity from 131 to 208.
Andrew Neilson from the Howard League said the centre had major problems and it should be managing those rather than creating the capacity for more issues.
He said: "A 15 year-old took his own life in the prison.
"There are a succession of inspection reports which have said that this is a prison with which has had major problems.
"There are reports of widespread bullying, physical assault and we don't think it's appropriate to be expanding a prison which has these kind of problems."
Proposals for the expansion of Cookham Wood form part of a document published by the Youth Justice Board which outlines its plans until 2015.
Frances Done, chair of the Youth Justice Board, said that much work was being done in Cookham Wood to stop young people re-offending.
She said: "What we want to do is make sure that they have a really rigorous regime, that there is a very strong programme of education and training and that they get the chance to work through their offending behaviour.
"Getting them to think about what they are going to do when they go out and support them in being resettled - so back into school back into a job or training apprenticeship.
"It's about trying to give them the opportunity to see that there is another life that is worth living which does not involve crime.
"That way you help them but also you reduce the amount of crime in local communities which is obviously what we are all trying to achieve."
The comedian - who's recently thrown himself into political activism - was viewed "negatively" by 46% of those polled.
However, 13% valued his contribution - a higher figure than George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio or Bono.
The St Trinian's star has been energetically spreading his message.
He's appeared on Newsnight, sparring with both Jeremy Paxman and Evan Davis. He also joined social housing protests in London, as well as the anti-austerity Million Mask March in London on 5 November.
Brand's latest book, Revolution, explains his ideas about the economy, inequality and democracy. Buzzfeed asked an expert on politics, Professor Chandran Kukathas, to look at some of those theories.
"I'm sure Mr Brand's heart is in the right place. I'm now less confident about his head," said the professor. "That is a pity, because artists can do more than entertain if they are genuinely thoughtful."
Most recently Brand was mocked on social media for sounding like Phil Daniels from Blur's 1994 hit, Parklife.
He later released his own version of the song, tackling income inequality, corporations not paying taxes and the "ineffective media".
In it he hit back at his critics, speak-singing: "You can't be polysyllabic or talk about important things unless you went to school in a top hat and tails... Eton!"
The YouGov poll, which surveyed 2,143 UK adults between 10 and 11 November, saw Angelina Jolie and Bob Geldof rank top in terms of "positive" political influence.
Full plans for Band Aid 30 were announced on 10 November, with One Direction, Ed Sheeran and Emeli Sande collaborating with Geldof for the fourth version of Do They Know its Christmas? All money raised will go to combat the Ebola crisis in west Africa.
Angelina Jolie is a special envoy for refugee issues for the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). She also co-chaired the End Sexual Violence in Conflict global summit earlier this year.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube
Journalists in Croke Park felt the score in Croke Park was 2-17 to 1-20 which would have meant extra-time.
But Meath were presented with the cup as the Antrim county team's malaise of recent times continued.
Sean Quigley hit a late 1-1 to spark Meath celebrations.
However, the doubts over the scoreline suggest that this fixture may not be quite over yet.
Antrim appeared totally in control early on as Conor Johnston's 15th-minute goal and scores from Niall McKenna, James Connolly and Ciaran Clarke helped them lead 1-7 to 0-1 after 19 minutes.
However, four James Toher points saw Meath cutting Antrim's lead to 1-10 to 0-7 by the interval.
Meath were right in the contest five minutes after the restart as Neil Heffernan smashed in a superb goal.
However, Antrim seemed to have regained the initiative as four successive points - including two Eddie McCloskey efforts - left them five ahead.
However, points from Joe Keenan and Adam Gannon kept Meath very much in touch before substitute Quigley's late scores saw the Royals snatching the county's first Christy Ring Cup title.
Armagh suffered a second straight Nicky Rackard Cup final defeat as Mayo earned a 2-16 to 1-15 victory.
Kenny Feeney starred with a 1-9 haul for the Connacht men as they headed west with the silverware
Darren McTigue's third-minute goal gave Mayo a great start before David Carvill, Ryan Gaffney and skipper Cathal Carvill responded with Armagh scores.
Mayo regrouped to lead by four but Armagh fought back to trail by the minimum, 0-9 to 1-5, at the interval.
Armagh took the lead straight after the restart as Eoin McGuinness finishing clinically to the net after Coulter had made a searing run through the heart of the Mayo defence.
Mayo responded with three points in the spin from Shane Boland, Feeney and substitute Fergal Boland had them back level.
Armagh eased back in front through Coulter and Gaffney, but Mayo found another gear, with Cathal Freeman and Keith Higgins providing the impetus from deep.
In the 57th minute Feeney banged in a goal, but Armagh responded with three more points, the best of them from Coulter, brought the sides level.
However, that was as good as it got for Armagh as Feeney, Sean Regan and substitute Corey Scahill hit spectacular points to clinch Mayo's win.
Richard Safadi, 47, of Carmarthen, and Mandy Galinsky, 53, of Ammanford, charged customers more than £1.6m in VAT but only gave £40,000 to HMRC.
The pair, directors of Penybanc Car Sales and Ammanford Metal Recycling, spent the money on holidays and cars.
On Wednesday, they were given suspended sentences at Swansea Crown Court.
A HMRC investigation found Safadi had failed to file a single tax return on his personal income, despite becoming a millionaire.
He stole more than £280,000 in tax that should have been passed on to HMRC.
Galinsky claimed she had not earned a penny since 2009, but investigators found she had earned more than £500,000 and kept the £230,000 she should have paid in tax.
They also pocketed £640,000 in Corporation Tax - in total, stealing £2,786,374.
The court heard they enjoyed "lavish lifestyles" with all their personal expenses, including on holidays, credit card bills and loan agreements for their vehicles - paid out of company expenses.
Both had rental properties, holiday homes in Kenya and drove high-end cars including Range Rovers, Bentleys, a BMW and a Rolls Royce.
Colin Spinks, assistant director of HMRC's fraud investigation service, said the pair stole an "extraordinary amount of cash to fund lifestyles most people can only dream of".
He said: "Between them, the pair took advantage of the tax system at every opportunity and stole money from where it was intended - funding vital public services."
The pair pleaded guilty in August 2016 to failing to pay the correct tax for their used car dealership and scrap metal company, or pay the tax due on their personal income.
Safadi, who has paid back nearly £890,000, was sentenced to 24 months in jail, suspended for two years.
Galinsky was sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for 18 months.
Halep, 25, is viewed as one of the favourites after winning the Madrid Open and reaching the Rome Open final.
Ninth seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland was stunned 6-2 6-1 by French world number 43 Alize Cornet.
In the men's draw, Swiss third seed Stan Wawrinka beat Fabio Fognini 7-6 (7-2) 6-0 6-2 to reach the last 16.
Halep to meet Suarez Navarro in last 16
Halep initially threatened to cruise past Kasatkina as she won the opening set in 30 minutes, only for the 20-year-old Russian to fight back in the second.
Trailing 3-1, Kasatkina won the next four games to move 5-3 ahead before Halep regained control to progress on her fourth match point.
"I played really well at the beginning," Halep said.
"She was coming back really strongly and I think my energy went a bit down. She's a really tough opponent."
Carla Suarez Navarro, the Spanish 21st seed, set up a meeting with Halep with a 6-4 6-4 win over 14th seed Elena Vesnina of Russia.
Former Wimbledon finalist Radwanska, 28, failed to win any of her seven service games as Cornet ensured there will be a French woman in the quarter-finals for the first time since Marion Bartoli in 2011.
Cornet, 27, meets compatriot Caroline Garcia for a place in the last eight.
Garcia needed more than two and a half hours to win 6-4 4-6 9-7 against Taiwanese Hsieh Su-wei, who beat British number one Johanna Konta in the first round.
Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki resumed her match against 18-year-old American Catherine Bellis after rain stopped play on Friday night, the Dane going to complete a 6-2 2-6 6-3 win.
Wawrinka, 32, is yet to drop a set at Roland Garros this year as he looks to emulate his 2015 triumph.
The Swiss third seed looked in danger of doing that in the opening set against Fognini, but the Italian 28th seed failed to serve out and then lost a one-sided tie-break.
Fognini, 30, had won two of his three matches against top-five opponents this year, beating then fourth-ranked Kei Nishikori in Miami and world number one Andy Murray in Rome.
But he capitulated after losing the first set to Wawrinka, failing to take a game in the second as he served up five double faults and produced several wayward forehands.
Fognini saved two match points at 5-2 in the third, before the Swiss fired down an unreturnable serve on the third.
"It was a very good first set and I was a bit hesitant, but after that I relaxed," Wawrinka said.
"I am playing very well at the moment but we all know how that can go in a Grand Slam. Each game gets more difficult."
Croatian seventh seed Marin Cilic eased to a 6-1 6-3 6-3 victory over Spain's Feliciano Lopez.
Alexander Perepilichnyy, 44, collapsed and died while jogging near his home in Weybridge, Surrey, in November 2012.
Traces of a chemical linked to a plant-based poison were found in his stomach.
Mr Perepilichnyy, a commodity dealer and trader, had been helping a specialist investment firm uncover a $230m (£150m) Russian money-laundering operation shortly before his death.
The inquest will try to establish if he was unlawfully killed and, if so, who may have been responsible.
His widow Tatiana Perepilichnaya gave evidence at the Old Bailey behind a screen in order to protect her identity.
The mother of two denied her husband had fallen out with an "organised crime syndicate in Russia" and said they moved to England for a change of lifestyle.
"I know if there were any threats or problems Alexander would have told me.
"In 20 years of marriage Alexander never had bodyguard or security, so our life in Russia and our life in England never varied. It's the same."
She said she was unaware of a man taking out an advert in Russia in 2011 accusing her husband of cheating him out of "a lot of money".
Mr Perepilichnyy was a dealer on the Russian stock exchange, the court heard.
Mrs Perepilichnaya said: "I just knew he was interested in that business. I didn't know what commodity meant."
The Russian was originally thought to have died of natural causes, but traces of a chemical that can be found in the poisonous plant Gelsemium elegans were later found in his stomach.
At an earlier hearing, Hermitage Capital Management claimed Mr Perepilichnyy may have been killed for helping it uncover hundreds of millions of US dollars in a Russian money-laundering operation.
A pre-inquest review in January 2016 was told Mr Perepilichnyy's death had parallels with the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
Another hearing in June of the same year was told Interpol had been investigating Mr Perepilichnyy's suspected previous involvement with Russian criminal gangs.
The inquest is expected to last three weeks.
"I think," he says, "I've cracked my rib."
Kerr sustained his injury "falling off the drum riser" in Brighton during the band's first show in 18 months, the night before our interview - but he's surprisingly blasé about it.
"I had enough whiskey to fall asleep," he grins, "and a good friend of mine is a paramedic, so I had a shower at my house and went to see him.
"I'm sure it's fine."
It's not the first time the band have been maimed in the line of duty. On their first UK tour four years ago, drummer Ben Thatcher dislocated his finger in the middle of a show.
"He just got some gaffer tape and gaffered his two fingers together and played the rest of the set," Kerr says, matter-of-factly.
Later, on a US tour, their sound technician "lost a testicle", requiring emergency surgery. The details of that trauma are not up for discussion.
Hopefully, then, the band will remain injury-free in the run-up to Glastonbury, where they're third on Friday's main stage bill, just behind Radiohead and The xx.
"Glastonbury is such a big deal," marvels Thatcher. "The Pyramid Stage is the biggest stage in the world."
The set will rely heavily on their second album, How Did We Get So Dark?, released this Friday. It's a record that takes their rampaging rock riffs and pushes them in unexpected directions.
Lead single Lights Out contains bursts of 1970s T-Rex backing vocals, while the piano-led Hole In Your Heart reflects the band's love of R&B.
The BBC sat down with the duo to talk about the perks of fame; the perils of touring; and why they have "a delicate sound". Here are six of their best stories.
Recording How Did We Get So Dark? gave the band the opportunity to experiment with new sounds and techniques. It did not go well.
"One thing we learned is we have quite a delicate sound and once you add things - the wrong things - our whole sound sort of shrivels," says Mike. "Or it capsizes and it doesn't sound like us any more. We've realised a lot of the identity of our music is when me and Ben play together."
"Even the backing vocals - we did try having girls come in and sing, but it just didn't work. It had to be my voice. It had to be just about me and Ben."
Royal Blood are a compact unit. Ben plays drums. Mike plays bass and sings. For some reason, though, this set-up has mystified journalists everywhere.
"'Why are you just a two-piece band?'" Mike sighs. "We get asked that all the time. I guarantee Kings Of Leon have never been asked why they're a quartet."
"Our whole two-piece thing really was not thought about at all," he explains. "Once I plugged in [the bass] and showed Ben the sound, it was like, 'Cool, let's write the songs'.
"I wasn't thinking, 'what if it wasn't just the two of us?'"
"Making a record and writing for that long, you kind of forget what you're doing. And the whole premise of our band is that we're a live band. That's Royal Blood in its purest form."
As they toured the world, Royal Blood picked up a few celebrity hangers-on. After a show in San Franciso, Metallica's Lars Ulrich knocked on their dressing room door, bundled them into the back of a car and gave them a tour of his hometown.
When Ben turned 27, Led Zeppelin star Jimmy Page turned up to his birthday party and ate an apple crumble.
Best of all, the drummer was invited to play Tommy Lee's giant "drum rollercoaster," which travelled, upside down above the audience's heads on Motley Crue's 2015 farewell tour.
"It's insane. He's insane," laughs Ben. "I went down to Wembley Arena, they strapped me in and then, when it started going up, I just thought, 'What am I doing?'
"I hadn't thought about it properly. I was like, 'This is going to be so much fun' and then it was terrifying."
Still, he managed to compose himself and thrash out a few solos.
"It's a different kind of playing. When you're upside down you're fighting the gravity. But it's a roller-coaster. The adrenalin lets you do things that you can't normally do."
Back in 2015, Mike told Q Magazine he'd written "about 50" new songs for Royal Blood's second album. A claim which turns out to have been a big fat whopper.
"I said that two days after we came off tour," he laughs. "They went, 'How many songs have you written?' and I said 50.
"I thought it was funny because we'd only been working on the album for two days."
In the end, though, the band wrote more than that, recording a procession of demos and rough drafts in a rehearsal space in Burbank, Los Angeles.
"A lot of our songs start as very small ideas - something as little as a drumbeat or a riff," says Mike. "Anything creative gets recorded, basically.
"We build a library of ideas, and the ones that really get into our heads and stick around, we usually see them through and build them into songs."
Cracked ribs and broken fingers aside, the band have upped the stakes at their live shows by trying to replicate the layered textures of their second album.
"I was worried we'd snookered ourselves," admits Mike, "I considered getting other musicians in, and then Ben saved the day. It's so impressive when you watch it."
On stage, the drummer not only has to play his own, intricate rhythm tracks, but triggers all the sampled backing vocals and sound effects that pepper the new record.
He does this without playing to a click-track, locked to the tempo of the recorded elements, to stop him drifting out of time.
"There's one sample that's 16 bars long," says Mike, looking worried by the mere thought of it. "It's a long, slow pitch bend that if you play the song too fast, you miss it.
"But Ben's a wizard, so that helps."
"We've stopped playing some of the songs from the first album," says Mike. "There's a few that we've grown out of. There might be the odd lyric that I wouldn't say any more. I guess I don't agree with myself like I used to!"
In fact, confesses Ben, they dropped Careless during their 2015 tour, despite only having 10 songs to choose for the set list from their debut album.
"It is a good song," he says. "We just don't get the buzz from playing it live."
Similarly, Ten Tonne Skeleton, frequently a highlight of their live shows "isn't much fun to play, for some reason".
"It's quite laborious," says Mike, "but as soon as we start into it, you see the crowd go nuts, and that's a real buzz."
How Did We Get So Dark? is released on Friday, 16 June.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected].
The man, aged in his 40s, died at the scene as he was working in a field near Okehampton in Devon, said police.
Police, who only revealed details of the incident on Tuesday, said the death on 26 July was not being treated as suspicious and a file was being prepared for the coroner.
The local man's family had been informed and the Health and Safety Executive was investigating.
More on the hay bale death, plus more Devon and Cornwall news
Germany's biggest lender is facing a $14bn (£10.8bn; €12.5bn) bill for mis-selling mortgage-backed bonds before the financial crisis of 2008.
In the worst-case scenario, the government would even take a 25% stake in the bank, according to the article.
Deutsche Bank has denied the report.
In a statement, the German finance ministry stressed: "This report is false. The federal government is preparing no rescue plans. There is no reason for such speculation. The bank has said that clearly."
Die Zeit wrote that "despite earlier denials", the rescue plans were being prepared and would come into force if the bank needed additional capital to pay the fine and could not raise the money from the markets.
The record fine was imposed by the US Department of Justice earlier this month and is nearly triple the amount Deutsche had put aside to cover the payout.
The level of the fine is seen as an opening gambit and it is not expected that the bank will have to actually pay $14bn. Chief executive John Cryan told the Bild newspaper that it had been clear from the beginning that the bank would not pay that amount.
Under the rescue plan, Die Zeit said, if the bank really could not pay the fine by itself, then it would be able to sell parts of its business to other financial institutions at prices set at such a level that the burden on Deutsche was eased and it would not make any significant losses.
That could happen, said the newspaper, if the businesses were going to have to be sold at clearly less than their value. In an emergency, those transactions could be supported by state guarantees, it added.
Separately, on Wednesday, Phoenix Group Holdings, the UK's biggest owner of life assurance funds closed to new customers, announced it would buy Deutsche Bank's UK insurance business Abbey Life Assurance for £935m ($1.22bn).
Die Zeit also made clear that the government still hoped the bank would be able to manage without state backing.
Shares in Deutsche are down by more than 50% this year. On Monday and Tuesday, they fell to new lows as a result of concerns about how it will manage the fine. But in Wednesday trading, they rose by more than 2.5%.
The Fettercairn Jewel - an enamelled gold pendant locket set - dates from 1570-80.
It was from the private collection of the Forbes family whose ancestral home is Fettercairn House in Aberdeenshire.
The pre-sale estimate at Sotheby's was £30,000-50,000, however the final price was driven by a bidding battle to £236,750.
The Fettercairn Jewel would have been worn as a pendant on a chain.
The image on the reverse centres on the figure of Mercury.
David Forsyth, principal curator of the Scottish history and archaeology department at National Museums Scotland said: "The Fettercairn Jewel is a rare and outstanding piece of Scottish Renaissance jewellery.
"The purchase of this piece will significantly enhance the national collections and present new insights into the magnificence of the Renaissance in Scotland."
David Macdonald, Sotheby's specialist in charge of the sale, said it was "lovely to think" the Fettercairn Jewel had been found a Scottish home.
Art Fund, National Lottery and National Museums Scotland Charitable Trust funding was said to have made the purchase possible.
Omar Khadr was convicted by a US military commission in 2010 of killing a US soldier in Afghanistan.
Canadian-born, he agreed a plea deal to leave Guantanamo and serve the majority of his eight-year sentence there.
Judge June Ross Ross said the appeal was likely to succeed and keeping him in jail was not in the public interest.
Khadr will not released until a hearing on 5 May to determine the bail conditions.
The Canadian government has opposed his petition for bail, arguing that it would undermine Canada's international obligations.
"We have vigorously defended against any attempt to lessen his punishment," said Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney.
Now 28, Khadr was the youngest prisoner ever detained at Guantanamo Bay. This will be first time he has not been behind bars since he was 15, having spent a decade at the prison in Cuba.
He was convicted of five crimes, including throwing a grenade when he was 15 years old that killed Army Sgt Christopher Speer in Afghanistan.
Khadr was shot and captured during the 2002 firefight.
After eight years in custody he pleaded guilty and agreed a plea deal in 2010 that stipulated he serve one year of his eight-year sentence at the US naval base in Cuba.
He now says he only pleaded guilty in order to leave the Guantanamo Bay prison.
"Omar is fortunate to be back in Canada where we have real courts and real laws," said Nate Whitling, one of Khadr's lawyers.
Canada declined to intervene in Khadr's Guantanamo trial, despite federal court rulings in Ottawa that his rights were violated when Canadian agents interrogated him at Guantanamo Bay.
The Khadrs have been called Canada's "first family of terror".
Omar Khadr's father, an associate of Osama Bin Laden, took the family to Peshawar in Pakistan to support the Afghan mujahideen in their war against the Soviet Union when Khadr was an infant. The father died in a firefight with Pakistani troops near the Afghan border in 2003.
One brother is paralysed from the waist down after being wounded in that same battle. Another has just been released from jail in Toronto after successfully fighting extradition to the US on terror charges.
Omar Khadr's sister, Zaynab, and his mother, Maha, are well known in Canada for their radical views.
Apophis - named after the Egyptian demon of destruction and darkness - has been put on a watch list by scientists.
They have calculated that in 2036 there is a very small chance it could collide with our planet.
However, its current fly-by is at a safe distance of about 14 million km - but this is close enough for astronomers to study the space rock and assess its future risk.
Apophis will not be visible with the naked eye, but space enthusiasts can watch it online via the Slooh space camera's website.
Collision course?
The large rocky mass was first discovered in 2004. At the time, it raised alarm when scientists calculated that it had a one-in-45 chance of smashing into the Earth in 2029.
Later revisions, lifted this threat; instead on the Friday 13 April 2029, it will make a close pass at a distance of about 30,000km.
However, astronomers say there is still a one-in-200,000 chance that it could strike Earth in 2036.
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queen's University Belfast, UK, said: "In 2029, it will pass so close to us that Earth's gravity will change its orbit.
"Most of the potential orbits it will end up on will mean we are safe for the next 100 years. But there is a small region of space - something we call a keyhole - and if it passes through that keyhole in 2029, it will come back and hit us on 13 April in 2036."
If this happened, it would strike the Earth with 100 times the energy in our largest nuclear bombs, said Prof Fitzsimmons.
Future hazards
Astronomers are using the current close encounter as an opportunity to study the asteroid, so they can improve their calculations to predict its future path.
Prof Fitzsimmons said: "While [the asteroid] is relatively close to the Earth, astronomers can ping it with radar. Radar measurements are incredibly accurate: we get the distance to the asteroid very, very precisely, and we can also get its velocity relative to us. And these two things let us pin its orbit down very precisely. "
Researchers are becoming increasingly interested in potentially hazardous asteroids.
So far they have counted more than 9,000 near-Earth asteroids, and they spot another 800 new space rocks on average each year.
Prof Fitzsimmons said learning more about them was vital.
"At some point, we are going to find an asteroid big enough that it could cause damage at ground level if we let it hit," he explained.
"So we should find these objects, we should track them, work out where they are going - and if they stand a chance of hitting us, do something about it."
Three locations in Maesteg were hit on Thursday evening, according to South Wales Fire and Rescue Service.
Four properties are understood to have been flooded on Church Street along with a restaurant on Commercial Street.
The fire service said the flooding had subsided by about 20:30 BST.
The campaign began with a series of tweets from activist Jack Posobiec, who claimed the writers changed the film to add scenes linking Mr Trump to racism.
Screenwriter Chris Weitz said that this was "completely fake", though he and another writer have tweeted their opposition to the US president-elect.
#DumpStarWars has been retweeted 120,000 times in the past 24 hours.
In a Periscope video, Jack Posobiec, who is an activist with Citizens for Trump, claimed the writers had said the Empire in the film "is a white supremacist organisation like the Trump administration and the diverse rebels are going to defeat them".
"They're trying to make the point of using this movie to push the false narrative... that Trump is a racist." he said.
The basis of the claims appears to be tweets sent by Mr Weitz and fellow screenwriter Gary Whitta.
Following Mr Trump's election win in November, Mr Weitz posted: "Please note that the Empire is a white supremacist (human) organisation."
Mr Whitta responded: "Opposed by a multi-cultural group led by brave women."
Both tweets were deleted within the day and Chris Weitz later apologised for politicising the film.
In the wake of the election, both writers also changed their Twitter avatars to the symbol of the Rebel Alliance, with a safety pin - a symbol which has been adopted in support of minorities.
And Gary Whitta had previously apparently referred to Trump as a "Nazi":
The #DumpStarWars hashtag quickly harnessed plenty of support:
But was also widely mocked:
The film premieres next week in the US.
Donald Trump has 17 million followers on Twitter.
Among them are a group of vocal supporters who frequently champion him and are quick to denigrate those who oppose or criticise him.
#DumpStarWars is only the latest in a series of online campaigns they have launched.
In the last few weeks, there have also been calls to boycott the cereal company Kelloggs, Starbucks and the musical Hamilton.
A handful of accounts are frequently retweeted in the thousands.
They tend belong to people who work in the media, managing websites or producing other media supporting Trump.
The most high-profile is Briton Paul Joseph Watson, an editor at Infowars, a website that has published outlandish conspiracy theories including one claiming Hillary Clinton has a secret "satanic network".
The tone of their tweets is frequently combative and polemical. They are quick to bait "liberals" or "social justice warriors" but not averse to a bit of martyrdom either, frequently decrying the MSM - mainstream media - as liars that victimise Mr Trump.
One conspiracy theory based on fake news which was popular among them, #pizzagate, led a man to fire a rifle in a restaurant linked to it this week.
For more on social media reaction to this story and others, read our daily Social Buzz
|
Donald Trump said women who have abortions should be punished, he made crude insinuations about a TV anchor's menstrual cycle and he doesn't change nappies or do bedtimes.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Alton Towers will remain closed until the cause of a rollercoaster crash that left 16 people injured is discovered, the theme park's boss has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Gerry Adams has led Sinn Féin, Northern Ireland second biggest political party, since 1983.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A self-confessed heroin addict has been cleared of murdering a Fife man and robbing him of drugs and money.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Queen's Park extended their unbeaten run to five matches but had to settle for a draw against Montrose.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An ex-soldier has appeared in court in Armagh charged over the killing of a man with learning difficulties in 1974.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A jury in the case of two men accused of trying to smuggle themselves out of the UK to fight in Syria has been discharged after a retrial was ordered.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An MP has said it was "inhuman" that a murderer who killed his former partner tried to use the family courts to gain access to their baby.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Three baby Sumatran tiger cubs have been born at Chester Zoo.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
"No real progress" is being made to address gender inequality in sport, says a body set up to get more women into leadership roles.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Women's Super League One club Arsenal Ladies have signed Doncaster Rovers Belles goalkeeper Anna Moorhouse.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Hull captain Gareth Ellis will be fighting a battle with his own emotions when he leads his side out in the Challenge Cup final at Wembley.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The current system of social care in Scotland is "unsustainable" and an additional £667m will be needed by 2020 to maintain levels of service.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
"I think Peter Crouch is probably the most hated Englishman in the history of Trinidad and Tobago because of that goal."
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Cambridge United scored twice in 90 seconds to beat Barnet and record a fifth win in six league games.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Seven out of 10 of the council wards with the slowest download speeds are in Wales, figures from the House of Commons library have shown.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The death of a vulnerable man in a fire at his seventh floor flat was an accident, an inquest has heard.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The exodus from Eritrea is complicating Europe's efforts to tackle the Mediterranean migrant crisis.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Prison reformers have criticised plans to increase the capacity of a young offenders institute in Rochester.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Russell Brand is the celebrity seen as having the most "negative influence" on political debate, according to a YouGov poll of 2,000 people.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Antrim suffered a last-gasp 2-18 to 1-20 defeat by Meath in the Christy Ring Cup final but the game ended amid confusion with suggestions that the score had been miscalculated.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Company directors from Carmarthenshire defrauded the taxman out of £2.7m to fund extravagant lifestyles, a court has heard.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Romanian third seed Simona Halep sealed her place in the French Open fourth round with a 6-0 7-5 win over Russia's Daria Kasatkina.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The widow of a Russian whistleblower who may have been poisoned has told an inquest he never feared for his life.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
"Check this out," says Royal Blood's frontman, Mike Kerr, pulling up his t-shirt to reveal a throbbing purple bruise.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A farm worker has been crushed to death by a round hay bale.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The German government and financial authorities are working on a rescue plan for Deutsche Bank in case it cannot pay fines in the US, according to Die Zeit newspaper.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 16th Century Scottish jewel has been bought at auction by National Museums Scotland for more than £200,000.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Canadian court has granted bail to a former Guantanamo Bay detainee until he completes his appeal against his US conviction.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 300 metre-wide asteroid is making a close pass to the Earth.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Flash flooding has affected several properties in Bridgend county.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Supporters of Donald Trump are urging a boycott of the Star Wars film, Rogue One, due for US release next week.
| 35,912,640 | 16,348 | 947 | true |
Police said about 30 members of a white supremacist group were holding a rally outside the California State Capitol when about 400 counter-protesters turned up and fights broke out.
Nine men and one woman were treated for stab wounds, cuts and bruises, officials said.
No arrests have been reported so far.
Video posted on social media showed dozens of people, some wearing masks and wielding what appeared to be wooden bats, racing across the capitol grounds and attacking others.
The two people seriously wounded had suffered stab wounds, Sacramento Fire Department spokesman Chris Harvey said.
"There was a large number of people carrying sticks and rushing to either get into the melee or see what was going on," he said.
Matthew Heimbach, chairman of white supremacist group the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), told the Los Angeles Times that his group and the Golden State Skinheads had organised the rally.
He said one of their marchers had been stabbed in an artery and six of the counter-protesters had also been stabbed.
TWP vice chairman Matt Parrott, who was at the rally, blamed "leftist radicals" for the violence.
The TWP is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as the political wing of the Traditionalist Youth Network, which aims to "indoctrinate high school and college students into white nationalism".
|
At least 10 people have been wounded, two seriously, in clashes between right-wing extremists and counter-protesters in Sacramento, California.
| 36,637,376 | 310 | 34 | false |
The 41-year-old was walking in Laburnum Road, Cumbernauld, at about 16:10 on Sunday when a woman and two men approached him.
Police said he was a keen photographer and had his camera around his neck. It was stolen along with his mobile phone after he was assaulted.
The man was said to be in a stable condition at Monklands Hospital.
The female attacker was aged between 20 and 35, around 5ft 6in tall, with dark brown hair which was tied back in a ponytail. She was also wearing a turquoise tracksuit top.
The first man was between 30 and 35 with a slim build and short, dark brown hair. He was wearing a dark jacket and dark blue tracksuit bottoms.
The second man was between 30 and 40 with a medium build and bald head. He was wearing light-coloured clothing.
Det Sgt Iain Sneddon said: "This was a violent attack which left a man in hospital and inquiries are under way to trace the people involved.
"The victim is a keen photographer and had his camera around his neck at the time of the incident and I would appeal to anyone who may have seen him, or a group matching the above descriptions, to get in touch."
|
A man is being treated in hospital after he was attacked and robbed by three people in North Lanarkshire.
| 39,771,732 | 280 | 26 | false |
A contraflow system and a reduced speed limit will affect the A338 Spur Road over the two-week school holidays.
Dorset County Council said suspending the project for the break would "cost around four weeks of time, and would mean us finishing at the end of June".
The authority has advised motorists to "plan ahead".
The £22m project, which started in September, is due to finish at the end of May.
It involves a re-development of the route between the Ashley Heath Roundabout and Blackwater Junction.
|
Motorists are being warned to expect delays at Easter as diversions set up while the main route into Bournemouth is rebuilt will remain in place.
| 35,840,520 | 116 | 33 | false |
The 26-year-old joined the Swans in January from Italian side Chievo Verona and scored two goals in 10 appearances for the club.
The former AC Milan striker's transfer will be completed on 1 July.
"Everyone at Swansea City would like to thank Alberto for his services and wish him well for the future," a statement on the club's website said.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
|
Swansea City forward Alberto Paloschi has left the club to join Serie A side Atalanta for an undisclosed fee.
| 36,559,292 | 98 | 34 | false |
It was a tight first half at 18-12 despite Leeds outscoring Giants four tries to two, as Ashton Golding added just one goal to those scores.
Danny Brough and Carl Ablett were sin-binned for a scuffle after the break.
Jordan Baldwinson's late try was a rare bright spot in a scruffy second 40 that saw Giants kept scoreless.
Brian McDermott's Leeds were mauled 66-10 by Castleford four games ago but the response ever since has been excellent, and they exuded confidence in attack and defence to end the Giants' three-game derby winning streak.
For Rick Stone there will be frustration the Giants could not turn some of their possession into points in a dogged second period, and they have lost three of the past four games.
The visitors made a bright start when wingers Tom Briscoe and Ryan Hall notched a try apiece to go 10-0 ahead but Ukuma Ta'ai and Jermaine McGillvary tries put the Giants in front.
It was the only time the hosts would lead as Leeds responded when Ablett and Matt Parcell's scores restored the lead.
The sin-binning summed up the second period, which was a combination of Leeds' defence, Giants' inability to execute and far too many errors.
Baldwinson's late score on the back of Golding and Liam Sutcliffe penalty goals gave Leeds' travelling support extra cheer and the score-line a slightly flattering look.
Huddersfield Giants head coach Rick Stone: "It's a disappointment, we were in the contest for the majority of the game. We started a little bit slow but we got on even terms.
"The Danny Brough sin-bin didn't help our cause. I thought there were some tries there if we could hang on to the ball but we made 10 second-half errors which makes it tough to win matches. We didn't give ourselves a chance.
"In the last 20 minutes we defended our line really strongly and Leeds gave us some respect by kicking a couple of penalty goals. They managed the game better than us at the crucial times."
Leeds Rhinos head coach Brian McDermott: "We'll savour that. It's a decent position to be in but I don't think we're rolling our shoulders at being there after the last 18 months. We've a big one at our place next Friday against Wigan.
"It was an ugly game for both teams. I don't think anybody enjoyed it. I won't be too down about it, though. We got penalised a lot in the first half and that takes so much juice out of you. I don't think we got any rhythm or momentum back and the game became a scrappy, stop-start affair.
"They probably let us off the hook with their finishing but I suppose we were just good enough defensively to come away with the win. We weren't as good with the ball as last week but it's good that we can defend our way to a win."
Huddersfield Giants: McIntosh; McGillvary, Cudjoe, Mellor, Murphy; Brough, Gaskell; Rapira, Leeming, Ikahihifo, Ferguson, Ta'ai, Clough
Replacements: Hinchcliffe, Wakeman, Roberts, Smith
Leeds Rhinos: Golding; T. Briscoe, Watkins, Keinhorst, Hall; McGuire, Moon; Baldwinson, Parcell, Cuthbertson, Ablett, Ferres, Jones-Buchanan
Replacements: Burrow, Sutcliffe, Garbutt, Mullally
Daniel Morgan, from Llanfrechfa, near Cwmbran, was found outside a London pub in 1987 after an axe attack.
His family claim he was on the verge of exposing police corruption.
The police have been criticised in the past over their handling of the case and an independent panel, set up in 2013 to look at it, wants more help.
Panel chairwoman Baroness O'Loan said: "As we approach the 28th anniversary of Daniel Morgan's murder the panel would like to hear from anyone who believes they may have information which is relevant to its work.
"If you believe you have any such information, no matter how insignificant it may seem, please contact the panel."
Scottish Water said the issue in Uig, North and South Lochs and Achmore was resolved .
It followed reports of an "unusual microbiology result".
A spokesman for Scottish Water said: "We want to thank the affected customers for their patience and understanding over the past few days."
He added: "Public health is of paramount importance and that is why we have such robust procedures to monitor and analyse water quality.
"Our staff on the Isle of Lewis have worked round the clock to make sure this problem has been resolved as quickly as possible."
The advice to boil water was issued on Saturday and taken following consultation between the company and NHS Western Isles.
Customers had been advised to boil water for drinking, preparing food, babies' feeds and disinfecting feeding equipment, cleaning teeth, pet food and drink, and washing open wounds.
The 24-year-old escaped the peloton on the penultimate climb for a solo finish on the 193.5km route from Aubagne to Fayence.
Yates finished 17 seconds clear, leaving him one minute and 37 seconds behind leader Julian Alaphilippe who retained the yellow jersey.
"I was just full gas to the finish, I gave everything I had," he said.
The Orica-Scott rider added: "I was still quite far down in the general classification before today so I had some freedom.
"I expected some guys to come with me and work together for the finish but I found myself on my own."
The race concludes on Sunday.
In separate tests in mice and people, empathy towards strangers increased when stress hormones were blocked by a drug.
Playing a fun video game with a stranger was found to have a similar effect to the drug.
The Canadian and American research team published their findings in Current Biology.
Previous studies have shown that the ability to feel or share someone else's pain is not something unique to humans. Mice can feel empathy too.
But in both species, empathy is stronger between those that recognise each other and all but absent between those unfamiliar with each other.
Stress levels have also been shown to rise in both mice and people in the presence of strangers.
In this study, researchers treated mice with a stress-blocking drug and watched their response when confronted with other mice in pain.
They found that the mice became more empathetic and more compassionate to strangers, reacting in a way they would normally react to familiar mice.
When the mice were put under stress, they showed less empathy towards other mice in pain.
Tests in undergraduate students using the same drug showed exactly the same effect, the study said.
They were asked to rate the pain of a friend or stranger whose hand was plunged into ice cold water for 30 seconds.
Students who took the drug reported feeling the pain of a stranger more deeply than those who did not take it.
They also showed more pained facial expressions and touched their own hands more when watching someone else in pain.
Dr Jeffrey Mogil, study author and neuroscientist from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, said his team's findings suggest that the stress system in the brain can have a "veto" on our empathy system.
"Yet few people would realise that there is a stress response when you're in a room with a person you don't know," he added.
However, he discovered that the key to reducing stress levels quickly was to play a simple ice-breaking game.
In the study, some students who did not know each other played a fun video game which required them to work together to play well-known songs.
"By the time it came to the test, there was no longer any stress," Dr Mogil said.
He also said it was intriguing that the impact of stress on empathy appeared to be identical in mice and humans.
"This suggests either that mice are more complicated than we think or that the principle underlying human social interactions is simpler than we think.
"When it comes to social behaviour, mice are people too."
The SoloSnack-branded products, which are produced by Eat & Go Co in Kirkcaldy, issued the voluntary recall on Saturday.
However, on Monday, Food Standards Scotland officials found the shelf life of the food was still being extended.
People have been told to return them to the shop they bought them from.
The products are thought to have reached shops in Edinburgh, Fife and Dundee.
The SoloSnack range includes Scotch pies, curry pies, steak pies, sausage rolls, steak bridies, mince bridies, Cornish pasties and mixed vegetable pies.
It also includes sandwiches with fillings such as chicken mayo, egg mayonnaise, tuna mayonnaise and ham and cheese.
Further SoloSnack products include broccoli and lentil slices, chilli bean slices, tuna pasta salads, pasta bakes, cheese burgers and microwavable ready meals.
Eat & Go Co managing director Naji Yassen said he was told for the first time on Friday the products should have a three-day shelf life, lower than the shelf life he has been operating under over several years.
He said such a shelf life would, in effect, mean the products are in the shops for one day only - a situation he said would mean there is "no way" his business could survive.
Mr Yassen said he had called in microbiologists to carry out testing on Wednesday and is hopeful the longer six-day shelf life will be reinstated following the results of those tests.
He claimed the health authorities were wrong to issue the notice, and added: "I feel absolutely upset and angry because I have been doing this for 20 years.
"We've had no problem whatsoever with anybody. How come all of a sudden the six days is too long?"
The Jet experiment in Oxfordshire was opened in 1984 to understand fusion - the process that powers the Sun.
Prof Steve Cowley told the BBC a go-ahead to run Jet at maximum power would allow scientists to try for the record by the end of the decade.
This could bring Jet up to the coveted goal of "breakeven" where fusion yields as much energy as it consumes.
Fusion is markedly different from current nuclear power, which operates through splitting atoms - fission - rather than squashing them together as occurs in fusion.
"We're hoping to repeat our world record shots and extend them," Prof Cowley, who is director of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy - which hosts Jet, told BBC News.
"Our world record was from 1997, we think we can improve on it quite considerably and get some really spectacular results. We're winding up to that and by the end of the decade we'll be doing it."
Despite its history spanning some five decades, scientists hoping to harness fusion have faced many hurdles. But it remains an attractive prospect because it can yield a near limitless supply of clean energy.
The fusion community hopes their luck could change when the multi-bn-euro Iter fusion experiment comes online in Cadarache, in the south of France, in the 2020s. And officials from Jet, based at Culham, Oxfordshire, are now in the process of signing a contract that will keep the facility running for another five years.
Jet (Joint European Torus) was the prototype for Iter and over its extended lifetime will effectively carry out a dress rehearsal for that much bigger reactor, which will aim to demonstrate the scientific viability of fusion power at scale.
Prof Cowley also hopes to use the additional five years to train up young scientists who could eventually take their expertise to Iter.
During Jet's extended run, scientists will again begin using the deuterium-tritium fuel mix needed for maximum fusion power. Until recently, scientists had been running the experiment using deuterium fuel only. While running the experiment in this mode allows scientists to gather valuable scientific knowledge, both deuterium and tritium will be needed to exceed the record set by the Oxfordshire facility 17 years ago.
"Jet is the only machine in the world that can handle that fuel. When you put tritium in, it reacts like crazy," said Prof Cowley.
Jet uses the same approach to fusion as Iter. This is known as magnetic confinement fusion (MCF), in which electrically charged gas called plasma is heated to millions of degrees inside a sealed tube called a "tokamak".
The temperature inside Jet during one of its full power shots can soar to a scorching 200 million C. That's more than 10 times the temperature at the centre of the Sun - estimated to be about 15 million C.
In 1997, scientists pushed 24MW of energy into Jet and managed to get 16MW out - a fusion energy gain of about 0.7. A fusion energy gain factor (known as Q) of greater than one is required to achieve "breakeven", where the amount of energy produced equals the amount of energy consumed.
However, higher gain factors are required to achieve self-sustaining fusion, where the reactions continue without any external input of energy.
"We hope in the next runs of Jet that we'll approach a gain of one. But that's no good for energy production - you need a gain of 10, 20, 30 - much more energy coming than you put in. That's what Iter will do," said Prof Cowley.
Jet was the result of a European plan for fusion power conceived in the 1970s. Recently, the machine has undergone a series of upgrades to bring components in line with those planned for Iter. In coming years, it will shed light on some of the challenges for making fusion a success.
"The plasma is spewing out tank shells of neutron particles. The neutrons that come out of fusion are 10 times more energetic than those coming out of nuclear fission," said Steve Cowley.
"When they slam into the walls [of the tokamak] they rearrange the atoms in those walls. The question is can we have a material that doesn't mind having its atoms rearranged 10 times a year?"
In magnetic confinement experiments the plasma can become unstable, causing fusion to break down. However, improving performance is partly a matter of scale - and as Iter is likely to demonstrate - bigger really is better, as far as fusion is concerned.
In November 2013, the European Parliament formally endorsed the European Commission's 80bn-euro Horizon 20-20 research budget. This encompasses funds of about 300m euros to keep Jet running. Officials are currently finalising details of the settlement, with a view to signing the contract soon.
The National Ignition Facility in the US recently made a fusion breakthrough of its own. NIF takes a different approach to fusion from that taken by Jet and Iter, concentrating laser energy on a hydrogen fuel pellet to initiate fusion.
During a run of the experiment in September 2013, the small amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel - a first at any fusion facility.
Follow Paul on Twitter.
They have asked the Scottish government to increase the minimum age at which children can be held responsible for crimes from eight to 12.
The charities said they were concerned about young children having a criminal record which could affect their future.
The Scottish government has pointed out that children under 12 are no longer prosecuted for criminal behaviour.
Anne Houston, the chief executive of Children 1st, said: "It's the Scottish government's ambition to make Scotland the best place for children to grow up: a country where they are protected, their rights are respected and support given where needed.
"Our organisations view raising the age of criminal responsibility for children as one of the key actions needed to help make this vision reality.
"In Scotland, we are rightly proud of the unique and progressive children's hearings system which addresses children's needs and deeds. Yet this approach is let down by legislation which effectively labels children as criminals."
The charities said further changes should be underpinned by legislation.
Ms Houston added: "Scottish Ministers have pledged to consider raising the age of criminal responsibility and to bring forward any legislative change in the lifetime of this parliament. We would like the Scottish government to act on this commitment by including an appropriate measure in the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill and are keen to discuss how this might be achieved."
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "We raised the minimum age of prosecution from eight to 12 in the Criminal Justice and Licensing Act 2010.
"We will consider calls for the minimum age of criminal responsibility to increase."
The 20-year-old, who is Irish qualified, comes in as competition for Paddy Jackson and fills the void left by the retirement of Ian Humphreys.
"He has undoubted potential, an array of skills and line-breaking ability," said Ulster director of rugby Les Kiss.
Meanwhile, Ulster academy fly-half Johnny McPhillips has been upgraded to a development contract.
"With the depth of International-class outhalves at Bath, Brett's opportunities have been limited to the 'A' team at Rosslyn Park, where he has excelled," added Kiss.
"Johnny McPhillips enjoyed a successful stint with Ireland U20s in this season's Six Nations Championship and that experience will stand him in good stead.
"He is mature well beyond his years and he has the right temperament and ability to succeed at the highest level.
"We would fully expect Paddy Jackson to be involved with Ireland squads in the coming years so the knock-on effect will be the requirement for Ulster to produce more Irish-qualified options at 10.
"Brett and Johnny are definitely two very exciting prospects."
The one-year extension was triggered by the full-back playing his 25th game of the season in the 1-0 win over Motherwell on Tuesday.
The 24-year-old joined the Premiership club permanently in the summer, having been on loan from Hibernian for the second half of last term.
He has been ever-present in Alan Archibald's side this season, playing every minute so far.
Caslavska won seven Olympic golds and four silvers between 1960 and 1968.
The Czech gymnast is one of just five women to win four golds in one Games, with American gymnast Simone Biles the most recent to do so in Rio.
A vocal critic of the Soviet Union, Caslavska was forced into hiding in 1968 after signing a document calling for political reforms.
The Two Thousand Words manifesto advocated change in Czechoslovakia but angered leaders in the neighbouring Soviet Union - which invaded the country two months later.
Caslavska fled to a mountain village but was later given permission to return to the Olympic team, which she did just weeks before the Mexico Olympics in the same year.
She went on to win gold in the vault, the individual all-round, the floor exercises and the uneven bars, before turning her head in silent protest during the Soviet Union national anthem.
After retiring from gymnastics, Caslavska served as president of the Czech Olympic Committee (COC), won the Pierre de Coubertin Prize for promoting fair play in 1989 and was also awarded the Olympic Order.
Her achievements in winning four golds at Mexico put her in exalted company, alongside Biles, Agnes Keleti and Larisa Latynina for Hungary and the Soviet Union respectively in 1956 and Romania's Ekaterina Szabo in 1984.
Jiri Kejval, president of the COC, said that Caslavska was "a fighter" and that she "died in her sleep".
In July, Leeds chief executive officer Ben Mansfield said Taylor did not want to sign a new contract at Elland Road.
The 22-year-old has been linked with moves to Premier League clubs West Brom, Burnley and Middlesbrough.
Meanwhile, Leeds have signed former Spain forward Pablo Hernandez on a six-month loan deal from Qatari side Al-Arabi with a view to a permanent move.
Hernandez played alongside Leeds head coach Garry Monk at Swansea between August 2012 and February 2014, when Monk was appointed as Swans head coach.
The 31-year-old moved to Qatar in July 2014, but spent last season on loan at Rayo Vallecano, who suffered relegation from La Liga.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Kristi Kafcaloudis was posing for a photo at Trolltunga or "troll's tongue" on Saturday when she fell hundreds of metres, local media said.
The Australian government on Tuesday said it was providing assistance to her family.
The cliff, visited by thousands of tourists annually, has no safety rail.
Ms Kafcaloudis started studying at the University of Bergen, in Norway, last month.
In a statement, the university said it had been notified by police on Sunday morning of the young woman's death in Western Norway.
Ms Kafcaloudis's Australian university released a statement saying it is "deeply saddened" by the news and was liaising with her family.
Monash University said Ms Kafcaloudis was an Arts Science double degree student at its Clayton campus.
In recent years, the cliff has become a beacon for thrill-seekers posing on the edge of the rock overhang, sometimes jumping in the air.
Last month, well-known UK adventurer Toby Segar, was photographed doing a backflip on the cliff's edge.
The former world number one knocked in six birdies in his five-under-par round to match South Africa's Branden Grace.
Englishman Donald, 38, who is without a PGA or European Tour win since 2012, has slipped to 95 in the world rankings and considered retirement last year.
Current world number one Jason Day bogeyed the last and is in a group of four one shot back.
It was the Australian's only dropped shot and came after he took an unplayable lie at the closing lighthouse hole.
Bryson DeChambeau, who posted the lowest amateur score at last week's Masters, shot a one-under 70 in his first round as a professional.
English trio Ian Poulter, Matthew Fitzpatrick and Greg Owen are alongside Scotland's Russell Knox on one over, while Paul Casey, who finished in the top five at Augusta, had three bogeys and a double bogey in his four over.
St Kilda: The Last and Outmost Isle draws on the most detailed archaeological survey of the archipelago ever undertaken.
It features rarely seen and previously unpublished photographs of its inhabitants, visitors and landscape.
People lived permanently on St Kilda for thousands of years until the last left 85 years ago.
St Kilda, a group of small islands and towering sea stacks, lies 40 miles (64km) west of North Uist in the Western Isles.
The book follows an eight-year survey and research programme by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) in partnership with National Trust for Scotland.
RCAHMS is now part of new body Historic Environment Scotland while the trust works with the Ministry of Defence and Scottish Natural Heritage in managing St Kilda, a designated World Heritage Site.
The book's authors, archaeologists George Geddes and Angela Gannon, have lived for months at a time on St Kilda and this has given them an understanding of what life was like for former inhabitants.
Mr Geddes said the islanders were often thought of as a "lost tribe", who escaped modern life until the last minute as "a virtue of their isolation and self-sufficiency".
He said: "Most of us have a romantic notion of St Kilda as a place apart, a place that is somehow different.
"Having read a book on the islands as a teenager, I first went there to escape from another job, and found that living there changed my life completely."
Mr Geddes said those who had lived on the islands on a more permanent basis were closely connected to communities in the Hebrides and west Highlands.
He said: "Their way of life was very similar to those living in the rest of the Western Isles.
"For all of the historical period, St Kilda was part of a farm with another island, Pabbay, and the islanders paid rent to the Macleod chiefs, much the same as any other Highland community.
"Of course, they were far more self-sufficient than you and I, but they were very much tuned into a complicated clan economy."
The book also explores islanders' use of almost every corner of the archipelago.
Growing crops and raising cattle and sheep, they also famously harvested seabirds for their meat, feathers and eggs from cliffs and sea stacks, such as 196m (643ft) Stac an Armin.
Since 1957, people have lived on the main island of Hirta on a temporary basis to operate a military radar station.
Hirta is also busy during the summer months with researchers, volunteers and tourists.
Among the book's rarely seen photographs are images taken by Scottish climber and broadcaster Tom Weir. They include pictures showing early work to establish the radar station in 1957.
Mr Geddes said: "Most writers at this time saw the arrival of the first machines on the island as a kind of desecration of the islands, just then becoming a National Nature Reserve."
He added: "The military pictures are fascinating as they capture a huge change in the culture of St Kilda, many of the soldiers initially sent to build the base being far from happy about it."
From photographic archives, other powerful images were found for the book. Many of them show people who lived, worked and raised families on St Kilda.
"In a few cases, all that has been written on the back of some of these photographs was the word 'natives'," said Mr Geddes.
"The book tries to explain that St Kilda, its landscape and people, fit like a glove with the rest of Scotland.
"St Kildans were just as individual as you or I, and their story is as much about their choices and decisions when faced with living in this difficult place, as it is a story about wider historical and societal changes."
Badminton Scotland made the announcement at the latest Big Hit Festival - part of the Glasgow 2017 legacy programme, which aims to introduce 30,000 more youngsters to badminton.
"I played badminton when I was young and got to junior international level," she said. "I'm thrilled the World Championships is coming to Glasgow."
"I don't play anymore but I'm a huge fan and love to watch it, so it's great to have the chance to promote the event and the sport."
Murray was joined by Commonwealth Games and European badminton silver medallist Kirsty Gilmour at the event at the Peak Leisure Centre in Stirling Sports Village, alongside 85 pupils from local primary schools.
The children received a coaching session from Glasgow Sport Young Leaders from Dunfermline High School and primary and secondary teachers who are attending a continuing professional development course, also as part of Glasgow 2017 legacy.
Find out how to get into badminton with our special guide.
Billy Garrett, head of sport at the city's cultural and sporting organisation Glasgow Life, said: "A huge part of our legacy campaign is introducing young people to badminton and ensuring they are given the appropriate support to continue playing if they wish to do so.
"That's why it's so great to have people like Judy on board - to help us promote not only Glasgow 2017, but also the sport itself."
Murray joins Celtic goalkeeper Craig Gordon, Scotland rugby international Finn Russell and golfer Catriona Matthew in support of the tournament and ongoing efforts to develop the sport.
Chief executive of Badminton Scotland Anne Smillie, said: "I am delighted to have Judy involved with our legacy Programme. She and Finn were both at the Big Hit Festival on finals day at the Scottish Open Grand Prix and saw first-hand how excited and eager the youngsters were."
You can watch live coverage of the World Championships on the BBC Sport website.
His family in Lyon, of Tunisian origin, said he had expressed some concerns on the eve of his first trip to the UK.
But the 24-year-old was determined to improve his English and his first impressions of London were good.
He had got a job as a waiter at a French restaurant in the West End and a place to live in Finsbury Park, and had made plenty of new friends.
After he went missing on his way to work, his father Mohammad Slimane came to the UK and tried desperately to find him.
He told the Guardian his son was Muslim but not devout and described him as a "timid lad, obedient, kind".
He said in his statement to the 7 July victims' inquests that Ihab was very family orientated, devoted to his studies and never failed to talk to his family about his intentions and his worries.
In the aftermath of the bombings, French President Jacques Chirac sent his condolences to the family and expressed "the solidarity of the entire nation with his family which has been hit by this terrible sadness".
Mr Slimane had just completed an IT engineering degree from the University Institute of Technology (IUT) in Saint-Martin d'Heres, near Grenoble.
His long-term ambitions were in computer programming and he intended to return to his studies in France in September.
But he had made a good start as a waiter.
"Ihab had only been working here for two weeks, but he made a very good impression," said the manager of Gabrielle's restaurant, Sebastien Marteaux.
"He was a nice, hard-working boy who would do anything you asked of him. He was always telling jokes and always had a smile on his face."
Mr Slimane's body was reportedly taken to the city of Tunis for burial.
A prayer service was held at Birmingham Central Mosque and about 80 to 100 people gathered in the city centre for a candlelight vigil.
Shah Jehan from Wolverhampton, said it was "the darkest moment in my life" when he learnt his cousins were dead.
Vigil organiser Zakir Gul told the crowd that the attack was "barbaric".
The Pakistani Taliban (TTP) have admitted carrying out the shootings against the Army Public School to avenge army-led operations against them in the Khyber and North Waziristan areas.
Mr Jehan, also a former pupil of the school, told BBC News he could not sleep last night after hearing the news about 10-year-old Saif and nine-year-old Noor.
"You send your children to school to become something, to gain knowledge and to be something in the future, you don't send them to be sent back home in a shroud," he said.
Mr Gul, who is studying at Oxford University, said he and other students decided to get together to organise the vigil to show solidarity against the Taliban and because Birmingham had such a large Asian community.
"We want to show we are against the the barbarism... to voice our anger at the Taliban, the government and the corruption.
"It's disgusting to disregard what's happened.. this affects all of us.
"It's amazing that Pakistan and non-Pakistan people can show solidarity like this against the Taliban."
Shabaz Suheil, 20, who is from Lahore in Pakistan but studying at Aston University, said he wanted to see more accountability in his native country.
"It's good to show solidarity and that we care about them but in reality there are bigger problems to be sorted.
"We want accountability with the authorities - it was an Army school, it was the Army's responsibility to take care of them."
Harrop will join on 3 July after the two sides agreed a "significant undisclosed compensation agreement".
The 21-year-old scored on his United debut in May, but turned down the offer of a new contract at Old Trafford.
"It's a new start for me to get things going in my career and I'm buzzing to get playing and to make an impact in the team," he told the club website.
Harrop was the top-scorer for United's reserve side last season, with 10 goals in 25 appearances.
The versatile attacking player came to prominence when he netted in a 2-0 win over Crystal Palace at Old Trafford - his only first-team appearance for Jose Mourinho's side.
He is Preston manager Simon Grayson's third summer signing, following the arrivals of Cork City striker Sean Maguire and Norwich goalkeeper Declan Rudd.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Harries says the game has not only improved her health and fitness but has helped her grow in confidence and make strong friendships.
"You'd be surprised what joy and fun and friendship you'll make from rugby," added Powell-Hughes.
If you would like to get into rugby union, take a look at our special guide.
The works were created by at least 46 patients at the the town's Crichton Royal Hospital in the late 1800s.
Each of them were treated by Dr William Browne, a pioneering physician who believed that art, music and literature could be therapeutic activities for people with mental illnesses.
A Hidden Gem will be on show at Gracefield Arts Centre until 22 August.
It is believed to be the earliest surviving collection of art by a group of psychiatric patients anywhere in the world.
Dr Browne gave an account of his work in an 1880 edition of The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology.
In the article, entitled "Mad Artists", he describes a collection of "three gigantic volumes" produced by "lunatics in different forms and phases of derangement".
Just over 100 years later, in 1983, a large leather bound volume of 134 works of art was found at the hospital. It was called "Art in Madness" by WAF Browne.
It is these works which have been specially mounted and framed for the Gracefield exhibition.
Gracefield's arts officer Dawn Henderby said: "The artwork is delightful in so many ways - fresh and lively with none of the constraints of preconception of what art should be.
"The idea of 'outsider art' has become more common place today, but in the 1880s, Browne's ideas were ground-breaking."
Councillor Tom McAughtrie said: "It's a unique opportunity to see an important collection of work, and see the value that art practice can bring to everyone's lives, irrespective of circumstance, age or ability."
The Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall is joined on the all-female list by Lavinia Greenlaw and KJ Orr, who have also been shortlisted once before.
Tahmima Anam and Claire-Louise Bennett are also in the running for the £15,000 prize, it was announced on BBC Radio 4's Front Row.
The winner will be revealed in a ceremony next month.
Award judge Ted Hodgkinson said the shortlisted stories were full of "insights" and "revelations".
The shortlist - selected from 478 entries - is:
Hodgkinson, senior programmer for literature and the spoken word at the Southbank Centre, said: "These short stories catapult you through distinct lives, sensibilities and in just a few thousand words, expand the possibilities of the form.
"From illuminating the telling details in the everyday, to pitching us into hidden underworlds that exist in parallel to our own, these stories are full of insights, humour and revelations."
The prize is run in conjunction with the Book Trust charity, with the runner-up receiving £3,000 and the three remaining authors receiving £500 each.
Mantel's story was inspired by an Alan Bennett piece in the London Review of Books in which he recounted a visit to a hospital's accident and emergency department.
Mantel, who was once a hospital worker, has written a story of visitors to casualty during the course of one night.
Claire-Louise Bennett's story is about a failed academic and told in the space of a single day, while Aman tells a story of female friendship in Bangladesh, inspired by the collapse of the Rana Plaza in Dhaka in 2013.
Greenlaw, who is also a poet, described her story as a "sort of fairy tale" about a teenager who lives in a village known as the "darkest place in England".
She said of being shortlisted: "It's absolutely thrilling as, for me, short stories arrive very rarely, so they are strange and precious beasts.
"They take a long time to evolve. So to have two of them recognised in this way is incredibly encouraging."
Asked about the popularity of the short story form, Greenlaw said: "I think it's like poetry in that it's never going to be the most dominant form, but it persists, and every now and then people get excited about it.
"These are interesting times in the literary world - there's a lot of experimentation and breaking down of form, and it's a climate in which the short story can flourish."
Orr was inspired to write her story after seeing a man sitting alone in a Buenos Aires cafe, and is about a retired plastic surgeon attempting to forge a new identity.
She said it felt "wonderful" to have been made a finalist.
"The novel is obviously a great tradition in Britain and has a devoted readership," she said. "But I do think prizes like this are really instrumental in giving [the short story] a profile and keeping that profile alive, as well as introducing it to some people who will have not read the form before."
Previous winners of the award include Jonathan Buckley, Julian Gough, James Lasdun, Lionel Shriver and Clare Wigfall.
BBC Radio 4's Front Row will broadcast the ceremony live on 4 October. An anthology of the shortlisted works is published on 17 September.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected].
The 29-year-old joined last summer from Cardiff City and will now remain at the club until 2020.
An ever-present last season, the goalkeeper's aim is to win honours with Aberdeen, after losing two cup finals last term.
"I want to win trophies here after coming so close last season," Lewis told Aberdeen TV.
"I'm thoroughly enjoying my time here and it was an easy decision to make to stay longer. My family love it here and have settled in really well.
"The opportunity to play in Europe regularly is another bonus and one that cannot be underestimated."
Aberdeen were runners-up in all three domestic competitions last season, as Celtic secured the treble in an unbeaten campaign. Lewis was named in both the SPFL team of the year and the PFA Scotland team of the year.
Manager Derek McInnes was a target for Sunderland as the English side looked to appoint a successor to David Moyes, but he chose to remain at Pittodrie. The Dons also received a financial boost, with new director David Cormack pledging to invest in the club.
With Niall McGinn, Ryan Jack, Peter Pawlett and Ash Taylor all leaving Pittodrie at the end of last season, and Jonny Hayes moving to Celtic, Aberdeen intend to recruit several new players this season, but McInnes was also pleased to secure Lewis on a longer-term contract.
"We'll be making signings over the next period but there'll be no better news than Joe signing on for an extra two years," McInnes said.
"He's been magnificent from day one here and he's a big hit with the fans. Joe is an integral part of what we want to do here and I'm absolutely delighted he's staying."
James Meyer, 53, confessed to stealing 22 unfinished pieces and selling them to a New York gallery.
"I am truly devastated that I destroyed the close relationship that I had with the man who was my mentor, employer and friend," he said in court in New York.
Meyer was ordered to pay restitution of $13.5m (£8.9m) to Johns and others.
Johns, 84, is best known for sculptures and paintings of the American flag, including one that sold at auction last year for a record $36m (£23.7m).
Meyer was an assistant in Johns' Connecticut studio for 25 years, from the age of 21.
In August 2014, he pleaded guilty to one count of interstate transportation of stolen property and admitted moving artworks from the studio to an art gallery in Manhattan between 2006 and 2012.
"I took for granted and betrayed someone who will forever have great meaning in my life. For that, I have profound remorse,'' Meyer told the courtroom.
Johns had asked Meyer to destroy some of the works, and had not given any authorisation for them to be sold.
Meyer - who arranged to have around 40 pieces sold through a New York gallery - told the unidentified gallery owner the incomplete works had been personal gifts from Johns, and provided fake documentation.
He also created fake inventory numbers and pages in a ledger book of registered Johns artwork to further assure the gallery owner the works were authorised.
Meyer received approximately $4m (£2.6m) from the sale of the artworks by the gallery. In court on Thursday, Meyer was ordered to forfeit the amount he made from the sales, as well as paying the $13.5m (£8.9m) to compensate the artist and four unidentified buyers.
Prosecutors said one buyer who agreed to return the artworks to Johns had spent over $7m (£4.6m) on them.
After his arrest in August 2013, Meyer cooperated with the government and helped recover stolen works from the buyers, prosecutors said. He also turned over 41 additional works that investigators did not know about.
Some users trying to open the twitter.com website are apparently being redirected to a statement by Turkey's telecommunications regulator.
It cites a court order to apply "protection measures" on the website.
This comes after PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to "wipe out Twitter" following damaging allegations of corruption in his inner circle.
The BBC's James Reynolds in Istanbul reports that he is unable to access Twitter.
"I don't care what the international community says at all. Everyone will see the power of the Turkish Republic," Mr Erdogan said earlier on Thursday.
He spoke after some users had posted documents reportedly showing evidence of corruption relating to the prime minister - a claim he denies.
His office said that Twitter had not responded to Turkey's court rulings to remove some links, forcing Ankara to act.
Twitter has so far made no public comment on the issue.
There are about 10m Twitter users across Turkey.
In 2010, the country lifted its ban on YouTube - two years after it blocked access to the website because of videos deemed insulting to the country's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
The youth, from Leicestershire, was travelling north at Barrowby when he was struck by a car at about 22:30 BST on Tuesday, Lincolnshire Police said.
The car driver failed to stop and police have appealed for anyone with dashboard footage to contact them.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and remains in custody.
The A1 northbound carriageway was closed until about 08:30 on Wednesday to allow police to examine the scene.
Lincolnshire Police said it would not be releasing any further details about the arrested man due to an on-going investigation.
The first person to cross the finish line on Plymouth Hoe in a time of 1 hour 11 minutes was Phil Burden, from Taunton.
Eleanor Davis, from Cornwall, was the first women to complete the 13.1mile (21km) route in 1 hour 17 minutes.
One man was taken to hospital as a precaution after collapsing just short of the the finish line.
He was helped to his feet and completed the race before being stretchered off by paramedics. His condition is not known.
A total of 4,734 people took part in the full half marathon, while 2,600 children and 500 teachers completed a schools challenge.
In the weeks running up to the race, pupils covered a total of 12.1 miles, completing the final mile in front of thousands of spectators.
Runners have been raising money for local and national charities, including Children's Hospice South West, Macmillan Cancer Support and CLIC Sargent.
Race organisers on the Hoe described conditions as "near perfect" with some sunshine and light winds.
Even though it may come as a surprise to some that looks can count for so much in a country where war, poverty and corruption have been commonplace, plastic surgery has a relatively long history in Afghanistan.
It was the conflict itself which gave medics the specific medical skills required to become plastic surgeons. Used to carrying out burn re-construction and other trauma surgery, they have been able to adapt their skills accordingly.
And the market seems to be growing all the time. Cosmetic surgery is especially popular among a younger generation of Afghans.
Women tend to visit plastic surgeons for facelifts, nose reshapes or liposuction. Eyebrow tattoos and hair transplants are more popular among younger men.
Representatives of both sexes often request a specific look based on photos of Bollywood actors and actresses.
While most recipients hail the benefits of cosmetic surgery, critics are concerned that the growth in demand has resulted in a skills shortage, with some surgeons not sufficiently qualified to carry it out.
Kabul private hospital plastic surgeon Dr Najibullah Najib is a prolific plastic surgeon, on average dealing with two or three patients every day.
Surgeons like Dr Najib cut their teeth treating the victims of war for more than 20 years - thereby gaining the skills required for such delicate operations.
"Many girls want their eyebrows shaped in a new Chinese style or they want their eyelids done. Sometimes they want their noses to be narrower and higher," he said.
Housewife Sheba, 40, is typical of the kind of patient who Dr Najib treats. She has already had three operations.
"First I removed fat from my abdomen, then I removed the bags under my eyes and also reshaped my eyebrows," she says.
"When I was laughing, I suffered by looking at my wrinkles. Now some friends even say I look 14 years younger.
"I love my body and my clothes fit a lot better."
Another client, Sahar, has had a nose operation.
"Now it is narrower and higher. I didn't expect such a change. When the dressings were removed, I was so surprised: it was nicer than I expected."
Most of the cosmetic surgeries that have sprung up in recent years are based in Kabul, with specialists trained in Iran and Pakistan.
All over more affluent parts of the city, it is possible to see adverts promising better looks and better hair, juxtaposed with classic "before and after" shots of apparently satisfied clients.
So successful in fact has Afghanistan's cosmetic surgery business become that people have even started coming to the country from abroad for the comparatively low cost of treatment.
A basic nose alteration in Afghanistan costs in the region of $300-$600 (£187- £375), doctors say. A similar operation in the West can cost up to 10 times more than that.
Bahador Shirzad, who works as an assistant at a hair enhancement centre in Kabul, says that surgical and non-surgical methods are used.
"We recommend non-surgical methods for those whose side hairs are weak or where the skin is destroyed," he says.
"With the surgical method, we take hair from the back of head of the patient and implant it onto the balding area."
But with the increase in demand, so the criticism of the quality of treatment on offer has grown.
Shafi is a patient unhappy with the treatment he received and who claims to have suffered unpleasant side effects.
"Doctors polished my head with some oil and then they implanted artificial hair on my head and joined it up with my own hair," he recalls.
"After a couple of hours I got a bad headache and my eyes were itching. I understood that these were [expected] side-effects of the implant procedure.
"But then I removed the hairs and my scalp had completely lost its colour."
Abdul Ghafar Ghayoor, a plastic surgeon in a hospital in Pakistan, says that some Afghan doctors lack the necessary experience to carry out such highly technical surgery.
"I have seen a number of Afghan doctors who have [only] worked for less than a year in Iran, Pakistan, India or Russia... This is why their work is usually not perfect."
Biffa says that its crews found 93 people sleeping in rubbish last year.
It says the cameras, fitted to 140 of its 800 trucks, would remind staff to check bins before emptying them.
Last year four people sheltering in bins died when they were tipped into the back of trucks.
Biffa's Tim Standring told BBC Radio 4's You and Yours the cameras would give drivers extra "peace of mind" and that some vehicles would also record footage from inside hoppers.
The company was not spying on its staff, he said, saying the move was designed to protect them from the "anguish" of not realising a person had been inside the bin.
Mr Standring, the firm's divisional health, safety, environment and quality coach, said: "If it's the only place you've got to stay and it's the most secure place I can kind of see the appeal, but the down side of it is if we don't find you, you're not going to survive."
He added: "Once you're in the hopper, the blade comes down and it crushes and breaks the waste and it will take it back into the body [of the vehicle] where it's compacted again.
"These machines won't differentiate between cardboard, wood and unfortunately people as well."
Biffa hopes that all of its refuse lorries will have the new technology by the end of the year.
The company formed a partnership with the Chartered Institute of Waste Management and homelessness service StreetLink to raise awareness of the issue of people sleeping in bins.
The organisations carried out research last year that showed that 28 of the 176 waste management organisations surveyed reported finding people sheltering in bins over the previous 12 months.
The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) says this is due to the fall in sterling where military equipment purchases have been made in US dollars.
After the referendum, the pound fell to its lowest level against the dollar in more than 30 years, making imports from the US more expensive.
The MoD said real terms spending on defence was rising year on year.
Prof Trevor Taylor, from the RUSI think tank, told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that the extra costs could lead to a "budget black hole", presenting a serious problem for the UK's defence stance.
Sterling has been steadily falling in value as the referendum result and the Bank of England's efforts to shore up the economy have pushed investors into selling the pound.
The former head of the Royal Navy and Labour peer Lord West described the issue as a "perfect storm" for the MoD.
A source with experience of the issue at a high level of government said it could push an already stretched budget "to breaking point".
But another former insider, who did not wish to be named, argued sterling could well recover and the issue was merely a "headache" for the MoD.
Prof Taylor said the UK paid the US about $10 billion a year for defence products.
The MoD, he said, had already committed to buying nine P8 maritime patrol aircraft, 138 F-35B aircrafts and 50 Apache aircraft to replace the existing ones, all from the US.
On top of this, the MoD will also have to buy spares and support services for their existing aircraft and defence systems such as Chinook helicopters, Trident missiles and the AWACS surveillance system, he added.
The UK has committed to spending 2% of GDP on defence, a minimum set by Nato.
The chairman of the House of Commons defence select committee, Julian Lewis, a Brexit supporter, said defence had "fallen too far down the scale of national priorities".
Dr Lewis said the 2% of GDP was "nowhere near where we need to be spending" and argued the figure should be more like 3%.
Lord West criticised the government for delaying the purchase of frigates; a decision he said would push up their costs.
The former head of the British Navy said the 2% figure was "a good figure", but that if the UK's GDP shrinks, this would result in a reduced spending figure.
Major Tim Cross, a retired British Army officer who supported the Leave campaign, acknowledged that defence spending overall was "struggling".
But he called for time to be spent assessing the situation post-Brexit, rather than "running around like headless chickens".
In a statement, the MoD said it took "appropriate financial precautions in all its procurement contracts" and "remained committed to the procurement set out in last year's defence review".
Black, 64, who was previously convicted of murdering three other young girls, murdered nine-year-old Jennifer in August 1981.
The child had been cycling to a friend's house near her home in Ballinderry, County Antrim, when the Scottish van driver abducted her.
"For the last six weeks we have had to endure and listen to how Robert Black kidnapped, sexually abused and murdered our daughter," Andy Cardy said.
"It has been absolutely horrendous. We heard things that, in all honesty, were not even in our imagination.
"We were confronted with the awfulness of her last few hours and what she had to suffer and it has been truly awful."
Mr Cardy said the family's Christian faith had been a source of strength.
"We had a faith, and particularly throughout the trial we had a promise from God that he would never forsake us.
"He has given us a peace that surpasses all understanding. We have been able to live without bitterness.
"The wonderful thing is that one day we will be reunited with Jennifer."
He said life had never been the same since Jennifer's loss.
"Robert Black stole the life of our daughter but he didn't steal the life of me and my family. We lived a happy and prosperous life, but we missed Jennifer every day,'' he said.
Mr Cardy said he pitied Black and "the awful life he has led".
"Robert Black's end, if he doesn't come to repentance, will be an eternity with Satan in hell."
He said he still believed that someone who commits such a murder should receive a death sentence.
He said he felt this not out of hatred or vengeance but out of a desire for justice.
Jennifer's mother Pat said her daughter had been "the happiest little girl that I have ever known".
"Jennifer had a lovely thoughtfulness beyond her nine years," she said.
"Robert Black has done this awful deed but he will not destroy us.
"I don't think we will ever have closure, because our daughter is gone.
"But we have the relief in knowing that the perpetrator of this gruesome, horrible crime has been brought to justice and that does bring us a peace and a relief."
Detective Superintendent Raymond Murray, who led the police investigation into Jennifer's death for nine years, said his thoughts were with the Cardy family.
"None of us can imagine what they have suffered over the past 30 years or, more recently, during the past weeks of this trial when the horrific events of August 1981 were re-visited," he said.
"Robert Black preyed on the most vulnerable, most innocent and most cherished members of society - our children - devastating families and communities along the way."
He described Robert Black as "a lost cause to humanity" and said it had been one of the longest police investigations ever conducted in Northern Ireland.
"It has taken many twists and turns," he said.
"At times we have been full of hope and on other occasions we've been frustrated by a lack of progress, but we stuck to our principles and to our task and we have collected enough evidence to convince a jury that Robert Black is guilty."
He added: "In the end, it was good, old-fashioned police work which brought this case to trial and secured a conviction.
"It was attention to detail. It was trawling through literally tons of material and checking every minute aspect to pull together all the pieces of this jigsaw from many parts of the UK.
"Today's conviction will ensure he remains behind bars for a long time to come."
Sir John said the "upper echelons of power" were dominated by those from a similar background.
In a speech to Tory activists reported in the Daily Telegraph he blamed "the collapse in social mobility" on the failures of the last Labour government.
More than half the current cabinet were educated at private schools.
David Cameron was educated at Eton, as was the Mayor of London Boris Johnson and the Archbishop of Canterbury The Right Reverend Justin Welby.
Nick Clegg attended Westminster while George Osborne and deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman went to St Paul's. In contrast, Sir John - prime minister between 1990 and 1997 - grew up in Brixton and left his grammar school with three O-levels.
In a speech to the South Norfolk Conservative Association's annual dinner, he bemoaned what he said was the lack of people from working and lower middle class backgrounds in positions of influence in British institutions.
"In every single sphere of British influence, the upper echelons of power in 2013 are held overwhelmingly by the privately educated or the affluent middle class," he said.
"To me, from my background, I find that truly shocking."
Sir John said the Labour government, in power between 1997 and 2010, had left a legacy of a "Victorian divide between stagnation and aspiration" which current leader Ed Miliband was in no position to address.
Too many children, he added, were "locked into the circumstances in which they were born" as a result of a lack of educational opportunities.
He added: "I remember enough of my past to be outraged on behalf of the people abandoned when social mobility is lost... we need them to fly as high as their luck, their ability and their sheer hard graft can actually take them.
"And it is not going to happen magically."
Sir John also called for more help for savers, who have seen their incomes eroded by "cripplingly unfair" low interest rates since 2008.
He urged the Bank of England to raise interest rates to "normal levels", which he suggested were between 3% and 5%, as soon as was economically feasible.
He also advised his party against "personal attacks" on UKIP, suggesting many of their supporters were natural Conservatives who were "patriotic Britons" who felt "bewildered" by the pace of social change.
The speech is his second intervention in contemporary politics in a matter of weeks, after his call earlier this month for a windfall tax on energy profits in the event of a harsh winter and a warning about hidden "lace curtain poverty".
The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said he did not believe the comments were an attack on the current Conservative leadership but a plea for those from modest backgrounds to have more say in public life.
The former prime minister, Nick Robinson added, was speaking up for what he regarded as his party's natural constituency, the hard-working but aspiring majority who were not well-off.
Downing Street rejected any suggestions of a rift with Sir John, saying Mr Cameron spoke to his predecessor "pretty regularly".
And the prime minister said initiatives such as the help-to-buy scheme - which is designed to encourage lenders to offer mortgages to people with deposits as low as 5% on homes worth up to £600,000 - was all about promoting social mobility.
Figures show 2,384 people, the majority first-time buyers, have applied for loans under the scheme in its first month.
"Without this help to buy, we were beginning to see a country where only people who had wealthy mums and dads, who could give them the money for the deposit were able to buy a flat or a house," Mr Cameron said.
For Labour, Kevin Brennan, shadow schools minister, said Sir John was "telling people what they already knew", saying the government was "out of touch" with "the next generation being locked out of opportunity".
The UK Independence Party said the Conservatives were as much to blame as Labour for the social and educational imbalance at the top of British institutions.
UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall said: "The abolition of selective education in Britain has been a hammer blow to the prospects of working class kids. Until we see a grammar school back in every town and city across the UK, Britain's shocking lack of social mobility will go on."
About 360,000 babies will be born, leading to concern over the effect of an ageing population on the economy.
Officials blame rising youth unemployment.
But couples say the rising cost of living, including housing and soaring education prices, means that having a large family is not an option.
Women have additional concerns over weak maternity-leave policies and a stubborn resistance by men to help with the housework, BBC World Service Asia-Pacific editor Celia Hatton says.
It is the first time the number of births in a year has fallen below 400,000.
South Korea has spent about $70bn (£53bn) trying to boost the country's birth rate over the past decade, handing out baby bonuses, improving paternity leave and paying for infertility treatment.
Officials fear that a low birth rate could reduce the number of people in the workforce and drive up welfare costs for the increasing elderly population, undermining the potential for economic growth.
South Korea's death rate in 2016 was estimated to be 5.8 people per 1,000 of the population, or about 295,000.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Bartoletta, the 30-year-old world champion, took gold with a new personal best of 7.17m.
Reese, 29, could only manage 7.15m with her final attempt, claiming silver ahead of Serbia's Ivana Spanovic, who jumped a national record of 7.08m.
Britain's Jazmin Sawyer, 22, finished eighth with a jump of 6.69m.
Find out how to get into athletics with our special guide.
"Eighth in my first Olympic final is good, but I jumped 6.69m and I'm better than that," she said.
"I know I shouldn't really be disappointed. I'm the highest-placed Brit and I've beaten a lot of girls that I've been thinking are a lot better than me, but I wanted to beat more of them."
Fellow Briton Lorraine Ugen, 24, was eliminated after the first three jumps.
The Londoner, a bronze medallist at this year's World Indoor Championships, could only jump 6.58m to finish 11th.
Bartoletta, however, had little time to enjoy her victory on Wednesday night - she had to focus on the women's 4x100m relay on Thursday morning.
She is part of the US squad running in the heats at 11:28 (15:28 BST).
"I couldn't really celebrate. When I won, I realised I have to be back in the morning for the relay," she said.
Russia's sole track and field athlete at the Rio Olympics, Darya Klishina, failed to make an impact as she finished in ninth.
The Florida-based 25-year-old, who was suspended by athletics world governing body the IAAF on Friday only for the decision to be overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, could only manage a best leap of 6.63m, meaning she was eliminated after three jumps.
"I feel really well and I've gotten a lot of support from other athletes," she said. "I missed the last week-and-a-half of training, so I could've done a lot better than I did."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.
They had been trapped between pro-government forces and Russian fighter jets on the one hand, and the remaining rebels on the other.
Packed onto the buses, they were hungry, tired and - above all - traumatised.
But for those waiting to treat them as they reached the countryside, it was the look on their faces which was most striking.
"Some of them look at people as if they are from another planet," said Dr Ghanem Tayara, of the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organisations (UOSSM).
"There are people who have had nothing for three days, children who are wetting themselves constantly, who keep starting to show some hysterical reaction, as if the bombs are going to fall still."
Many of the children hadn't showered "for one-and-a-half to three months", and then - a final indignity - were forced to soil themselves on the buses carrying them away from their home, Dr Tayara claimed.
"During the evacuation process, they were held on buses for 14 hours. About 90% of them who arrived were all wet."
It was people like Dr Tayara's colleagues who were on the frontline when the refugees began to pour into the rebel-held rural areas to the west of Aleppo last week.
Along with other aid agencies, they are now faced with putting back together children who may not only be physically injured, malnourished and dehydrated, but who are also carrying the scars of living in a warzone.
It is going to be a long process.
"They will need immediate care, medium and long-term care," said Shushan Mebrahtu, of Unicef Syria, which is working with partner agencies to put in place a plan. "Of course, they need medical care, psychological counselling. They are in need of warm clothing.
"Going forward, they really need to get back to a kind of stability - their childhoods, their education."
Some of those things can be provided quickly by the teams waiting to greet them as they cross from government-held areas into rebel territory.
"We care about these children - now they have some food and clothes and other things," said Mustafa Ozbek, of IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation. "There is no bombing, which is good for the children.
"They are more happy now, I think, but when you see the pictures, they are not happy. They left their homes - it is a bad situation."
The sheer numbers can seem overwhelming - 2,700 had arrived in the convoys by Friday. Dr Tayara estimated another 250 to 300 arrived on Monday, 47 of them orphans who had appeared in a video begging for help just days before.
But these children are just a handful of the millions who have had their lives overturned by the five-year civil war, Ms Mebrahtu pointed out.
"Many more children in Syria are also going through things no child should endure, no adult should endure," she said. "This conflict has to end - the life of many more children depends on it."
Even those who have escaped the bombs falling on eastern Aleppo face an uncertain future.
"Is there hope?" Dr Tayara mused. "It is a tricky question. Either die there or be evacuated, and become refugees for the rest of their lives.
"They don't have much choice."
|
Leeds Rhinos recorded their third straight Super League win, at the expense of West Yorkshire rivals Huddersfield Giants.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An appeal has been made for anyone with information about the murder of a Welsh private investigator killed almost 30 years ago, to come forward.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
People in 1,250 properties on the Isle of Lewis have been told they no longer need to boil their tap water as a precautionary measure.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Britain's Simon Yates won stage six of the Paris-Nice to move up to eighth overall with two stages remaining.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Stress is the reason why we find it hard to empathise with someone we do not know, researchers suggest.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Pastries, pies and sandwiches produced by a shop supplier in Fife have been recalled after inspectors found the sell- by dates had been extended.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The director of a UK science facility says scientists there will try to set a new world record in nuclear fusion.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The age of criminal responsibility in Scotland should be raised, according to a group of 12 charities.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ulster have boosted their fly-half options by signing former England U18 international Brett Herron from Bath.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Defender Callum Booth has signed up for another campaign with Partick Thistle.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Vera Caslavska, one of the most decorated gymnasts, has died aged 74 after battling pancreatic cancer.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Leeds United left-back Charlie Taylor has had a transfer request rejected by the Championship club.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 24-year-old Australian exchange student has fallen to her death from a spectacular Norway cliff popular with photographers.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Luke Donald shot an opening round 66 to share the lead at the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head in South Carolina.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A new book challenges an idea of St Kilda as a lost world where islanders lived in isolation from wider society.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Judy Murray has been unveiled as an ambassador for the 2017 Badminton World Championships in Glasgow, which will be staged from 21-27 August.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
It was with some trepidation that Ihab Slimane had left home in France to enjoy a summer in London, three weeks before he died on a Tube train near Russell Square.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two events have been held in Birmingham to remember the 141 people, mostly children, killed in a Taliban attack at a school in Pakistan.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Preston North End have signed Manchester United forward Josh Harrop on a four-year contract.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Wales internationals Sioned Harries and Shona Powell-Hughes took part in a training session with kids at Haverfordwest and shared their love of rugby.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A collection of artwork by patients at a notorious Scottish asylum has gone on display in Dumfries.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Hilary Mantel has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award for a second time.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Aberdeen goalkeeper Joe Lewis has signed a two-year extension to his Pittodrie contract.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A former assistant to US artist Jasper Johns has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting he stole artworks from Johns' studio.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Twitter users in Turkey report that the social media site has been blocked in the country.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 17-year-old scooter rider was killed in a hit-and-run crash on the A1 near Grantham in Lincolnshire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Nearly 8,000 people have taken part in Plymouth's annual half marathon.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
There is a growing demand for cosmetic surgery in Afghanistan, where just 10 years ago such procedures were mainly used to deal with injuries caused by decades of conflict.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
One of the UK's biggest waste companies is fitting cameras to its vehicles in a bid to reduce the number of homeless people killed after sleeping rough in industrial-sized wheelie bins.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Ministry of Defence is facing extra costs of up to £700m a year following the UK's Brexit vote, experts warn.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The father of murder victim Jennifer Cardy has spoken of how horrendous an experience the trial of her killer Robert Black has been for the family.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The influence that a privately educated, middle-class elite have on public life is "shocking", former prime minister Sir John Major has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The growth of South Korea's population this year will be the slowest rate ever recorded, despite efforts to boost it, officials say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The United States secured a one-two in the Olympic women's long jump as Tianna Bartoletta upset defending champion Brittney Reese to win gold at Rio 2016.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Children have been arriving in rebel-held territory in their hundreds, the survivors of a brutal bombing campaign which has reduced eastern Aleppo to rubble.
| 39,341,915 | 15,343 | 998 | true |
Police, fire and ambulance crews were called to reports of a collision near Cardonald just before 09:00.
The incident, which resulted in the M8 being closed westbound for a time, involved vehicles travelling between junction 25 and 25a Braehead.
The ambulance service said five people were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Their injuries are not thought to be serious.
The route has now re-opened. Drivers heading to Glasgow Airport had been warned to expect delays.
Traffic Scotland said that all the vehicles involved in the crash had been cleared and that traffic was returning to normal in the area.
|
Five people have been taken to hospital after a crash involving six vehicles on the M8 in Glasgow.
| 40,605,256 | 130 | 23 | false |
Geraint Jones, 25, bit Gwynant Jones after approaching him from behind at the Academy bar in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, on 31 October 2015.
Swansea Crown Court heard Jones did not intend to bite the ear off, saying it happened when he was pulled away.
Jones, from Aberystwyth, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm but was cleared of doing it with intent.
He said: "When I approached him, my intention was to bite his ear. It's a horrible thing to do but it was not my intention to bite it off.
"My intention was to bite his ear in order to shock him."
Prosecutor Ian Wright said: "He approached from behind and placed his hands on his shoulder before biting his left ear - ripping the lower section off."
Mr Jones was dressed as Colonel Gaddafi, the former leader of Libya, as part of a "bad taste" pub crawl.
Jurors were told Mr Jones' ear lobe was found on the floor by a barman, but it could not be reattached.
James Hartson, defending, said: "Before this incident, he is not a man who is known for being violent.
"He has described what he did as disgusting and reprehensible, he is not for a moment excusing his behaviour."
The court heard Jones had been in the army but left the forces to take up history and politics studies.
"He has worked in some of the most dangerous and hostile places in the world," added Mr Hartson.
Gwynant Jones, a mobile app designer from Machynlleth, Powys, said: "All I can remember is being at the bar and then suddenly feeling a lot of pain.
"I leaned forward and I think that's when my ear must have ripped off and I saw lots of blood."
Judge Geraint Walters released Jones on bail, telling him to expect jail when he is sentenced in March.
"The custody threshold is well past," he said. "His behaviour that night was quite bizarre, it's a very rare form of violence.
"This young man was completely innocent. He hadn't put a foot out of line or said a word, but he lost a significant part of his ear, which may or may not be reconstructed."
|
A former soldier who went out dressed as Colonel Gaddafi is facing jail for biting off a man's ear.
| 38,983,572 | 533 | 30 | false |
Groups like Greenpeace like to make their voice heard during elections.
But they face strict rules on what they can spend money on for the year before an election.
They had been working on the basis that an election would be held in 2020 - but the announcement of a snap election in June has raised concerns they will not be able to comply with the rules.
This has meant that they will have to declare their spending retrospectively over the last year if they want to campaign, creating a huge amount of work at short notice.
The Electoral Commission says registered "non-party" campaign groups must provide information on all their "regulated campaign activity," money spent and donations for the 12 months between 9 June 2016 and 8 June's polling day.
But campaigners argue that the rules on what counts as party political campaigning - which is banned by lobbying legislation - and campaigning about issues, which is allowed, are vague and confusing.
And they are angry that their campaigning activities over the past 10 months will now come under scrutiny when they had no idea an election was going to be called.
Some charities may opt to sit the general election out rather than face dealing with the extra red tape or risk being fined - meaning their point of view will go unheard, they warn.
Chief executive of charity leader's network ACEVO, Vicky Browning, said: "The Electoral Commission's guidance demonstrates the need for urgent reform of the Lobbying Act.
Charities have carried out their day-to-day campaigning activity for the last 10 months, reassured by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act that their activity would not fall under the auspice of the Electoral Commission.
"To have this decision reversed with minimal notice places a huge retrospective administrative burden on these charities, as they seek to understand their legal obligations.
"There is a real danger that this decision will hamper charity campaigning over the crucial coming weeks."
Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauven said: "The government's own review acknowledged that the legislation had a chilling effect in the 2015 election by "frightening charities away from raising important issues".
"In this snap election, the impact on civil society could be even bigger as charities will have had no time to plan how to work within this complex bureaucracy," he said.
"The Lobbying Act is a democratic car crash. This should be the last election contested under the shadow of this failed law."
Greenpeace was fined £30,000 for breaching lobbying rules earlier this year, when it refused to register as a non-party campaigner.
Lord Hodgson, who chaired a 2016 government review into the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014, said that two of his recommendations might have had an impact on this situation.
He proposed a reduced four month regulated period for general elections, to bring the law in line with elections to the devolved legislatures and to the European Parliament.
"This was intended to reflect more closely the time when the general public were likely to be influenced in their voting intention," he said.
He also proposed that the regulatory period in the event of an "unexpected" general election be clarified, as the current provisions were excessively complicated.
"While nothing can now be done about the first of these two recommendations I very much hope the Electoral Commission, which broadly accepted the conclusions of my report, will bear the second very much in mind as the general election gets underway."
A spokesman for the Electoral Commission said: "Non-party campaigners are vital to a healthy democracy and the Electoral Commission encourages their active participation in the campaign period ahead of the general election.
"Where a significant amount of money is being spent on campaigning, it's right that voters can see whose spending that money and what outcome they are campaigning for."
A spokeswoman for the Cabinet Office said: "As we're in the pre-election period it would be inappropriate for us to comment on or respond to this story."
|
Charities and other campaign groups fear they could be gagged by red tape during the general election campaign.
| 39,695,085 | 879 | 22 | false |
His party would cut less than the Tories and borrow less than Labour, he said.
Lib Dem economic plans have "a heart as well as a brain", he added.
It comes as the Tories announced plans to cut inheritance tax on family homes and Labour said it would ramp up fines on tax avoiders.
The Lib Dems say they would get rid of the deficit through raising taxes by an additional £12bn, cutting public spending by £12bn, and cutting welfare by £3bn.
The Conservatives described the announcement as "further evidence that a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote for higher taxes".
Mr Clegg challenged the other parties to spell out in similar detail how they would balance the nation's books.
He acknowledged that the two years following 7 May's general election would not be easy.
But he claimed that the Lib Dems were the only party offering a "balanced" programme to pay down the remaining deficit, while still finding money to raise income tax thresholds to £11,000 and invest in the NHS.
"We are going to spread the burden of finishing the job of fixing the economy fairly across society," he said.
"Yes that means more cuts, but it also means asking the wealthiest to pay their fair share too."
The Lib Dem plans involve finding £3bn savings from the welfare budget, including "savings which ask wealthy pensioners to make a small sacrifice", he said.
Universal credit will be adjusted, and the rate of increase of benefits will be "restrained", he added.
The Lib Dem deficit-reduction plans include:
Mr Clegg said: "We have a plan to build a stronger economy and a fairer society, which means we will cut less than the Conservatives and borrow less than Labour.
"It's a plan to protect our economy and invest in our schools, hospitals and public services... a plan with a heart as well as a brain."
He added: "I can't promise you the next two years will be easy. Your hard work and sacrifice has turned our economy around, but there is still a job to finish.
"But, with the Liberal Democrats, there is light at the end of the tunnel and the only way to continue the balanced approach that the coalition has taken is to put Liberal Democrats in government again."
A Conservative spokesman said: "Today just serves as further evidence that a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote for higher taxes - which is exactly what Labour want too.
"Only the Conservative Party are committed to cutting taxes so people keep more of the money they earn."
Entryism is the infiltration of an organisation by another group's members who intend to change its policies.
The tribunal found that two members associated with the CPI had been unjustifiably expelled from the union.
It also criticised Nipsa's "regular" record of sorting out internal grievances though tribunals.
Its judgement said "the tribunal does not exist to provide a public forum for the periodic ventilation of obscure and internecine disputes within Nipsa".
It added that "no other union appears to require this regular attention".
The Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (Nipsa) has more than 45,000 members, mainly Civil Service staff and public sector employees.
The judgement said the case was part of a dispute between two factions in the union which "has been a rich source of litigation over recent years".
The factions are: 'unity', which is associated with the Marxist Leninist CPI, and the 'broad left' which is associated with various Trotskyite parties.
The case involved two people who were employed as officials for other trade unions and then joined Nipsa.
They were elected as officers and delegates in their Nipsa branch in 2015.
Their right to membership of the union was queried by members associated with the broad left who also alleged the meeting at which they were elected had been "packed" by the CPI.
The tribunal noted that "as Communist coups go, it was hardly the storming of the Winter Palace".
The union leadership, which is dominated by the broad left, decided the two people were not eligible for membership as Nipsa does not represent employees of other trade unions.
The two took a case to the tribunal alleging discrimination on the grounds of political opinion.
However the tribunal said they had not shown that the two factions actually have any substantive political differences.
It added that name-calling or trolling on social media is not sufficient to show political difference nor is "alleged adherence to Trotsky's 1938 Transitional Program".
However the tribunal found they had nonetheless been unjustifiably expelled from the union.
They claimants said they have suffered stress, insomnia and reputation damage as a result.
However, the tribunal said it has seen no evidence of this, adding "the claimants nor any representative of the respondent trade union evinced any degree of stress or upset during the hearing".
"To the contrary everybody involved, and their supporters, showed every sign of enjoying the process."
Shanay Walker, 7, from Nottingham died in 2014 from a brain injury. She had more than 50 injuries to her body.
Her aunt Kay-Ann Morris was later jailed for child cruelty.
Social worker Christine Baker told an inquest she has been "taken in" by Morris who had "talked the talk and ticked every box".
An earlier trial at Nottingham Crown Court heard Shanay was placed in her aunt Kay-Ann Morris's care after her mother, Leanne Walker, suffered post-natal depression.
Morris told Mrs Baker that Shanay would be moving into an extended family and that she had several years' experience as a carer for people with dementia.
Mrs Baker said: "I was taken in, I fully accept that."
Coroner Mairin Casey was told there were 16 "contact meetings" between Shanay and Morris before the trial placement began in July 2012.
The inquest heard Morris had told social workers about her own violent and abusive childhood in which she had been abused by her own mother Juanila Smikle, who is also Shanay's grandmother.
Smikle was jailed on five counts of cruelty after Shanay's death.
Mrs Baker said she should have thought more about Morris' experiences as a child when assessing her.
She said: "On reflection, I should have done a more robust assessment and I should have explored the family network more for potential risks.
"I took too many things at face value and I'm really sorry about that."
Morris was jailed for eight years, while Smikle, of Easegill Court, Nottingham was found guilty of cruelty at a retrial and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
The inquest continues.
The SY Hygeia of Halsa, registered in the UK, was boarded by French customs off the island of Martinique on Monday as it began a transatlantic crossing.
Two men from Jersey, aged 42 and 57, were arrested after the seizure of about 550lb (250kg) of the class A drug.
The pair face prosecution from the French authorities.
The yacht was boarded after an investigation involving the British and French police and officials from the National Crime Agency (NCA).
Hank Cole, the NCA's head of international operations, said: "We have no doubt that without this intervention the drugs would have ended up on the streets of the UK where, after being cut, they would have had a likely potential value of £30-40 million.
"Our investigation into the organised crime network involved in this attempt continues."
Det Supt Neil Thompson, from the Metropolitan Police said: "It is clear that the drugs recovered would have been distributed throughout the streets of London and beyond, generating further criminality and fuelling gang activity.
"If you deal in drugs in any scale we will find you, we will arrest you, and you will face the consequences of your actions."
The seizure follows a similar haul found by the Irish Naval Service in September based on information supplied by the NCA.
He is 20 points behind Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, who finished second at the Red Bull Ring behind Hamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas.
Hamilton said: "I don't have a crystal ball but it doesn't look great.
"There is a long way to go. The bigger the gap gets, the more the pressure builds."
Yet Hamilton recovered from eight on the grid, after a five-place penalty for making an unauthorised gearbox change, and added that there were some positives.
"Twenty points behind is 20 points behind," he said. "It's not great but it could be 30-something today. Of course, there is a hit when you get a penalty and start eighth rather than third. It makes a difference but it is not the end of the world. I got the best points I could."
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said that Bottas' victory had done Hamilton a favour because it took points away from Vettel.
"For Lewis, it was actually the best outcome that Valtteri wins the race rather than Sebastian," Wolff said.
"It was important for him to take the points home even if for him it feels like a loss today.
"It can't really come much worse. A safe lead in Baku [two weeks ago] lost by a tiny little thing [the headrest coming loose]. Then while still recovering, you need to take a gearbox penalty on a track that is not completely bad for overtaking but not great. Overall, not the best days."
Bottas' victory moves him to within 15 points of Hamilton and the Finn said he "believed" he could win the title in his first year at Mercedes.
"For me, since the day I signed with Mercedes, what else can you put as a target?" the Finn said.
"It has always been the target. but I don't want to shout about it too much.
"It is still early days in the championship and with more than 50% of the season to go, so there are a massive amount of points to get - and with this team, I am developing so much every single race."
Vettel said: "I don't really care. Obviously, I'm not too happy today because I didn't win. I had the clear aim today to win and didn't quite make it. It was very tight.
"Points-wise, I know that the higher-up you finish, the better it is with points but whether it's Valtteri, Lewis or someone else, I think you're fighting anyone out there for the race. That's been the primary target today, for the past races and will be for the next races.
"Then I think you change your minds fairly quickly in terms of who is a contender and who is not. We're still quite early, there are a lot of points to get, so I'm not too bothered at the moment."
IS began demolishing the site, which was founded in the 13th Century BC, on Thursday, according to Iraqi officials.
The head of the UN's cultural agency condemned the "systematic" destruction in Iraq as a "war crime".
IS, which controls large areas of Iraq and Syria, says shrines and statues are "false idols" that have to be smashed.
"They are erasing our history," said Iraqi archaeologist Lamia al-Gailani.
Nimrud lies on the Tigris river, about 30km (18 miles) south-east of Mosul, which IS controls.
Many of the artefacts found there have been moved to museums in Baghdad and overseas, but many remain on site.
BBC Middle East correspondent Jim Muir says the attempt to destroy Nimrud is already being compared with the Taliban's demolition of the Bamiyan Buddha rock sculptures in Afghanistan in 2001.
As well as destroying artefacts, Islamic State also trades in them - and the trade is one of its key sources of revenue.
IS "assaulted the historic city of Nimrud and bulldozed it with heavy vehicles," the tourism and antiquities ministry said on Thursday.
It said the militants continued to "defy the will of the world and the feelings of humanity", calling for a UN Security Council meeting to discuss how to protect cultural heritage in Iraq.
Nimrud covers a large area, and it is not yet clear whether it has been totally destroyed, our correspondent says.
But a local tribal source told Reuters news agency: "Islamic State members came to the Nimrud archaeological city and looted the valuables in it and then they proceeded to level the site to the ground.
"There used to be statues and walls as well as a castle that Islamic State has destroyed completely."
The unrivalled riches of Nimrud
Irina Bokova, head of the UN cultural agency Unesco, condemned the assault.
"This is yet another attack against the Iraqi people, reminding us that nothing is safe from the cultural cleansing under way in the country," she said.
"The deliberate destruction of cultural heritage constitutes a war crime. There is absolutely no political or religious justification for the destruction of humanity's cultural heritage."
Dr Gailani told the BBC: "Nimrud for us in Iraq and for me as an archaeologist is one of the most important [sites]. There are still quite a lot of things that are standing - the reliefs and the statues, the famous winged bulls.
"They are erasing our history. I wish it was a nightmare and I could wake up."
It is a "horrific crime against the cultural heritage of the whole world", said the president of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, John Curtis, calling Nimrud "the best preserved Assyrian site in Iraq".
Last week, IS released a video apparently showing militants with sledgehammers destroying historic artefacts in a museum in Mosul.
One militant was seen drilling through and pulling apart what appeared to be a stone winged bull.
In the video, the artefacts are described as "false idols" and their destruction justified in religious terms.
That attack was also condemned by the UN as a war crime.
IS has controlled Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, and nearby areas since June 2014 - a region with nearly 1,800 of the country's 12,000 registered archaeological sites.
Iraqi forces and Shia militia, have united to try to drive IS militants from the northern city of Tikrit, with the support of Iran.
The militants are also being targeted by a US-led coalition mounting air strikes.
On Friday, Iraqi forces were said to have cleared IS fighters from the town of al-Baghdadi, in the western Anbar province, with the support of US-led strikes.
The town, which was taken over by IS last month, is about 8km (5 miles) from an air base housing hundreds of US troops who are training Iraqi soldiers.
24 July 2016 Last updated at 10:07 BST
Speaking to many of the key players in the campaign on both sides, BBC Newsnight's Nicholas Watt tells the inside story of how the Leave campaign won - and how the Remain camp lost this historic vote.
Read more: Cameron considered last-ditch appeal to Merkel
This film aired as part of a Brexit Britain - a special edition of BBC Newsnight one month on from the referendum.
Te'o, 30, has won five caps as a replacement, but has been named at outside centre for the meeting with the Azzurri.
Danny Care partners George Ford at half-back, with Owen Farrell at inside centre and Elliot Daly on the wing.
"Ben Te'o at 13 gives us another way of playing the game," said head coach Eddie Jones.
"We are excited about seeing him, George Ford and Owen Farrell play together in the midfield."
Watch Eddie Jones answer your questions on Conte, player power and Buddhism.
Care last started for England in the Grand Slam showdown with France in Paris a year ago.
"Ben Youngs has been outstanding for us at number nine, but Danny Care gets the starting jersey this week," added Jones.
"For the first half he'll give us a lot of speed and running at the base of the ruck as well as the scrum. Ben will then come on and finish the game."
Elsewhere wing Jonny May and flanker James Haskell both return to the starting XV, as Jones makes four changes from the side that beat Wales.
Haskell came off the bench in the wins over France and Wales.
Find out how to get into rugby union with our special guide.
"Tom Wood has been great for us at seven, and Jack Clifford did well against Wales but James Haskell has the starting role on Sunday; he has come back to a much better level of fitness and we are sure his explosive actions will help us in the first part of the game," Jones continued.
Mako Vunipola has been included among the replacements after recovering from a knee injury, while Henry Slade is also included in the squad, with Anthony Watson missing out.
Farrell, 25, wins his 50th cap at Twickenham as England look to win their 16th straight game under Jones.
Meet the Six Nations 'hyenas'
"It is an important Test match for us and our only consideration is to play well. Italy have a proud record in Test rugby, they beat South Africa in November, and we will not underestimate them," said the Australian.
"I know the Twickenham crowd will give Owen Farrell a big cheer. To reach 50 caps at such a young age is a fine achievement. The one thing I know about Owen is that his next 50 are going to be more impressive than his first."
Analysis
BBC Radio 5 live rugby union reporter Chris Jones
Te'o has made an explosive impact off the bench in the first two Six Nations matches, and is rewarded with a place in the starting XV for the first time.
Normally an inside centre, Jones has surprisingly selected him in the number 13 shirt, and he will provide the ball-carrying power England have missed in the absence of Manu Tuilagi, and which the last coaching regime hoped would be provided by another cross-code convert, Sam Burgess.
There were suggestions Owen Farrell would move to fly-half on the occasion of his 50th cap, but Jones has persisted with the playmaking combination of George Ford and Farrell at 10 and 12.
England team to face Italy
Brown; May, Te'o, Farrell, Daly; Ford, Care; Marler, Hartley, Cole, Launchbury, Lawes, Itoje, Haskell, Hughes.
Replacements: George, M Vunipola, Sinckler, Wood, Clifford, Youngs, Slade, Nowell
These are part of a package of pre-election promises by this government: none will become law before the country goes to the polls in May.
Annuities provide an income for the rest of your life, however long you live. After your death some annuities pay a smaller sum to your spouse or partner. These are often called "joint life" annuities.
The new proposal is that you will be able to cash in your annuity for either a single lump sum or a series of payments. This has obvious advantages. Pensioners can invest it in a different way in the hope of receiving a higher income, perhaps via a buy-to-let property. Or you could pay off your mortgage, reduce other debts, help children with university fees, or even go on holiday.
Most computers will open PDF documents automatically, but you may need Adobe Reader
Download the reader here
But cashing in an annuity may not be straightforward. How will the value of your annuity be calculated? Will it take into account your state of health, and how many more years you are likely to live? If you have a "joint life" annuity, will your spouse or partner have to consent to you cashing in the annuity?
Another issue is tax. The new rules will remove the penal 55% tax charge which applies now, but the cash you receive will still be taxable at your marginal rate.
If your annuity pays £50 a week, or around £2,000 a year at the moment, the £50 may not be taxed at all because it is within your tax-free personal allowance.
But a lump sum of, say, £30,000 would be taxed at 20%. As a result, you would receive £26,000, not £30,000. Depending on your circumstances, the lump sum could push you into the 40% or even the 45% tax rates, and may cause you to lose your personal allowance.
Another issue is whether the cash lump sum will block your access to certain state benefits.
The chancellor has promised that those thinking of cashing in their annuities will have access to advice. Factors that should be considered before deciding what to do include: the fees you will pay, the tax and benefit implications of the lump sum, and the drop in your income.
Currently, you can save up to £1.25m in a pension. If you save more than this, you are likely to pay tax on any excess at 55%.
The chancellor announced plans in the Budget that would see the lifetime allowance reduced to £1m from April 2016. If you already have more than £1m in your pension at this point, you will be able to "protect" an amount up to £1.25m. HM Revenue and Customs will set out the procedure for this in due course.
If you are in a final salary scheme, it is often difficult to understand how much your pension is worth. You should check this with the pension trustees before the new protection opportunity closes.
Once you have protected your pension fund, you must not make any further pension contributions, and neither must your employer. This needs care, especially for those in final salary schemes.
You can currently save up to £40,000 a year in a pension. This is straightforward for those with personal pensions or those known as "defined contribution schemes", where you and/or your employer pay cash into your pension pot.
It is more complicated for those in final salary schemes. If you have a pay rise, the amount of your pension will increase, because your future pension reflects your pay.
So a pay rise of £4,000 a year may translate into a £48,000 increase in the value of your pension. This is more than the annual allowance.
That is why the chancellor ruled out any further reductions in the allowance, saying it would involve "penalising moderately-paid, long-serving public servants, including police officers, teachers and nurses".
Pension tax relief cost £34.3bn last year. Although this will reduce by between £300m and £500m a year as a result of the proposed change to the annual allowance, further cuts are likely, whichever party wins the election.
Possible targets are the national insurance relief given to employers and employees who make contributions into employer schemes.
Another is the 25% tax-free lump sum available from your pension. Further reductions in the annual allowance and lifetime allowance are less likely, because of the impact on public sector workers in final salary schemes.
No-one really knows what will happen after the election, but pensions will continue to be complicated.
Hawkins was the only one of Britain's Olympic marathon trio to take part after brother Derek and Tsegai Tewelde pulled out in Amsterdam.
The 24-year-old younger Hawkins brother said: "I was feeling quite strong in the last six kilometres.
"But the middle part, I just wasn't feeling it."
Switzerland's Eritrea-born Tadesse Abraham took gold in one hour, two minutes and three seconds, with Hawkins finishing in 1:03:57.
"It started off a lot more aggressive than I thought," said the Scot.
"Normally, I like to come through, but I thought I'd try something different and try to put myself near a medal, but it didn't pay off."
Matt Bond was 42nd, with fellow Englishmen Lee Merrien and Jonny Hay 52nd and 77th.
Derek Hawkins did not take part because of injury, while Eritrea-born fellow Scot Tewelde pulled out overnight because of illness.
In the women's race, Gemma Steel was the first Briton home in 10th place in 1:12:19.
Compatriot Alyson Dixon was 13th, with fellow English competitors Lily Partridge 51st and Tina Muir 59th, while Charlotte Purdue did not finish.
Abdenasser El Khayati latched on to a neat Stuart Beavon cut-back to fire the hosts ahead before the break.
Beavon pounced to make it 2-0 after Ben Alnwick spilled a Mark Duffy shot, before Gabriel Zakuani was sent-off for a challenge on Timmy Thiele.
Marcus Maddison pulled one back from 30 yards while Jermaine Anderson had an injury-time equaliser ruled out.
Burton boss Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink told BBC Radio Derby:
Media playback is not supported on this device
"It was rubbish. The second half was even worse. We scored two good goals but I was not happy with how we played, was not happy with the performance, was not happy with the dynamics of the team.
"We became sloppy. We became not Burton Albion. We didn't play the game out as we can. We didn't look (like) a team and that's not what we are about.
"I'm happy with the points, don't get me wrong, but the result should have been so, so, so much better."
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel described the move as "a destabilising attempt to alter the status quo in the region".
And on Saturday, almost as if to underline the risks involved, the Japanese authorities say that they scrambled two F-15 fighters to intercept two Chinese surveillance planes that were approaching the islands.
China's more assertive policy and Japan's apparent willingness to push back against it raises the possibility of sparking a wider conflict, albeit by accident perhaps, rather than by design.
All of the necessary points of friction are there. Last January, Japan insisted that a Chinese frigate locked its targeting radar on to a Japanese warship near the disputed islands. China denied it.
In the year ending last March, Japan scrambled aircraft to intercept what it regards as Chinese intruders a record number of times. And both China and Japan have mounted exercises that encompass the seizure or the defence of remote islands.
Having sought to draw lines at sea, Beijing is now seeking to draw lines in the air.
The upshot could be greater instability, with the ever-present danger that an incident between warships or aircraft could precipitate a localised conflict between China and Japan.
The consequences of such an encounter risk an escalation that could ultimately draw in other powers.
While China is pursuing the rapid modernisation of its air and naval forces, in any localised conflict it might be at a disadvantage compared to the modern and probably more capable Japanese.
Q&A: China-Japan islands row
But drawing up a military balance between Japan and China is not really the issue here. The real question is how might such a crisis be managed? How might it be contained? Indeed is containment actually possible?
For there is a growing concern that the traditional tools of crisis management may be less useful than in the past.
Earlier this month a wargame was held at the US think tank, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, acting out just such a scenario involving China and Japan.
It focused on how the US might respond to such a crisis. As matters got increasingly fraught between China and Japan the players acting out the roles of senior US officials resisted the deployment of US military muscle for fear of worsening the drama.
But then the Chinese actors in the wargame escalated significantly. Long-range Chinese anti-shipping missile units were moved to high-alert. Forces were despatched towards the islands in contention. The US was forced to act; the recommendation was made to send two aircraft carrier strike groups to the East China Sea.
At this point the wargame apparently ended; the US having played its trump card, and with the heavyweights of US naval power on the way the assumption was that the crisis would die down.
But one US strategic expert who follows events in this region closely - Robert Haddick - has warned that such assumptions may be outdated.
In the past, he notes, the despatch of a US carrier battle group was seen as the escalatory trump card, because there was very little that potential adversaries could do against them.
However, China's growing area-denial or access-denial strategy seeks explicitly to put such US assets in jeopardy. Long-range anti-ship ballistic missiles are intended specifically to take out US carriers.
Escalating by despatching a carrier or two might in future not calm a crisis, warns Mr Haddick. It could actually encourage the Chinese to strike out against them.
The growing tensions between China and Japan are just one aspect of the wider strains in the region, which both Chinese and US strategy may actually be making worse.
One antidote is for better understanding between the US and Chinese militaries and there has been some recent progress here.
But in a broad sense the whole US strategic doctrine in the region - dubbed Air-Sea Battle - seems designed to contain China's rising military might, while China's area-denial strategy seems intent on hampering the ability of US air and naval forces to make significant interventions in waters that it regards as its strategic backyard.
This is why an unwanted Sino-Japanese clash puts so many experts' teeth on edge.
Backed by Iranian senior officers and skilled Hezbollah fighters, Mr Assad's forces have gained the upper hand and achieved significant gains in the north, south, Damascus suburbs and now the Aleppo area.
Aleppo, capital of the revolution as the rebels call it, is a strategic prize for the Damascus government.
Its potential encirclement by the Syrian army would deepen the humanitarian crisis and represent a shattering blow to the opposition.
The Syrian army and its allies are getting closer by the day to the Turkish border.
Their game plan is to seal the Turkish and Jordanian border and prevent men and materiel from reaching the rebels, thus effectively delivering a decisive blow.
Regardless of whether a ceasefire takes hold, any political settlement would reflect the current balance of power which favours Mr Assad.
Russia's agreement in Munich on Thursday to a temporary truce is predicated on a favourable configuration of forces inside Syria.
Freezing the battlefield lines would work in President Assad's favour.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also reckons that there are many armed factions among the opposition that would not abide by the ceasefire terms.
Far from the beginning of the end, the Syrian conflict has entered a new phase in which the Assad regime has momentum on the battlefield and the negotiating table.
In stark contrast, the opposition is politically and militarily disunited with limited options. There is a disconnect between the opposition's political aspirations and its physical capacity.
The challenge facing the opposition is to bridge this conceptual divide that undermines its negotiating strategy.
There are fundamental differences between Moscow and Washington regarding the future of Syria.
In contrast to the Western powers, Russia does not prioritise a radical restructuring of governance in Damascus and solidly backs President Assad.
It is also difficult to see an end to the regional wars by proxy that fuel the fires in Syria. The Saudi-Iranian rivalry is as fierce as ever and Turkey is heavily invested in trying to topple Assad and prevent the Kurds from gaining more influence and autonomy in neighbouring Syria.
More importantly, recent territorial gains by the Assad regime have complicated the quest for political transition in the war-torn country.
Mr Assad has few incentives to compromise, let alone agree to the opposition's expansive demands.
His strategic goal is to either secure a military solution or force the opposition to accept a settlement on his own terms.
Context matters. As the Syrian army advanced towards Aleppo a few days ago, US Secretary of State John Kerry was angry at the Russians for not agreeing to an immediate ceasefire and for enabling Assad to gain a strategic advantage over the rebels.
As they began their meeting in Munich, Mr Kerry and Mr Lavrov sang to different tunes.
While Mr Kerry said he planned to have a "serious conversation" with Mr Lavrov about the urgency to make progress on humanitarian access and a ceasefire, Mr Lavrov was non-committal and threw the ball back into the American court.
At the heart of the American-Russian divide on Syria lie not only clashing interests and worldviews but also different strategic priorities.
In contrast to the US, Russia has made a strategic investment in Syria and its military intervention on the side of Assad last September is a game-changer.
Vladimir Putin now exercises decisive influence in Syria, a powerful bargaining card with America.
Russia has already changed the priorities of UN-backed peace talks in Geneva away from the future of Mr Assad to a ceasefire and constitutional reforms.
Mr Putin's decision to intervene in Syria and shore up Mr Assad with new fighter jets, military advisers and advanced weapons stopped the bleeding of the Syrian army and allowed it to shift from defence to offence.
Russian airpower also restricts the ability of regional powers like Turkey to directly assist the rebels.
Notwithstanding the recent shift on the battlefield, it would be short-sighted and reckless for Mr Assad to declare victory as his Foreign Minister Walid Muallem and his top adviser Bouthaina Shaaban did in the past few days.
Time and again in the past five years, the Assad regime has been guilty of hubris, monstrous miscalculation and underestimation of the complexity of the struggle.
What Mr Assad does not grasp is that the very survival of Syria as a unified state and society is at stake.
Fawaz A Gerges is a professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, and is the author of the forthcoming ISIS: A History (Princeton University Press).
Ex-Port Authority executive Bill Baroni was sentenced to two years for closing lanes on a busy New York City bridge.
Former Christie aide Bridget Kelly was handed a prison sentence of 18 months for her role in the 2013 scandal.
The traffic jam was arranged to target a local mayor who decided not to endorse Mr Christie's re-election bid.
Kelly and Baroni were convicted in November on counts including wire fraud, conspiracy and misusing the bridge for improper purposes.
On Wednesday, Baroni told the judge he regretted his actions and that he had "failed".
The fall and fall of Chris Christie
Chris Christie aides found guilty of 'Bridgegate' lane closures
"I regret more than anything that I allowed myself to get caught up in this and fail to help those who need it," Baroni said.
Baroni, 45, was the former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees airports, tunnels and bridges in the New York area.
Christie aides initially tried to explain the four days of gridlock in September 2013 on the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York City as a legitimate traffic study.
Both Kelly and Baroni testified in court that Mr Christie had known in advance about the lane closures on the country's busiest span.
Kelly, the governor's 44-year-old former chief of staff, provided one of the most damning pieces of evidence in an email she wrote saying: "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee."
But Mr Christie denied any knowledge of the political plot and was not charged.
A third aide who has already pleaded guilty, David Wildstein, testified that Mr Christie had laughed about the traffic jam during a 9/11 memorial service two days after the lanes were blocked.
Baroni's defence lawyers argued that his long career in public service warranted leniency.
But Assistant US Attorney Lee Cortes said Baroni should have known better and alerted authorities to the plot instead of helping to cover it up.
US District Court Judge Susan Wigenton said Baroni deserved some prison time for what she called "an outrageous display of abuse of power".
Baroni will be allowed out on bail while he appeals his conviction.
He was also sentenced to 500 hours of community service.
The scandal was widely perceived to have contributed to Mr Christie's failure in his 2016 bid for the White House.
On the same day his aides were sentenced, Mr Christie was appointed by President Donald Trump to lead a federal task force on the opioid crisis in America.
When asked on Wednesday before the sentencing whether Baroni and Kelly should go to jail, Mr Christie said: "The judge will do what the judge believes is appropriate."
Archaeologists examining a site in Plumstead have been searching for the pathway, which ran along the same route of the new rail link in east London.
They have unearthed wooden stakes which they say may have been used in the construction of the transport link.
Crossrail archaeologist Jay Carver said it was a "very significant find".
The dig team say the two wooden stakes found in Plumstead appear to have cuts made by a metal axe.
Source: BBC History
Find out more about the Bronze Age
Mr Carver said: "We know from other sites nearby that this area was probably crisscrossed by a network of pathways.
"As excavation works for the Plumstead tunnel portal got under way our archaeologists uncovered several wooden stakes and at least two that appear to have cut marks from a metal axe.
"Although we haven't identified an actual trackway yet, the timbers are similar to those used to make the trackways and certainly show that people were in the area exploiting the woodland."
Excavation at the Plumstead tunnel entrance began last month and results of analysis carried out on items found there recently confirmed they were made by humans, a Crossrail spokeswoman said.
"From the geology in the location they were found we know it was Bronze Age construction," she added.
Tunnelling is due to begin at the Plumstead site early next year. Boring machines will dig twin 1.6-mile (2.6km) tunnels under the River Thames.
Once complete, the rail line will run from Abbey Wood in south-east London to Heathrow and Maidenhead, Berkshire, in the west.
The Crossrail archaeologists say the large network of timber pathways gave Bronze Age hunters easier access to the wildlife living on the area's lush wetlands.
A month-long exhibition of artefacts found during archaeology digs at Crossrail work sites across London opened on Friday.
Among the exhibits at Crossrail's visitor information centre in St Giles High Street are medieval human bones found at Liverpool Street, a rare amber find and a piece of mammoth jaw bone.
The latest finds are undergoing analysis by the Museum of London Archaeology and will not be on show.
Organisers said the Oscar-winner would be honoured for her 40-year career as an actress, director and film producer.
"Her ambition, exuberance and grace have helped pave the way for budding artists in this business," said the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
She will be presented with the award at a ceremony on 13 January.
"Jodie is a multifaceted woman that has achieved immeasurable amounts of success and will continue to do so in her career," HFPA president Aida Takla-O'Reilly said in a statement.
"She's truly one of a kind."
Foster, 49, began her career in television commercials at the age of three and by the age of 10, had appeared in a string of TV shows.
She found international fame in 1976 for her Oscar-nominated performance as teenage prostitute Iris in Taxi Driver, and roles as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone and the lead in Freaky Friday.
She has since appeared in more than 40 movies, winning best actress Oscars for her role as a rape victim in 1988 film The Accused and as the FBI agent Clarice Starling in 1991's The Silence of The Lambs.
The actress also branched out into directing, with projects including Little Man Tate in 1991 and last year's The Beaver, starring Mel Gibson.
She also produces for both film and television through her production company, Egg Pictures.
Previous winners of the Cecil B DeMille Award - named for the famed director of The Ten Commandments and The Greatest Show on Earth - include Robert DeNiro, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Al Pacino and Morgan Freeman, who was awarded the honour earlier this year.
Samuel Noel Savage, 60, of Kincora Mews - who uses a wheelchair - was handed a two-year sentence on two charges.
Savage admitted entering into an arrangement to acquire criminal property, and converting criminal property.
His wife, Dolores Savage, was jailed earlier this year for her role in the fraud.
'No credible explanation'
The judge told Belfast Crown Court that none of the £1,044,000 stolen from medical equipment supplies company Arjo Huntleigh had been repaid.
He said there had been "no credible explanation whatsoever" given by Savage as to how the money was spent, apart from a claim it was used to clear household bills.
Savage was told he would spend a year in prison, followed by an additional year spent on supervised licence upon his release.
A previous court hearing was told that over a seven-year period from June 2006 to December 2013, Savage lodged hundreds of cheques into an account controlled by him which his wife Dolores stole from her employers.
Abuse of position
In total, 808 separate transactions were made.
Earlier this year, Dolores Savage, 59, also from Kincora Mews, pleaded guilty to fraud by abuse of position, and obtaining money transfers by deception.
She, too, is to serve a year in prison followed by a year on licence.
Dolores Savage carried out the fraud by making invoices identical to the ones on the company's computer system for a supplier.
The offending occurred when she worked in the accounts department of the firm's Belfast branch.
The court heard that the "prinicpal beneficiary of the dishonest conduct" was a company called Savnac, which was owned by the couple.
Prior to sentence being passed, the judge said he accepted that Samuel Savage suffered a number of serious and debilitating illnesses, and that he required the use of a wheelchair.
The MoD said the training, which takes place twice a year in Denmark, gave surgeons "invaluable experience" and "helped save lives on operations".
Animal rights group Peta called for an end to the "barbaric" exercise, saying surgeons could use human simulators.
It could not be justified "medically, ethically and educationally", it said.
RSPCA spokesperson Klare Kennett said: "The practice of shooting and injuring pigs for Army surgeons to practice their skills on is abhorrent and shocking.
"Pigs are intelligent animals and most people would be appalled by this, especially as there is an alternative available which does not involve harming any animals."
The UK government suspended the training courses in the summer of 1998 after they were brought to the attention of ministers who said they had not been aware of them.
The courses were reinstated after a government-commissioned study found that "no equally effective alternative" could be identified and that it was "entirely appropriate and, indeed, necessary" for military surgeons to go through the training.
During training courses, the animals are heavily anaesthetised - both before being shot and throughout exercises - and are attended at all times by veterinary staff.
The MoD says they are later killed humanely.
The department was responding to a report in the Mail on Sunday which said British surgeons treated 18 pigs that had been shot at a three-day training course earlier this month in Jaegerspris.
The pigs were tranquilised and shot at close range "to damage organs but not kill the animals", the paper said.
Peta says that "life-like human simulators that 'breathe' and 'bleed' in realistic battlefield scenarios have been shown to better prepare doctors and medics to treat injured humans than animal laboratories".
Peta's UK associate director Mimi Bekhechi said "the overwhelming majority of the UK's Nato allies do not shoot, stab and dismember animals for their military training exercises".
She condemned the MoD's decision "to ship out members of the armed forces for deadly and cruel exercises in Denmark", saying they would be illegal if conducted in the UK.
The MoD says that, while it would not be illegal to carry out similar training in the UK, the Home Office would have to give its approval on a case-by-case basis.
"This training provides invaluable experience, exposing our surgical teams to the specific challenges posed by the injuries of modern armed conflict," a spokesperson said.
"This training has helped save lives on operations and by participating in the Danish exercises we minimise the overall number of animals used."
The BBC has learned negotiations between the partnership building it and the owners of the access land, the Whitehaven Miners Social Welfare Club, have stalled.
Disagreements over the lease are said to be to blame for the problems.
No-one from The Miners Welfare Club has been available for comment.
The partnership behind the £5.5m development includes Copeland Borough Council and Whitehaven Rugby League Club.
Problems agreeing the fee that would be paid to use the land almost led to the plan collapsing in March.
A deal was later struck, although no details of the amount were released.
The stadium is key to Whitehaven's part in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.
Two games are due to be played at the new Pow Beck stadium and the Scotland team would be based in the town.
However, there are fears if an agreement between both sides is not reached quickly then the stadium would not be built in time, leading to Whitehaven missing out on the tournament and the resultant boost to its local economy.
No-one was available at the Whitehaven Miners Social Welfare for comment but in the past the club has said it does not want the stadium delayed.
Copeland Council confirmed negotiations were still ongoing but would make no further comment.
Here are 14 of the more famous faces.
Occupation: Author
Honour: Joins the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature and philanthropy
Quote: "I'm deeply honoured and proud to be nominated for this honour... and to be included in the distinguished and diversely talented company of the other Companions of Honour."
Occupation: Broadcaster
Honour: OBE for services to cancer charities through breast screening services and cancer support
Occupation: Double Olympic rowing champion
Honour: OBE for services to rowing
Occupation: Musician
Honour: Joins the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to music
Quote: "I'm very happy about this huge honour and with the news coming on my birthday weekend and Father's Day it makes it colossal."
Occupation: Comedian
Honour: Knighthood for services to entertainment and charity
Quote: "I have an ordinary background and it was never on the horizon when I was growing up that I might get this. I'm not big on pride but whatever the equivalent of pride is that is a bit decent, I've got that. I'm a little embarrassed but deep within me I'm very pleased."
Occupation: Musician
Honour: MBE for services to music and charity
Occupation: Singer-songwriter
Honour: MBE for services to music
Occupation: Actress
Honour: Damehood for services to drama
Occupation: Former Great Britain Fed Cup captain
Honour: OBE for services to tennis, women in sport and charity
Occupation: Designer
Honour: Joins the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to design
Occupation: Model
Honour: OBE for services to fashion and charity
Occupation: Broadcaster
Honour: OBE for services to Holocaust commemoration
Occupation: Boxer, former world light-heavyweight champion
Honour: MBE for services to boxing
Quote: "It's an absolute privilege and an honour and I'm so grateful to all the people who supported me and put me forward for this award."
Occupation: Captain, Northern Ireland football team
Honour: MBE for services to football
Quote: "I was shocked and taken aback when I was told about it. I thought it was a joke at first. It was just something that had never registered with me, that I might receive something like this."
17 May 2017 Last updated at 16:48 BST
330 of them were found hidden in suitcases after they were smuggled into Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia.
Wildlife officials believe they were going to be illegally sold.
The golden-domed ploughshare tortoise is native to Madagascar and, due to poaching, is the most endangered tortoise on the planet.
Madagascar's radiated tortoise is also nearing extinction due to hunting for food and to be kept as a pet - both of which are against the law.
All of the reptiles were found alive, and will now be returned to their home on Madagascar.
Another argued for not paying the legal minimum, saying that a member of staff "wasn't a good worker", while one said employees should "prove their worth".
The excuses, heard by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), were published as part of a government awareness campaign.
It is encouraging people to check their wages and warning employers of fines.
Business Minister Margot James said: "There are no excuses for underpaying staff what they are legally entitled to.
"This campaign will raise awareness among the lowest paid in society about what they must legally receive and I would encourage anyone who thinks they may be paid less to contact Acas as soon as possible."
All workers must be paid at least £7.20 an hour if they are aged 25 and over, in order to comply with the National Living Wage.
The National Minimum Wage means that:
Among the cases investigated by HMRC was a boss who thought it was acceptable to pay foreign staff below the statutory rate.
It also heard from one employer who said: "She doesn't deserve the national minimum wage because she only makes the teas and sweeps the floors."
Another said: "My accountant and I speak a different language - he doesn't understand me and that's why he doesn't pay my workers the correct wages."
Len McCluskey, general secretary of the Unite union, said: "Too often, companies are skimming their profits out of the pockets of their workforce. It is a continuing reminder that, for too many working people, work in this country just does not pay.
"While it is good to see the rogues being held to account in some way, the fines can only ever be a rap on the knuckles."
Stewart Gee, of the conciliation service Acas, said: "We welcome this new government awareness campaign, as there are no good excuses for not paying staff what they are legally entitled to.
"Employers are breaking the law if they do not pay the national minimum wage and businesses face a maximum fine of £20,000 per worker for not paying the national living wage. Failure to pay the national living wage could also result in a company director being banned for up to 15 years."
The ruling New Azerbaijan party had won at least 70 seats in the 125-seat parliament, the commission said.
A host of small parties and candidates loyal to President Ilham Aliyev took almost all the rest.
The opposition has accused the government of jailing its opponents.
International monitors from the OSCE did not observe the vote, citing government restrictions.
More than a dozen political parties were vying for 125 seats in Azerbaijan's National Assembly.
But analysts say those that could be considered genuine in their opposition to the government refused to participate.
"The pre-election period was marred by massive violations. That's why we decided not to participate," opposition Musavat Party leader Arif Gajily told Reuters news agency.
Sunday's vote serves as a reminder of the oppressive political environment inside the oil-rich nation.
In the past two years the Azeri authorities have jailed almost all critical voices, among them journalists, civil society activists, and human rights lawyers.
The government has also become increasingly intolerant of international criticism.
It denied the existence of any political prisoners, and it frequently describes negative publicity as a Western agenda to discredit Azerbaijan.
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the leading international monitoring group, has not considered any of Azerbaijan's elections since independence to be free and fair.
This year - for the first time in more than two decades - it chose not to send a mission, condemning the Azerbaijani government's "crackdown on independent and critical voices".
The Edinburgh-based company said pre-tax profits for 2016 rose year-on-year by £1.6m to £19.8m. Underlying pre-tax profits were up 30% at £49.7m.
Turnover climbed from just under £2bn to more than £2.07bn.
John Menzies described it as a "transformational" year for the group.
Its aviation business saw underlying operating profit rise by £11.1m to £34.2m. Ground handling volume grew by 5%, driven by contract wins in Europe and North America.
However, cargo handling volumes were down in absolute terms by 7%, which the group attributed in part to high volumes in North America in the previous year.
Menzies recently completed the acquisition of plane refuelling business Asig, which has doubled the size of its North American operations.
It said it was now focusing its efforts on integrating the businesses before looking "to take advantage of the exciting opportunities that the combined platform gives us".
The group's distribution division performed broadly in line with the previous year despite increased cost pressures, the company said.
Underlying operating profit for the division was £24.7m, compared with £25.1m in 2015.
The company said trading benefited from strong football-related sticker sales and cost reduction measures.
It added: "Our strategy to diversify into new market segments, reducing our reliance on newspapers and magazines, continues to make progress with an acquisition within Menzies Parcels and new contracts delivered in the retail logistics sector."
Menzies, which came under pressure from an investor last year to split up the two divisions, said it continued to work on a review of the group's structure.
It hopes to update shareholders on the outcome of the review when its interim results are released in August.
Since the inaugural event last year, the governor of Oregon has formally declared Saturday 9 August Boring and Dull Day across the entire state.
Boring is not the most exciting place in the world.
It's small town America. A farming community with an easy commute to the nearby city of Portland.
It's named after its founder, William H Boring, who began farming in the area in the 1870s.
His great grandson, Bob Boring, still lives locally and insists the town is more lively than its name suggests.
"Dad used to say it was a name, not a condition and it pretty much is" he said.
"There's always something going on around here".
Boring's unofficial mayor, Steve Bates, cannot recall the most exciting thing to happen in the town.
When pressed to think of something, the former fire engine salesman joked:"Every once in a while we have an accident out here on the highway."
For those who don't want to sit around waiting for someone to prang their car, there are other possible ways to pass the time.
You can sample a Boring beer in the Boring pub, hunt for a bargain in the Boring antiques shop or have a picture taken next to the new Boring road sign, celebrating the town's links with Dull.
"We actually hope to make this sign a tourist spot," said Mr Bates.
The potential for a tourism boost has attracted official support for Boring and Dull's pairing from the Oregon state legislature.
The Boring politician who persuaded the house to declare August the 9th as Boring and Dull Day is representative Bill Kennemer.
"People are starting to hear about Boring and they come and stop" he said.
"Before it was kind of a small wayside on the way somewhere else. And now it's a place as you're out and about to stop and visit".
The town is celebrating its new found fame with its second annual ice cream social in the park on Saturday.
"It'll be a time for our community to get together," said Steve Bates.
"We'll start off with bagpipes and then we'll also do some traditional American folk singing.
"And then we'll have a band to finish out the evening".
He insisted that the event would not be too exciting.
"Eh, no," he said. "Last year we did have lightning and thunder that sort of cut the party a little bit short.
"But hopefully this year we'll be able to have the event last the full five hours that we have planned".
Boring is proud of its link with Dull, which was the brainchild of Perthshire resident Elizabeth Leighton who passed through Boring on a cycling holiday in 2012.
Dull celebrates the relationship in October, and was first to put up a commemorative road sign.
"Dull has helped put Boring on our map and I suspect maybe in certain ways we've helped put Dull on some other maps too," said Mr Kennemer.
You could say the pairing has made Boring a bit more interesting.
So much so, the town is now developing a new relationship the Australian community of Bland.
The loss ended a run of 11 league games unbeaten for Rotherham, who secured Championship safety seven days earlier.
Shane Duffy headed Rovers' winner from Matt Grimes' corner, while Millers keeper Lee Camp denied Danny Graham, Elliott Bennett and Jordi Gomez twice.
Ex-Blackburn striker Leon Best missed the hosts' best chance before half-time, heading wide from close range.
Rovers confirmed Lambert's impending departure on Thursday, with the Scot having only taken charge at Ewood Park in November.
As for Rotherham's managerial situation, Neil Warnock is still to commit his future to the Millers beyond the summer, although chairman Tony Stewart says there is a "strong chance" that the 67-year-old will remain at the club next season.
Rotherham manager Neil Warnock: "I don't think we were prepared. The goal comes and he didn't have to jump for the header. It was a Sunday League goal and I was disappointed in that.
"We lost the game but I can't fault the lads. They have been remarkable but everybody has played their part from the chairman down to the tea lady.
"People have seen magical moments that they will remember for the rest of their lives in this run. We're limited but they have listened to what we've wanted and done their best."
Blackburn manager Paul Lambert: "I thought we deserved to win the game. Lee Camp kept them well in the game but I thought we were brilliant from start to finish.
"We came to play a team who have been playing really well and thought we were outstanding.
"I don't think there is much in the Championship. It doesn't matter if you're on a 20-game winning streak - somebody can come and beat you."
The 52-year-old, from Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, seemed to be fit and healthy all her life and took part in numerous sports, including squash and running.
Ms Macfarlane was diagnosed last year with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, (HCM), which is an inherited condition.
Her diagnosis came almost 20 years after a brief episode of irregular heart rhythm in her 30s, the cause of which was not found.
"In hindsight it absolutely frightened me that I had run and played squash and I had this time-bomb inside me," she told BBC Scotland.
According to new research from the British Heart Foundation, more than 50,000 Scots are thought to be carrying a faulty gene that puts them at high risk of heart disease.
The majority of those affected are undiagnosed and unaware that they may be at risk of a sudden heart attack.
Each week in the UK about 12 seemingly healthy people aged 35 or under are victims of sudden cardiac death with no explanation.
Ms Macfarlane says she had first noticed irregular heart beats and palpitations when she was in her 30s but nothing was found.
"Then in my mid-40s I started getting more severe palpitations, light-headedness and I passed out a couple of times," she says.
"I was referred back to the cardiology department at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, who did various tests and echo scans, ultrasounds, a treadmill test and they could not find anything at all.
"There was certainly nothing lifestyle related like blocked arteries or anything so it was a bit of a mystery."
Ms Macfarlane says she was "starting to feel like I was some kind of hypochondriac" but doctors persevered with their tests.
Eventually she was fitted with a reveal monitor, which was implanted into her body for two years.
"For 18 months it didn't pick up anything," she says.
"Then in the last six months it picked up what's called tachycardia, which is a very fast heart beat.
"They were able to analyse this and see that it was something a bit sinister."
Another episode of fainting last June led to an MRI scan which showed that the wall of her left ventricle, which is the lower chamber of the heart, was thickened.
That suggested the possibility of an inherited heart condition.
She was sent for a gene test which gave the positive result.
Ms Macfarlane says that her father had died of a heart condition but doctors could not tell from his notes whether he had carried the faulty gene.
They also tested Ms MacFarlane's son and her brother to see if they had the gene. Both tested negative.
As a result of her diagnosis, Ms Macfarlane was fitted with a cardiac defibrillator.
She says: "That gave me a complete new lease of life because I had lost all my confidence, knowing that I had the condition that could possibly lead to sudden cardiac death.
"The cardiac defibrillator constantly monitors my heart and if the rhythm goes off or my heart stops for any reason it will kick in and I am extremely lucky to have that."
Polling stations opened at 07:00 and will remain open until 22:00 on Thursday. Counting will begin when polls close.
More than four million people are registered to vote in Scotland, almost 94% of the adult population.
The first results from the 59 Scottish constituencies will be declared during the early hours of Friday morning.
Strict rules mean the BBC - in common with other broadcasters - is not allowed to report details of campaigning until after the polls close.
There are more than 5,000 polling places in Scotland with schools, village halls and community centres transformed for the day to allow people to cast their votes.
Figures from the National Records of Scotland showed that by 2 March a total of 4.04 million people in Scotland had registered to vote.
Fine weather is forecast across the country, although voting experts say there is no evidence to suggest this will boost turnout.
The Electoral Commission in Scotland has urged people not to panic if they cannot find their polling cards, as they will still be able to vote if they are registered.
A spokeswoman said anyone who does not know the location of their polling station should contact their local electoral registration office.
BBC Scotland will be delivering extensive coverage of the election results across online, TV and radio.
It will report live from Scotland's 32 counting centres after polls close.
There will then be analysis, background, reaction and debate as we find out the results from each of Scotland's constituencies.
Headlines from a UK-wide exit poll will be projected onto the exterior of BBC Scotland's studios at Pacific Quay.
And the results of the ballot will also appear on the side of the building, which sits on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow.
The 36-year-old is taking on both roles as twins Ronnie and Reggie in Legend, which follows the rise and fall of the brothers in the 1950s and 1960s.
British stars Christopher Eccleston and David Thewlis, Australian actress Emily Browning and A Bronx Tale's Chazz Palminteri are also confirmed to star.
It is expected to be released in 2015.
In April, when Hardy was confirmed in the roles, he said: "I've got to work out how to play both twins, which will be fun.
"It's another experiment and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm not going to put too much pressure on myself, I just want to have some fun and see what's out there and explore with the work."
Based on John Pearson's book The Profession of Violence, Legend is written by Brian Helgeland - who won an Oscar for writing 1997's LA Confidential - an adaptation of the novel by James Ellroy.
Ronnie and Reggie Kray were infamous for their involvement running organised crime rackets in London's East End and were both jailed for life in 1969 for the murders of fellow gangsters George Cornell and Jack 'The Hat' McVitie.
Ronnie died of a heart attack in prison in 1995, while Reggie died of cancer in 2000, eight weeks after he was granted release on compassionate grounds because of his illness.
The twins were previously depicted in a 1990 biopic starring Spandau Ballet's Gary and Martin Kemp.
Lee Griffiths, 26, from Clydach, was caught with terrorist material, including copies of so-called Islamic State magazine Rumiyah and the Anarchist Cookbook.
He was jailed for five years and four months at the Old Bailey in London.
The court was told that Griffiths, a Muslim convert, had been radicalised.
He received a hospital order in 2011 for a knife attack on his mother while she slept, the court heard.
Following his discharge last August, and while living at a residential home for mental health service users, it was told Griffiths was quickly radicalised.
Extremist material was uncovered after police raided his bedroom and seized his mobile phone last January.
The judge, Mr Justice Saunders, said it was impossible to say whether Griffiths' radicalisation was "as a result of the interventions of others or simply from what he found on the internet".
Sentencing, he said: "I am not of course sentencing this defendant for preparation of terrorist acts himself at the time of his arrest.
"It cannot, however, in my judgment be ruled out that at some stage, because of his mental instability, the defendant could have made use of the information himself or have supplied it to another to enable them to carry out a terrorist outrage.
"Whatever the nature of the defendant's mental problem, I accept that he is vulnerable but he is also dangerous.
"He has shown that he can be extremely violent for no reason and his radicalisation and beliefs cause considerable concern."
Earlier, prosecutor Simon Davis said the defendant had been sent to a medium secure mental health unit in Bridgend after he attacked his mother.
He was released from the Carswell clinic in August 2016 on condition that he live at the residential home in Swansea where he was routinely searched by staff when he went out.
Mr Davis said staff had noticed he changed from being interested in fishing, cooking and football to becoming fixated with Islam and serial killers.
His views became more extreme by last October when he also attended a mosque in Swansea.
The defendant, who worked at a local food bank, was described as vulnerable and easily led but computer-literate.
Barrister Ian Ibrahim, for Griffiths, said it was difficult to mitigate in the wake of recent atrocities but stressed the defendant was a "young man with a history of psychiatric illness".
Griffiths admitted five counts of possessing information which may be useful to someone who commits or prepares acts of terrorism and one of dissemination of a terrorist publication.
A Peugeot and a lorry caught fire after colliding on the M1 northbound between junctions 6A and seven near Hemel Hempstead on Wednesday.
Two witnesses stopped and pulled the occupants, "who were on fire", out of their burning car, police said.
In a tweet, officers said the "heroic and selfless action" of the people who stopped had "undoubtedly saved lives".
Hertfordshire Police said the two occupants were rescued before officers arrived. No-one else was trapped.
Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue service sent five fire crews and said both the lorry and the car were "well alight" when they attended at 15:52 BST.
East of England Ambulance Service said one person was taken to an urgent care centre and four or five other people were treated for less serious injuries.
|
Nick Clegg has set out Lib Dem plans to eliminate the deficit by 2017/18, insisting there is "light at the end of the tunnel" .
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An employment tribunal has criticised the trade union Nipsa in a case concerning 'entryism' by the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI).
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A social worker who agreed to let a girl be placed in her aunt's care where she would later be abused and die has said she regretted being "deceived".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Up to £40m of cocaine was seized from a yacht in the Caribbean, which was taking the drug to the UK for sale.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Lewis Hamilton admits he faces an uphill struggle to win a fourth world title this year after finishing fourth in Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Archaeologists and officials have expressed outrage about the bulldozing of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud by Islamic State militants in Iraq.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
It's one month on from the UK's referendum on EU membership.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ben Te'o will make his first start for England in Sunday's Six Nations match with Italy.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Big changes to pensions have been announced previously by Chancellor George Osborne, and it was no different this time.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Callum Hawkins finished ninth as Tadesse Abraham won the half-marathon at the European Championships despite taking a wrong turn at the finish.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Burton Albion hung on to beat a Peterborough United side that played with 10 men for more than half an hour.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
China's declaration of an "air-defence identification zone" that extends over disputed islands in the East China Sea is just the latest step in Beijing's effort to assert its claims over the islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
After six months of intensive and concentrated Russian air strikes on pro-US rebels, the scales have tipped dramatically in favour of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two former associates of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie have been jailed for their role in a political revenge plot dubbed Bridgegate.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Wood found during excavation work for Crossrail could be evidence of a 3,500-year-old Bronze Age transport route through London, experts believe.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Silence of the Lambs actress Jodie Foster is to receive the Cecil B DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes next year.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Belfast man who assisted his wife in a £1m fraud on her employers has been jailed for a year.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has defended allowing military surgeons to practise on live pigs that have been shot to replicate battlefield injuries.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The future of Whitehaven's new rugby league stadium and its role in the 2013 Rugby World Cup could be at risk again.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
More than 1,110 people have been recognised on the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Malaysian border police have rescued hundreds of the world's most endangered tortoises.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A boss failed to pay the minimum wage to a worker because "she only makes the teas" - one of a string of bizarre excuses by employers.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Azerbaijan's ruling party has won parliamentary elections that were boycotted by the main opposition parties, the country's electoral commission said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Aviation and print distribution group John Menzies has posted a rise in revenue and profits, helped by a strong performance from its ground handling division and favourable exchange rates.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Residents in the US town of Boring have held a party with a Scottish twist this weekend, with the second annual celebration of their pairing with the village of Dull in Perthshire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Blackburn beat Rotherham in their first game since manager Paul Lambert's end-of-season exit was announced.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Helga Macfarlane says she is "horrified" to think that she was unknowingly living with a faulty gene that put her at high risk of coronary heart disease or sudden death.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Voting has begun in the UK general election, with 59 Scottish seats up for grabs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The first image of actor Tom Hardy as the infamous Krays has been released as filming gets under way on a new movie about the notorious London gangsters.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Swansea man has been jailed for having a stash of bomb-making manuals and instructions on how to carry out "lone wolf" knife attacks.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two people have been rescued from a burning car by members of the public who potentially saved their lives.
| 32,273,194 | 15,565 | 1,003 | true |
It happened on the Comber Road between Lisburn and Carryduff.
The ambulance service said that a car crashed into a garden and that a man in his 70s was trapped in the vehicle.
He was confirmed dead at the scene. The Comber Road has reopened.
Bu farw Chloe Lou Farrell yn dilyn digwyddiad gyda thractor ym mharc gwyliau 'The Warren' yn Abersoch ddydd Gwener.
Cafodd y gwasanaethau brys eu galw tua 19:20 wedi iddynt glywed bod tractor wedi troi drosodd a daeth cadarnhad bod Ms Farrell wedi marw.
Mewn datganiad dywedodd teulu Ms Farrell ei bod hi "llawn hwyl" ac yn "byw bywyd i'r eithaf."
"Roedd hi llawn hwyl ac yn byw bywyd i'r eithaf. Mi oedd hi wrth ei bodd yn treulio amser gyda'i ffrindiau."
Roedd Ms Farrell â yn gweithio ym musnes y teulu yn "angerddol tuag at Abersoch", wrth iddi fynd ar wyliau yno ers iddi fod yn ddwy oed.
"Roedd hi wrth ei bodd allan ar y cwch neu jet-ski ac mi oedd hi wedi treulio amser yn gweithio yn y pentref yn ystod yr haf.
"Bydd Chloe yn golled enfawr i bawb oedd ddigon lwcus i'w adnabod."
Dywedodd Prif Weithredwr Grŵp Haulfryn, sy'n rhedeg y parc, Bobby McGhee: "Rydym yn meddwl ac yn cydymdeimlo gyda'r teulu a ffrindiau ar yr amser hynod o anodd yma.
"Mae'r gwasanaethau brys yn ymchwilio'n llawn i'r ddamwain a beth wnaeth achosi i dractor y perchennog droi drosodd.
"Unwaith bydd cadarnhad o hynny fe fyddwn yn rhyddhau datganiad pellach," meddai.
Mae'n debyg nad oedd cerbyd arall yn rhan o'r digwyddiad.
Wrth dalu teyrnged dywedodd Dewi Wyn Roberts, Cynghorydd annibynnol Abersoch fod y gymuned mewn "sioc" yn dilyn y digwyddiad.
"Rwyf fi a'r gymuned gyfan yn meddwl am y teulu a ffrindiau'r ferch", meddai.
Mae'r Gweithgor Iechyd a Diogelwch (HSE) wedi cadarnhau ei bod yn ymwybodol o'r digwyddiad a bod y farwolaeth yn cael ei drin fel digwyddiad yn y gweithle.
Cadarnhaodd yr HSE hefyd nad ydyn nhw'n rheoleiddio'r diwydiant hamdden a thwristiaeth a byddai rhaid i'r digwyddiad gael ei gyfeirio at Gyngor Gwynedd.
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Cyngor Gwynedd: "Rydym yn ymwybodol o'r digwyddiad trasig ym mharc gwyliau The Warren ger Abersoch nos Wener. Bydd swyddogion y Cyngor o adran Gwasanaethau Diogelwch y cyhoedd yn gweithio gyda Heddlu'r Gogledd I ymchwilio i'r digwyddiad.
"Rydym yn annog unrhyw un gyda gwybodaeth i gysylltu gyda'r heddlu ar 101".
Mae ymholiadau'r heddlu yn parhau ac mae swyddogion yn apelio ar unrhyw un a oedd yn dyst i'r digwyddiad i gysylltu â nhw ar 101.
The university's Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) said it had discovered new compounds which had been shown to be successful when given orally to mice at very low doses.
The team is now working to improve their properties to the point where they can select a candidate drug.
DDU is working on the project with Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV).
Professor Ian Gilbert, one of the leaders of the research effort, said: "This is tremendously exciting and amazing progress.
"We have discovered an entirely new class of compound that holds a great deal of anti-malarial promise."
The project started after the biology team at the DDU screened one of their collections of compounds against the malaria parasite.
Over the course of 18 months, two compound series were modified and refined before being tested.
MMV chief scientific officer Tim Wells commented: "Malaria control and elimination continues to face numerous challenges, not least of which is the threat of emerging resistance to the current effective treatment - artemisinin.
"In preparation for this eventuality, MMV and partners are researching over 50 projects in the largest-ever pipeline of anti-malarial medicines.
"DDU scientists have given us more compounds to work on that we hope to take through the research process.
"If successful, this class of compounds could well become a new source of much-needed alternatives to artemisinin, one day."
Following further studies, the candidate drug is expected to be ready to enter clinical trials.
Based on current progress, the scientists hope to have selected a candidate within a year.
Dr Kevin Read, another leader of the DDU team, said: "Malaria is a debilitating, often fatal parasitic disease that kills around one million people each year, mostly children under the age of five living in sub-Saharan Africa.
"Our compounds give hope that safe, affordable, new medicines to fight malaria will be ready to replace current drug treatments that are becoming ineffective due to the spread of drug resistance."
MMV is a foundation registered in Switzerland in 1999. Its mission is to discover, develop and facilitate delivery of new, effective and affordable anti-malaria drugs.
Mr Martinelli is accused of using public funds to illegally spy on more than 150 prominent people.
Among those he allegedly spied on are trade union activists, politicians, lawyers, doctors and business people.
Mr Martinelli denied the allegations, saying they were part of a vendetta by current President Juan Carlos Varela.
The court ordered the arrest because Mr Martinelli failed to appear at a hearing earlier this month.
He left Panama in January days before the Supreme Court voted in favour of having him investigated over separate corruption allegations.
He is believed to be living in Miami, Florida.
The court did not give any details about how his detention would be sought.
On Monday, Mr Martinelli tweeted [in Spanish]: "First round of the political trial: without having been properly documented, without charges, without proper notification and without sentence, my provisional arrest has been ordered."
The Supreme Court launched an investigation into the alleged spying ordered by Mr Martinelli in June.
It came after dozens of people alleged they had their phones tapped and that the administration of Mr Martinelli prepared dossiers against them containing intimate information.
Among the alleged victims are high-ranking members of the opposition Revolutionary Democratic Party, as well as lawmaker Jose Luis Varela, who is the brother of current President Juan Carlos Varela.
Investigators said the wiretaps were carried out by members of Panama's National Security Council.
Kane, 23, scored the only goal of the game at White Hart Lane before twisting his ankle while tackling Papy Djilobodji late in the match.
"We need to know about the injury and wait until tomorrow," Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino told BBC Sport.
Kane's 59th-minute goal was his second in as many Premier League games.
Midfielder Mousa Dembele, making his first start of the season, and defender Eric Dier also went off with injuries.
But Pochettino said the pair's problems "are not a big issue - just cramps".
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Despite an unimpressive display, the Swans' third victory in four matches took them 11 points clear of the Premier League relegation zone.
Guidolin missed the last three games with a chest infection and was pleased to make a winning return.
"It has been a long time and it is my first home win," he said.
"I was happy to be back. Maybe this is the most important victory of the season so I am very happy."
A listless Swansea performance saw Villa dominate the first half at the Liberty Stadium, though the visitors failed to really trouble Swans goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski.
There was a marginal improvement from the hosts after the break as Federico Fernandez bundled in the game's only goal, though Guidolin knows his side have much work to do before their Premier League survival is assured.
"The result and victory was all important. I know the performance was not very good but this is the match I was waiting for," he said.
"I know the situation and I saw my players nerves come across in their performance. I thought that would be the case for this game - they [Villa] could play with freedom and we did not.
"But in the future for the club, the fans and everyone involved we need to make sure we are not in this situation again. It has been an up and down season, it is nearly finished but not quite."
Victory against Villa means Swansea are 11 points clear of the relegation zone, though that could change on Sunday when 18th-placed Sunderland take on local rivals Newcastle, who are one place below them in the table.
"Norwich won so we are not safe. It is not certain but what I liked here was the attitude they showed," Guidolin added.
"We had the attitude of a cup final, and they are never pretty games but the result is what matters.
"We need to play with this character but with more freedom. I want to see this. If we can play this way we have the chance to have good results and finish the season well."
The BBC has spoken to two women, one whose fiance used the site and one who used it herself.
Neither wanted to be identified, but their stories give some hint of just how dramatic and wide-reaching the impact of the hack has been.
The first only wanted to be named as "Maria". She says she used an online tool to search for her fiance's email address in the dumped data.
"I really didn't think I would find anything on anybody," she comments.
She wanted to check, though, because one of her own email accounts had been compromised recently.
When she entered her fiance's address as well, the database not only confirmed it was there but it spat back a postcode, city and birthdate. All were accurate.
"These things logged your IP [Internet Protocol] address, they logged your provider, they logged everything and not only that, it was your physical description," she explained to the BBC. "It matched his to a T."
Maria quickly confronted her fiance.
"He denied and denied and denied at first and then he acquiesced and confessed what he did.
"Yes, (he said) he did have multiple affairs, yes. It just... it came out," she says.
Her fiance said that he couldn't explain fully why he did what he did and that Maria meant more to him than the women he had met on Ashley Madison. But the conversation didn't last long.
Maria packed a week's worth of clothes and left to stay with a friend. The wedding they had been planning is cancelled.
She has since booked a sexual health check, she says, and tried to distance herself as much as possible from her fiance. The whole experience has been "shattering", she adds.
"It's one thing if you come forward and say I'm not satisfied or I'm not happy or I'm finding it hard to remain faithful - as long as you're open," she says.
"It's just completely unfair to waste years of a person's life with duplicity."
33m
User accounts leaked
500,000
Canadian dollars reward for information on hackers
300 gigabytes Data reported stolen by hackers
197,000+ Emails leaked from chief exec's work account
$115m Sales reported by parent company Avid Life Media in 2014
13 years ago Infidelity site founded
You don't have to look far online to find examples of internet users who seem to be personally affected by the hacking of Ashley Madison. Various forums are full of threads from those who believe their "SO" (significant other) was on the site.
But users of the dating site are also turning to the web for help.
One woman who used Ashley Madison, but who did not want to be named, has also spoken to the BBC. For the purposes of this article, we will refer to her as "Amy".
She has been married to her husband for 10 years.
But recently she became interested in the idea of having an affair. She had heard advertisements for Ashley Madison on local radio, so a year ago she signed up and began looking for a man with whom to have a relationship.
However, she says she never messaged anyone and soon closed down the account. But six months ago she created another and this time she wanted to address questions she had about her sexuality by contacting other women.
This time she did find someone to talk to. They emailed one another, she says, for several weeks.
"She was close to where I live and we seemed to hit it off," says Amy.
"Her story seemed so much similar to mine. She was someone who had been married for a while [and] she had always been curious about that side of herself."
Amy says the woman she corresponded with told her she thought she was attractive, which made Amy feel flattered.
They were due to to meet, but at the last moment Amy called it off. She says she became fearful and began to feel that her marriage was something she didn't want to jeopardise.
"Using it kind of made me realise that there were other things that I need to look at," she explains.
"It's scary when you have this person that you love so much and you think about hurting them."
Amy says that so far she hasn't told anyone who knows her about what happened, but she's now worried that her husband might find out that she used the site.
She has distracted herself with work for now, but comments that she feels stressed and that the episode has affected her sleep.
Ashley Madison offered users a $19 (£12) "Full Delete" service, which Amy says she used. She checked an online tool to search for her email address in the leaked database and was surprised to find it there, along with other information such as her postcode, gender and the name associated with her credit card.
It's not clear what has happened in this case, but it's possible that the database was downloaded by hackers before the date on which Amy paid for her information to be removed.
Either way, she thinks there is now a possibility she'll be found out.
"If my husband were to come home from work today and say someone found my information I would be open and honest with him about it," she says.
"It's really made me think about my behaviour and why I did what I did - and to cherish what I have."
For now, though, Amy just hopes her husband won't find out.
Mike Brandon, 31, from Bristol, is being treated in Philadelphia after his British consultant said all NHS treatment routes were "exhausted".
His wife Kate said: "After an agonising three months Mike's initial bone marrow biopsy test has come back clear."
She said she "wanted to share the wonderful news".
Mike Brandon was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia two years ago.
In May, his wife raised enough money using a social media campaign, to fund his participation in cancer trials at the University of Pennsylvania.
Kate Brandon, 33, said: "Prior to starting the therapy Mike's bone marrow was almost completely made up of leukaemia cells. Twenty-eight days later there were none.
"This is a great first step showing that the T-Cell therapy is doing exactly what we hoped it would.
"We still have quite some distance to go in our journey, but we are currently filled with huge relief to have cleared such an enormous hurdle."
The CAR T Cells Trial uses genetically-modified T cells to treat patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
The patient's own immune cells - T cells - are removed and genetically modified by infecting them with a virus. The modified cells are then grown in the laboratory and re-infused into patients in the hope they will target and kill blood cancer cells.
England's former chief inspector of schools is going to become an adviser to the GEMS Education company.
Sir Michael was born in northern India and will be working with the international education firm's schools in the country.
"I have the opportunity to go back to my roots," says Sir Michael.
The GEMS group was founded by education entrepreneur Sunny Varkey, who has also funded the annual Global Teaching Prize.
Sir Michael will advise on a network of low-cost private schools in India, South East Asia and Africa.
"Low-cost schooling is a very popular and growing choice for millions of Indian families," says Sir Michael, who was born in Shimla in the foothills of the Himalayas, before moving with his family to London at the age of two.
As the head of Ofsted, Sir Michael was known as an outspoken figure in education debates, often clashing with ministers.
The former head teacher had been a strong advocate of raising standards in state schools - and had been critical of private schools.
He will now be working with Tony Little, former head of Eton College, who is the group's chief education officer.
"Sir Michael Wilshaw has a remarkable track record of transforming low-achieving schools in England into outstanding ones through strong values and innovative methods within classrooms," said Mr Varkey, the Indian-born founder of the GEMS education business.
"He has continuously raised the bar on excellence."
In 2015, Mr Varkey became the first education entrepreneur to sign up for the Giving Pledge, a commitment launched by Bill Gates, in which the wealthy pledge to give away most of their money to philanthropic causes.
The 31-year-old free agent averaged 12.3 points from 74 games for Miami Heat last season after joining them in 2014 from the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Sudan-born Deng represented Britain at the 2012 Olympics and also played for the Chicago Bulls from 2004 to 2014.
Meanwhile, former Miami team-mate and 12-time NBA All-Star Dwyane Wade is heading to Chicago.
The guard has accepted a reported two-year, $47.5m deal with the Bulls.
"I was born and raised in Chicago," said Wade, 34. "I'm excited to go back to the place I've always envisioned playing basketball.
"Growing up, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls was the team for us."
The Swans take on Middlesbrough at the Liberty Stadium on Sunday, where they have lost just once since Clement took charge in January.
Only Arsenal, who are currently sixth in the table, have bettered Swansea's home record since the turn of the year.
"We need that kind of mentality [at home]," said Clement.
After losing to the Gunners at home in his first game in charge, Clement's Swans have beaten Southampton, Leicester and Burnley at the Liberty Stadium to ease at least some of their relegation fears.
Their record on the road has not been quite so impressive however, with the Welsh club going into the Boro game off the back of defeats away at Hull and Bournemouth.
It has seen them dragged back towards the bottom three, with Boro under the charge of caretaker boss Steve Agnew, one place off the foot of the table and five points behind their hosts.
Clement refuses to see the game as a 'must win,' but, cites his side's finest victory under him as proof the Swans are capable of picking up points anywhere with nine games left.
"Of course we must relish playing at home," said Clement.
"Go back to our performances against Leicester and also Burnley, where we created lots of crosses into the box. We were very dangerous that day.
"The squad sense the important of this game. I wouldn't say it's must-win because what if you don't win? Is the season over? No, of course it's not. You've still got eight games and they are games that you can win at home or away.
"I think the fact we won at Liverpool away, it's something we can always look back on and say 'we can go anywhere and get a good result'. It's a very important game, there's no question about it."
With the late-season run-in set to begin, Clement has dismissed the idea that his side have been enjoying an upturn in form many teams experience when a new manager takes charge.
"I haven't changed anything from what I did at the start to now," he said.
"The training intensity, the way I communicate with the players, it's the same kind of thing. We work on details, we work on the fundamentals, there was no magic when I first came in and there won't be next week or the week after."
Despite enjoying success as assistant to Carlo Ancelotti at Chelsea, Paris Saint Germain, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, Clement says keeping the Swans in the top flight would eclipse anything he has achieved in his career so far.
He added: "Personally, it would be the best. It is very different being an assistant to a head coach.
"Those achievements when I worked with Carlo were very satisfying. But when you're calling all the big decisions yourself, the reward of getting victories are very, very satisfying. But the defeats hurt you more than anything.
"So it would be very rewarding if we managed to achieve the objective."
The festival forms part of Cardiff hosting the world football's biggest domestic club final as Juventus face holders Real Madrid on Saturday.
Up to 170,000 fans are expected in the city over four days.
The pitch will host the traditional Ultimate Champions match which features previous winners including Ryan Giggs.
It is the first time a floating pitch has been used at the festival.
About 200 pieces have been put together to build the pitch with the surface laid on top, while netting has been erected around the side to stop balls going into the water.
The Champions match will take place on Friday with most of the names still to be revealed.
Last year's participants included Brazil and Real Madrid legend Roberto Carlos, Portugal's LuÃs Figo and Germany's Lothar Matthaus.
The pitch will also host a walking football game, a match involving refugee teams from Cardiff, Swansea and Newport, a deaf football friendly international, learning disability and youth groups matches.
The Irish foursome had played the city several times during the early 1980s with their albums Boy and War - and 1984's The Unforgettable Fire had achieved critical and commercial success.
However the Joshua Tree album, inspired in part by the band's journey into the soul of America, elevated them to a different music stratosphere, with the album going on to sell over 25 million copies worldwide.
Thirty years on, a Radio Ulster programme narrated by Belfast church minister and U2 devotee, the Reverend Steve Stockman, reunites some fans who were at one of Belfast's most famous concerts.
On a cold Saturday morning in February, I persuade Geoff Caves, Brendan Mulgrew and Martin McCarney to meet me at the King's Hall.
No sooner are we standing outside what was, back then, Belfast's biggest concert venue, when memories of the U2 gig come flooding back.
"It was a bright summer's day. I'd just finished doing my A levels, actually my last A level was on that day," Brendan says.
"There were crowds of people milling around (at the King's Hall) waiting to get the best spot inside. It was the sort of feeling you don't get that often in your life and it was there that day in spades."
The concert was completely sold out but that didn't stop some fans without tickets trying to get in.
"A friend of mine didn't have a ticket. So whenever the gates at the King's Hall opened, he ran towards the main door and quickly handed a fiver to the doorman," Martin McCarney says.
Martin laughs as he recalls his mate sprinting into the venue and not being stopped, a lucky escape for one U2 fan.
It was a concert that attracted a lot of media interest and it was Ulster Television that got a real coup, just hours before the gig, when reporter Ivan Little interviewed Bono just minutes after the band's plane had touched down at Belfast International Airport.
"He told me that Belfast had a reputation, outside of Ireland, for being the best audience in the world and then he added 'that's sort of true," Ivan recalls.
"I asked him if they had any surprises in store for the King's Hall concert and he jokingly replied that the only surprise would be if they stayed in tune."
Of course they stayed in tune and there was another big surprise, even before U2 came on stage that night.
The band had persuaded none other than singing legend and former Velvet Underground front-man, Lou Reed, to be their support act.
After entertaining the crowds with several of his hit songs, including Walk on the Wild Side, Lou Reed made way for Bono, Larry, Adam and the Edge.
Christoph Ebbinghaus remembers the moment like it was yesterday. Now a church minister, back then as a 15-year-old this was his first concert and he was about to witness his favourite band live.
"You couldn't always make out what Bono was saying in between songs but I remember in his introduction to the concert, he described them as four friends from Dublin.
"Then he said this is the best audience in the world and we're going to give you the finest rock and roll concert this city has ever seen."
A big question being asked ahead of the King's Hall concert was whether Sunday Bloody Sunday would make it onto the set list.
One of U2's most political songs about the Troubles, the band had first played it at Belfast's Maysfield Leisure Centre in 1982.
Five years on they did play it again and, as Geoff Caves recalls, it made for one of the more memorable moments of the concert.
"There was an (Irish) tricolour and a union jack that had been pulled out during that song. Everyone who was there remembers the flag incident, Bono saying you can take down your flags, we're sick of flags," he said.
"It was quite an iconic moment. A lot of young people coming together in one place in Belfast, who wouldn't normally mix, and there was this call from Bono to take down the flags and it was obeyed."
The Rev Steve Stockman from Fitzroy Presbyterian Church in Belfast was also at the King's Hall gig.
Another memorable moment for him was in the months leading up to the concert - when U2 came to Belfast in March 1987 to launch the Joshua Tree album.
He recalls the band making a surprise midnight appearance at Makin' Tracks, a record store in the city centre.
Steve and the well known artist Colin Davidson queued to meet U2 that night and both remember the band members being "warm, friendly and interested" in meeting the fans.
With U2 set to tour again this year to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Joshua Tree album, some of those songs that filled the King's Hall three decades ago will do so again in venues around the world.
But for many fans, including Paul Duffy, who were there on 24 June 1987 there will only ever be one unforgettable gig.
"I can't drive past the King's Hall now without thinking about that day, that fantastic evening," he said.
"I've seen loads of bands there over the years but to me, U2 and the King's Hall are synonymous with Belfast. It was just such a magical time."
The Unforgettable Gig: When U2 rocked the King's Hall airs on BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Foyle at 12:30 BST on Sunday.
But the shots the Kosovan entrepreneur has in mind are strictly non-alcoholic.
With a subtle flourish, the 36-year-old lines up a series of small, squat bottles of assorted fruit juices and smoothies, along with glasses of palate-cleansing water.
"Try the sour cherry," he suggests, pulling forward a bottle full of thick burgundy-coloured juice.
Mr Ibrahimi rattles through the health-giving benefits of the drink - noting that it is high in antioxidants, helps to reduce cholesterol, and contains no sugar, or indeed any other additives.
But perhaps most importantly of all, it tastes delicious.
Kosovans have been quick to catch on to the delights of Mr Ibrahimi's products. Since his Frutomania brand launched in 2010 it has found a place in hundreds of supermarkets, as well as countless bars, cafes and restaurants.
"It costs a little more than juices from concentrates," says Alban. "But as soon as people tried it they recognised the difference."
But it is not just the taste - or the quality - of Frutomania's drinks that stands out. The company is a business rarity too - a successful start-up from Kosovo.
Since its unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008, things have not gone entirely to plan for Kosovo. Making the split just as economic turmoil engulfed Europe was perhaps the epitome of bad timing.
This hard-luck story is reflected in the statistics. The official unemployment rate runs at around 40%, and one third of the population lives below the poverty line.
The World Bank notes that Kosovo has managed to maintain GDP growth since the onset of the crisis.
But it says that that is due in large part to remittances, or money transfers, from Kosovans working abroad - and that two thirds of the population at home are classified as "economically inactive".
With the thrill of independence long since gone, people have started to ask what their government is doing to improve matters.
The answers are generally depressing.
The latest annual Index of Economic Freedom - a joint project between the Wall Street Journal and the conservative US think tank, the Heritage Foundation - does not even give Kosovo a ranking due to insufficient data.
But it makes a few unflattering points about Kosovo's business environment.
"Continued progress is hindered by weak institutional capacity, and the government has yet to show a sustained commitment to economic freedom," says the Index.
"Corruption is still prevalent and undermines the already restricted business environment. Political interference in the judiciary is troubling.
"Remnants of the centrally planned economy still linger in a government bureaucracy that makes business formation costly and onerous."
None of this comes as news to Alban Ibrahimi.
"Legally, it's not hard to set up a business in Kosovo - but practically, it's very difficult," he says.
"The government creates the environment for business development. They need to prepare legislation and security for people to invest.
"Their role is crucial - they should also be injecting funds so that people can start their own businesses."
The current Kosovan government has been in office since December - though it is largely made up of familiar faces in slightly different roles.
And the recent exodus of tens of thousands of people in response to economic woes has heightened awareness that Kosovo has to improve business and employment opportunities, or else risk losing more of its most talented people.
"We are aware that we need more serious reforms," says Kosovo's European Integration Minister, Bekim Collaku.
"The number one priority is economic development - the creation of jobs. We are expecting great results in the private sector - that should be the focus of this government - looking at small and medium scale companies, helping them to open new businesses and increase existing businesses."
Mr Collaku mentions €50m ($55m; £37m) of funding that the government has made available for agricultural businesses.
But like many people in Kosovo, he is still counting on international aid - from the US and, in particular, the European Union.
A new deal with the EU, called a stabilisation and association agreement (SAA), comes into effect later this year, which will give Kosovo increased access to European markets and funds. The Kosovan government hopes that this will be transformational.
But the EU - which has its largest foreign mission in Pristina - warns that expecting Brussels to do all the work is unrealistic.
"The SAA is an important step, but it requires Kosovo to carry out reforms," says Tom Gnocchi, the head of the economic section at the EU delegation in Pristina.
"It's not a question of Europe making it quicker; Kosovo has to do its homework and tackle difficult issues like rule of law, organised crime and corruption," he says.
If it does, then people will feel more confident in starting much-needed businesses here, and foreign investors may be attracted to take advantage of a young, well-educated potential workforce.
Companies like Frutomania are showing that a Kosovo-based business can be successful - it has started exporting its drinks to neighbouring countries and even the US.
But it will take more than soft drinks - however nutritious and delicious - to put Kosovo's economy on the right track.
Both players retired from international duty after helping the Elephants win the Africa Cup of Nations this year.
But they are in the squad to face Angola in Abidjan on Thursday and away to Equatorial Guinea on Sunday.
It means Barry and Toure can say farewell in front of their own fans at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium.
Barry was the star of the penalty shootout victory in last month's Nations Cup final and Toure also had a fine game in central defence.
The pair were given honorary places in a 28-man selection that includes all of the winning from the tournament as Ivory Coast uses the games to celebrate its success.
That means Manchester City pair Yaya Toure and Wilfried Bony and Roma star Gervinho will also travel for the friendlies.
Elsewhere, losing Nations Cup finalists Ghana have set up two tough games for the international window - against Senegal and Mali in France in four days. Those teams have both reacted to poor African Cup campaigns by firing their coaches.
Former national team captain Aliou Cisse is now in charge of Senegal, while Alain Giresse left to return for another spell as Mali coach.
Cisse's biggest decision in his first Senegal squad was to recall former Chelsea striker Demba Ba, who was left out for the African Cup by Giresse.
For Ghana, the games give coach Avram Grant a chance to start planning for 2017 African Cup qualifying - the next mission for the continent's teams - after he had barely a month to prepare for this year's tournament. Qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia then starts in October.
Top-ranked African team Algeria has games against Qatar and Oman in Doha, while Tunisia travels to China and Morocco will face Uruguay at home on Saturday.
Morocco were thrown out of the 2017 and 2019 African Cups after declining to host this year. The Moroccans have said they will appeal against the ruling.
Nigeria have a hastily-arranged game against Uganda on Wednesday after Bolivia pulled out over fears over an attack by Nigeria's Boko Haram extremist group. Nigeria said Bolivia "chickened out'' and the Nigerian Football Federation indicated it will take legal action against Bolivia through Fifa for breach of contract.
Goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama has a chance to make his 100th appearance for Nigeria if he plays against the Ugandans or against South Africa on Sunday.
After another disappointing tournament, four-time African champions Cameroon's matches away in Indonesia and Thailand have led to more criticism of the team and the national federation, which is still being controlled by a normalization committee set up nearly two years ago in the absence of proper football elections.
Legendary Cameroon striker Roger Milla said lowly-ranked Indonesia and Thailand were not good enough opposition and the national team would gain more by playing a local Cameroonian club.
"How can a country like Cameroon pick such football nonentities for international friendlies?" Milla said.
In other games, surprise African Cup semi-finalists Congo play Iraq in the United Arab Emirates and 29-year-old Johnny McKinstry, one of the youngest coaches in international football, takes charge of for the first time against 2012 African champion Zambia.
Egypt, still wary of the threat of violence at football games at home after a deadly stampede last month, meet Equatorial Guinea in neutral Morocco on Thursday.
32-year-old McLeod most recently played for Yeovil Town where he scored once in six appearances before his release.
Jennings, 29, joins the National League club for the rest of the season.
Meanwhile, Wrexham have cancelled the contracts of Kai Edwards, Nortei Nortey and Tyler Harvey while defender Jordan Evans' contract has been extended.
The Whites pressed early on and Michael Madl had their best effort cleared off the line by Darragh Lenihan.
Rovers were in charge for most of the game and Ben Marshall's jinking run was stopped illegally by Luke Garbutt, who got up to convert the penalty.
Shane Duffy headed in following a free-kick and Danny Graham nodded in his first Blackburn goal to secure the win.
Rovers, who had gained just four points since 11 December coming into the match, leapfrog Fulham into 18th and are now eight points clear of the relegation places.
Boss Paul Lambert was adamant Blackburn could be on the verge of being sucked into a relegation battle if results did not improve, but his side created the better chances.
Fulham secured an impressive victory at QPR on Saturday but struggled to impose themselves on the game and have now taken just four points from seven matches.
Blackburn boss Paul Lambert:
"I always liked the way Danny Graham played the game and there's always a hunger with him. You see his work-rate tonight, everything he gave us.
"I thought it was always us, we always looked a threat. It was a massive team performance.
"I thought from start to finish we were very, very good and we could have won by more - I thought we looked very good all night."
Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic:
"I say sorry to our fans who travelled to watch this game today because today was nothing special.
"We played without spirit, without desire and this is very important to win the game.
"We didn't try to play football, we didn't do anything important today - it is a bad sensation."
Abas Abdullahi Siraji was in his car near the presidential palace in Mogadishu when he was killed by Ahmed Abdullahi Abdi, who reportedly mistook him for a militant Islamist.
The minister's death caused shock and anger at the time.
The military court which sentenced the soldier said he can appeal.
His lawyers argued that the killing was an accident, the AFP news agency reports.
They said that the minister's car attracted suspicion after it drove up behind the car carrying the auditor general, who the soldier was protecting.
At 31, Mr Siraji became Somalia's youngest-ever member of parliament last November before becoming the minister of public works earlier this year.
He grew up as a refugee in neighbouring Kenya, home to hundreds of thousands of Somalis who fled drought and conflict, and was seen a role model for his widely admired determination to succeed.
Sensing his popularity with the youth, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo appointed him to the cabinet.
When Mr Siraji was killed, the president cut short a visit to Ethiopia to attend his state funeral.
Somalia has been wracked by conflict since the long-serving ruler Siad Barre was ousted in 1991.
It is currently battling militant Islamists from the al-Shabab group, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda.
An, 28, won three gold medals for South Korea in Turin in 2006 before being given Russian citizenship in 2011.
This has been the best experience of my sporting career and I will never forget Sochi.
He won Russia's first ever short track speed skating gold medal in the 1,000m before winning the 500m and the relay.
Only Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen and Bjorn Daehlie have won more gold medals at a Winter Olympics, with eight.
Having won a bronze in the 500m in 2006 and the 1,500m in Sochi, An's eight medals move him level with American Apolo Anton Ohno with the most medals in short track history.
He beat China's Wu Dajing into second with a time of 41.312 seconds in the 500m.
After helping beat the United States with a record time of six minutes 42.1 secs in the relay win, An said: "I'm very happy we were able to win a medal as a team. I wanted one thing, which was for all of us to be smiling together.
"This has been the best experience of my sporting career and I will never forget Sochi. Before the competition started, I just wanted to concentrate on doing my best and show what I could be on the Olympic stage."
An is also the first person to win gold in all four short track events in Winter Olympics history.
Charles Mellor, 57, disappeared a week ago while fishing near the former Carnation factory.
His body was found in The Caul area on Thursday.
Mr Mellor's disappearance on Friday night prompted a major search operation, involving the coastguard and the police underwater unit.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, Nith Inshore Rescue, and members of the Moffat Mountain Rescue Team were also involved in the search.
The collision happened on the eastbound carriageway between junction 32 at Coryton Interchange and junction 30 at Cardiff Gate at about 18:00 BST.
South Wales Police said one man sustained serious injuries. Three other people in the other two vehicles were also injured.
Both sides of the carriageway near the incident have been closed.
Police said the closure was "expected to be in place for some time".
The Welsh Ambulance Service said it was called just after 18:00 BST and had two crews and a rapid response car at the scene.
Trapped traffic is being sent back to junction 32 while westbound traffic is being diverted to the A48 through Cardiff.
A number of vehicles broke down shortly after after filling up at the station in Branksome, Poole.
The supermarket said it was carrying out "further research" after tests on the fuel came back as inconclusive.
About 20 motorists were initially thought to have had problems but the firm said the number of new cases being reported was increasing.
An excavator was seen at the forecourt but Tesco would not give further details of work taking place.
A Tesco spokesman said: "We have been working urgently to respond to customers' complaints and get people back onto the road as quickly as possible.
"Our customer services team have now contacted every known complainant and are proceeding on an individual, case-by-case basis to resolve their problems."
Hertfordshire County Council's trading standards is also dealing with the supermarket - which has its head office in Cheshunt - as part of the investigations.
Council spokesman Simon Hoggett said: "The council's actions will be governed by what the tests show.
"Is this a case of fuel being contaminated, or is it a case of the wrong fuel being put in the wrong tanks? We just don't know."
Anyone who has not yet reported a problem to the supermarket should call the customer service team on 0800 505555.
The 30-year-old was set to serve a three-match suspension for violent conduct after pushing Canaries midfielder Wes Hoolahan in the chest.
However, Wolves' claim that the punishment was excessive was upheld and the ban was reduced.
Ikeme will miss Wolves' FA Cup fourth-round tie at Liverpool and their Championship game at Barnsley.
Wolves decided to appeal against the decision following the 3-1 defeat at Carrow Road after being advised that, under new Fifa guidelines, a push in the chest is considered only a yellow-card offence.
But a Football Association independent regulatory commission rejected the club's claim of wrongful dismissal, which, if successful, would have seen Ikeme avoid any suspension.
The exhibition details Mr McCullin's career covering conflicts around the world as well as images of the Somerset countryside where he lives.
Mr McCullin said: "I know about war, it's a thing I understand. Some of the photos are tough to look at."
The work on display includes his earliest assignment of covering gang activity in North London in 1958.
Most notably, he went on to cover the Vietnam war, and the fall of Phnom Penh to Khmer Rouge forces, in Cambodia in 1975.
Mr McCullin was an evacuee during the Blitz, which took him to Somerset, where he has lived since 1972.
He said: "Somerset was always in my heart and many many years later... it's where I belong.
"It's not one of the so-called 'royal counties' so therefore it's a place where people went belting through to get to their Cornish or Devon holiday.
"It was a county that was left alone, so it retained its naturalness and farming communities."
During the winter months, he focuses on his landscape photography, but has also taken assignments more recently in Aleppo, Syria.
Speaking of his war photos, he said: "I don't want people to come away feeling negative because some are tough to look at.
"I want people to go away and change all these horrible things that are going on in the world, I want it to change.
"We want to hand down to our grandchildren a better world and a better future."
Hauser and Wirth Somerset art gallery, has attracted some 160,000 visitors since it opened in Bruton last July.
The firm also has galleries in New York, Zurich and London and its new gallery is due to open in Los Angeles next year.
The exhibition will run until 31 January 2016.
It appears to be a well-planned retaliation by al-Qaeda for the losses it is suffering in the southern province of Abyan.
Witnesses in the capital Sanaa are still stunned as to how a lone bomber, dressed as a soldier, was able to kill nearly 100 troops with an explosive belt hidden under his uniform.
The soldiers, handpicked by their commanders, had just finished rehearsing for Tuesday's planned parade to celebrate the anniversary of Yemen's unification.
The head of national security, a nephew of the previous president, was immediately replaced by presidential decree after the attack.
Tom Finn, a British journalist living in Yemen, described what he saw at the scene.
"When I arrived, I immediately saw blood that was splattered on the tarmac, pieces of flesh and also hats and shoes of soldiers which had just been blown to pieces. This debris was scattered 40-50m away from where the explosion went off."
A British military explosives expert who asked not to be named said it would appear to be a classic al-Qaeda-type suicide attack by an improvised explosive device.
He said the group has often used a combination of plastic explosives and ball bearings to lethal effect when detonated in a crowded space.
But Yemen, although no stranger to violence, has been largely spared such carnage in its capital in recent months.
Instead, the fighting between government forces, backed by US military advisors, and Islamist militants has centred around the southern province of Abyan, just east of the port of Aden.
Since 12 May, more than 200 people have reportedly been killed. Largely unseen by the rest of the world, artillery shells are crashing into mountainsides, gunmen are firing out of their AK-47s in the sweltering heat of the open desert, while Yemeni air force warplanes carry out air strikes.
Further to the east, in the craggy valleys of the province of Hadramout, a missile fired from a CIA unmanned aerial drone recently killed three militants believed to be linked to al-Qaeda.
So why, three months after its long-serving and unpopular president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, stepped down in the wake of protests triggered by the Arab Spring, is Yemen still at war?
Yemen is complicated.
The country has profound problems that have nothing to do with al-Qaeda - dwindling oil, dwindling water, rising food prices, soaring unemployment, a Shia insurrection in the north, a separatist movement in the south. Corruption and tribal feuds are rife.
But Yemen is also home to what many consider to be al-Qaeda's most dangerous branch - al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) - which, together with its allied tribal militants, has managed to take significant ground from the government in Abyan province, profiting from the chaos engendered by last year's protests, including looting abandoned warehouses full of weapons.
While the rest of the world has only limited interest in AQAP's bid to take and hold ground inside Yemen, it does worry about the group's global ambitions, especially its expertise in bomb-making.
Starting in August 2009, AQAP has now sent several concealed body bombs outside Yemen borders, with only timely intelligence work by the Saudis and others averting mid-air detonations on planes bound for the US.
Al-Qaeda's master bomb-maker, in hiding in Yemen, has long been identified as a Saudi national, Ibrahim al-Asiri, a jihadist so fanatical he sent his own brother Abdullah on a suicide mission to Jeddah with a device intended to assassinate the Saudi head of counter-terrorism, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef.
The device worked, blowing the bomber in half, but it only very lightly injured the prince.
Osama Bin Laden, the former leader of al-Qaeda who was killed in Pakistan a year ago, had mixed views about what the organisation should be doing in Yemen.
The electronic files seized from his compound in Abbottabad reveal he believed Yemen "should be peaceful and kept as a military reserve for the ummah", the global Muslim community.
But Bin Laden was also keen for it to be used as a springboard for further attacks on the US mainland.
In the files, he exhorts his associates to "concentrate on the Yemeni emigrants who come back to visit Yemen and have American visas or citizenship, and would be able to conduct operations inside America, as long as they have not given their promises not to harm America.
"We need to extend and develop our operations in America and not keep it limited to blowing up airplanes."
His words appear to have been only partly heeded, with a small but determined core of mainly Saudi operatives in AQAP working on ways to attack the US.
This is why the US is now exerting great efforts to support and encourage Yemeni government forces in their efforts to dislodge al-Qaeda from Abyan province and its capital, Zinjibar.
The controversial CIA drone strikes, which are deeply unpopular with Yemen's tribes, and which human rights groups charge are tantamount to extrajudicial killings, have already killed several AQAP operatives, as well as its charismatic and influential ideologue, Anwar al-Awlaki.
The US is now in something of a race to find and eliminate the master bomb-maker before he can train up any more like him.
Even in the remote wildernesses of Yemen's Shabwah, Marib and Abyan provinces, where al-Qaeda has established a scattered presence, a fugitive can only hide for so long before somebody, somewhere, phones in a tip-off.
Today's bombing will likely make Washington and Sanaa redouble their efforts to eliminate al-Qaeda from Yemen. It will not be easy.
The South Americans are looking to win a third trophy in as many years after successive Copa America titles, including beating Argentina in last year's final.
Chile defeated Portugal on penalties to set-up a meeting with the world champions in St Petersburg on Sunday.
"We have proven our value," said Vidal.
"We have beaten Argentina and Portugal, the European champions, if we win on Sunday, we will prove we are the best team in the world."
Vidal, who plays his club football in Germany with Bayern Munich, hoped this tournament would be good preparation for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
He added: "We have reached this final with our spirit and attitude - this is a waiting room for the World Cup - and if we win on Sunday that will show where we are."
Germany have the youngest team in Russia with the average age of their squad just 24.
However, they have produced some impressive performances as the tournament has gone, notably beating Mexico 4-1 to reach the final.
"A lot of work has gone into our wins," said Germany boss Joachim Low. "We couldn't pre-empt reaching the final as some players had little experience and you couldn't calculate how they'd react.
"We've become a team over the last few weeks. They know there is work ahead and they are ambitious enough to beat Chile."
A Germany victory on Sunday would complete a successful couple of days for the country after the Under-21s beat Spain 1-0 to win the European Championship on Friday.
Yes, during the group stage as the two sides shared a 1-1 draw.
Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez opened the scoring in the sixth minute of the Group B encounter before Lars Stindl equalised just before half-time.
Germany went on to finish top of the group as Chile finished second.
It looks like the top scorer of the tournament is going to be a Germany player. Tim Werner is currently leading the way (three goals, one assist), with Leon Goretzka (3, 0) and Stindl (2, 0) also in contention.
Portugal talisman Cristiano Ronaldo has two goals and one assist but he won't take part in the third-place play-off with Mexico having already gone home to spend time with his new-born twins.
About 70 police officers were involved in the operation on Thursday, which saw four addresses searched in Cheltenham.
Nobody was arrested and all of the children, of various ages, are now back with their families.
A "significant" inquiry into current and historical sexual abuse had been opened, Gloucestershire Police said.
Det Ch Insp Chris Hanson said several warrants were executed at a number of addresses simultaneously, and a "large amount" of "computers, phones, data devices and tablets" were recovered.
"They will be examined by specialist officers.... to establish if there are any indecent images or any other evidence relating to the sexual abuse of children," he said.
He added that specially trained police officers, along with colleagues from social services, spoke to the 16 children and arrangements were in place to monitor them at home.
Police said the operation was in response to "information received around non-recent and current sexual abuse against children".
A Gloucestershire County Council spokesperson said: "We can confirm that we supported a police operation yesterday and we continue to offer support and advice.
"Our primary concern is to look after vulnerable people who need our protection."
The village hall for the twin villages of Garmouth and Kingston is believed to have suffered under-floor flooding due to the recent heavy rainfall.
Moray Council said Thursday's polling place would now be set up in the lounge of the Garmouth Hotel.
Polling will take place from 07:00 to 22:00 and signage will be in place at the village hall redirecting voters to the hotel.
It happened as the lorry drove under a 19th Century stone bridge in the town centre, known as The Cut, at about 21:25 BST on Tuesday.
The lorry appears to have some damage to its roof. The road under The Cut - Bridge Street - was closed for a short time, but no injuries were reported.
Lorries also hit the same bridge in May and twice within two days in November.
After the third strike, police officers began keeping score and posted a photo of the damage on the PSNI Banbridge Twitter account.
"The Cut 3, Lorries 0', officers declared, adding: "Looks like we are going to need a bigger sign."
At the time, they advised drivers of high-sided vehicles to know the height and dimensions of their lorries before passing under bridges.
In November 2016, a prison service van lost its roof when it hit the bridge.
The following day, a second lorry became stuck under the bridge.
There are a number of signs warning motorists about the height of The Cut, some of which also advise lorry drivers to take an alternative route, said Michael Ferran, who teaches lorry drivers about safety.
However, he said that if high-sided vehicles make a mistake and approach the bridge, there is little space on Bridge Street for them to turn back.
Mr Ferran added that generally speaking, haulage companies and lorry drivers are often under a lot of pressure to meet deadlines.
"It's all rush, rush, rush," said Mr Ferran, who runs the Banbridge-based firm, Transport Consulting Company.
The photograph of the latest incident was taken shortly after Tuesday's collision by Mr Ferran's wife.
Ibrahim Halawa has been in jail without trial for more than three years.
He was 17 when he was arrested with three of his sisters during a siege at the Al-Fath mosque in Cairo in 2013.
His lawyer told BBC News NI that during a family visit last week, Mr Halawa was so weak, jail staff used a wheelchair to bring him to see his relatives.
The prisoner, who was born and raised in Dublin, is represented by Belfast-based solicitor, Darragh Mackin.
Mr Halawa is the son of the most senior Muslim cleric in the Republic of Ireland and the Irish government has tried to negotiate his release.
The prisoner has staged intermittent hunger strikes in protest against his continued detention without trial.
Over the past three years, his court case has been adjourned 19 times.
Irish embassy officials had visited Mr Halawa in prison more than 50 times, said the Department of Foreign Affairs in a statement.
Diplomats most recently met him on 1 March for 40 minutes at Torah prison, where he had been moved for medical tests requested by the Irish embassy, added the statement.
"Embassy officials urged him, as they have consistently done during the time that he has been in prison, to look after his health by ensuring that he eats properly and drinks plenty of water," said the department.
On Sunday, however, Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan said Mr Halawa's condition had "deteriorated rapidly" and said campaigners were very concerned for his health.
Speaking to Irish broadcaster, RTÉ, she said the prisoner was being "kept alive" with glucose injections.
His solicitor said Mr Halawa restarted his hunger strike about three weeks ago.
The case is due to return to court later this week but Mr Mackin expressed concern that the trial may be adjourned again.
Irish foreign minister Charlie Flanagan raised Mr Halawa's health with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry during talks in Brussels on 6 March, said the statement from the Department of Foreign Affairs.
"At that meeting, Minister Flanagan also again conveyed the Irish Government's wish to see Ibrahim returned to Ireland," it said.
At the time of their arrests, the Halawas were on family holiday in their parents' homeland.
Their trip coincided with violent anti-government protests in Cairo, staged in support of the ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
The family were arrested, along with many others, when Egyptian security forces stormed the Al-Fath mosque in August 2013.
Mr Halawa's three sisters were released after about three months and were allowed to return home to Dublin, but he has remained in jail.
For several years, Mr Halawa was told he would face the death penalty if he was convicted at a mass trial.
However, in January the Egyptian president told a delegation of Irish politicians that he will offer a pardon Mr Halawa once his trial is over.
The Egyptian parliament has previously objected to calls from the Irish parliament to release the Dubliner, saying the request would interfere in the affairs of the Egyptian judiciary.
|
A man in his 70s has been found dead at the scene of a car crash in County Down.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Mae teulu merch 22 oed o Fae Colwyn a fu farw yn dilyn digwyddiad gyda thractor yn Abersoch wedi talu teyrnged iddi drwy ddweud ei bydd hi'n "golled enfawr."
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Dundee University researchers have reported "rapid progress" in efforts to develop a new treatment for malaria.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Panama's Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of former President Ricardo Martinelli, who governed the Central American country from 2009 to 2014.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tottenham hope to learn the full extent of Harry Kane's ankle injury on Monday after the striker left Sunday's win over Sunderland on crutches.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Swansea City head coach Francesco Guidolin believes the 1-0 win against Aston Villa was their "most important" of the season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
When infidelity dating site Ashley Madison was hacked, the details of 33 million user accounts were published on the web.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man with a rare type of leukaemia whose wife raised £400,000 to cover his medical costs in the USA has "cleared an enormous hurdle" in his treatment.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sir Michael Wilshaw, who recently stepped down as the high-profile head of Ofsted, has revealed plans to work with schools in India.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
British forward Luol Deng has joined the Los Angeles Lakers on a four-year deal worth $72m (£55m).
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Swansea City boss Paul Clement hopes their recent home form will help his side avoid relegation from the Premier League.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A floating football pitch has been unveiled in Cardiff Bay ahead of the Champions League festival opening later this week.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
24 June 1987 was no ordinary day, especially if you were a U2 fan in Northern Ireland, because it's when the band brought their Joshua Tree tour to the King's Hall in Belfast.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
It is only just past nine in the morning - the staff are still taking the chairs off the tables at the pub in the centre of Kosovo's capital Pristina - and Alban Ibrahimi is keen to start drinking.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Goalkeeper Boubacar Barry and defender Kolo Toure will mark the end of their Ivory Coast careers in this week's friendly matches.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Wrexham have signed free agent and former England Under-21 striker Izale McLeod as well as James Jennings on loan from Cheltenham Town.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Blackburn ended a nine-match winless run in the Championship with a dominant display against Fulham.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Somali soldier who shot dead the country's youngest-ever cabinet minister last month has been sentenced to death by firing squad.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Russia's Victor An won his sixth career gold medal and became the most successful short track skater ever as the hosts won the 5,000m relay.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Police have confirmed that the body of a man pulled from the River Nith in Dumfries is that of a missing fisherman.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The M4 has been closed both ways following a three-car crash near Cardiff in which four people were hurt.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The forecourt of a Tesco fuel station is being dug up after drivers reported engine problems after buying diesel.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Wolves keeper Carl Ikeme has had his ban for his red card during Saturday's game at Norwich City cut to two games.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A collection of war photographs by celebrated UK photojournalist Don McCullin have gone on display.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Monday morning's suicide bombing of a military parade is the biggest single attack on Yemeni government forces since President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi took office in February.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal believes beating Germany in the Confederations Cup final in Russia will prove they are the best team in the world.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sixteen children have been spoken to by detectives and social care workers as part of an investigation into child sexual abuse, the BBC has learned.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Moray polling station has had to be changed due to flooding.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A low bridge in Banbridge, County Down, has been hit by a vehicle for the fourth time in less than a year.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 21-year-old Irishman on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison has become so weak that he is using a wheelchair, his lawyer has said.
| 35,724,065 | 14,404 | 998 | true |
Craig Douglas, a prominent gamer known as Nepenthez, and his business partner Dylan Rigby, ran a website that let video gamers gamble virtual currency.
Douglas must pay £91,000 ($112,000) and Rigby £164,000 in fines and costs.
Douglas promoted the website to fans of his YouTube channel, which has more than 1.3 million subscribers.
It is the first time the UK's gambling commission has prosecuted people for running an unlicensed gambling website connected to a video game.
"This was one of the most serious cases that has been investigated and prosecuted by the Commission," said chief executive Sarah Harrison.
"Its gravity is reflected in the significant financial penalties imposed by the Judge."
The effect on children of online gambling was described as "horrific" and "serious" in court, she added.
"This case demonstrates that we will use the full range of our statutory powers to investigate and prosecute individuals and companies who try to operate illegally."
The men ran a website called FUT Galaxy that let players transfer virtual currency out of the Fifa 17 video game, and use it to bet on real-life football games.
Winnings could then be transferred back in to the Fifa 17 video game.
But crucially, the Fifa virtual currency can also be sold on an online black market, giving the virtual coins real world value, like casino chips.
Similar betting websites connected to other video games also exist, and news site Bloomberg has suggested the market is worth billions of pounds.
Douglas, 32, from Ferndown, Dorset, admitted a charge of being an officer of a firm that provided facilities for gambling without an operating licence, and a further offence relating to the advertising of unlawful gambling.
Rigby, 33, from Colchester, Essex, pleaded guilty to two charges connected to the provision of facilities for gambling, and a third offence linked to advertising illegal gambling.
The jeans are described on Nordstrom's website as typifying "rugged, Americana workwear" and "hard-working action".
But critics on Facebook are scathing of what the company describes as its new design of "heavily distressed" jeans.
"You can achieve the same look for a lot less by rolling in your backyard or gardening," one commentator said.
The company says the jeans are made with muddy coating "that shows you're not afraid to get down and dirty".
Among those to join the chorus of Facebook criticism of what Nordstrom calls its Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans is Discovery Channel Dirty Jobs presenter Mike Rowe who described them as "looking like they have been worn by someone with a dirty job" but "made for people who don't."
"The Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans aren't pants," Mr Rowe wrote.
"They're a costume for wealthy people who see work as ironic - not iconic."
Mr Rowe's followers on Facebook were equally damning of the jeans - made for Nordstrom by New York-based luxury denim brand PRPS.
"Give me your jeans, and for a mere 200 bucks, I'll one-of-a-kind customise them for you... You can choose from horse barn mucker, chicken coop builder, tractor grease, potters clay... $600 and I'll let one of the goats chew a hole on the leg," one contributor said.
Are skinny jeans really harmful?
How the birthplace of denim is making jeans again
The huge success of Colombian butt-lifting jeans
But not everyone was dismissive of the new jeans.
"What's the beef about buying mud jeans?" one commentator on Twitter said.
"If someone can afford $400 for a pair of dirty jeans, so what? Go for it!"
Last month Nordstrom advertised another unusual pair of trousers in the form of jeans with "knee windows" on its website - but for a far cheaper $95 (£74; €87) .
The Spiders won the first-leg 3-1, and Clyde found the hope they were looking for with a Scott Linton penalty in the first half at Hampden.
The hosts played the better football, with teenage midfielder Liam Brown outstanding.
They were also helped by Clyde being reduced to 10 men with Michael Bolochoweckyj's second-half dismissal.
The task for Barry Ferguson's Clyde was clear enough, but their play initially seemed cluttered and heavy footed.
It might have been understandable that a two-goal lead from the first leg allowed Queen's Park to perform with a sense of freedom.
The home side were composed and slick in their passing, with so much of their play shaped and cajoled by the excellent Brown. The 17-year-old, whose jersey seemed several sizes too big but whose ability and assurance allowed him to command all of those around him, was irrepressible.
Gus MacPherson's side attacked with measured intent and created several scares in the Clyde penalty area. The visitors' tall, strong but occasionally plodding in their movement of the ball, were obliged to use their wits just to stay in the tie.
By not panicking, they found the means to assert themselves. When Steven Brisbane slung a cross into the Queen's Park penalty area, John Gemmell steered a header towards goal and the ball landed on the roof of the net.
And, from another Gemmell header, Ryan McGeever handled.
From the resulting penalty kick, Linton stroked the ball into the corner of the net. Queen's Park still had a goal lead in their favour, though, and they were not unnerved.
The second half began in the same manner as the first, with the home side playing with verve and confidence. Brisbane had to scoop the ball over almost from the goal-line after David Galt crossed for Paul Woods.
There was intricacy in the way that Vincent Berry, Brown and Woods all moved the ball around, but Clyde could be bluntly effective. Jordan Kirkpatrick saw a shot from distance saved, while substitute David Gormley's volley was tipped over by Queen's Park keeper William Muir.
In between those efforts, though, Bolochoweckyj was dismissed, receiving his second yellow card for a foul on Galt.
Clyde continued to be game, and sent Marvin Andrews on to play up front but they could not create another clear chance, and Queen's Park earned the result that took them up into the third tier after a seven-year absence.
Match ends, Queen's Park 0, Clyde 1.
Second Half ends, Queen's Park 0, Clyde 1.
Joe Bradley (Queen's Park) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Scott Linton (Clyde).
Corner, Queen's Park. Conceded by John Gibson.
Attempt saved. Joe Bradley (Queen's Park) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Corner, Clyde. Conceded by Gavin Mitchell.
Gavin Mitchell (Queen's Park) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Gormley (Clyde).
Substitution, Clyde. Marvin Andrews replaces Steven Brisbane.
Corner, Queen's Park. Conceded by Steven Brisbane.
Attempt saved. Conor McVey (Queen's Park) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Queen's Park. Conceded by Chris Smith.
Substitution, Queen's Park. Conor McVey replaces David Galt.
Corner, Clyde. Conceded by William Muir.
Attempt saved. David Gormley (Clyde) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Clyde. Jamie Watson replaces Sean Higgins.
David Gormley (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sean Burns (Queen's Park).
Sean Higgins (Clyde) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Joe Bradley (Queen's Park) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sean Higgins (Clyde).
Corner, Queen's Park. Conceded by Scott McLaughlin.
Substitution, Queen's Park. Joe Bradley replaces Paul Woods.
Second yellow card to Michael Bolochoweckyj (Clyde) for a bad foul.
David Galt (Queen's Park) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Michael Bolochoweckyj (Clyde).
Corner, Queen's Park. Conceded by Steven Brisbane.
Corner, Queen's Park. Conceded by Ross Millen.
Corner, Queen's Park. Conceded by Steven Brisbane.
Substitution, Clyde. David Gormley replaces David Marsh.
Attempt saved. Jordan Kirkpatrick (Clyde) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Craig McLeish (Queen's Park) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Steven Brisbane (Clyde).
Corner, Queen's Park. Conceded by Ross Millen.
Corner, Queen's Park. Conceded by Michael Bolochoweckyj.
Vincent Berry (Queen's Park) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David Marsh (Clyde).
Paul Woods (Queen's Park) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Brisbane (Clyde).
Former chairman Stephen Green said HSBC should have done more due diligence before the purchase.
He said: "It would have been better to have drilled into the detail much earlier."
Lord Green was speaking to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee.
HSBC agreed to pay the authorities in Geneva 40 million Swiss francs (£28m) to settle the investigation into allegations of money laundering at the Swiss bank.
The payment was to compensate the authorities for past organisational failings and no criminal charges were filed.
Lord Green was chief executive and then chairman of HSBC between 2003 and 2010.
When asked by Lord Hollick how the bank had allowed "industrial scale" tax evasion at the Swiss private bank, Lord Green said: "I do not believe that anybody was aware of the - to use your phrase - industrial scale systems of tax evasion.
"We became aware of this situation, the extent of it, only in around 2010.
Lord Green also said that the bank failed to carry out due diligence on an acquisition in 2002 of Grupo Financiero Bital in Mexico.
He said: "Yes, with hindsight we should have focussed earlier on the anti-money laundering issues that were plainly in the bank. We should have done that. We didn't get it right."
Investigations by US authorities led to the UK-based bank being fined almost $2bn for failing to stop criminals using its banking systems to launder money.
Lord Green also admitted that the issue of high pay packages for bank employees had disturbed him: "It certainly kept me awake.
"For me this issue of remuneration was the most difficult one we wrestled with. How could anyone be comfortable with a situation where you've got very senior people being paid very large amounts of money or indeed quite young people being paid large amounts of money - an enormous multiple of, let's say the head of large inner city school?
"There's no possible way on moral grounds of justifying this. Did that leave me uncomfortable. You bet it did."
The life-size bronze effigy of the Native American stands in Gravesend, Kent, where she died on her journey home to Virginia in 1617.
Historic England has renewed its Grade II listed status and updated details of her life and role in Transatlantic history in its heritage list.
A new Grade II listed status has also been given to a monument in London.
The Virginia Quay First Settlers Monument, across the River Thames from the O2 arena in Blackwall, remembers the men, women and children who left the quayside for North America in December 1606.
The adventurers founded Jamestown, the first English colony in Virginia, in April 1607, which was captained by John Smith.
Live: More news from Kent
The statue of Pocahontas is a copy of a sculpture in Jamestown, Virginia, that was donated to the UK in 1958 by the state's then governor.
It was first listed in 1975.
Debbie Mays, head of listing at Historic England, said: "Pocahontas is remembered for her forging of ties between two very different cultures.
"These monuments are physical reminders of her story, those of the English setting sail to the New World, and our shared colonial past and we are pleased to mark their importance on the National Heritage List for England."
Extra water was available this year and organisers have said air quality was fresher after high pollution on Friday.
Organisers said 9,426 people started this year's race.
Kenyan Duncan Maiyo, 24, won the men's race, setting a new personal best time of two hours 34 minutes and 25 seconds, while compatriot Pennina Wanjiru, 30, won the women's race in 2:34:25.
Spokesman Michael Butcher said the event had gone very well and the atmosphere was "fantastic".
The runners had a slightly chilly start and conditions were windy, but the weather was beautiful, he added.
"Thousands of people are out there now. I went to the finish line and had to walk along the course because it was impossible to get on to the pavements," he said.
Race director Tom Naylor said people travelled from across the world to take part, including 14 who had come from Australia.
"Once you've done one marathon, maybe New York or Berlin, then the running tourist wants more events," he added.
He said: "It's a fantastic tourist destination. The course is great - nice and flat and fast. It takes in the best parts of the city, and who wouldn't want to come and do Brighton Marathon?"
Two years ago, a runner collapsed and died while taking part in the race, partly from dehydration.
Mr Naylor said this year water was provided at 21 stations, one at nearly every mile of the course.
"It means runners can drink more often which means they can drink less at each water station, which is much better for the body and much better for their performance," he said.
Part of a lecture given by former Black Caps captain Brendon McCullum appeared on the MCC website headlined 'McCullum on Cairns match-fixing'.
Cairns won a libel case in 2012 over match-fixing allegations and was cleared of perjury in 2015.
The MCC said it has 'withdrawn its allegations completely' and apologised.
The video clip from the annual Spirit of Cricket lecture remained on the website for 11 hours before it was removed.
Cairns, 45, successfully sued Lalit Modi after the cricket administrator accused him on Twitter of match-fixing in the Indian Cricket League.
McCullum appeared as a witness at the 2015 trial when Cairns was charged with perjury stemming from allegations made in the libel case.
Cairns was subsequently acquitted of perjury and perverting the course of justice.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.
Peterhead and Aberdeen Lifeboats were called amid fears the drifting vessel was a danger to other shipping in the area.
The creel boat was heading towards Aberdeen Bay on autopilot.
A crew transfer boat managed to get someone on board, and brought it under control. The fisherman was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
The incident happened on Thursday afternoon.
Even before his surprise move on Wednesday, the 43-year-old was Romania's only sitting prime minister to face trial over allegations of fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.
He has repeatedly denied the charges, accusing prosecutors of being "totally unprofessional".
Mr Ponta - himself a former prosecutor - has also faced accusations of disregard for democratic standards and the rule of law, after he spearheaded a successful campaign to oust the heads of both houses of parliament and even tried - but failed - to impeach the then President Traian Basescu in 2012.
The move was widely criticised by senior politicians in Romania and across the European Union.
"Confrontation has been his trademark during his tenure in office," London-based Romanian journalist Petru Clej told the BBC.
He added that Mr Ponta "has become something of a liability to the European Union", as some politicians simply felt uncomfortable dealing with him.
However, it seems that the street protests in the capital Bucharest finally forced the experienced political bruiser to step aside.
"I can carry any political battles, but I can't fight with the people," Mr Ponta told reporters after his resignation.
Mr Ponta became Romania's third prime minister in less than six months when his left-leaning Social Liberal Union (USL) alliance took charge in May 2012 after toppling its predecessor in a confidence vote.
But later that year he was hit by yet another scandal.
A report in the science magazine Nature suggested more than half of Mr Ponta's doctoral thesis work in 2003 was made up of copied text.
The prime minister categorically rejected the plagiarism claim as politically motivated.
In December 2012, Mr Ponta's Social Democratic Party (PSD) won a landslide victory at parliamentary elections, capitalising on mounting public discontent over austerity policies.
However, several months later Mr Ponta was at the centre of another row when his deputy Liviu Dragnea was charged - along with dozens of other people - with trying to rig the 2012 referendum that failed to oust President Basescu.
The Social Liberal Union partnership fell apart in 2014 when the National Liberal Party left because of a row over a cabinet reshuffle, prompting Mr Ponta to form a new coalition - this time with a party representing ethnic Hungarians.
In 2014, Mr Ponta stood for the post of president and was favourite to win.
He won the first round, but then unexpectedly lost in the run-off to Klaus Iohannis - a centre-right provincial mayor and anti-corruption campaigner.
Analysts say that that election was decided by the votes of Romania's large diaspora, who favoured Mr Iohannis, a member of Romania's ethnic German community.
Earlier this year, President Iohannis repeatedly called on Mr Ponta to resign over the ongoing corruption trial.
The new feature will debut in the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, the firm said in a blog post.
A smartphone app will be made available in the next few days with a desktop version due in the coming months.
The new feature puts Facebook in direct competition with increasingly popular local online selling platforms.
The social media site is already being used for selling and buying via Facebook groups.
"In recent years more people have been using Facebook to connect in another way: buying and selling with each other," said Mary Ku, director of product management, in the company's blog.
"This activity started in Facebook Groups and has grown substantially. More than 450 million people visit buy and sell groups each month."
Facebook will not be involved in the payment process and will not charge for putting items up for sale at the moment.
It is not the first time the social media giant has tried to expand into the second-hand market. It originally launched a desktop-only classifieds marketplace in 2007
Facebook shares traded marginally higher on Monday in the US while shares in eBay fell by more than 1%.
Meredith tapped home Mark Marshall's pin-point cross on the hour mark to cancel out Lee Gregory's 50th-minute opener.
The Londoners, who stretched their unbeaten run to seven matches in all competitions, had enjoyed the best of the first-half chances.
Steve Morison went close for the visitors with a volley in the fourth minute, before Bradford midfielder Josh Cullen had a shot beaten away by Jordan Archer.
Debutant Jake Cooper and Gregory both hit the Bradford crossbar with headers during a frantic 29th minute.
And the visitors were rewarded when Gregory showed great footwork and balance to create an opening and score shortly after half-time.
Meredith levelled for City 10 minutes later when he poked home Marshall's cross along the six-yard box.
Cullen saw a long-range effort saved before Marshall curled a shot wide as Bradford stepped up the pressure.
Morison had a header saved before Millwall goalkeeper Archer nearly fluffed a well-hit strike by Marshall in the closing stages.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bradford City 1, Millwall 1.
Second Half ends, Bradford City 1, Millwall 1.
Foul by Timothee Dieng (Bradford City).
Shane Ferguson (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Tony McMahon (Bradford City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Tony McMahon (Bradford City).
Tony Craig (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Tony McMahon (Bradford City) left footed shot from long range on the right is blocked.
Shane Ferguson (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Nathaniel Knight-Percival (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shane Ferguson (Millwall).
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Shaun Cummings.
Attempt saved. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Josh Cullen (Bradford City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Billy Clarke (Bradford City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Bradford City. Billy Clarke replaces Nicky Law.
Attempt missed. Josh Cullen (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt saved. Steve Morison (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Tony Craig (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Tony McMahon.
Substitution, Millwall. Jed Wallace replaces Fred Onyedinma.
Substitution, Millwall. Shane Ferguson replaces Aiden O'Brien.
Substitution, Bradford City. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila replaces Alex Jones.
Attempt saved. Josh Cullen (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Bradford City 1, Millwall 1. James Meredith (Bradford City) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Nicky Law (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Nicky Law (Bradford City).
Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Lee Gregory (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Bradford City 0, Millwall 1. Lee Gregory (Millwall) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.
Foul by Nicky Law (Bradford City).
Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aiden O'Brien (Millwall).
Second Half begins Bradford City 0, Millwall 0.
First Half ends, Bradford City 0, Millwall 0.
Foul by Romain Vincelot (Bradford City).
Steve Morison (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
At one point in the final hours of trading, the stock had lost more than $8bn (£5bn), or 25% of its opening price.
It seems investors were spooked by the early and unintended publication of earnings results that should have been presented after the markets had closed.
So how did that happen, and why did it result in Twitter's worst day on the markets since its flotation?
Twitter was due to announce its earnings for the first quarter of the year after close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange, where the company is listed.
Announcing results after the markets close gives investors a chance to digest the news, sleep on it, and then start trading again the next day.
Except it turns out that somebody thought it would be a good idea to release this information early, on the technology-led Nasdaq-run investor relations page for Twitter.
Initially it seemed no-one really noticed the error, until a well-placed tweet highlighted the mistake and revealed Twitter's disappointing results.
The markets were still trading, and Twitter had not had the chance to formally present its results in a statement that would have bathed them in a more flattering light.
This is the interesting bit.
Selerity is a tech start-up running a very specific service catered to investors.
It automatically scans all sorts of documents, press releases, and social media online and looks for anything that could prove useful to investors.
It then reports back to subscribers with what it describes as real-time actionable intelligence.
In this case, it picked up the early Nasdaq posting.
The company then tweeted the figures under the hashtag "#breaking", ensuring that the world and his dog would know of Twitter's failings through its own service.
Selerity then tweeted its source, adding to Twitter's embarrassment by making it clear that the results had been neither leaked or hacked.
Shares in Twitter lost 6% before trading in the stock was momentarily suspended.
When trading resumed, the stock plummeted a further 19%, before finishing 18% down on the day.
To put this into perspective, at its low point Twitter had the total value of UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's or slightly more than the value of the Dixons Carphone group wiped off its share price.
Well, it seems that Nasdaq slipped up here after Twitter furnished the exchange with earnings details ahead of time ready for official publication.
It is like someone breaking an embargo on a news story.
The key factor in Tuesday evening's fiasco was that Selerity's automatic computer programs, called bots, which scan the web for juicy financial details, were able to find the mistake so quickly.
Selerity then made sure that everyone knew about it through Twitter's own platform, but it did not break any rules in doing so as the results had already been published and were effectively in the public arena.
Nasdaq blamed the error on a division of its business called Shareholder.com, which provides investor relations services.
"The posting was caused by an operational issue that exposed the release on Twitter's IR website for approximately 45 seconds," Nasdaq said.
"During those seconds the site was scraped by a third party that publically disseminated the earnings information.
"We regret the incident and remain fully committed to providing the highest quality investor relations communication product and services to our clients."
It is not the first time this has happened. Six months ago, Nasdaq accidentally published JPMorgan's quarterly results hours before close of trading.
Selerity has form here too. In 2011, it caused Microsoft to officially release its financial earnings early after finding the results had been posted on a little-visited part of its website.
It has all left Twitter, which did not have great news to share with investors anyway, somewhat red-faced.
"We asked the New York Stock Exchange to halt trading once we discovered our Q1 numbers were out, and we published our results as soon as possible thereafter," said Twitter's senior director for investor relations, Krista Bessinger.
"Selerity, who provided the initial tweets with our results, informed us that earnings release was available on our Investor Relations site before the close of market.
"Nasdaq hosts and manages our IR website, and we explicitly instructed them not to release our results until after the market close and only upon our specific instructions, which is consistent with prior quarters.
"We are continuing to investigate with them exactly what occurred."
No. The results were fairly disappointing, with Twitter missing market analysts' revenue expectations of $456m by $20m.
Forecasts for future revenue were downgraded.
Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo said he was "disappointed" by the figures.
Well, it also announced a couple of new things that could help the platform.
Its content will be more closely integrated with Google search, and it is working with Apple so tweeted content will also appear more prominently in Spotlight searches on iOS and OS X devices.
It is also planning to curate timelines for users so, at least in theory, the more relevant tweets from people they follow will bubble up to the top of their feeds.
Presumably for @twitter, those will most definitely include tweets by @selerity.
An opening 30-0 loss to Tahiti set the tone for an inglorious run of results, with a 38-0 demolition at the hands of Fiji following on Sunday.
Micronesia's beleaguered players would have been forgiven for thinking they'd hit rock bottom, but shipping close to a half-century of goals against Vanuatu - a team ranked 200th in the world - marked a new nadir.
Micronesia will at least escape an unwanted place in the record books as they are not affiliated to Fifa and squads at the Pacific Games are comprised of under-23 players as the event doubles as Olympic qualifying.
The official world record remains Australia's 31-0 win over American Samoa in a World Cup qualifier back in 2001.
The Federated States of Micronesia, in the western Pacific, consists of about 600 islands grouped into four states: Kosrae, Pohnpei, Chuuk (Truk) and Yap.
Occupying a very small total land mass, it is scattered over an ocean expanse five times the size of France and has a population of about 100,000.
Though formally independent, in 1986 Micronesia signed a "Compact of Free Association" with the US. Under this, Washington took on responsibility for defence and gained the right to set up military bases and deny other nations access to Micronesia.
Read more about the country here.
The issues are similar to those at Oxgangs Primary in Edinburgh, where a wall collapsed in January.
That led to 17 schools in the city being closed before the summer holidays over safety fears.
Responding to some of the new evidence, a leading architect told the BBC: "In my view, this is malpractice."
About 7,600 primary and secondary school children in the capital were affected when the Edinburgh schools, which were all built or refurbished as part of the same public private partnership (PPP) scheme, were closed suddenly in April this year.
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.
Edinburgh City Council's investigation into what happened is due to begin later this week. The chief executive has told the BBC that the inquiry may reveal nationwide issues with this kind of building.
30
Schools affected across Scotland
17 closed in Edinburgh
13 others in East Renfrewshire, Glasgow, Stirlingshire and South Lanarkshire identified
62 walls ties replaced at nine schools in South Lanarkshire
Now the BBC has also learned that similar problems with wall and header ties have been uncovered at 13 other schools across Scotland.
Repairs have been undertaken in South Lanarkshire, Stirlingshire, Glasgow and East Renfrewshire in the last five years.
Images of St Ninian's High School in East Renfrewshire, obtained under Freedom of Information legislation, show the inside of cavity walls where some metal ties are dangling in mid-air instead of holding the outside wall to the inside wall.
Other wall ties were not properly embedded because the joints in the walls were not aligned. The council had to undertake a number of repairs to the school, costing more than £870,000.
"The way some of these things are done is very worrying indeed," said Prof Alan Dunlop, Master Architect and lecturer with Robert Gordon University.
"I'm also concerned and shocked that this is something that happened in 2010 and we do not know anything at all about it."
"I would suggest that it not only contravenes what would be standard practice. In my view this is malpractice," he added.
East Renfrewshire Council said it did not inform parents of the issue because "at no time was there a health and safety risk to pupils, staff or visitors".
It said the matter was discussed "openly" at a full council meeting in May 2013.
A spokeswoman added: "The expert structural reports which identified issues with some of the walls at St Ninian's did not highlight any immediate risk and neither did they recommend any immediate remedial action for the walls.
"Furthermore the reports made no recommendation to close off the area or prohibit access in any way."
During a storm in January 2012, in East Kilbride, Duncanrig Secondary School's wall collapsed inwards. Header ties - also called wall head restraints - were added when the wall was rebuilt.
The next day, at Trinity High School in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, a wall collapsed due to structural defects similar to those found at Oxgangs Primary School in Edinburgh in 2016.
South Lanarkshire Council said engineers had concerns over both design and construction failures and wall ties were part of the repair process.
The work was overseen by the company who runs the schools, Morgan Sindall.
After investigations at other schools in the area for which it has responsibility, a small number of additional wall ties were added at eight other sites.
A spokesman for Morgan Sindall said: "We took a responsible approach to the issues by carrying out further investigations across the entire South Lanarkshire Secondary Schools estate for which we were responsible.
"This identified a small number of issues, with 62 tie repairs being required at nine (including Duncarig) of the 16 schools."
To provide some context, the total number of wall ties used across the estate is 240,000.
The spokesman added: "Safety is always our number one priority."
As pupils get ready to return to Edinburgh schools on Wednesday, following all the repairs being completed, the council said its inquiry would look at whether the failures in Edinburgh amount to a national construction issue.
It said the issue could affect any public building built in the same way as the 17 school which were closed in April - with cavity walls around a steel frame.
Chief executive, Andrew Kerr, said: "It may be that this is a national issue that has to be tackled in terms of how you supervise these works going on, how they're undertaken. We have just tried to make sure that Edinburgh schools are safe right now."
All the defects reported at the 30 schools identified have now been repaired.
Edinburgh City Council has assured parents that buildings affected by closures are now safe for their children to return for the start of the new school year.
Unions said turnout was high as workers protested against job cuts and the economic policies of the conservative president, Mauricio Macri.
Protestors scuffled with police as President Macri hosted an economic forum for Latin American leaders.
About a third of Argentines are living in poverty.
It had been speeding and crashed at about 03:10 BST on West Cromwell Road, Kensington. The Met Police has referred the case to the police watchdog.
Two men freed themselves from the vehicle while another two were released with the help of firefighters.
One of the men died at the scene and another is in a critical condition.
The other two men have been arrested and the Met Police's Directorate of Professional Standards has been informed as a matter of course.
All four of the men were believed to be in their 20s and the deceased man's next of kin have been told.
Police said officers lost sight of the car as it sped away along the A4 Tolgarth Road.
They then saw it had crashed into the property.
A woman who lived in the house which was hit by the car said: "You could hear them screaming.
"They cut them out but one didn't make it."
Another witness said: "There was a massive bang. He hit the traffic light and span round and round. He ended up in the basement.
"There is a massive cracking in the wall of the basement.
"The police were chasing him."
The incident has been referred to the police watchdog.
Parts of the A4 - a busy dual carriageway into and out of London - were closed for officers to carry out investigations.
It has reopened towards Heathrow but remains closed eastbound between Hammersmith flyover and Earl's Court Road.
The 2-5 favourite overhauled long-time leader Bengala to romp home by five and a half lengths from Rain Goddess (7/1), with Eziyra (20/1) third.
The hugely impressive Enable became the 14th horse to secure an Oaks double.
For trainer John Gosden, it was his second Irish Oaks success and a sixth Irish classic triumph.
It was a scintillating display from Gosden's filly who put her rivals to the sword to become the first horse to complete the English-Irish Oaks double since Snow Fairy seven years ago.
The daughter of Nathaniel travelled strongly throughout in the hands of Dettori, who made sure he was back from a spell on the sidelines with injury in time for this ride.
She was given a nice lead into the race by the front-running Bengala and Dettori was happy to commit for home halfway up the home straight.
"Enable is a very special filly and it was so important to ride her - she is a true professional and I think she has improved since Epsom," said the winning jockey.
"She has a good turn of foot and put the race to bed," he added.
The winner's stablemate, Coronet, made some late headway to finish fourth.
The "innovative" stage adaptation will launch in a purpose-built theatre next to Wembley Stadium in London.
It will be created by Robin de Levita, who was behind a Dutch stage show about World War Two diarist Anne Frank.
The movie adaptations of The Hunger Games have taken around $1.5bn (£946m) at the worldwide box office.
The latest instalment, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, will be released in cinemas later this month.
Based on the novels of Suzanne Collins, the dystopian tales follow the fortunes of Katniss Everdeen, who becomes a reluctant reality show heroine.
No further details of the production, or the plans to build a new theatre to accommodate it, have been disclosed.
Tim Phelan, chief marketing officer for Lionsgate - the company behind The Hunger Games film franchise - said the team behind the stage adaptation would "provide a uniquely immersive experience for fans around the world".
Broadway producer Mr de Levita added: "The theatre is a fantastic medium to bring the many meaningful layers of Suzanne Collins' writing to life."
The Rt Hon Lord Woolf says conditions in prisons are now as bad as they were in 1990, when a dramatic siege at Strangeways went on for 25 days.
Two people died and hundreds were injured in a protest against a prison regime that included "slopping out".
Prisons Minister Andrew Selous said all UK prisons had safe population levels.
Lord Woolf said Britain was again "heading for a crisis within prisons".
Key players in the Strangeways riot explain their part in the siege
The unrest at Strangeways started on 1 April 1990 and the ensuing siege was the longest in British penal history.
Prisoners complained the Victorian site was overcrowded, they were forced to remain in their cells for up to 23 hours a day and had to "slop out" - using only a bucket for a toilet.
Lord Woolf, now chair of the Prison Reform Trust, said: "There are things that are better now than then, but I fear we've allowed ourselves to go backwards and we're back where we were at the time of Strangeways.
"For a time after the riot things were much better and numbers were going down, [but] unfortunately prisoners are again being kept in conditions that we should not tolerate, they're a long way from home and their families can't keep in touch with them.
"That's why I would welcome a thorough re-look at the situation and above all trying to take prisons out of politics".
Prisons Minister Andrew Selous said: "This government has considerably increased the adult male prison capacity from the level inherited at the end of the last Parliament.
"Yet all prisons have safe population levels and published statistics show that crowding is at its lowest levels since 2007-08.
"Staffing levels were agreed with both prison governors and the unions at the outset and prison officers have done an excellent job during a period when the prison population has unpredictably risen.
"Furthermore, we are absolutely clear that all offenders are expected to engage in purposeful activity to help them find a job on release and turn their backs on crime for good.
"The total number of hours worked in prisons has increased from 10.6 million to 14.2 million in the past four years."
Following the disturbance, Lord Woolf published a report in 1992 making more than 200 recommendations.
They included an end to "slopping out", increased contact between prisoners and their families, and better rehabilitation of offenders.
Strangeways was later rebuilt at a cost of £90m and renamed HMP Manchester.
Inside Out is broadcast on BBC One North West on Monday, 23 March at 19:30 GMT and nationwide on the iPlayer for 30 days thereafter.
At one point it dropped to $1.2798, before recovering slightly to $1.2932.
Analysts blamed warnings from the Bank of England on Tuesday that Brexit risks were "crystallising" and fears about the UK commercial property market.
The pound has now fallen by about 14% against the dollar since hitting $1.50 ahead of the referendum result.
"Pessimistic predictions for sterling are coming true," said Andrew Edwards, chief executive of ETX Capital. "The pound is the chief proxy for the post-Brexit mood in the markets."
Against the euro, the pound was down 0.5% at €1.1697 on Wednesday, its lowest level since 2013.
On the UK stock market, the FTSE 100 index dropped slightly to 6,529.11.
Domestic companies such as supermarkets, housebuilders and banks have fallen sharply, and the FTSE 250 - which contains more UK-focused companies - was down 1% at 15,569.34 in early trade.
Tesco and Morrisons were two of the biggest losers, with their shares dropping 4.9% and 3.4% respectively after analysts warned of a potential price war among supermarkets.
Property-related stocks have been especially hard hit this week after three fund managers decided to stop investors withdrawing money from their UK property funds. Shares in Barratt Developments and Taylor Wimpey fell by a further 4%,
"The suspension of commercial property fund redemptions by a number of big players has precipitated a broader sell-off in the UK property sector including housebuilders and other asset managers," said Michael Hewson of CMC Markets.
European stock markets fell more sharply, with the Paris Cac, Frankfurt Dax and Madrid Ibex indexes all dropping by 1%.
Investors are showing some "buyers' remorse" after last week's stock market rebound and are focusing on "weak spots of the European economy", Mr Hewson said.
Europe's financial sector, in particular, is under pressure after the European Central Bank warned that Italian lender Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the world's oldest bank, had dangerously high levels of bad debt.
Earlier, Asian stock markets had closed lower, with Japan's Nikkei index down 1.9%.
Government bond yields have also fallen to record lows as investors rush to put money in perceived havens.
Yields on 10-year US and Swiss government bonds hit new record lows, while those of Denmark and the Netherlands dropped to just above zero.
High demand pushes up bond prices, and when the price of bonds rises, their yield falls.
The yield on the 20-year Japanese government bond turned negative for the first time on Wednesday, underlining the hit investors are willing to take to keep their money in rock-solid government debt.
The price of gold also touched a two-year high of $1,371.40 an ounce, as it surpassed the $1,358.20 mark it reached on 24 June in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote.
Only about 40% of farmers have received their Common Agricultural Policy (Cap) claims, leading to warnings of a "cash flow crisis" in the industry.
Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead announced the fund as he addressed the NFU Scotland annual general meeting in St Andrews.
NFU Scotland said it was "imperative" the new fund was delivered quickly.
The union had accused the Scottish government of creating a "hole" in the rural economy because of delays in allocating the EU money to farmers.
Reforms to the Cap system saw the Single Farm Payment Scheme replaced by the new Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) last year.
The BPS is the main EU subsidy available to farmers in Scotland, with the money being allocated by the Scottish government.
The payments are designed to act as a safety net for farmers and crofters by supplementing their main business income.
But payments have been affected by major issues with the IT system used to administer them, with the Scottish government also saying the challenge of implementing the reforms had been "hugely difficult".
Speaking at the AGM, Mr Lochhead said that more than 7,300 payments had now been authorised, which he said equated to about 40% of the 18,000 eligible claims.
He said he recognised that some farmers and crofters were facing hardship as a result of the delays, coupled with bad weather and difficult market conditions.
Mr Lochhead added: "We are making progress. However the extreme complexity of the policy we agreed with industry in Scotland - which is being delivered by a brand new IT system that we are constantly working to improve - means it is taking longer than expected to process applications.
"That is why the Scottish government is taking further action to ease cash flow pressures in the sector by earmarking up to £20m to ensure those most in need can access the credit they require until their payments come through.
"We will work with NFUS, banks and others to finalise the detail of the scheme and ensure it is available as quickly as possible and simple to access."
Responding to the announcement, NFU Scotland chief executive Scott Walker said: "The Scottish government has recognised the severe financial pressures that many farm businesses are under.
"But for this money to be effective it must be delivered quickly. We will be working with the Scottish government on the details of this funding but it is imperative that it is put into place swiftly."
The issue had been raised by Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday.
The party's MSP Alex Johnstone said: "Ministers are now having to set aside £20m of taxpayers' money to mop up their own failures to deliver this programme.
"It is a complete fiasco and rural Scotland has completely lost faith in this SNP government's ability to deliver."
Scottish Liberal Democrat rural affairs spokesman Tavish Scott said the creation of the hardship fund was an "admission of failure" by the Scottish government.
He added: "Why should farmers take out a government loan when they should be receiving the government farm payment?"
Speaking on Thursday, NFU Scotland president Allan Bowie said the majority of farmers were still "completely unaware" of when they will receive their Cap payments 20 months on from the cabinet secretary's initial statement on its implementation.
He added: "That is the hole in the Scottish rural economy that Scottish government is responsible for and the reason why the wheels have stopped turning in the Scottish countryside."
Paul Biggs, from Longlevens, said he was absolutely shocked when his postman arrived at his front door with the card from his friends in Bitburg in Germany.
He said: "I can't believe it - it's eerie - it's just got 'England' and sent from a sorting office in Bitburg."
Royal Mail said its "address detectives" were renowned but "even by their standards" it was impressive.
Mr Biggs said the card had been sent by his friends in Germany on Monday and was handed to him by his postman on Wednesday morning.
The postman had been carrying the letter as he completed his round, asking his customers if the card was for them.
"He gave me my mail and said 'Are you expecting anything from Germany?' and I said 'I might be - we've got friends over there'," said Mr Biggs.
"He said 'Have a look at this letter' - so I had a look and turned it over and our friends' address was on the back of it and on the front it just said England."
Mr Biggs said the card had been sent from a sorting office in Germany close to Gloucester's twin town of Trier and had not been opened.
"I said 'How on earth did you know it was for me?' and he said 'I didn't, I've been wandering around with this', said Mr Biggs.
"My wife and I are absolutely shocked but this puts posties at five or six stars and top of the tree for me this Christmas."
The card, it is believed, may have originally been addressed correctly and so was sent to the right area of England - but with an address label that fell off at some point.
A Royal Mail spokesman said: "Royal Mail's team of 'address detectives' are renowned for their ability to ensure poorly addressed items of mail reach their intended recipients however, even by their standards, this is pretty impressive."
The energy regulator said it was responding to concerns about the Perth-based company's approach to switching customers to pre-payment tariffs.
The probe will focus on the impact of the process on those in potentially vulnerable situations.
Ofgem will consider whether SSE breached its Standards of Conduct, which aim to ensure suppliers treat customers fairly.
It will examine whether the company breached licence conditions, which require it to provide appropriate information, and ensure a consumers' ability to pay, when suggesting alternative payment methods.
SSE described the basis for the investigation as a "historic issue".
A spokesman for the energy provider said: "We are committed to treating all our customers fairly and will be cooperating fully with Ofgem's investigation into this historic issue."
Bad debts at the banks are making them less willing to lend.
The OECD says many legacies of the area's financial crisis are unresolved and major new problems have emerged.
Europe has, however, made "important progress" to recover from a double dip recession.
The eurozone's economy has now been growing without interruption for three years. But it has not been strong growth, and it has been supported by what are called (perhaps euphemistically) the unconventional policies of the European Central Bank - extremely low, even negative interest rates and quantitative easing.
In its regular health check on the eurozone economy, the OECD notes that investment is far below 2007 levels, unlike the United States.
The reasons include weak demand - businesses will always be reluctant to invest if they are concerned that they may struggle to sell the goods and services they produce with the new investment.
But there are also some financial factors holding back investment. In some countries businesses are still burdened with high levels of debt.
The banks are struggling with high levels of "non-performing loans" - where borrowers are behind with their repayments. That tends to makes the banks more wary of new lending.
Two countries stand out as having particularly acute problems in this area - Greece and Italy, although they are not alone.
On one measure, the Italian banks look in even worse shape than their counterparts in Greece, the country whose economy has been most severely hit by the eurozone financial crisis.
The Italian banks have a higher level of non-performing loans compared to their capital, which is a financial buffer that is used to absorb losses, including losses due to problem borrowers.
Italy's banks are seen as a serious weak link in the eurozone. The country's economy has started growing again, but it remains 8.5% smaller than it was before the international financial crisis.
Italy's government also has a problem with a persistently rising debt burden, behind only Greece in the eurozone. That in turn makes it a struggle for the government to bail out its banks, if they need it.
Indeed the OECD report warns about "the still large potential for negative feedback loops between banks and their sovereigns", although it doesn't name Italy specifically in that context.
The eurozone's banking union was intended to address that problem. The OECD says it needs to be completed. In particular the OECD says there should be more by way of eurozone-wide financial backstops - for a fund to deal with failing banks and for insurance to protect depositors if their bank goes bust.
These ideas are not popular in some eurozone countries, especially Germany where there seen as by many as a case of Germany underwriting the banks in other eurozone nations.
The wider message from the OECD report is that the eurozone may be out of immediate danger, but it is not in robust health.
Any move by Scotland could lead to folic acid being added to flour-based products UK-wide, as this would be the easiest solution for commercial bakers.
Folic acid plays a crucial role in preventing neural tube defects such as spina bifida.
But 85% of women do not take enough.
Government advisers have recommended adding folic acid to flour for 16 years but the Department of Health says it is still "considering the matter".
In the meantime, some food manufacturers have reduced the amount of folic acid they add to other foods, such as cereals, in anticipation of the fortification of flour.
Experts say that this means children are at higher risk of birth defects.
The Scottish government says it would have preferred a UK-wide approach but has grown increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress.
It is particularly concerned as unplanned pregnancies are more common in deprived communities.
By James Gallagher, health editor BBC, News website
Why is the UK government seemingly dragging its feet over fortifying flour - something about 80 countries already do?
The government's advisors the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition has repeatedly called for the mandatory fortification of flour.
However, there are concerns that fortifying flour would lead to some people getting too much folic acid as some foods, including spreads and breakfast cereals, are voluntarily fortified.
The advisory committee says this would need careful handling and this is one possible source of delay.
But there is growing concern that food manufacturers are already reducing the levels of fortification in anticipation of fortified flour becoming mandatory.
And concerns have been raised that inaction is leading to more cases of spinal defects.
There are also echoes of the debate around adding fluoride to water with concerns over the nanny state and forcing people to have fortified bread.
Although white flour is already fortified with iron, calcium and some vitamins.
The decision lies firmly with the Department of Health, which is only saying the matter is being considered.
Scotland's Public Health Minister Maureen Watt said: "The Scottish government has been convinced of the case for mandatory fortification for some time. Folate levels are a concern across the UK, but particularly so in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
"We are disappointed that, despite repeated lobbying from a number of sources, there has been no progress at UK level on mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid.
"I have recently written again to the UK government to press for a decision on this important issue.
"I, along with my counterparts in Wales and Northern Ireland, will consider how we might progress this should a decision not be forthcoming from the UK government."
BBC Scotland understands that, if Scotland decided to go ahead with fortification of flour, some bread manufacturers would simply include folic acid in all their UK products rather than make products just for Scotland.
The Food and Drink Federation said: "From a practical point of view, manufacturers would favour a harmonised situation across the UK rather than Scotland 'going it alone' on mandatory folic acid fortification.
"Precise implications of such a situation are not yet clear due to ongoing UK government consultation on the Bread and Flour Regulations.
"If mandatory folic acid fortification is introduced, voluntary practices should be allowed to continue, and FDF members will work with the government to ensure this is done responsibly to prevent the risk of overconsumption."
The federation said it was not aware of any widespread reduction in the amount of voluntary folic acid currently added to products.
However, in October the chair of the UK's Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) wrote to all UK health ministers pointing out that adding folic acid to flour had no adverse health effects in other countries, and led to a significant fall in birth defects.
The chair of the committee warned of the unexpected consequences of delaying a decision: "Some sectors of the food industry have already reduced the amounts of folic acid in their products in partial compliance with SACN's recommendations.
"This unforeseen conjunction of reduced voluntary fortification in the absence of mandatory fortification may unintentionally have reduced folic acid intakes and worsened the folate status of the population."
A spokeswoman for Food Standards Scotland said: "Food Standards Scotland work with the Scottish government on folic acid and entirely agree with their position."
Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland (SBH Scotland) welcomed the latest development.
Chief executive Andy Wynd said: "In Scotland it is thought that nearly 50% of pregnancies are unplanned and mothers-to-be will not have increased folic acid intake prior to conception.
"SBH Scotland believe that mandatory fortification will make a significant difference to the many planned and unplanned pregnancies diagnosed with Neural Tube Defects, of which spina bifida is the most common."
Adding folic acid to flour was first recommended by the UK's Committee on Medical Aspects of Food and Nutrition Policy (Coma) in 2000. It was also recommended by the SACN in 2006 and 2009.
Folic acid is found naturally in dark green leafy vegetables and other foods.
Last December, a study suggested birth defects in 2000 babies could have been avoided if the UK had fortified flour in 1998 at the same time as the US. A total of 77 countries around the world currently fortify flour with folic acid.
The current UK advice to women is to take folic acid supplements while trying to get pregnant. However, research suggests that only one third of women take them at the right time.
Supplements should begin three months prior to conception and continue during pregnancy.
Some of those who have managed to escape have spoken to the BBC about how the city fell and how the extremist group maintains control over its people.
1. Captain Seba, flight engineer: Life before the fall
The strain of the last decade of conflict on Iraq's second biggest city led to a total failure in governance, explains Captain Seba, a flight engineer and former Mosul resident.
Corruption and the abuse of power by the Iraqi army and police, he says, left people feeling powerless to defend themselves when Islamic State (IS) militants overran the city last year.
2. Yassin, student: The day of the invasion
In June 2014, the Iraqi army abandoned their positions and left the people of Mosul to their fate. In the absence of any defences, IS fighters flocked to the city, taking over former army bases and procuring equipment left behind by deserting troops.
The resulting chaos led thousands to flee the city, as 21-year-old Yassin explains.
3. Feras, communications engineer: Communication shut-down
IS fighters quickly claimed the takeover of Mosul as a victory for their cause and bombarded social media with propaganda celebrating the fall.
The group monopolised media and communication channels within the city, denying ordinary residents access.
Feras, a communication engineer, explains how the city became increasingly isolated and how IS used this to consolidate power and spread fear amongst those it rules.
More on this story:
Footage reveals IS regime in Mosul
Is Islamic State winning?
How is Islamic State run?
4. Abu Nour, Christian: Persecution of minorities
The control of beliefs has been instrumental to IS's success and the group has maintained a policy of persecuting minorities within the multi-ethnic fabric of Mosul.
Abu Nour, a Christian resident of the city who now lives in a refugee camp in the relatively safer region of Kurdistan, fled after his community was ordered to convert, pay a special tax or be killed. His home and belongings have since been confiscated and claimed by IS militants.
Shrines and other holy sites that were deemed not to conform with the group's interpretation of Islam have been destroyed, despite their historical and cultural worth.
5. Yasmine, sculptor: The reign of terror
Not content with simply governing the city, IS quickly began controlling every aspect of Mosul life. Those that did not abide by the group's new rules and laws were severely punished - and in many cases killed.
Yasmine, a sculptor from the city, says many women chose to leave rather than live under the oppressive regime. She explains how it has become impossible for any Mosul resident to live outside the group's control.
6. Maan, army commander: The future of Mosul
The government of Iraq has failed the people of Mosul twice, argues Maan Ajaj, a Christian commander of the Nineva Liberation Army, composed mainly of local fighters from Nineva Province, where Mosul is located.
First they were let down by the deserting troops who abandoned the city to its fate last year, and secondly in failing to keep a promise to liberate it within a year. Instead, more Iraqi cities have fallen into the hands of IS fighters.
Maan warns that if Mosul is not freed from IS control soon, the group will continue to consolidate its power and residents will become more and more dependent on the group for their survival. This would make any military attempt to secure the city a battle that would have to be fought house-by-house, he says.
Note: names have been changed to protect people's identities.
Camerawork and video editing by Phil Goodwin.
Web production by Lucy Rodgers. Illustration and design by Gerry Fletcher.
Brynmawr's Market Hall cinema was closed by Blaenau Gwent council in November after an inspection discovered an area of potential contamination.
The council said it was working to resolve the situation.
Cinema officials said it had been a "hugely difficult time" and they had lost £95,000.
Market Hall Cinema and Arts Trust spokesman Peter Watkins-Hughes said he had been "overwhelmed by the public outpouring of love and financial support" for the 123-year-old venue.
"It came as heck of a shock when the council told us that there might be material present that wasn't in the building records," he added.
"But obviously our customers' safety is our first priority, so we closed the venue until all the investigations and works are complete."
In 2013 the cinema was saved by volunteers after the council announced it could no longer afford to run it. The following year it was named 'UK Cinema of the Year'.
The cinema group operates under a tenancy licence agreement from the council.
The council said it was working "towards a longer term arrangement" with the cinema.
A spokesman added: "The council and cinema group are continuing to work closely together to resolve the situation with the view to safely reopening as soon as possible."
Blaenau Gwent Alun Davies AM described the cinema as one of the "jewels in our crown".
He said: "The cinema is not only a much-loved facility, it is a key part of our heritage, the centre of our town and everyone wants to see it continue to thrive."
A £50,000 crowd funding appeal has been launched to save the building. Mr Watkins-Hughes said he was confident the building would soon reopen.
"It's been a hugely difficult time for us," he said.
"It is inconceivable that we won't reopen our doors again soon."
Reporters from new site Ars Technica found Spotify was writing up to 10GB of data an hour to their computers.
Unnecessarily writing and rewriting data to some types of computer hard drive can shorten their life.
Spotify said it was aware of the issue and was taking steps to address it in its latest version.
The issue was more likely to be problematic for people using a solid-state hard drive (SSD) in their device.
Data on SSDs can be read and rewritten a limited number of times before the drive begins to fail.
A large volume of unnecessary activity by the Spotify player could therefore bring about a drive's failure earlier than expected.
Ars Technica found that Spotify wrote and rewrote up to 700GB of data - the equivalent of more than 100 movies - over a 24 hour period.
Many people shared their concerns on social news site Reddit, highlighting that the app even rewrote the data while it was idle and no music was being streamed.
Ken Munro, from cybersecurity firm Pen Test Partners, said the problem was "either an error or lazy coding", but said more modern SSDs could tolerate more data-writing cycles.
"SSD 'wear' used to be a very significant issue when they first emerged," he told the BBC.
"Since then, manufacturers have made significant advances in reducing this and extending lifespans.
"It would take a long while to wear out an SSD nowadays, but that doesn't really excuse the Spotify bug!"
The problem affected people using the app on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
Spotify said: "We've seen some questions in our community around the amount of written data using the Spotify client on desktop.
"These have been reviewed and any potential concerns have now been addressed in version 1.0.42, currently rolling out to all users."
The 49-year-old was bailed on 26 October after handing over his travel documents to the police.
In June, the Albanian government issued an arrest warrant for the Italian on charges of fraud and money-laundering.
Becchetti denies all the charges and says they will have "no impact" on his responsibilities at Orient.
He described the charges, which relate to a failed hydroelectric scheme which allegedly cost the Albanian government tens of millions of euros, as "demonstrably groundless, improperly motivated and unsupported by any evidence".
The Italian had assets in the Balkan country seized by the Albanian government in the summer, including shares in the Agon Channel, his television station.
Becchetti, who bought the east London club from Barry Hearn in summer 2014, is due to appear in court again on 7 December, when a procedural hearing will take place to look into Albania's extradition request.
A statement issued on behalf of Becchetti said his lawyers "believe his case is extremely robust" and that he "continues to work very hard to reinvigorate Leyton Orient".
The Football League told BBC Sport they were monitoring the situation.
Beginning on 270-4, Collingwood put on 65 runs with Michael Richardson (57) before Craig Miles (5-99) made the breakthrough and Durham reached 419.
Their first-innings lead of 116 did not last though, with Chris Dent (64 not out) and Will Tavare (55) putting on 85 runs for the home side's second wicket.
Durham plugged away but Gloucestershire reached the close with a 59-run lead.
Collingwood suffered a finger injury fielding in the slip cordon on day two, but the 40-year-old showed no ill signs as he hit 10 fours in a 178-ball stay at the crease before being caught off Graeme van Buuren's bowling three runs shy of a century.
His innings gave Durham a handy lead, but after Chris Rushworth pinned opener Cameron Bancroft lbw for 13, the away side's bowling attack were halted as the in-form Dent passed 50 for the seventh time in his past nine innings.
Policing and issuing fines through the by-laws will be the responsibility of individual councils across London.
The Department for Communities and Local Government has yet to approve the measure.
The move towards a London-wide crackdown comes after action was taken individually by borough councils.
People are likely to be allowed to spit with "reasonable excuse" or into a handkerchief, tissue, bin or other receptacle.
In November last year Communities Secretary Eric Pickles approved an Enfield Council by-law making spitting an offence, punishable by fines up to £500.
Waltham Forest and Newham councils have already been issuing fixed penalty notices for public spitting.
Waltham Forest has been using existing powers to issue fixed penalty notices since February 2013.
The approval from London Councils followed a public consultation which showed people "overwhelmingly in favour" of a fixed penalty, according to the council group.
|
Two men who ran a betting website connected to the Fifa video game have been fined after pleading guilty to offences under the UK's Gambling Act.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A US clothing company has been mocked on social media for selling a pair of $425 (£330; €390) jeans complete with "crackled, caked-on muddy coating".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Queen's Park slipped to defeat by Clyde but still managed to win on aggregate and gain promotion to League One.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former HSBC boss Lord Green has admitted the bank "didn't get everything right" when buying the Swiss private bank at the centre of a tax evasion scandal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A statue of Pocahontas has had its protected status "relisted" to mark 400 years since her death in England.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Thousands of people have taken part in the Brighton marathon with top athletes competing alongside first-timers.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has apologised to former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns for publishing a video linking him to match-fixing.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A fisherman had to swim to shore after falling off his creel boat off the north east coast near Boddam.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Victor Ponta - the Romanian prime minister who has resigned after mass streets protests over a deadly nightclub fire - is one of the country's most controversial politicians.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Facebook has launched a Marketplace feature to let people buy and sell items locally, in a move that could rival sites like eBay and Craigslist.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
James Meredith rescued a point for League One promotion-chasers Bradford in a draw with in-form Millwall.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
By any measure, Twitter hit particularly rough conditions on Tuesday night, which sent its share price into a tailspin.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Micronesia went down to an eye-watering 46-0 defeat against Vanuatu on Tuesday to heap further embarrassment on a team that has now conceded 114 goals in three matches at the Pacific Games.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A total of 30 schools in Scotland have had to make repairs due to structural defects in the last five years, a BBC investigation has revealed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The start of a 24 hour general strike in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, has shut down public transport, with demonstrators blocking city streets.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has died after the car he was travelling in crashed into the basement of a home in west London, ignoring police attempts to flag it down.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Frankie Dettori rode Enable to victory in the Irish Oaks at the Curragh to complete a classic double, having also won the Epsom Oaks last month.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Best-selling trilogy and blockbuster film franchise The Hunger Games is set to be made into a stage show in summer 2016, it has been announced.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The former Lord Chief Justice who led the inquiry into Britain's biggest prison riot is calling for a new inquiry into the state of UK jails.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The pound has hit a fresh 31-year low against the dollar as worries over the UK's exit from the European Union continued to rattle financial markets.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Farmers hit by delays to EU payments are to be offered loans from a £20m fund set up by the Scottish government.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A German Christmas card with just "England" on the envelope has reached the right address in Gloucestershire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ofgem has launched an investigation into SSE's pre-payment meter processes.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Investment in the eurozone remains far below pre-crisis levels, partly due to problems in the banks, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Scotland is considering whether to add folic acid to flour as concern mounts that there could be an increase in birth defects while the Westminster government delays a decision.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A year after fighters from Islamic State stormed into Iraq's second-biggest city of Mosul, the group maintains a tight grip on its population.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
One of Wales' oldest cinemas is in a "precarious position" after being shut due to historical asbestos issues, officials have said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Music service Spotify is rolling out a fix to stop its desktop application repeatedly writing huge amounts of junk data to computer users' hard drives.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Leyton Orient president Francesco Becchetti faces the possibility of extradition to Albania after being arrested by the Metropolitan Police.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Paul Collingwood scored 97 for Durham but Gloucestershire fought back to end day three with a small lead in Bristol.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The transport and environment committee of umbrella group London Councils has approved £80 fines for spitting in public places.
| 38,879,969 | 15,866 | 1,016 | true |
The Welsh Tories said Sophie Howe was a "Labour insider", while Friends of the Earth Cymru said there was a "real danger" the role could be compromised.
Meanwhile Diane McCrea has been named chairwoman of Natural Resources Wales.
Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant said they were "strong people" in "vital roles".
"The [Well-being of Future Generations] Act is about improving the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of Wales and having strong people in these important positions will help us achieve the Wales we want to see," he said.
Ms Howe, currently deputy police and crime commissioner for south Wales, was appointed to the £95,000-a-year post for a seven-year term following the recommendation of a cross-party panel.
She said she was "delighted and honoured", adding: "Wales is one of the first countries in the world to put sustainable development at the heart of everything it does."
Ms Howe will take up the newly-created post in February, and will stand down from her police role.
She had worked for Mr Sargeant as a special advisor while he was local government minister.
A spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives described Ms Howe as a "Labour insider", while party leader Andrew RT Davies said her "very strong identity link" to Labour was "a cause for concern".
He said commissioners should be more clearly appointed by the assembly rather than the first minister, but suggested ministers should get on with their jobs "instead of hiving a lot of these functions off".
"We are creating commissioners for this, commissioners for that," he said.
"What we want to do is see real improvement and real change here in Wales."
Plaid Cymru AM Simon Thomas called the appointment "strange" and suggested it "will raise eyebrows" in the sector.
"It doesn't appear that she has the qualifications or an interest in this field," he said.
"She does have experience in public bodies but not within sustainable development."
Friends of the Earth Cymru said: "This appointment clarifies the problem with the commissioner being accountable to the Welsh government, rather than the National Assembly for Wales.
"There's a real danger that the commissioner's role will be compromised because of a desire to please the government," a spokesman added, pointing to plans for an M4 relief road as an example.
Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams called it a "bit rich" for opposition parties to criticise Ms Howe's appointment as a cross-party panel was behind the decision.
"My understanding is that she was the unanimous choice of the cross-party panel that decided her appointment, so it seems strange that Andrew RT Davies objected to her appointment," she said.
However, Plaid Cymru denied the choice was unanimous.
The members of the panel were Llyr Gruffydd for Plaid Cymru, Conservative Janet Haworth, William Powell for the Liberal Democrats and Joyce Watson for Labour.
Forty people applied for the job.
It is understood that the panel recommended Ms Howe be appointed from a shortlist, which was accepted by the first minister.
Ms McCrea, named as the new chairwoman of Natural Resources Wales (NRW), has held similar roles at housing charity Shelter Cymru and the Consumer Council for Water.
Announcing the new Future Generations Commissioner at the same time as the new NRW chairwoman and board members may have attracted more criticism than the Welsh government and its civil servants intended.
The lack of environment expertise was quickly pointed out by those within the conservation sector and that background leans more towards the social and economic benefits of the recently established Future Generations Act.
The £95,000 per annum salary of Sophie Howe as a former Labour councillor, special advisor and deputy police commissioner in south Wales was pointed out immediately.
But a "jobs for the boys" gibe is countered partly as members of all political parties in the assembly took part in recommending her.
Diane McCrea is another new face in the Welsh environment world as successor to Peter Matthews to chair the board of NRW.
Like him, her background is in water, but with direct experience of developing and delivering strategies and policies with customers and communities.
|
A former Labour councillor and special advisor to the Welsh government has been appointed as the new Future Generations Commissioner.
| 34,709,434 | 939 | 24 | false |
Morriston hospital in Swansea wants to use super-microsurgery for lymphoedema patients who have damaged lymph nodes, often following cancer treatment.
It would see a surgeon joining miniscule lymph vessels to veins to help drain excess fluid that builds up.
The condition causes massively swollen limbs, poor mobility and infections.
It can also lead to anxiety and depression, costing the NHS about £6,000 for each patient every year.
Until now, people with the condition have had to wear compression garments for the rest of their lives and take medication.
But, if supported by other health boards, about 42 patients a year could be cured by the microsurgery under the all-Wales service.
Amar Ghattaura, a consultant plastic surgeon who is the only trained super-microsurgeon in Wales, said the surgery would "bypass the blockage", joining together narrow lymph vessels and veins.
"It's simple plumbing - diverting a blocked flow to where there is a good flow," he said.
Earlier this year the health board was awarded a £250,000 Welsh government grant to help develop the technique as part of the Curing Lymphatic Programme (CLP).
If the programme is approved, Morriston Hospital would be one of only two UK hospitals to offer the surgery.
In addition, a mobile unit, funded by the charity Tenovus and the Welsh government, would travel around Wales, scanning people to see if they are eligible for the surgery.
Mr Ghattaura said the benefits of the new service would be enormous.
"Patients who now need compression garments will either not need them at all or need them far less. For these patients, this is a cure," he added.
"There will also be less infection, if any, so they will not have to keep going to their GP for antibiotics. There will also be a reduced risk of skin problems like ulceration."
|
Patients with a painful, lifelong illness could be cured if a hospital becomes the first in Wales to offer surgery on a tiny scale.
| 29,663,549 | 435 | 33 | false |
Marshall believes that Jared Payne is a "makeshift centre" and that Ireland's attack has been "lacklustre" at times.
"They do not have a (centre) combo that really do challenge," said the 81-times capped Marshall on BBC Radio 5 Live.
"When you have that, spaces open up for the outside backs and inside backs that completely change the game."
Marshall, who won 81 All Blacks caps between 1995 and 2005, believes that the Ireland backline has struggled to fill the gap left by Brian O'Driscoll's retirement even though the Irish managed to retain the Six Nations title earlier this year.
Payne was among the try-scorers as Ireland notched seven touchdowns in Saturday's opening 50-7 win over Canada but the Irish will face much tougher World Cup tests including the concluding Pool D game against France on 11 October.
"When you go into a restructure like they have when you lose quality centres (like O'Driscoll and Gordon D'Arcy), you are trying to forge a way forward," added Marshall.
"You've got to be slightly conservative with the way you go about implementing your game plan.
"For me, Jared Payne is a back-three player so he's a makeshift centre. And a lot of their lacklustre attack is because they have not got a (centre) combo that really do challenge."
Former England centre Mike Tindall also believes that Ireland may "struggle creatively" when they face the stronger nations later on in the tournament.
"I think they are a bit one-dimensional in attack," added 2003 World Cup winner Tindall.
"They have a very structured game. They are incredibly good at getting their aerial kicks back and (Johnny) Sexton is one of the best tactical kickers in the game at the moment and Schmidt is one of the best tactical coaches.
"But I don't know if they go up against someone like New Zealand whether they will have the ability to score tries.
"That is my only question with them. Everything else they have got.
"It will be interesting when they play the big game against France whether they can muscle up against the French pack and also be creative enough."
After their opening win over Canada, Ireland are back in action against Romania at Wembley on Sunday and they face Italy on 4 October before the concluding pool fixture with France.
For the latest rugby union news, follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter
The former Celtic and Southampton keeper joined Bournemouth on loan in 2014 when they won promotion to the Premier League and made the move permanent the following year.
His contract had been due to expire in the summer.
The 37-year-old Poland international has made 32 appearances this season.
"We're really pleased for Artur, he's been so consistent for us and in really good form. He's won us points this season," boss Eddie Howe said.
Bournemouth, who are 13th in the Premier League, play bottom side Sunderland at the Stadium of Light at 15:00 BST on Saturday.
They took a deserved first-half lead when Kebano lost his marker to head in Ryan Fredericks' cross from the right.
Fonte doubled the lead after the break, firing in the rebound from a narrow angle after Kebano had a shot saved.
Ipswich continued to struggle for possession and chances, as they fell to a first defeat in five league games.
The hosts only managed two shots on target, as they failed to make it five league wins from five at the start of a season for the first time in the club's history.
Fulham, meanwhile, were unfortunate not to score more, as Fredericks and Fonte both saw efforts hit by the woodwork in the first half.
Fonte's goal was his first for the club since arriving from Braga, but his afternoon was ended early when he went off with what appeared to be a groin injury 15 minutes from time.
Slavisa Jokanovic's side have now won three successive games against the Tractor Boys since a 2-1 home defeat at Craven Cottage in December 2015.
Ipswich Town manager Mick McCarthy:
"Sometimes you just have to take your hat off to your opposition. They were streets ahead of us. They absolutely bashed us up with and without the ball.
"We tried putting round pegs in square holes. We had players playing out of position due to injury and I didn't think it was right to go negative.
"There's no need to panic. We've had four good results without all of our squad available. You've got to remember that it's just one game, one result. We've won our other four league games."
Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic:
"We didn't start the season like Ipswich did, but there's a huge number of games still in front of us.
"I expect we can start to be more positive now. We know we're not at our best level yet and we've made costly mistakes at the beginning of the season.
"We showed we didn't forget how to play good football. There is space for us to be better."
Match ends, Ipswich Town 0, Fulham 2.
Second Half ends, Ipswich Town 0, Fulham 2.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Tristan Nydam replaces Grant Ward.
Foul by Aboubakar Kamara (Fulham).
Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Cole Skuse.
Substitution, Fulham. Denis Odoi replaces Stefan Johansen.
Foul by Ryan Fredericks (Fulham).
David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Ryan Fredericks (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town).
Ryan Fredericks (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Flynn Downes (Ipswich Town).
Sheyi Ojo (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Flynn Downes (Ipswich Town).
Offside, Fulham. Tim Ream tries a through ball, but Aboubakar Kamara is caught offside.
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Flynn Downes (Ipswich Town).
Substitution, Fulham. Oliver Norwood replaces Neeskens Kebano.
Sheyi Ojo (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town).
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Ryan Sessegnon.
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town).
Offside, Fulham. Tim Ream tries a through ball, but Aboubakar Kamara is caught offside.
Ryan Fredericks (Fulham) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Garner (Ipswich Town).
Substitution, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara replaces Rui Fonte because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Rui Fonte (Fulham) because of an injury.
Foul by Tom Cairney (Fulham).
Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Tomas Kalas (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Garner (Ipswich Town).
Neeskens Kebano (Fulham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Dominic Iorfa (Ipswich Town).
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Dominic Iorfa.
Attempt blocked. Tom Cairney (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Stefan Johansen.
Attempt blocked. Sheyi Ojo (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ryan Fredericks.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Bersant Celina replaces Freddie Sears.
Edmund had three match points but lost 2-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 to Jared Donaldson.
World number 43 Evans was given a point penalty for swearing midway through the final set of his 7-5 0-6 6-3 loss to American qualifier Ernesto Escobedo.
Watson, who reached the fourth round last year, was beaten 7-6 (7-4) 6-1 by Romania's Patricia Maria Tig.
The defeat means the Briton will drop from her current world ranking of 108 and is in danger of having to qualify for the French Open in May, with the entry deadline for the main draw on 17 April.
American Donaldson was serving at 0-40, 4-5 in the second set against Edmund, but the 20-year-old American held on to take the tie-break and dominated the decider.
Bedene was trailing Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff 7-5 4-0 when he was forced to retire from his match.
The British number four was playing his seventh match in as many days after winning a Challenger title in Irving last week.
Zach Clough opened the scoring, spinning on to Derik Osede's pass before drilling a powerful effort past Jak Alnwick from the edge of the box.
Josh Vela then doubled the lead, sweeping home from close range after Alnwick had spilled Sammy Ameobi's cross-shot.
And full-back Lawrie Wilson then sent the Macron into delirium as he hammered a half-cleared corner past Alnwick for his first goal of the season.
The home side had chances to go further ahead as Andy Taylor had one effort tipped over the bar and continued to dominate in the second half, with Gary Madine going close on three different occasions.
Vale recovered their poise and after defender Remie Streete was denied superbly by goalkeeper Mark Howard, the visitors finally punctured the Wanderers' defence when Sam Hart headed in from close range.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bolton Wanderers 3, Port Vale 1.
Second Half ends, Bolton Wanderers 3, Port Vale 1.
Attempt saved. James Henry (Bolton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Chris Taylor (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Anthony de Freitas (Port Vale).
Foul by Derik (Bolton Wanderers).
Anthony Grant (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Anthony de Freitas (Port Vale) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Port Vale. Chris Mbamba replaces Sam Kelly.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by David Wheater.
Attempt blocked. Anthony de Freitas (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. James Henry replaces Sammy Ameobi.
Attempt missed. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Jak Alnwick.
Attempt saved. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Kelly (Port Vale).
Sammy Ameobi (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by David Wheater.
Attempt blocked. Sam Hart (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Sammy Ameobi (Bolton Wanderers).
Sam Hart (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Taylor (Bolton Wanderers).
Anthony Grant (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Chris Taylor replaces Josh Vela.
Goal! Bolton Wanderers 3, Port Vale 1. Sam Hart (Port Vale) header from very close range to the bottom left corner following a corner.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Mark Beevers.
Foul by Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers).
Remie Streete (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Mark Howard.
Attempt blocked. Sam Kelly (Port Vale) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Taylor (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Liam Trotter (Bolton Wanderers).
Paulo Tavares (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Liam Trotter (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sam Hart (Port Vale).
Attempt blocked. Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Port Vale. Martin Paterson replaces Rigino Cicilia.
They are also seeking a 13th straight win since Eddie Jones took charge, and an unbeaten 2016.
In his final column for BBC Sport as he enters the final stages of his rehabilitation after long-term injury, England flanker James Haskell looks at the talking points.
Media playback is not supported on this device
England have had some of their best games against Australia over the years and some nail-biting wins.
I think back to that last-gasp winner from Dan Luger in 2000, when he got on the end of Iain Balshaw's chip to score the winning try after eight minutes of injury time - it doesn't get much more dramatic than that.
Australia are a highly skilled team but they also bring plenty of physicality, as we experienced on tour this summer.
We may have won all three games but after we had the physical edge in the first Test, they were very abrasive in the next two matches - there were plenty of flare-ups.
They have some great individual players.
Israel Folau is one of the best athletes you will ever see. I look at him and wish I had some of his genes so I could do some of the things he does - he's got great pace, sublime handling skills and is such a graceful runner.
Folau is one of a number of rugby league players who have made an impact with the Wallabies over the past decade.
I like rugby league and when I was playing Super Rugby and living down south I watched Australia's National Rugby League (NRL), and everyone loves State of Origin.
I was always struck by how impressive the skill levels of players like Benji Marshall, Shaun Johnson and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck are.
You get more time and space in rugby league to produce those skills and I think it makes a difference when you grow up playing league, because you get the chance to learn and execute them as you have that little bit more time on the ball.
I talked to Sam Burgess when he was playing union and he explained the work-rate involved, because they're making 30 tackles and 20 to 30 carries, and because there's more time and space it's such a different game to union.
I think he found it frustrating that union defences are so well drilled, and there is so little space. You also just don't get the same number of carries as you do in league.
I would love to have gone over there and played in the NRL - if they decided I was up to it - and I always asked Sam Burgess if [South Sydney Rabbitohs co-owner] Russell Crowe was interested in signing me. I'm still waiting for the call back. I am sure it will be any day now…
Since the game went professional I am kind of surprised so few people have gone over from union to give the NRL a go as it's an attractive game and so big in Australia.
I guess that for the level of player likely to give it a go, it would mean giving up international rugby union, and that's always going to be the biggest stage in the game.
I am sure someone will make the transition at some point. Sadly it's too late for me. I am trying to learn to play union again, let alone learn to play another game.
My Wasps colleague Nathan Hughes gets his first England start on Saturday, in place of the injured Billy Vunipola at number eight.
They are different players in a number of ways, but both are known for their supreme carrying power.
Billy has quickly become a world-class number eight and although Nathan is right up there on his day, it's a lot to expect him to be thrown into Test rugby and immediately hit those heights.
The public and media always clamour for players to get immediate exposure at international level, but they never appreciate that it's such a tough step up, and takes most mortal players time to adjust, although there are exceptions of course.
I love the way Nathan plays, he tramples over opposition defenders seemingly at will and carries the ball in one hand like it's a loaf of bread.
The other change sees Marland Yarde hold off the challenge of Semesa Rokoduguni to replace the suspended Elliot Daly on the wing.
I am told there's been a lot of debate among fans as to which of the two players they want to see starting on Saturday.
Having worked on TV for the past few weeks, I have been able to watch closely how England and other teams have been playing. Sadly fans only see the tries and big hits. They don't see the little details, the mistakes and positives that actually decide whether players get selected or not.
All I can say is I wouldn't like to be defending against either of them, one on one, in a few metres of space…
Equalling England's all-time winning run of 14 games on Saturday would be a huge achievement but it won't have been talked about much by the players.
They will be worrying about their performance and will leave it up to the media to hype it up.
This week, World Cup-winning England captain Martin Johnson was complimentary about the current team and it's great that someone of his stature would come out and say that.
It's very difficult to compare the two sides because they were world champions for a reason.
They had world-class players like Johnno, Jonny Wilkinson, Lawrence Dallaglio and Matt Dawson, they were winning for a long time and they were very consistent - it is something the current team can aspire to and use as motivation.
Media playback is not supported on this device
The 'mind games' between rival coaches Eddie Jones and Michael Cheika are not something the players take much notice of.
With the media stuff it's something you hear third-hand when you're having a coffee and someone might mention it.
But as for what they've been saying, all professional sportspeople try to steal a march on their opponents.
When it comes to scrums I joke about just putting my head down and pushing but there's a lot that goes into it, and a lot of it is about countering what the other side are doing.
I've been on the side of scrums when the opposition prop hinges from the hips, it looks like my prop's dropped it, and we get penalised.
If the coach can bring the referee's attention to something like that then they'll look at it more closely - they're only human.
It can be counterproductive though, as they might focus on things you'd rather they didn't.
Scrums will always be a contentious area, and as I have said before props like to make it sound more complicated than it is.
It's like they are all part of a secret society like the Magic Circle, where they all meet up and agree to make it really tricky for outsiders to understand, so they can continue to be some of the highest-paid players in the world.
I have tried to get into the club, but I don't have 18in studs or understand what boring in means.
Saturday is going to be a hard-fought game - they always are with Australia.
The set-piece battle - the scrum and the line-out - is going to be closely contested, as is the driving game from the pack, while there will be plenty of physicality in defence.
Last week, England shut down the Argentina attack when they tried to go wide and that is a good sign because in the first Test in the summer, in Brisbane, when Australia went 'wide wide' they found us out on the edges.
That happens for a number of reasons.
Firstly people over-commit to the breakdown, which leaves you men down in the defensive line.
People not filling the space quickly enough is also an issue, as is not getting enough line speed as you come up to defend and close down their space.
Then there's the class of the Wallaby attack. They often pass to a back very deep and that gives them a lot of space to attack, and you a lot of space to defend, so you've got to push up and close them down.
You will also see guys getting off the floor as quickly as they can to get back in the game.
Given the threat of the Australian backs, England will have focused on defending out wide and will have identified the threats, so hopefully we won't see them getting round the outside again.
We won the second Test in the summer because of a massive defensive performance.
Games like that, when you are defending for so much of the time, feel different to regular games.
It's a mixture of confidence, because you are going so well defensively, and nervousness because you can make 50 tackles but if you miss one they can be right back in the game. You feel both calm and anxious at the same time.
It's important when you don't have the ball to celebrate every little win, whether that is a big hit, turnover or smart bit of play. Maro Itoje is the king of that, at one point he whooped so hard he was shaking.
I expect Saturday's game to be more like the third June Test, which was much more open.
It will start with real intensity but then we should see both teams looking to attack.
Australia's back row, with Michael Hooper and David Pocock dovetailing so well, is very dangerous and they can cause opponents lots of problems.
For me, they are still the most dangerous pairing out there. You deal with one, and the other pops up causing trouble.
It is interesting to see Nick Phipps at scrum-half - he is a very fiery character on the pitch.
He has a speedy service and the quality of his delivery to Bernard Foley - who is a very good 10 on his day but produced a mixed bag in the summer - will be a big factor in how Australia perform.
The England boys will want to put pressure on them, because they are heartbeat of the Wallaby team, and make their lives a living hell.
They will need to feel that every time they look up they have a Tom Wood, George Kruis or Nathan Hughes breathing down their necks
England will win, but I'm not one for making score predictions. The BBC Sport users might like to do so below though, or you can let me know your verdict on Twitter.
James Haskell was talking to BBC Sport's James Standley
The words of Martin Narey, chief executive of Barnardo's, which runs a number of projects working with hundreds of sexually abused teenaged girls.
Child sexual exploitation by older men who groom them - not on the internet, but on the street - is finally getting widespread public attention.
The Derby case, which saw the ringleaders of a gang which groomed and abused teenage girls in Derby given indeterminate jail terms, has provided shocking evidence of the persistence of some abusers.
Abid Siddique, 28, and Mohammed Liaqat, 27, led a gang that cruised the streets of Derby - looking for, the judge said "sex at any price" - with young teenagers. He described Siddique in particular as a "sexual predator, with a voracious sexual appetite".
Siddique was given an 11-year sentence, with a requirement he serve all of it before being considered for release.
Liaqat was sentenced to eight years on the same terms.
Their victims were offered drink, drugs and lifts to parties.
Once they seemed friendly with the men, they were raped or sexually assaulted - sometimes kept prisoner, sometimes thrown onto the street after the abuse.
Derby was typical of a pattern of exploitation being tracked by police and experts around Britain.
The girls tended to be 16 or younger. Often they were from challenging backgrounds - homes with inconsistent parenting, or with a history of alcohol or drug problems.
And there is one controversial factor that many of the experts in the field are often not happy to discuss freely. The race of the abusers.
The string of convictions in cities such as Rotherham, Preston, Blackburn, Rochdale and now Derby have more often than not involved Asian men, specifically men of Pakistani origin, and mainly Muslim.
In this case the judge said the race of the victims and their abusers was "coincidental", but there are concerns within Asian communities about the problem.
Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, a Muslim youth organisation, became the first community leader to speak out in a BBC interview two years ago.
He is not afraid of raising the issue.
"Although there have been some cases of white men being involved in this sexual exploitation of young girls, most of the perpetrators are Muslim.
"There are some Muslims who think that as long as these sex gangs aren't targeting their own sisters and daughters the issue doesn't affect them... but the vast majority of Muslims find these actions abhorrent and disgusting," he said.
He stresses these are not religiously-motivated offences but crimes carried out by men for "their own depraved sexual gratification".
"These people think that white girls have fewer morals and are less valuable than our girls."
Another commentator, Manzoor Moghul, chairman of the Muslim Forum, agrees.
"Offenders are under the misapprehension white girls are easy prey. The way they dress, their culture, makes them easy pickings," he said.
But other experts in the field believe it is wrong to suggest that child sexual exploitation is solely perpetrated by Asian men against white girls.
Sheila Taylor runs Safe and Sound Derby, a group that was instrumental in persuading girls to give evidence against Siddique and Liaqat.
"This model of street-grooming is going on in many places. It is just that the recent spate of prosecutions against Asian men in the north of England and Midlands makes it look like it is concentrated in these communities," she said.
She believes some exploitation cases are harder than others to investigate, and is particularly concerned about the sexual abuse of young boys by older gangs of varied races.
Boys are simply less likely to talk about being raped, she says.
Barnardo's workers in London have also told the BBC about girls they have worked with who were abused by street gangs in the capital.
In some cases the grooming involved offering young people the chance to join a gang, in return for their participation in group rapes.
All of those working on the problem say it is important to remember the victims are too young to be able to legally consent to sex. Even if they do not say no to their abuser, it is still rape.
There is a growing feeling this is a problem that needs more vigorous attention from the government.
Derby Safeguarding Children Board has told the BBC it will formally request the Home Office carry out research into the backgrounds of those involved in sexual exploitation.
The Home Office said: "We are working to ensure local police and children's services are well placed to respond to child sexual exploitation, including supporting dedicated child abuse teams and specialist officers in every police (force)."
Mr Lee is facing charges over his alleged role in a bribery scandal which led to the ousting of the ex-President Park Guen-hye.
It is alleged he made a large donation in exchange for government support of a merger of two Samsung subsidiaries.
He has been in prison since February over the scandal, but denies any wrongdoing.
Samsung scandal: Who is Lee Jae-yong?
South Korea's presidential scandal
At the final hearing, prosecutors called Mr Lee the "ultimate beneficiary" of crimes committed in the scandal.
Prosecutors have accused Mr Lee and four other executives of bribing Ms Park's close confidante, Choi Soon-sil, with millions of dollars in exchange for presidential favours.
They are seeking terms ranging from seven to 10 years for his co-accused.
"The defendants were closely tied to power and sought personal gains," the prosecutors said.
The prosecutors alleged the bribes were aimed at winning government support for a major restructuring of Samsung.
They said the restructuring would help to cement the leadership of Mr Lee, who was standing in as chairman for his ill father, Lee Kun-hee.
Mr Lee's lawyers said the allegations were unjustified and the defendants never sought anything in return for the donations.
A court ruling is expected on 25 August.
Dutch national Richard de Wit, 43, denies charges of murder and illegally fleeing the state.
Earlier, the trial was adjourned as the prosecution again failed to provide the murder weapon before the court.
BBC reporter Riyaz Masroor said there was "every chance the case could collapse" if no evidence is produced.
Sarah Groves was found stabbed to death on a houseboat in Srinagar, where she had been living with a local family, on 6 April.
During Mr de Wit's trial, the court heard that there was an issue with the forensic evidence.
The prosecution lawyer said the state authorities did not have the proper facilities to rule if the items seized from the houseboat were actually used in the murder.
The items seized, believed to be several knives and a pair of scissors, have been sent to the neighbouring state of Punjab for analysis, the BBC's reporter said.
Mr de Wit's lawyer said the prosecution had put forward no convincing or substantial evidence and claimed the authorities were "framing" his client, he added.
The trial is due to resume on 16 September.
The 81-year-old is up for singer of the year, while Lodestar, her first record since 1978, is up for best album.
Collins was an immensely important figure in Britain's folk-rock scene in the 1960s, thanks to her pared-down singing style and strong storytelling.
But her career was cut short by the end of her marriage in the late 1970s.
The star's second husband, Ashley Hutchings, left her for a young actress who took to showing up at Collins' performances.
One night, during a performance of Lark Rise at London's National Theatre, she froze on-stage and found herself unable to sing.
"My voice just... my throat locked," she told NPR last year. "I was trying not to weep. Some nights I could manage a few notes, sometimes nothing came out at all when I opened my mouth. And it was in front of an audience, you know, and the band."
Collins developed a form of dysphonia, a condition often associated with psychological trauma.
In the years that followed, she wrote books while working in charity shops and a job centre to support herself. But her music was discovered by a younger generation of fans - including Blur's Graham Coxon and the Decemberists' Colin Meloy.
Eventually, she was coaxed back onto the stage - and released her new album to wide acclaim last year.
Collins is nominated for singer of the year alongside Ireland's Daoiri Farrell, Scottish musician Kris Drever, and five-time Folk Award winner Jim Causley.
Farrell has the most nominations, three in all, while Songs of Separation - a project inspired by the Scottish referendum, featuring Eliza Carthy, Karine Polwart and Jenny Hill - has two.
US folk icon Woody Guthrie will be inducted to the Folk Awards Hall of Fame on the 50th anniversary of his death.
The author of classics such as Do Re Mi, Pretty Boy Floyd and This Train Is Bound For Glory, his songs were a major influence on popular music, and have been covered by the likes of Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.
Just this week, Lady Gaga sang a portion of his civil rights anthem This Land Is Your Land in a thinly-veiled attack on Donald Trump at the Super Bowl.
Billy Bragg, who made a Grammy award-winning album with Wilco based on unused Woody Guthrie lyrics, will pay tribute to the star with a headline performance at the awards.
Scottish singer-songwriter Al Stewart, best known for the hit single Year Of The Cat, will also perform, after being honoured with the lifetime achievement award.
Mark Radcliffe and Julie Fowlis will present the awards at London's Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday, 5 April. The ceremony will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2.
Radio 2 Folk Awards 2017: Full list of nominations
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected].
On Wednesday, a judge at Belfast Magistrates Court, ruled that they took part in a rendition of the Famine Song, aggravated by hostility, while marching in a circle at St Patrick's Church in north Belfast during a 12 July parade in 2012.
The 13 defendants, all members of the Belfast band, Young Conway Volunteers, denied playing the controversial tune.
They instead claimed to have been performing the Beach Boys hit Sloop John B.
Three of the defendants received five-month suspended prison sentences for their actions.
The other 10 were each bound to keep the peace for the next two years, with a prohibition on engaging in aggressive, provocative or disorderly behaviour.
Fines of £300 were imposed on all of the defendants apart from those tried as youths.
Senior judges in Scotland have previously ruled the controversial Famine Song - which includes the line "The famine's over, why don't you go home?" - to be racist.
The episode outside the church marked the first in a series of incidents at the Donegall Street location.
A judge said it was "outrageous and inflammatory behaviour which could have precipitated serious public disorder."
The defendants had contested a charge of doing a provocative act likely to cause public disorder or a breach of the peace.
'Racial hatred'
During a hearing, defence lawyers played songs by a Swedish folk singer, a Star Trek enthusiast and football fan chants - all to the same tune - in a bid to have their clients cleared.
Paul Shaw, band leader on the day of the parade, was the only one of the accused to give evidence.
He said they had been forced to stop outside the church due to a break in the parade and started up the Beach Boys tune to ward off lethargy among tired members.
He said he had penned a letter to local Catholic parishioners.
"That was to explain the band in no way had any intention to cause any upset to anybody," he said.
"I felt it was my duty as band leader."
However, District Judge Paul Copeland rejected the defence case, finding that the band could have behaved differently as they waited to march on.
"They had choices to make; they didn't stand and wait quietly, they didn't disperse for the short period of time available to them, they didn't march in silence to a drum beat, they didn't sit down, join supporters or family and take a break.
"Instead, I find there was a studied and deliberate piece of conduct which involved their playing and marching not just past this church, but deliberately remaining within feet of the doorstep."
Emphasising the context of the situation at St Patrick's, he said the Famine Song has entered into the "repertoire" of loyalist band music.
It has the potential "as an anthem of sectarian abuse at least, or, at worst, racial hatred", Judge Copeland said.
Prince Charles told BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time that his grandson has helped to dig in "a tree or two" at his Gloucestershire home.
The prince said he has even redesigned some of his gardens to make them more child-friendly.
He also described how his own passion for gardening started in his childhood.
Speaking from Highgrove the prince said: "You never know, do you, what people are going to be interested in.
"The most important thing is I got him planting a tree or two here, so we planted it together and shovelled in the earth.
"That's the way, I think, when you are very small, and then each time they come you say, 'Do you see how much the tree has grown, or whatever?' and you hope that they take an interest."
Prince Charles described his passion for gardening as a "marvellous, therapeutic business... you can get reward from it but you can also be driven mad by it".
He said his interest was sparked by pottering around in the garden at Buckingham Palace, where he tended a little plot near Constitution Hill, and also by spending time with his grandmother, The Queen Mother, at Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park.
"I always like gardening - I hate to say this - from a child's point of view. It's a funny thing, because I have such happy memories of bits of garden at my grandmother's house.
"In Scotland and here I have tried to design it with what would appeal to a child; it is the paths and the interests.
"I have tried to do that at Dumfries House as well. We have made a maze now up there which is rather fun, and I adored a maze when I was young. You just put yourself in the child's position and sometimes it works."
Gardener's Question Time will broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 15:00 BST on Friday.
The raid, at Beaverbrooks in Hanley on 17 November, saw jewellery and watches stolen.
A 25-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman have already been charged in connection with the raid.
A 36-year-old man was arrested in the Oldham area of Greater Manchester on Friday and a number of homes in the area were searched by officers.
Det Ch Insp Ricky Fields, from Staffordshire Police, said there was a "substantial reward" for information that led to the recovery of stolen items.
Amber Rudd told the BBC the work permit proposal "certainly has value" but nothing was being ruled out.
She accepted EU nations could choose to impose new restrictions, including requiring Britons to apply for permission before travelling.
Ms Rudd said it was a "given" people voted Leave to reduce immigration.
Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, she reiterated the prime minister's dismissal of a points-based system to control EU migration championed by Brexit campaigners in the build-up to the referendum, saying it "simply doesn't work".
She said her department was considering the alternative of requiring EU migrants to have work permits.
"Whether we look at a work permit system or another system is something that my department is looking at closely at the moment," she said.
Asked about a possible trade-off between curbing the free movement of people and being allowed access to the EU's single market, Ms Rudd said the UK will have "complete control" over numbers once it leaves the EU, "with one or two provisos".
The new model "has got to be reciprocal", she said.
"We are going to have to work out what's in the UK's interests as well going to the European Union and what works for our economy and making sure that we get the right balance."
Asked about the Conservatives' long-standing target to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands - latest figures had it at 327,000 - she said the government was "completely committed" to reducing immigration, and "yes tens of thousands, although it will take some time".
She also confirmed the government was looking at ways of reducing the number of people using student visas to come to the UK, but said there would be "no blanket ban".
The home secretary said reports that Britons may have to pay for permission to visit the EU after Brexit were "a reminder that this is a two-way negotiation" adding: "I don't think it is particularly desirable but we do not rule it out because we have to be given a free hand."
Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham said such a proposal could cost a British family visiting the EU £50.
"This is yet another example of the drift and confusion as a result of the government's failure to plan for Brexit," he added.
Ms Rudd, one of the leading voices in the Remain campaign ahead of the referendum, played down her attacks on Leave campaigner Boris Johnson, who is now foreign secretary.
Asked about her comment in a TV debate that Mr Johnson was "the life and soul of the party" but "not the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening", she said: "Boris is not the the driver, Theresa May is the driver.
"She is very clear that we are all focused in the same direction and we are all going to deliver on what she has asked us to do."
It said the action had been taken on the grounds of national security.
President Tayyip Erdogan accuses Mr Gulen of instigating a failed coup against him last July - a charge the cleric denies.
Earlier, authorities detained more than 1,000 people in the latest operation against alleged Gulen supporters.
The nationwide sweep was one of the largest such operations carried out in Turkey in months.
As well as the 1,009 detained on Wednesday, arrest warrants were issued for another 3,224 people, as part of a police operation across Turkey's 81 provinces, reports said.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the raids were targeting a Gulenist network "that infiltrated our police force, called 'secret imams'".
In the aftermath of the 15 July coup attempt, which was led by military officers, 40,000 people were arrested and 120,000 sacked or suspended.
They included soldiers, police, teachers, and public servants - all of whom were accused of having links with militant groups.
The latest purge comes just over a week after President Erdogan narrowly won a controversial referendum on increasing his powers.
Opponents fear the victory, which has bitterly divided Turkey, brings him closer to authoritarian rule.
Two days after the referendum, Turkey's parliament extended a nine-month state of emergency by a further three months.
It was widely expected that the post-coup purge would accelerate once President Erdogan achieved the referendum victory he wanted.
He feels emboldened and there's no longer a risk of jeopardising potential referendum votes.
No matter that the opposition still contests the referendum results, and their claim of widespread fraud is backed by a scathing report from election observers. The president says the result is final.
So on Wednesday the police bore the brunt of the detentions, but other institutions are likely to follow suit.
The governing AKP party was full of Gulen supporters when Mr Erdogan and the cleric were staunch allies.
It hasn't yet been purged and could now be targeted. And even if not, the threat will be dangled over potential opponents like a sword of Damocles: speak out and your Gulen affiliation will be exposed.
The scale of the "anti-Gulen" arrests has raised alarm in Europe, and stalled Turkey's bid to join the EU.
After the latest sweep, Germany's foreign ministry said it had "taken note of the mass detentions with concern".
All-rounder Maxwell was set to join the Australia A squad in India but he will instead remain at Yorkshire.
The 26-year-old was originally signed for the T20 Blast, but will now be available for the One-Day Cup and County Championship as well.
However, New Zealand's Kane Williamson will join the club for the final four games of the Championship season.
Finch's foot injury ended a poor run at Yorkshire, in which he averaged 12.66 in the T20 Blast.
It is the latest in a series of injury problems for the batsman, who bruised a lung during a second XI game, shortly after recovering from a hamstring injury suffered while playing in the Indian Premier League.
"That's the end of the season for Aaron, as far as Yorkshire is concerned," director of cricket Martyn Moxon told the club website:
"It is a great disappointment for Aaron and the club and we wish him a speedy recovery."
At least seven police forces are carrying out investigations linked to abuse claims involving Sir Edward.
Wiltshire Police said having a lead force would ensure a "consistent approach" across the police forces.
The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation said it was confident he would be cleared of any wrongdoing.
Sir Edward lived in Salisbury, Wiltshire, for many years and died at his home there in 2005 aged 89.
Operation Hydrant, a national hub coordinating inquiries into historical abuse, has been liaising with forces which received information concerning Sir Edward.
On 3 August the police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, said it would look at whether officers at Wiltshire Police failed to pursue allegations made against the former prime minister.
A retired detective has alleged that claims were made in the 1990s but not followed up.
Announcing its lead role on Tuesday, a spokesman for Wiltshire Police said it would be working with the respective forces to establish an "appropriate national investigative strategy and supporting structure".
The spokesman said: "Due to the complexities of this task it is anticipated that this will take a number of weeks to finalise.
"One of the first tasks will be to assess the new information that has been received following the appeals for information made last week."
Wiltshire Police is also being investigated by the IPCC over claims it halted an inquiry into former brothel keeper Myra Forde in the 1990s after she said she would expose Sir Edward as being involved in child sexual abuse.
She recently denied the claims and said she had "no knowledge of any misconduct on his part".
The prosecuting barrister at the time, Judge Nigel Seed QC, has since said claims against Sir Edward played no part in the decision to drop the case.
Following the announcement of the IPCC probe, Wiltshire Police immediately appealed for potential victims and others with information to come forward, and later reported it had received a number of calls.
It has since emerged that police in Kent, Jersey, Hampshire, London, Gloucestershire and Thames Valley are also carrying out investigations linked to allegations against Sir Edward.
The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation said: "We welcome the investigation by Wiltshire Police, which we wholeheartedly believe will clear Sir Edward's name and we will co-operate fully with the police in their inquiries."
Sir Edward led the 1970-1974 Conservative government and took Britain into what was then the European Economic Community.
He lost his leadership of the party to Margaret Thatcher in 1975 - something he never forgave her for and he did not serve in her cabinet.
Prime Minister Edi Rama said the artworks seized - reportedly more than 1,000 - could fill an entire museum.
Among them were paintings, icons and murals thought to have been taken from churches and cultural centres in south-east Albania and Macedonia.
Their value was estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars, Albania's Top TV reported.
Welcoming the police operation, Mr Rama said the artwork had "risked joining the long list of works that have crossed the country's borders".
He said it was one of the largest operations against art trafficking, but that it marked just the beginning of a campaign in which he appealed to Albanians to "redress this lamentable plight of our heritage".
Experts say that Albania's Orthodox churches have been plundered of much of their art work since the fall of communism, and that the trafficking of stolen art is widespread.
"[Albanian society] has forgotten that this might be our temporary house, but it remains the perennial abode of generations to come and we owe it to them to pass on the country we inherited from our ancestors," the prime minister said.
State news agency ATA reported that two men aged 39 and 51 had been arrested, and that two other suspects were wanted.
The Derry Journal published a special edition of the newspaper on Wednesday following his death, and followed it up with extensive coverage of Mr McGuinness' funeral in Friday's edition.
The front page reflected the death and funeral of not just the former Sinn Féin leader but also of Derry City captain Ryan McBride, whose funeral also took place on Thursday.
The headline: "A city in mourning".
On Mr McGuinness, the paper quotes Denis Bradley - a well-know Derry man and former co-chairman of a group set up to deal with the legacy of the Troubles - who said there were always "dove-like aspects to McGuinness".
"I don't think he was as hawkish as people make him out to be at times," he told the Journal.
"He had, to my mind, an over-commitment to the republican movement, I realised he didn't like violence and he didn't like injury and death and destruction for the sake of it. When it could be avoided he did it."
The newspaper also pays tribute to Mr McBride with a special back page.
Instead of the usual sports news, the page is decorated in Derry City's red and white stripes and features the words of a poem read out by manager Kenny Shiels during the funeral of the "gentle giant".
Meanwhile, the Londonderry Sentinel leads on "mixed emotions" over the death of Mr McGuinness.
Inside, on page three, the headline points towards the divisive legacy Mr McGuinness has left behind.
"Many struggle to come to terms with his past", it reads.
On its front page, the city's DUP mayor Hilary McClintock calls him "a towering figure in Northern Ireland in general and in the city of Londonderry in particular".
There would be a "diverse range of opinions" about him, she said, but he had a passion for the city and the North West.
The Impartial Reporter, in Fermanagh, also focuses heavily on the funeral of Mr McGuinness, particularly the reaction of DUP leader Arlene Foster.
Its print edition came out on Thursday morning, before the event, meaning the front page leads with the uncertainty over whether Mrs Foster would be present.
However, its website has full coverage of the event including reaction to Mrs Foster's decision to attend.
In the print edition, Denzil McDaniel, the paper's former editor, offers his own view of Martin McGuinness.
"Man of war or man of peace? Well, both actually, that is the contradiction."
He writes that the hurt and pain caused by the IRA and Mr McGuinness "cannot be dismissed" but adds: "I believe his transformation to peace was a real and genuine one, not a tactical one but a heartfelt desire."
The Ulster Herald is another paper devoting plenty of coverage to the death of Martin McGuinness - it leads with the reveal that he visited a police officer's hospital bed following a bomb attack in 2008.
The officer told the paper: "I remember him visiting and I remember thinking it was something important. I found out later that he had never visited a police officer in hospital before.
"So I think I was the first. I suppose it was his way of saying that his party was supportive of policing."
Elsewhere in the paper, it covers the recent publication of names of firms that benefit from subsidies under the botched RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive) scheme.
It has produced an interactive map showing all the claimants across County Tyrone - you can see it online.
The Down Recorder lead story centres on the death of Neil Rooney, 33, from Ballyhornan, following an industrial accident at Belfast's Harbour Estate.
"Father of two dies in tragic work accident," reads the headline and the report carries tributes and sympathy for the Rooney family from politicians and friends who call the loss "devastating and heart breaking".
Inside, the newspaper says there is concern over a decision to close a PSNI enquiry office in Newcastle.
The office will be shut in two weeks, leaving the station in Downpatrick as the only one in the district that has an office for the public.
In an editorial, the Down Recorder accused the PSNI of "trying to dress up the closure as improved policing" and of "strangely claiming social media is making such offices redundant".
The paper's response? "This is complete nonsense."
"Along with other public services, police have been forced to retrench and what has been forced upon them represents a reduction in the service that is offered to the public.
"Please tell it as it is and stop trying to kid the community that all is well."
Over in the Orchard County, the Armagh Observer reports concerns about a bridge over the River Callan leading to a nature reserve at the edge of Milford village.
Parents living close by are worried that it is an "accident waiting to happen," says the paper.
"A hole large enough for a child to fall through has now appeared," the paper reports, adding that an issue about ownership may be the reason why the bridge has fallen into disrepair.
Inside, the paper features world champion Irish dancer Joe McGeown. He may be from London but he has "no scarcity of Granemore blood in his veins", says the paper.
Joe's father, Dessie, hails from there and Joe has dedicated his recent world championship award to his late aunt, Ann O'Neill from Granemore, Tassagh, who died in January.
Meanwhile, an unholy row is brewing in Broughshane over a church hall, the Ballymena Guardian reports.
Under the headline: "Church hall demolition plan left 'in ruins'", it says that the Magill Hall in the village has been made a listed building, thwarting plans to demolish it and replace it with a new modern hall.
The hall is owned by Broughshane First Presbyterian Church and the Guardian reports that churchgoers are not best pleased - they were looking forward to an up-to-date, all mod-cons hall.
DUP MLA Paul Frew, who attends the church, says it was "dirty" of the Department of Communities Historic Environment Division to list it.
"This is an incredibly draconian decision," he told the paper.
Remaining on matters holy, Ballymena is proud of its connection to St Patrick and 17 March is a special day.
"Saint Patrick back on the throne of Slemish," reads the Guardian headline with a host of photographs from the day.
Slemish was where the boy Patrick herded the sheep after he had been kidnapped and served as a slave to local chieftain Milchú.
On St Patrick's Day, the paper reports that a play was performed on the slopes of Slemish, telling the story of the Irish saint.
The paper says there was even a real-life Patrick treading the boards - the role of the saint was taken by a local - Patrick Connor, 17 - who lives on the slopes of Ballymena's holy mountain.
He is pictured flat on his back, taking what looks like a bucket-load of grief from Chieftain Milchú.
Sir Cliff Richard said the singer's legacy of songs with the group, including Tragedy and Jive Talkin' was "stunningly good".
Lyricist Sir Tim Rice said Gibb, who had cancer, was "a charming man".
"I saw him only a couple of weeks ago," he said. "He wasn't at all well but was putting up a marvellous fight. It's a terrible loss for the music industry."
Robin Gibb formed the Bee Gees with brothers Barry and Maurice. They were among the most successful pop groups and songwriting teams of all time, with hits spanning five decades.
They scored nine US number one singles and five chart-toppers in the UK.
Sir Cliff said: "We are a fraternity of people who sing pop and rock and Robin is another one of us who's gone too soon, too early.
"So the legacy will be what the Bee Gees did, which was stunning, stunningly good stuff - right on a par with the Beatles."
Former Beatle Ringo Starr told the BBC: "Robin will be remembered as a musician and as a singer and part of The Bee Gees. The legacy they'll leave behind is Stayin' Alive, the harmonies and the songs that they've written."
Singer Dionne Warwick, whose biggest hit Heartbreaker was written by the Gibb brothers, said of Robin: "He was wonderful. He was a jokester.
"He had an incredibly witty sense of humour and was fun to be around. All three of them were sensational gentlemen first, just fun loving guys."
She touched upon the family members' close bond, adding: "I think what was most attractive to me was how grounded they were.
"I think a lot of it has to do with their sense of family and being together as a family. That is very important, to be connected. They loved each other very strongly and showed it, and it was a joy."
The trio also penned Islands In The Stream for Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, a hit which featured on Rogers' 1983 album Eyes That See In The Dark.
"Robin was a part of something unique," said Rogers in a statement. "The sound of the Bee Gees was so specific and dominating, especially in the 70s - unlike anything that had ever happened before or will ever happen again.
"Mostly, Robin was a good guy who didn't deserve to die this young. We will all miss him for what he was as a person and what he brought to music."
John Travolta, who danced to the Bee Gees' distinctive soundtrack in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, also paid tribute to Gibb on Monday.
He said: "I thought Robin was one of the most wonderful people - gifted, generous and a real friend to everyone he knew. And we'll miss him."
The announcement of Robin Gibbs' death was made by his family on Sunday with "great sadness".
Broadcaster Paul Gambaccini described the singer as "one of the major figures in the history of British music".
"Everyone should be aware that the Bee Gees are second only to Lennon and McCartney as the most successful songwriting unit in British popular music," he said.
Robin Gibb had "one of the best white soul voices ever", Gambaccini said, adding that the group's accomplishments had been "monumental".
"Not only have they written their own number one hits, but they wrote huge hit records for Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Celine Dion, Destiny's Child... the list goes on and on."
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bryan Adams, Duran Duran and Justin Timberlake are among a host of musicians that took to Twitter to pay their respects.
Gibb had battled ill health for several years.
In 2010, he cancelled a series of shows after suffering severe stomach pains while performing in Belgium. He went on to have emergency surgery for a blocked intestine.
His twin brother and band partner Maurice died in 2003 aged 53 following complications from a twisted intestine.
Robin Gibb cancelled a series of shows in Brazil in April 2011, after again suffering from abdominal pains.
Later that year, he was found to have cancer of the colon after having surgery on his bowel for an unrelated condition.
He was later also diagnosed with cancer of the liver, and underwent chemotherapy and surgery.
Last month the singer fell into a coma after contracting pneumonia.
Four weeks ago, he regained consciousness and was said to have been making a positive recovery. But his death was announced at 23:30 BST (22:30 GMT) on Sunday.
Dr Eireann Kerr, 32, had argued that she had been "the victim of a crime" because her drink was spiked with a date rape drug.
The judge who found her guilty said he had no doubt that her drink was spiked but added it was not a defence in law.
Dr Kerr's barrister told Londonderry Magistrates Court that the sentence would be "affirmed."
In April, she was found guilty of two charges of assaulting police officers, disorderly behaviour and resisting a police officer after her arrest in December 2013.
She was given a two-month conditional discharge.
Dr Kerr, of Malborough Park South in Belfast, was working as an anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry at the time of the incident and had been to several pubs in the city while on a staff night out.
She was arrested during the early hours of the morning and assaulted officers in Strand Road police station.
The hospital anaesthetist said she woke up in a police cell the next day with none of her belongings and no idea how she had ended up there.
She claims the convictions have put her medical career at risk.
Dr. Kerr was not present in court when her appeal was withdrawn.
Stephen Ackerman targeted West Ham players and staff including then manager Sam Allardyce and England striker Andy Carroll.
The 48-year-old, of Loughton, Essex, was found guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court of 18 counts of fraud totalling more than £61,000 in October.
Judge David Radford said Ackerman was "utterly deceitful and dishonest".
Ackerman visited West Ham's east London training ground to sell the club's players and staff luxury Christmas hampers, using the pseudonym Mark Kingston in December 2014.
He took payment using a hand-held chip-and-pin credit card device.
The luxury items never materialised and a few weeks later some of the victims noticed unauthorised payments running into the thousands charged to their bank accounts.
They matter was reported to the police and Ackerman was arrested.
He was caught after search warrants were carried out at addresses linked to him in Essex and Hertfordshire.
Judge Radford said Ackerman had "consistently, premeditatedly and shamelessly defrauded others".
He said he was a man with "no scruples whatsoever... telling lie after lie to try to deceive others".
"Your endemic dishonestly is plainly unremitting," he said. "You earn no credit for your remorse, nor any credit for any pleas of guilt."
The judge said "many" of his victims were Premier League footballers, adding: "This was not simply a fraud involving undelivered Christmas hampers and wine or even simply the fraudulent use of a card chip-and-pin device.
"You used the bank account details perhaps in conjunction with others that you had obtained when you visited the West Ham training ground and... obtained sizeable amounts of money from bank accounts."
The court also heard Ackerman had "numerous previous convictions for fraud", with the most recent in 2013.
As well as online, all three BBL and WBBL finals days - the Cup (15 January), the Trophy (19 March) and the Play-off finals (14 May) - will also be shown on the Red Button.
The website and app will broadcast all the league matches in addition to the cup finals, while coverage will also be available on selected connected TVs.
In total, eight WBBL regular season games will be shown.
Follow #theBBL and #theWBBL across social media channels to keep up to date with all the latest news from both leagues.
Find out how to get into basketball with our special guide.
A manhunt was launched for Jed Allen, 21, who was suspected of killing his half-sister Derrin Jordon, aged six, his mother Janet Jordon, 48, and her partner Philip Howard, 44.
A post mortem examination confirmed they died from multiple stab wounds.
Their bodies were found in Vicarage Road, Didcot on Saturday. Allen's body was found in Oxford on Monday.
The body found in woodland is yet to be formally identified, but police are satisfied it is Allen.
A statement on behalf of Janet and Derrin's family said: "Janet was a beloved daughter, sister and auntie.
"Dezzy was a breath a fresh air and truly one of a kind.
"For a family to lose someone so young cannot be explained in mere words."
Philip's older brother said his family was in "shock and disbelief".
"My beloved bro and Uncle Philip you'll be missed so much," he said.
A statement from Philip's children said: "Take care of our sister Dezzy up there daddy, take care of Jan too.
"We wish you didn't have to go Daddy, it's our worst nightmare come true."
The search for Allen ended on Monday after a body was found off Marston Ferry Road in Oxford around 17:00 BST.
Police confirmed the 21-year-old was their prime suspect after officers discovered the bodies of Ms Jordon, Mr Howard and Derrin at 20:20 BST on Saturday.
More than 100 police were deployed to search Oxford University Parks where Allen worked as a groundsman.
Detectives believed he had arrived in the city by train from Didcot at 17:45 on Saturday.
Police have reopened Vicarage Road, but a cordon remains in place around the crime scene where officers are expected to remain until Thursday.
The event was run over two legs and Gerard Kinghan won the first race from fellow Kawasaki rider Sheils, with Alastair Kirk third.
Sheils took the victory in race two, coming home ahead of Kirk and Crumlin's Stephen Thompson on a BMW, followed by Kinghan in fourth.
William Dunlop was a double Supersport 600cc winner on his CD Racing Yamaha.
Jamie Patterson finished runner-up in race one and Robert Kennedy second in race two.
Former British 125cc champion Christian Elkin took the chequered flag in the two Supertwins outings.
Female competitor Melissa Kennedy took victory in one of the Moto 3 races.
Sheils secured his third Enkalon Trophy success after victories in 2004 and 2013.
The Irish championship shirt circuit action continues at Kirkistown on Easter Monday, with the Mayor's Trophy the feature event.
Raikkonen was angered that Red Bull's Max Verstappen was not criticised for what the Finn saw as unacceptable defence of fifth place during the race.
A questionable interpretation of qualifying rules also annoyed Ferrari.
"It's pointless to have rules if they don't apply all the time, for all the people," the 2007 world champion said.
Raikkonen felt Verstappen had twice contravened a rule that dictates how drivers can defend a position in a race.
This happened first at Turn Two, when Verstappen moved back to defend the outside line after Raikkonen had tried to switch his attack from from the inside to the outside. Raikkonen hit the Red Bull and damaged his front wing.
Raikkonen said: "For me, he moved once right, I decided to go left but once the other guy moves back, I did everything I could to avoid any contact.
"Once I decided to go somewhere, you cannot just come there. It is good that I managed to somehow half-miss him."
The second incident later in the race was at Turn One, when Raikkonen locked his brakes trying to avoid Verstappen as the Dutchman moved to the outside to defend.
"It was a bit of a similar story, that second thing - obviously I made a move and once I decided to go, it's very hard to back off and try to avoid the other car, once the other car started to move after me.
"I tried to miss him and I just managed to miss him but it was two times that, in my feeling, he wasn't correct.
"But obviously, like I said, the stewards - or the people who decide how things go here, the stewards and some other guys - in many ways, it's a joke with the rules, you know?"
Verstappen said he believed he had been "fair".
"He moved right and then back to left when I was going there," the 18-year-old said. "And he took the front wing off.
"If he's not stopping moving then we'll hit each other. Because I moved first, so he moved after that, once I have decided to go outside and he turns after that wasn't fair."
The rule in question, article 27.6 of the sporting regulations, states: "More than one change of direction to defend a position is not permitted. Any driver moving back towards the racing line, having earlier defended his position off-line, should leave at least one car width between his own car and the edge of the track on the approach to the corner."
Raikkonen and the Ferrari team were also critical of a decision by race stewards not to move drivers who had failed to set a time within 107% of the fastest in first qualifying back down the grid, as defined by the rules.
The stewards said they made the decision because it was in the "exceptional circumstances" of a qualifying session hit by heavy rain and four red-flag stoppages.
"You have the 107% rule and the people who didn't go through first qualifying, they [the stewards] apply it for those cars but not for the rest," Raikkonen said.
"How can you suddenly have the same rule in the same qualifying applied two different ways? If somebody can explain how that works...
"But that's F1 these days, and something must change. It just looks bad to people outside, to you guys, and it's not fair. There's a rule, it should apply exactly the same way every time to everybody."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.
|
Ex-New Zealand scrum-half Justin Marshall doubts whether Ireland have the creativity to go all the way at the World Cup.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bournemouth goalkeeper Artur Boruc has extended his deal at the club until summer 2018 after triggering an appearance clause in his contract.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Goals from Neeskens Kebano and Rui Fonte secured Fulham's first win of the season and ended Ipswich's 100% start to the Championship campaign.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Britons Kyle Edmund, Dan Evans and Heather Watson lost to qualifiers in the Miami Open first round, while Aljaz Bedene retired in his match.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bolton Wanderers scored three goals in nine first-half minutes against Port Vale to extend their winning run to six matches.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
England take on Australia on Saturday seeking to equal their all-time record of 14 consecutive victories, set by the team that would go on to win the 2003 World Cup.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
"This is going on in every town and city in the UK."
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
South Korean prosecutors are seeking a 12-year jail sentence for Samsung Electronics vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A lack of evidence has placed the trial of a man accused of murdering Guernsey woman Sarah Groves in Kashmir at risk of collapse, the BBC understands.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Folk star Shirley Collins, who was robbed of her voice for 30 years by an emotional crisis, has been nominated for two Radio 2 Folk Awards.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Thirteen members of a loyalist flute band have been convicted of provocatively playing a sectarian tune outside a Catholic church.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Prince of Wales has been coaxing Prince George to follow in his gardening footsteps by helping him plant trees at his Highgrove estate.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has been arrested in connection with a £500,000 robbery at a jewellers in Stoke-on-Trent.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Work permits are among the post-Brexit migration curbs being considered but any changes must be good for the UK economy, the home secretary has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Turkey's police force has suspended more than 9,000 officers over alleged links to the US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Yorkshire have extended their deal with Glenn Maxwell after Aaron Finch was ruled out for the rest of the season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Any national investigation into claims of historical child sexual abuse involving former PM Sir Edward Heath is to be led by Wiltshire Police.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Albanian police say they have foiled an art-trafficking ring seeking to sell hundreds of works of art abroad.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The eyes of the world turned to Derry this week following the death of one of its most famous sons, Martin McGuinness .
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Stars of the music industry have been paying tribute to Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, who has died at the age of 62.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A doctor who assaulted police after a Christmas party in Londonderry has dropped an appeal against her sentence.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A conman who defrauded Premier League footballers out of thousands of pounds has been jailed for four years.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The BBC will show 32 British Basketball League (BBL) and Women's British Basketball League (WBBL) games live on the BBC Sport website and app this season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The family of the victims in a suspected triple murder have described it as an "unimaginable" tragedy.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Dubliner Derek Sheils won the Enkalon Trophy for the third time at Bishopscourt on Saturday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen has dismissed Formula 1's rules as "a joke" after a controversial weekend at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
| 34,338,636 | 16,248 | 790 | true |
In February, Lynette had a double mastectomy. In an unusual case, inflammatory breast cancer was found in one breast while a different form of cancer was in the other.
Lynette was dealt a triple blow in August when secondary cancer was found in her brain. A tumour was removed and further treatment followed.
Lynette said intends to enjoy Christmas - especially the food and drink.
"We are having lots of family round from early morning. Cava will be flowing and lots of lemonade for the children, mince pies, and a feast for dinner.
"Last year, my mouth was covered in sores from the chemotherapy treatment. I actually couldn't eat."
Lynette first appeared on the BBC in February just weeks before both her breasts were removed.
"It's been such a tough year. Cancer turns your life upside down. I honestly believe I am not the same person that in was in July 2015," she said.
Lynette is not alone. There are currently more than 20,000 people aged 15-64 in Northern Ireland, living with cancer.
Each person deals with the disease in their own way.
On Lynette's journey, she stumbled across Clonard Monastery in west Belfast.
A member of the Church of Ireland walking through the doors of a Catholic church in August was both a daunting and enlightening experience.
"I can understand why some would question if there is a God whenever they have been thrown so many hand grenades, like I have been thrown this year," she said.
"I think, at the start, I probably did question that. But I got over it and I definitely have found peace just being able to spend time on my own. Praying has helped me get through."
A friend introduced her to Clonard and it was to become a place of solace for her in the heart of west Belfast.
"I have found great comfort here. Yes, I am Church of Ireland but this place is so welcoming to everyone, no matter what your denomination," she said.
"So just being here and just spending time praying and having time to myself has really helped me."
Throughout the year Lynette has been raising awareness about inflammatory breast cancer.
It is a rare and very aggressive disease - rather than a lump appearing, the breast looks swollen, red or inflamed.
Lynette said when she was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in her brain she thought her time was up.
"I thought that when you are given that type of news, it was curtains down for me. Coming to Clonard has given me the strength to just turn it around and instead raise awareness."
Now, Lynette is looking to the future.
"Family are everything especially my boys and husband. We have lots of family trips planned," she said.
"I also intend to continue to fundraise to raise awareness."
That's next year - before then Lynette intends to celebrate Christmas.
|
Cancer, chemotherapy and discovering Clonard - it's been an extraordinary year for County Antrim woman Lynette McKendry.
| 38,348,093 | 645 | 30 | false |
About a quarter of all photographs uploaded to the site and tagged with the name of the city also include the word "Christmas" or "Xmas".
Across the 10 biggest English cities for population about one in five photographs on average is accompanied by those words as people get into the yuletide spirit.
Whether it is relaxing at home in front of the tree, hotdogs at the Christmas market, fairground wheels in the city centre or mulled wine with friends, thousands of people are sharing their festivities on social media.
Data scraped from photo-sharing service Instagram since 10 December shows that photographs of Leeds included "Christmas" or "Xmas" 23% of the time.
Councillor Judith Blake, leader of Leeds City Council, said: "Leeds is a fabulously festive city and we've seen residents and visitors alike really get into the Christmas spirit more than ever this year.
"One of the most popular attractions in Leeds at this time of year is the Christkindelmarkt, which has become a Leeds Christmas tradition for many visitors and residents, and is fantastic photo opportunity for some fun and festive selfies. Combined with the lights switch-on, which regularly attracts thousands of people, the market has proved to be another roaring success this year."
The city also has a Reindeer Trail, a collection of decorated reindeer statues.
The least Christmassy city in the top 10 is Leicester, where 8% of photographs hashtagged with its name mention Christmas.
However, the arrival of the Coca Cola Christmas lorry on Thursday prompted a series of Christmas-tagged pictures from Leicester.
Leicester also has a lot going on for Christmas despite the lower proportion of mentions on Instagram. This year is the first time that people can view the Christmas decorations from its Wheel of Light, which is in Jubilee Square until 3 January.
A Leicester City Council spokeswoman said: "We have a busy programme of festivals and events throughout the year, including a packed Christmas and Diwali programme.
"Our Christmas celebrations include Leicester's Wheel of Light, a 110ft-high (33.5m) Ferris wheel on Jubilee Square, our popular children's tableaux at Town Hall Square, and our pantomime Snow White is at De Montfort Hall until 4 January. Our Christmas lights switch-on included real reindeer, Santa's sleigh and a programme of live music, and attracted thousands to the city centre."
German Christmas markets, selling crafts, decorations, beer, bratwurst and gluhwein, have proved a big draw, not least in the two old rivals for the status of England's second city, Birmingham and Manchester.
But it seems the two are neck and neck in terms of their Christmas cheer on Instagram. Not only do both cities have photographs mentioning Christmas 19% of the time, but 2% of all tagged photographs contain either #christmasmarket or #christmasmarkets.
In Birmingham, hashtags for the market included #christmasmarket, #birminghamchristmasmarket and even #yestheyhavegermanxmasmarketsinbirmingham.
Earlier this year Manchester topped a poll of the 10 most populated cities when people were asked which should be the UK's second capital, but on pictures of their Christmas markets, at least, they are equals.
23%
of pictures of #Leeds say Christmas or Xmas too
19% of #Manchester (pictured), #Birmingham and #Sheffield
17% of #Bristol, 14% #Wakefield and #London, 12% #Bradford and 11% #Liverpool
8% of #Leicester pictures mention Christmas, the least of the big cities
BBC News used an independent data scraping tool to search Instagram for any mentions of Christmas.
We looked for the top 10 cities for population in England with a hashtag (#) in front of them followed by the words "Christmas" or "Xmas" somewhere in the accompanying caption.
Instagram was founded in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. It has overtaken Twitter and now has about 400m regular users. The app lets users enhance images taken on their mobile phones with filters and then share them instantly across various social networks.
Westbury-on-Trym Councillor Geoff Gollop has been nominated as the chosen candidate following a vote by party members at a private meeting.
Mr Gollop is a former lord mayor of the city - a ceremonial post which does not carry direct power, unlike the role of elected mayor.
He said: "I'm very positive about the campaign ahead".
He added: "Bristolians want people who can speak up for the city and I believe I can do that."
Mr Gollop said he was aware that the role of elected mayor is different to that of lord mayor.
He said: "Lord mayor is a wonderful ceremonial role, but the elected mayor is the one who actually has ultimate responsibility for running the city and delivering its services, and there's a need for absolute change in the way we do things.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for the city, and I hope we grab it with both hands."
Mr Gollop said the three key areas he would focus on if he was elected are transport, education and inequality.
The Labour Party has previously announced Marvin Rees as its candidate, the Lib Dems named Jon Rogers and the Green Party has chosen Daniella Radice.
Bristolians voted in favour of replacing the council leader with an elected mayor in a referendum in May.
The third place play-off match became a straight fight for the fourth Rio qualifying berth, behind Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
Earlier, Simon Middleton's side reached the knockout stages and beat New Zealand 17-14 in the quarter-finals.
The sport will feature at a summer games for the first time.
During the group stages, England comfortably beat China and Russia, but lost the final pool match 24-7 to Australia.
Finishing in the top four places in the series standings was the easiest route to Rio.
Had they not achieved qualification at what was the final event of the series, England, Scotland or Wales would have had to try and achieve Great Britain's Olympic place by winning a regional qualifying event between June and September.
The Black Stars lost the final on penalties to Ivory Coast two years ago, denying them a first title since 1982.
"In the last Nations Cup we were very very close - 22 penalties and we were the better side," Grant said ahead of Tuesday's Group D opener with Uganda.
"But that is for memories - now we want to achieve something."
The pressure is on Ghana to finally deliver what is proving to be an elusive fifth title.
And their performances in recent months have come under intense scrutiny from their fans, especially after a World Cup qualifying defeat against Egypt, and a lacklustre draw against the same Uganda side they are about to face.
Grant has led Ghana against Uganda three times competitively: that draw in World Cup qualifying and twice in qualifying for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, where the Cranes got another draw and a famous victory.
"They're a tough team, it's not easy to play against them - and especially in Ghana we had difficulties in the last games," Grant said. "But we are not looking at the past too much, we are learning from the past but living in the present."
Captain Asamoah Gyan said tournament experience within the Ghana camp could be crucial.
"This year we have almost the same players [as in 2015]," said the former Sunderland striker, who could reach 100 Ghana caps during the tournament in Gabon.
"Some lads [have] joined recently but 95% of the team are the same and we have been working under the coach for more than two years so we understand each other."
Eight fire crews were sent to the scene at Tal y Waen mountain, Dolgellau.
North Wales fire service was called at about 13:30 BST on Tuesday.
Elsewhere, crews dealt with a number of grass fires, including in Rhondda, Maesteg, Rhymney, Cwmbran and on Mynydd Pencarreg, Carmarthenshire.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to 71 deliberate grass fires over Easter Sunday and Monday.
The AA says traffic is likely to begin building up on Friday evening but the busiest single day for motorists is expected to be Saturday.
Visit England said about £1.3bn is set to be generated for the economy.
Meanwhile, travel organisation Abta expects two million Britons will head abroad between Friday and Monday.
Heathrow is expecting more than 440,000 passengers to depart over the long weekend, while Gatwick is preparing for 311,000 outgoing passengers.
Stansted is due to see 103,000 people fly over the next three days.
Ports and the Channel Tunnel are also expected to be in high demand.
The AA estimates 13 million drivers will take to the roads over the holiday weekend, with about 10 million beginning journeys on Saturday.
Potential hotspots are said to include sections of the M25, M6, M4 and M27.
On Thursday, motorists were caught in long tailbacks on the M5 after an incident on a bridge led police to close part of the motorway near Wellington in Somerset.
Abigail Wyatt, 25, of Tonedale, Somerset, has been charged with causing a public nuisance and will appear before magistrates in Taunton next month.
The M5 was already expected to be exceptionally busy as holidaymakers began to head to the South West for the August bank holiday weekend.
The AA's Max Holdstock said the August Bank Holiday weekend is "always a bit of a mad scramble on the roads".
He added: "Traffic is likely to build up on Friday evening as people set off early to make the most of the weekend, and will be busy again for the return on Monday afternoon - so allow plenty of extra time if you're travelling then."
Highways England says almost 98% of England's motorway and major A roads will be clear of roadworks over the weekend, after some 373 miles of works were either completed or suspended ahead of the holiday.
Hundreds of thousands of people will travel by coach, with operator National Express announcing it will be its busiest weekend of the year.
But nearly 1,000 engineering projects are being carried out across Britain's rail network, meaning some lines will be closed.
Network Rail's route managing director, Martin Frobisher, said: "Work takes place 365 days a year as part of our Railway Upgrade Plan but we carry out larger upgrades over bank holidays when there are fewer passengers travelling."
Abta chief executive Mark Tanzer said: "This weekend is the traditional curtain closer for the peak summer months and it is always a very busy weekend for travel, with millions taking advantage of the long weekend to head off overseas.
"With the roads predicted to be extremely busy, holidaymakers should make sure that they leave plenty of time to get to their port of departure."
Monday is a day off in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but a working day in Scotland, which had its summer bank holiday at the beginning of the month.
Stephen Gleeson opened the scoring with a low 25-yard shot minutes before Paul Caddis's penalty three minutes later.
Jon Toral's shot made it 3-0 by the break, but Fulham's James Husband was then sent off for a second booking.
Alexander Kacaniklic gave Fulham hope but Clayton Donaldson and Viv Solomon-Otabor scored late goals for Blues either side of one for Ross McCormack.
The home side came into the game with two wins in their last three matches but were left standing by Birmingham's quicker start.
Both sides had chances to score before Jacques Maghoma set up Gleeson to net his third goal of the season from 25 yards.
Then, on 21 minutes, Caddis scored from the spot after the arm of keeper Joe Lewis brought down Donaldson.
Tim Ream went close for Fulham but that just spurred Birmingham to turn the screw and add a third.
Maghoma stretched to win a ball that looked to be going over the line and crossed for Toral to shoot high into the roof of the net.
Jamie O'Hara's free-kick against the bar was an encouraging sign for Fulham, but after Husband picked up two yellow cards in as many minutes just after the restart, Birmingham began coasting, only for Kacaniklic to capitalise on sloppy defending.
In a lively finish, Blues' top scorer Donaldson's fifth goal of the season looked to have made sure of victory.
McCormack pulled another back for Fulham courtesy of a lucky deflection, but there was still time for Blues' late substitute Solomon-Otabor to get on the scoresheet - his first goal in league football.
Fulham manager Kit Symons:
"It's very disappointing, I fancied us going into the game, being on decent form with two big wins, so I expected better today.
Media playback is not supported on this device
"We actually started the game okay, we had a few decent openings and then to concede two goals in such a short space of time is very poor defending from us.
"The third goal wasn't much better, and the sending off completely compounds it in the second half. At 10 men I thought we were quite brave and had a go.
"It was a fair red card, to be on a booking it was rash to go in like that, so I have no problems."
Birmingham manager Gary Rowett:
Media playback is not supported on this device
"I did ask them for a little bit more attacking quality today, and I felt we have been a bit wasteful in the final third, and not being ruthless enough.
"I didn't quite expect such a good performance today. We got into some brilliant positions, in the way we broke and kept our shape.
"Jon Toral was the best player on the pitch, in terms of his composure and his vision. We know what he's got - he's only 20 years old and starting games for the first time."
About 3,500 homes will be added to Northstowe, near Cambridge, where work is already under way to build 1,500 new properties.
Two primary schools, a secondary school and a sports hall will also be created as part of the development.
Northstowe, the biggest new town since Milton Keynes, is being developed by the government and property developers.
Tim Wotherspoon from South Cambridgeshire District Council said securing approval for the latest phase was a "major milestone".
Media playback is not supported on this device
Otis Pimpleton Jr sits on a window ledge outside the Mayweather Boxing Gym. He is still at work, 15 hours after Floyd Mayweather performed one of his famous late-night workouts four days before he faces Conor McGregor.
The end of Pimpleton's daily grind nears at a gym that has been referred to as the 'Mecca of boxing'.
The Mayweather name draws fighters, their kitbags filled with dreams, from around the globe. But what lies inside this humble piece of Las Vegas real estate? And how does a fighter get access?
Here, with the help of some of Mayweather's fighters and closest aides, BBC Sport takes a look.
Nestled behind seemingly endless rows of Chinese restaurants a 10-minute drive from the Las Vegas strip, a frosty welcome awaits at this unassuming building tucked away off the main road.
My visit coincides with a private Badou Jack training session just days before he challenges Nathan Cleverly for the WBA light-heavyweight title. I am told, in no uncertain terms, to wait in a reception area until the Mayweather fighter is done.
A door to the gym floor is slammed tight, Jack's grunts coinciding with the sound of glove hitting pads. Images of Mayweather line the waiting area. A sofa looks old under harsh lighting.
Few fighters are made in glitzy gyms, and this isn't one. Still they flock.
"Five years ago I was British champion and wanted a change of scenery having been in New York all the time," says London-born Ashley Theophane, who fights for Mayweather Promotions. "I didn't know where the gym was. I just got a flight here, found it online and went in.
"There's boxers from all over the world who come over. The sparring goes down and it's crazy in there. It's sink or swim. You have to be prepared. Don't come trying to get fit. Get there already fit. It's a high level, that's why they call sparring there 'The Dog House'. If you aren't good, you are going to be found out."
Mayweather, his uncles, father and wider team are quick to spot talent. Theophane says some fighters in the gym as young as 10 are "amazing", and their fathers push them to soak up the Mayweather skillset.
Jack, one of the stable's classiest talents, bursts from the gym, session over. I creep in and get a nod to crack on.
Plastic chairs are pushed close to a wall. Warren Buffett, one of the world's richest men, once sat in one to watch Mayweather work. The billionaire left with a spot of blood on his shirt.
Andrew Tabiti, an undefeated Mayweather fighter also on Saturday's undercard, slumps into the furniture after a furious bout of skipping. Having yelped as his team counted down the intense final 10 seconds of his training camp, he now looks relieved.
Two rings dominate the room, mirrors run the length of two of the walls, punch bags of all shapes and sizes make up a background. The stench of sweat is not as pungent as in some gyms, though Tabiti is sodden. Peppering the walls above the mirrors are Mayweather fight posters. The opponents listed read like a who's who of global talents and hard men.
Mayweather is a man of abundance when it comes to talent, self-belief and money. Yet this room, so key in defining him, is fundamentally straightforward.
"I first went there in 2007," says BBC Radio 5 live boxing analyst Steve Bunce. "It was quirky then, things like you could watch Floyd train but you couldn't talk.
"So many British fighters have turned up with their kitbag. The numbers in the gym seem to have grown over the years but I'll say this, there may be many around Mayweather, a few men catching his sweat and doing jobs, but not much comes out of there. They keep their mouths shut."
Bunce describes Mayweather as a "thief of ideas", pointing to his ability to work through a session from shadow boxing in mirrors to heavy bag work and pad work while taking on bits of advice from different coaches along the way.
"When he's in there, it's electric," says Bunce. "Him on that heavy bag is something to witness, measuring every detail.
"He'll have one guy in charge of one bag, one guy in charge of the next, one doing the water. They have to almost build a role. They then have to protect that role. So it's territorial and there's not a lot of laughs in there."
I'm told Mayweather ordered a staff member to leave instantly for not having his hand weights in the right place when they were needed. There is no room for slack in pursuing perfection.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Sophie Whittam - a Sheffield-based designer of boxing shorts - arrives to run through designs for Jack, one of her clients. His team buzz around, while Tabiti's team stress to me how badly fighters in this gym "have to earn the right" to work here.
There's a chaos about the place, even at a quiet time. Members of the public can train if professional fighters are not in need of privacy, but unusual opening hours (about midday to 5pm) neither align with boxing tradition nor are convenient to suit the working hours of the common man.
Mayweather is anything but a common species. In preparing for McGregor he has done much of his training in the early hours.
"Lots of the gym staff are telling me they are tired," says Theophane with a smile. "You won't get me in there at that time."
Often bringing order to chaos is Mayweather's publicist Kelly Swanson, a hugely respected and long-standing member of his team.
"When I've been in there, Kelly is key," adds Bunce. "Floyd respects her immensely and so do others around him. She has worked with some of the greatest names over the past 30 years."
Swanson laughs when I ask her if she keeps the 'Money Team' in check. "I'm not sure about that," she says. "I always feel nothing but respected in there.
"They actually help me train. A few times I've gone in there and hit the mitts, worked the heavy bag. Hopefuls, amateurs, they all know in that gym you will get the best instruction because of the coaches.
"And, importantly, the gym involves the community with things like back-to-school programmes and giveaways.
"I have always done my job for Floyd and it has become a close relationship.
"I like him. He's quiet. When he's just with his family and friends it's a lot different to the persona you see on the outside."
The lights are bright and bounce off the combination of mirrors and white walls. But there is a dark side to this place.
The 'Dog House' sparring Theophane alludes to is commonplace - to a point. Trainers the world over may put fighters through rounds lasting over the standard three minutes to harness endurance.
But criticism has arrived at the doors of the Mayweather Gym over the years, when footage of 30-minute rounds was published, with fighters roared on and bets placed on which would fold.
"It's uncivilised and barbaric and it's not going to help any fighter," adds Bunce. "Any fighter thinks sparring beyond four or five-minute rounds is not quite right. In rounds longer than that, you simply stop learning."
Theophane tells me fighters can choose how long they spar for, but it is easy to see how things could get out of hand.
We are, after all, in a landmark gym in a city where every fighter wants to make it. The rewards boxing delivers are visible simply by looking at the shimmering vehicles usually found in the car park. Bravado, a desire to mark territory and prove oneself, will naturally be present.
Get the biggest boxing news sent straight to your device. Find out more.
With his fight against McGregor now so close, Mayweather's sparring days should be over. His father, Floyd Sr, has again watched over his training, though even he concedes his son has lost "a lot" in the two years he has been retired.
But there remains a focus about Mayweather when the cameras are away. Those who doubt his commitment may only analyse the sound bites or social media posts. He has been grafting. On a recent trip to London he hopped off his private jet after a transatlantic flight and hit the running track, keeping pace with world champion Gervonta Davis, a fighter 18 years his junior.
The 40-year-old is a "genetic freak", his promoter Leonard Ellerbe tells me.
"He is gifted with certain genes," says Ellerbe. "I can look at food and gain weight. He eats what he wants and goes about his business."
Theophane says the energy of a Mayweather training camp was sorely missed during his two-year retirement spell.
That void now looks unavoidable. The end is nigh. But will fight 50 go the same way as the previous 49 - ending with a Mayweather victory?
Bunce adds: "If he loses, it could shine a sharp light on that gym, because at some point someone would have to say: 'Who of you 20-something people on the payroll didn't tell him that he wasn't looking as sharp as he could have been?'"
As I leave, passing the Pac-Man arcade machine near the front door, it is clear Mayweather has mastered his craft in simple surroundings.
Win, lose or draw on Saturday, all he has done means many will still come here, kitbag in hand, dreaming.
Officers were called to the address in Tonteg, Pencoed, on Saturday afternoon.
The body of 67-year-old Rita Stephens was found and the man was arrested and taken to Queens Road police station in Bridgend.
He has also been charged with making threats to kill and will appear Bridgend Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Det Chf Insp Kath Pritchard of South Wales Police said: "This incident has brought shock and sadness to the local community in Pencoed who I would like to thank for their support since this tragic incident."
Ahead of the 18 September referendum, she told the BBC a "Yes" vote would be a "loss for both sides".
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said the nation was "not a property to be lost" but was deciding its future.
UK shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said Ms Clinton had brought a global perspective to the debate.
Ms Clinton's comments came during a promotional tour for her memoirs, amid continuing speculation as to whether she will mount a US presidential campaign.
The current US president, Barack Obama, has already intervened in the referendum debate, saying his country's interest was to ensure it retained a "strong, robust, united and effective partner".
When asked about the referendum, Ms Clinton, who has an honorary degree from St Andrews University, told the BBC's Jeremy Paxman: "I would hate to have you lose Scotland.
"I hope it doesn't happen, but again I don't have a vote in Scotland, but I would hope it doesn't happen."
She added: "We'll see what the people of Scotland decide, but I would think it would be a loss for both sides."
Hillary Clinton doesn't make off-the-cuff remarks, and she certainly doesn't do so on foreign affairs.
The fact that President Obama, and indeed other European politicians, have come out vocally against Scottish independence really points to a coordination among policy-makers on both sides of the Atlantic who basically are saying Scotland should remain part of Britain and, in turn, part of the EU.
I think this is a concerted campaign. I think it's one that's been discussed by the White House, I think it's been discussed by Number 10 and by other European capitals to try to deter Scottish voters from breaking away from Britain.
In a sense, they're comfortable. They know the EU, they know it with Scotland being inside it, and change basically frightens them.
The Swedish foreign minister, Carl Bildt, referred to Scotland leaving as the Balkanisation of Britain, which invokes scary images of the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia.
I don't agree with those perceptions, but right now this is as much a battle of propaganda as it is one of reality.
Hillary Clinton is speaking to the Scottish and British public.
She might say, and President Obama might say, 'it's up to Scottish voters to make a decision' - but that's like my mother telling me, 'I can't tell you what to do, but you really shouldn't go to that party on Friday night'.
It will be interesting to see how Scottish voters react, because my perception is that - far from pushing Scottish voters to say 'we have to stay part of Britain' - I think they may assert their own, as it were, independence from these politicians by voting in the referendum precisely to come out of Britain.
The United Kingdom is still one of America's most important - if not the most important - defence ally, so it matters whether this nation remains one, or splits into two.
It's only six weeks ago that two British fighter jets were scrambled from Leuchars airbase in Fife, when two Russian jets started to come near British airspace.
The United States right now has quite enough on its plate, with Iraq, issues with both China and the South China Sea and Russia.
To add another defence issue is not what the White House - under any president of any party - would be looking for.
In that sense, I don't think you're going to get the Americans saying, 'go for it'.
There's another issue.
We have quite a few separatist movements of our own in the United States - counties in California that are trying to separate from California, and Texas endlessly wants to become its own nation.
At the end of the day, no president in the United States wants to support separatist movements in general.
Ms Clinton said the referendum in Scotland had gone through a proper legal process, unlike the recent vote in Crimea over its separation from Ukraine.
Mr Salmond said the American politician was entitled to her views, adding the inference that Britain would "lose Scotland" after a "Yes" vote was similar to reported remarks by Prime Minister David Cameron.
The first minister said: "In any case, Scotland is not a property to be lost but a nation about to take a precious and consensual and democratic decision.
"An independent Scotland will be a friend and ally to our neighbours in the rest of the UK as well as to our friends in the United States of America.
"The eyes of the world are on Scotland as we look forward to one of the most exciting days in our history - but that huge international focus, and all the economic and other opportunities it will bring, will only stay in Scotland with a 'Yes' vote."
Mr Alexander, a former UK international development secretary, said of Ms Clinton: "This is a woman who, as America's senior diplomat over the last four years, has chosen her words extraordinarily carefully.
"I think it's very significant that she's expressed, certainly the fact that it's for those of us in Scotland to make the choice, but a very clear personal view that she would hate it and thinks that it would be better for us to stay together."
Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, the Scottish Labour MP added: "She has that broader view that recognises that the hallmark and the challenge of this time is not so much independence but interdependence - how do we establish networks of cooperation to meet common challenges, from getting getting global economic growth in a sustainable way to tackling climate change.
"That global view gives her a sense as to what would not just be in Scotland's interests or in the rest of the United Kingdom's interests, but more broadly in European and western interests as well."
Harry Kane had the home side's best chance when he was sent clear but Toffees goalkeeper Tim Howard saved.
Jan Vertonghen also skimmed the bar for Tottenham while Tom Cleverley, who was later carried off on a stretcher, went closest for Everton.
Media playback is not supported on this device
The last time Spurs did not win any of their opening four league fixtures was under Juande Ramos in 2008-09.
Ramos was subsequently sacked by Spurs a few months later and current boss Mauricio Pochettino will now have to wait until a trip to Sunderland on 13 September for another chance to register their first win of the campaign.
Everton, who included John Stones in their starting line-up even though he handed in a transfer request, lost midfielder Cleverley to injury after an awkward tangle with Eric Dier while Spurs midfielder Mousa Dembele also left the pitch on a stretcher.
Relive Tottenham's stalemate against Everton
Reaction to this match and the rest of Saturday's action
When Kane raced clear of the Everton defence and found himself one-on-one with Howard, White Hart Lane held its collective breath.
This was the kind of opportunity he scored for fun en route to 31 goals in 51 appearances for Spurs last season, but a combination of Howard's speed off his line and Kane's hesitancy saw the chance go begging.
All strikers go through peaks and troughs, but Kane looked like a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders. Perhaps he just needs a break.
Tottenham have signed forward Son Heung-min from Bayer Leverkusen for £22m, and remain keen on West Brom's Saido Berahino, so he might get some time out of the firing line.
While Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal refuses to pick unsettled goalkeeper David De Gea because of concerns over his focus amid interest from Real Madrid, Stones remains a fixture in Everton's starting line-up.
If Everton chairman Bill Kenwright's determination not to sell the 21-year-old England international is admirable, Martinez's insistence on picking him could prove to be a canny piece of man-management.
Rather than isolate Stones and drive a wedge between the pair, Martinez has ensured their personal relationship remains unaffected.
Stones produced a composed and defensively sound performance and it certainly did not suggest a player who had his head turned.
Tottenham head coach Mauricio Pochettino: "We created a lot of chances but you need to score. It was impossible today but I am happy with the performance. I am happy with Harry Kane, he had two or three clear chances but I am happy. He needs to work hard and play. A goal will come for Harry. All strikers have spells like this and only time can do it. I trust in him."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Everton manager Roberto Martinez: "John Stones was an immense influence on what we did defensively. The reading of the game, he looks like a player who has grown in the last few weeks under the pressure and speculation. Every single Evertonian will show that respect to him for the way he has handled the situation. You can see the signs of a future England captain."
BBC Radio London's Bradley Allen: "Some of the Tottenham fans are right to be disappointed because that was probably the best Spurs have played so far this season. Everton were solid defensively, Tim Howard made some fine saves, and it just wasn't Spurs' evening."
Everton host Premier League champions Chelsea at Goodison Park on Saturday, 12 September where John Stones could once again be the centre of attention. Tottenham will head to the Stadium of Light on 13 September to attempt to record their first win of the season against Sunderland.
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur 0, Everton 0.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 0, Everton 0.
Attempt saved. Kevin Mirallas (Everton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Gerard Deulofeu with a cross.
James McCarthy (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur).
Foul by Gareth Barry (Everton).
Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Nacer Chadli (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card.
Kevin Mirallas (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alex Pritchard (Tottenham Hotspur).
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Bryan Oviedo.
Seamus Coleman (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nabil Bentaleb (Tottenham Hotspur).
Steven Naismith (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur).
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Alex Pritchard replaces Ryan Mason.
Hand ball by Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur).
Substitution, Everton. Gerard Deulofeu replaces Arouna Koné.
Attempt missed. Ross Barkley (Everton) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bryan Oviedo.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by John Stones.
Foul by Steven Naismith (Everton).
Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Kevin Mirallas (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Ross Barkley (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur).
Attempt missed. Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Ryan Mason.
Steven Naismith (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Nabil Bentaleb (Tottenham Hotspur).
James McCarthy (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Nacer Chadli (Tottenham Hotspur).
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Ryan Mason tries a through ball, but Harry Kane is caught offside.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Toby Alderweireld.
Steven Naismith (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur).
Attempt missed. Arouna Koné (Everton) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Bryan Oviedo with a cross.
Attempt missed. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Nacer Chadli.
Foul by Kevin Mirallas (Everton).
Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Substitution, Everton. Steven Naismith replaces Romelu Lukaku.
The 34-year-old, who left Manchester United in the summer of 2014, has since played 47 times for the Italian champions.
"When I came here they said I'm allergic to eggs and I ate them every day in Manchester. I was vomiting in training at first," Evra said.
"I went to the hospital and they told me I had been playing with an ulcer and I was lucky it was not bleeding inside."
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live's European Football Podcast, the five-time Premier League winner said moving to Italy has improved his knowledge of the game, adding he would like to become a coach one day.
"I have learned a lot about football - how to be more professional, even if I was professional in Manchester," added the France international. "Here in Italy, it is more like a chess game - you have to think about every move."
Europe's Cryosat spacecraft routinely monitors the thickness of floes in the far north.
The thinnest winter ice it has ever seen was in 2013. This February, in contrast, the Arctic floes were about 25cm (17%) thicker on average.
The long-term trend is, however, still downwards, the Cryosat team cautions.
"Year to year, the numbers will jump about, and it just so happens that we've seen relatively high levels of Arctic sea ice thickness and volume in recent years," said Rachel Tilling from the UK's Nerc Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM).
"But sea ice volume is definitely the number people should watch, because it is the most reliable measure of how much ice is left. It's also what we need to understand the processes that have caused the Arctic climate to change which, in turn, will help us to build more accurate models of what may happen to sea ice in the future," the University College London researcher told BBC News.
The Cryosat team released its Arctic winter assessment here at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria.
The maximum extent of winter sea ice this year was called for 25 February at some 14.54 million sq km. That is the smallest winter maximum in the satellite record. It is, though, a two-dimensional view of the Arctic, and just considering extent can hide the fact that winds will sometimes spread out the floes and sometimes pile them up.
Measuring thickness, on the other hand, captures another aspect of the Arctic system's behaviour. Cryosat does this by detecting the height of the ice sitting above the ocean water. Combining both datasets - thickness and extent - allows scientists to compute changes in sea-ice volume.
This February, Cryosat saw average sea-ice floe thicknesses of just over 1.7m, giving a volume across the Arctic of nearly 24,000 cubic km. Back in the winter of 2013, following strong melting during the previous summer, floe thicknesses averaged 1.5m and the volume fell below 21,000 cu km.
Doing all of the data processing to produce thickness and volume numbers has been a time-consuming business for the Cryosat team, but the group is now able to turn out the information much faster than when the mission first launched in 2010. And to mark the spacecraft's fifth birthday in orbit, the team is switching on a new, near-real-time service to aid science and maritime activities.
This is a web portal where users can get information on sea-ice thickness no more than two days after Cryosat makes the observations.
It is not a full sweep of the entire Arctic. Rather, it is a series of samplings across the region that should give anyone working in the far north a clearer idea of the conditions they are likely to encounter.
"To navigate thick sea ice, icebreaker ships with strengthened and streamlined hulls are needed," explained Prof Andy Shepherd, the principal scientific advisor to the Cryosat mission.
"With Cryosat, we're now able to provide users of the Arctic with information on sea-ice thickness in rapid fashion, which will be a step change from what has gone before."
The Leeds University researcher said that in setting up the service, Cryosat's mission was altering slightly.
Whereas before it was simply a scientific tool to study the climate and the changing environment, it is now acting more like the Sentinel satellites that Europe is currently launching to provide day-to-day operational data.
The European Space Agency's mission manager on Cryosat is Tommaso Parrinello. He told BBC News: "Timely and pan-Arctic knowledge of the sea-ice volume, throughout the year, is becoming a priority for a number of operational and forecasting services as the ice is replaced by water.
"For example, shipping companies require qualified information to operate and sail safely at all Arctic latitudes, and a mission like Cryosat has all the characteristics and the ambition to support such new developments."
How Cryosat measures sea-ice volume
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos
In the post-split era, Boyce, 26, is the first player from a bottom-six club to finish the campaign as the league's top marksman, scoring on 23 occasions.
The Northern Ireland striker has a year left on his Staggies contract and his manager hopes he will honour the deal.
"We've no interest in selling him," McIntyre said.
"It is part and parcel of football, he's scoring goals and people are interested. We want to retain Liam but it's football, we can't predict what will happen.
"He's under contract for another season so we look forward to working with him next season."
Boyce helped County seal seventh place with a last-day double in their 2-1 win over Kilmarnock, with his goals accounting for almost half of the 48 scored by the Staggies this campaign.
The forward scored two goals more than nearest challenger, Celtic's Scott Sinclair.
His 23 league strikes, from 34 appearances, give him an average of one goal in every 129 minutes of Premiership football.
When removed from the corresponding matches, those 23 goals also equate to 26 league points, more than half County's eventual total of 46 in a congested bottom half of the table.
"He's been fantastic, to get that amount of goals at a provincial club says a lot about him," McIntyre added.
"He is a fantastic professional who works his socks off and is very conscientious about his job, and he deserves all the success and plaudits that are going his way."
Her father, Gavin Bell (also known as author Mason Cross), revealed on Twitter that she had gone rogue on a pupil feedback form.
She criticised the policy of punishing a whole class for one person's bad behaviour - by citing the Geneva Conventions.
"Not sure if I should ground her or buy her ice cream," Mr Bell mused.
Asked what her teacher could do better, Ava Bell wrote: "Not use collective punishment as it is not fair on the many people who did nothing and under the 1949 Genva [sic] Conventions it is a war crime."
The picture showing the suggestion, handwritten in pencil, has been "liked" more than 400,000 times on Twitter.
Mr Bell, who is based in Glasgow, said his eldest child is "11 going on 47".
"I should clarify that she thinks her teacher is awesome," he added. "It's just this aspect of the educational justice system she has an issue with."
He told the BBC he came across the form at a parents' evening, where folders of the children's work are displayed for their guardians to read.
He said it was entirely characteristic, laughing, "She will never let an argument go at home!"
Various fellow parents joked that young Miss Bell was precocious, and this could be just the start for her.
"Frightening... i am genuinely sorry for you for all those hard conversations which you will lose..." tweeted Brian Siddhu.
One more cynical observer accused writer Mr Bell of making it up.
"Meh, no way this actually happened. Shame on you, using your kid for rts [re-tweets]..." wrote tweeter @NagoyaPompey.
The father replied: "Dude, if I'd made it up I would have got her to fix the spelling of 'Geneva.'"
He told the BBC his daughter has "just loves looking into things".
"She has a Google habit," he explained. "Usually it's along the lines of science and technology.
"According to Ava, her teacher thought it was quite amusing!"
Faced with the choice between ice cream or punishment, most Twitter users thought the schoolgirl deserved the dessert option.
"I'm game to crowdfund her entire year's ice cream needs tbh," offered @PedestrianPoet.
Her father's response was more measured.
Mr Bell tweeted a picture of his daughter holding two cones of ice-cream, with the words, "The people have spoken".
There has been speculation the Malaysian businessman is pursuing offers for the Welsh club he bought in 2010.
But reacting after reports re-emerged that he was seeking to off-load the Bluebirds, Tan has reiterated he will only sell at the right price.
Asked if he was looking to sell, Tan said: "No, I always say this.
"You don't fall in love with your businesses. If somebody offers the right price, yeah we'll sell.
"People approach us and we have a look, we talk. But that doesn't mean we're selling.
"If the right offer comes, an offer we can't refuse, sure we'll sell. It's business."
Tan watched from the stands as Cardiff beat Aston Villa 3-0 on Saturday to go top of the Championship table after two games of the season.
He had not been to any home games in the previous two campaigns, fuelling rumours he was losing interest in the club.
Speculation that he was actively looking to sell the club intensified in July when reports highlighted a brochure for prospective buyers put together by WMG, a company belonging to Cardiff chairman Mehmet Dalman.
However, Tan says he is committed to Cardiff and watched the win over Villa at Cardiff City Stadium, which saw an attendance of 23,899 for the game.
He received a warm welcome from supporters, though his tenure has been controversial.
The decision to change the team's home colours from its traditional blue to red led to a fans revolt, but Tan financed the club's promotion to the Premier League in 2013, albeit for only one season.
Tan agreed to a return to blue shirts in 2015 and, after three campaigns of mid-table mediocrity in the Championship, he is hopeful manager Neil Warnock can help the club mount another promotion challenge this term.
"We have a good manager, he has made some good transfers," said Tan.
"We supported him with the transfers, but we have paid good value for money - not like the way we paid £10.5m for [Andreas] Cornelius [a striker signed by former manager Malky Mackay].
"Oh I will never forget that.
"We have paid good value for these transfers. Neil has done a great job. They are reasonable transfers with support."
They are not up for election. In any case, the future prospects of individual politicians and their parties matter far, far less than the key question.
Leaders come and leaders go. Parties wax and wane in popularity. There is a much, much bigger issue here.
Which is, of course, the choice facing the people a week today. Many people will listen to arguments and information advanced by political leaders.
But, more than ever before, it seems likely that they will make their own minds up, based upon a composite series of impressions, thoughts, conversations, prejudices and projections.
Think of it this way. If political guidance were to be regarded as the determining factor, then Remain would be winning out of the park.
They have on their side, among others: the Prime Minister and most members of the UK Cabinet; the leaders of the principal opposition parties at Westminster; the First Minister and the leaders of every party at Holyrood.
And the Leave side? They have UKIP; Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and other senior Tories; a few Labour MPs and MSPs; sundry other politicos.
Scarcely an even balance. Yet Leave currently appears to be winning. Why so? Some will have been swayed by the strength and volume of the Leave campaign.
Others will have been predisposed to dismiss the EU, requiring only a little encouragement and a sense of momentum. Others may dislike David Cameron.
I think I have mentioned previously a reference to the earlier European referendum, that of 1975, in Roy Hattersley's splendid memoirs, Who Goes Home?
The author quotes Roy Jenkins to the effect that the Yes side were bound to win because they had all the big political names in their camp while the No side relied upon a handful from the Labour Left and the Tory Right.
That disparity may well have had an impact in 1975. That disparity is still present today. The UK and Scottish political leadership en masse still favours EU membership. Yet it would seem that the impact of that disparity is less salient.
Again, a range of factors may be at play here. Firstly, developments in the EU may have increased the underlying unease of the populace, which has now been brought to the surface. Secondly, the issue of immigration may have become completely intertwined with the EU, to the disadvantage of the Remain camp.
And, thirdly, there may simply be less fundamental respect for the guidance offered by political leaders. Folk may be less inclined to heed the advice of the powerful - and more disposed to ignore it.
To return to Holyrood. All the political leaders there back Remain. The parties - all the parties - demonstrated that fact by mustering for a joint photocall and sending speakers to a European Movement Remain event.
Partly, that reflects Scotland's apparent relative support for Remain - although, as I have noted earlier, I do not discern any exceptional zeal or enthusiasm for the EU among the Scottish people. Rather, it is, if anything, a caveated acceptance, on balance.
That disparity between Remain and Leave generated controversy at Holyrood today. Not over the substance - but over the issue of the EU being raised at all.
Like other public bodies, Parliament is in purdah. That means there should be no use of public funds in pursuit of either side in the EU referendum campaign.
It is up to the Presiding Officer to rule on such matters. To inform debate, he issued guidance in advance to all parties.
Among other points, that guidance notes: "In exercising judgement on whether to intervene, the Presiding Officer's main considerations will be whether the contribution could be considered to be an attempt to influence the voters in the referendum or could give rise to the perception that the proceedings were not fair or impartial as regards the referendum."
In questioning the First Minister today, it is my impression that Labour's Kezia Dugdale, frustrated at purdah, sought deliberately and carefully to push these constraints to the limit.
She invited the FM to expatiate on the proclaimed advantages of the EU, including the single market. I understand she had signalled her intentions in advance to the FM's office.
It was possible, of course, that Ms Dugdale's comments and question would be ruled out of order. But, prepared for the prospect, Nicola Sturgeon responded by stressing the benefits, economic and otherwise, of Scotland's present involvement within the EU.
Neither mentioned the referendum explicitly, neither referred directly to the question in said plebiscite, neither directly advocated a particular choice in that vote.
So that's OK then. Certainly, Ken Macintosh, in the chair, thought so. The PO looked and sounded a little nervous as the brief exchange proceeded.
But he ruled later that his guidance had not been breached. The exchange had been in order. This was in response to a challenge from Margaret Mitchell, a Conservative MSP who advocates a Leave vote.
She took the chance to add a few choice comments of her own anent the disadvantages of EU membership, thus neatly providing balance. Just.
It might be thought germane for me to add that Ms Sturgeon sat smiling gently on the front bench as she was exonerated.
Certainly, she did not miss the opportunity afforded. As well as supporting the current advantages of the EU, she confirmed that her government was making contingency plans for a potential Leave vote.
And she said that every eventuality would require to be examined in the light of a Leave choice. Including, it was implied, a further independence referendum.
In search of clarity, I asked a Team Sturgeon staffer later whether the FM was indeed floating the prospect of indyref2. The reply? "You bet."
Does that mean that such a prospect would inevitably follow a Leave vote? It does not. In practice, Ms Sturgeon is saying no more than she has said previously - that the prospect would be on the table.
However, it is intriguing that she chose to emphasise it.
Locog said there were more than half a million spectators at Olympic events on Friday including 221,000 at the Olympic Park in east London.
Spokeswoman Jackie Brock-Doyle said athletes and officials had been "wowed" by the response of the British public.
Meanwhile, GB's gold medal total has hit 14, with triumphs by Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis, and Greg Rutherford.
London 2012 is already Britain's joint third most successful gold medal haul in the history of the Olympic Games.
The six gold medals on Saturday marks Britain's greatest Olympic day since 1908, when eight were won on 11 July at the London Games.
In other developments:
Locog said there had been 4.4 million spectators at the Olympics so far, including the cycling road races, and more than one million visitors to the Olympic Park. Some 51,000 tickets were sold online on Friday.
By Andy MooreBBC News
A friend had a spare ticket for the Olympics stadium on Saturday evening. Would I like to go? It didn't take long to make up my mind. I was hoping for a night of enjoyable Olympic action. I couldn't have dared dream that I would be there for a night of sporting history.
As the evening sun lit up the stadium, the action really began. Jessica Ennis was roared on as soon as she appeared on the big screen. Her win in the heptathlon 800m set the stadium alight.
It was like a three-ring circus. There was too much happening at once. Greg Rutherford was going for gold in the long jump, while Mo Farah was tucking in nicely in the early stages of the 10,000 metres. We couldn't possibly win a hat-trick of golds could we? It was too much to hope for.
But Mo cruised to victory in style and 80,000 people became one delirious mob. And in years to come, I can proudly say I was there the night Great Britain won three gold medals in one hour.
Ms Brock-Doyle said: "We always knew we would end up with full stadia. We knew the British public would buy the tickets and come out in force. They have been unbelievable.
"I don't think there's a single athlete or chef de mission or international federation that hasn't been wowed by the spectators. It's not just the British athletes and participants, it's the amazing support they give every athlete as they compete.
"People talk about the braveheart and the lionheart of the British public and I think people have seen that. They have been spectacular."
Locog said 30,000 - half of those on sale - out of the 80,000 seats for the prestigious men's 100m final at the Olympic Stadium on Sunday evening had been sold to members of the British public.
In the rowing at Eton Dorney, gold for the men's four of Andrew Triggs-Hodge, Pete Reed, Tom James, and Alex Gregory's meant Great Britain have won the event for the fourth Olympics in a row.
Sophie Hosking and Katherine Copeland then took gold in the women's double sculls.
Transport bosses said Tube and train services were busy but there were no delays.
The Association of Train Operating Companies urged people to plan ahead for the next few days - expected to be the Games' busiest.
Train companies said they were providing an additional two million seats to get spectators to venues this weekend.
A spokesman also thanked passengers for helping the rail network "to run smoothly" by avoiding congested stations and staggering journeys.
Rogers, 38, who announced his retirement from Test cricket prior to this summer's Ashes series, will be joining his fifth English county.
The Sydney-born left-hander previously played for Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Northants prior to spending four years attached to Middlesex from 2011.
Teenage Kent wicketkeeper Ryan Davies has also signed on a three-year deal.
The England Under-19 international, from Thanet, who joined Kent's Cricket Academy as a 13-year-old, spent this summer on his first professional contract at Canterbury.
Davies, 18, made his first-class debut against Derbyshire in June, going on to play five times, as well as three T20 Blast matches.
"These are great signings," said director of cricket Matt Maynard.
"Chris Rogers is an outstanding batsman with an excellent attitude towards the game. Our young players will learn a lot from him.
"Ryan Davies is a great young talent. I am excited about how we can help him develop in to the cricketer that we all think he can become."
Somerset, who already have an established opening pair in 39-year-old veteran Marcus Trescothick and 21-year-old Tom Abell, have revealed that Rogers will bat at number three.
"As soon as I heard that Somerset were interested I wanted to make it happen," said Rogers. "There have been quite a few Australian players who have done really well down at Taunton."
The A64 Growth Partnership wants improvements to the bottleneck route between York, Malton and Scarborough.
It claims the changes would deliver economic growth and address safety concerns.
Highways England said it was looking at improving the road.
Read more about this and other stories from across Yorkshire
The group, which is made up of business leaders and local authorities, said long-term investment, including further dual carriageway work, was needed.
Bill Bartlett, from McCain Foods GB Ltd, based in Scarborough, said: "Improving the infrastructure of the A64 is all about reliability, connectivity and accessibility.
"This investment is critical. Not just for our business, but for all businesses in the corridor between York and Scarborough."
The campaign is supported by the MPs for the area, including Kevin Hollinrake, Conservative MP for Thirsk and Malton.
"The A64 east of York is notorious across Yorkshire and beyond as a bottleneck and we can't tolerate this any longer," Mr Hollinrake said.
There are also concerns about the road's safety following recent double fatalities.
Highways England said it was developing a scheme for the A64 Hopgrove roundabout.
"As part of this work we have carried out a feasibility study to establish the case for a junction improvement," it said.
"We will now be exploring various options in detail at this location, which look at elements of junction improvements and dualling between York and Barton-le-Willows. These options will be developed further over the next few years."
Pendleton, who won keirin gold at London 2012, walked away after a fall in the final stages of the Rayner Bosch Car Service Handicap at Newbury.
"I'm fine," the 35-year-old told the Racing Post.
"I lost my balance and couldn't regain it. It's so annoying but it won't put me off."
Pendleton is aiming to ride over jumps at the Cheltenham Festival in March.
She retired from cycling in 2012 after adding London gold to the sprint title she won at the Beijing Games in 2008.
John Fleck put the Sky Blues in front but Brad Inman levelled the score with a curling effort from distance.
Adam Armstrong put Coventry back in the lead with his fifth goal of the season after firing past keeper Ben Garratt.
Crewe immediately equalised when Marcus Haber tapped in from close range but O'Brien's late goal sealed the win.
He said some in the labour movement were resorting to "a posture of resistance" and "corrosive" self-indulgence.
Lord Kinnock was speaking to BBC Newsnight ahead of the closure of the UK's last remaining deep mine coal pit, Kellingley in North Yorkshire.
Earlier this month he endorsed Andy Burnham in the Labour leadership race.
Commenting on the state of the labour movement more generally, Lord Kinnock said the left needed to decide if it wanted to compete for power or simply register a protest.
"I can see why people are angry and want to protest," he said. "But then they've got to make a decision on whether they want to be part of a labour movement that produced a political party to seriously contest for democratic power - or they want to be in perpetual demonstration, which is fulfilling and noble, but rarely effective."
Coming after a series of warnings over the last week from Labour grandees including Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that the party would make itself unelectable by choosing Jeremy Corbyn as leader, his comments are likely to be interpreted as a thinly veiled attack on the Labour frontrunner.
Lord Kinnock said he understands that people are frustrated as a result of austerity measures, and are searching for a "simpler set of political answers".
But asked whether Corbyn's success in attracting large numbers of younger supporters reflected a resurgence of the left he said: "the reality is simplicity is rarely present amongst the real answers to the challenges that face the great mass of people today."
Lord Kinnock was interviewed by BBC Newsnight at the end of July for a film about the demise of the British coal industry which airs on Monday night.
On Sunday, former prime minister Gordon Brown said the next Labour leader must be "credible" and "electable" in order to win back power.
Mr Brown said he was not attacking any individual candidate in the leadership race, but his comments have been interpreted as a thinly-veiled warning against Jeremy Corbyn.
Watch the full report on Newsnight at 22.30 on BBC Two on Monday 17 August.
Now, if re-elected to the European Parliament, the West Midlands Labour group is promising to apply to get it protected by the European Union.
It would mean a Staffordshire oatcake could only be called one if it was made in the county, using the right ingredients and method.
Candidate Sion Simon said: "They're part of our heritage and culture in the West Midlands, and they should be protected in the same way other European countries protect their food products."
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats said they were also broadly supportive of the plan, but UKIP says it should be up to the UK, not Europe, to decide on which of its own products should be protected.
The Staffordshire oatcake should not be confused with its Scottish counterpart, which is a flat oaty biscuit.
It is made from a "secret recipe" of largely oatmeal and yeast and can be filled with anything sweet or savoury, although the most popular is cheese and bacon.
Staffordshire Oatcakes recipe
Staffordshire foods
It has the appearance of a moist pancake or crepe - as Stoke-on-Trent poet and author Arthur Berry put it, a "Potteries Poppadom," or a "Tunstall Tortilla".
Jane Gavin sends oatcakes "all around the country from Scotland to Cornwall" from her shop in High Lane in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
"I think it would help protect the brand of Staffordshire Oatcakes like it has with pork pies and various cheeses," she said.
"It would stop people pinching the idea and recipes, setting up shop in somewhere like the middle of London, and passing them off as from Staffordshire."
But Martyn Smith, who runs Foley Oatcakes in Fenton, does not believe that any companies outside the county would try to muscle in on the product.
"I wonder whether the oatcake does need protection because I've tried to sell them outside North Staffordshire and failed," he said.
"I've been to various market places and tried to sell filled oatcakes and the only people that purchased from us are ex-potters."
Caroline Pugh is another who is not impressed with the protection idea because her oatcake shop is just over the Staffordshire border, in Congleton, Cheshire.
She said: "If all oatcakes had to be made in Staffordshire it wouldn't do us any favours, this is our livelihood, we would have to diversify or find a way round it."
PDO - Protected Designation of Origin
A product which has a very distinctive process, recipe or method closely linked to a specific area and gaining features and characteristics from it e.g. Swaledale ewes' cheese
PGI - Protected Geographical Indication
A product which has a distinctive process, recipe or method linked to a specific area e.g. Worcestershire cider
TSG - Traditional Speciality Guaranteed
A product which has distinctive process, recipe or method not connected with a location e.g. Traditional Farm fresh Turkey
Protected food names: Quality or cartel?
"We've had our shop for 20 years since moving here from Kidsgrove [Stoke-on-Trent]. We make all our oatcakes on site here from a traditional family recipe and get a lot of custom from Stokies."
It was a similar story for many Cornish pasty makers in Devon when it was given protected status in 2011.
Figures published in March showed pasty production has almost doubled since 2005 and the market was now worth £300m.
James Strawbridge from the Posh Pasty Company in Fowey said: "It's for tourists, it's for people buying it on the other side of the country.
"If they see the words Cornish Pasty that helps them trace the journey from start to finish, buy into the history, the local reputation and that means more sales for the Cornish economy.
"We're finding that consumers around the country are now a little bit more aware of the difference between a pasty and a Cornish pasty and it's actually helping sales."
But Matthew Rippon, an expert on protected food names said that the laws do not always benefit producers.
He said: "Once you have protected status you have to abide by the regulations which are fairly inflexible, so if you wanted to add a new ingredient or modify your method of production, legally you couldn't.
"Even if Staffordshire oatcakes are made with a secret recipe enough information needs to be revealed in order to have a product description which every producer would have to agree on."
Coach Warren Gatland revealed the Wales flanker injured an ankle in the 13-7 win over Provincial Barbarians.
Fly-half Dan Biggar (head injury) and Ross Moriarty (back spasm) were also ruled out for the game against the best team in Super Rugby.
"Sam has a little bit of a slight ankle strain after that game which was pretty sore," said Gatland.
"So he's just been resting that and needs a few more days."
The Lions will be captained by Alun Wyn Jones in Canterbury. Jones took over the Wales captaincy from Warburton for the 2017 Six Nations.
Warburton missed the end of the domestic season in Wales after injuring a knee playing for Cardiff Blues in early April.
Media playback is not supported on this device
His appearance for the Lions on 3 June was his first match since then.
Biggar failed a head injury assessment after being heavily tackled in the Lions' 22-16 loss against Blues on Wednesday.
It's the second time in two months that the Ospreys player has had to go through return-to-play protocols following a blow to the head.
He missed the region's Welsh derby with Cardiff Blues in April after he was injured playing against Leinster.
However, Gatland has said he's confident Biggar will be fine to continue the tour.
"Dan Biggar's a six-day turnaround," he said.
"It's just the protocols so he wasn't available for consideration this week and Ross Moriarty had a back spasm in the first game but he's recovering well."
|
Leeds is the most Christmassy big city in England, if the photo-sharing service Instagram is anything to go by.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bristol's Conservative party has chosen its candidate for the city's mayoral election taking place in November.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
England women sealed Great Britain's qualification for Rio 2016 rugby sevens after beating USA 15-14 in the World Series in Amsterdam.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ghana coach Avram Grant wants his players to be in the moment at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations and not be distracted by the past.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Firefighters have tackled grass fires across Wales, including one affecting an 85 acre mountainside in Gwynedd.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
About 5.1 million people will be heading off on breaks within the UK over the bank holiday weekend, tourism agency Visit England has estimated.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Birmingham City ended a three-game goal drought with a comfortable win over Fulham which was sewn up by half-time.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The second phase of plans to create Britain's biggest new town since the 1960s have been given the go-ahead.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
"I've been here since 3am, man, and I haven't had any sleep."
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 43-year-old man has been charged with murder after a woman's body was found at a house in Bridgend county.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she hopes Scotland does not become independent from the rest of the UK.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tottenham remain winless in the Premier League after being held to a goalless draw by Everton at White Hart Lane.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Juventus defender Patrice Evra has revealed the Serie A club discovered a food allergy he was unaware of during more than seven years in England.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Although Arctic sea ice set a record this year for its lowest ever winter extent - that was not the case for its volume, new data reveals.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ross County boss Jim McIntyre is determined to retain the services of the Scottish Premiership's top goalscorer Liam Boyce.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An 11-year-old girl's assertion that her school was guilty of a war crime has gone viral.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan insists he is not actively looking to sell the Championship club.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
It is trite - but nevertheless true - to say that politicians are not crucially important in this referendum.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Olympics organisers have praised British spectators for coming out in force to support the London Games.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Somerset have signed experienced former Australia Test opener Chris Rogers for the 2016 County Championship season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Turning a "notorious" stretch of road in Yorkshire into a dual carriageway is critical for economic growth, a campaign group has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Olympic cycling champion Victoria Pendleton avoided injury after being unseated from Satanic Beat on her third competitive ride as an amateur jockey.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Jim O'Brien's late winner took Coventry City to the top of the League One table as they sealed all three points against Crewe Alexandra.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has warned the left against returning to an era of "perpetual demonstration".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Much like the Cornish pasty or the Melton Mowbray pork pie, the Staffordshire Oatcake is regarded as a delicacy synonymous with its local area.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Captain Sam Warburton was not considered for Saturday's British and Irish Lions match against Crusaders.
| 35,112,577 | 16,194 | 727 | true |
The firm reported a $13.6bn (£8.9bn) profit, with revenue up 27% to $58bn.
Sales in greater China leapt 71% to $16.8bn, outpacing those in the US for the first time, and helping to drive the sharp profit rise.
Apple also said it would ramp up its share-buying programme, returning $200bn to investors, up from $130bn.
The tech giant said it currently had a record $195bn in cash on its books.
However, sales of its iPad tablet remained sluggish. Apple said it sold 12.6 million iPads, down 23% from a year earlier.
"We are thrilled by the continued strength of iPhone, Mac and the App Store, which drove our best March quarter results ever," said chief executive Tim Cook.
Shares in the company rose over 1% after markets closed.
The company which made the biggest profit in corporate history last quarter was not going to beat that in the quieter period after Christmas - but the Apple money machine still goes thundering on, fuelled by the iPhone.
Once again, the company is delighting in beating analysts' forecasts on just about every count.
The decision to make a much bigger device with the iPhone 6 - an idea which Steve Jobs had rejected - has paid off in spades.
In its conference call with analysts, the company trumpeted in particular the success of the iPhone in emerging markets.
A year ago there were doubts about whether China was ever going to be much of a market for Apple - this last quarter it sold more iPhones in China than in the US.
These results did not include the Apple Watch but Tim Cook enthused about the "overwhelmingly positive" response to the product and said demand was exceeding supply.
But will the watch ever generate the huge mountain of cash that the iPhone has produced? That seems unlikely, and thoughts in Cupertino will already be turning to iPhone 7 as the next product to propel profits to new heights.
There was little information in the figures for investors curious to find out more about the potential boost Apple Watch sales will provide to the firm's bottom line.
Apple's newest device - a wearable so-called "smart" watch that encompasses aspects of a fitness tracker and a smartphone - which was available for pre-orders on 10 April, went on sale on 24 April.
Mr Cook said that he was "thrilled" with the initial roll out, but acknowledged that there were some difficulties with providing enough watches to meet customer demand.
"Right now demand is greater than supply [and] we're working hard to remedy that," he said.
He also added that unlike with past Apple product launches, understanding how customers engaged with the watch - and what they wanted from the wearable device - was still a work in progress.
"We're learning quickly about customer preferences - there's a much larger breadth of possibilities here for customers than our other products," he said.
The prime minister said £40m of the additional cash would go to support the underfunded World Food Programme.
Separately, £7m will be spent helping migrants travelling through Greece, Italy and the western Balkans.
The meeting comes amid a dispute over a mandatory EU refugee relocation plan.
Europe is struggling to deal with a vast influx of migrants and refugees reaching the continent - most fleeing conflict in Syria but large numbers also fleeing violence and poverty in Afghanistan and Eritrea.
On Tuesday, EU interior ministers agreed a mandatory plan to relocate 120,000 migrants across Europe, despite opposition from some countries.
The UK has opted out of the quota system but has agreed to take in 20,000 refugees from the camps bordering war-torn Syria over the next five years.
Arriving in Brussels for the meeting of 28 leaders, Mr Cameron called for more support for vulnerable people in Syria and the wider region.
The UK has already provided £1bn in aid to Syria and Mr Cameron said the extra cash - to be given to the UNHCR, UNICEF, the UN Relief and Works Agency and the International Red Cross - would help thousands of people displaced by the conflict.
"We must make sure that people in refugee camps are properly fed and looked after but also to stop people wanting to make or thinking of making this very, very difficult and very dangerous journey to Europe".
He added: "What Europe needs more than ever is a comprehensive approach to this migration crisis. We need to do more to stabilise the countries and regions from which these people are coming."
The UK's latest aid package also includes £14.5 million in new funding to provide assistance and protection in countries that refugees and migrants are leaving from and transiting through, including help for those already in Europe.
Of this:
International Development Secretary Justine Greening said the UK was helping to meet the most "immediate, basic needs" of displaced Syrians while also giving "immediate, life-saving humanitarian assistance to refugees in transit".
"The UN is desperately underfunded and more help is urgently needed in the short term," she said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the migration crisis in Europe "plays directly" into issues around the UK's renegotiation of its EU membership and was "focusing attention" on the challenges large-scale migration across the EU presented.
EU migration is one of the issues the government wants to address in its renegotiation of Britain's membership.
It is creating 300 jobs at its existing US operation in Pennsylvania in a £20m investment.
Almac has been operating in the US for 20 years.
The move will see the company employing 5,000 people worldwide by next year - about 60% of them in Northern Ireland.
As well as updating its HQ facilities, Almac is investing a further £2m in a business it acquired last year in the Republic of Ireland, the Arran Chemical Company.
Alan Armstrong, chief executive of Almac, said: "We are looking forward to an exciting future.
"Due to significant industry demand for our services it is essential we build capacity and increase headcount to ensure we continue to compete at a global level."
The business started 40 years ago and is one of Northern Ireland's most successful companies.
Templeman curled the opener but David McKenna levelled from close range before Gary Fraser fired the visitors ahead again.
Adrian Mallagaray netted Montrose's third only for Jordan Cairnie to head one back for Shire.
Templeman had the final say with a low drive in the penultimate minute.
Photographs seem to show that the audience at the Ponghwa Theatre was appreciative, if not completely sure of what to make of the concert.
Laibach describe themselves as "a music and cross-media group" and are known for playing eclectic cover versions of famous songs.
The songs were accompanied by images styled from North Korean propaganda posters projected on to a screen, with translations in Korean.
But what was on Laibach's setlist in Pyongyang? And what could their choices of songs signify?
As the band promised before travelling to North Korea, they played a number of songs from The Sound of Music, including Edelweiss, Do-Re-Mi and The Hills Are Alive.
It is not the first time they have performed the songs - but the choice to sing them in Pyongyang was deliberate.
The tour's organiser, Morten Traavik, told the BBC the film "is very well known in North Korea".
The 1965 musical is one of the few western films people are allowed to watch in the secretive state.
When a journalist with Vanity Fair visited Pyongyang in March, one North Korean complained to him that he had to watch The Sound of Music more than 100 times as it "was our English-language textbook at university".
The fact that The Sound of Music is about a family escaping from Nazi Germany does not seem to have set North Korean alarm bells ringing.
If you spent any time on a European dancefloor in the 1980s or early 90s, you would know this hit for the Austrian band Opus.
Again, it's a regular on Laibach's setlists. But a closer look at the lyrics of the song do show how it might sit well with North Korea's so-called "juche" principle of self-reliance, as well as the Communist values of the state.
When we all give the power / we all give the best
Every minute of an hour / don't think about a rest
Then you all get the power / you all get the best
When everyone gives everything and every song everybody sings.
But, of course, the selection of this song could be just coincidence.
This is, again, a regular for Laibach.
The song was written during the period when John Lennon was most interested in transcendental meditation. As such, it has a strong spiritual theme and includes a mantra in Sanskrit.
One North Korean defector told the NK News website last year that people from his country were deeply spiritual while not at all religious.
"Human communication with the spirit world is something that is very popular in North Korea, where it crops up most often in the form of fortune-telling," Ji-min Kang wrote.
"Like anywhere in the world, when things get too much and life gets unbearably hard, people like to know what is ahead of their future."
Laibach did well not to make any references to North Korea's nuclear programme here.
The second verse begins with the lyric: "We're heading to Venus", and while North Korea has not announced plans to send a manned mission to Venus, there are indications it is planning to launch another satellite into space.
The decision to play a traditional Korean folk song reportedly went down very well with the audience in Pyongyang.
The Arirang genre of songs - also well-loved in South Korea - have been placed on Unesco's list of "intangible cultural heritage".
Unesco says the songs "speak about leaving and reunion, sorrow, joy and happiness" and "function as an important symbol of unity".
The image above may not make it appear that people enjoyed their evening, but the official state news agency said: "Performers showed well the artistic skill of the band through peculiar singing, rich voice and skilled rendition."
"They seemed to really enjoy it," said Simon Cockerell, general manager of the Beijing-based North Korean travel agent Koryo Tours. "It wasn't an audience pulling faces of distrust or confusion.
"Everyone sat in their seats the whole time and there wasn't really any clapping along or singing along, but then that's the norm at concerts here anyway.
"I imagine most of the people there really had no idea what to expect, but the whole show seemed to be well received."
He said he was taking responsibility for the impact of his remarks about Bradley Manning.
Private Manning is being held in solitary confinement at a maximum security US military jail.
He has been on suicide watch at the Quantico marine base in Virginia and is shackled at all times.
He faces 34 charges relating to the leaking of 720,000 diplomatic and military documents.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she accepted Mr Crowley's resignation "with regret".
She said he had served his nation "with distinction", "motivated by a deep devotion to public policy and public diplomacy".
Mr Crowley was speaking to an audience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about new media and foreign policy when he made the controversial remarks.
He was asked by a participant about the "the elephant in the room" - Wikileaks - and, in the questioner's words, "torturing a prisoner in a military brig".
"I spent 26 years in the air force," Mr Crowley reportedly replied.
"What is happening to Manning is ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid, and I don't know why the DoD [Department of Defense] is doing it. Nevertheless, Manning is in the right place."
He said his comments were on the record, though he later added that they were his own opinion.
In his resignation letter he said: "Given the impact of my remarks, for which I take full responsibility, I have submitted my resignation."
His remarks were revealed in a blog by the BBC's Philippa Thomas, who attended the event.
President Barack Obama later insisted he had received assurances that the terms of Pte Manning's confinement were "appropriate".
Earlier this year, rights organisation Amnesty International expressed concern about the conditions in which Mr Manning was being held.
It said he had been held "for 23 hours a day in a sparsely furnished solitary cell and deprived of a pillow, sheets, and personal possessions since July 2010".
He was also reportedly forced to disrobe on a daily basis.
Mae dau filwr arall mewn cyflwr difrifol yn yr ysbyty yn dilyn y digwyddiad yng Nghastell Martin brynhawn Mercher.
Mae'r Weinyddiaeth Amddiffyn, Heddlu Dyfed Powys a'r Gweithgor Iechyd a Diogelwch yn cynnal ymchwiliad.
Dywedodd y gweinidog sydd â chyfrifoldeb, Tobias Ellwood, bod y ddau filwr a fu farw yn aelodau o Gatrawd Brenhinol y Tanciau.
Bu farw un o'r milwyr yn Ysbyty Treforys yn Abertawe fore Iau, a bu farw'r ail yn Ysbyty Athrofaol Cymru yng Nghaerdydd yn ddiweddarach yn y diwrnod.
Mae un milwr yn parhau yn Ysbyty Treforys, tra bo'r llall mewn ysbyty yn Birmingham.
Mae BBC Cymru yn deall fod y digwyddiad yn ymwneud â ffrwydron sy'n cael eu tanio o danciau Challenger.
Yn ôl newyddiadurwr y BBC yno, mae'r safle'n brysur fore Gwener wrth i'r ymchwiliad gael ei gynnal.
Mae safle'r fyddin yng Nghastell Martin yn ymestyn dros 5,900 acer ar hyd arfordir Sir Benfro.
Oherwydd y digwyddiad, mae'r Weinyddiaeth Amddiffyn wedi gwahardd pob ymarferion tanio nes eu bod yn gwybod achos y digwyddiad.
Mae'r gwaharddiad mewn lle ar gyfer yr holl fyddin, ble bynnag y maen nhw yn y byd.
Following a tip off, police searched the property in North Elgin Street, in the Whitecrook area, on Thursday.
A woman aged 58, two men aged 17 and a 61-year-old man were arrested in connection with alleged drugs offences.
All four were expected to appear from custody at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Friday.
To New Zealanders, their big brother across the Tasman Sea in Australia was always brash and exciting. Lured by the prospect of well-paid jobs and sunshine, the Kiwis have traditionally flocked west in vast numbers.
But things are changing. New Zealand has a renewed sense of confidence, and buoyed by the international success of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies it is not only foreign tourists that are heading to Middle Earth. Others are seeking fresh opportunities in a "rock star" economy.
For the first time in 24 years, more people are now heading east from Australia to New Zealand.
The end of a long mining boom in Australia and the rebounding of its trans-Tasman neighbour's fortunes are among the main factors.
"We've been describing New Zealand as a rock star in the sense that it has been outperforming almost all of the other developed world economies over the past couple of years," says Paul Bloxham, HSBC's chief economist for Australia and New Zealand
Recent figures show that employment growth in Australia is running at 2%, while across the Tasman Sea the Kiwis are enjoying rates of more than 3%.
The government in Wellington is expecting a budget surplus within the next year or two, while its counterpart in Canberra can see only deficits ahead.
At the heart of the Kiwi recovery are construction booms in Auckland and post-earthquake Christchurch.
"The tide has turned a little bit now and we are seeing Australians suddenly taking more notice of what's going on in New Zealand that has an economy which is growing really strongly," says Peter Townsend, chief executive of the Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce.
"New Zealand has the second-largest diaspora in the world, as I understand it on a per capita basis, so we have a million Kiwis living offshore.
"It is the New Zealand way to go offshore and experience new things, and the economic positioning of New Zealand now and the rebuild of Christchurch is attracting some of those Kiwis back home," he says.
Official reports show that New Zealand had a net inflow of 100 migrants from Australia in April - the first month that the land of the Long White Cloud has had an overall gain from its larger cousin since 1991.
Those numbers might be relatively small, but they show that a long-term loss of talent has been arrested, at least for now.
Kiwis are inveterate travellers, but, crucially, it seems more are deciding to come home after spending time in Bondi Beach in Sydney and beyond.
The rivalry between these two Antipodean nations is legendary. There is at times tension. Australians often have to brush aside barbs that they are arrogant and rude, while Kiwis will feel they bear the brunt of far too many jokes about sheep.
Although bonded by a shared wartime history at Gallipoli in 1915, when they fought as independent nations for the first time, Australia and New Zealand will scrap and argue over almost anything.
"It is always fun to talk to the West Island [Australia] and say you are welcome to come over," quips New Zealand's Economic Development Minister, Steven Joyce.
"We have donated a lot of labour to Australia over the last 25 years. It was one of the things that we as a government felt was really important. Not for bragging rights over the Australians, although that's a bit of fun, but actually the more important thing is you can't have an on-going drain of your key talent out of the country all the time."
New Zealand is increasingly on the radar of more young Australians, who have traditionally sought work in the boom mining states of Western Australia and Queensland, or further afield in Asia or Europe.
A year ago, Dylan Matthews was so eager to kick-start a new life in Christchurch that he slept rough in a park before finding a job. The 21-year old now works as a hotel receptionist after leaving behind his friends and family back home in the port city of Newcastle, north of Sydney. He couldn't be happier.
"I'm glad not to be there anymore, especially now. I'm glad I did leave because there are not many jobs there at the moment," he says.
"I'm not surprised it is changing with what is going on in Australia and then what is going on here as well, [with] the amount of jobs in Christchurch.
"Then if you see what is actually on offer over here as well in terms of travelling, it is pretty good."
But New Zealand's migration shift is not just about work-hungry Australians and homesick Kiwis. Government statistics have shown the country had an overall gain of 56,800 people in the year to April, well up from the 34,400 the year before.
Migrants from India, China and Britain top the list.
In Christchurch, the Brits are the second largest group of foreign labour behind the Filipinos.
Andrew Pountney, from Worcestershire, works for Hawkins Construction and he's relishing the opportunities in New Zealand.
"I don't miss fighting for work [in the UK]," he says. "We were at the back end of a recession when we left and the company I was working for was really struggling with securing work, but there is no end of work here in Christchurch at the moment, so I've got no complaints."
Across the city, another British expatriate hired by Hawkins, Rebekah Sanderson from Leeds, has fitted seamlessly into a new life 11,000 miles from home.
"Even though the pace of work here at the moment is frenetic, there is still more work-life balance here than there was in the UK.
"Life here is just too good. It is too nice a way to live to give it up anytime soon," she says.
For many foreigners, the Land of the Long White Cloud has a silver lining.
Australia's ambassador to Indonesia will return home this week after being recalled and ministerial contact with Indonesia has been suspended.
The government has also not ruled out cutting foreign aid to Indonesia.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the diplomatic changes after an Indonesian firing squad killed Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.
Six people from other countries were also executed at the prison island of Nusakambangan early on Wednesday morning local time.
The bodies of Chan and Sukumaran have now been handed over to Australian authorities, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
The two Australians were a key part of the so-called Bali Nine drug ring that was busted in 2005.
Australia has waged a long diplomatic campaign for clemency for Sukumaran and Chan, who appeared to have rehabilitated themselves while in jail in Indonesia.
More recently, the Australian government urged Indonesia to delay the execution of the two men until a corruption investigation into their sentencing was complete.
Mr Abbott on Wednesday described the treatment of the Australians as "cruel and unnecessary" and said it was a "dark moment" in Australia's relationship with Indonesia.
"Cruel because both Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran spent some decade in jail before being executed, and unnecessary, because both of these young Australians were fully rehabilitated while in prison," said Mr Abbott at a press conference.
"Australia respects the Indonesian system. We respect Indonesia's sovereignty but we do deplore what's been done and this cannot be simply business as usual," he said.
It is the first time Australia has withdrawn an ambassador from Indonesia, and the first such action after a country has executed an Australian citizen.
For example, it did not withdraw its ambassador when Australian drug smuggler Van Tuong Nguyen was executed in Singapore in 2005.
"It is very unusual, indeed unprecedented, for an ambassador to be withdrawn so I don't want to minimise the gravity of what we've done," Mr Abbott said.
"Ministerial contacts have been suspended for some time. Once it became apparent that the executions were likely, ministerial contacts were suspended, and they will remain suspended for a period," he said.
In response to a question about foreign aid to Indonesia, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said only that Australia's aid budget was under different considerations to diplomatic actions.
Australia gives Indonesia about A$600m ($480m; £313m) in aid annually.
The government has come under some pressure to divert that money to Nepal after it was struck by a devastating earthquake on the weekend.
Australia's opposition leader Bill Shorten and deputy leader Tanya Plibersek condemned the executions "in the strongest possible terms" and backed "a strong response from the Australian government".
"Our best hopes have been dashed and our worst fears realised," Mr Shorten and Ms Plibersek said in a joint statement.
"Indonesia has not just robbed two young men of their lives but robbed itself of two examples of the strengths of its justice system."
In a statement, the families of Sukumaran and Chan said the two men had done all they could to make amends in the years since their arrest, including helping other people.
"They asked for mercy, but there was none. They were immensely grateful for all the support they received. We too, will be forever grateful," said the families.
Chan and Sukumaran, along with seven other Australians, were arrested in Bali in 2005 for trying to smuggle more than 18lb (8.2kg) of heroin from Indonesia to Australia.
The pair were later found to be the ringleaders of the group and sentenced to death. The other seven members of the "Bali Nine" are currently serving either life or 20 years in prison.
Indonesia has some of the toughest drug laws in the world and ended a four-year moratorium on executions in 2013.
It says it takes a hard line because of the country's own drugs problem - 33 Indonesians die every day as a result of drugs, according to Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency.
The 19-year-old came through the Rams' youth ranks and made his first-team debut against Carlisle in the EFL Cup earlier this season.
England Under-20 international Lowe made his first Championship start in the 2-0 win at Cardiff on Tuesday.
"I really hope that this is just the start and I know that I still have lots to learn as a player," he said.
"It has been a great journey for me to get to this stage, having joined at the age of 10, but I know I've not achieved anything yet and I'll continue to work extremely hard."
The taxi driver, 47, was delivering aid to Syria in December 2013 when he was kidnapped and then held hostage.
A video purporting to show Mr Henning being beheaded was posted on the internet in October 2014.
In a ceremony earlier, his two children collected his honorary doctorate.
Mr Henning, from Eccles, was on his fourth mission providing humanitarian relief to the country when he was captured within minutes of arriving.
He had gone there to drive an ambulance for Rochdale Aid 4 Syria, a group which raises money on behalf of humanitarian charity Al-Fatiha Global.
University of Salford Vice Chancellor, Prof Helen Marshall, said: "The values that Alan stood for and embodied in his efforts to help the world's most vulnerable people, are the values of Salford and of our university.
"Today we celebrate Alan's work, he will be remembered with pride by all Salfordians."
Mr Henning's wife, Barbara, said: "On behalf of the family I would like to thank the University of Salford for honouring Alan in this way.
"We are extremely proud of him and hope that he will always be remembered as the kind, caring person he was, who made a decision to go and help those less fortunate, and whose life was taken because of that decision.
"We would like to express our gratitude to the staff and students at the University. Their compassion and support at the time of Alan's death was a great comfort to the family."
The prank at London's Holborn station came after Frans Bekker, from Cardiff, was "goaded" by his table tennis team-mates, Westminster magistrates heard.
But the 50-year-old lost control and ploughed into three women, including Linda Soulsby who fractured a vertebra.
Bekker admitted endangering the safety of a person conveyed by railway.
He was ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work as well as paying compensation.
The court heard Bekker was "tramautised by the impact" on his victim.
Ms Soulsby, who is in her late 60s, was forced to wear a brace for months and her injury caused "an approximate 15 percent loss of vertebral body height".
In her victim impact statement, she said: "This accident has changed my life. I'm not the person I was. I'm lucky to be walking. A child or a weaker person could have been killed. I have no anger or bitterness.
"It was a stupid moment of madness that went terribly wrong."
Imposing a 12-month community order, chairman of the bench Roger Smith told Bekker: "Whether there was a moment of madness or anything more than that, this lady has had her life completely turned up side down."
Rovers appeared on course for a sixth successive win when Andy Cook fired them ahead two minutes after half-time.
Southport's equaliser came 15 minutes later when Almond's cross snuck in at the far post and they held on, despite coming into the game with the leakiest defence in the league, to deny their high-flying derby rivals.
Tranmere's point was still enough to keep them top of the table, a point ahead of Dagenham.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Southport 1, Tranmere Rovers 1.
Second Half ends, Southport 1, Tranmere Rovers 1.
Louis Almond (Southport) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Jake Kirby replaces Jay Harris.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Liam Ridehalgh replaces Lee Vaughan.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Adam Mekki replaces Connor Jennings.
Goal! Southport 1, Tranmere Rovers 1. Louis Almond (Southport).
Substitution, Southport. Louis Almond replaces Andy Bishop.
Substitution, Southport. Jamie Allen replaces James Caton.
Goal! Southport 0, Tranmere Rovers 1. Andy Cook (Tranmere Rovers).
Second Half begins Southport 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
First Half ends, Southport 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Andy Bishop (Southport) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jay Harris (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Craig Stanley (Southport) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Liam Nolan (Southport) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The structure linking the village of Staveley, near Kendal, with the A591 has been closed since late last year.
Cumbria County Council said the construction of a permanent bridge would now be finished by April 2017.
It follows talks with the Environment Agency.
Preparatory works are due to get under way in the next few weeks, the council added.
David Brockbank, owner of Staveley Mill Yard, welcomed the new timeframe and said it would "be of enormous benefit to the community and businesses in the village".
A retrial has been ordered over the death of Shaimaa el-Sabbagh in January last year.
Images of the frail figure dying on a Cairo street after being hit by birdshot sparked outrage in Egypt and around the world.
Ms Sabbagh was with activists marching to Tahrir Square to mark the revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.
Why was one death singled out?
The al-Yawm al-Sabi news website said the court had accepted an appeal filed by officer Yassin Hatim against his prison sentence and ordered a retrial.
Some Egyptians condemned the decision on social media, with the prominent 6 April protest group saying "Justice is a right" (in Arabic).
The 33-year-old mother was a leading member of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party and was among about 40 activists who had gathered to lay wreaths in Tahrir Square to commemorate those who died during the 2011 uprising.
Photographs showing her after she had been shot were widely shared on social media and hundreds of people attended her funeral in Alexandria.
At least 18 people including three police cadets were killed in clashes the day after Ms Sabbagh's death.
Dozens of police officers who stood trial over the deaths of nearly 900 protesters during the 2011 uprising have been acquitted or received suspended sentences.
The 25-year-old, who is out of contract at the end of the season, has been linked with a free transfer to Ibrox.
But after speaking to Jack, McInnes reckon the reports are off the mark.
"He gave me assurances that there has been no contact, that he doesn't anticipate contact and that it's not something he's interested in," McInnes said on the club's twitter account.
Club captain Jack has played almost 200 games for the Pittodrie outfit, who are currently second in the Premiership, nine points clear of third-placed Rangers.
And McInnes remains hopeful the Scot will decide his future lies with the Dons.
"I spoke to Ryan this morning as I normally do at training," the Aberdeen boss added.
"Ryan feels that he is really happy here. He hasn't ruled out staying here and we're all hoping that he will be here next season.
"But if he does decide to move on his likely destination will be England. He sees that maybe being his next opportunity if he decides to leave Aberdeen.
"So there's absolutely nothing in it and you have to question the reason for it, whether it's to try and destabilise us or whatever.
"I have been assured by Ryan - and I trust Ryan - that he nor his agent have had any contact with Rangers."
Aberdeen face St Johnstone in Perth on Saturday, looking to bounce back from their 3-0 home defeat by Rangers on Sunday.
Since regaining its independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Estonia has become one of the most economically successful of the European Union's newer eastern European members.
Ruled at various times during the middle ages by Denmark, the German knights of the Livonian Order, and Sweden, Estonia ended up part of the Russian Empire in the 18th century.
It experienced its first period of independence in 1918, following the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Russian Empire.
Population 1.3 million
Area 45,227 sq km (17,462 sq miles)
Major languages Estonian, Russian
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 70 years (men), 80 years (women)
Currency euro
President: Kersti Kaljulaid
Kersti Kaljulaid was elected by parliament as Estonia's first female president in October 2016.
A biologist by training, Kaljulaid started her political career in 1999 as an economic adviser to Prime Minister Mart Laar. She served as Estonia's representative in the European Court of Auditors between 2004 and 2016.
The office is largely symbolic although it gained weight after outgoing President Toomas Hendrik Ilves carved a role as an outspoken critic of Russia and a campaigner for government digitalisation and cybersecurity.
Prime minister: Juri Ratas
Juri Ratas, whose party is popular among Estonia's large Russian-speaking minority, heads a coalition government which was sworn in in November 2016.
He was asked by the president to form a government after his predecessor Taavi Roivas lost a parliamentary vote on confidence when one of his junior coalition partners deserted.
Mr Ratas's Centre Party, which had been in opposition for a decade, has as partners the leftist Social Democrat SDE and conservative IRL.
Before taking office he indicated that his government would lean towards the West.
Television is Estonia's most popular medium, while print media are losing ground to online outlets.
The broadcasting industry has attracted foreign media groups; the main privately-owned TVs are run by Swedish and Norwegian concerns.
Eesti Televisioon (ETV) and Eesti Raadio (ER) are public broadcasters. Take-up of cable and digital terrestrial TV is extensive; the offering includes stations in Finnish, Swedish, Russian and Latvian.
Some key dates in Estonia's history:
1918 - Independence proclaimed.
1920- Peace treaty with Russia signed.
1939 - The Soviet Union compels Estonia to accept Soviet military bases.
1940 Soviet troops march in. Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union.
1941 - German troops invade.
1944 - Estonia reannexed by the Soviet Union. Tens of thousands of Estonians deported to Siberia and Central Asia.
1988 - Popular Front campaigns for democracy. "Singing revolution" brings a third of the population together in a bid for national unity and self-determination.
1991 - Communist rule collapses. Soviet government recognizes the independence of the Baltic republics.
2004 - Estonia admitted to Nato and is one of 10 new states to join the EU.
Billy Midmore, 22, denies causing grievous bodily harm with intent, a charge that his brother Geoffrey, 26, has pleaded guilty to.
Mr Midmore said he had no involvement in the attack on Carla Whitlock in Southampton, which left her blind in one eye.
He admitted sending her threatening texts.
CCTV footage of the moment a Ms Whitlock was attacked with drain cleaner containing sulphuric acid on 18 September last year, was shown to the jury at Southampton Crown Court on Wednesday.
The prosecution has previously claimed that the attack, which happened outside Turtle Bay in the city's Guildhall Square, was revenge for a drug deal that went wrong.
Mr Midmore said he was angry at Ms Whitlock after his brother was robbed of £2,000 worth of drugs and cash and subsequently sent her threatening texts.
He has denied buying the acid and being present during the attack.
Earlier prosecutor Kerry Maylin told the jury that Geoffrey Midmore had sent a photograph of the bottle on WhatsApp to an acquaintance together with the words: "This is one face melter."
The trial continues.
Three members of Pussy Riot are awaiting a verdict on their highly controversial performance of a protest song against Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main cathedral - Christ the Saviour - in March.
Many liberals who sided with the group feel the Orthodox Church's leader, Patriarch Kirill, has overplayed its hand recently.
They point to his support for President Putin and refusal to publicly pardon the protesters.
But more traditional believers say the Patriarch needs to be given a chance to revive the Church's flagging attendance rates in a mainly Orthodox society.
Sergei Rybko understands the difficulty the Patriarch is facing.
In the Soviet Union he was a hippy, later becoming a priest who struggled against the communists' persecution of the Orthodox Church.
He is to this day a lover of rock music. He strives to convince other clergymen of the value in 1970s rock bands like Slade and Deep Purple.
He also attends rock concerts, telling crowds that freedom without God is impossible.
I assumed, since he has liberal views, he would defend the likes of Pussy Riot.
I was wrong.
"They should be given forced labour," he quipped. "That would be a suitable punishment.
"Anyway, they are not real punk musicians. They were paid to perform."
As we go inside the small monastery attached to Father Sergei's church in northern Moscow it becomes clear why he has such strong feelings.
"The Church needs time to equip itself with better PR skills. The previous Patriarch [Alexei II] had to revive the Orthodox Church from scratch. Now the Church is being attacked and that is not fair."
Younger Orthodox Russians I spoke to, many of whom support Pussy Riot, disagree. They feel that their Patriarch is not maintaining the neutrality expected of him and is in fact legitimising the activity of the state.
"The Church connects people to God but now these two bodies - the Church and the government - are linked and it should not be like this," says Nikolai Polozov, a committed Orthodox Christian and the lawyer acting for Pussy Riot.
And yet the Church feels someone is out there to get them. As it struggles to boost its low attendances (fewer than 10% of Russians attend church regularly), it talks of a "smear campaign" being waged against the Patriarch.
It appeared to be referring to stories printed online in recent months alleging that its leader enjoyed luxuries that contravened the vow of poverty he took when he became a monk.
One concerned a lawsuit involving a large flat belonging to him in Moscow. It ended with damages of around $500,000 (£315,000) being awarded to a woman acting on behalf of the Patriarch.
But then there was the story about a $30,000 Swiss watch that the Patriarch was photographed wearing during a religious service in Ukraine in 2009.
In one photograph journalists noted that the watch had been airbrushed out, although its reflection could still be seen on the highly polished table where he was seated.
These episodes, while embarrassing for the Patriarch, may have been intentional, says Andrei Zolotov, a member of the Church and a journalist specialising in religion. He is the editor of Russia Profile magazine.
"I certainly don't rule out that people in the Kremlin may have decided that the Patriarch has too much weight and may want to put him in his place," he says.
I decided to put some of these points to senior bishops in the Church.
Metropolitan Hillarion heads the external relations department at the Moscow Patriarchate.
He would not answer on the impact the trial is having, but did talk about the relationship between Church and state.
He said that far from being a tool of the Kremlin, the Church is actually there to hold the government to account.
"There have been quite a number of cases when the Church expressed its dissatisfaction with government policies and we try to change these policies," he said.
"For example, if we know something is happening in the army and we are unhappy with that we engage in dialogue with the defence ministry and try to influence them. I see this way of collaboration as very fruitful."
Andrei Zolotov believes the recent scandals have only deepened the mistrust in society and that they will have a lasting effect.
"For the past 20 years after the Soviet-era persecution the Church had a right to rebuild. Now things unfortunately get back to normal. And normal means a confrontation between some of the radical elements in society - the leftists, the radicals - and the traditionalists."
You don't have to travel far in Moscow to meet people from each of these different categories, all with opposing views.
But most agree on one thing: that the Pussy Riot protest will have a lasting impact on the way the Church is seen in Mr Putin's Russia.
Owner UK Coal said it would oversee the rundown of the Kellingley mine before the site was redeveloped.
Unions said it was a "very sad day" for the country as well as the industry.
The last 450 miners at the pit are to receive severance packages at 12 weeks of average pay.
Keith Poulson, 55, branch secretary for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), said: "It has been like being a convicted prisoner on death row.
"We can basically hear the governor coming down the corridor and he's about to put the key in the cell door to take you to meet your fate."
Mr Poulson said the workers' morale was "absolutely rock bottom, to be thrown on the industrial scrapheap".
"Since it was announced, I feel like somebody's stuck a pin in me and I'm eventually deflating. I feel completely let down," he said.
Neil Townend, 51, said: "There's a few lads shedding tears, just getting all emotional. It's a bit sad really. I've been here 30 years, I don't know what to expect now, got to get another job."
Stephen Walker, 50, who has worked at Kellingley since 1988, said: "I never thought I'd see this day come but it has, and times move on, and we have to now, and that's that."
"We've lost an entire industry, we've lost a way of life."
Nigel Kemp, a miner who has worked at the pit for 32 years, said he would be part of the team capping the shafts his father had sunk in 1959.
He said: "Everything I've had in my life has come from this mine here.
"I wish my dad was here today, because he'd have a lot to say about it. What's happened here is absolutely a travesty."
Mr Kemp said he could hear the miners singing Tom Jones's Delilah on their last journey to the coal face.
The National Union of Mineworkers, which used to have more than 500,000 members, is left with just 100 following the closure of Kellingley.
Miners' memories of Kellingley
Mining machines buried in last deep pit
Phil Whitehurst, national officer of the GMB union, said: "The final 450 miners, the last in a long line stretching back for generations, are having to search for new jobs before the shafts that lead down to 30 million tons of untouched coal are sealed with concrete.
"This is a very sad day as our proud industrial heritage is destroyed [by the government]."
In 2014 Michael Fallon, Conservative MP and the then business minister, said: "There is no value-for-money case for a level of investment that would keep the deep mines open beyond this managed wind-down period to autumn 2015."
Official figures from the Department for Energy and Climate Change show the UK imported more coal than it produced for the first time in 2001 - a trend repeated every year since 2003.
In 2003 the UK produced 28.28m tonnes and imported 31.89m The graph below shows how output and imports have changed, with the big dip in 1984 due to the miners' strike.
Miners at Kellingley are expected to join a march planned to take place on Saturday at nearby Knottingley, West Yorkshire, to mark the closure.
Seventeen miners have lost their lives at the 58-hectare site since production began in April 1965.
A memorial to the dead miners is being transferred from the colliery to the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield.
Photographers meet Kellingley staff at their Christmas party
Updates on this story and more from around the region
Known locally as the Big K, the largest deep pit in Europe was hailed as the new generation of coal mining and could bring up to 900 tonnes an hour to the surface.
At its height, Kellingley employed more than 2,000 workers. At the same time, up to 500,000 people were working in the coal industry nationally.
Analysis
Danni Hewson, BBC Look North Business Correspondent
The cold truth is that the way our economy works made the closure of our last coal mines inevitable.
No matter the murmurings of an ideological campaign, market forces are the main axe wielder here.
The US's dash for shale created a glut of cheap imports that Kellingley coal simply couldn't compete against.
But, of course, that's not the whole story. Environmentally, coal could only have had a long-term future if we'd developed and perfected Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), and plans for that were shelved earlier this year. And that's where it does get interesting.
The current government is pushing shale as the potential stop gap, but the industry-backed Task Force on Shale has said gas, like coal, has no real longevity without CCS.
And so the wheel goes round, the UK is perusing a relationship with gas, other countries are still flirting with King Coal - both fossil fuels. All seem to agree that relying on renewables alone is still a somewhat distant dream.
The party was prepared to take action if the first minister did not do what "society desires", he said.
Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has warned an election would be inevitable if she did not stand down.
Mrs Foster is under growing pressure over the Renewable Heat Initiative.
The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme was launched in 2012 to help businesses ditch fossil fuels for renewables such as wood.
Mrs Foster was the then enterprise minister in charge of the scheme, which was set up to help cut carbon emissions, but its flaws could cost taxpayers £490m.
The subsidies offered were greater than the cost of the fuels, meaning users could legitimately earn more cash the more fuel they burned.
Speaking at a meeting of party activists in Belfast on Saturday, Sinn Féin leader Mr Adams said Mrs Foster was not "a prime minister".
"She is a co-equal partner in the Office of First and Deputy First Minister," he said. "She can continue in that office but only for as long as Sinn Féin allows it."
Sinn Féin has put forward proposals for dealing with the crisis engulfing Stormont, and Mrs Foster has said they provided "a basis for taking an investigation forward".
But the first minister has rejected Sinn Féin's further calls for her to temporarily step aside.
Mr Adams told the meeting: "The DUP leader has thus far refused to stand aside, without prejudice, pending a preliminary report by an independent investigation into the RHI scandal.
"If the first minister does not take the actions that society desires and deserves and which a sustainable process of change requires, then Sinn Féin will bring this ongoing and totally unacceptable state of affairs to an end."
Earlier this week, Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir warned that if Mrs Foster did not step aside temporarily, an election would be inevitable.
"It's the greatest conflict of interest I've seen in my political life that the architect of the RHI scheme would remain in office while the investigation gets under way," he said.
Mr Adams said the "future of the political institutions are at a defining point", as he paid tribute to Mr McGuinness who was not at the meeting.
"Under Martin's tolerant and tireless leadership the institutions have continued to operate and progress has been made, for example on the difficult issue of the transfer of policing and justice powers," he said.
In a wide-ranging speech, Mr Adams spoke about the decision to cut Irish language bursary funds, describing Communities Minister Paul Givan as an "ignoramus".
"The DUP has also shown a serious disrespect for the Irish language and to those citizens who wish to live their lives through Gaeilge (Irish language).
"The decision on the eve of Christmas to cut funding for the Líofa programme was a very deliberate snub to the Irish language. It was an ignorant decision taken by an ignoramus.
"Of course we will forgive him for this. When he restores the funding and treats our teanga (language) with the respect it deserves."
Over 1,000 workers left their posts, preventing ships from being unloaded.
It is unclear what sparked the action. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey issued a statement calling for employees to "return to work immediately".
The port is the biggest on the US East Coast. In 2014 over $200bn (£140bn) in cargo came through the port.
The International Longshoreman's Association (ILA) which represents the worker was not available for comment. The ILA has clashed with the Port Authority in recent years over hiring practices and policies such as drug testing.
The port employs close to 3,500 longshoremen.
The port- which consists of five container terminals in New York and New Jersey - is the third largest in the US.
Approximately a quarter of US gross domestic product is accounted for within a 250-mile radius of the ports.
Mick McCann set up the British War Graves project after visiting graves of service personnel near his home in Wigston, Leicestershire.
Having visited cemeteries in France and Belgium about 70 times, he now has more than 750,000 photographs on a website.
Giving the Points of Light award, Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr McCann should be "very proud".
The site covers all wars for which Commonwealth gravestones were issued.
It includes contributions from other people and covers sites as far away as Malaysia and Hong Kong.
Mr McCann said: "Everyone should try to visit one of these cemeteries, they are so moving.
"Some of the inscriptions - chosen by the family - will bring tears to your eyes and it still gets me now.
"Who can stand at the Menin Gate, or at the Theipval memorial, without feeling that? Seventy thousands names - husbands, sons, fathers."
His wife, Joanna, said the work was surprisingly physically demanding.
"In one go we may do two, three or four thousands pictures.
"I've learnt to stand back from the stones, instead of bending over, because doing that many is hard work on the back."
Moira Gemmill was struck by an HGV near the junction of Horseferry Road and Millbank, close to Lambeth Bridge, on Thursday morning.
The 55-year-old joined the Royal Collection Trust as director of capital programmes in February.
Director of the trust Jonathan Marsden said: "We are deeply saddened and shocked by this tragic news."
He added: "In her very short time with us, Moira had become both a good friend and a highly respected colleague, and we shall miss her very greatly."
In her role Ms Gemmill had been working on the delivery of major programmes at Windsor Castle and at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh.
Ms Gemmill, who was cycling to her workplace at St James's Palace, was pronounced dead at the scene of the collision. She is the fifth cyclist to die on the capital's roads this year.
Ms Gemmill, who was a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, spent 13 years at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) as director of design, before leaving in January.
Martin Roth, director of the V&A, said: "We are devastated to hear of the tragic death of our much-loved and respected colleague of many years, Moira Gemmill.
"I cannot overstate Moira's remarkable contribution in making the V&A the global leader in museum design that it is today.
"She will be greatly missed and our thoughts are with her family at this very sad time."
Ms Gemmill had also been a judge for the Architectural Review's (AR) Women in Architecture Awards since their launch in 2011.
AR editor Christine Murray said: "The profession has lost one of its great patrons and champions."
Ms Gemmill grew up in a farming family in Kintyre on the west coast of Scotland and studied graphic design and photography at the Glasgow School of Art.
She went on to work for Aberdeen Art Gallery and in 2011 was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
The 40-year-old lorry driver stopped at the crash scene but was not arrested, Scotland Yard said.
The team of officers has been checking a site close to the farmhouse where Ben's family was staying when he went missing in 1991, aged 21 months.
Nothing linked to Ben has been found during the week-long search.
Ben's mother, Kerry Needham, has always maintained her son is alive and was probably abducted.
Det Supt Matt Fenwick, who has been leading the search, said: "We found a lot of animal bones, toys, rubbish, beer cans and so forth.
"It's a been a difficult, but very thorough examination of the land.
"Even after the search we've done, you can never say 100%, but the search has been so extensive and thorough that once complete it will be very unlikely he could be in the specific locations we've searched."
Mr Fenwick said he had put together the best search team possible.
He added: "It's been difficult and distressing for Kerry as we have been following a line of inquiry that could only have meant Ben had died."
Pennsylvania doctors found patients' asthma was harder to control if they lived near a fracking site, compared with other asthma patients.
The findings, in more than 25,000 patients, are not proof of a causal effect.
The authors say in the journal JAMA that more safety studies are needed.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, involves drilling down miles underground and blasting the shale rock with a high-pressure water mixture to release the natural gas trapped inside.
Proponents say it has the potential to be greener, in terms of carbon footprint, than some other energy sources.
Critics are worried about the impact on humans and the planet - namely, air and water pollution, earth tremors and potential health risks.
Public Health England has looked at the issue in the UK and believes "the risks to public health from exposure to emissions from shale gas extraction are low if operations are properly run and regulated".
The US has already pushed ahead with fracking, which is now a big industry. The UK, however, has remained cautious and paused its pursuit following a couple of small earthquakes near a test drilling site in the Blackpool area.
US researchers, funded by the National Institutes of Health, set out to study the impact of fracking on the population of Pennsylvania - a region which has seen more than 6,000 shale gas wells drilled in the last decade or more.
Using local electronic health records, they identified asthma patients and checked if fracking activity might be linked to disease flare-ups over a six-year period.
A flare-up was defined as mild if the patient needed to be prescribed a steroid inhaler, moderate if they needed to go to the emergency department and severe if they had to be hospitalised for their asthma.
The Johns Hopkins researchers looked at the distance the patient lived from an active fracking site, as well as other risk factors, such as whether they lived by a busy road.
Patients with asthma in areas with the highest fracking activity - judged on distance, size and activity of the shale gas sites in the locality - had higher risk of asthma flare-ups compared with asthma patients living in places with low fracking activity.
The odds of a flare-up was about 1.5 to 4 times higher, but the researchers still do not know why.
They believe air pollution from the shale site itself as well as the heavy vehicles needed to build and service these facilities might be to blame, although they don't have any proof.
Researcher Sara Rasmussen said: "We need more studies now to explore this theory. Another possible pathway is stress."
Asthma can be exacerbated by stress and she says people living in the communities they studied would have had to deal with disruption as the shale gas sites were built. But, again, it's not clear if this would have an impact.
Dan Murphy of Asthma UK said: "Asthma is a complex condition affecting one in 11 people in the UK, yet years of research underfunding means it still remains a relative mystery.
"While this study suggests that living near fracking industry wells may increase risk of an asthma attack, more research is needed to get a clearer picture of the connection between the two and the impact on people with asthma."
Energy In Depth, a campaign body set up by the Independent Petroleum Association of America, said: "The researchers claim this study 'adds to a growing body of evidence tying the fracking industry to health concerns.'
"The study - and many others like it - actually doesn't have any evidence to prove causation, while numerous studies that actually provide real evidence that fracking is reducing asthma throughout the US continue to be overlooked."
Update 20 July 2016: This story has been updated to include a response from the fracking industry.
Windows, an oil tank and the back door were damaged at the house on Main Street in Carrowdore, near Newtownards.
It happened at about 03:20 GMT on Wednesday.
Police said there were no reports of any injuries.
The occupants of the house are a couple in their 60s.
The house was cordoned off while officers investigated the circumstances and motive.
Police have appealed for information.
The three cows and calves in Bancroft were painted as skeletons overnight last week, The Parks Trust, the charity which maintains them, said.
The charity said it was going to cost £2,000 to repaint the sculptures and in the long-term believed they might have to be moved if the vandalism continued.
A spokeswoman said it had reported the recent damage to the police.
The cows were made in 1978 as a leaving present from the Milton Keynes Development Corporation - which oversaw the building of the "new town" - and The Parks Trust was put in charge of maintaining them.
Since they arrived they have been stolen, beheaded, painted pink and had pyjamas and "BSE" painted on them.
Bryony Serginson, The Parks Trust's head of community engagement, said: "We'd rather they stayed where they were - that's where they live and people see them and associate them with that particular park.
"But in the long term if they do continue to be vandalised, then we might have to consider that.
"We are taking it seriously as an act of vandalism. It's going to be costly to us to get the cows back into the proper state that they should be in.
"We want people to respect the pieces of art for what they are."
Ms Serginson said she did not think the cows were specifically targeted due to Halloween as the dinosaur sculpture on Peartree Bridge was also painted as a skeleton in July.
Milton Keynes resident Fiona Norrie said: "I don't know if I should be angry, because they've done a really good job. It's very detailed.
"We don't condone graffiti obviously, but it's pretty awesome. It's art."
Scotland against England. Young versus old. Class against class.
If this was simply a vote against Westminster, you wouldn't know it from the behaviour of the political classes.
They are fighting their own internal battles, and where there might be policy, a roadmap towards Brexit, there is silence, a vacuum, an absence.
I suspect the next few months will be chaotic, and both sides of the great divide will be sniffing the air and scenting betrayal.
This is more than simply about membership of the European Union.
It is about how we see ourselves as a nation.
Live: Brexit fallout
A less than united Kingdom
Brexit: The story of an island apart
"I want my country back," is a familiar refrain, and not just here.
It was the cry of the Tea Party in the United States and is now trumpeted by Donald Trump's supporters.
The words are a code.
They could simply be a plea for a stronger, fitter America.
They could mean favouring rural values over metropolitan ones.
And, for some, it is a yearning for a time there was a white man in the White House, and official signs weren't in Spanish.
We heard the same slogan in the referendum too.
Work out the British meaning yourself.
But there is an ironic twist on the phrase after the big vote.
Now, it is another lot who feel they have lost their country and had the future snatched away.
To describe these people as "bad losers" is to miss the point.
Neither side regard this as a game of cricket, a bit of fun, where you can shake hands afterwards and go into the pavilion for tea.
For both sides, it is about how we see ourselves and what sort of country we are.
For many on the Remain side, this sense of history going against them, is a new feeling, closer to a bereavement than a political reverse.
Their new-found insecurity and unexpected anger is hot and heartfelt.
It has been sharpened by the apparent increase in assaults on people assumed to be foreign or immigrants.
Many who voted Remain may suspect Prime Minister David Cameron was right when he warned of a narrower, less tolerant country.
People are thrashing for ways not to be part of "Project Leave".
Scotland may go it alone, and Gibraltar might either do that or simply join Spain.
A London city state is fanciful, but the petition calling for it is getting signatures.
I know two families talking seriously of moving to Scotland so they can stay in the EU.
All this adds up to a message from many who voted Remain: "We ain't going to take it. No way."
The same would have been true if the vote had gone the other way.
Leave supporters would have been furious, and, I assume, pressing for another vote as soon as possible.
In desperation, Remainers are looking at ways of stopping Brexit, and trying to interpret "leave" as "stay".
We could end up in a situation where everybody feels betrayed, everybody feels "left behind".
We have heard a lot about the group who feel left behind by a both a more global economy and the demise of heavy industry.
It is a big part of the story, but it is not the only story - 52% of the UK is clearly not made up of elderly unskilled workers.
It might be useful to look through the lens of the Labour Party's huge English problem.
Social democratic parties all over the world tend to be a coalition of a highly educated often metropolitan middle class, often working in the public sector, and more working-class, often unionised, voters who tend to be more socially conservative and patriotic.
This latter group have long been a key prize. Think Reagan Democrats or Margaret Thatcher's working-class supporters.
In Labour's case, this alliance has been under strain for many years - as groups such as Blue Labour have long been saying.
Immigration is right at the heart of the divide.
For Labour, it is hard to crack in policy terms. But it is also a hugely important symbol.
Many in the first group think a liberal immigration policy, like membership of the the European Union, makes for the sort of society they celebrate - they are not simply "tolerant" but enthusiastic about diversity, be it in terms of sexuality or a multicultural society.
The second group feels immigration causes them economic pain and in some case culture shock: it is an affront to their sense of a homogeneous country.
Many will be less worried about the future of Brexit - their children won't be going to European universities, and they won't be planning to work in Germany.
But there is another, more ideological way, of looking at this, examined in the work of Cardiff University's Professor Richard Wyn Jones.
Leavers tend to believe in a strong unitary state, based at Westminster, ruling over the whole of the UK.
They dislike devolution and the EU in equal measure, and believe not so much in the old British Empire, but in what some have called the English Empire.
Those in the "Remain" camp tend to be more relaxed about more diffused sovereignty and identity, and with power either devolved down to the nations that make up our country, or up to supra-national organisations such as the EU.
It is not too much of a stretch to suggest those beliefs are reflected in cultural differences too.
If you want a solid state, as it were, you are more likely to believe in solid identities.
Two nations indeed.
It is hard to say what this would mean for party politics as it fragments before our eyes.
But don't underestimate the anger in the Remain camp with those who make up the "left behind".
In the words of Lily Allen, "we hate what you do... we hate your whole crew... please don't stay in touch".
Perhaps, most simply, it will fracture Labour's old class alliance, and lead to some deal with those who like the Lib Dems and those Tories who value the single market over curbing immigration.
Referendums tend to be a device to keep divided parties together.
This one has not only torn the parties asunder but divided the people.
It is hard to see how the political process over the next few months and years will serve to heal it.
Chinese state media said Yang Xiuzhu amassed a fortune overseeing construction projects as deputy mayor of Wenzhou in east China in the 1990s.
Ms Yang, 68, left China in 2003. She was detained in the US after entering with a fake Dutch passport last year.
She tops China's list of 100 suspects it wants to extradite.
Ms Yang went into hiding after being sought by anti-corruption investigators in China.
She is now in a detention facility in Hudson County, New Jersey, according to the US immigration agency.
Luis Martinez, a spokesman for the agency, said: "As a foreign law enforcement fugitive, Yang is an ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] priority."
In April, China published the names of 100 suspects in foreign countries wanted for economic crimes, with Ms Yang, on Interpol's website, topping the list.
It was part of Operation Sky Net, which targets officials accused of corruption and living abroad with the aim of confiscating misappropriated money and assets.
State media reported that earlier this month, the number two suspect, Li Huabo, was repatriated from Singapore after five years at large.
China's President Xi Jinping launched a crackdown on corruption when he took office in 2012.
China is pushing for talks with the US on an extradition treaty, which would boost prosecution efforts. It has said there are more than 150 economic fugitives in the US.
|
Technology giant Apple sold 61.1 million iPhones in the first three months of 2015, driving profit up 33% from a year earlier.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The UK is to commit another £100m to supporting refugees in camps bordering Syria, David Cameron has said, as he arrived for an emergency EU summit on the migration crisis.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Northern Ireland pharmaceutical company, Almac, has announced global expansion plans, along with a new £5m HQ in Craigavon, County Armagh.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Christopher Templeman bookended the scoring as Montrose moved up to seventh in Scottish League Two with victory over bottom side East Stirlingshire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
On Wednesday, the Slovenian band Laibach say they became the first western rock group to play inside North Korea.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
US state department spokesman PJ Crowley has resigned after calling the treatment of the man accused of leaking secret cables to Wikileaks "stupid".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Mae'r ymchwiliad i farwolaethau dau filwr yn dilyn digwyddiad yn ymwneud â thanc ar faes tanio yn Sir Benfro yn parhau ddydd Gwener.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Four people have been arrested after amphetamine, cocaine and cannabis worth £11,000 was seized at an address in Clydebank.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
It has long been like a fractious, but ultimately friendly, relationship between siblings.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Australia is rethinking its relations with Indonesia following the execution of two Australian drug traffickers.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Derby County left-back Max Lowe has signed a new contract with the club until the summer of 2020.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
International Aid volunteer Alan Henning, who was killed by Islamic State extremists, has been given a posthumous degree by the University of Salford.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An RAF flight sergeant who broke a Tube passenger's back after he tried to jump on to an escalator handrail has been ordered to pay £4,000 to his victim.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Southport ended Tranmere's perfect start to the National League season as Louis Almond's second-half goal secured a draw.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A replacement bridge for one damaged during December's flooding is to be completed five months earlier than previously expected, it has been announced.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Egypt's highest court has annulled a 15-year jail sentence for a policeman accused of shooting dead a protester.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes says Ryan Jack has assured him he will not be joining Rangers in the summer.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Estonia is the most northerly of the three Baltic states, and has linguistic ties with Finland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man who denies throwing acid on a woman said he was "fuming angry" at his brother after hearing about the attack.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The trial of the female punk rock band Pussy Riot has sharply divided liberals and conservatives in Russian society.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Miners at a North Yorkshire colliery have finished their final shifts as the closure of the pit brings an end to centuries of deep coal mining in Britain.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness could resign if Arlene Foster does not stand aside during an investigation into a botched green energy scheme, Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams has signalled.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
New York and New Jersey's cargo terminals were shut down on Friday as workers walked off the job.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man who has taken hundreds of thousands of images of British military graves has received a national award.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tributes have been paid to a prominent figure in the London arts world who was killed while cycling in London.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Specialist police officers searching for the missing Sheffield youngster Ben Needham have called off their search on the Greek island of Kos.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The controversial method for mining natural gas known as fracking might trigger asthma flare-ups, according to a US study.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Police are investigating what caused a loud bang after a house was damaged in County Down.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Milton Keynes' famous concrete cows could be permanently moved after recent vandalism turned them into skeletons.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The referendum has carved our country into two camps, sharpened existing divisions, and created some new ones.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A former senior official described as China's most wanted fugitive, accused of embezzling more than $40m (£26m), is set to be extradited from the US.
| 32,490,926 | 15,811 | 973 | true |
You can watch highlights of Arsenal v Tottenham on MOTD2 at 22:30 GMT on Sunday on BBC One and the BBC Sport website. Danny Murphy and Alan Shearer join Mark Chapman in the studio.
Mauricio Pochettino's side are being judged in comparison to last season, when they set their standards so high and were Leicester's closest challengers for the title, eventually finishing third.
They are a young, evolving team, but that success means people are being more critical of them now.
It is true that Spurs are not playing well at the moment and striker Harry Kane's six-week absence with an ankle injury has not helped, but that does not mean they are not as good as we thought.
Without Kane they have clearly been struggling in attack, but they are still undefeated in the Premier League and only three points off the top of the table.
They also still have a chance of reaching the last 16 of the Champions League, even if they have left themselves a mountain to climb after Wednesday's defeat by Bayer Leverkusen.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Sometimes a defeat and a horrible performance like that can give you the kick up the backside you need before another big game.
For Spurs, it doesn't get any bigger than Arsenal. If they can put on a positive performance at Emirates Stadium on Sunday and get a positive result then their other recent results are forgotten.
Every game against the Gunners is huge but this one is especially important to my former club because the outcome could help them keep their belief in their ability and their manager's tactics.
Media playback is not supported on this device
It will be very hard for Tottenham against a side playing so well with so much firepower and they would feel much more confident if they had their own best XI.
It will be interesting to see who starts out of Kane, Toby Alderweireld and Moussa Dembele, who have all been injured recently.
But, even if they are without those players, Pochettino's side will still be well organised and work tremendously hard to stop the Gunners from playing.
The question is how much of a threat can they pose to Arsene Wenger's team.
I know Tottenham beat Manchester City without Kane but they are a better side when he plays.
It is the last third of the pitch where they have been struggling without him because, with Vincent Janssen still adjusting to English football, the likes of Christian Eriksen, Erik Lamela and Moussa Sissoko are not chipping in with enough goals.
Dele Alli is the only player who keeps getting himself in good goalscoring positions and he probably has not scored as many as he should have done when you look at the chances he has had.
Other than Alli, there does not really seem to be a goal threat from Tottenham's front four, or anywhere else in their team - he is the only Spurs player to have scored a goal from open play in the last five games in the Premier League or Champions League
Tottenham's front four are not looking anywhere near as dangerous or creative when you compare them to the players in the same positions from the teams above them in the table - City, Liverpool and Arsenal.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Pochettino is an intelligent coach and he will be aware the players in the final third are not doing well enough. They have got to score more goals if they want to challenge for the title.
He has got a decision to make on Sunday because, if he gives his attackers more freedom to change positions and pop up in different areas then that will affect the team's shape and the defensive solidity which is one of their strengths.
Goals were not an issue for Spurs last season so Pochettino knows his players are capable of doing far better when they attack, but he will also be well aware they cannot just be reliant on one player - Kane - to get them the goals that will win them the title.
Kane could return on Sunday but you cannot expect him to hit the ground running after six weeks out. I am sure Spurs are not going to panic and rush him back, either, because they have got some more big games to come.
Tottenham want to be in this position, though, playing Champions League football and then having big Premier League games straight afterwards.
They strived so hard to get here last season, therefore they have to embrace it, and do their best with the situation they are in without letting it dent their collective confidence and having an adverse effect on the current campaign.
As far as Sunday goes, I think if you offered Spurs a draw now, they would take it with the players they are missing and after the week they have had.
In contrast, the Gunners will be trying to get on the front foot straight away, like they did against Chelsea in September when they went 3-0 up before half-time.
Arsenal are flying at the moment so it is imperative Tottenham respect that, keep a good shape and stay in the game.
They also need to return to the performance levels they produced when they beat Manchester City last month and for long periods last season. When they do that, they will win matches again.
You learn the most from the bad spells you go through as a team and, from watching them play over the last year or two, I know the Spurs players have got the hunger and desire to improve and get through this.
There is enough quality in their squad for them to do it too.
It would be foolish to write them off because we could be sitting here in a month's time saying how well they have done to turn things around, and look where they are now.
Danny Murphy was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
|
Tottenham have gone six games without a win and have not scored a goal in open play for more than seven hours, but I don't see them as a team in crisis ahead of Sunday's north London derby.
| 37,852,985 | 1,262 | 49 | false |
Luke Miller, 26, from the Isle of Wight, was found dead in a swimming pool on the island of Koh Tao.
Col Napa Senatip of Koh Tao police station said the cause was determined following a post-mortem examination.
Luke's mother Sara Cotton told the BBC parents should not allow their children to go to the island.
She said: "This has ripped my heart out... Luke was living the dream out there.
"He had a tattoo saying 'living the dream' and that was what he was doing... I personally didn't want him to go though.
"He had thousands of friends and was a fun-loving son who was just living life to the full.
"If I knew then what I know now about that island, he wouldn't have gone. I would've hidden his passport. I don't think parents should let their kids go out there to this island."
Regarding Mr Miller's death, Col Napa Senatip told the BBC: "According to our investigation, this is not a murder."
In September 2014, two British backpackers, Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were murdered on a beach on the island.
Two migrant workers were found guilty of their murders and sentenced to death last month.
Mr Miller was a brick layer, who had moved to Portsmouth from the Isle of Wight, and was one of seven children.
He left the UK on 22 December to spend Christmas and the New Year on the Thai holiday island.
According to police his body was found on Friday morning at Sunset Bar on Sairee Beach.
Witnesses and CCTV footage at the bar showed he was there until the early hours of the morning.
But the security guards who regularly search the pool for lost belongings after parties did not find Mr Miller when they made a search at 05:30 local time. He was discovered at about 07:20.
A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokeswoman has confirmed it is providing assistance to his family.
An online appeal to help repatriate Mr Miller's body has so far raised more than £7,000.
Ms Cotton said: "I just want him home. All I want now is my son back, no parent should have to go through this.
"I can't thank the person who set up this fundraising page enough, it's amazing what they've done.
"I've paid for my funeral and my husband's already - but you never think you'll have to pay for your son's."
|
The cause of the death of a British backpacker who died on holiday in Thailand was drowning, local police have said.
| 35,276,492 | 545 | 27 | false |
Tries from Alex Matthews, Amy Cokayne and Danielle Waterman gave the Red Roses a 15-6 lead at the break.
Kaye Wilson, Emily Scarratt, Lydia Thompson and Claire Allen went over in the second half as Canada tired in their third Test in eight days.
The win means England move above Canada into second place in the world rankings, a place behind New Zealand.
The game took place after England men beat Argentina 27-14 at the same venue.
"That was a brilliant way to end the series," England coach Simon Middleton said. "I am really pleased with the manner in which the team executed our game plan.
"It is always special to come out and play at Twickenham and the girls certainly delivered a great performance, both in attack and defence. There is still a lot for us to work on, but that has given us confidence today."
Flanker Marlie Packer needed lengthy treatment at the end of the match and left the field on a stretcher, but the 27-year-old later tweeted that she was "ok".
England defeated Canada 21-9 in a tight 2014 World Cup final in Paris, but this contest proved very one-sided.
Canada enjoyed plenty of possession and territory, particularly in the first half, but only managed to score with two Andrea Burk penalties, while England were far more ruthless with the ball.
It took just eight minutes for Matthews to burst over and Cokayne soon extended the lead from a driving maul.
The pick of the tries came from veteran Waterman, who ran 60 yards and brushed off several tackles before diving over in the corner.
Wilson took advantage of a turnover to go over just after the break and then Scarratt made up for some poor goal-kicking to get the fifth try.
Thompson pounced on an offload from replacement Packer to get her second try in as many games before Allen came off the bench to complete the rout from close range.
It was a morale-boosting way for England to round off 2016 after the disappointment of losing 25-20 to New Zealand last weekend, following narrow wins over France and Ireland earlier this month.
England: Waterman, Thompson, Scarratt, Burford, Wilson, Scott, Mason; Clark, Cokayne, Keates, Taylor, Millar-Mills, Matthews, Noel-Smith, Hunter.
Replacements: Allan for Waterman (59), Jones for Burford (59), Hunt for Mason (40), Cornborough for Clark (47), Croker for Cokayne (59), Bern for Keates (66), Packer for Matthews (59), Cleall for Hunter (59).
Canada: Zussman, Waters, Tessier, Burk, Harvey, Belchos, Guthrie; McEwen, Russell, Menin, Beukeboom, Blackwood, Russell, Paquin, Grusnick
Replacements: Boag, Stamatakis, DeMerchant, Mack, Mervin, Alarie, Higgs, Rajotte.
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.
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.
The title of the main presentation was "Time To Change", and as if to emphasise this point, Mr Ashley told shareholders he "totally agrees" with Theresa May - who has pledged to give workers a greater say in corporate governance.
For most of the meeting, the entrepreneur answered questions courteously, but his underlying frustrations were betrayed in a short skirmish with a Unite representative, in which he blurted: "It is probably your fault that we are in this mess".
Ultimately, despite a protest vote by institutional shareholders, no heads rolled. The board, including the heavily-criticised chairman Keith Hellawell, were all re-elected, promising reforms and pleading for time to right Sports Direct's wrongs.
For his part, Mike Ashley sought to emphasise the sheer size of the Sports Direct operation, repeating several times that it was "impossible to get it all right" in a warehouse that housed seven million pairs of shoes.
But he appeared genuinely repentant, not avoiding difficult questions from attendees, and vowing that conditions in the site branded a "Victorian workhouse" would improve.
"If the headline is 'Sorry' then so be it," he told the quote-hungry group of reporters.
"Because clearly I could have done a better job."
The question is: would we have been treated to the same mea culpa had the share price remained at the level it was a year ago?
Mr Bercow said this week he would be "strongly opposed" to US President Donald Trump addressing Parliament, accusing him of "racism and sexism".
James Duddridge said Mr Bercow had "overstepped the mark" although he did not expect his motion to be debated.
The Speaker is the highest authority of the House of Commons and is expected to remain politically impartial.
Who is John Bercow?
Mr Duddridge told the BBC: "I've done this because Speaker Bercow for a long time has been overstepping the mark and with his comments on the state visit [of President Trump] he has clearly expressed views.
"That is not the role of the Speaker, and it is impossible for him to chair debates as Speaker adjudicating on things he has expressed a view on.
"I've tabled a motion to the House of Commons. I expect over the week of recess for people to be supporting that but they can't actually sign it until the first day back.
"But to be frank, I think there's a very real possibility that once the level of discontent is known and Speaker Bercow sees the writing is on the wall he will go of his own accord."
BBC Parliamentary correspondent Mark D'Arcy said other senior backbenchers doubt that Mr Duddridge's tactics would work.
He said Mr Bercow has a reservoir of support on the backbenches - particularly among pro-Brexit Conservative backbenchers - and was seen to have enabled MPs to challenge the government far more effectively.
Mr Duddridge, Conservative MP for Rochford and Southend East, had already written to the prime minister, asking for MPs to be given a free vote if there was a vote of no confidence in the Speaker.
Conservative MP Alec Shelbrooke tweeted on Thursday that he disagreed with President Trump's executive order barring migrants from seven countries but added: "John Bercow has politicised the office of Speaker and his position is untenable."
But fellow Conservative Claire Perry said on BBC One's Question Time: "I think for us to try and remove a speaker over something that he said would be really rather drastic. He's entitled to his opinions, perhaps he just shouldn't have addressed them on this particular issue."
Meanwhile an early day motion calling for officials to withhold permission for Mr Trump to address Parliament, has now been signed by 204 MPs - largely from the Labour Party.
That motion was sponsored by the Labour MP Stephen Doughty - whose point of order about it on Monday prompted Mr Bercow's initial comments.
President Trump has accepted an invitation from the Queen for a state visit to the UK, which can include an address to both Houses of Parliament, later this year.
However, responding to a point of order in the Commons on Monday, Mr Bercow said he was opposed to Mr Trump speaking to MPs and peers saying it was "not an automatic right", but an "earned honour", to applause from Labour and SNP MPs.
He has since said it was time "to move on to other matters".
In March 2015 a bid to change the rules on electing Commons speakers - which was seen by some as a bid by the Tory leadership to oust Mr Bercow - was defeated by 228 votes to 202.
Mr Bercow is one of three "key holders" to Westminster Hall - where Mr Trump's predecessor Barack Obama spoke in 2011 - along with the Speaker of the House of Lords, Lord Fowler, and the Lord Great Chamberlain, a hereditary peer in charge of certain parts of the Palace of Westminster.
All three must agree in order for an address to take place there.
No date for Mr Trump's visit has been announced.
Mr Modi, who recently said India and the Jewish state share a "deep and centuries-old" connection, is expected to agree military and cyber security deals.
Observers note he will not travel to Ramallah or meet Palestinian leaders, as visiting dignitaries often do.
The visit is seen by some as a turning point on India's position on Israel.
Mr Modi called the visit "ground-breaking" as he was met at the airport by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They will have dinner this evening ahead of formal talks on Wednesday.
Here is what the focus will be on over the next three days:
For years, Israel and India have been working closely together on counter-terrorism and defence issues and India has been a regular customer of arms from the Jewish state.
Working to modernise its military to counter China and Pakistan, India is now Israel's biggest arms market, thought to be worth about $1bn (£770m) per year, according to Reuters news agency.
The co-operation ranges from a jointly built air defence system to India buying drones, radar, cyber security and communication systems.
Aside from defence deals, the two countries also want to expand co-operation in other areas, notably Israel helping India to improve agricultural productivity and food security.
India and Israel have had diplomatic relations for 25 years.
In the past however, the relationship has always been a balancing act given India's sizeable Muslim population and the country's dependence on oil imports from Arab countries and Iran.
Mr Netanyahu has described Mr Modi's visit as "historic", saying it would "deepen co-operation in a wide range of fields - security, agriculture, water, energy - basically in almost every field Israel is involved in".
Mr Modi is also expected to meet an Israeli boy, Moshe Holtzberg, whose parents were killed when gunmen stormed a Jewish centre in Mumbai during a 2008 terror attack.
Moshe Holtzberg was saved by his Indian nanny, Sandra Samuel, who was treated as a heroine in Israel where she settled with the boy after the attack.
Six Jewish people were killed at the centre, which was one of several places targeted in the attack.
Israel is giving its guest the high-level red carpet treatment.
Mr Netanyahu will go beyond the usual protocol of meeting visiting leaders on a few occasions during their trip. In the case of Mr Modi, he will accompany him for most of the visit, an honour usually reserved for only top level guests like the US president.
Mr Netanyahu's office tweeted he would join his guest "at many events during his visit as befits the leader of the largest democracy in the world".
The two are expected to visit the Israel Museum and an agricultural project together and Mr Netanyahu will attend a rally his counterpart plans for Jewish people of Indian origin living in Israel.
Friday's qualifying determined Monday's first-round pairings and Huston will face Dutchman Rick Van Der Ven.
The Dutchman was 27th in qualifying at the Sambadrome but he is currently seventh in the world rankings.
World number one Kim Woo-jin of South Korea set a new world record of 700 in Friday's qualifying.
The current world champion's total eclipsed the previous record of 699 set by his compatriot Im Dong-hyun at the London Olympics.
Huston, whose performance matched his current world ranking of 38th, produced a qualifying total of 656.
Minus his trademark flat cap after it fell foul of the British Olympic Association's dress code, Huston sought inspiration during Friday's competition by reading a series of motivational notes.
One of his notes started, and appeared to finish, with the line:"I am the 2016 Olympic champion" and Huston said afterwards that the idea was inspired by the ormer Olympic shooter and now sports psychologist Lanny Bassham.
Bassham created his "Mental Management System" after falling short in the 1972 Games in Munich and went on the gold medal in Montreal four years later as well as 22 world titles.
Huston said: "I would not have got my Olympic place if I had not followed Lanny Bassham's system.
"One of its tenets is the more you think and write about something the more likely it is to happen, so one of the things to do is write directive affirmations.
"I have notes pasted up on my wall in the Olympic Village and it is just something to inspire me and keep me focused."
Huston said his performance on Friday "wasn't the target I had set myself" but insisted that he remained optimistic for the knockout stages.
"When I get to the proper stadium with the crowds cheering all around me, the pressure of that will make me perform," said the Belfast archer.
The 23-year-old is not alone in experiencing negative attitudes towards mental health.
A report from youth charity YMCA, released on Monday to coincide with World Mental Health Day, has found that more than one in three young people with mental health issues have suffered stigma.
Connie was feeling numb and "out of touch with reality" when her boss even suggested she wear more make-up to her job working for a high street retailer.
"It made everything a thousand times worse. It made it so much harder to go into work," Connie said.
"Not only did I have the worry of everything that was going on, I then had on top of that 'I'm going to get in trouble with my job'.
"The worse thing is she was aware of my disorder so why would you say that to someone who had self-esteem issues?
"In the workplace there is very little knowledge of mental health."
Connie, from Brighton, struggled with bulimia for four years and found it difficult to ask friends for help or support.
Those with the condition often try to control their weight by restricting their food, then binge eating and purging the food from their body.
Connie also experienced depression and anxiety linked to her eating disorder.
She recalls hearing friends laughing about those with bulimia and when she confided in one about her disorder she was told "you look fine".
Connie said: "I didn't want to come forward because there was so much shame surrounding it.
"Particularly when I was at school, there was so much judgement I couldn't face from even teachers or friends.
"It's a really shameful thing to have. It's very secretive. You don't want people to know you're throwing up because people think it's grim.
"My disorder was never really visible. I was never really under or overweight, I looked completely normal.
"I would get 'you look fine so what's the problem?', that would be people's reaction. People react in a way that they don't believe you. They just brushed it under the carpet.
"It's like a double isolation. You're trapped in your own eating disorder but then you're trapped with people because you feel like you can't go to them."
The YMCA spoke to more than 2,000 11 to 24-year-olds in England and Wales, around half of whom had experienced mental health issues, as part of its I Am Whole report.
The charity found 38% of those with mental health difficulties had been stigmatised.
Young people reported being left out of activities, experiencing verbal abuse and suffering from damaged confidence as a result.
Of those, a third found it happened at least once a week and 54% said it came from their own friends.
More than half said it made them less willing to access professional support for their mental health difficulties and 70% were less likely to speak about their problems.
Connie sought help after confiding in a concerned friend who urged her to ask for support from her GP.
She attended counselling and support groups through the Brighton and Hove Eating Disorder Service as part of her two-year recovery.
Connie said group therapy was the best method to help her get better as it "made her feel less alone".
She urges those with mental health issues not to see it as "shameful" and said the first step to recovery is asking for help.
"It's 100% not a shameful thing, it's something that goes wrong in your brain," Connie said.
"The hardest part is making that first move to speak about it. Once you've done that you can see a light at the end of the tunnel.
"I thought before I sought any help there was no way I was going to get better. There was no doubt in my mind it was hopeless.
"I have recovered and even if it's something you have to manage, it is so much better when you're getting help."
The YMCA said there needs to be more awareness surrounding mental health in young people.
It is supporting a NHS campaign aimed at reducing stigma and normalising mental health difficulties among young people.
It wants the public to challenge the "harmful language" used to describe mental health conditions and encourage those experiencing problems to ask for support.
It also believes professionals working with young people should be provided with mental health training.
Denise Hatton, chief executive of YMCA England, said: "What is alarming from these findings is the widespread stigma young people are now seeing or experiencing from others that is making them less likely to seek professional help.
"YMCA's mental health services make a huge difference to the lives of young people with mental health difficulties but it is clear more needs to be done to support those who are currently slipping through the net."
Find Get Give
An online mental health service directory and advice website designed for 13 to 25 year olds who are worried about mental health.
The Mix
An advice service that offers a free helpline for under 25s from 11am to 11pm every day. It also offers a one-to-one chat service for young people to live message trained helpline supporters.
Kooth.com
A free online service that offers emotional and mental health support for young people in certain parts of England and Wales. The service is free and allows users to have a 'drop-in' chat with a counsellor or therapist or book a one-to-one session.
Childline
A support service with a 24-hour helpline for information and advice about a wide range of issues. Young people can also talk to a counsellor online, send an email or post on the message boards.
Young Minds
A youth charity which offers free, confidential online and telephone support to any adult worried about the emotional problems, behaviour or mental health of a young person up to the age of 25.
Local services
Your GP or child's school will be able to offer details of local counselling services for young people. GPs could also refer children to their local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
The Real Madrid forward beat team-mate Gareth Bale and Atletico Madrid striker Antoine Griezmann in the voting.
Ronaldo, 31, scored the winning penalty for Real in the Champions League final against Atletico and captained Portugal to Euro 2016 glory in July.
Lyon and Norway striker Ada Hegerberg won the women's award.
She beat France's Amandine Henry and Germany's Dzsenifer Marozsan, after winning the Women's Champions League and a French league and cup double with Lyon.
The government body in charge of reparations - the Unit for Attention and Reparation of Victims - says it has compensated more than 360,000 people.
Director Paula Gaviria tells the BBC the victims are "at the centre" of the government's peace plan.
She says there are more than six million registered victims in total.
Referring to the much derided demobilisation in 2005 of Colombia's rightwing paramilitaries - many of whom went on to join criminal gangs and continued terrorising the local population - Ms Gaviria says Colombia has learned from past mistakes that the victims have to have a voice in any peace process.
The government is currently holding peace talks with Colombia's largest left-wing rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), and has agreed to enter into talks with the second largest group, the National Liberation Army (ELN).
It has, however, refused to enter into a truce with either group and confrontations between the security forces and the rebels continue even as talks with the Farc are under way in Havana, Cuba.
Ms Gaviria tells the BBC during a visit to London that Colombia is unique in starting the process of victim reparation while the conflict is still raging.
Created as part of the Victims' Law passed by the Colombian Congress in 2011, the unit aims to compensate victims of the country's long-running civil conflict and return land to millions of displaced people.
Of the 6.2 million registered victims, more than five million are internally displaced.
While the state aims to return as many of them who so wish to their places of origin, this has not always been possible.
Their security cannot always be guaranteed, especially in areas where armed groups still hold sway.
What is more, with confrontations between the armed forces and rebels continuing, there have been new displacements.
Last week, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned that almost 700 people had been displaced by fighting in Guapi, in southern Cauca province in the space of a fortnight.
But Ms Gaviria maintains that even though people are still falling victim to the armed groups, starting the process of reparation and land restitution early was key to the peace process.
"It's a chance we took," she says. "I don't think there was another way, the victims could not wait any longer," she says.
"I don't think the idea of holding peace talks would have had any traction if the Victims' Law hadn't been passed first," she adds.
According to Ms Gaviria, the Victims' Law and the creation of the Victims' Unit was a "down payment on peace", demonstrating the government's commitment to the victims of the armed conflict.
Figures released by the Victims' Unit suggest more than half of the internally displaced people have been granted humanitarian aid to help improve their conditions wherever they are currently living.
Ms Gaviria says the state aims to fulfil its duty to protect all Colombians, especially those who have already been displaced.
But she thinks that while the conflict is still ongoing, the number of those who have returned to their homes cannot be used as an indicator for the success of the restitution programme.
"If the conditions for a safe return are not present, the state cannot send these people back."
But she says that while reparation payments and land restitution are an integral part of the programme, for many victims official recognition is often worth more than financial compensation.
She says that victims of sexual violence in particular often say they personally gain more from the psychological support the state offers.
"Many are also joining a programme which encourages victims of sexual violence to approach other victims and help them overcome that barrier of fear which prevents them from reporting what happened to them."
"Of course they also have a right to compensation payments, but many say they have found helping others more rewarding."
So far, more than 360,000 victims have been paid compensation, and Ms Gaviria thinks the state is on track for compensating all registered victims by 2021 - within the 10-year timeframe it had set itself when it passed the Victims' Law.
With the conflict not yet over, she admits more people could fall victim to the violence, thereby further driving up the numbers.
But Ms Gaviria is confident the political will to compensate all victims of the country's five-decades-long conflict is unshakeable.
"It's a policy for and of all Colombians, for and of all victims, and that's what will guarantee it's successful," she says.
Stevens, 26, completed a move to Championship-bound Sheffield United on Monday after two seasons at Pompey.
"The manager (Paul Cook) has a lot of experience of taking clubs up from League Two to League One," the left-back told BBC Radio Solent.
"He always lets the players make mistakes and express themselves."
Stevens has signed a three-year contract with Sheffield United and the former Aston Villa defender will join the Blades after his two-year deal at Fratton Park expired.
Having missed just one game all season, he helped Portsmouth to the League Two title on the final day of the season.
"Ending on a high was obviously the best way I could have left the club," he said.
"It was a difficult decision to leave as I enjoyed myself so much, I enjoyed living in the area and the club is a massive and great one to play for.
"But, I felt the opportunity to play in the Championship was one I couldn't pass up. It's exciting to go to a club that got 100 points in League One this season.
"It's going to be tough to get in the side, but it's up to me to work hard to make it happen."
A man entered the Esso garage in Broomloan Road, Ibrox, at about 05:30 and threatened the male member of staff with a knife and demanded money.
He ran off with a three-figure sum of cash.
He was white and was wearing a blue jacket with a red scarf, blue jeans, white trainers and an orange baseball cap.
The member of staff was uninjured but shaken as a result of the robbery.
Det Sgt Peter Sharp said: "Inquiries are ongoing in the local area to trace the man responsible.
"I would urge anyone who saw anyone acting suspiciously near the garage early this morning to contact the robbery unit at Pollok Police Office through 101."
A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 28 April and 5 May. Send your photos to [email protected] or our Instagram at #bbcscotlandpics
Media playback is not supported on this device
The Uefa secretary general polled 115 votes, 27 more than closest rival Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa.
Prince Ali bin al-Hussein (four votes) and Jerome Champagne (0) were third and fourth respectively.
Blatter, who had led Fifa since 1998, stood down last year and was later suspended from football for six years for breaching ethics guidelines.
Infantino is a 45-year-old lawyer from Brig in the Valais region of Switzerland, less than six miles from Blatter's home town of Visp.
He entered the presidential race when it became clear that Michel Platini, boss of European football's governing body Uefa, could not stand.
"I will work tirelessly to bring football back to Fifa and Fifa back to football," he said. "This is what we want to do."
He added: "I feel a lot of emotion and have not realised yet what has happened today. It is still very fresh and it's been a long and exciting journey and I probably need some time to chill out and see what has happened."
The election was due to be fought between five candidates, but South African Tokyo Sexwale withdrew before voting began in Zurich.
The first round of voting failed to determine an outright winner, though Infantino led with 88, three more than pre-vote favourite Sheikh Salman.
A simple majority of more than 50% - 104 of 207 available votes - was sufficient for victory in round two.
Not since 1974, when Joao Havelange of Brazil beat 13-year incumbent Stanley Rous of England, has a second round been needed.
An emotional Infantino told delegates that together they would "restore the image of Fifa and the respect of Fifa".
He added: "I want to work with all of you together in order to restore and rebuild a new era of Fifa where we can again put football at the centre of the stage.
"Fifa has gone through sad times, moments of crisis, but those times are over. We need to implement the reform and implement good governance and transparency. We also need to have respect.
"We're going to win back this respect through hard work, commitment and we're going to make sure we can finally focus on this wonderful game."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Gary Lineker, an outspoken critic of Fifa and former president Blatter, wished Infantino "all the best" following his appointment.
The former England striker added on Twitter: "He's got one hell of a job on his hands but seems a decent chap. Needs a sizeable new broom."
The television presenter then joked: "Have this weird feeling that Gianni Infantino will pull off his mask to reveal Sepp Blatter."
Portuguese great Luis Figo added his congratulations, tweeting: "Finally the change arrived. It's time for a new era in Fifa."
English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke said: "He is not a politician and he is not an ego. Fifa has been dominated by egos for a very long time. He is the type of person who will just get on with the job."
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko said: "I am happy. We supported him from the start. World football needs such a pragmatist."
German football federation interim president Rainer Koch said: "We are happy and relieved with Gianni Infantino's victory and the fact that European football will continue to have a strong influence."
Norway's Karen Espelund, a member of Uefa's executive committee, added: "We needed someone credible, we needed a clean winner, a clean man. I believe we have that in Gianni."
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said he was looking forward to working with Infantino for "the sake of sport".
US Soccer president Sunil Gulati tweeted: "Congratulations. We look forward to working together to embrace reform and good governance."
Beaten opponent Sheikh Salman said that the Asian Football Confederation would look forward to working with the new-look Fifa and its president to reform world football's governing body and to "reinstate football's credibility globally".
Yes, the 79-year-old issued a statement after the election. It read: "I congratulate Gianni Infantino sincerely and warmly on his election as the new president.
"With his experience, expertise, strategic and diplomatic skills he has all the qualities to continue my work and to stabilize Fifa again."
Infantino has a hard job resurrecting its fortunes after a number of damaging episodes in the organisation's history.
Criminal investigations in the United States and Switzerland have resulted in the indictment of dozens of football officials for corruption, many of them serving or former presidents of national or continental associations.
In addition, Fifa has been forced to investigate the awarding of several World Cup finals, especially the decision to grant the 2018 tournament to Russia and the 2022 finals to Qatar.
Swiss authorities are reviewing more than 150 reports of suspicious financial activity linked to those awards and said they had sent more documents, including an internal Fifa report, to US investigators.
That's the "big question" says BBC sports editor Dan Roan. "Fifa came into today very much on the brink, its future on the line," he added.
"If it failed to elect the 'right man' and failed to pass the reforms needed, then the calls for it to be wound up would have become impossible to ignore.
"Many of those in the game will be breathing a sigh of relief. But it's important to remember Infantino is a football insider himself. He has close links with a disgraced power-broker in Platini."
Media playback is not supported on this device
To help the new president tackle the crisis enveloping Fifa, key reforms were passed to help make it a more transparent and accountable organisation.
All salaries of Fifa officials will be disclosed, while a limit of four years has been placed on a president's term.
A new council to replace the current executive committee has also been introduced, featuring a female representative from each confederation.
Dyke said the reforms were "more important" than the new leader.
The visitors struggled to find a cutting edge without top goalscorer Derek Lyle, who picked up a thigh injury in the warm up.
Dumbarton's Robert Thomson's clipped the post with a header and Darren Barr missed a close-range chance.
The hosts threaten again after the interval when Sam Stanton drove a shot into the side-netting.
The Doonhamers will lose top spot if nearest challengers Hibernian beat Dundee United at Easter Road on Sunday.
The Dumfries side had been averaging two goals a game in the league but found openings hard to come by.
Josh Todd had the first sight of goal for Dumbarton in the eighth minute when he won the ball in midfield and drove forward but dragged his effort wide.
Stephen Dobbie teed up Kyle Jacobs but his shot was narrowly wide before the former saw his shot blocked and Steven Rigg pulled the rebound wide.
After Thomson grazed the woodwork Barr should have put the hosts ahead but put the ball over the crossbar after a long throw from Daniel Harvie caused havoc in the Queens box.
Dobbie curled an early shot wide in the second half before Alan Martin had to be sharp to stop Rigg's header.
Lyndon Dykes then sent another header wide for Queens as both sides had to settle for a point.
Match ends, Dumbarton 0, Queen of the South 0.
Second Half ends, Dumbarton 0, Queen of the South 0.
Hand ball by Josh Todd (Dumbarton).
Substitution, Dumbarton. Garry Fleming replaces Joseph Thomson.
Attempt missed. Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Jake Pickard replaces Steven Rigg.
Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andy Stirling (Dumbarton).
Attempt missed. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Robert Thomson (Dumbarton).
Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Steven Rigg (Queen of the South) header from very close range is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Dumbarton. Andy Stirling replaces Samuel Stanton.
Attempt missed. Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Dean Brotherston replaces Grant Anderson.
Attempt missed. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Mark Docherty (Dumbarton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mark Docherty (Dumbarton).
Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Joseph Thomson (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Craig Pettigrew (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Rigg (Queen of the South).
Attempt blocked. Grant Anderson (Queen of the South) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Daniel Harvie.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Samuel Stanton.
Attempt missed. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Steven Rigg (Queen of the South) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Andy Dowie (Queen of the South) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by David Smith (Dumbarton).
Steven Rigg (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Steven Rigg (Queen of the South) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by Andy Dowie.
David Smith (Dumbarton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South).
Attempt missed. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Ryan Stevenson (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Second Half begins Dumbarton 0, Queen of the South 0.
First Half ends, Dumbarton 0, Queen of the South 0.
Attempt blocked. Mark Millar (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
The head of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference, Diego Padrón, said the reforms would turn the country into a "military dictatorship".
Mr Maduro issued a decree in May to establish a popular assembly that will write a new constitution.
The opposition is boycotting the vote to choose the assembly's members.
The election will be held on 30 July.
"This assembly will be imposed by force and its result will be that constitutional status will be given to a military, socialist, Marxist and communist dictatorship," said Monsignor Padrón.
The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference, which gathers the country's bishops, considered Mr Maduro's proposed popular assembly "unnecessary and inconvenient," he added.
He also criticised the attack against members of the opposition-held National Assembly by government supporters on Wednesday.
Several lawmakers were beaten up by intruders brandishing sticks and pipes.
"This attack shows that the government is unwilling to abandon violence," said Mosignor Padrón, who has several times in the past criticised the government of Nicolás Maduro.
Mr Maduro's plans to create a citizen's assembly to rewrite the constitution has been heavily criticised by the opposition, which says it is an attempt by the president to increase his powers by sidestepping the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
Mr Maduro argues that it will "bring peace" to Venezuela, where more than 90 people have been killed in protest-related violence since 1 April.
He has accused the opposition of plotting a right-wing coup against his socialist government.
Venezuela is going through a serious economic crisis, with the shortage of many goods, high inflation and rampant crime.
The opposition accuses Mr Maduro and his predecessor, the late Hugo Chavez, of mismanaging the economy.
The firm said it would also honour outstanding credit balances for both current and past customers.
Energy regulator Ofgem said if customers wished to change energy provider they would be able to do so without any exit charge.
Ofgem said it had chosen Co-operative Energy after "a competitive process to get the best deal possible".
All GB Energy's staff will be transferred on the same terms to Co-operative Energy.
Ofgem said the cost of protecting customers' balances would be funded partly by Co-operative Energy and partly by its safety net, funded by a levy paid by all energy firms.
Co-operative Energy said it would contact all GB Energy customers "over the coming days" with information on their tariff and credit balance.
It said any credit on current customers' accounts would be used to offset future energy use.
"Our advice for customers of GB Energy Supply is to wait until Co-operative Energy contacts you. They will give you more information about the tariff you are on, and about your credit balance," said Ofgem's senior partner for consumers and competition Rachel Fletcher.
GB Energy ceased trading at the weekend, blaming recent rises in energy prices.
The firmGB Energy Supply said that as a "small supplier" business had "become untenable".
Former Royal Navy test pilot Eric "Winkle" Brown will appear on the show on Friday 14 November.
Brown, 95, is the Navy Fleet Air Arm's most decorated pilot and holds the record for the most flight deck landings.
He is also thought to have flown more types of aircraft than anyone else.
Presenter Kirsty Young, who has presented Desert Island Discs since 2006, described Brown as "the perfect castaway" to celebrate the 3,000th edition.
"Talking to him about his remarkable, dare-devil life was like touching history. A charming and twinkly man," she said.
First broadcast on 29 January 1942, the programme was conceived and presented by playwright and novelist Roy Plomley, who each week asked a guest to choose eight songs, a book and luxury item for their imaginary stay on the island.
The "castaways" are then invited to discuss their lives and reasons for their choices.
Plomley presented the show until 1985. Michael Parkinson took over for two years and was followed by Sue Lawley (1988-2006).
The show's guests over 72 years have included Aung San Suu Kyi, Elton John, Nicole Kidman and Stephen Hawking.
Radio 4 controller Gwyneth Williams said: "We all love Desert Island Discs - and the incomparable Kirsty. What is thrilling for me is to see this Radio 4 jewel of a programme take on new life in the digital world.
"Listeners - and often young listeners - are discovering it and exploring the rich archive, so it brings Radio 4 to new audiences as people listen in different ways. Here's to the next 3,000 editions."
Now he wants to deliver affordable goods and services to some of the poorest families in the developing world.
At the same time, however, he still wants to make a profit for the company he founded in 2008.
He points out that charity is not enough to lift people in the developing world out of poverty. They need solutions that will improve their lives.
Mr Alexander believes his business model will allow him to sustainably serve people who are largely ignored by the marketplace.
"The world's poorest spend some $5 trillion (£3tn) annually on goods and services," he says.
"But few businesses pay careful attention to meeting the particular needs of those who only earn a dollar or two a day."
What is normally offered to the poor is overpriced, poorly made, and sold at inconvenient locations, Mr Alexander believes.
But his strategy is to put his customers first.
"Like the hardworking pack animal that inspired our name, Burro, we are in the fields and on the trails, helping our clients live more comfortably and work more productively," he says.
Mr Alexander began by looking at where people were spending money - people who are earning a dollar or two a day, often living in rural areas.
"The first thing which struck me was this incredible reliance on throwaway batteries. In Ghana alone it is a $50-60m a year business," he says.
He thought batteries would be a great launch product for Burro to demonstrate that you can bring more appropriate products into rural locations and deliver them in a profitable way.
The solution; to provide batteries that could be re-charged at a fraction of the cost of buying a new one.
"We look at it as a battery service," he says.
"We are actually selling the energy content in the battery, rather than the battery itself."
It seems such an easy idea, it is surprising no-one has thought of it before, but Mr Alexander says it involves a huge upfront investment.
Mr Alexander has a bachelor's degree in African Studies from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
He lived and worked throughout West Africa as a student, so returning to the region seemed a natural move for him.
Burro is conducting a pilot scheme in Koforidua, the capital of the Eastern Region of Ghana.
People living in rural areas are spending up to $6 a month on throw-away batteries, using them predominantly to run wireless radios, torchlights and other products that require electricity such as charging mobile phones.
"Our batteries and recharching service come in at a substantial discount to the disposable batteries and we are building a network so it is available to them in the village," Mr Alexander says.
"When a battery runs out, people just leave their 'fallen' battery, as they say in Ghana, with their authorised Burro retailer, who immediately gives them a fresh fully-charged battery," he says.
"So for 20-25 pesewa (15 cents) they get a fresh battery. And then Burro comes round twice a week to the retailers, and exchanges all the fallen batteries with fresh tested ones."
If a family is spending $3-4 a month on batteries, that family can be saving 30%.
"They are saving a dollar or two a month," he says. "It does not sound like a big deal, but when you are living on such an amount each day then every penny counts."
Moreover, the Burro battery has a no-leak guarantee.
"A problem with the inexpensive throwaway batteries is that they leak and they can destroy devices. You can imagine the challenge that brings to people when an expensive torchlight or radio is damaged," he says.
"We only bring in nickel metal hydride batteries, which are relatively benign environmentally. In Europe and the US you can legally dispose of them in any land fill with your household garbage, unlike nickel cadmium batteries which we would never consider bringing into Ghana."
With such small amounts of money involved, it is difficult to comprehend how a profit can be made.
"We have not cracked the nut yet," Mr Alexander warns.
"But we hope to demonstrate by the end of this year that for an investment of under $200,000, we can reach an average of 10-15-20% returns on equity, and be supplying these low income families a quality product in a sustainable way."
He thinks Ghana can support between 50 and 80 Burro branches and he is also very interested in surrounding countries and areas.
He counters the argument that there might be a moral dilemma making a profit from such poor people.
"They are happy with their cell phones and those companies are all making a profit," he says.
"It is a little naive to think it is immoral or inappropriate in any way when we are meeting people's needs, just because those people happen to be on very low incomes," he asserts.
He says very few people are tailoring products to this milieu and hopes he can make a difference in the long term.
"We hope to attract the brightest in Ghana to come and help grow the Burro brand," he says.
"I sleep very well at night knowing that."
A new scheme in Northern Ireland is attempting to tackle the issue in order to save lives.
Figures from the Public Health Agency show that from March 2012 to April 2015, the number of people turning up at EDs with self-harm injuries increased by 11% from 5,977 to 6,630.
The majority were young people aged between 15 and 24.
At Antrim Area Hospital, physical and mental health specialists are working as a team to ensure vulnerable men and women are detected and are offered treatment quickly.
It is hoped that RAID - or Rapid Assessment Interface Discharge - will be rolled out across all the health trusts.
Alan is a patient who has been helped by the scheme.
Late on a Friday evening, he was brought by the police to Antrim's ED in a distressed state.
They had found him in his car desperately needing medical assistance.
When he arrived at the ED, surrounded by people with flu and broken limbs, his mental health issues could easily have gone undetected.
"I just felt really down, I was suicidal and was going to end my life," he said.
Instead, within two hours, Alan was seen by a mental health specialist who is part of the RAID team.
A programme was put in place which included medication and counselling, and contact was made with his GP.
This package of care not only saved his life but ensured ongoing support when he was discharged several hours later. He says this was key:
"It's extremely important. Without it, I may not have come back."
Dr Uzma Huda, a consultant psychiatrist who is part of the 24-hour emergency team, said: "We need to have parity of physical and mental health because people's mental health needs quite often are overlooked when ever they come to a physical health setting like an acute hospital.
"So if you have depression and it has been overlooked but the nursing staff in the acute wards are picking that up, the RAID team can come, see you, start you on treatment, liaise with your GP and that starts you on a journey to recovery."
According to clinicians in Antrim, the RAID scheme means they are preventing a majority of men and women who are at risk from mental health problems from slipping through the net.
One woman, who asked the BBC to protect her identity, said the scheme meant the right care package was in place for her elderly mother who had been admitted with delayed-onset delirium.
The team ensured a care package was also available in the community once she was discharged.
"It meant she was seen very quickly, diagnosed very quickly, and there were links made within the hospital in order to get her a very quick package of care so that she was able to return home the next day," said the daughter.
While the number of mental health referrals has increased, so too has the pace of people being discharged from hospital - people who should not have been admitted in the first place.
That means they are being cared from at home in the community instead of being in a hospital setting.
John Dickson, operations manager with the RAID service, explained the concept behind the scheme.
"Early diagnosis and treatment means a shorter stay for the patient, fewer bed days for the hospital and a better outcome ultimately for the patient," he said.
Staff are hailing this scheme as a success. While it does require additional funding, they say it is saving the health service money in the long run as prevention is keeping vulnerable people out of a long stay in hospital.
Now, HBO has confirmed his co-star will be Vince Vaughn.
Eight episodes will be made with Farrell starring as a detective and Vaughn as a criminal.
First time around, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey took centre stage, earning them critical plaudits and award nominations.
That series focussed on the intense relationship between Harrelson and McConaughey's flawed but determined detectives.
Without revealing any spoilers, HBO has revealed some early details about series two.
It says the plot will revolve around three police officers and a career criminal who must "navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder".
Farrell plays Ray Velcoro who HBO describe as "a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him".
As for Vaughn, he'll play Frank Semyon who is a "career criminal in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner".
And that's it.
There's no word on any appearances for Harrelson or McConaughey and no word on where the second series will be set.
Justin Lin, who's directed the last four Fast & Furious movies, will direct the first two episodes.
Production will begin later this year.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube
Media playback is unsupported on your device
22 July 2014 Last updated at 21:39 BST
In the second part of the exclusive reports for North West Tonight, reporter Katie Collins spoke to one Romanian resident in Villa Road because of the growing tensions in the community.
Speaking anonymously for fear of reprisals, he said like many communities it was a small minority who were causing trouble, namely with low-level crime and anti-social behaviour.
He also said the authorities should do more to help them integrate.
Insp Alan Humphries said: "The perception... is that this new community coming in has caused the problems and they're becoming targeted as a result."
It takes place every two years in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, with the stated aim of promoting African cinema.
The event is loosely modelled on the Cannes Film festival. Like Cannes, it:
This year's edition has been going on since last Saturday and is wrapping up this weekend. Here, are six things you need to know about the festival.
Fespaco received almost 1,000 submissions for 2017, far more than previous years.
The festival used to be very select with regard to which type of production is acceptable and who could compete.
Films shot on budget-intensive celluloid were the standard and the official selection was open only to continental African directors.
The restriction was lifted a year ago. So now, digital films and films from directors from the African diaspora qualify for consideration in all categories.
The large number of entries meant submissions were put through a sift, and ultimately 150 films were retained by the organisers.
But many directors are in Ouagadougou to promote work which does not feature in the official strands - so a total of 200 films are being screened during the festival.
No picture at Fespaco 2017 seems to be making as much a splash on the festival enthusiasts as The African Storm, a film by Beninese director Sylvestre Amoussou.
It features among the 20 films which are up for the top award - the Golden Stallion of Yennega, a trophy with a cash prize of 20,000,000 CFA francs ($32,000; £26,000).
The film tells the story of an African president who nationalises businesses run by racist, cynical Western executives.
"It's not an anti-European film, but a film against the governments of states that exploit us," Amoussou told the AFP news agency.
The subject matter of The African Storm is rarely tackled by African productions which are usually funded by Western donors under criteria that favour themes on a "miserable Africa", Amoussou says.
With the unusually provocative message it conveys, the movie seems to connect so well with its Fespaco audience.
Its screening on Wednesday was punctuated by applause and shouts of approval.
When Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Guerima won the Golden Stallion of Yennega, Fespaco's top award, in 2009, he did not show up to collect the trophy in person.
Guerima had vowed he would not set foot in Burkina Faso for as long as President Blaise Compaore was in power.
Guerima's boycott was because he believed Mr Compaore killed Thomas Sankara in 1987 to grab power. Mr Compaore, who was ousted in 2014 by a popular uprising, denies the allegation.
Now Guerima might have more than one reason to set foot back in Burkina Faso for Fespaco. Not only is Mr Compaore no longer in power; but also a prize has now been created in honour of Thomas Sankara.
Praised by supporters for his integrity and selflessness, the military captain and anti-imperialist revolutionary, often nicknamed Africa's Che Guevara, led Burkina Faso for four years from 1983.
Be it through the red beret worn by firebrand South African politician Julius Malema, or the household brooms being wielded at street demonstrations in Burkina Faso, there are signs that Sankara's legacy is enjoying a revival.
The prize in his name has been created to promote that legacy.
Contenders to the award are not required to tackle a "revolutionary" theme - the winning production is picked for its artistic merit.
'Africa's Che Guevara': Thomas Sankara's legacy
Discover more about Burkina Faso
Security has always been stepped up in Ouagadougou during Fespaco, but none of the previous festivals has ever taken place under such heavy security.
Armed soldiers have been positioned at screening venues and crowded places to prevent the festival coming under assault.
Burkina Faso has been rocked by a series of attacks by Islamist militants over the last two years, with the deadliest so far killing 30 people in January 2016.
And as the festival was getting underway earlier this week, two police posts came under attack.
The attack prompted organisers to reassure the public over security.
"I call on all festival-goers to remain calm because security forces are doing their best to assure maximum security,'' said Marcel Pare, head of security for Fespaco 2017.
Every year, an African country is designated as "guest of honour" - this year, it is Burkina Faso's neighbour Ivory Coast.
Political tensions have been running high between Ouagadougou and Abidjan since former President Compaore fled into exile in Ivory Coast after he was ousted in 2014.
Honouring Ivory Coast through Fespaco is seen as one of many ways for officials in Burkina to reduce the tensions.
Ivory Coast responded in style, with two Ivorian productions featuring in the festival's main competition.
But that is not all: Ivory Coast provided its mega reggae star - Alpha Blondy - as the lead act for the lavish performances which marked the opening ceremony of Fespaco 2017 last Saturday.
Next to Fespaco's main building is an enormous structure which should have been the festival's major hub this year.
If the plan had been on-course, most films at the Fespaco would have been screened from purpose-built rooms within the structure.
Visitors could have gone to an African cinema museum inside the same building - in short, a lot was expected from it.
But there is a problem with "La Salle Polyvalente" - Fespaco's long awaited and delayed multi-function complex.
After it took many years to complete with delays blamed on mysterious accidents happening on the construction site, it later caught fire and work to restore it was not completed in time for this year's edition.
That started a rumour which has it that the building is haunted.
La Salle Polyvalente was reportedly built on a sacred plot of land and the unhappy local residents would not let any use be made of the building.
Officially, that explanation is rubbished.
"A myth has been created," Baba Hama the longest serving director of Fespaco told AFP.
"Haunted? And how could I still be alive? Traditional authorities granted permission. Ceremonies of exorcism took place.
"The sacred wood had been spared through a careful delimitation. Plus in Africa, there is always an antidote for calming the spirits."
No matter how much officials try to put the rumours to rest, there is always a tale in Ouagadougou about some angry ancestors frowning upon the defiling art of the cinema and who would not let La Salle Polyvalente be put to its intended use.
She told activists in Bangor that Plaid Cymru offers voters a "ray of hope".
Ms Wood claimed that an "emboldened" Conservative government would be a threat to jobs and public services.
Plaid currently has three MPs. On 8 June it hopes to capture Labour-held constituencies Rhondda and Ynys Mon.
The party hopes to capitalise on Labour's poor opinion poll ratings and divisions over its leader Jeremy Corbyn.
As the Tories lead the opinion polls, Ms Wood said the Labour Party had "abandoned ship and are now arguing over who gets the life rafts".
"A vote for Labour in this election will not stop a Conservative UK government," she said.
"But if the dark clouds of Tory rule lurk on the horizon, then Plaid Cymru is the ray of hope."
Plaid, which campaigned for a Remain vote in last year's EU referendum, has said this election is a "defining period" in the country's history.
Ms Wood - who represents Rhondda in the Welsh Assembly - has ruled out standing as a candidate for Westminster herself.
But former Plaid leader Ieuan Wyn Jones is seeking selection as a candidate in his former Ynys Mon constituency.
The side from the NASL - the second tier division below the MLS - fielded three goalkeepers during the game, with Brian Sylvestre, Macklin Robinson, and Matias Reynares all making good saves.
Leroy Fer, Jordan Ayew, Mike van der Hoorn and Oli McBurnie all went close to breaking the deadlock for Swansea.
"We made hard work of the game at times tonight," Swans boss Paul Clement said.
"We got in behind them early on, but for some reason our level of play deteriorated.
"In the second half we started okay. Then I made the changes and it became very stretched and disorganised in the end - it was almost like a basketball game with it going end to end.
"It is unbelievable we didn't convert any of our chances.
"We limited them to one good opportunity in the first half and a half chance in the second half, so that was an encouraging element of our game."
Swansea will return home to continue their pre-season, with a match at Birmingham City on Saturday, 29 July next up.
Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackay said officers had to work "incredibly hard" to cope.
He said the force had the resources to manage, but if there were more terror attacks, it would need more funds.
In the last four years, the Met has had to make £600m of savings and is due to face a £400m cut in the next four.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said this could see 12,800 jobs at risk.
During the general election, police funding and cuts paid a prominent part following the London Bridge terror attack which saw eight people murdered.
Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson both said the amount spent on counter terrorism was protected.
At the London Assembly's Budget and Performance meeting, Mr Mackay said: "One of the dangers... in the past is, I think, people go, 'I like that bit, I want that bit and I'll ring fence that bit' but if you don't understand how the system works, unfortunately then you end up with gaps along the way."
Speaking of the Westminster terror attack in March, he said for every £1 the force spent on the counter terrorism investigation, it spent £2 in mobilising other officers.
"In the true spirit of the Met police and in the true spirit of London they are coping incredibly well, but they are working incredibly hard to keep us in that position," he said.
The Deputy Mayor for Policing Sophie Linden said: "We don't think the Met can take any more budget cuts and savings."
She said pressures on the Met's budget comes from:
Mrs May has insisted the UK's largest police force is "well-resourced", but has said she would consider new powers in response to the "increased tempo" of terror attacks.
Joanne Hemingway, 39, suffered serious injuries outside a flat on Beverley Road at about 19:15 BST on 29 June and died in hospital, police said.
Glenn Foster, 42, of Beverley Road, has been charged with her murder.
The women, aged 52 and 34, are in custody again in connection with the incident after first being held and then released earlier this month.
Mr Foster remains in custody until 7 August when he is due to attend a hearing at Hull Crown Court. A provisional trial date has been set for 27 November.
After the curtain came down on the season, we asked you to vote for your top three drivers of the year and it was the three-time world champion who came out on top.
Of those who selected their top three drivers of the season via the BBC F1 list, 38% put Hamilton in top spot.
The Briton won the most races with 10 but his title challenge was hampered by mechanical issues.
Hamilton was in particularly impressive form in the closing stages of the season, taking pole and converting it to victory in each of the final four races but in the end Rosberg did just enough as the German beat his team-mate to the title by five points.
Best moment: Hamilton finished the season strongly but it was a brilliant victory in Monaco that kick-started his campaign as he produced a masterclass in defensive driving to keep Daniel Ricciardo at bay for 45 laps.
How Max Verstappen will hope a title battle with Hamilton will be as close as this in the near future. The fearless Dutch teenager was chosen as the number one driver of the season by 37% of you - just 1% behind Hamilton.
The 19-year-old is clearly an exceptional talent but he produced some breathtaking displays this season that will have perhaps taken even those who know him best by surprise.
Best moment: Arguably Verstappen's most eye-catching display was his drive in the wet in Brazil where he battled back from 16th to finish on the podium with one move in particular standing out - a gutsy, around-the-outside pass over Sergio Perez at Turn 10 that he completed in Turn 11 having corrected a big slide on his way through. And this in a season when he won his maiden grand prix in Spain.
It's not surprising to see that some selected Rosberg as their number one driver of the season, he did win the title after all.
He may have had the rub of the green with regards to the reliability of his car, but he undoubtedly drove brilliantly at times this season, especially at the start of the year when he carried on his strong finish to 2015 by winning the first four races.
Best moment: Rosberg was superb in Singapore, winning the race to reclaim the championship lead from Hamilton. However, it was his lap for pole that was particularly outstanding as he qualified over half a second clear of Daniel Ricciardo.
"His victories at Silverstone and Interlagos were peerless," says Tom. "But he's always been capable of mind-bending performances; what stood out about Lewis Hamilton in 2016 was the maturity he showed in adversity. He's now the ultimate all-round driver."
"Some are keen to compare Max to the likes of Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost in his talent - which clearly shone in Brazil, says Jennie, "but I make him my driver of the season not just for talent, but for the thousands of new fans he is bringing to F1. While Lewis Hamilton is lauded for opening F1 to new audiences and doing his thing in Hollywood, for me it's actually Max who is bringing fans through the gates and turning on a whole new generation to the sport we know and love."
Chief F1 writer Andrew Benson: 1) Daniel Ricciardo, 2) Fernando Alonso, 3) Lewis Hamilton
"Ricciardo was brilliantly fast and consistent all season, while Alonso showed his enduring qualities with some outstanding drives and stunning first laps. For me, both, on balance, shaded Hamilton, who was phenomenal as ever for the most part but had a couple of very shaky weekends and made too many poor starts."
Sebastian Vettel finished on the podium in seven of the races in 2016, so is it a bit of a surprise to see him topping this?
Certainly by his high standards, Vettel did disappoint this season. After winning three races in his first season at Ferrari, he failed to claim a single victory in 2016.
Ferrari were expected to be one of Mercedes' main rivals but that challenge failed to materialise as Vettel instead found himself mostly scrapping around in fourth of fifth, his frustration evident in his many expletive-laden radio messages in the latter half of the season.
Worst moment: telling Formula 1's race director, Charlie Whiting, to go away, in a note-quite-so-polite manner.
It was the year to forget for Daniil Kvyat as he started the season at Red Bull and finished it at their junior team, Toro Rosso.
Kvyat later said that situation led to him no longer enjoying F1 and his future in the sport was left uncertain, but his contract at Toro Rosso was renewed for 2017 and he will be hopeful of coming back strongly in the new year.
Worst moment: The Russian was demoted after his home race, where he twice hit Sebastian Vettel within the first three corners of the first lap. Although he did drive to an excellent podium in China before that, managing to rile Vettel in the process.
The Mexican came under fire from his fellow drivers' rival team bosses for his track manners over the course of the season. He was criticised by Daniel Ricciardo for not obeying blue flags in Germany and by Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff for "cruising around" in Singapore while Ricciardo and Nico Rosberg were fighting for victory.
In the end he was dropped by Haas having failed to score a single point all year.
Worst moment: Being hauled back into the garage by Haas team principal Gunther Steiner after attempting to flounce away.
Tom Clarkson: 1) Felipe Nasr, 2) Esteban Gutierrez, 3) Rio Haryanto
"Until we got to Interlagos, 2016 had been an underwhelming year for Felipe Nasr. More often than not out-qualified by team-mate Marcus Ericsson, he delivered no performances of real merit until we got to Brazil. But that drive to 9th place, in those conditions, and in that car, was spectacular. More please."
Jennie Gow: 1) Felipe Massa, 2) Sebastian Vettel, 3) Valtteri Bottas
"Felipe Massa - in what was supposed to be his final year in F1 it would have been nice for the Brazilian to go out on a high - unfortunately its not been either his, or Williams' year and his best result of a couple of fifth's at the start of the season seem a long time ago. At least he now seems likely to get another chance."
|
England women produced a clinical display to beat Canada 39-6 at Twickenham in their final autumn Test.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
It was a telling moment in a day that was supposed to be a perfectly orchestrated piece of corporate theatre.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Conservative MP is hoping to increase pressure on Commons Speaker John Bercow by tabling a no-confidence motion.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Narendra Modi has arrived in Tel Aviv, becoming the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Belfast man Patrick Huston was 38th in the men's individual archery qualifying as he had the honour of being the first Briton in action at the Rio Olympics.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sitting down on a shop floor crying, Connie Free was at a low point in her battle with bulimia when a manager told her to simply "cheer up".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Cristiano Ronaldo has been named Uefa's Best Player in Europe for the second time after winning the Champions League and Euro 2016 last season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Colombia says providing reparations for the victims of its armed conflict is "a priority" as the country marks the National Day of Memory and Solidarity.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Departing Portsmouth defender Enda Stevens has backed his former team-mates to have a successful campaign in League One next season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A petrol station attendant has been threatened with a knife during a robbery in Glasgow.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
All pictures are copyrighted.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Gianni Infantino has succeeded fellow Swiss Sepp Blatter as president of world football's governing body Fifa.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Leaders Queen of the South remain unbeaten in the Championship after a frustrating day in Dumbarton.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Venezuela's Roman Catholic Church has criticised President Nicolás Maduro's decision to have the constitution rewritten.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Co-operative Energy will take on all 160,000 customers of collapsed firm GB Energy on their existing price tariff.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
BBC Radio 4's long-running Desert Island Discs will feature a World War Two veteran for its 3,000th edition next week.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Leaving Microsoft to help launch a successful board game called Cranium was evidently not a big enough challenge for Whit Alexander.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An increasing number of people are turning up at emergency departments with mental health problems.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Earlier this week, Colin Farrell told an Irish newspaper that he'd got a spot in the second series of True Detective.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Romanian immigrant in Oldham said members of his community feel victimised after neighbouring residents made complaints to police about them.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
From a timid start in 1969, the Pan-African film and television festival (Fespaco) has today grown into the leading cultural event in Africa.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Labour is too "weak and divided" to stand up for Wales, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has said, launching the party's general election campaign.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Swansea City ended their pre-season tour to America with a goalless draw against North Carolina in Raleigh.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Westminster and London Bridge attacks in London put a "lot of stretch" on the Metropolitan Police, its second in command has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two women have been re-arrested after the death of a woman who was assaulted in a Hull street.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Lewis Hamilton may have been pipped to the 2016 world title by Nico Rosberg, but his determination to chase down his Mercedes' team-mate right to the very end clearly caught the eye.
| 38,118,223 | 16,212 | 745 | true |
The pair, believed to be in their 20s, were discovered at the property in Debdale Avenue, Warndon, on Tuesday.
West Mercia Police said it first received a call raising concerns for the welfare of the woman, who had been reported missing, at about 15:00 BST.
Her death was thought to be suspicious, and the death of the male was being treated as "unsuspicious", the force said.
Police said they believed the incident was contained to the property and officers were not looking for anyone else.
Both the man and woman have yet to be formally identified.
Supt Kevin Purcell said the force was providing support to the families of the deceased.
The Aberdeen-based company, which is one of the largest independent producers operating in the UK North Sea, reported a loss of about $1.3bn (£930m), compared with a loss of $579m in 2014.
Its results for 2015 included $626.2m of impairments to oil and gas assets.
Revenue was down by more than 10% to $906.6m.
EnQuest said the decrease was due to the lower oil price.
The average realised price per barrel of oil sold was just over $50 for the year ending 31 December, compared with about $100 it received in 2014.
EnQuest reported that the fall in revenue was offset partially by higher production.
Last year, it achieved average production of 36,567 barrels per day, a 31% year-on-year increase. Output was boosted by contributions from the newly-producing Alma/Galia field in the North Sea, and from Malaysia, which now accounts for 25% of total production.
EnQuest said the Kraken field, which lies east of Shetland, remained on schedule to go onstream in the first half of next year.
The company has been cutting costs across its operations, in response to the oil price slump.
Having made $300m in savings on its Kraken project, it has found a further cut of $125m in capital expenditure on the field, following a revision of the development plan.
The company saw its net debt rise sharply last year, from $967m at the end of 2014 to $1.55bn.
EnQuest said it was performing well at the start of 2016 and its focus on "operational efficiencies" had continued to reduce unit operating costs.
Its average production guidance for the full year is between 44,000 and 48,000 barrels per day.
Chief executive Amjad Bseisu said: "EnQuest continues to focus on its strategic priorities in this low oil price environment: strengthening the balance sheet, delivering on production and execution targets and streamlining operations.
"Significant reductions in both capex (capital expenditure) and opex (operating expenses) have been achieved, in conjunction with continued excellent operational performance, enabling us to produce positive operational cashflows at current oil prices."
"I'm the happiest mother at this point in my life," she says.
Like any other mum, she speaks with pride that Alisher "plays basketball and is starting high school in Germany".
But 40-year-old Oksana is no ordinary mum. Oksana is defying the odds in a sport renowned for the extremely young age of its competitors.
She is a gymnast, in fact one of the best gymnasts in the world - a regular on the podium over the past 25 years.
The Uzbekistan gymnast competed in her 14th World Championships last week. Her first was in 1991, for the Soviet Union. She made her Olympic debut in 1992 competing for the Unified Team that won gold.
Speaking through a translator, she says with a laugh: "To be honest I retired after I had my son, Alisher.
"But then I went to the gym to get a little bit into shape after I gave birth, and I've been there ever since."
And clearly she's worked hard - the veteran wasn't at the Glasgow Championships out of goodwill from the international gymnastics community.
She attempted a vault many of her competitors wouldn't attempt - a handspring onto the vault followed by two front somersaults. Unfortunately she didn't land it well.
Getting into shape wasn't the only motivation for Oksana to retreat to the gym.
In 2002, her son was diagnosed with Leukaemia and she moved to Germany for his treatment.
"As a mother you would do anything for a healthy child and I thank Germany for that," she says.
"When you see your sick child 24/7 it's so hard, so the gym was an escape for me.
"Just to have a few hours not to think about it - don't think about the pain, don't cry, don't let your heart down.
"I felt better afterwards, just having been in the gym."
Alisher made a full recovery.
Meanwhile, Oksana went on to join the German team, winning a silver on vault at Beijing 2008, and just missing a podium place, finishing fifth, in 2012.
Now competing for Uzbekistan, she has qualified for the test event in Rio next year for a place at the Olympics.
If she succeeds, she will find her place in the Guinness Book of Records as the only woman to have appeared at seven consecutive Olympic Games.
However, she insists that's not why she's doing it: "As a gymnast I will try to prepare the best I can, to give me a chance to win a medal."
And if she inspires other athletes to stay in the sport, then that's clearly a bonus.
"Perhaps I'm helping others because we are starting to see more 20 and 30 year olds in the sport, and that makes me happy," she says.
"But to be a healthy person in life, you don't have to be a professional athlete," she adds.
"I hope I can inspire many women, who are not athletes, to do any exercise - even just walking, jogging or stretching.
"It definitely helps - not only your physical health but also your mental health as well."
So will she retire if she makes it to the Olympics next year?
"Never say never!" she says, laughing.
Adult classes are popping up at gymnastics clubs throughout the UK. Take a look at our guide for more information.
The victim, aged 32, was hit by the car at about 11:30 BST on Friday in the McDonald's car park at China Garden, on Derby Street, in Bolton.
Police said he and friends were in a confrontation with another group.
A man, 19, has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and both failing to stop and report a collision.
Officers said four people the victim had been arguing with left in two cars but no-one in the vehicles stopped.
He is in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
Greater Manchester Police is now investigating the circumstances leading up to the crash, including allegations of racist remarks made during the argument. Officers are also analysing CCTV images.
A spokesman for the force said they "were certainly investigating the possibility" that the car was deliberately driven at the victim.
The report by industry body UK Music said foreign visitors spent an average of £751 and helped sustain almost 40,000 full time jobs.
Across the UK 9.5 million people travelled to music events.
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale said the news was "fantastic" but not surprising as "British music is legendary around the world".
The industry and continues to go from strength to strength, he added, with UK artists now accounting for one in seven albums sold worldwide.
"Festivals like Glastonbury hold an iconic status on the world music scene and are one of the reasons why international tourism is booming in the UK, drawing in streams of visitors to all parts of the country.
"We know our UK creative industries contribute an astonishing £76.9bn to the UK economy but this report confirms they are truly world-class and a powerful advert for the UK."
Festivals like T in the Park, Celtic Connections and the Wickerman festival helped to attract 721,000 music tourists to Scotland in 2014.
Researchers also found a 39% rise in the number of overseas tourists travelling to the UK for music over the last four years.
UK Music is made up of industry groups representing musicians, songwriters, record labels and studio producers among others.
Visitors were led away from Hamerton Zoo Park, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, at about 11:15 BST.
A spokeswoman for the attraction denied claims on social media that a tiger had escaped from its enclosure.
A Cambridgeshire Police spokesman said: "We can confirm that no animals have escaped and members of the public are safe."
She continued: "Officers were called at around 11.15am to reports of a serious incident at Hamerton Zoo Park, Steeple Gidding.
"Officers attended the scene along with ambulance crews and Magpas (Mid Anglia General Practitioner Accident Service - air ambulance).
"We are unable to provide further information at this time."
A Magpas spokesman said: "At 11:34am today, the air ambulance landed in a public place near Sawtry in Cambridgeshire, after the Magpas enhanced medical team were called to a very serious incident.
"An East of England Ambulance Service paramedic crew and two rapid response vehicles were also in attendance, alongside the police."
The zoo said it will remained closed for the day and a full statement will be issued later.
Hamerton Zoo Park includes enclosures for Malaysian tigers, Bengal tigers, cheetahs, wolves, corsac foxes, kangaroos as well as a variety of birds, reptiles and domestic animals.
The application for community asset status was made by supporters' trust OxVox and it means the group must be notified if the ground is to be sold.
Kassam's latest appeal against OxVox has now been rejected by the courts.
Owners Firoka had asked Oxford City Council to hold an internal review of May's decision to award the status.
Having a football ground listed as a community asset means supporter groups will have six months to put together their own bid for the stadium if it is to be sold.
Since the ruling was made in May 2013, Manchester United's Old Trafford has also been listed an a community asset and applications have also been made for many other grounds, including Liverpool.
Manchester United's owners also requested a review of the decision to list their stadium, but later withdrew this request.
Oxford have played at the stadium since it was opened in 2001 by former owner Firoz Kassam, who sold the club five years later, but retained control of the ground.
Current U's owner Ian Lenagan has previously stated his desire to try to buy the ground.
The first classes giving pointers on how to avoid online frauds are being held in Aberdeen.
The sessions have been organised by Police Scotland and Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).
Cyber scamming includes frauds that use email, websites, chatrooms and message boards.
The first classes for over-60s are being held in Aberdeen's Stratosphere.
They are being led by Silver City Surfers, an organisation which runs monthly sessions for its members and promotes computer literacy among older people.
David Bernard, COPFS equality ambassador for age, said: "Criminals profiting from others is particularly detestable when they prey on the more vulnerable in our society.
"This class is to educate the older generation on the issue of cyber scamming, raise their awareness of such scams and provide information on how to avoid falling foul to these scams.
"The hope is that through education we can both prevent them from being victims of those crimes but also inspire confidence that the criminal justice system in Scotland will listen to them and take action."
Det Insp Eamonn Keane added: "Police Scotland encourage and embrace technology in communication and engagement with all communities and recognise the internet as an intrinsic part of people's lifestyle.
"We welcome this opportunity to educate and improve awareness amongst all communities to prevent crime and reduce opportunities for criminal exploitation."
Taylor opened the scoring with a right-footed effort from eight yards out, as the Dons quickly took control.
The Chairboys drew level when Michael Harriman rifled an effort into the bottom corner from the edge of the box.
Taylor netted a deserved winner from the penalty spot after Aaron Pierre's foul on Rhys Murphy, tucking his effort into the bottom-left corner.
Defeat leaves Wycombe seventh, following a run of just one win in five matches.
Wimbledon move up to ninth place and are now just two points behind the Chairboys.
AFC Wimbledon boss Neal Ardley told BBC Radio London:
Media playback is not supported on this device
"I thought we were by far the better team. They've had one shot on goal, through legs, that's gone in, their only real shot, and we had seven, eight clear-cut (chances), we've hit the bar twice.
"It should have been more comfortable, but in the end we've seen our jobs out really well and we've done enough to win the game.
"We went brave, we played with three up - we worked on it during the week, the boys executed it brilliantly and those three were a handful for anyone.
"I think the ref gave them some helping hands; kept giving them as many free-kicks as they could handle, but we defended them."
Media playback is not supported on this device
The Belfast man will fight at flyweight after struggling at light-flyweight in the Rio Olympics, where he lost to Samuel Carmona in his opening bout.
"It's time to go pro, I've been in the amateurs too long and I want a new challenge," said the 29-year-old.
"My debut will possibly be before Christmas in Belfast. It's my home city so it would be great to begin there."
He is set to sign a professional contract with a well-known stable in England next week.
Barnes enjoyed a stellar amateur career, with the former European amateur champion winning Olympic bronze in 2008 and 2012 to go along with two Commonwealth Games titles.
He was Ireland's flag bearer in Rio but Barnes found making the weight difficult in the light-flyweight division as he lost on points to Spain's Carmona.
"The experience was brilliant, but after a few Olympics I know what it's like," Barnes told Paddy Power.
"I'm going to start off at flyweight, hopefully move through the weights and probably end up bantamweight at the end of my career.
"I'll still be disappointed with my (amateur) career, not winning a gold medal. That will never leave me, but bringing back the world title is something that's just as recognisable. That will in some ways make up for it."
Barnes saw his Olympic gold medal hopes ended by China's Zou Shiming in 2008 and 2012 - he now wants revenge in the pro ring.
"I obviously want to win a world title, but the fight that I really want is the guy from China - Zou Shiming," he said.
"He's the big money fight and he's the one who I'll be targeting. I want to win the world title, go to China and defend it against him."
Replying to 701-7, the visitors resumed on 180-1 but looked in trouble as they slipped to 255-4 as Ben Duckett (105) added only four to his overnight score.
Max Holden (153) and Adam Rossington put on 239 before Matt Hunn (3-90) broke their fifth-wicket partnership.
Rossington fell for 112 as Northants closed on 528-7, trailing by 173 runs.
David Ripley's side still require another 23 runs to avoid the follow-on on the final day, but Kent's hopes of victory appear slim, requiring 13 wickets on a track which has offered little for the bowlers.
The package will be partly funded by UK Labour's plans to reintroduce a tax on bankers' bonuses.
Labour says about 5,000 Scots aged 18-24 will be eligible for a new Jobs Guarantee scheme in its first year.
The SNP said Scotland's young people "won't fall for his empty attempts to buy their vote".
Mr Murphy told an audience: "This is an unprecedented investment in our young people.
"We will use a new tax on the bonuses of bankers here in the City of London and in the UK's other financial centres.
"We will use that funding to guarantee a real job, at at-least minimum wage, and to guarantee training for every young person too."
SNP work and pensions spokeswoman Dr Eilidh Whiteford said: "Despite Westminster's disastrous economic record, youth unemployment is at its lowest level for five years in Scotland as a result of Scottish government action.
"The Scottish government's Opportunities For All scheme offers every 16 to 19-year-old a place in work, education or training - and as a result, 90% of school leavers are going into positive destinations."
The pair were travelling in the Forest of Dean when their car which hit a telegraph pole on Wood Road, Mile End, at about 01:00 BST on Sunday.
The 22-year-old victim was airlifted to hospital but died a short time later.
The driver, a 21-year-old from Coleford, was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and causing death by dangerous driving.
Gloucestershire Police said the car failed to stop for officers and the incident had since been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission "as is standard practice when someone dies following police contact".
The country's Debt Management Agency announced plans to sell bonds that will repaid in five years. It is the first sale of government debt since 2014, when Greece made a brief return to the markets.
It is being seen as an important milestone for Greece.
Since 2010 the government has been dependent on bailout money to meet its borrowing needs.
The bailouts began when Greece was frozen out of the financial markets. It couldn't borrow what it needed as investors become convinced it wouldn't be able to repay.
And those needs were very large. In the year before the first bailout started, the deficit in the Greek government's finances was 35bn euros (£31bn), which is a lot for a small economy, equivalent to 15% of its total national income, or GDP.
Greece slips back into recession
Have the Greek bailouts worked?
Why is Greece back in the headlines?
Will the Greek economy ever recover?
Greece is now into its third bailout loan programme. The main source of finance has been the eurozone - for the first loan the money came from other governments that use the currency, and EU bailout agencies supplied funds for the second two.
In total Greece has received bailout payments of more than a quarter of a trillion euros, and there's as much as 47bn euros more available over the next year.
Greece also had the benefit of a restructuring of the debt it owed to the private sector. In 2012 most of the bondholders swapped their bonds for an alternative.
The reduction in face value of that debt was 53.5%, but concerns in the markets about the possibility of further restructuring meant that the loss to investors was arguably much greater.
The current, third, bailout is due to end next year - and by "end" we mean the final payment will be made to Greece. The final repayment is due more than 40 years from now.
When the bailout payments end, the aim is for the Greek government to be able to meet all its financial needs from taxation and borrowing in the markets. What Greece is doing now is a "toe in the water" - an attempt to get some indication of how well that process might go.
There is a widespread view that Greece will need debt relief. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been the most insistent on that point.
Indeed, until recently the IMF had refused to contribute financially to the third bailout without it. What the Fund has now agreed is an "in principle" commitment - an indication that the IMF will contribute, provided debt relief is confirmed next year.
There is no question that in the seven years of bailouts, the Greek government's annual finances have improved. That enormous deficit has gone. Last year there was a small surplus.
This year Greece is likely to be back in the red, but it will be a moderate deficit, projected by the IMF to be 1.5% of GDP.
The adjustment has been painful. The economy has contracted by more than 25% since the peak of the pre-crisis boom and government spending has declined by more than 30% in real terms. That reflects declining public sector employment, pay and pension cuts, and reduced public services.
The unemployment rate is more than 20%, and among young people it is close to 50%.
So can Greece finance itself from next year? Those investors who buy the new bonds presumably think either that it can, or they assume Greece will get further bailouts or debt relief to the extent needed to ensure it can meet the repayment commitments.
What's in it for them? The return they will get, assuming the repayments are made as promised, will be better than they can expect on bonds from other eurozone countries.
Looking at 10-year bonds currently trading in the market, for Greece the annual return is about 5%. For other bailed-out countries it's about 3% for Portugal, 1.5% for Spain and below 1% for Ireland.
The reason the return is relatively attractive is that there is still some risk associated with buying Greek government debt. For one thing, the economic outlook is still very uncertain.
The declines in economic activity have, apparently, come to an end. But there has been no sustained recovery. Greece has had fits and starts of growth since 2013, but nothing durable. The economy is about the same size now as it was then.
Still, the fact that Greece can seriously contemplate going to the financial markets is progress of sorts. It is perhaps even more striking because this development comes under the government of a party - Syriza - that fought an election under a radical left and anti-austerity programme.
For long suffering Greeks, the road to recovery is - at best - only starting.
The EY Scottish Item Club said the Scottish economy matched UK growth in 2014.
It is predicting growth of 2.2% north of the border this year - 0.2% higher than it originally forecast in December.
But Scotland is expected to undershoot UK growth by about 0.5% in 2015.
The forecaster said that pattern could "persist" for several years to come.
Senior economic advisor Dougie Adams said the "short-term stalling" of the Scottish economy, compared with the rest of the UK, stemmed from a combination of factors.
He said: "The downside of the oil price fall is much more marked for Scotland than for the rest of the UK; the Scottish consumer appears to be pausing for breath; and the high employment rate could point to emerging capacity constraints.
"Against this, improving household finances will buoy the overall growth rate and we believe this soft patch will give way to better growth on the back of the continuing UK recovery."
He added: "The pattern of GVA (gross value added) growth in Scotland trailing the UK is expected to persist over the next few years.
"This reflects the faster rate of population growth anticipated in the rest of the UK, the greater weight of the public sector in the Scottish economy and our estimates of long-standing relative trends in productivity growth at a sector level."
In its summer update, the item club predicts that professional and administrative services will be the fastest growing sector in 2015, expanding by more than 5%.
Service sectors expected to enjoy good growth in 2015 include retail and wholesaling, where expansion is forecast at more than 4% for this year. The recovery in accommodation and food services is expected to continue, with growth of 4.3%.
The item club also predicts financial services and real estate will see the weakest output growth among private services sectors in 2015.
Reflecting tight budgets in public services, the admin, defence and education sectors are projected to see falls in output - a trend that is expected to continue over the next two years.
An extra 25,000 jobs are forecast for 2015 - an increase of 0.9% - with 15,000-20,000 jobs projected to be added annually through the medium term.
The public sector and manufacturing are set to shed jobs, while financial services "tread water".
All other sectors are expected to increase employment.
EY Scotland partner Mark Harvey said: "Scotland's labour market has performed well and employment rates, particularly for women are at historically high levels.
"We need to ensure we continue to have spare capacity in the Scottish economy, to avoid a mismatch between the skills demanded and those available in the workforce."
On Friday, the Scottish government's State of the Economy report said that the "positive economic trends" seen last year, when annual growth of 2.7% was achieved, were expected to continue in 2015.
However, it warned that there could be "some uncertainty" ahead as a result of the "combined effects of the fall in oil prices and the muted trade environment in Europe" and elsewhere.
It concluded: "Notwithstanding the negative impacts of lower oil prices on some parts of the economy, the overall outlook remains positive with high employment levels and signs of wage growth, both of which are helping to boost household incomes."
About 30 firefighters and eight appliances were called to tackle the blaze on Soroba Road at about 01:30.
The operation, which is ongoing, has been complicated by the presence of highly-flammable acetylene cylinders.
A council spokesman said there were no reports of injuries. He said the damage to the yard, which services bin lorries and gritters, is, as yet, unknown.
Two fire engines from Oban initially attended but this was increased to eight, with crews from as far afield as Milngavie in East Dunbartonshire called in due to the scale of the blaze.
The incident commander, Station Manager Elliot, said: "Our crews are currently dealing with a significant fire. Thirty firefighters are currently tackling the blaze with two water jets and a water tower.
"Due to the fire damage and presence of acetylene cylinders an Argyll and Bute Council officer has attended to offer support."
Police and an officer from Argyll and Bute Council were also in attendance.
A council spokesman said it was unclear at this stage how much damage had been caused to the yard and any vehicles within.
He said the council was assisting the fire service and police and an investigation would be held into the cause of the fire.
The 26-year-old featured 11 times last season for the Super League champions but was not offered a new contract.
Wheeler came through the academy at Saints and his versatility has seen him feature at centre and wing.
"I've been a big admirer of Gary's ability for some time. He's extremely versatile and will add real depth to the squad," said head coach Tony Smith.
"At times he's had some bad luck with injuries but we've assessed the situation and look forward to him contributing to the 2015 season."
With their place in France already confirmed, Wales rounded off the campaign with a 2-0 win over Andorra.
Fittingly it was two of their brightest stars, Aaron Ramsey and Gareth Bale, who scored against the Group B minnows.
"The team were labelled the 'golden generation' before they'd earned it. Now they've earned it," said Coleman.
"They deserve it. You get team spirit from working hard for each other on the pitch and coming through tough situations and big challenges, and they've done it time after time."
Despite a 2-0 loss in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Saturday, Wales' place at Euro 2016 was confirmed that night when Cyprus beat Israel.
Cardiff City Stadium had seen 34,000 supporters packed inside on Tuesday to cheer the players who have delivered Wales' first appearance at a major finals since the 1958 World Cup.
And Coleman was quick to praise the fans, who he said have played their part in his side's success.
"These supporters have been absolutely incredible, I've never seen anything like it," added the Wales boss.
"In some games we've struggled a little bit, we've hung on, and these guys have got us over the line - I'm so happy for them."
While the likes of Real Madrid forward Bale and Arsenal midfielder Ramsey more often attract the headlines, Coleman picked out captain Ashley Williams for his contribution from centre-back.
"He's been brilliant on and off the pitch, a true leader and I think you need that if you're going to be successful," he added.
"When we've really needed him, especially in the big games where we've been under the cosh, he's come up trumps for us.
"He's fantastic and he deserves everything that's coming to him."
Bale's late strike to put some gloss on the scoreline against Andorra was his seventh goal of a campaign that began with his brace away to the same opposition in September 2014.
"We've put the hard work in for years and years," Bale told Sky Sports. "It's time to enjoy it, but as soon as France comes round we'll be looking to make an impact.
"It's something special. The fans, what can I say? We have the best fans in the world. Obviously a great thanks to the gaffer and everybody involved. We're looking forward to the future."
Swansea defender Williams added: "It's overwhelming. We wanted to get to this game so we could say thank you to the fans for all the support they gave us over the campaign.
"It was a nice game to play as the last one. We'll enjoy the celebrations."
The father of the late Gary Speed, Roger, paid tribute to his son, who managed Wales before Coleman.
"I was in tears for the last match in Cardiff when the Barry Horns - the group - started singing Gary's favourite song Can't Take My Eyes Off You. I just broke down," he said.
"I watched the Bosnia game with a mate where we live and really, really enjoyed it and couldn't believe it when the score came through from the other match [Israel 1-2 Cyprus] - fantastic!
"Everybody should be backing Chris Coleman, he's done a great job. Gary was doing well, Chris carried it on."
This year's National Institute of Adult Continuing Education survey - of 4,957 people - found a slight fall in adults in learning, down from 21% to 20%.
But there was concern that the number of men who had been in learning in the past three years had fallen to 37% - the lowest level since the mid-1990s.
This was a "fundamental challenge for policy makers", the charity said.
The annual survey from National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) - a charity which promotes adult learning - asked respondents to assess whether or not they identified themselves as a learner.
It was based on a survey of 4,957 people in the UK aged 17 and over carried out in February and March.
The type of "learning" could be formal, work-based, online or self-directed and covers a range of areas from academic subjects to recreational activities.
The results indicated that the number of men who have been in learning over the past three years (37%) is at its lowest level since the NIACE survey began in 1996.
Participation in learning among those in the least skilled jobs and those outside the labour market fell seven percentage points from 2010 from 30% to 23%.
Professional and managerial groups were twice as likely (52%) to participate in learning than the unskilled and unemployed.
But younger learners were on the increase - with participation in learning increasing among those aged 17 to 24, up from 58% in 2010 to 71% this year.
This is set against a decrease across all other age groups, with learning activities for adults aged 65 to 74 dropping from 23% last year to 17% in 2011.
NIACE chief executive Alan Tuckett said: "If Britain is to recover economically it has to invest in the whole of its workforce, not just the young.
"With an ageing labour force we need to encourage people to prolong their active working and learning lives, reducing learning opportunities will hardly help with the well-being or work-readiness of Britain's third age adults.
"But overall, the most concerning aspects of this year's survey are the lowest ever figures of participation for men and for the least skilled and those outside the labour market.
"When you take these findings, with the reported decline in people's intentions to take up learning in the future, you have a fundamental challenge for policy makers, employers and providers.
"We won't have a learning society unless everyone takes their share of responsibility to create it."
A number of neighbourhood teams have relocated into nearby local community bases with "lower running costs".
The new sites, which are based in the "heart of the community", are "better value for money", the force said.
The buildings up for sale include Market Street and Pilgrim Street in Newcastle, which were replaced by a new £38m complex in Forth Bank in 2014.
Other sites include an office in Bentinck Road which has been empty for several years and one in Bellingham, the force said.
A Northumbria Police spokesman said: "Many of the older police buildings have been expensive to run and it's important the force gets value for the money and all savings are reinvested back in to policing."
It became illegal to smoke in a vehicle carrying someone under 18 last October, with drivers and passengers facing a £50 fine.
But one year on, no fines have been issued by Wales' 22 councils. Some Welsh police forces and councils have issued verbal warnings.
The Welsh Government said the law was sending a "strong message" to smokers.
The law, which is enforceable by both local authorities and police, was hailed as "a landmark in protecting children from second-hand smoke".
Some councils said they were offering guidance, but said police were better able to carry out the enforcement as council officers have no power to stop vehicles.
However, the Police Federation - the body representing officers in England and Wales - said officers had not yet been given powers to hand out fixed penalty notices.
Anglesey, Blaenau Gwent, Carmarthenshire, and Conwy councils all said they had not currently enforced any action.
Denbighshire council said it was looking to "enforce it in the future", while Monmouthshire council has issued some verbal warnings to private hire vehicles.
North Wales, South Wales and Gwent police forces have yet to issue any fines, while Dyfed-Powys Police handed out four verbal warnings between 1 October, 2015 and April 2016.
The Police Federation said the ban was "difficult" to enforce, with police having to refer offenders to councils.
Jayne Willetts, of the federation, said society had to take "responsibility for the issue".
"The original plan was for the public health authority to seek to change the law and give police extended powers," she said.
"This would allow officers to stop motorists and issue on-the-spot fines, like they currently do for other offences, such as using a mobile phone while driving. But because that hasn't happened, a piece of the jigsaw is missing."
Health campaigners said the law had changed people's attitudes towards smoking with children present, but more needed to be done to reduce second-hand exposure.
Ash Cymru chief executive Suzanne Cass said: "The law has not only been successful in protecting the health of young people, it is 'denormalising' this deadly habit.
"Now that we've hit the one year milestone since the law's introduction, it is now a good time to think about how we can continue to use legislature like this to protect the health of the people in Wales."
Joseph Carter, head of British Lung Foundation Wales, said: "We hope the publicity around the legislation has made people more aware of the dangers second-hand smoke causes to children's lungs.
"If people stop lighting up in cars and other enclosed environments when young people are present, this will be a success. However, clearly more research is needed to see if the legislation is effective."
The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA), the body representing local authorities in Wales, said councils were offering advice to try to change people's attitudes.
A WLGA spokesman said: "Much like the wider public spaces smoking ban, the success of this law change should be measured in changes in attitude and behaviour, not the number of enforcement actions."
Compliance could be "expected to grow over time as more and more people accept the health dangers of smoking in their car", he added.
In response, the Welsh Government stressed the success of the law would be measured in attitude and behaviour changes, not the number of fines.
"The new law sends a strong message to people that smoking in cars with children on board is not acceptable," he said.
"It is designed to protect children from the harms associated with second-hand smoke and we're pleased there has been a high level of compliance."
Strauss skippered his country in 50 of his 100 Tests and is handing over to one-day captain Alastair Cook.
During his time in charge, England emerged from the chaos of Kevin Pietersen's resignation as captain to become the world's top Test team.
But the road to the top was anything but easy for Strauss. His reign came at a turbulent time for English cricket as controversy on and off the pitch dogged his spell as captain.
Read more about Strauss's reign
Strauss, 35, said: "For me the driver to it all quite frankly was my form with the bat. In truth, I haven't batted well enough for a long time now. I think I have run my race."
He denied his decision to quit was influenced by the furore over Kevin Pietersen's axing from the team.
Strauss scored 7,037 Test runs at an average of 40.91, leaving him ninth in England's all-time run-scorers list.
During his time in charge, England became the world's best Test team for the first time.
Cook, 27, will take charge of his country for the first time in the four-Test series against India in November.
He said: "I'm very excited by this new challenge. It is a huge honour to be appointed Test captain and I am very much looking forward to captaining the side in India this winter and beyond."
"Everyone in the media respected and admired him for the way he conducted himself in the job, but much more importantly he took those same credentials and abilities into the dressing room, and that is why he was so well respected in there."
Read the rest of Aggers's view here
Strauss was England's third-most experienced captain and the second-most successful behind Michael Vaughan, with a record of 24 wins from his 50 matches at the helm.
He also led the side to home and away Ashes triumphs during a run of victories that saw them crowned as the world's number one team for the first time since the rankings were introduced.
Strauss added: "I am extremely proud of everything I have achieved as a cricketer and I have found myself very fortunate to play in an era when some of English cricket's greatest moments have occurred. I have loved every minute of it.
"It hasn't been something that occurred overnight. It has built over a few months. I would like to go out on my own terms with my head held high and I think this is the right time."
The retirement of Strauss will be overshadowed to an extent by the unsavoury controversy involving star batsman Pietersen.
Strauss was said to be the subject of "provocative" text messages that Pietersen sent to South African players during England's 3-0 series defeat by the Proteas.
But Strauss was insistent he had made a decision about his future before the news of the texts broke on the eve of his 100th Test match at Lord's.
"I first spoke to Andy Flower about it prior to the Kevin Pietersen incident rearing its head," he said. "It just hasn't been a consideration.
"I first spoke to Andy about this a few weeks ago and said I'm considering it and would talk to him at end of the South Africa series. By the time I spoke to him again, my mind was made up and I think he knew that."
Strauss sent letters to members of the England team explaining his decision to retire and they responded by sending him 100 bottles of wine.
It was a sign of the high regard the dressing room held him in, a view Cook voiced as he paid tribute to his predecessor.
"Obviously I've got huge boots to fill," said Cook. "It feels like I've spent all my England career walking out to bat with him. Unfortunately it might mean I have to take the first ball now."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Stokes hit an unbeaten 102 to lead England to a 40-run win on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method at Edgbaston, which eliminated Australia from the Champions Trophy.
"Of all the moments Stokes has had in an England shirt, this is the finest," Swann told BBC Test Match Special.
"He looks as good as any player in the world."
Stokes, 26, has scored two centuries in four ODI innings for England since returning from the IPL, where he was named the competition's most valuable player.
He hit 13 fours and two sixes en route to his highest ODI score, sharing a thrilling stand of 159 with captain Eoin Morgan after England slipped to 35-3.
Swann, who played 60 Tests and 79 ODIs for England between 2008 and 2013, added: "He's always had the talent but he's honed it and become world class. I mean, truly world class.
"Stokes is batting with swagger and an air of arrogance, as if he believes he is one of the world's best players."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Stokes brought up his third ODI century shortly before rain ended play early, with England comfortably ahead of the DLS par score.
He told TMS: "No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we keep going at it and backing our game. It's a great time to be a part of England cricket.
"I had to start again when I got to 70 because if I got out playing a silly shot it wouldn't have looked too good."
Morgan, who made a brilliant attacking 87 off 81 deliveries, said: "He took the responsibility and it was a magnificent hundred."
Australia skipper Steve Smith said: "He's a class player and he's in exceptional form at the moment."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Morgan also acknowledged the contributions of leg-spinner Adil Rashid and seamer Mark Wood, who took 4-41 and 4-33 respectively to limit Australia to 277-9 on a reliable surface.
"It's a huge asset having Adil bowling like he did today and Mark finding confidence game on game," said Morgan.
Although opener Jason Roy took a stunning catch on the mid-wicket boundary to remove Glenn Maxwell, he fell for four to the second ball of England's reply and has made only 51 runs in his past eight ODI innings.
Morgan said England would consider making changes for Wednesday's semi-final at Cardiff.
"We always feel Jason's runs are round the corner," he said.
"We will give it a couple of days and get together as selectors and see what the best team is. If the decision needs to be made, we can make it."
Media playback is not supported on this device
She is replacing Nigel Smyth who is retiring after 26 years in the job.
Mrs McGowan joins the business organisation from Danske Bank UK, where she has been the chief economist since 2008.
She will take up the post in October this year.
Argyle had Paul Bignot sent off in the first half for kicking out at Sean Evans, who had just fouled him.
Bricklayer Paul McCone scored the opener after the break, heading home Sean Gebbis's corner into the bottom corner from six yards out.
And Evans sealed it when he converted following Jake Cole's parry.
The scoreline did not flatter seventh-tier side Stourbridge, who were unlucky to need a replay following Onismor Bhasera's 88th-minute equaliser for Plymouth in the first game at Home Park.
And the West Midlands side's win over the Football League's basement club means they will host League One side Stevenage in the second round.
Goalscorer Paul McCone won the West Midlands final of the Guild of Bricklayers junior competition this year
Stourbridge played excellently throughout the game and could have taken a first-half lead when Evans' centre found Ryan Rowe and his shot was well saved by Cole.
And things were looking ominous for Plymouth when Bignot retaliated to Evans' foul, which sparked a melee.
The Glassboys continued to dominate and Ben Billingham saw his top corner-bound shot saved by Cole before the break.
They did not let up after half-time and McCone, who works by day for his father's company, headed them into a fully deserved lead.
Plymouth's chances were few and far between and Durrell Berry's weak effort which was easily saved by Lewis Solly summed up their evening.
Stourbridge, sensing they were on the verge of something special, should have had their second when Paul Lloyd's cross hit the bar and Leon Broadhurst's headed the rebound off the crossbar with keeper Cole beaten.
But they had their clinching goal when the lively Rowe saw his shot saved and Evans found the corner from the rebound.
Plymouth never looked like getting back into it and had Billingham's late shot crept in rather than flew wide, there could have been few complaints in Devon at the scoreline.
For the latest updates throughout the day follow SportsDayLive. Get involved on Twitter using the hashtag #bbcsportsday.
Full Time The final whistle is blown by the referee.
Drew Canavan takes a short corner.
Durrell Berry is adjudged to have handled the ball. Paul Lloyd takes the direct free kick.
Unfair challenge on Isaac Vassell by James Dyson results in a free kick. Simon Walton takes the direct free kick.
Durrell Berry takes a shot. Lewis Solly makes a comfortable save.
Ryan Rowe takes a weak shot and went wide of the left-hand post.
The referee blows for offside against Ryan Rowe. Indirect free kick taken by Jake Cole.
Paul McCone restarts play with the free kick.
Booking Conor Hourihane is given a yellow card.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Josh Craddock by Conor Hourihane.
Shot from just outside the box by Ben Billingham misses to the left of the goal.
Substitution (Stourbridge) makes a substitution, with James Dyson coming on for Sean Gebbis.
The ball is swung over by Sean Gebbis.
Durrell Berry produces a cross, Nathan Bennett makes a clearance.
The referee penalises Drew Canavan for handball. Jake Cole restarts play with the free kick.
Ben Gibson challenges Paul McCone unfairly and gives away a free kick. Lewis Solly takes the free kick.
Jake Cole restarts play with the free kick.
Substitution Sean Evans goes off and Josh Craddock comes on.
The assistant referee signals for offside against Ryan Rowe.
Corner taken by Will Atkinson from the left by-line to the near post, clearance made by Nathan Bennett.
Foul by Paul McCone on Matt Lecointe, free kick awarded. Conor Hourihane crosses the ball from the free kick left-footed from left channel.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Simon Walton on Ben Billingham. The free kick is swung in right-footed by Sean Gebbis.
Substitution Isaac Vassell joins the action as a substitute, replacing Warren Feeney.
Assist on the goal came from Ryan Rowe.
Goal! - Sean Evans - Stourbr'ge 2 - 0 Plymouth Sean Evans grabs a goal from the edge of the area to the bottom left corner of the goal. Stourbridge 2-0 Plymouth.
Ryan Rowe takes a shot. Save made by Jake Cole.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Durrell Berry on Sean Evans. Sean Evans crosses the ball, Ryan Rowe takes a shot. Save by Jake Cole.
Substitution Drew Canavan on for Sam Rock.
Substitution Matt Lecointe replaces Carl Fletcher.
Sean Gebbis concedes a free kick for a foul on Durrell Berry. Simon Walton takes the free kick.
Sean Evans produces a cross, clearance made by Ben Gibson. The ball is crossed by Paul Lloyd. Leon Broadhurst takes a shot.
Sean Gebbis produces a cross, Leon Broadhurst has a headed effort at goal from deep inside the area missing to the left of the target.
Sean Evans produces a cross, Curtis Nelson manages to make a clearance.
Shot by Conor Hourihane. Lewis Solly makes a comfortable save.
Onismor Bhasera sends in a cross, clearance made by Nathan Bennett.
Unfair challenge on Carl Fletcher by Leon Broadhurst results in a free kick. Direct free kick taken by Conor Hourihane.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Nathan Bennett on Warren Feeney. Free kick crossed left-footed by Conor Hourihane from right channel, Sam Smith manages to make a clearance.
Onismor Bhasera gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Sam Rock. Lewis Solly takes the direct free kick.
Shot by Durrell Berry. Save made by Lewis Solly.
Assist by Sean Gebbis.
Goal! - Paul McCone - Stourbr'ge 1 - 0 Plymouth Paul McCone scores a headed goal from inside the six-yard box. Stourbridge 1-0 Plymouth.
Sean Gebbis takes a inswinging corner to the near post,
Simon Walton concedes a free kick for a foul on Ryan Rowe. Strike comes in from Ben Billingham from the free kick.
Centre by Durrell Berry, Lewis Solly makes a save.
Unfair challenge on Simon Walton by Ben Billingham results in a free kick. Simon Walton crosses the ball in from the free kick.
Sean Evans is penalised for handball and concedes a free kick. Durrell Berry takes the free kick.
Sean Evans gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Durrell Berry. Jake Cole restarts play with the free kick.
The second half has started.
Half Time The match has reached half-time.
Unfair challenge on Simon Walton by Ben Billingham results in a free kick. Onismor Bhasera restarts play with the free kick.
The ball is sent over by Nathan Bennett, Ben Gibson manages to make a clearance.
Will Atkinson is penalised for a handball. Sean Gebbis takes the free kick.
Centre by Will Atkinson, save made by Lewis Solly.
Foul by Paul Lloyd on Warren Feeney, free kick awarded. Jake Cole takes the free kick.
Ben Billingham takes a shot. Save by Jake Cole.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Simon Walton by Paul McCone. Direct free kick taken by Jake Cole.
Outswinging corner taken right-footed by Sean Gebbis from the right by-line, clearance by Curtis Nelson.
Direct free kick taken by Jake Cole.
Substitution Durrell Berry replaces Luke Daley.
Booking The referee shows Curtis Nelson a yellow card for dissent.
Booking Booking for Ryan Rowe for dissent.
Dismissal Paul Bignot is sent off by the referee.
Sean Evans gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Paul Bignot.
Sean Evans takes a shot. Curtis Nelson gets a block in.
A cross is delivered by Sean Evans.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Nathan Bennett by Will Atkinson. Direct free kick taken by Lewis Solly.
Short corner worked by Will Atkinson.
Corner taken left-footed by Conor Hourihane, Lewis Solly makes a save. Luke Daley challenges Paul McCone unfairly and gives away a free kick. Lewis Solly takes the direct free kick.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Ryan Rowe on Jake Cole. Jake Cole takes the direct free kick.
Centre by Sean Evans, Ryan Rowe takes a shot. Brilliant save by Jake Cole.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Simon Walton by Paul McCone. Simon Walton takes the free kick.
Foul by Sean Evans on Paul Bignot, free kick awarded. Direct free kick taken by Jake Cole.
Short corner worked by Paul Bignot.
Centre by Luke Daley, blocked by Paul Lloyd.
Ryan Rowe gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Curtis Nelson. Free kick taken by Jake Cole.
Paul Bignot gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Sean Evans. Direct free kick taken by Paul Lloyd.
Carl Fletcher concedes a free kick for a foul on Leon Broadhurst. Direct free kick taken by Sean Gebbis.
Paul McCone concedes a free kick for a foul on Will Atkinson. The free kick is delivered left-footed by Conor Hourihane from left wing, clearance made by Nathan Bennett.
Effort from inside the area by Conor Hourihane misses to the left of the goal.
The ball is crossed by Leon Broadhurst, save by Jake Cole.
Unfair challenge on Nathan Bennett by Warren Feeney results in a free kick. Sean Gebbis sends in a cross, Nathan Bennett takes a shot. Save by Jake Cole.
Carl Fletcher gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Nathan Bennett. Free kick taken by Sean Gebbis.
The match gets underway.
Live data and text provided by our data suppliers
Live text commentary
The object of the game is to put the ball in your opponents' net (a goal, worth three points) or, failing that, between the posts and above the crossbar (for one point).
Matches last for 60 minutes, using a ball resembling a soccer ball, which you can either kick or hand-pass (striking the ball with your open hand or the side of your fist).
Gaelic football shares a number of features with Australian Rules football, and the two sports play annual international matches using a hybrid set of rules.
Gaelic football builds your stamina, agility and awareness in the same way as rugby and football, while hand-eye coordination is also developed.
Players can only move four steps with the ball, so the whole team can expect to be heavily involved in each game.
Junior versions of the game are non-contact, but physicality is a key aspect of adult Gaelic football.
As a predominantly Irish sport, opportunities to play Gaelic football are plentiful in Ireland.
The Gaelic Athletic Association, which runs the sport, offers beginners' camps for children aged seven to 13, and also provides a searchable map of clubs throughout Ireland.
Gaelic football in England, Scotland and Wales is overseen by the Provincial Council of Britain GAA, which maintains a list of clubs and can also be contacted via Twitter.
The Ladies Gaelic Football Association runs a Gaelic4Girls programme culminating in a National Blitz Day aimed at offering new, young players the chance to try the sport. Gaelic4Mothers is also offered across Ireland,
Looking to standardise the rules of similar games being played in Ireland in the 1880s, a man named Michael Cusack convened the first meeting of what would become the Gaelic Athletic Association.
Croke Park, the home of the game in Dublin, was purchased in 1913 and named after Archbishop Thomas William Croke, the first patron of the GAA.
By 1958, Wembley Stadium was being used to host annual exhibition games of Gaelic football in England - more than 40,000 spectators came to watch in 1962.
The New Croke Park, with a capacity of 82,300, opened in 2003 and the GAA celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2009.
Are you inspired to try Gaelic Football? Or maybe you are an expert player already? Get in touch and tell us your experience of the game by tweeting us on @bbcgetinspired or email us on [email protected].
See our full list of activity guides for more inspiration.
Finance company BluMarble lent Dean Holdsworth's Sports Shield the money to complete a takeover with chairman Ken Anderson's Inner Circle Investments.
However, in March, Anderson bought former Bolton striker Holdsworth's shares to become the majority owner of the League One club.
A High Court date has been set for 22 May.
Bolton have said they are aware of the proposed action, but stated it was a matter for Sports Shield and would not comment further.
Wanderers will secure automatic promotion and an immediate return to the Championship if they beat Peterborough at home on Sunday.
A draw is also likely to be enough to confirm a top-two finish, as third-placed Fleetwood would need to win against Port Vale by an eight-goal margin.
The highest court ruled that current laws preventing members of the same sex from marrying violated their right to equality and were unconstitutional.
It gave parliament two years to amend existing laws or pass new ones.
Wednesday's landmark decision came as the LGBT community faces increasing persecution in the region.
In a press release following the ruling, the court said that "disallowing two persons of the same sex to marry, for the sake of safeguarding basic ethical orders" constituted a "different treatment" with "no rational basis."
The court concluded that "such different treatment is incompatible with the spirit and meaning of the right to equality" as protected by Taiwan's constitution.
Taiwanese couple: 'We're just like any other parents'
The court's ruling means Taiwan's parliament will have to amend existing laws or pass new legislation.
But it's still unclear how far parliament will go.
The LGBT community hopes legislators will simply amend the existing marriage laws to include same-sex couples, which would grant them the same rights enjoyed by opposite-sex couples, including in cases of adoption, parenting and inheritance - and making decisions for each other in medical emergencies.
However, they fear parliament won't do that and will instead pass a new law that recognises same-sex marriages but gives them only some rights, not equal treatment in all matters.
Religious and parents groups opposed to gay marriage say they will lobby parliament not to pass any laws on legalisation. They argue such an important matter that affects the whole of society shouldn't be decided by just a few grand justices, but by the people in a referendum.
Both sides will now focus their attention on persuading the legislators.
Self-ruled Taiwan, over which China claims sovereignty, is known for its liberal values and holds the biggest annual gay pride event in the region.
Momentum for marriage equality has been building since last year, when President Tsai Ing-wen, who is openly supportive of the move, came to power.
But the debate has prompted a backlash, with mass protests by conservatives in recent months.
Now that the 14-judge panel has ruled in favour of the legal challenge, the parliament, known as the Legislative Yuan, will begin the process of amending the laws.
It can either legalise same-sex marriage or introduce new separate civil partnership legislation.
If legislators fail to meet the court's two-year deadline, it said same-sex couples could register to marry based on its ruling.
A bill to legalise same-sex marriages is already making its way through parliament, but that process has slowed because of opposition from traditionalists, who do not want Taiwan to become the first place in Asia to allow such weddings.
Mark Sands, 50, pleaded guilty to sending the "grossly offensive" threat on Facebook against Caroline Ansell, MP for Eastbourne and Willingdon.
Factory worker Sands, of Upperton Gardens in Eastbourne, wrote he would stab Ms Ansell "to death," Hastings Magistrates' Court heard.
He is due to be sentenced on 12 April at Brighton Magistrates' Court.
The hearing was told Sands had posted on Facebook: "If you vote to take £30 off my money, I will personally come round to your house... and stab you to death."
In a statement read in court, Ms Ansell said the threats were "chilling" and she had now closed her personal Facebook account.
Her statement said: "It felt like a brush with something sinister."
Speaking after the hearing, she said she felt Sands' threat was "very real".
It had been difficult to tell her children about the threat on her life, she added.
"How do you find the words to make it okay?" she said.
The 40-year-old made his first-class debut in 1993 and has made more than 800 appearances for the county.
Trescothick played 76 Tests, 123 one-day internationals and three Twenty20 matches for England.
"I'm really enjoying my cricket and I still have the hunger to succeed," Trescothick told the club website.
"I have made no secret of my desire to carry on playing for Somerset for as long as I can.
"It's a really exciting time for the county at the moment with the talent that we have coming through and I can't wait to see what happens in the next 12 months."
The 2017 season will be the 25th that Trescothick has been involved with the first team.
The Trussell Trust, which runs over 420 food banks across the UK, says many children risk going hungry over the six-week break from school.
It says demand for emergency parcels for children rose significantly - by more than 4,000 - last July and August.
The government said it was helping families meet the cost of living.
Figures from the Trussell Trust show 67,506 three-day emergency food supplies were provided for children by its network in July and August 2016, compared with 63,094 in the May and June - an increase of 4,412 parcels.
The trust says nearly half (47%) of those 67,506 parcels went to primary-school-age children and over a quarter (27%) to children aged four and under.
It says, while it welcomes the government's decision to keep free school meals for infants in England, more must be done to help struggling families during the holidays.
Samantha Stapley, operations manager for England at The Trussell trust, said: "Over a third of all the food distributed by food banks in our network consistently goes to children, but these new figures show five- to 11-year-olds are more likely than other children to receive a food bank's help.
"This highlights just how close to crisis many families are living - as a nation, we also must address the reasons why families with children are referred to food banks in the first place.
"We welcome the government's decision to maintain free school lunches for children during term time - the next step must be to help families during the holidays.
"Food banks are doing more than ever before, but voluntary organisations alone cannot stop primary school children facing hunger."
A spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: "Employment remains the best route out of poverty.
"Record numbers of people are now in work, and we're helping millions of households meet the everyday cost of living and keep more of what they earn.
"We've doubled free childcare to help parents into work, and continue to spend over £90bn a year on support for those who need it, including those who are bringing up a family or on a low income.
"Budgeting advice and benefit advances are also available for anyone who needs more help."
Rebecca Minnock went on the run from her home in Highbridge, Somerset, with her son Ethan for 17 days after a court ruled he should live with his father.
The 35-year-old was in the Oxford area when she made contact with Avon and Somerset Police on Friday.
Police said no arrests had been made following the boy's return.
Ethan's father, Roger Williams said: "Ethan is safely back in my care now."
Police said both Ms Minnock and Ethan were found "safe and well" and would now receive "the support they need".
"This will be a matter for the family courts now," the spokesman added.
Judge Stephen Wildblood QC, the High Court judge dealing with the case, confirmed there would be a hearing at Bristol Crown Court on Monday.
Speaking to the Daily Mail before she handed herself in, Ms Minnock said she hoped the decision about her son would now be reconsidered.
She told the paper: "I feel that my time has run out now. My only regret would be the trouble that my family have gotten into, all the police efforts and time I've wasted."
Ms Minnock said her son believed he had been on holiday because they had been having "normal, fun times together", such as going swimming and visiting parks.
She said she decided to come out of hiding after Ethan asked to see family members.
Nicholas Cusworth QC, a family law barrister, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Ms Minnock's decision to breach the court order would be taken into "very serious consideration" in future legal proceedings.
"The court will have to decide how to take forward the relationship he has with both his parents," he said.
"In circumstances where the court makes an order designed to protect the best interest of a child, for one of that child's parents to undermine that court order deliberately... inevitably will mean the well of trust the court has towards her is going to be at a low ebb at the moment.
"It'll be up to her to demonstrate that she can be trusted in future."
Ms Minnock has been engaged in a two-year legal battle with Mr Williams over contact with their son.
In February, a district judge found she had fabricated allegations against him in order to "frustrate contact" with his son.
A social worker reported that Ethan was not "emotionally safe" with his mother, and Ethan had been staying with his father four nights a week since February.
Earlier on Friday, Ethan's grandmother was sentenced to 10 days in prison for lying in court about the pair's disappearance.
Louise Minnock, 52, was convicted of contempt of court for hiding the fact they were driven to Cheltenham by her partner Andrew Butt, who was jailed for 28 days for contempt.
American Ward, 32, won the battle of the unbeaten fighters by 114-113 on all three ringside scorecards in Las Vegas.
Ward landed some good punches but withstood pressure from Kovalev, 33, who was unhappy with the US judges.
"I agree they support their boxer but honestly, this is sport. Don't make it like politics," he said.
Asked whether he would face Ward again, Kovalev replied: "Sure - and I'll kick his ass."
But Ward felt he was worthy of his 31st professional victory.
"In a tight fight, he's going to feel like he got robbed. I'd have been been disappointed. But we got the belts tonight," he said.
"That was the first time in my career I got dropped. I'm pleased with the way I responded."
Kovalev's promoter Kathy Duva said she would use the rematch clause in the contract for a second fight.
"He won the first six rounds so I don't know how he could lose a decision,'' she said.
The clash between the skilful Ward and hard-hitting Kovalev was billed as the fight of the year, and lived up to expectations.
Ward had said he could finish the former super-middleweight champion early, but was left on the canvas in the second round by a stinging right-hander.
He eased his way back into the contest and landed a good left in the seventh round which jolted Kovalev.
Ward won all of the last six rounds on two scorecards, and five of six on a third , to inflict his opponent's first defeat in 32 fights.
"It was a fight of my life,'' said Kovalev. "I am disappointed in the judges' decision. He got maybe a few rounds, I agree with that. I kept control. I lost maybe three rounds the whole fight.''
The judges appeared to favour Ward's counter-punching against the aggressive style of Kovalev.
"We were a little careless with that knockdown in the second round, but we landed the cleaner punches,'' said Ward's trainer Virgil Hunter.
On the undercard, two-time Olympic gold medallist Claressa Shields made her professional debut, winning a decision over Franchon Crews in a four-round super middleweight fight.
The collapse, in Barrow-upon-Soar in Leicestershire on 1 August, caused severe disruption for rail passengers heading to and from London.
It reopened to pedestrians three weeks later but required further work before being deemed safe enough for vehicles.
Network Rail said it had been a "huge project" to repair the bridge which is due to reopen on 27 March.
The firm said the work involved removing 200 tonnes of debris, restoring the brick parapet wall, reconnecting gas and water mains and resurfacing the road.
Area director Gary Walsh said: "Work to repair old bridges such as this one are complicated and can run into unforeseen challenges."
Further repairs will be carried out on the bridge later in the year.
The town's planning committee voted unanimously against the proposals for 38 terraced, semi-detached and detached houses.
Carlisle-based Story Homes had applied to build in a field adjoining the Grade I listed abbey precinct wall.
The company's development planner David Hayward said the wrong decision had been made.
"We feel Barrow needs new homes, it needs new executive homes, we had the evidence telling us that," he said.
Paul Littlewood, who led a campaign against the plans, said it was "not against Story Homes and it was certainly not against development in the town, it was just this site".
The company has not decided whether it will appeal against the decision.
Tribal elders had gathered at the home of Obaiduallah Shinwari to celebrate his brother's release from months of captivity by the Taliban.
The released brother and his father are among 14 people injured in the attack.
It comes ahead of a second round of efforts to restart peace talks with the Taliban. They have denied the attack.
Jalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar province, where two districts are controlled, or at least influenced, by the Islamic State group - a rival of Taliban.
The Afghan government has been locked in a bloody conflict with Taliban militants for more than a decade.
Key Afghan, Pakistani, Chinese and US officials met last week for talks aimed at establishing a roadmap for peace between the Afghanistan government and the Taliban.
However, the Taliban, who are divided by factional infighting, did not attend that session.
Peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban collapsed last year, after news emerged that Taliban leader Mullah Omar had in fact died in 2013.
His deputy Mullah Mansour was declared leader in July - but a number of senior Taliban commanders refused to pledge allegiance to him and a faction opposed to him was set up under Mullah Mohammad Rasool.
The Taliban has launched several high-profile attacks in recent months.
In December, the militant group launched an attack on the strategic district of Sangin. It later seized and blew up the police headquarters and governor's compound.
And in September, the Taliban briefly overran the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, in one of their biggest victories since 2001.
|
A man and woman have been found dead at a house in Worcester.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Oil firm EnQuest saw its pre-tax losses more than double last year after taking a hit from the oil price slump.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Oksana Chusovitina's son turns 16 next month.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has suffered severe fractures after a car crashed into him following a row in a car park in Greater Manchester.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Foreign music fans visiting the UK for gigs and festivals boosted the economy by £3.1bn in 2014, a report says.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A zoo has been evacuated due to what police have called a "serious incident".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The owners of Oxford United's Kassam Stadium have failed with a second appeal to prevent the ground being listed as a community asset.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Older people have been offered advice on the dangers of cyber scamming in a pilot project that could be rolled out across Scotland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Lyle Taylor's brace helped AFC Wimbledon to a win over fellow League Two play-off hopefuls Wycombe.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two-time Olympic medallist Paddy Barnes has announced his move from amateur to professional boxing.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Northamptonshire batsmen dominated on the third day of their Championship match against Kent at Beckenham to leave the match heading for a draw.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy has pledged to invest £1bn in Scotland's "young working-class" during a speech in the City of London.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A driver who failed to stop for police before a crash which killed a female passenger has been been bailed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Greece is returning to the financial markets to borrow money.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Scottish economy will continue to grow this year but it is no longer keeping pace with the UK as a whole, according to a leading forecaster.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A major fire has damaged a maintenance depot in Oban which services Argyll and Bute Council's fleet of vehicles.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Warrington Wolves have signed half-back Gary Wheeler on a one-year deal following his release by St Helens.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Wales manager Chris Coleman said his players are now worthy of being described as a "golden generation" after qualifying for Euro 2016.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The number of adult learners in the UK has fallen - with a particular decline among men, an annual survey suggests.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Northumbria Police has put eight of its former stations up for sale after carrying out a review of its estate.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
No fines have been issued in Wales for smoking in cars with children, a year after the law was introduced.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
England captain Andrew Strauss has retired from all forms of cricket.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
England all-rounder Ben Stokes is currently the best player in the world, says former spinner Graeme Swann.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The economist Angela McGowan is to become the new director of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in Northern Ireland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Southern Premier side Stourbridge reached the FA Cup second round for the first time in their history with a shock replay win over 10-man Plymouth.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Gaelic football is one of the most popular sports in Ireland - a fast-paced game played between 30 players on a field larger than a football pitch.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bolton Wanderers have been issued a winding-up petition over an unpaid £5m loan, BBC Radio Manchester reports.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Taiwan's top judges have ruled in favour of gay marriage, paving the way for it to become the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex unions.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has admitted making threats on social media to kill a Sussex Conservative MP.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former England opener Marcus Trescothick has signed a one-year contract to keep him at Somerset until the end of the 2017 season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
As the school summer holidays get under way, food banks are urging people not to forget to donate supplies to their local centres.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A three-year-old British boy who was missing with his mother for more than two weeks is "safely back" with his father.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Andre Ward survived a second-round knockdown to beat Sergey Kovalev on points and claim the Russian's IBF, WBA and WBO light-heavyweight titles.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A bridge that partially collapsed on to railway tracks is to reopen to traffic next month.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Plans for a housing development near the ruins of Furness Abbey in Barrow have been rejected.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A suicide bomber has killed at least 13 people at the Jalalabad home of a prominent local politician who backs President Ashraf Ghani's peace talks.
| 34,461,545 | 16,204 | 997 | true |
The "Listeners" scheme operates in Northern Ireland's two biggest prisons.
To marks its 10th anniversary, one of Maghaberry Prison's Listeners agreed to speak to the BBC about his work.
He did not want to be identified, so we agreed to call him Mark. He said Listeners can often be the "only strong support network" for some prisoners.
'Disowned'
Mark has served five years of an eight-and-a-half year indeterminate sentence for causing grievous bodily harm.
He has been working as a Listener for almost three years and said he hopes to do similar work when he is released from prison.
"When I came in here I had to rehabilitate myself and part of that was to be more outward focusing," he said.
Anyone wanting to contact Mark or any of the other seven Listeners in Maghaberry can do so informally by approaching them directly, or by asking a prison officer to arrange a meeting.
At busy times, Mark often speaks to three prisoners a day.
"It's seasonal, Christmas is a very busy time," he said.
"Predominantly, family is an important factor for people in here. It's one of the few things that people have left so if there's something going on with family life that can be a big issue.
"Some people are maybe disowned or some people don't have a family, so we are probably their only strong support network.
"And there's a lot of people with poor mental health in here, so that's another big one, and drugs."
Part of the training given to the Listeners is how to cope with some of the personal accounts they hear.
Mark says it can be difficult work, but also rewarding.
"Sometimes you do hear some horror stories and it's not nice," he said.
"But it's always good to walk away from a cell knowing that that person is feeling a little bit better and you might have had a positive impact in their life.
"It's great whenever you go in there and you are able to build that person back up and you know you have maybe saved a life or improved that person's life."
Ond ar ôl wythnos ym Môn mae hi wedi cael "profiad dwfn", syrthio mewn cariad gyda'r iaith a darganfod haen arall i'w Chymreictod.
Mae'n cyflwyno Eisteddfod 2017: with Josie d'Arby ar BBC Two Wales nos Sadwrn 12 Awst.
Bu'n rhannu ei hargraffiadau gyda Cymru Fyw ar y Maes ym Modedern.
Ro'n i wrth fy modd gydag eisteddfodau yn yr ysgol, dyna oedd fy hoff ddiwrnod yn y flwyddyn. Ro'n i bob amser yn cymryd rhan - mae'r tystysgrifau yn dal gen i!
Dyna lle ges i flas ar siarad cyhoeddus a fy nghariad at y celfyddydau - drwy gael fy nghyflwyno iddyn nhw mor ifanc a chael fy annog mewn ffordd iach i gymryd rhan.
Dwi'n ddiolchgar iawn am y profiad.
Ond 'dw i ddim yn credu fy mod i wedi deall beth oedd yr eisteddfod ar lefel genedlaethol. Y cyfan wyddwn i oedd ei fod yn rhywbeth Cymraeg a bod yr iaith yn cael ei siarad yno. Felly am y rheswm yna, ro'n i efallai'n credu mai rhywbeth ar gyfer siaradwyr Cymraeg oedd e. A dydw i ddim yn siaradwr Cymraeg.
Dyna'n sicr sut oeddwn i'n meddwl am yr ŵyl pan ddes i yma.
Ac fel y trôdd hi allan, nid dyna sut mae hi.
Yn amlwg mae 'na lefel o fynediad sydd gennych chi os ydych chi'n medru'r iaith ond mae 'na ffordd y gallwch wir fwynhau a deall heb wybod beth mae pob gair yn ei feddwl.
Fe ellwch chi'n bendant ddeall calon, ysbryd ac emosion yr holl beth. A'r hwyl! Hyd yn oed pan mae pobl wedi bod yn siarad Cymraeg, dwi wedi bod yn chwerthin efo nhw, dwi'n gallu gweld yn eu tôn eu bod nhw'n cael hwyl ac yn mwynhau eu hunain.
Felly mae wedi bod ychydig yn hudolus imi yn bersonol. Rydw i'n difaru na ddes i yma'n gynt. Ro'n i jyst yn cymryd yn ganiataol nad oedd e'n rhywbeth imi.
Mae 'na lot o bobl yn gweithio yma 'dw i wedi eu 'nabod ers blynyddoedd ac wedi gwybod eu bod nhw'n mynd i weithio yn yr Eisteddfod bob blwyddyn. Eu peth nhw oedd o, felly doeddwn i byth yn holi ac efallai mai dyna pam na wnaeth neb ddweud wrtha' i amdano.
Ond pan ofynnwyd imi ddod yma eleni, ro'n i'n gwybod yn syth mod i eisiau mynd ac fe wnes i neidio ar y cyfle.
Ro'n i'n meddwl mod i'n mynd i dreulio'r wythnos yn ymddiheuro bob eiliad am beidio gwrando yn y dosbarth, felly mae wedi bod yn anhygoel i gael fy amgylchynu gan yr iaith, yn enwedig mewn maes rydw i'n ei garu - y celfyddydau.
Mae iaith yn rhywbeth emosiynol. Pan dwi wedi deall, dwi wedi canfod bod yr hyn sy'n cael ei ddweud yn hynod o brydferth. Pan dwi heb ddeall, dwi wedi teimlo'n hynod o rwystredig ac wedi bod reit flin gyda fy hun, achos mae'r cyfleoedd yno i ddysgu, heb os.
Mae gen i ffrindiau sy'n siarad Cymraeg fel iaith gyntaf ond dydi'r peth erioed wedi codi - am wn i eu bod nhw wedi cymryd yn ganiataol na fyddai'n rhywbeth fyddai o ddiddordeb imi. Ond dwi'n credu mod i'n mynd i osod ambell nod i fy hun nawr, hyd yn oed os yw'n ddim ond 10 ymadrodd newydd y mis.
I fod wedi cael profiad mor ddwfn â'r un rydw i wedi ei gael yr wythnos hon, rydw i eisiau i hyn fod yn ddechrau perthynas newydd.
Mae iaith yn gallu bod yn anodd, mae newid eich arferion yn cymryd amser hir ond mi allaf yn sicr ddweud fy mod i wedi syrthio mewn cariad gyda'r iaith. A dwi ddim yn dweud hynny mewn ffordd ysgafn, ystrydebol, achos dwi wedi bod yn gwrando o ddifri, yn gwrando'n ofalus ar y rhythm, y tôn, yr angerdd a'r llawenydd yn y ffordd mae pobl yn ei siarad.
Unwaith ddes i dros y ffaith nad oeddwn i'n mynd i ddeall popeth, ro'n i'n iawn.
Wrth glywed y cyfieithu, dyna pryd wnes i feddwl 'o, dw i yn colli allan'. Nid dim ond gwenu, nodio a phopeth ar lefel arwynebol ydi hi.
Mae beth sy'n cael ei ddweud yn wirioneddol ddiddorol, y feirniadaeth o'r farddoniaeth a'r canu corawl - mae gwybod beth sy'n cael ei ddweud yn agoriad llygad go iawn.
Ac yna stori Hedd Wyn - fe wnaeth honno fy llorio. Doeddwn i ddim yn gwybod dim amdano.
Dwi wedi teimlo cysylltiad o ddifri gyda'r stori yna yn enwedig, wedi teimlo fod gen i cysylltiad gyda Hedd Wyn a bod yna bethau sy'n gyffredin rhyngon ni.
Mi siaradais gyda Huw Garmon, yr actor sy'n ei chwarae yn y ffilm, ac mae ganddo e bethau gwahanol yn gyffredin â Hedd Wyn a dehongliad gwahanol o bwy oedd e.
Ond o'r ychydig dwi wedi ei ddysgu amdano a'r cerddi wnes i lwyddo i ddarganfod cyfieithiadau iddyn nhw fe wnes i ddarganfod dyn ysbrydol tu hwnt. Ac ar y lefel honno y gwnes i deimlo cysylltiad, ac ar y lefel honno y gwnes i deimlo ei golled i'r byd.
Doeddwn i ddim yn disgwyl dim o hynny.
Ro'n i go iawn yn meddwl mai sioe oedd y Steddfod, cystadleuaeth dalent, ac ro'n i'n meddwl 'fydd hyn yn hwyl'. Wyddwn i ddim am yr haenau a'r dyfnder - mae 'na rywbeth gwirioneddol ddidwyll yn digwydd yma.
Beth dwi wedi ei weld yn digwydd yma, yn fwy nag unrhyw ddigwyddiad celfyddydol neu ddiwylliannol arall dwi wedi bod iddo, ydy'r rôl a'r ymdrech ddynol mewn cynnal a hyrwyddo traddodiad a diwylliant - mae'n llafur cariad go iawn.
Beth welwch chi ydy pobl sy'n angerddol am rywbeth, a ddaw dim byd ond daioni o hynny, does dim ochr negyddol.
Ond wnewch chi ddim ei ddeall os nag ydych chi wedi eich amgylchynu ganddo. Os nad ydych chi erioed wedi bod yn ei ganol, erioed wedi bod ynghanol côr meibion yn canu emyn, fedrwch chi ddim deall ei fod yn rhywbeth arbennig - wnewch chi ddim ei 'gael'.
Lle bynnag rydw i'n mynd yn y byd, mae pobl yn cymryd yn ganiataol mod i'n Brydeiniwr ac yn Saesnes - os ydych chi'n siarad Saesneg maen nhw'n cymryd mai Saesnes ydych chi ond mi fyddai bob amser yn eu cywiro ac yn dweud mai Cymraes ydw i.
Ond nawr mae'n golygu llawer mwy. Nawr rydw i'n gwybod beth mae'n ei feddwl - rydw i'n deall fy mod yn siarad am hanes a diwylliant a thraddodiad rydw i'n anhygoel o falch ohono.
At least six cases of so-called "avoidable deaths" have taken place at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock over the past eight years.
The bereaved families, including June and Fraser Morton from Kilmarnock, say they are still waiting for answers.
NHS Ayrshire and Arran has given them an "unreserved apology".
The Mortons' son Lucas died at the hospital last November.
The couple had moved to Kilmarnock to raise a family, but now say they have been so traumatised by events surrounding Lucas's death that they will have to leave the area.
Fraser Morton said "We've got Lucas's room all prepared but we just can't go in it.
"We're going to have to move. It has taken such a toll. We've lost our future. So we can't give up."
NHS Ayrshire and Arran has offered its "sincerest condolences" to the family.
It has apologised to Mrs Morton for "the management offered to you in the later weeks of your pregnancy which almost certainly failed to identify complications that contributed to Lucas's very tragic and unnecessary death".
"Unnecessary or "avoidable" deaths are referred to as those where harm was caused to a healthy baby during childbirth - usually resulting in them being deprived of oxygen.
But although the health board referred to it as a "severe" adverse event, it did not carry out a full serious adverse event review - which is common practice - and would have meant that redacted details would have been published on its website.
External reviews and reports by the health board indicate a failure to diagnose pre-eclampsia, delays and a failure to correctly monitor the baby's heartbeat - and a failure to alert senior members of staff despite being unable to hear the baby's heartbeat for 35 minutes.
They refer to "substandard" and "suboptimal" care and say different steps could have resulted in a different outcome.
"Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong," said Mr Morton. "I believe they were understaffed and overworked. They didn't have the training knowledge and experience, and I believe that comes back to management issues.
"If mistakes had not been made, the difference is quite simple. Lucas would have been here. It would have been his first birthday. The independent reports substantiate that and say earlier intervention would have led to a different result."
Correspondence also referred to failure to enforce mandatory training on foetal heartbeat monitoring [CTG] because of staff shortages.
A letter from the health board in June states: "Unfortunately midwifery staff do not have time within their working practices... to attend CTG meetings. With the challenges of shift working and constraints of the European working time directive as well as a significant problem with unfilled posts... group teaching is harder to provide. The re-introduction of multi-disciplinary CTG training is very important and at present we cannot make this mandatory due to our midwifery staffing levels."
The health board report the death to the Crown Office - despite Crown Office guidelines which state: "The doctor with the most detailed knowledge of the circumstances of the death should report it.
"Any death the circumstances of which are the subject of concern to, or complaint by, the nearest relatives of the deceased about the medical treatment given… the circumstances of which might indicate fault or neglect on the part of medical staff or where medical staff have concerns regarding the circumstances of death… likely to be subject to an Adverse Event Review"
A report by external consultant Dr Dina McLellan later commissioned by the Crown Office found delays that were "not appropriate", including a failure to get a foetal heart rate for more than 30 minutes.
The families' call for a public inquiry follows an investigation into the "lethal mix" of failures at a Cumbrian hospital which led to the unnecessary deaths of 11 babies and one mother
The inquiry into the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust found 20 major failures from 2004 to 2013 at Furness General Hospital.
NHS Ayrshire and Arran told BBC Scotland it ensures all the appropriate staff do have training on foetal monitoring and that they are aware of and follow the guidelines on reporting to the procurator fiscal.
Lucas died at Kilmarnock's Crosshouse Hospital exactly 12 months ago. But the BBC has learned that his death and the circumstances surrounding it are not unique.
Denise and Steven Campbell have a daughter called Alex and a son called Maxwell, but they believe they should and could have three children. Their son Joseph died during childbirth at Crosshouse Hospital four years ago.
"Our side of the story never, ever got asked," said Denise. "They said they just sat round the table with a cup of tea and talked about it and decided there was nothing that could have been done - that it was just one of these things.
"Then we spoke to the consultant who said things should have been done differently - especially in relation to monitoring Joseph's heartbeat."
The Mortons and the Campbells now want a public inquiry into the deaths of their sons.
Whistleblower Rab Wilson went public in 2012, saying there were a number of "avoidable deaths" in Ayrshire and Arran that required investigation.
"I was given a strong assurance by John Burns, the chief executive, that lessons would be learned and that these things would not happen again," he told the BBC.
"Yet here we are three, four years down the line and exactly the same thing has continued to happen in Ayrshire and Arran. And who is accountable for this? It really comes back to systemic failings. But the chief executive is in charge of these systems and should be putting them right.
"Families in desperate need of help and support, in desperate circumstances, are being led round and round in circles going to different regulatory bodies but no one is taking responsibility."
In 2012, the then health secretary ordered an investigation into NHS Ayrshire and Arran after the health board was severely criticised for withholding more than 50 reports on serious adverse incidents at its hospitals and clinics.
Documents show that prior to 2012 there were a further four deaths of babies.
Several of those reports refer to the deaths of babies with reference to failings in monitoring of their heartbeat [CTG]. One such report published in 2012 concludes: "There appears to be a failure of care in several areas; failure of an on-call consultant to attend, failure in communication of information, lack of interpretation of the CTG trace and vital signs."
In 2012, Ayrshire and Arran had the highest rate of deaths for newborn babies in mainland Britain, - according to the Audit MBRRACE-UK.
Its figures have since improved. But in their latest reports this year, NHS Grampian, NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Borders had death rates up to 10% higher than average.
MBRRACE looks at babies' deaths before, during, or shortly after birth. Their reports highlight those trusts and health boards which need to review their care provision with some urgency.
Dr Alison Graham, executive medical director of the NHS Ayrshire and Arran health board said: "I would take this opportunity again to apologise to both families for any failings they experienced during their time with us.
"NHS Ayrshire and Arran is committed to ensuring that, if there is any possibility that there has been avoidable harm, this is investigated thoroughly and that we are open, honest and transparent about this."
Dr Graham added: "When reviews identify that there has been avoidable harm we speak with people affected and report this openly through our clinical governance systems. We also share any findings with the families concerned. This ensures we have the proper procedures in place to learn and improve.
"NHS Ayrshire and Arran and our medical staff fully understand the requirements for reporting stillbirth deaths to the procurator fiscal and we fulfil this requirement.
"We have an annual mandatory training requirement for midwives for Cardiotocography (CTG). I can confirm that all midwives within Ayrshire Maternity Unit who are required to interpret CTG results have completed this training and do so on an annual basis.
"Since 2008 up until 31 March 2016, there have been four Significant Adverse Event Reviews (SAERs) concerning stillbirth deaths at Ayrshire Maternity Unit. During this time, 33,716 babies have been born at Ayrshire Maternity Unit."
In relation to the case of Lucas Morton, a spokesman for the Crown Office said: "The investigation, under the direction of the Scottish Fatalities Investigation Unit (SFIU), is ongoing and the family will continue to be kept updated."
In boss Pep Guardiola's debut campaign, City came third in the Premier League, made the FA Cup semi-finals and reached the Champions League last 16 this year.
"Pep wants to win it all and that's what I love about him most because that's how I feel too," Mubarak said.
"We might not be able to achieve it but I can assure you we're going to try."
He added: "That ambition of winning the Champions League, that dream excites me every day, knowing we can do it.
"Next year is going to be a massive year for us. Expectations are high, ambitions are high. I have a lot of hope that we're going to come back next season very strong.
"The dream of doing the treble, yes. I want to do the treble, or else let's go for the quadruple! Why not?"
The only English club to have earned four trophies in one season is Manchester United, who won the Community Shield, League Cup, Premier League and Club World Cup over the 2008-09 campaign.
Next season City will be competing for four trophies - the Premier League, FA Cup, EFL Cup and Champions League.
Since the league season ended, they have already completed a deal to sign attacking midfielder Bernardo Silva from Monaco for £43m, while Benfica goalkeeper Ederson Moraes is also set to join.
"We're on the right track," Mubarak added.
"We have a great manager, we're all working behind him, supporting him. We are going to do our work this summer. The trajectory is right and I'm very optimistic.
"We should have that aspiration. I have it, no doubt. Sheikh Mansour [owner] drives me for it every day, but you look at the organisation and you see it in Pep's eyes and in everybody within our group."
He told MPs the UK was proposing to leave the body "on a technicality" when it was actually distinct from the EU.
Urging a rethink during a Parliamentary debate, colleague Bob Neill said it would "not be the first time" legal advice given to ministers was wrong.
The government will publish a paper setting out their stance on Thursday.
Ministers have previously said they are legally obliged to leave Euratom at the same time as quitting the EU, insisting the UK can form a new arrangement with the body after Brexit, replicating its existing benefits.
The decision has caused unease in the nuclear industry amid fears it could affect safety, transportation of materials and access to cutting-edge research. The medical profession has also expressed concern about the effect on treatments, including for cancer, if there is reduced access to the radio isotopes used.
Speaking in a Westminster Hall debate, a number of MPs from all parties urged the government to reconsider its position and remain either a full or associate member of the organisation, which was created at the same time as the European Economic Community in 1957 but via a separate treaty.
Mr Vaizey, who has led a campaign against the move, said he accepted the nature of the legal advice received by the government but said MPs were in the dark about its substance and needed greater assurances.
"The trouble is that none of us have seen that legal advice," he said. "I know it is unprecedented for the government to publish legal advice but I think it would be very useful to have some form of distilled version of the legal advice on the link to Euratom."
John Howell, the MP for Henley, said the legal position was not "black and white" as some were suggesting.
He said negotiating associate membership would safeguard funding until 2022 but said this must be done before the summer of 2018 when Austria, which he described as "notoriously anti-nuclear", would take over the rotating presidency of the European Union.
Labour MP Daniel Zeichner said the decision to leave was being driven by the prime minister's "antipathy" to the European Court of Justice and her desire to "bring in its own referee rather than playing by the rules".
But Conservative Chris Green questioned whether it was feasible for the UK to remain part of every organisation connected to the EU and that if the UK had to leave Euratom then "so be it" - but it should do so on the "best possible grounds".
But Bill Cash said the legal necessity of exit was "unequivocal" while colleague Suella Fernandes said Euratom shared an "institutional structure" with the European Commission and European Court of Justice and to remain a member would be "going behind the back" of what the public voted for in last year's referendum.
For the government, Business Minister Richard Harrington said there had been "alarming stories" in the press about what leaving Euratom would mean for the nuclear sector and medicine but that these were unfounded.
"We do not believe that leaving Euratom will have any adverse effect on the supply of medical radio isotopes."
Although they were covered by the Euratom treaty, it "does not place any restriction on the export of medical isotopes outside the EU".
He insisted the UK wanted to maintain a "collaborate and constructive relationship" with Euratom on all civil nuclear matters while establishing its own national safeguards regime under the auspices of the Office for Nuclear Regulation through new legislation.
On the legal issue, he said the UK's decision to serve notice of Brexit through its Article 50 letter would have been "defective" if Euratom had been left out.
"There was clear advice at the time about the unique nature of the legal relationship between the separate nature of the treaties and the inseparable nature of them," he said.
The BBC's Chris Morris said EU lawyers had been very clear that the UK would have to leave Euratom when leaving the EU, the alternative being some kind of bilateral agreement which would have to be negotiated and would involve the ECJ in some respects.
The donations, made on a fundraising website, will enable her to travel to Germany for "cutting edge" treatment.
Bracknell, who played Zoe Tate in the ITV soap from 1989 to 2005, was diagnosed five weeks ago.
She said in a statement: "I really did not expect or feel deserving of such interest and kindness."
More than 2,500 contributions have been made to the site in five days, leading to the £50,000 target being met. The appeal currently stands at £55,000.
The actress, whose real name is Alison and who is known to her family as Ali, said: " I want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for all the donations, the messages of encouragement, and for sharing the campaign.
"I feel extremely blessed. We did not expect to raise anywhere near that amount, and certainly not in such a short space of time."
The 52-year-old said the campaign would continue, with decisions made at a later stage on how the money would be spent, depending on how she responds to the treatment.
"We pledge that any surplus donations will be given to other campaigns/charities to help those facing the same struggle," said Bracknell. "Right now, I feel strong, positive and (am) looking forward to the future."
The mother-of-two has been working as a yoga instructor in recent years and had been about to start rehearsing for a new play, a comedy, when she was diagnosed with stage four cancer.
Her partner Jez Hughes has said the couple want to try treatments at a clinic in Germany, which "aren't yet available on the NHS outside of clinical trials and are very expensive".
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected].
Wedi hanner cyntaf di-sgor, aeth Fernando Llorente â'r Elyrch ar y blaen ar ddechrau'r ail hanner gyda dwy gôl o fewn pedair munud i'w gilydd.
Fe rwydodd Roberto Firmino ddwywaith i ddod â'r tîm cartref yn ôl yn gyfartal ond gydag 16 munud i fynd o'r 90, fe sgoriodd Gylfi Sigurdsson drydedd gôl Abertawe.
Llwyddodd yr Elyrch i ddal gafael o'r fantais er gwaetha dros bum munud o chwarae ychwanegol.
Dyma fuddugoliaeth gynta'r Elyrch dan eu rheolwr newydd, Paul Clement.
Mae'r fuddugoliaeth hefyd yn golygu mai Abertawe yw'r tîm cyntaf i guro Lerpwl yn Anfield ers dros flwyddyn.
Dywedodd Iwan Roberts, cyn ymosodwr Cymru a Norwich, oedd yn sylwebu ar y gêm ar raglen Camp Lawn BBC Radio Cymru: "Roedd eu disgyblaeth nhw yn anhygoel, chwarae teg.
"Mi wneith y canlyniad yma godi clwb Abertawe mor uchel.
"Maen nhw allan o'r tri ar y gwaelod, a dwi'n gwybod bod ganddyn nhw gymaint o ffordd i fynd i wneud yn siwr eu bod nhw'n dal yn yn yr uwch-gynghrair y tymor nesaf, ond mae yna obaith rwan."
Marcel was found fatally injured by police called to reports of an assault at about 23:15 BST on Friday, in the St John's Estate, Hoxton.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. A witness said she saw the teenager being chased through the estate.
Marcel's family said they were devastated by his death. No arrests have been made, the Met confirmed.
In a statement, his family said: "We cannot comprehend how anyone could carry out such a wicked attack.
"We want those people who know something about this attack to come forward and provide information to the police.
"These people must come forward to prevent another family going through the pain we are all now suffering."
A 40-year-old woman, who did not want to be named, said she saw the victim from the window of her flat and described seeing "a big chase".
A post-mortem examination will be held at Poplar Mortuary on Monday, the Met said.
Det Ch Insp Andy Partridge said: "My officers have been at the scene since the attack took place and have come across a community left shocked by what has taken place.
"Whilst we have had a good initial response I believe there are still a number of people who were at the scene who have not come forward, people who hold significant information."
Flowers have been placed near to the estate in tribute to the victim.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Tweddle, 28, has not competed since she claimed her first Olympic podium finish last summer.
That display on the uneven bars was the highlight of a career in which she won three world and six European golds.
"It's been a hard decision. Gymnastics has been and always will be a massive part of my life," she said.
The City of Liverpool gymnast ended her Olympic disappointment last summer when she finished third with a score of 15.916.
Despite continuing to train, she took a break from competitive gymnastics after London 2012, subsequently missing events such as April's European Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
"Following the Olympics I've had a lot of projects on and recently I've had a bit more time to get back into the gym and decide whether I could put 100% into it. I know now deep down that I can't commit to the hours and training to remain at the very top," Tweddle said.
"I don't think my achievements will ever really sink in but, when I do look back, I can be very proud of what I've done and how I've done it."
Tweddle's record-breaking medal haul began aged 17 at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, where she collected a gold and two silvers.
"Nobody transformed British gymnastics like Beth Tweddle.
"Out on her own as Britain's sole world-class gymnast for much of her career, she broke down barriers for British athletes and showed generations of younger gymnasts that success could be theirs on the biggest stages.
"Her Olympic bronze medal at London 2012, having come so close to the podium in Beijing four years earlier, was the least she deserved after decades of tireless dedication to the pursuit of perfection and promotion of her sport."
Throughout the next decade, she went on to win more than 20 golds in major championships throughout the world.
Tweddle's achievements were made all the more remarkable by the fact she battled a knee problem to remain successful in a sport in which it is rare to compete much beyond the age of 20.
British Olympic Association chairman Sebastian Coe labelled her "an inspiration and a role model for a generation".
"During a remarkable career that has seen her achieve unprecedented success at every level of competition, Beth Tweddle has set a new standard of excellence for British Gymnastics," he said.
Tweddle - who finished third in the BBC Sport Personality of the Year voting in 2006 - follows cyclists Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton and swimmer Rebecca Adlington in deciding to end her sporting career post-London 2012.
Following her announcement, a Beth Tweddle Academy is to be opened in a school on the London Olympic site. This will provide gymnastics training for children aged 2-14 years old.
Tad Cummins was arrested in northern California, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced.
The pair, missing for a month, were found near the remote Shasta-Trinity National Forest, the Tennessean newspaper reported.
Mr Cummins had been seeking work in the area, according to the owner of the property where his car was discovered.
A lawyer for the girl's family said: "There aren't words in the English language to describe the level of relief and elation experienced by the Thomas family."
Jason Whatley added: "Now begins another hard chapter, but for now, we celebrate."
The girl has not yet spoken to her family due to her location being too remote, he said, and police officers were forced to trek through snow to capture him.
The 50-year-old had been Elizabeth's teacher at Culleoka Unit School in Maury County, Tennessee.
Tennessee officials said that he "may have been abusing his role as a teacher to groom this vulnerable young girl for some time in an effort to lure and potentially sexually exploit her".
The two disappeared on 13 March, weeks after a student reported seeing them kissing inside a classroom.
Shortly afterwards, they were spotted on surveillance cameras at a Walmart in Oklahoma City, but they had not been seen since.
Mr Cummins was suspended in February from teaching after failing to adhere to school administrators orders to stay away from the teenager.
Authorities say that before disappearing, Mr Cummins had carried out online research on "teen marriage".
He also purchased hair dye, took out a $4,500 (£3,600) personal loan, and researched if his Nissan Rogue vehicle could be tracked, officials say.
Police had considered Mr Cummins armed and dangerous during the manhunt.
According to a legal petition filed in court by the girl's family earlier this month, Mr Cummins is a "masterfully manipulating predator" who forced Elizabeth to go out with him by threatening her with repercussions at school.
According to the court papers, Mr Cummins - who had been married for 31 years - would visit the girl at home to pick her up for meals, as well as come to the fast food restaurant where she worked.
"The child had told various siblings and/or friends that she was scared of Cummins and felt in over her head," the documents show.
Jill Cummins, the suspect's wife, filed for divorce as officials closed in on her husband.
"It's very selfish of him to have done this to us," she told ABC News.
"I do love him, but I don't trust him anymore. He's totally betrayed me," she went on to say.
Authorities had chased more than 1,500 leads in all 50 states, according to Tennessee Bureau of Investigations Director Mark Gwyn.
26 April 2017 Last updated at 12:02 BST
But it seems that she's already looking for her next challenge.
Ellie told Newsround that she'd like to follow in the footsteps of fellow gymnast Claudia Fragapane and take part in Strictly Come Dancing.
She popped into the studio this morning - check out her interview with Ricky.
Trevor Mulindwa, 21, was arrested in a prayer room at Heathrow Airport before he could leave for Mogadishu on 17 September last year, a court has heard.
The convicted cocaine dealer had been released on licence from Springfield Hospital in south London.
He was sentenced to six years by a judge at Kingston Crown Court.
Mulindwa, from Halliwell Close, Mitcham, south London, was convicted of engaging in conduct in preparation for terrorist at a trial last month.
The court heard he was arrested in the prayer room of Terminal Three.
He was attempting to fly out to join al-Shabab nine days after being released from the hospital where he spent just over 12 months of a 27-month sentence for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
While in the hospital he radicalised himself after circumventing restrictions on his internet access to view jihadist material, the court heard.
He also asked Muslim staff which mosques he should attend to become an "extremist".
Judge Peter Lodder QC said it was an unusual and serious case.
He said: "It is now clear that while in Springfield you underwent a period of intense self-radicalisation in which you repeatedly accessed, despite restrictions and close supervision, websites containing jihadi material - principally relating to al-Shabab activity in Somalia and Kenya - and films that glorified terrorism when you were prohibited from doing so.
"Furthermore you asked Muslim staff... about which mosques you could go to to become an extremist and you expressed an interest in becoming a suicide bomber."
He added: "Willing, radicalised recruits with British passports who offer themselves to callous and sinister organisations such as al-Shabab constitute a serious threat to the security of this country."
The court heard a psychiatric report found Mulindwa had a "low IQ and (was) vulnerable to exploitation".
Judge Lodder said the case would be referred to the parole board after Mulindwa had served half of the six-year prison sentence, and it would be up to them to decide when he was suitable for release on licence.
Defence barrister Julian Winship said that Mulindwa was being treated for his mental health problems and had stopped believing in Islam.
Enriched cages, which have replaced battery cages, are not ideal but produce better conditions than some free-range farms, said Prof Christine Nicol of Bristol University.
Not all free-range farms meet standards consumers expect, she added.
Other research contradicts this, said Humane Society International.
About 50% of UK hens are now housed in enriched cages. The cages, which contain more space for birds, including a perch and nest area, typically contain around 90 hens and are stacked on top of each other in tiers.
Researchers at Bristol University compared the welfare of laying hens kept in different farming conditions, including battery cages (which have been phased out in the EU), enriched (or furnished) cages, barn systems and free-range.
Professor of animal welfare, Christine Nicol, said enriched cages performed better on animal welfare measures than some free-range farms.
"I'm not saying it's great, there's still a lot of room for improvement but the birds have space, they've got a little perch, they've got things they can scratch on," she said.
"And the welfare measures that we take show that these birds had fewer fractures, they had much lower mortality, they had lower stress levels, they did less damaging pecking to each other than the birds on the smaller free-range systems."
She said the battery cage was completely unacceptable and was right to be banned.
"The furnished cage that's replaced it at the moment gives the best welfare outcome but it is also limited, it is not the best system that there could be at all, and there's very little that you can do to improve the furnished cage further.
"And it would be nice to think that the free-range system currently gave birds the best welfare. The problem is that the management of free range systems in the UK at the moment is so variable, that although you get some brilliant farms, you also get some that are really really not good."
She said the challenge for the hen industry was realising the potential of the free-range system "so that they actually do what consumers think they do which is provide all hens with good welfare".
Prof Nicol said the study from 2010 had been supported by more recent research.
However, Chetana Mirle, director of farm animal welfare for Humane Society International, said other research had produced conflicting results.
She said proper management of hens was essential in any environment to stop troublesome behaviours such as hen pecking.
But she said there was not enough space in enriched cages to allow birds to perch adequately or run and jump.
"In a furnished cage system unlike a barn or a free-range system the animal doesn't have the ability to express their natural behaviour in the way they need to," she told BBC News.
"A number of behaviours that are natural to a hen are not possible in a furnished cage system - that's an important indicator to look at."
Robert Gooch of the British Free Range Egg Producers Association said the most important criterion in bird welfare was allowing birds to express their natural behaviour.
"There are many criteria of bird welfare," he said. "The leading one is that birds should be able to express their natural behaviour and hence why free range and organic systems have been developed so birds can do that."
He said birds in free-range environments were exposed to risks such as predation by foxes or could injure themselves flapping from perches, which could account for injuries found in research studies.
Ms Outen, from Rutland, was forced to leave Happy Socks 400 miles (645km) off Portugal two months ago during a storm.
A crew from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) found the boat near the Cork coast on Tuesday afternoon.
Ms Outen, who spent more than four years rowing, cycling and kayaking around the world, said it was "wonderful" her boat was safe.
She tweeted: "Today I got that wonderful sort of news that makes your tummy turn and tears flow and rocks your happy socks off. Happy Socks is safe.
"We are making plans to go and retrieve her from SW Ireland where the RNLI crew in Castletownbere found her.
"A big and very grateful shoutout to the RNLI crew at Castletownbere for bringing her in and letting us know. Go Happy Socks!"
Paul Stevens, of Castletownbere RNLI, said: 'It transpired this boat had been abandoned two months ago, 400 miles west of Portugal by a lone oarswoman who was rowing from Cape Cod to London.
"She abandoned the boat in a hurricane and was picked up by a Canadian vessel," he said.
Ms Outen had planned to row, bike and kayak 25,000km (15,500 miles) around the northern hemisphere.
The adventurer, who is now based in Oxfordshire, became the first woman to row single-handed across the North Pacific in 2013, after failing to cross on her first attempt in 2012.
She then cycled across Canada and the USA and started her final leg rowing across the Atlantic before being caught in a hurricane.
Happy Socks was abandoned after 143 days at sea because of worsening weather conditions and the threat of hurricane Joaquin.
The situation is worsening each day as water levels are rising because of poor drainage, the head of Pakistan's disaster management body said.
The UN has begun relief work but more rain has been forecast for the area.
Meanwhile, in India's eastern Orissa state more than one million have been displaced and 16 killed in floods.
About 2,600 villages have been submerged across 19 districts. The army and navy have been called in to help as many villagers are still stranded and dependent on food drops from helicopters.
Heavy monsoon rains have been battering South Asia for days but southern Pakistan has borne the brunt of the bad weather in recent weeks.
Almost one million houses there have been destroyed or damaged and floods have affected nearly 4.2m acres of land, the UN says.
The BBC's Syed Shoaib Hasan in Karachi says that the rain is heaping misery on the hundreds of thousands living out in the open. Many people remain stranded on high ground and rooftops surrounded by flood waters, our correspondent says.
The United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef, said up to 2.5 million children had been affected.
One official said children and families, many of them still recovering from last year's devastating floods, are in urgent need of help before the situation worsens.
More rain has been forecast for the coming days.
"The situation in Sindh is already serious and there will be more flooding and more problems because of these rains," Arif Mehmood, a meteorology official, is quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.
In other developments:
Officials in Orissa, India, said at least 61,000 people had been evacuated to safety and relief and rescue operations had begun.
Several rivers, including the Mahanadi, are overflowing and flood waters have severed a number of key road links.
Some areas had been cut off due to breaches in river banks and embankments and helicopters were the only way to bring food and water to people stranded there, Mr Mohapatra said.
Orissa's Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that the authorities were taking all measures to bring aid to those affected, adding that the state might seek help from central government.
Officials said the situation was expected to get better soon as rains had stopped and the water level in the Mahanadi and other rivers had begun to recede.
The Kraken field, which is estimated to contain nearly 140m barrels of oil, is majority-owned by Aberdeen-based EnQuest.
The construction phase of the project is expected to support 20,000 jobs.
EnQuest also expects to take on an average of about 1,000 operational jobs in the UK for each year of Kraken's 25-year life.
The development, which was approved by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, is the largest investment announced in the UK North Sea this year.
Kraken's two heavy oil fields will receive tax allowances introduced by the UK government in a bid to stimulate investment in the sector.
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said: "This is a big investment that will create jobs and boost the British economic plan.
"It is also evidence that our efforts to create a competitive tax regime that gets the most oil and gas out of the North Sea are working."
Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing also welcomed the announcement.
He said: "I had the pleasure of meeting with EnQuest in September this year and I warmly welcome this announcement of £4bn investment in the Kraken field east of Shetland and the job creation and supply chain opportunities it will bring.
"This follows on from a host of significant investment announcements recently - unequivocal evidence of the faith that the oil and gas industry has in the future of the North Sea as an oil producing province."
EnQuest chief executive Amjad Bseisu described Kraken as "a transformational project" for the company.
"Companies like EnQuest are the future of the North Sea," he said.
"It is only by combining our skills and expertise with fiscal incentives, such as heavy oil allowances, that really substantial projects like Kraken are possible."
Industry body Oil and Gas UK welcomed the development.
Operations director Oonagh Werngren said: "Development of Kraken will secure a significant number of jobs for the UK, provide a valuable source of primary energy to enhance our security of supply and generate tax revenues for the Treasury, which is all very much to be welcomed."
Kraken is located about 125km (77 miles) east of the Shetland Islands.
The field, which will consist of 25 wells, is estimated to contain 137 million barrels of oil.
Gross peak oil production is expected to be more than 50,000 barrels per day, with first oil production planned for 2016/2017.
EnQuest has a 60% interest in Kraken. Its partners in the development are Cairn Energy and First Oil.
Neil Aspin's side are now six games unbeaten, but squandered two points after goals from Sam Jones and Danny Johnson put them comfortably ahead.
But a strike from John Rooney, younger brother of Wayne, and a Hamza Bencherif header brought the Welsh side level.
Gateshead's Wes Yorke hit the post, but for new Wrexham boss, Dean Keates, it's two 2-2 draws in his first two games.
Wrexham manager Dean Keates told BBC Radio Wales: "This almost feels like a win. The lads showed everything we wanted of them to come back from 2-0 down, the passion and the drive.
"They showed character in abundance. This was an improvement again, showing the passion to get back in it, but the performance wasn't really good enough."
Match ends, Gateshead 2, Wrexham 2.
Second Half ends, Gateshead 2, Wrexham 2.
Hamza Bencherif (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Gateshead. Adam Wrightson replaces Wesley Atkinson.
Kai Edwards (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Gateshead. Gus Mafuta replaces Wes York.
Substitution, Gateshead. Reece Styche replaces Danny Johnson.
Goal! Gateshead 2, Wrexham 2. Hamza Bencherif (Wrexham).
Goal! Gateshead 2, Wrexham 1. John Rooney (Wrexham).
Substitution, Wrexham. Khaellem Bailey-Nichols replaces Shaun Harrad.
Leo Smith (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Gateshead 2, Wrexham 0. Danny Johnson (Gateshead).
Second Half begins Gateshead 1, Wrexham 0.
First Half ends, Gateshead 1, Wrexham 0.
Goal! Gateshead 1, Wrexham 0. Sam Jones (Gateshead).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The conceptual holiday home in Wrabness, Essex, which is yet to be finished, has been built at the end of a narrow cul-de-sac.
Residents say motorists have flocked to the area and caused traffic problems on narrow roads near the site.
Essex Highways has agreed to carry out works to relieve the situation.
One resident, who asked not be named, said the issues had been "significant" and people living in the area were bracing themselves for the warmer months when even more visitors were expected.
Wrabness Parish Council said: "Residents have been beset by problems such as access and egress to their properties, conflicting vehicle movements, inconsiderate parking and awkward manoeuvring."
As well as new signs and road markings, talks will be held with the operator of the railway station car park to see whether it could be used by visitors to the Grayson Perry house.
Carlo Guglielmi, Essex County Council's member for Tendring Rural West, said: "It is an iconic thing and it is beautiful to have it here in Tendring. But we've always had concerns about access.
"The enhancement measures agreed will greatly improve Wrabness's residents everyday life."
The 54-year-old artist designed the building, also known as Julie's House, along with FAT architecture in homage to the "single mums in Dagenham, hairdressers in Colchester, and the landscape and history of Essex".
Mr Perry is yet to comment on the matter.
Sanchez joined Villa on a four-year deal from Spanish side Elche for an undisclosed fee in August 2014.
The Colombia international played in 23 games last term, but could not help his side avoid Premier League relegation.
He was not included in Villa's squad for their first game of the season at Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that up to four knights and dames would be appointed each year on the Order of Australia honours list.
He said it would only go to those of "extraordinary and pre-eminent achievement and merit".
Opposition politicians questioned the move and said the government's priority should be on creating jobs.
The first to receive the award will be the outgoing Governor-General, the Queen's representative in Australia, who will be known as Dame Quentin Bryce.
Incoming Governor-General Peter Cosgrove and all future holders of the post will also receive the honour.
"It is fitting that the Queen's representative be so honoured," said Mr Abbott.
"It is my intention that the award should only go to those that have accepted rather than sought office and who can never, by virtue of the office they have held, entirely return to public life."
Australia's new knights and dames will be appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the Australian government.
The honour has been reintroduced into Australian before - in 1976 - only to be scrapped by Bob Hawke's Labor government the following decade.
"Even the arch-monarchist (prime minister) John Howard did not bring back knights and dames," said Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, one of a number of opposition politicians who portrayed the move as regressive.
The Labor party leader, Bill Shorten, questioned the government's priorities, saying it should focus on jobs, health and education.
Representatives of Australia's republican movement said the new honours turned the clock back to a colonial frame of mind that Australia had outgrown as a nation.
Supporters of the monarchy, on the other hand, warmly welcomed the decision.
Mr Abbott, who came to office last year, said the change would introduce an important grace note in national life.
Attorney General Jeremy Wright will say in a speech later that it is vital that international law adapts to respond to modern threats.
In September 2015, David Cameron revealed that an RAF drone had killed two British jihadists in Syria.
Mr Wright will say the frontline in conflict has "irretrievably altered".
He will stress it is essential that the UK has the right to deploy lethal force in self-defence, and will argue the law must keep up with "changing times".
Technology "has made it easier" for terrorists to carry out attacks, he will say.
The speech comes after controversy in September 2015, when two Britons - Reyaad Khan from Cardiff and Ruhul Amin from Aberdeen - were killed in an RAF drone strike in Raqqa, in an area held by the Islamic State group.
MPs and peers called for ministers to clarify the legal basis for carrying out such a strike.
Mr Wright will add: "The government has a primary duty to protect the lives of its citizens. But it can only use lethal force where there is a clear legal basis for doing so."
Governments must determine whether to take action based on how certain it is that an attack will come, how soon it will be and on what scale.
It must then consider whether anything could credibly be done to prevent the attack, and whether it is the last clear opportunity for preventative action.
The official threat level for international terrorism in the UK has stood at severe for more than two years, meaning an attack is "highly likely" but not imminent.
Meanwhile, Britain's security services and counter-terrorism units have foiled at least 10 attacks in the past two years.
It says medical teams and rescuers must access Aden, a stronghold of those loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, or more civilians will die.
Fighting in the southern port city has intensified with Saudi-led airstrikes aiming to push back Shia Houthi rebels.
Russia, too, has called at the United Nations for a truce.
It presented a draft resolution to an emergency session of the Security Council in New York, calling for a "humanitarian pause" in air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition to allow the evacuation of foreigners.
The draft, however, makes no mention of a halt to fighting by the Houthis.
It also demands "rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian access to ensure that humanitarian assistance reaches people in need".
Jordan's ambassador to the UN and current Council chairman Dina Kawar said members would need time to consider the draft.
The Red Cross said the streets of Aden were "strewn with dead bodies" and the wounded were "streaming" into hospitals and clinics.
Over the past two weeks, fighting in Yemen has left more than 500 people dead and some 1,700 wounded, UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has said.
Saudi warplanes and ships have bombarded rebel positions for 10 days.
"Our relief supplies and surgical personnel must be allowed to enter the country and safely reach the worst-affected places to provide help," said Robert Mardini head of operations for the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Middle East.
"Otherwise, put starkly, many more people will die.
"For the wounded, their chances of survival depend on action within hours, not days," he added.
The Red Cross said it had 48 tonnes of medical equipment to treat up to 3,000 people ready to leave, pending clearance.
Britain's deputy UN ambassador Peter Wilson expressed regret for civilian casualties but said Britain would carry on supporting Saudi-led military action against the Houthi rebels.
President Hadi fled to Saudi Arabia on 25 March after the rebel forces advanced on Aden.
He faces opposition from troops loyal to the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, ousted in the Arab Spring protests, and the Houthis.
Also ranged against President Hadi is al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula which opposes the Houthis too.
This week, the Shia Houthi rebels pushed through to the heart of Aden using tanks and armoured vehicles. But with Saudi assistance including airdrops of weapons, they were forced back from the presidential palace.
Meanwhile, armed tribesmen pledging to restore security have entered the south-eastern city of Mukalla taken over by al-Qaeda militants at the end of last week, Reuters news agency reported.
Yemen: who is fighting whom?
The Houthis: Zaidi Shia-led rebels from the north, who seized control of Sanaa last year and have since been expanding their control
President Hadi: Fled to Saudi Arabia after rebel forces advanced on his stronghold in the southern city of Aden
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: Seen by the US as the most dangerous offshoot of al-Qaeda, AQAP opposes both the Houthis and President Hadi.
Islamic State: A Yemeni affiliate of IS has recently emerged, which seeks to eclipse AQAP
Failure 'not an option for Saudis'
Yemen crisis: An Iranian-Saudi battleground?
Meeting the Houthis - and their enemies
The rise of Yemen's Houthi rebels
Firearms officers were called to a house in Vicarage Hill, Westerham, at about 07:10 GMT on Sunday.
The road outside the property was closed temporarily by officers to "ensure public safety", police said.
The BBC understands officers in riot gear contained five dogs, types of bullmastiffs, in one room at the property before they were removed.
Specially-trained animal handlers, assisted by an RSPCA inspector and an independent vet, sedated the animals.
They were taken out of the property one-by-one in individual kennels, and are now in police care.
The air ambulance attended the house in Westerham but the injured man was taken by land ambulance to hospital.
Vasilijy Apilats, 61, of Crewe, stole The Raising of Lazarus painting, which is estimated to be worth £2,500, from Chester Cathedral.
His defence claimed he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder following ordeals with gangsters.
Recorder Eric Lamb jailed him for nine months at Chester Crown Court.
Apilats, originally from Lativa, denied theft but was found guilty by a jury in November.
The court had been told the icon was taken from a chapel in the cathedral in August 2014 and Apilats had left a cheap Christmas angel in its place.
The painting was found wrapped in a black bin bag at Mr Apilats' home on Edleston Road during a police raid the following month amid a "vast array" of religious artefacts.
Apilats was identified as the suspect when his DNA was recovered from the picture stand which the icon had been attached to.
Sentencing Apilats, Mr Lamb said the haul "looked like the instincts of a magpie".
Sgt Neil Doleman of Cheshire Constabulary said: "Apilats is a man who appears to be obsessed with religious artefacts.
"He selfishly took an icon, which was not only of significant value but was also of huge importance to Chester Cathedral and the public who used it as an aid to pray."
Peter Moss, representing Apilats, said his client had post-traumatic stress disorder after suffering at the hands of "mafia" type people in Eastern Europe.
Mr Moss said Apilats had a "shopaholic urge".
Chester Crown Court was told the painting was probably made between 1870 and 1880.
|
A prisoner trained to counsel other inmates who are in emotional distress has spoken about how it has changed his life and lives of those he has helped.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Fel Cymraes ddi-Gymraeg o Gasnewydd, doedd y gyflwynwraig Josie d'Arby ddim yn credu mai rhywbeth iddi hi oedd yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Parents whose babies died during childbirth at an Ayrshire hospital have called for a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding their deaths.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Manchester City's ambition is to win the quadruple in what chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak says will be "a massive year" for the club next season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The government should publish legal advice regarding its decision to leave the European nuclear regulator Euratom, former minister Ed Vaizey has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former Emmerdale actress Leah Bracknell says she feels "extremely blessed" and has thanked fans for raising £50,000 following her lung cancer diagnosis.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Cododd Abertawe o waelod tabl Uwch-gynghrair Lloegr ddydd Sadwrn yn dilyn buddugoliaeth ysgubol yn erbyn Lerpwl yn Anfield.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A teenager who was stabbed to death in east London as has been named as 17-year-old Marcel Addai.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Britain's most decorated gymnast, Beth Tweddle, has announced her retirement on the anniversary of her bronze medal success at London 2012.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Tennessee teacher accused of abducting his 15-year-old student has been captured thousands of miles away.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ellie Downie has just become the first British gymnast to win all-around gold at a major international championship at the European Championships.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Muslim convert with schizophrenia tried to travel to Somalia to join an Islamist terror group days after release from a mental health unit.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Welfare standards are on average higher in laying hens kept in cages than in free range flocks, according to a leading veterinary expert.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An ocean-going rowboat abandoned in the Atlantic by British explorer Sarah Outen has been recovered off Ireland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
More than 200 people have died and millions remain affected after two weeks of flooding in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, officials say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A £4bn investment in a major oil field off Shetland has been given the go-ahead.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Wrexham fought back for what had looked an unlikely point at Gateshead in the National League.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A house designed by Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry has attracted so many sightseers that roads leading to it are being redesigned.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Aston Villa midfielder Carlos Sanchez has joined Italian Serie A side Fiorentina on a season-long loan deal with an option for a permanent move.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Australia is to reintroduce the appointment of knights and dames after discontinuing the honour in 1986.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The UK's chief legal adviser is to set out - for the first time - the government's basis for military strikes against terror suspects abroad.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Red Cross has called for a 24-hour ceasefire in Yemen to bring in desperately needed medical supplies after fierce fighting.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after he was attacked by up to five dogs at a house in Kent.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man who stole a cathedral's 19th Century Greek icon had "the instincts of the magpie", a judge has said.
| 37,628,455 | 16,012 | 835 | true |
Ms Gillard had presented redrafted legislation to the opposition as she sought support for her "Malaysia swap".
But the opposition said the proposals did not provide adequate protection for asylum-seekers.
Australia's asylum policy has been in crisis since a court ruled a plan to swap refugees with Malaysia unlawful.
Australia detains all those who arrive by boat, some on the mainland and some at the Christmas Island detention centre.
The government says its "Malaysia swap" plan aims to deter people from making the dangerous sea voyage.
Under the plan, Australia would have sent 800 asylum-seekers who arrived by boat on to Malaysia and would have received 4,000 refugees in return over four years.
But the court ruled Malaysia - which has not signed UN refugee conventions - did not offer adequate protection.
The ruling also threw plans to send asylum-seekers to re-opened processing camps in Papua New Guinea or on the Pacific island of Nauru in doubt.
Ms Gillard leads a minority government which depends on the Greens for support. The Greens do not support offshore processing, forcing Labor to look to the opposition for co-operation.
Source: Australian Department of Immigration
She wants to change the Migration Act to allow Australia to send asylum-seekers to Malaysia.
But opposition leader Tony Abbott said the proposed changes paid "lip service to protections without actually guaranteeing them", and said his party had rejected them.
Instead, he said his party would present an alternative proposal which excludes a deal with Malaysia.
The Liberals want to reopen a processing centre on the Pacific island of Nauru - a policy that was heavily criticised by the Labor party.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said Labor would "not be going down that road".
"Very clearly, if this legislation doesn't pass, then offshore processing will be regarded as unlawful," The Australian newspaper quoted him as saying.
"And therefore the obvious result of that is onshore processing."
Last year 6,535 asylum-seekers arrived in Australia by boat.
Both parties have sought to appear tough on asylum, despite recent opinions polls which suggest many Australians support onshore processing of asylum-seekers.
|
Australia's opposition rejected the government's proposed immigration law changes, as PM Julia Gillard scrambled to salvage a controversial asylum plan.
| 14,969,288 | 475 | 32 | false |
The Switzerland midfielder cut inside on his left foot and found the top right corner with a sublime finish.
He doubled the lead with a free-kick from the edge of the area just after half-time.
The result sees Mike Phelan's side drop into the bottom three, after a fifth consecutive Premier League defeat.
The game ended on a strange note as Shaqiri appeared to grab Sam Clucas by the throat after being pushed by the full-back. Stoke trio Shaqiri, Phil Bardsley and Joe Allen were then all booked after the final whistle.
Stoke's first away victory of the season also brings them back-to-back Premier League wins for the first time since March - and moves them to 16th place on nine points.
Hull, meanwhile, have conceded 19 goals in their past five league games and are without a league win since 20 August.
Shaqiri's goals were two moments of magic in a match largely unmemorable otherwise.
The 25-year-old's past four Premier League goals have all come from outside the box and his two against Hull were his first since the opening day of the season.
His first came from his own corner, which was cleared by Hull as far as Ryan Shawcross, who passed the ball back to Shaqiri.
The former Bayern Munich winger then cut inside before unleashing a curling 25-yard shot, which left David Marshall no chance in the Hull goal.
He then won the free-kick for his second on 49 minutes and stepped up to send the ball over the wall and into the bottom right corner, beyond Marshall.
Shaqiri also created wonderful chances for Marko Arnautovic and Wilfried Bony, having three shots in all and making five key passes in the match.
Former England midfielder Danny Murphy on Match of the Day:
"Xherdan Shaqiri hasn't done enough of this in a Stoke shirt. He was outstanding. He had that strut around him and produced moments of brilliance. His first goal was unstoppable.
"He's got the ability to open up defences from anywhere on the pitch - not many players can do that. If he can stay fit, along with Joe Allen and Marko Arnautovic, then Stoke will be up the table before you know it."
The optimism of Hull's wins in the first two games of the season has faded at the KCOM Stadium, where plenty of empty seats could be seen among a crowd of only 18,522.
The hosts did not manage a shot on target until Abel Hernandez came on after 55 minutes.
Their best attacking efforts came with the game already won for Stoke and the home side still struggled in front of goal despite their late burst.
Stoke dominated the midfield, with Shaqiri and Arnautovic given too much space.
Hull also had returning captain Michael Dawson to thank for some crucial tackles. Playing in his first game of the season after a knee injury the 32-year-old stopped Bony and Shaqiri from scoring in the first half.
Phelan, upgraded from his caretaker role nine days ago, is yet to taste victory since and will have his work cut out to address the slide in form - something not helped by Robert Snodgrass limping off with an ankle injury late on.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Hull boss Mike Phelan: "We were edgy and we gave the ball away too easily. There are lessons to be learned by all of us.
"We are under no illusions and we shouldn't be. We need to rebuild confidence and set our sights for the battle ahead. We need to do more. We are not here to lie down and let teams beat us.
"Robert Snodgrass got stood on - he's got a bruised ankle and we will assess that in the morning."
Stoke manager Mark Hughes: "Xherdan Shaqiri missed some games but since he came back he's been really positive and we are really pleased with him.
"We have been playing well for a number of weeks. We are building performances. From start to finish we were in control.
"People questioned us at the beginning but now we are allowing people to see our level.
"I didn't see what happened after full-time - there were afters from both sides."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Hull travel to Championship side Bristol City in the fourth round of the EFL Cup on Tuesday before a trip to Watford on Saturday.
Stoke host Swansea on Monday 31 October.
Match ends, Hull City 0, Stoke City 2.
Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card.
Joe Allen (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card.
Phil Bardsley (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half ends, Hull City 0, Stoke City 2.
Sam Clucas (Hull City) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Adama Diomande (Hull City).
Geoff Cameron (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Ryan Mason (Hull City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Sam Clucas with a cross.
Attempt saved. Abel Hernández (Hull City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Adama Diomande.
Corner, Hull City. Conceded by Ryan Shawcross.
Attempt missed. Abel Hernández (Hull City) header from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Sam Clucas with a cross.
Foul by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).
Harry Maguire (Hull City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Curtis Davies.
Offside, Hull City. Robert Snodgrass tries a through ball, but Adama Diomande is caught offside.
Joe Allen (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Abel Hernández (Hull City).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ryan Mason (Hull City) because of an injury.
Ryan Mason (Hull City) is shown the yellow card.
Phil Bardsley (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Mason (Hull City).
Geoff Cameron (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ryan Mason (Hull City).
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by David Marshall.
Attempt saved. Joe Allen (Stoke City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marko Arnautovic.
Geoff Cameron (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jake Livermore (Hull City).
Substitution, Stoke City. Mame Biram Diouf replaces Wilfried Bony.
Attempt missed. Jake Livermore (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Abel Hernández.
Substitution, Hull City. Adama Diomande replaces Will Keane.
Substitution, Hull City. Harry Maguire replaces Tom Huddlestone.
Foul by Joe Allen (Stoke City).
Jake Livermore (Hull City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Wilfried Bony (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marko Arnautovic.
Attempt saved. Ryan Shawcross (Stoke City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri with a cross.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Sam Clucas.
|
Xherdan Shaqiri scored twice, including a stunning 25-yard strike, as Stoke comfortably won at Hull to move out of the relegation zone.
| 37,663,781 | 1,831 | 40 | false |
Some people who do not believe they can pass the test - or those who simply want the UK driving licence document without the effort - are prepared to pay hundreds of pounds to cheat the system.
And it is not just the practical test that falls prey to fraudsters; the theory examination has proved open to abuse.
This risk to British roads is taken very seriously by the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) and its team of 30 fraud investigators.
Behind an unassuming smoked glass door in Nottingham the team's leader, Andy Rice, describes the problem of fraud as "significant" and "serious".
He investigates driver impersonation - where stand-ins take tests in place of learners - illegal instructors who are not registered to teach, and corrupt translators who provide the correct answers in exchange for cash.
"Because of the sums involved some people will go to great lengths for this fraud," Mr Rice said.
People will pay about £800 for someone else to take their theory test or about £1,600 to be impersonated in the practical test, he said.
"Gangs see it as a nice earner and when we started a gang could do 200 to 500 tests before they were caught."
One of the first convictions involved an estimated £1m made in impersonations.
Mr Rice said gangs "employ" eight to 10 people with "different looks" to match the learner's provisional licence photograph.
Evidence of money laundering, drug and gun trafficking has been be found at the homes of arrested suspects, he said.
Mr Rice managed the investigation that led last month to Britain's first jail sentence for an interpreter, who helped about 200 people to cheat the driving theory test.
Chinese interpreter Peter Hui was sentenced to 12 months in prison for correcting answers in tests between 2011 and 2012 in Birmingham.
A few weeks later Mandarin translator Allyson Ng was jailed for 12 months for cheating on at least 94 theory tests between 2009 and 2012, mainly in Cardiff.
Although a rare fraud, with five translators prosecuted to date, its impact is significant: for each corrupt translator the number of people who pass with that person's help can be in the hundreds.
In the first case of its kind, in 2004, an interpreter speaking Tigrinya (a language from Ethiopia and Eritrea) was shown to have given answers in 562 tests.
His fraud was committed mainly in London and Birmingham.
The Midlands has featured in all the cases where translators have been prosecuted for fraud.
In February the government launched a consultation into ending foreign language assistance for the UK driving test.
Road safety minister Stephen Hammond said, in addition to the possibility of fraud, allowing interpreters created a potential safety risk, due to people being able to pass the test but not understand important traffic updates.
In July two examiners, an instructor and seven candidates were sentenced after a three-year investigation into fraud in Warwickshire.
And cheating is not confined to the standard driving licence test.
The DSA is investigating an Urdu translator suspected of helping bus and lorry drivers cheat on theory tests in the West Midlands.
John Fothergill, former chairman of the Private Hire Drivers Association in Coventry, said cheating is well known to taxi drivers.
Until he left five years ago he worked alongside the Taxi Licensing Department in the city.
He said: "I heard of people using mobile phones and sending text messages to get answers in the [taxi] written exams, some drivers definitely got through without all the knowledge they needed to do the job."
Mr Rice said the public can help to tackle fraud by ensuring driving instructors are registered with the DSA, which ensures they are competent and checked.
"The best way to be assured learners are safe is to check the green DSA registration badge on the instructor's windscreen.
"Instructors are in a position of trust, a lot of learners are young adults and for those who operate illegally, without a CRB check, who knows what their background is," he added.
Rescue workers searched overnight pulling bodies and survivors from the debris in Beiwudu in Wuyang county.
Nine of the injured, being treated at a hospital in nearby Luohe city, are in a serious condition, officials said.
Renovation work was being carried out on the foundations of the building when the accident happened, they said.
The local government in Wuyang county has now called off the search for survivors.
An investigation is under way to establish the exact cause of the accident, which happened on Friday afternoon.
It will renew concerns about enforcing building safety regulations in China, correspondents say.
In May, a nursing home in Henan province that was destroyed by fire, killing 38 people, was found to have been poorly constructed using flammable material.
One of the survivors from Friday's collapse told state-run CCTV that many of the workers had come from Nanyang city in south-west Henan province to work on the site.
Some of his colleagues had previously worked as farmers and had received little or no training, one man, Feng Guoqing, said.
They had been using a lifting jack to push up a corner of first floor, but the jack suddenly gave way leading to the collapse, he said.
Officials said the building had been built in the 1990s.
Mohammed Yousaf, 65, was murdered while he slept on 18 September 2016, Preston Crown Court was told.
Muhammed Arif, 45, of Washington Street, Accrington, was jailed for life to serve a minimum of 32 years.
His lover Rukhsana Bibi, 38, of Wood Street, Todmorden, received a life term with a minimum of 28 years.
The pair, who were secret lovers, had denied murder.
The court heard Arif and Bibi took out a fraudulent life insurance policy worth £244,000 on Mr Yousaf, who Bibi had married two days after divorcing Arif's brother in April 2016.
Lancashire Police said Bibi withdrew £24,000 from Mr Yousaf's savings account over four months.
Mr Yousaf, of Granville Road, Accrington, visited a solicitor with Arif and drew up a new will leaving everything to Bibi.
Police believe Mr Yousaf was murdered at his home on September 18, although his body was not discovered until three days later.
He had suffered a dozen blows to the head and a slashed throat.
Bibi was out of the country at the time of his death, but CCTV footage from a nearby pub on September 18 showed Arif's car driving to and from Granville Road three times that evening.
DNA evidence found at the scene and in Arif's car, along with mobile phones, CCTV footage and financial transactions carried out by the defendants, built up a picture of collusion between Bibi and Arif to strip Mr Yousaf of his assets, before killing him.
Det Ch Insp Joanne McHugh said this was "ruthlessly planned" by Arif and Bibi, who manipulated a vulnerable and gentle man.
"Mohammed Yousaf's death is nothing short of the cold-blooded assassination of a wholly innocent man," she said.
Appearing on Australian Channel Nine's 60 Minutes programme, Clarke addressed many of the controversies that defined his 115-Test career.
He spoke about how he thought he was a bad vice-captain and that he had riled former team-mates.
But he also attempted to clarify previous comments about his team-mates.
According to leaked court documents, former coach Mickey Arthur claimed in 2013 that Clarke had called Watson "a cancer" on the national side.
But Clarke told the programme: "No, I didn't say that.
"I said that there is a number of players, a group in this team at the moment, that are like a tumour and if we don't fix it, it's going to turn into a cancer."
Asked if that applied to Watson, Clarke replied: "Shane was one of those players, yes."
Clarke also shed light on an infamous dressing-room blow-up at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 2009 after the Test win over South Africa.
Team-mate Simon Katich reportedly grabbed then vice-captain Clarke by the shirt over a disagreement about when the team song would be sung.
He said he had "every reason" to be angry, but "I don't think my language was appropriate".
Clarke also revealed that cricket has never been the same for him after the death of his friend and team-mate Phillip Hughes.
Hughes was hit in the neck by a ball in November 2014 and died a few days later.
"I guess I probably tried to tell myself that there was a chance he'd be OK," Clarke said.
"But I think I knew there wasn't. I spent the whole night talking to him. That breaks my heart the most.
"It was always hard to play cricket after that. I felt fear for the first time in my life when I played cricket."
The 23-year-old from Plymouth won the Great Britain trials in 13.55 seconds in Birmingham on Sunday.
"I don't want to be one of these athletes that just go out at the heats," King told BBC Radio Devon.
"Trials went really well for me and badly for others, which is fortunately not my problem - I capitalised on it."
King, based in Bath and trained by James Hillier, will compete at the London Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium this weekend.
He will then go to a training camp in Paris to prepare for the World Championships.
"I don't want to be running the same times as I've been running the last few races - I want to start progressing a little bit and run a bit faster," he added.
"Until now the goal has been to get there [to the World Championships], but once you get there your expectations shift a little bit."
Alexander Toth, 45, from Torquay ambushed his estranged wife Brigitta as she walked to work on 23 March.
He stabbed her three times in the back, smashed her skull with a hammer, then stabbed himself.
Mrs Toth, 41, remains in a neurological unit.
Judge Graham Cottle said: "Your marriage had deteriorated to a point where it was effectively over and that was something you were not prepared to accept.
Click here for live updates on this story
"I am quite satisfied that before the day in question you came to the conclusion you would revenge the wrong which you perceived she had done to you, and that you would do so by killing her."
Exeter Crown Court heard that Toth had become obsessed with revenge and had been planning to kill his wife "for some time".
Mrs Toth is receiving therapy at a specialist unit to try to restore her speech and mobility but will never be able to live independently again.
Judge Cottle told Toth: "You have two children upon whom the burden of caring for their mother will fall. That is an awful and terrible responsibility for two people who are so young and who wish to make their own way in life."
After the trial, Det Sgt Chris Rooney said: "Toth's guilty plea will prevent the members of the family having to attend a trial and relive those horrific events, and we welcome the court's sentence."
Mr Wilson was 21 when he went missing from his home in the Falls Road area of west Belfast in 1973.
He is believed to have been abducted and murdered by the IRA.
On Tuesday, the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains (ICLVR) said results of DNA tests confirmed the remains were Mr Wilson's.
His body will now be released to his family.
Members of the Wilson family had just attended a walk at Stormont in memory of the Disappeared on 2 November when a call came through to say his remains had been found.
His sister, Anne Connolly, said it was a shock to learn recently that he might be buried in Waterfoot as her mother, Lily, who died three years ago, often sat on village beach.
She spoke of a "mixture of relief, and great sadness" to learn that his body had been found so soon after the dig began.
Archaeologists and other experts had been examining the beach at Waterfoot in the Glens of Antrim after a tip-off to the ICLVR.
The commission has now overseen the discovery of seven bodies and numerous searches since it was set up in 1999 to locate those murdered and buried in secret graves by republican paramilitaries during the troubles.
Remains found in County Monaghan in July were confirmed as being those of Crossmaglen man Charlie Armstrong, a 57-year-old father-of-five who went missing on his way to Mass in 1981.
In October, the remains of Mr Armstrong's neighbour, Gerry Evans, were found at a site in County Louth.
Curators say the movement of people around the show will create the airflows necessary to make Calder's "kinetic sculptures" rotate.
The exhibition, Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture, opens at London's Tate Modern on 11 November.
It is billed as "the most comprehensive exhibition" of the American artist's work ever to be held in the UK.
Tate's director of exhibitions, Achim Borchardt-Hume, said: "We thought it time to look at Calder as a serious artist again."
The show will bring together approximately 100 works to reveal how Calder (1898-1976) changed the idea that sculpture was a static object into something that could be continually changing.
"Historically, sculpture was a solid object that you had to walk around to experience in three dimensions," said Borchardt-Hume at Monday's launch event.
"Calder turned this upside down. He makes sculpture move. We no longer move around it - it moves for us."
Calder initially trained as an engineer before studying painting in New York. He travelled to Paris in the 1920s where he developed his wire sculptures and, by 1931, had invented the mobile - a term first coined by Marcel Duchamp to describe Calder's motorised works.
After 1932, Calder worked mainly on suspended sculptures that moved without motors, animated by air currents.
Asked about air currents within Tate Modern, Borchardt-Hume told the BBC: "There should be enough visitor flow to keep them moving gently."
The gallery's air conditioning may also help, but visitors won't be able to touch the mobiles to set them in motion.
"It'll be a bit like watching the clouds drifting across the sky," added curator Ann Coxon. "These sculptures really invite you to slow down. The movement is going to be subtle and drifting."
The largest work on display will be Calder's Black Widow (1948), which is being shown for the first time outside Brazil.
The monumental piece, measuring 3.5 metres by 2 metres, features 19 black metal shapes delicately suspended from one another.
It was gifted by Calder to the Instituto dos Arquitetos do Brasil (IAB) and has hung in their Sao Paulo offices for more than 50 years. Made in the post-war years, the work is regarded as a visual metaphor for a new and free social order.
It is undergoing conservation work at the Calder Foundation in New York before being moved to Tate Modern.
Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture is at Tate Modern from 11 November 2015 to 3 April 2016.
Its title, The Montgomery Mermaid, and caption, "Welcome to Sheerness, You'll Have a Blast", refer to the SS Richard Montgomery - a shipwreck off Kent with 1,400 tonnes of explosives on board.
Some passers-by described it as a slur on the town and saw it as miserable.
Artist Dean Tweedy said most people he had spoken to loved it.
He said he wanted to get people talking about the Montgomery and the danger it posed.
Coastguards still monitor the Montgomery which is under threat of collapse and protected by an exclusion zone.
But Matt Brown, from Sheerness Enhancement Association for Leisure, said the mural was near a play area and not the place for a political statement.
"I'd certainly donate the paint to paint over it," he said.
One passer-by who talked to the BBC said the mural was "unfair because Sheerness is all right" and another woman said the mermaid "looked a bit miserable". One man said the mural was better than graffiti.
As a child, Tweedy spent summer holidays in the 1970s on Sheppey and remembers Sheerness as a vibrant seaside town.
He said he moved to Kent and returned to Sheerness about 10 years ago, but was sad to find it industrialised and "changed completely".
"Granddad was in the Navy and a dock worker. I used to go there and he'd tell me stories about the Montgomery and how it was still a danger. That always stuck with me."
The idea for the mural came years ago when Tweedy dreamed about a mermaid swimming around the wreck to protect it, and the opportunity came with this year's Sheerness arts festival.
He admitted the mermaid looked grumpy rather than protective, but asked: "Why wouldn't you be?"
He said: "She's angry because the SS Montgomery is still there and it's not been dealt with."
A spokeswoman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said regular surveys were carried out on the wreck, which remained under 24-hour surveillance.
Robert King, the US special envoy for North Korean rights, will arrive in Pyongyang on Friday, the state department said.
He will request a pardon and amnesty for Kenneth Bae, 45, on humanitarian grounds, it said.
Mr Bae, a Korean-American, was given 15 years' hard labour in May for trying to overthrow the North Korean government.
His family say he is seriously ill and has been moved from a labour camp to a hospital. They say he has diabetes and an enlarged heart.
"We remain deeply concerned about the health and welfare of Kenneth Bae,'' a White House statement said. "We urge the government of North Korea to grant special clemency to Mr Bae immediately and allow him to return home with Ambassador King.''
Mr Bae (known in North Korea as Pae Jun-ho) was arrested in November 2012 as he entered the north-eastern port city of Rason, a special economic zone near North Korea's border with China.
US citizens held by N Korea
He has been described as both a tour operator and Christian missionary.
North Korea said he used his tourism business to form groups to overthrow the government.
Mr Bae's trial and conviction came at a time of high tension between the US and North Korea, in the wake of the communist state's third nuclear test. It also came as the US and South Korea conducted annual large-scale military exercises, which angered Pyongyang.
North Korea has arrested several US citizens in recent years, including journalists and Christians accused of proselytising.
They were released after visits to Pyongyang by high-profile officials, including former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
Contador pulled out of the Tour during Sunday's ninth stage and says his recovery will take four weeks. The Olympic road race begins on 6 August.
"To reach them in optimal condition looks like it will not be possible," said Contador.
He is now targeting the Vuelta a Espana on 20 August for his comeback.
Birmingham City Council's leisure facilities are due to be taken over by Serco in June.
Gym users were told they would need to pay twice to use facilities at different sites.
But the council said it was "looking at options" after one member said he would have to pay double his current cost.
David Hindson, from Kings Heath, who currently uses Billesley Tennis Centre and Tiverton Road Baths in Selly Oak, has threatened to cancel as he was told his ??35 monthly fee will double.
From June, the tennis centre is one of eight facilities across the city that will by run by the Birmingham Community Leisure Trust - managed by private company Serco.
However, the baths will continue to the run by the council.
"At present, I use the city council facilities because I can have access to any centre throughout Birmingham," he said.
"The council says this is an exciting time for Birmingham. How can it be exciting to pay twice for the same service?"
Steve Hollingsworth who oversees leisure at the council, said he can "assure David he will not be paying double."
"The vast majority of our 9,000 customers are loyal to one site. For those who, like David, use more than one facility, we will put an interim service in place and look at options for them."
President Tomislav Nikolic and other passengers were reportedly thrown around the Falcon 50's cabin before the captain managed to regain control.
Coffee was spilt on the control panel and the co-pilot mistakenly disengaged the autopilot when trying to mop it up.
The jet later turned back to Belgrade.
President Nikolic had been heading to Rome on 17 April for a meeting with Pope Francis.
Co-pilot Bojan Zoric has been suspended after the inquiry found he had "accidentally activated the emergency switch". That caused the plane to plunge from a height of 34,000 feet (10,303m).
One of the Falcon's three engines shut down because of the sudden drop in altitude, but it was quickly restarted.
They won thrillers against Hampshire and Kent in their last two games.
"We left the competition with some respectability, I think that was crucial," Croft said.
"It is disappointing for us and the fans not to see us move forward but the way we played against Hampshire and Kent has been a show of resilience,"
Glamorgan saw their hopes of making the top three in the South group take a severe mauling with heavy defeats against Surrey,Sussex and Somerset in the space of six days.
They pipped Essex by one run but crucially lost a winnable match away to Middlesex.
That meant that high-scoring victories over Hampshire in Southampton and Kent in Swansea could not propel them into the knock-out stages.
Batsman Colin Ingram recorded his third century in four games against Kent, keeping him top of the competition's run-scorers with 564, while there were career-best performances from home-grown players Will Bragg, with 94, and David Lloyd, taking five wickets for 53 runs.
"Everyone knows what Colin has done, but the beauty is that he keeps doing it" Croft told BBC Wales Sport.
"Will Bragg coming back into the team has added steel at the top of the order, [teenager] Kiran Carlson with the bat, Marchant de Lange with the ball (taking 18 wickets.) And even with the disappointment of defeat, we're starting to get some young talent exposed to this level of competition with Kiran, Lukas Carey, Aneurin Donald, and Dave Lloyd getting five wickets after a tough time.
"As well as our senior players, we've also got some younger Welsh players also showing what they can do."
Glamorgan next face Nottinghamshire at the SSE Swalec Stadium on Friday 19 May, with fast bowler Michael Hogan expecting to recover from a shoulder problem and a badly bruised shin which saw him sit out the Kent match.
But all-rounder Graham Wagg is still not ready to make his first appearance of the season after a groin operation in April.
It's a mystery that has intrigued Norway for nearly 50 years.
In November 1970, the badly burnt body of a woman was found in a remote spot in Norway's Isdalen valley.
Someone had cut the labels off her clothes, and scraped distinctive marks off her belongings - as if to stop her from being identified.
And as police started investigating her death, they uncovered a trail of coded messages, disguises, and fake identities - but never cracked the case.
Forty-six years later, Norwegian police and NRK journalists have decided to reopen the investigation.
This is the story of the Isdal Woman - and the perplexing trail of clues she left behind.
WARNING: This article contains one graphic image
Clue one: The body in 'Death Valley'
On the morning of 29 November 1970, a man and his two young daughters see a body in Isdalen Valley.
The corpse is sprawled across some rocks - with its arms extended in a "boxer" position, typical of bodies that have been burnt.
Isdalen is known to some locals as "Death Valley" - it was a site where people committed suicide in medieval times, and, in the 1960s, some hikers had fallen to their deaths while trekking in the fog.
But the woman does not appear to be a normal hiker.
"It was out of the way - it was an unusual place to walk," Carl Halvor Aas, a police lawyer who was one of the first officers to be called to the scene, recounts to the BBC.
He remembers "a strong smell of burnt flesh".
"The body was burned all over the front," including "the face and most of her hair", he says - but strangely it was not burnt on the back.
"It looked like she had thrown herself back" from a fire, he says, adding that she was so badly burnt they could not imagine what she originally looked like.
The scene is cold by the time Carl arrived, so he cannot tell how long the body has been there for.
And how did the woman end up on fire?
Police find a number of objects at the scene, including jewellery, a watch, a broken umbrella and some bottles.
But it is the positioning of the objects that leaves the strongest impression on Tormod Bønes, one of the forensic investigators.
The woman is not wearing the watch or her jewellery - instead, they have been placed beside her.
"The placement and location of the objects surrounding the body was strange - it looked like there had been some kind of ceremony," he says.
Police also find the remains of a pair of rubber boots and nylon stockings.
"She had been wearing a lot of clothes - of synthetic materials - and all the clothes had been heavily burned," says Tormod.
Adding to the mystery is the fact that the production labels have been cut off her clothes and rubbed off the bottles at the scene.
Police find nothing at the scene to indicate who the woman was.
Police issue an appeal for eyewitnesses. They say the woman was about 164cm (5ft 4.5 inches) tall, with "long brownish-black hair", a small round face, brown eyes, and small ears. She appeared to be aged between 25 and 40 years, and wore her hair "in a ponytail tied with a blue and white print ribbon" at the time of death.
Without a name, the woman becomes known as the Isdal Woman.
The story is big news in Bergen - a peaceful town with a low crime rate.
A few days later, police find a clue.
They find two suitcases at Bergen railway station's left luggage department.
One of the suitcases contains prescription-free glasses - and a fingerprint on one of the pairs matches the woman's.
The suitcases also contain:
Initially, police "were very optimistic because they thought the suitcases would help them identify the body," says Tormod.
But soon, they realise that "all the labels that could have identified the woman, her clothes or belongings, had been removed".
Even the prescription sticker on the eczema cream, which would have shown the name of the doctor and the patient, has been scraped off.
Police try hard to trace the woman's belongings. They even contact several major department stores abroad, including Galeries Lafayette in Paris, to see if the stores recognise any of packaging on the woman's make up.
None of the department stores can find a match.
There is also a mysterious coded note in the case - which police will not crack until a while later (see clue five).
There is one important piece of evidence in the suitcase - a plastic bag from Oscar Rørtvedt's Footwear Store - a shoe shop in Stavanger.
The owner's son, Rolf Rørtvedt, remembers selling a pair of rubber boots to "a very well dressed, nice-looking woman with dark hair".
The boots he sold her appear to match the boots found on the body in the Isdalen valley. Police believe that the umbrella found near the body was also bought from the store.
Rolf says the woman had made an impression on him because she "took a long time" choosing her boots - much longer than the average customer.
She spoke English, with an accent, and had "a calm and quiet expression", he tells the BBC.
He also recalls a strong smell emanating from the woman - which, later, he thinks may have been garlic.
Using his description, police are able to trace the woman to St Svithun hotel nearby - where she checked in as Fenella Lorch.
The problem? Fenella Lorch wasn't her real name.
It emerges that the woman had stayed in several hotels in Norway - using different aliases. And since most hotels required guests to show a passport and fill in a check-in form, this means she would have had several fake passports.
Police find the woman had stayed in the following hotels, under these names:
The woman left a strong impression on Alvhild Rangnes, who was a 21-year-old waitress at Hotel Neptun at the time.
"My first impression of her was one of elegance and self-assuredness," she tells the BBC.
"She looked so fashionable - I wished to be able to mimic her style. In fact, I remember her winking at me… from my perspective it felt as though she thought I had been staring a bit too much at her."
"On one occasion while I was serving her, she was in the dining hall, sitting right next to - but not interacting with - two German navy personnel, one of which was an officer."
Police question several hotel staff who met the Isdal Woman - including Alvhild.
They learn that, in addition to speaking English, the woman also used some German phrases.
They also learn that the woman often requested a change of room - on one occasion, she asked to change rooms three times.
By now, there are several rumours that the woman was a spy. There weren't too many foreign tourists in Bergen then - and the fact the woman seemed wealthy, and well-travelled, sparked a lot of speculation.
"This was during the Cold War, and there were definitely a lot of spies in Norway, including Russian spies," says Gunnar Staalesen, a Bergen-based crime author who was a university student at the time.
There were also Israeli agents operating in Norway - as shown three years later, when Mossad agents killed a man in Lillehammer who they had mistaken for a terrorist, he adds.
Norwegian intelligence services are investigating too - but will not admit it until decades later.
According to NRK, security services were interested in reports that the woman had been seen observing the military test out new rockets in western Norway - but there weren't any clear conclusions from their investigation reports.
Police eventually crack some of the coded note - but it doesn't provide any evidence that she's a spy.
Instead, it appears to be a record of the places the woman visited. For example, O22 O28 P are dates (22-28 October) she was in Paris, O29PS is the day she travelled from Paris to Stavanger, O29S matches the date she arrived in Stavanger (29 October), and O30BN5 matches her stay in Bergen from 30 October to 5 November.
Police send a description of the woman, and sketches of what she may have looked like, to several police forces abroad. But none of them say they can identify the woman.
Meanwhile, investigators complete an examination of the woman's body.
They find an unexplained bruise on the right side of her neck, that could have been the result of a blow or a fall. There are no signs that the woman had been ill.
The autopsy also finds that the woman had never been pregnant or had a child.
Her death is likely to have been a painful one.
"There were smoke particles in her lungs… which shows that the woman was alive while she was burning," Tormod says.
He found a trace of petrol in the ground below the woman's body, which means "we can state with certainty that petrol had been used" to set her alight.
She had a high concentration of carbon monoxide in her blood.
Experts also establish that there were about 50-70 sleeping pills, from a foreign brand called Fenemal, in her stomach - although they had not been fully absorbed into her bloodstream before she died.
The autopsy concludes the woman died from a combination of carbon monoxide poisoning, and ingesting a large number of sleeping pills.
The cause of death is announced to be a probable suicide - a view supported by Bergen's chief of police.
But many people find this hard to believe.
"We talked about it in the police, but as far as I remember very few thought it was suicide," Carl Halvor Aas says.
Both the remote spot where her body was found - and the method of suicide, by fire, strike him as strange.
Without any further leads, the case is closed, and the woman is buried in February 1971.
Police think the woman may be Catholic, and organise a Catholic funeral for her.
According to a police report of the funeral, the coffin was decorated with lilacs and tulips, and the priest conducted a simple ceremony for "the unknown woman, who was put to the grave in a foreign country without any family present".
Police still hope to find the woman's family - she is buried in a zinc coffin that won't decompose - and keep an album of photos from the funeral for her relatives.
Harald Osland was one of the investigators reluctant to let the case go.
"My father could never put this case away," his son, Tore, says. "He never could accept that they had to close down the case."
His father kept several of the police documents, and Tore eventually wrote a book about the Isdal case.
Over the years, the case has also inspired several crime writers and illustrators.
"What intrigues people is that it is an unsolved mystery - it is almost like following a crime novel," says Gunnar Staalesen.
Then, in 2016, the possibility of solving the case rears its head again.
The Isdal Woman had distinctive teeth - 14 of them were filled - and she had several gold crowns. This was especially unusual for someone in her age range - and is not the type of dental work seen in Norway.
Gisle Bang, a professor of dentistry, keeps the woman's jaw, in the hope that other experts will recognise the dental work.
After his death, everyone assumes the jaw has been destroyed.
Forensic doctor Inge Morild, who inherited the Isdal Woman files, says he was told the jaw had been "thrown away because it was smelling".
But after investigative journalists at NRK make queries about the Isdal Woman, Prof Morild finds the jaw - deep in a cellar in Haukeland University Hospital's forensic archives.
The find gives Norwegian police the opportunity to re-open the case, and use the latest forensic techniques to try and identify the woman.
The Norwegian Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos) and University of Bergen start conducting isotope analysis on her teeth - looking at the chemical "signature" left by the elements that made up her teeth as they were being formed.
The tests involve:
It's the first time Norwegian police have conducted isotope analysis on teeth - but they hope the findings will help them pinpoint the region where the woman lived.
DNA analysis is now one of the key tools police use in forensic analysis and identification cases.
It didn't exist back in 1970.
But it turns out several tissue samples from the woman's organs, including from her lungs, heart, adrenal gland and ovaries, have been stored at Haukeland University Hospital.
Prof Morild says it "has been a custom in most of Norway" to keep tissue samples from post mortem examinations. The samples are "useful for repeat examinations, and as a source of DNA".
NRK and local police agree to send the samples off for DNA analysis.
Nils Jarle Gjøvåg, head of forensics at West Police District, says it's important to pursue the woman's identity because "somewhere in the world, there may be some relatives wondering where she went".
"We try to identify every unknown body, so that relatives can have an answer."
While they wait for DNA results, NRK publish a documentary into the investigation - and receive more than 150 tip offs from people interested in the case.
"In Norway, this case is a big enigma for people… there's a lot of people who want some sort of closure in the case," says journalist Ståle Hansen.
After months of work, scientists have an extended DNA profile of the woman. The latest results, published on Friday, show the woman was of European descent - making the theory that the woman was an agent from Israel much less likely.
Norwegian police are set to issue an Interpol black notice - which seeks information on unidentified bodies - with the new information.
European police forces will be asked to check their DNA databases to see if they find a match.
"If someone in her close family is in a DNA registry somewhere, we will get a hit," says Ståle Hansen. "That would be really exciting."
The Isdal Woman case has been unsolved for the last 46 years. But now, modern science has reopened the possibility of this elusive Nordic mystery being solved.
Readers who recognise the Isdal Woman or want to share tips about the case of the Isdal Woman can contact the NRK investigative team via their website.
Additional research by Johanna Keskitalo
Its significance for both Churches is immense. Whatever the joint declaration they sign when they meet in Cuba on Friday, the simple fact of their meeting is a clear signal the hostility and chill of the past thousand years or so since the Great Schism may finally be edging towards a warmer phase in relations.
That relationship with the Russian Orthodox Church matters because about two-thirds of the world's more than 200 million Orthodox Christians are Russian.
Earlier popes tried to pave the way for such a thaw with Moscow, most notably Pope Saint John Paul II, who tried to reach out to the Russian Orthodox Church.
However, those efforts were hindered by post-Cold War suspicion - above all in Moscow - which was only added to by the Pope's own Slavic roots.
This "personal conversation" between the two leaders at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana has been made possible by many relatively recent geopolitical shifts.
One of the main drivers of this meeting was the realisation over the past few years that when Christians are persecuted or driven out of their homes in the Middle East and Africa, their killers are not interested in which Christian denomination they come from.
It is what Pope Francis has termed the "ecumenism of blood", and the Pope, the Russian president and the Russian patriarch regard what is happening to Christians in Syria and Iraq as genocide.
The Pope's own heritage as the world's first Latin American pope, allied to his recent diplomatic efforts in Cuba, Moscow and elsewhere, may also have been one of the factors helping to nudge the Orthodox Church towards agreeing to the meeting.
Pope Francis is seen in Moscow as a leader who does not necessarily instinctively agree with the US, despite his warm reception there last year, and whose instincts incline towards dialogue rather than confrontation.
Some in Russia still worry about the Western Church's influence in Ukraine in particular, where the Greek Catholic Church is viewed with hostility by many Russian Orthodox. They see it as encroaching on Moscow's canonical turf, and taking a mostly anti-Russian political stance.
Under the leadership of Josef Stalin, the Soviet Union handed over Eastern Catholic churches to the Orthodox Church.
But following the collapse of Communism, the Catholics took back some 500 churches, mainly in Western Ukraine in the 1980s and 1990s, to the bitter dismay of the Orthodox.
Likewise, post-Soviet Russia worried about Catholics trying to win over the Orthodox faithful in its sphere of influence after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a period when missionaries from many denominations headed east to win converts - although very few Orthodox actually converted to Catholicism.
However, Russia's Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has also made warmer overtures over the past few years than his predecessors.
He is much closer to the Kremlin than previous patriarchs. It's thought that he would have been unlikely to have agreed to the meeting with Pope Francis without some kind of tacit acceptance of the move from President Vladimir Putin, who has visited the Vatican and met several popes during his years in power.
Moscow may also be keen to reassert its relevance on the global religious stage, as well as in secular foreign affairs, after its decades of official Soviet atheism.
Now that the Vatican is again proving itself a diplomatic force to be reckoned with, Russia is perhaps keen to keep the Vatican onside.
It is proving a useful interlocutor between East and West on issues ranging from the war in Syria to the protection of Christians across the Middle East, while the Vatican is also a potential theological ally in the question of how to deal with the global threat from radical Islamism.
All this does not mean that the Great Schism or East-West Schism of 1054 is yet at an end, nor that Christian unity is nigh, but respectful dialogue is likely to be the order of the day in Cuba.
No Pope has ever visited Russia. So perhaps this meeting in Cuba might just pave the way for yet another first for a papacy that continues to be full of surprises.
The Orthodox Church is one of the three main Christian groupings, alongside Roman Catholics and Protestants.
It is made up of Churches that are either autocephalous (meaning having their own head) or autonomous (meaning self-governing).
The word "Orthodox" comes from the Greek words "orthos" (correct) and "doxa" (belief).
The Orthodox Churches are united in faith and by a common approach to theology, tradition, and worship.
They draw on elements of Greek, Middle-Eastern, Russian and Slavic culture.
The Orthodox tradition developed from the Christianity of the Eastern Roman Empire and was shaped by the pressures, politics and peoples of that geographical area.
Since the Eastern capital of the Roman Empire was Byzantium, this style of Christianity is sometimes called Byzantine Christianity.
The Orthodox Churches share with the other Christian Churches the belief that God revealed himself in Jesus Christ, and a belief in the incarnation of Christ, his crucifixion and resurrection.
But they differ substantially from the other Churches in the way of life and worship, and in certain aspects of theology.
More details
Changes to benefits "disproportionately affected" disabled people, the UN Committee on the Rights of Disabled Persons (CRPD) found.
The UK was the first to be investigated under a UN convention it has been signed up to since 2007.
But the government said it "strongly refuted" the committee's findings and its "offensive" view of disability.
The committee launched an investigation in 2012 after receiving evidence from disability organisations about an "alleged adverse impact" of government reforms on disabled people.
Two UN committee members visited London, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast in October 2015 to identify any gaps in human rights protection for disabled people.
As part of its inquiry, the CRPD also looked at a range of recent welfare reforms and legislation including the Welfare Reform Act 2012, Care Act 2014, and Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016.
The inquiry concluded that changes to housing benefits and criteria for parts of the Personal Independence Payment, along with a narrowing of social care criteria and the closure of the Independent Living Fund, all "hindered disabled people's right to live independently and be included in the community".
Other findings:
The inquiry also said welfare assessors displayed a "lack of awareness and limited knowledge of disability rights and specific needs", and disabled people experienced "anxiety and psychological strain" due to uncertainty about assessment results.
"The committee observes that measures have caused financial hardship to persons with disabilities resulting in... arrears, debts, evictions and cuts to essentials such as housing and food," the report said.
The committee made 11 recommendations to the UK government, including calling for a complete impact assessment of reforms introduced since 2010, and introducing measures to fight "negative and discriminatory stereotypes".
However, Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green rejected the report's findings and said the document demonstrated "an outdated view of disability which is patronising and offensive".
"The UN measures success as the amount of money poured into the system, rather than the work and health outcomes for disabled people," he said.
"The UK is a recognised world leader in disabled rights and equality. Not only do we spend about £50bn a year to support sick and disabled people, but we also offer a wide range of tailored and effective support, which this report fails to recognise."
He added: "Our work and health Green Paper marks a turning point in our action to confront the attitudes, prejudices and misunderstandings within the minds of employers and across wider society."
Shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams said: "The UN report confirms that, despite Theresa May's warm words, this government is failing sick and disabled people."
The actor, who plays Kirkbride's on-screen husband Ken Barlow, will take to the stage at the ceremony, which will be screened live on ITV.
Kirkbride, who played Deirdre Barlow, died from a short illness on Monday.
On Tuesday, Roache said: "To have her as a partner for the past 40 years, I couldn't have been more blessed."
He remembered her as an "impeccable performer with superb comedy timing and an immense gift for really heightened drama".
He said: "I feel Anne's loss so personally having worked closely with her for over 40 years. You always knew she was there because her laugh was never far away."
Many of Kirkbride's other co-stars will also be at the National Television Awards (NTA) ceremony, where Coronation Street will be in the running for the best serial drama prize.
The ITV soap already holds the title after winning last year. The NTA winners are voted for by the public.
Bookmaker William Hill has reported a late run of money for Coronation Street to win the serial drama award, although EastEnders is still the favourite.
Filming of the ITV soap was suspended on Tuesday as the cast and crew came to terms with Kirkbride's death.
Her husband David Beckett said she died "peacefully" in a Manchester hospital.
Kate Ford, who played daughter Tracy, tweeted: "Heartbroken at the loss of my friend and beautiful on screen mummy."
Actor Nigel Havers, who played Lewis Archer in the soap, told the BBC: "It was great to do Coronation Street with her.
"When you're in a show like Coronation Street, you're in everyone's sitting room four times a week. When they suddenly die, it's like losing a friend, for everybody."
Coronation Street's creator Tony Warren said: "Anne was very easy to love. Her talent over the years made a massive contribution to Coronation Street."
Kirkbride started in Coronation Street in 1972 as Deirdre Hunt and became known over the years for her character's large glasses and husky voice.
She was involved in some of the soap's most famous storylines, including Deirdre's love triangle with Ken and Mike Baldwin, and the real-life campaign to "free Deirdre" when she was jailed in 1998.
The campaign - the result of her character being duped into a mortgage fraud by fiance Jon Lindsay - was even backed by Prime Minister Tony Blair.
She was married four times in the programme, twice to Ken.
The National Television Awards are on ITV from 19:30 to 22:00.
The non-league club complained that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) had unfairly imposed surcharges of about £2,500 after VAT bills totalling £40,000 were paid late.
Club officials said they had given warning that payments would be late and should therefore not be penalised.
But a specialist judge has ruled against the National League North team after a tribunal hearing in Birmingham.
In November the Lilywhites - currently in the bottom half of the table - announced that after consultation with supporters, they were selling shares and changing their ownership model to allow external investment.
No one person or organisation could buy more than 20% of the shares during the three-week sale.
The club, formerly called Telford United, has been a major force in non-league football reaching more FA Trophy finals than any other team. They won on three of their five visits to Wembley and also reached the FA Cup fifth round in 1985.
But they were forced into liquidation in 2004 and reformed as AFC Telford United, starting their new life in Northern Premier League Division One.
Jazza Dickens' fight against Rigondeaux in Liverpool on Saturday is off.
Frank Warren's Queensberry Promotions said Rigondeaux, who has been training in Russia, will "not be arriving in the UK" before the fight.
WBA and IBF champion Carl Frampton has been ordered to fight Rigondeaux after beating Scott Quigg in February.
Queensberry Promotions say 35-year-old Rigondeaux is currently in Miami "for some unexplained reason" having been due to fight the Briton on Saturday night.
"We are all extremely disappointed by the situation."
Rigondeaux applied for his UK visa in Moscow on 29 February, with Warren's company being told it would take five working days for the process to be completed.
It said it was told by the application centre that the visa would be issued by Wednesday at the latest and Rigondeaux "would then arrive in the UK shortly thereafter".
Queensberry Promotions claims that Rigondeaux boarded a flight to Miami on Tuesday.
It added: "We have yet to establish how and why he flew to the USA and, further, how he managed to fly anywhere when the normal practice is, when applying for a visa, that you hand your passport in and get it back when the visa is issued."
WBA bosses said former champion Rigondeaux - a two-time Olympic champion who is unbeaten in 16 professional bouts - must face Frampton before 27 July.
The calls were made a week after Libyan forces reacted violently to protests in Libyan cities in 2011.
In two calls, the ex-UK prime minister offered to help the dictator work with the US and EU to resolve the crisis.
But Gaddafi, who was overthrown in 2011, insisted the protests were a plot by al-Qaeda sleeper cells.
The transcripts were provided by Mr Blair's office to the Commons foreign affairs committee after he gave evidence at its inquiry last month into UK foreign policy towards Libya.
'Ready to fight'
In the calls, made on 25 February 2011, Mr Blair warned Gaddafi if he did not show he would "stand aside and go somewhere safe", it could result in "bloodshed for a lot of Libyan people".
He added that the situation could go "past the point [of no return]" within days.
But Gaddafi said his forces did not inflict violence on ordinary Libyan people and that the protests were an attempt by armed Islamic extremists to "control the Mediterranean... and then attack Europe".
He likened the protests to extremist violence in Afghanistan, Algeria, Nigeria and Pakistan and said Mr Blair's suggestions for ways forward sounded like "colonisation".
"If you want to reap Libya, we are ready to fight. It will be like Iraq," Gaddafi said, ending the conversation by telling Mr Blair to "leave us alone".
Foreign affairs committee chairman Crispin Blunt said evidence submitted to the Commons inquiry so far showed Western policy-makers were "less perceptive than Gaddafi about the risks of intervention for both the Libyan people and the Western interests".
He added the committee may consider whether Gaddafi's warnings about extremist groups were "wrongly ignored" because of the dictator's "otherwise delusional take on international affairs".
Mr Blair met Gaddafi on several occasions while prime minister, including at his desert base in Libya in 2004 and 2007.
The 31-year-old shooter won the domestic title seven times with Team Bath and Surrey Storm, and won 114 international caps over 11 years.
Cookey will become director of netball at the Severn Stars from October.
"Netball is in my blood and being part of the new franchise is a fantastic opportunity," she said.
Cookey called time on her England career in September last year, having helped the national side to two third-placed finishes at the World Cup and two bronze medals at the Commonwealth Games.
Having won back-to-back titles with Surrey Storm, she will combine her role at the Stars with with a lecturing post at the University of Gloucestershire, where the franchise is partly based.
The warning - by campaigners - comes after inspectors revealed one in four care homes had been found to be failing on safety. For nursing homes, it was even worse - more than one in three. So how do you find the right one?
For many, navigating a way around the care system can be incredibly difficult.
The first thing you need to do is to find out whether you - or the person on whose behalf you are looking - can get help towards the costs. The local council is in charge of deciding this.
You are entitled to ask them for an assessment. Only those with modest means - assets of below £23,250 - are given any help.
And even if you are, you may find yourself paying a top-up fee to get the care home of your choice if it costs more than your council is willing to pay.
You obviously have more choice if you have to pay for yourself. But the price can be much higher - the average cost of a care home for a self-funder is £618 a week, compared with £486 paid for by councils.
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 move is permanent. Once in a care home, you are unlikely to be coming home. So experts suggest that people explore all the avenues before they take the plunge.
There are a variety of options. High-intensity care in your own home for daily tasks such as washing, dressing and eating can avoid the need to move into a care home.
Other avenues, which are growing in popularity, include getting live-in carers. There are about 150 shared-lives schemes in the country, two-thirds of which are run by councils.
Then there are retirement villages where residents usually buy an apartment on the site, although in some schemes they can part-buy or even rent the property.
People can pay for care and support services, which are on-site, as and when they need them.
The properties on them have been designed to keep the individual living independently as long as possible and so can be kitted out with alarms, fall sensors and easily accessible showers.
Such complexes are popular in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, but have yet to completely take off in the UK. There are fewer than 30,000 units in the UK.
There are also many different types of sheltered-housing schemes. These have wardens, communal areas and, sometimes, run social events for residents.
For those needing more support, extra-care sheltered housing may be available, where residents can have personal care and meals provided.
If you do decide to move into a home, there are two choices - a residential care home or nursing home.
Latest figures show there are 220,000 nursing home beds, compared with nearly 240,000 care home ones.
If you have a medical condition that requires a lot of care, a nursing home could be for you and you may find you are entitled to some NHS funding to cover the costs.
Residential care homes do not have to employ nurses, although that does not mean there will be no input from health staff.
Community nurses and GPs should both provide support to residents as they would to anyone in their own homes.
But it may be worth asking what support there is available.
A diagnosis of dementia does not necessarily mean you will get NHS funding, so you might want to check what help can be provided and what training there is for staff for such conditions.
It may also be worth considering that you may need nursing support as you get older - some care homes will also have wings with nursing beds.
And end-of-life care should also be a consideration - most people die within two years of moving into a home and good palliative care can avoid the need for potentially distressing trips back-and-forth to hospital.
One person who has found a great care home is Colin Coulson. He had to move his wife, Dot, 73, into a care home when her dementia worsened.
Mr Coulson had been looking after her at home in Kent for five years before she needed to move into residential care.
The first home she moved to was not good. "It was understaffed, and it just wasn't right for Dot," he says.
"She had been in hospital, and it was all a bit of a rush to be honest."
He quickly decided to look for another - and, with more time, found Brambling House in Dover, which, he says, was "lovely, friendly and welcoming" from the start.
"I looked around on the internet. I read the inspection reports and looked at what support they could provide.
"I then went to visit the home. When we first arrived, we received a lovely, friendly welcome, as if they had known us for years. The other residents looked very happy and content, and the home is laid out to look and feel so homely.
"My wife was, of course, totally disorientated, but before we left, she had already been given a drink and a bowl of fruit salad.
"Everywhere we went in the home it was clean and tidy, and the staff we met were polite and made us very welcome.
"We were told by Sue, the manager, that their home was our home.
"Now five weeks on, we were completely right. If I had any advice for others I would say, 'Do a bit of research, visit the place and then trust your gut feeling.'"
A vital source of information is the library inspection reports produced by the Care Quality Commission. These - as well as a guide to which homes are close to you - can be found here.
Each provides an overall rating and individual grades for safety, leadership, care, effectiveness and responsiveness.
Andrea Sutcliffe, chief inspector of care homes, urges people to check them.
"I ask my staff, when they are inspecting them, to apply the 'Mum test' - are they good enough for their mum or anyone they loved?
"That has guided our approach to inspections, and so the reports should provided a clear picture about the performance of the care."
There are other sources of information too. A browse of the internet will bring up a number of different guides to care homes that can also provide a picture of what to expect.
Nothing, of course, actually beats seeing the care home for yourself.
Caroline Abraham, of Age UK, says: "Really take your time. Have a good walk around, talk to staff, families and managers. They will all provide you with a real insight into what it is like."
To help you, Age UK has produced a checklist of things to ask. Some of the suggested questions are:
"Don't be afraid to ask awkward questions either - the answers will reveal a lot about the home," says Ms Abrahams.
Maalik, which had already been playing in cinemas, was declared "uncertified for the whole of Pakistan" by the ministry of information this week.
Previous bans on films have come from provincial censorship boards. In this case the creators say they don't know why the government itself intervened.
But the authorities' move reveals something about the current environment in Pakistan.
Maalik tells the story of a former special services commando hired to protect a corrupt feudal lord who has risen to become chief minister.
Everyone for different reasons.
The chief minister character (called saaeen - the Sindhi word to indicate a person of influence) is very similar, some say, to the present chief minister of Sindh province, including being of the same ethnicity. An unnamed ministry official told The Express Tribune the film had been banned because it shows a former chief minister as a man of corruption and opulence.
The current chief minister's daughter and parliamentarian Nafisa Shah said on Twitter: "Maalik' is an ill conceived film will only divide Pakistan&harm national unity. The filmmakers, financiers &even censors cannot be patriots."
The parts of the movie that show government officials are deeply divisive, with some saying it amounts to military propaganda - while others think it makes the civil government look like it's not serious about tackling terrorism.
Other complaints stem from a scene where the chief minister is shot by his guard, which has parallels to the real-life killing of Punjab governor Salman Taseer - which deeply divided the nation. Some think the film is promoting vigilantism.
It tells us that this film has touched a nerve with authorities with its depiction of politicians and ethnic stereotyping.
The strong reaction to this film on social media suggests that the film plays to the already divisive view of the civil-military dynamic in the country and is perceived to be deepening the divide.
Authorities in Pakistan are very concerned with how they are perceived, especially abroad. Whereas this might be considered an overreaction in some countries, it has become the go-to method for the authorities to ban content they deem offensive or controversial.
But others still feel no matter what the film depicts, banning it amounts to censorship.
Freedom of speech is already under pressure in Pakistan, with many journalists, analysts and commentators feeling that there are some topics, including religion and the military, that you just can't touch- and that leads to what some call a culture of self-censorship.
The "flat pack" marble church will go on show as part of the Oxford museum's summer show of more than 200 objects rescued from the bottom of the sea.
Among the other exhibits will be Roman portrait heads and bronze battering rams from the prows of Roman warships.
The Storms, War and Shipwrecks exhibition opens on 21 June 2016.
The treasures on show have been uncovered over the past 60 years since scuba diving made sustained underwater exploration possible.
The exhibition will also explore the work of one of the earliest pioneers of underwater archaeology, Honor Frost (1917-2010).
The reconstruction of the Byzantine church interior will feature marble items raised from a wreck off the southeast coast of Sicily in the 1960s by German archaeologist Gerhard Kapitan.
Among the hundreds of objects recovered were 28 columns with Corinthian capitals and bases, choir-screen slabs and pieces of a pulpit.
Remains of similar churches can be seen today in Ravenna, Italy, in Cyprus and in Libya.
Under the rule of the Emperor Justinian (c.482-565) ships laden with prefabricated marble church interiors were sent out to sites in Italy and north Africa to help spread Christianity across his empire. Some became unbalanced and sank during stormy weather.
Dr Paul Roberts, the Ashmolean's head of antiquities, said visitors would be taken on journey "through Sicily's fascinating history".
"Here at the Ashmolean, for the first time, this story will be told exclusively through spectacular finds from the sea, because it is the sea which has always been the lifeblood of the island's unique and diverse culture."
The Ashmolean's 2016 programme also includes an exhibition of some 100 paintings, sculptures and drawings by Andy Warhol - from a private collection in the US - which have never been seen in public.
Curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal, and spanning Warhol's entire output from his 1960s Pop Art to the experimental works of the 1980s, the show will run from 4 February to 15 May 2016.
The travel and lifestyle organisation was criticised by foodies for "manhandling" traditional soup dumplings, known as Xiao Long Bao, literally, little basket buns. In the one-minute video, diners were shown bursting their baos with chopsticks and, much to my horror, throwing away the soup.
Any Xiao Long Bao enthusiast knows you are meant to eat them in one go, even at the risk of scalding your mouth from the broth.
Time Out London said its intention was just to show viewers "the visual treat of the broth that is tasted but not seen". It even extended an olive branch with a public blog post asking food lovers of Asia for culinary advice.
'Exploding' soup dumpling video angers Asian foodies
Asia is a continent of fierce food lovers, and this is not the first time a foreign misunderstanding of our culinary heritage has caused uproar.
Here are some more examples of when beloved dishes went wrong.
Mention Pinoy cuisine and you'll think of Halo-halo, a colourful dessert of shaved ice and evaporated milk with boiled sweet beans, coconut, sago, jelly, tubers and fruits added to the mix. What could be more Filipino?
Thanks (or no thanks) to a group of US chefs, the legendary delicacy soon reached America's most famous music and arts festival: Coachella.
Much to the dismay of Filipino foodies everywhere, the Coachella version was gluten-free and vegan. It was given a hipster twist, with fruity pebbles cereal, soft tofu and gasp, Red Bull added to it.
"The 'Halo-halo' they had at Coachella makes me sad because that's not Halo-halo," cried one Twitter user.
"In other news, Coachella just bastardised Halo-halo by serving it drenched in Red Bull instead of milk," lamented another.
Are you ready pho this, Vietnamese aficionados? Los Angeles restaurant Komodo paid tribute last year to Vietnam's national dish by merging slices of beef, vermicelli rice noodles, bean sprouts, herbs and hoisin sauce into a burrito it dubbed a Phoritto. For an extra spicy kick, it also added jalapeños.
The creation shot to popularity thanks to an Insider food video, generating more than 157,000 Facebook reactions and 335,000 shares. The dish was not as controversial as Coachella Halo-halo and exploding Xiao Long Baos. It actually got rave reviews.
"The ingredients of a bowl of pho wrapped in a tortilla, without the broth. The perfect fusion of Vietnamese and Mexican cuisine," wrote Binhtri Vu in a Facebook review. "I've had pho before, ate it in different parts of Vietnam so I can honestly say that I have plenty of experience."
But one simply does not mess with Vietnam's national dish. Not according to rants on social media.
"No-one can convince me that the phoritto is a good idea," said Huong Nguyen on Twitter.
"They've gone too far. It's not pho if there's no broth, that's the best part. Don't murder a staple of our country for your own selfish commercial gain," said another outraged foodie on Facebook.
Komodo, by the way, is in neither Mexico nor Vietnam, but an island in Indonesia.
Are you listening, Tyler Akin? The owner of a Philadelphia-based pho restaurant incurred the wrath of a nation of pho lovers by telling them how to "get the most out of" their national dish.
The video titled, "How to Eat Pho" racked up over 1.2m views with even more negative comments from angry Asians who grew up eating the delicacy.
"When people come in and immediately squirt Hoisin Sriracha sauce, it completely destroys the decisions we make about the soup. I do not put sauce in my soup," the US chef said in a running commentary that was rebutted by many diners, who pointed out that they enjoyed hot sauce, particularly with their beef slices.
"Hey Vietnamese people, guess what? We have been eating our pho the wrong way," said Facebook user Klot Kleng Dong.
"This is coming from a white boy trying to culturally appropriate our comfort food. First of all, adding Thai basil is a preference and so is the Sriracha and hoisin sauce."
It's Hell's Kitchen, turned around. Back in 2009, British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay got torn apart by a renowned Thai chef on an episode of his popular television series The F-Word for serving up less than perfect Pad Thai.
"This is not Pad Thai at all," Chef Chang admonished. "Pad Thai has to be sweet, sour and salty."
Ramsay did try to save himself, saying that his dish tasted "pretty good". But Chang wasn't having any of it. "For you maybe, but not for me."
The episode was hilarious, particularly because it showcased the difference in culinary standards between Westerners and native Asians. "Did Ramsay just get Ramsayed," asked one amused YouTube user.
"Roses are red, Violets are blue. Even if you are Ramsey, there's an Asian better than you," said another.
For an accurate verdict, I consulted my colleague Thanyarat Doksone in Bangkok.
"Of course everyone wants to try everything Ramsay cooks. But I'd personally rather go for a Pad Thai joint on the streets of Bangkok to get a more authentic taste."
|
Driving tests are a fraught necessity for UK residents who want to drive legally on the nation's roads - but they can also be a money-spinner for organised crime gangs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A two-storey building has collapsed in China's central Henan province killing 17 construction workers and injuring 23 others, state media has reported.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A pensioner suffered a dozen blows to his head and had his throat slit in a plot by two lovers who wanted his life insurance, a court heard.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ex-Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke has said some players have been "like a tumour" on the sport, but denied calling Shane Watson "a cancer".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Hurdler David King says he has "shifted his expectations" after sealing a place in the 110m at next month's World Championships in London.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A jilted husband who attacked his wife leaving her with permanent brain damage has been jailed for 17 years after pleading guilty to attempted murder.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Remains found at Waterfoot beach, County Antrim, last month were those of Peter Wilson, one of the "Disappeared", it has been confirmed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Visitors to an exhibition of mobiles by artist Alexander Calder will have a crucial role in bringing them to life.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A mural of a mermaid has come under fire in a Kent town - because she has been painted with scowl and her hand resting on a TNT detonator.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The US is to send a senior official to North Korea to request the release of a US man jailed in the communist state.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Spain's Alberto Contador has ruled himself out of the Rio Olympics after injury forced him to withdraw from the Tour de France.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A council has denied people using its pools and gyms will have to pay extra membership fees when a private company takes over operating them.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Serbian inquiry has found that the president's jet went into a sudden plunge on a flight to Rome last week when the co-pilot tried to mop up a coffee spill.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Glamorgan head coach Robert Croft has praised his team's resilience in finishing with four wins from eight in the One-Day Cup.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
All pictures copyright
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Pope Francis' meeting with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will be the first between a leader of the Roman Catholic Church and a spiritual head of Russian Orthodoxy since their Churches split in the 11th Century, mainly over the issue of papal authority.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
UK welfare reforms have led to "grave and systematic violations" of disabled people's rights, a UN inquiry has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Coronation Street actor William Roache will deliver a tribute to his former co-star Anne Kirkbride at the National Television Awards in London later.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
AFC Telford United have lost a court battle over late VAT payments.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A fight involving Carl Frampton's mandatory WBA super-bantamweight challenger Guillermo Rigondeaux has been cancelled because of visa issues.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tony Blair told Muammar Gaddafi to "step aside" and accept a "peaceful" change of government to prevent violent protests, phone transcripts reveal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former England captain Pamela Cookey has retired from playing to take up a role with new Netball Superleague franchise Severn Stars.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Choosing a care home has been likened to playing Russian roulette.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Pakistani government has taken the rare step of directly banning a film, dividing public debate and sparking cries of censorship, reports BBC Urdu's Nosheen Abbas.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Byzantine church raised from a Sicilian shipwreck is to be reconstructed for an exhibition at the Ashmolean museum next year.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
You may have seen the recent outrage over Time Out London's seemingly innocent video about "exploding dumplings".
| 23,402,395 | 16,169 | 876 | true |
The incident took place at the Sunny Express store, Friars Street, at about 22:30 on 28 May.
The man was described as being in his late 20s, with light brown, short hair.
He was about 5ft 9in tall, of slim build, with a local accent and was wearing blue jeans, a blue jumper and dark brown moccasin shoes.
Sgt Robert Russell said: "We are treating this as a racially-motivated incident and we are keen to trace the male in the CCTV footage.
"I would urge anyone who can assist us to contact police immediately."
|
Police have released CCTV images of a man suspected of committing a racially-motivated offence in a Stirling shop five months ago.
| 37,642,465 | 132 | 35 | false |
These allegations come under the shadow of allegations that police brutality caused the death of Freddie Gray, leading to riots across the city in April.
We asked Sgt Wood, who left the department in 2014, to elaborate a bit more on the allegations in his tweets. The allegations, which have not been independently verified, include officers attacking a woman, defecating in beds and racially targeting suspects.
Baltimore Police say the allegations are "serious and very troubling" and called on Mr Wood to provide full details so they can launch an investigation. Their full response is included at the end of this piece.
WARNING: This piece contains explicit language.
I was a rookie in around 2005. The detective was coming out of the door at the same time. He bumped into her and when she turned, she was like "excuse me". He immediately reached back, smashed her in the face. I'm paraphrasing, but he said "bitch you don't talk to me that way".
I was a rookie, I didn't know anything. I just got scared and got into my car and left.
What was her race?
She was black.
Was that a factor?
I don't know, this officer was such an asshole I'm not sure it would have mattered. To you this is shocking but I don't think a single person that lives in a low income area in any city in America would find that a shocking statement.
I was a rookie again. I got a call on the radio that there was a foot chase, "I got a black male running".
I corner him in an alley, he tried to get away, there is a little bit of a struggle but no big deal. I handcuff him and as he is laying on the ground, the officer that was chasing him comes round the corner.
And with a steel-toed boot, just boom right in the face. His eye instantly swells up and he is hurt pretty good.
This was cowardly but I just went, "What the hell dude?"
I said: "He's your suspect and I'm out of here."
Did you think to report it?
No! That would have been unheard of. Anyone who runs gets beat up. That's common in America. I wasn't putting myself in the victim's shoes, I was thinking this isn't me. This guy is an asshole but this isn't me - I'm out of here.
In around 2008, I ended up being assigned to a plain clothes anti-narcotics unit. We would do big raids around the city, and you would frequently do big raids with people you didn't know.
So we were in a raid [in a suspect's home], and somebody was pissing on a pillow and somebody else was shitting in the corner - and it was just like, what the hell are these guys doing?
In the car the detectives with me were like who the hell does this? Apparently some people did it in the past and it was a throwback to then.
This seems very brazen - you would be leaving a lot of forensic evidence?
Right! I said the same thing. Someone is going to be like someone pissed on my sheet. They are going to be like, [the evidence] it's right there! The detectives said they would just say the canine did it - it's not like someone is going to test it. It's a plausible excuse.
The Wire isn't Baltimore but it's got some dramatically accurate representations. There are a load of officers, and there are a bunch of black guys on the corner and they jump out of there car and search them. And as long as they're cool they say "alright man, get off the corner".
Legally you can't go into their pockets, you can't search them but that happens to everybody. You just grab them and start searching them. I did it, we all do it - it's what police do. Those are all illegal searches.
How frequently did you do it?
I was standing there doing it with everybody else. That's just what you're taught to do. You don't even think - it's what you do.
This was a realisation that I didn't even come to until very recently. So I ended up getting my bachelor's degree when I was in the police department. I started reading things like Freakonomics - things that teach you to think from a critical perspective.
I was a shift commander, and I told the shift that when you go out there doing car stops:
"I don't want to see you stopping an old lady - this is Baltimore! You stop 16-24 year old black males."
Why? Because 16-24 black males are the ones who commit all the crime. It's not until later that you complete the logic circle and realise that black and white [people] have drug possession at the same rate. You are only locking up black guys because they have drugs on them, and then they get in more trouble. We didn't know about the concept of institutional racism.
You left in 2014 - is that common?
Oh it will continue to be common until somebody takes over an agency and says no [to racial profiling].
If the officers are found guilty of Freddie Gray's murder how will the police respond?
I don't think there is [any] chance that they will be happy that a murderer was caught. That seems unfathomable right now. They're gonna feel like their people got railroaded. They're still in us versus them, they don't see Freddie Gray as a human being victim. They see Freddie Gray as a them, as somebody else, a bad guy.
The recent allegations made by Mr Michael Wood are serious and very troubling. The Police Commissioner has made clear that the Baltimore Police Department will never tolerate malicious conduct.
We hope that during his time as both a sworn member and as a sergeant with supervisory obligations, Mr Wood reported these disturbing allegations at the time of their occurrence. If he did not, we strongly encourage him to do so now, so that our Internal Affairs Division can begin an immediate investigation.
In a recently published letter to the Baltimore Sun, the Police Commissioner made clear that his reform efforts remain focused on rooting out the type of conduct that is alleged.
Two goals in three first-half minutes from Aritz Aduriz and Inaki Williams put the hosts in control against the 2016 champions.
Lionel Messi reduced the deficit from a free-kick after the break.
Messi also hit a post in stoppage time after both Raul Garcia and Ander Iturraspe had been shown red.
"We struggled at the start," said Barca boss Luis Enrique.
"In the second half we concentrated more on what we could control, our play, and I think we did enough to deserve more, even taking into account Athletic's numerical disadvantage."
Forwards Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar started the match despite only returning to training on Monday after the winter break.
This is the sixth time Barca and Athletic have been paired together in this competition in nine seasons, including three finals.
No side other than Real Madrid has eliminated Barca from the cup since 2008.
The return leg will be played at the Nou Camp on Wednesday, 11 January.
Bus operator Liberty Bus said its prices are set a year in advance by its supplier so fuel price changes have no direct impact on tickets.
The company would not say when the fuel price was last set, claiming it is commercially sensitive and controlled by parent company HTC Group.
Some petrol stations in Jersey are now selling petrol at 93.9p per litre.
There are two fare bands for travel in Jersey; shorter journeys are £1.30 and longer journeys are £1.80.
The last increase in bus ticket prices was in January 2014, up by 10p per journey and was the first increase in two years.
It's thought the total sum hidden away in low-tax, low-regulation jurisdictions around the world could be $21tn (£13.5tn) - as much as the total annual economic output of the United States and Japan combined.
Barack Obama and other world leaders have vowed to crack down on tax havens. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has pressed for greater transparency about how they operate. The European Commission has called for greater information-sharing about tax deals by EU national governments.
Four experts talk to the BBC World Service Inquiry programme about why, despite this growing opposition, tax havens continue to prosper.
British-born lawyer Anthony Travers moved to the Cayman Islands 40 years ago, and is now chairman of the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange.
"The expression 'tax haven' in relation to the Cayman Islands is hopelessly outmoded.
"The reason why corporations go to the Cayman Islands is not necessarily to avoid tax. [They] will pay taxes in the jurisdictions in which taxes are due to be paid. Corporations, particularly hedge funds, that trade out of the Cayman Islands domicile there for various other reasons relating to quality of the legislation, stability, absence of intrusive regulation.
"This delusion that there's some pot of offshore gold sitting in the Cayman Islands needs to be dealt with comprehensively.
"There is no pot of gold sitting offshore. Monies in Cayman Island hedge funds or private equity vehicles are invested and reinvested and they're certainly not sitting in the Cayman Islands in any way, shape or form.
"Since all this legislation providing transparency was introduced over a decade ago, what we haven't actually seen from the Cayman Islands is any instances of major frauds or tax evasion."
Accountant Richard Murphy founded the Tax Justice Network to campaign against tax havens.
"Tax havens are now serving a different purpose from tax abuse. The tax abuse is to some degree, in some of them certainly, virtually history, and it certainly isn't why large companies are now using them.
"Regulation is still stacking up in favour of large companies hiding away from view in these places, so they can get away, commercially, with lower costs than they could otherwise achieve.
"Let's be clear about what tax havens or secrecy jurisdictions mean when they say they have complied with regulation. The regulation that takes place in a tax haven is different from the regulation that might, for example, take place in the UK or Germany.
"In countries like the UK, if we say something is regulated, it takes place here and is regulated here. The characteristic of a tax haven is the transactions that are recorded there take place elsewhere. That means that whilst the tax havens are very good at regulating what takes place within them, the truth is that almost nothing takes place within them.
"Suppose we have a company that is registered in the Cayman Islands, but which trades in the UK. If the UK wanted to ask a question about that company, first of all it has to find a good reason why it needs the information, and secondly the Cayman Islands have to have a good reason to link that company to the UK.
"But if you're trying to actually open up the fact that there is a trade recorded in Cayman but happening [in the UK], you've got to be able to identify both ends, but the whole structure of it is designed not to. And also Cayman, when it undertakes its regulation, only asks about what happens in Cayman.
"Successive governments have believed it worthwhile for the City of London - and, bluntly, Wall Street - to have the advantage of having part of their activity beyond regulation, so that they could compete in ways which are considered to be innovative and which make money for the world financial markets beyond the regulatory environment.
"It is down to politicians to decide: is that a risk still worth taking? They've got to take on the vested interests in their own jurisdictions, the large companies and so on who still use tax havens."
British opposition MP Margaret Hodge chaired the powerful Public Accounts Committee for five years and highlighted legal tax avoidance. She clashed with many companies including Amazon, Starbucks and Google, whom she accused of using "smoke and mirrors" to avoid paying tax.
"What really amazed me was the resonance this whole agenda has with people wherever they are, whatever their age, whatever their gender, whatever their race, whatever their socio-economic class.
"Everybody thinks it's not fair that they should be paying tax, whilst if you're a very rich individual or if you're a big global international company you get away with finding devices which allow you to aggressively avoid the legitimate payment of taxation. It really has hit a very, very raw nerve."
It emerged that the US company Google was minimising its tax in Britain and other countries by recording most of its foreign sales - and thereby earning almost all its foreign income - in Ireland, then legally channelling it, via the Netherlands, to Bermuda, where very little tax is paid. That was possible, not just because of Bermuda's tax regime but also because of Irish and Dutch regulations which allow profits to leave their shores.
"It's Holland, it's Switzerland, it's increasingly Britain, it's Luxembourg, all these countries believe by offering low tax or the possibility of tax avoidance for global companies, they'll attract more business in.
"My point on that is that they're not really attracting business. People are shifting profits without really bringing businesses in, and therefore the world loses the tax revenue and the only people who gain are the private businesses.
"One of the interesting things that I am told has happened since we started raising these issues and the whole issue went viral, is that tax has become an issue that is discussed at board level, not just as a nuisance, you know, 'how can we minimise the tax we pay?', but as a reputational issue.
"I think the damage that's been done to Starbucks, to Google, to Amazon frightens lots of the directors sitting in board rooms today."
Former philosopher and management consultant Jamie Whyte led New Zealand's free market political party ACT, which failed to gain any seats at the 2014 general election.
"I am a fan of tax havens, because they keep other governments honest. It's a matter of competition. A tax haven basically exploits the fact that many people in other countries want to pay less tax. And if that weren't possible, and if there were no tax havens, there would be far less constraint on how much mainstream governments could tax their population.
"I'm not suggesting it's democratic. But I think it's a very healthy constraint on some of the uglier aspects of democracy. If you found yourself, a Christian, facing a mob in a Middle Eastern country, and you found that you could hide in a church, and for some reason the population still respected the sanctity of the church, and so it was a haven for you, I think you'd be very glad of that church.
"Of course it's not democratic: the mob far outnumbers you. But until quite recently, no theorists of democracy ever believed that it should be untrammelled, that simply because a majority of people want your money they have a right to it. So I celebrate the anti-democratic aspects of tax havens.
"The US has put a lot of pressure on Switzerland recently, They can say: 'If Swiss banks don't give information to the US government about the accounts of Americans with these banks, they will cancel their banking licence in the US'. That's a way of applying an enormous cost to the tax haven.
"That works in the case of Switzerland. It might be much harder to do in the case of Malta or Gibraltar, because that may not cost them that much. I suspect that they'll never be able to eliminate all tax havens. If you drive several countries out of the tax haven business, you make the rewards to the countries that stay in the tax haven business even greater.
"[And the reputational damage argument] really only affects retail companies, Starbucks, Google and the like. They're a fraction of the companies in the world. There are many, many companies - consulting firms, law firms, you name it - who in that sense are under the radar. Nobody in the public has any idea what their tax affairs are."
The Inquiry is broadcast on the BBC World Service on Tuesdays at 12:05 GMT/13:05 BST. Listen online or download the podcast.
The firm signed a £200m contract with Lincolnshire Police in 2012, with G4S staff now employed in backroom roles.
John Shaw, from G4S, said it has saved the force £6m a year - and other forces could "easily" make similar savings.
The Police Federation of England and Wales said any changes should "not compromise public safety".
Its chairman Steve White also said any savings would have to be reinvested into policing.
G4S, which faced heavy criticism when soldiers had to be deployed at the London Olympics after the firm admitted it could not fulfil its security contract, signed a 10-year deal with Lincolnshire Police in 2012.
Its staff are employed in police control rooms, custody suites, in areas of firearms licensing, as well as in financial, HR and technology roles.
Mr Shaw, the firm's managing director for public services, said the model in Lincolnshire could be replicated elsewhere, potentially saving £1bn a year across all 43 forces.
By Danny Shaw, BBC home affairs correspondent
Even if John Shaw is only half right the savings police could make from running their back and middle offices more efficiently would still amount to £500m - a colossal sum.
So why haven't more forces explored the approach he suggests?
Partly it's because some constabularies have an institutional distrust of the private sector, made more acute by G4S's security failings during the Olympics.
It's also perhaps due to the risk-averse nature of some forces: radical change is not in their DNA.
And it's down to this stark truth: changing the way police support services are managed means changing the managers. And, as one wise old policing hand put it, turkeys don't vote for Christmas.
Mr Shaw said: "We save about 22% per year here in Lincolnshire and on an individual force basis we think that similar levels of savings are easily achievable.
"But actually if you combine together you can then make greater savings."
He said there was no "one size fits all" solution, but added that there were "a range of things" you could do with other forces to make savings.
It comes as three police forces in the East Midlands - Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire - have asked G4S to carry out a feasibility study about the outsourcing of their control rooms.
Sara Thornton, the National Police Chiefs' Council chairman, said police budget cuts meant forces were having to make "fundamental changes".
Some forces are already using private sector support while others "are considering it", she added.
But she said decisions about how to meet those targets would be taken "at local level" by chief constables and police and crime commissioners.
Police Federation chairman Mr White said: "Privatisation may be working well in some force areas but there is not a one size fits all solution.
"There is much to consider, not least varying force structures and accountability, but there needs to be a balance when considering private sector involvement.
"We are not averse to exploring greater efficiencies, as long as it does not compromise public safety and if any savings made are retained by the service to invest back into policing."
Former chief constable Peter Neyroud said you could not just "drag and drop" such a model on all police forces.
The former head of the National Policing Improvement Agency said he was cautious about "extrapolating too much from Lincolnshire example".
At the end of 2013 politicians voted to make money available to build a new hospital as the existing site was considered outdated.
Health Minister, Senator Andrew Green, said four sites were on the shortlist.
He said it was a complicated process but a final decision on a site in St Helier had not yet been made.
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request revealed that £2.2m had been spent so far with the bulk, £1.17m spent this year.
The money was spent on working with external suppliers as well as paying staff, overheads and administration.
£2,209,547
Total cost so far since 2011
£220,708 in 2012
£413,485 in 2013
£396,160 in 2014
£1,179,220 so far in 2015
A new site for the hospital has been discussed for years, with more than 50 sites considered by officials.
Earlier in 2015, Mr Green rejected a previously proposed two-site hospital, saying it should all be on a single site.
The four locations under consideration are the current hospital site, the Overdale hospital site, People's Park and the St Helier Waterfront.
The health authority has argued the existing hospital building is out of date, and needs to be replaced.
About £300m has been made available for the redevelopment of the hospital, which is expected to include building costs and new equipment.
People living in Lindfield, near Haywards Heath, want width and weight limits banning the heaviest vehicles from travelling through the village.
They say new building developments around Mid Sussex have led to a big rise in through-traffic.
West Sussex County Council has promised to look into their demands.
More than 1,000 people have so far signed a petition launched by Lindfield Preservation Society, calling for a ban on lorries over 7.5 tonnes travelling through the village high street, which is in a conservation area and has more than 90 listed buildings.
The society says a number of "ancient and fragile" buildings, which stand just a few feet from the narrow road, are at risk from the vibration caused by the volume and intensity of heavy traffic.
And they say theirs is the only village of its size in the district not protected by a lorry ban.
A county council spokesman said: "The issue has arisen following a planning application in East Sussex, that we had no input to, regarding material being transported to a site, and they are not permitted to use a certain route in East Sussex, so are using West Sussex B roads instead.
"We have committed to undertaking a survey of traffic movements through Lindfield, which will assess how many HGVs are involved before considering the matter further."
One of the Higher English papers was replaced weeks before the exam amid concerns it may have been leaked.
A teacher involved in setting the paper may have given their students too much information, BBC Scotland understands.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) said it was carrying out a full investigation.
It compiled a replacement paper as a precaution.
The replacement was sent to schools and exam centres a week before the exam earlier this month. It was compiled much more quickly than usual to meet the urgent deadline.
The SQA gave little information about the specific circumstances which led to the emergency.
The exams body said "unusual" and external" circumstances were to blame.
But BBC Scotland understands the focus is on a teacher who played a part in setting the original paper.
It is alleged the teacher suggested to students what topics might come up in the exam and the kind of answers they could give.
The concern was these students could have been unfairly advantaged or may have spread the information - either personally or on social media.
A spokesperson for SQA said: "We are continuing to conduct a detailed review of the circumstances around this year's Higher English examination and it would be inappropriate to comment further until that process has been completed."
There is no suggestion that any member of SQA staff, nor any external contractor such as the printers, acted irresponsibly.
Nor is there any suggestion that anybody at either the school concerned, or any other school, who had responsibility for looking after the exam papers, was in the wrong.
The issue was a concern that the content of the exam - as opposed to the paper itself - could have become known to candidates.
BBC Scotland revealed two days before the exam a replacement for one of the two papers had been sent out the week before.
The problem had come to the SQA's attention a few weeks earlier. Although the new paper had to be compiled quickly, the organisation said it always produces more material than is actually needed.
Generally, one person at each school or exam centre takes responsibility for all the exam papers and makes sure they are safely and securely stored until they are needed.
Teachers do not get to see exams beforehand.
The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust board voted unanimously to close beds in Bideford and Ilfracombe in plans to cut beds in the area from 74 to 40.
Campaigners supporting keeping the beds open have criticised the move.
Beds at Holsworthy and South Molton are to stay open. The trust said it wanted to use more home-based care, which it said was "as good as, if not better than" community hospital treatment.
The board made the decision following a six-week public consultation.
Board chairman Roger French said the "best decision" was to leave beds in Holsworthy and South Molton because they "served large, rural and dispersed populations. They also have the most modern buildings and do not struggle to fill staff vacancies."
GPs had sent a letter criticising the proposals, saying the planned closures had caused "grave concern over patient safety".
Campaigner Trisha Martin, who was at the meeting, said: "I think it's a very, very sad day for the whole of the community in north Devon.
"We depend on having places to go to recuperate after crises and having to be in acute care, and now those places are being removed."
Trust chief executive Dr Alison Diamond said: "Providing more care to people in their own homes is a model which is tried and tested and has proved to be safe and successful across Devon."
Instead, a report from the Global Council on Brain Health recommends that people engage in stimulating activities such as learning a musical instrument, designing a quilt or gardening.
It said the younger a person started these activities, the better their brain function would be as they aged.
Age UK said it was never too late to learn something new.
The council - which is a collaboration of international scientists, health professionals and policy experts - has produced a report on the best ways to stimulate the brain and reduce cognitive decline.
It said that although many people thought playing online games, such as puzzles and mind games, designed to improve brain health was important, the evidence regarding the benefits was "weak to non-existent".
"If people play a 'brain game', they may get better at that game, but improvements in game performance have not yet been shown to convincingly result in improvements in people's daily cognitive abilities," the report said.
For example, there was no evidence that playing sudoku would help you manage your finances any better, it added.
The report recommends seeking out new activities that challenge the way you think and are socially engaging, while leading a healthy lifestyle.
Examples include:
James Goodwin, chief scientist at Age UK, which helped set up the Global Council on Brain Health, said brain decline was not inevitable.
He said: "There are plenty of activities that we can start today that can provide benefits for brain health, if they are new to you and require your concentrated attention.
"They may even be activities that you do regularly in your life, such as playing with grandchildren, gardening or playing cards.
"Even though it's never too late to learn something new, the overwhelming message from this report is that you shouldn't wait until later life to try to maintain your brain health."
The decision means prior recorded witness statements cannot be used by prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in this case.
Key witnesses in the case changed their statements, which prosecutors said was due to intimidation and bribery.
Mr Ruto, who is being tried over unrest that followed 2007 elections, denies charges of crimes against humanity.
About 1,200 people were killed in the violence.
The latest ruling overturns a previous decision by judges to allow five of the witnesses' original statements to be included because they were convinced the witnesses had been interfered with.
Whichever way you look at it, this is a blow to the prosecution. It means they have lost evidence from five key witnesses.
However, the precise impact is hard to judge because so many of these hearings have been held in private session.
It partly depends on what else the prosecution has. If the prosecution doesn't have sufficient evidence this could go the same way as the case against President Uhuru Kenyatta and the charges may be thrown out of court.
The ICC is already considering a motion of no case to answer from Mr Ruto's lawyers.
That argument was heard in January and today's decision could have a bearing on it.
This use of prior testimony falls under Rule 68 of the Rome Statute, which set up the ICC.
But William Ruto's defence team argued this was unfair because changes to the rule were brought in after the case against him and his fellow defendant, the journalist Joshua arap Sang, had started.
"The prior-recorded testimony was delivered without an opportunity for the accused to cross-examine the witnesses," said presiding judge Piotr Hofmanski.
Mr Sang, who is accused of using his radio show to organise attacks in the election aftermath, said the decision was "one step to our freedom".
Mr Ruto is one of the most senior government officials to be tried by The Hague-based court since its formation more than a decade ago.
In 2014, the ICC dropped similar charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, alleging that witnesses had been intimidated to make them change their testimony.
Mr Ruto and Mr Kenyatta were on opposite sides of the 2007 election, but formed an alliance that won the 2013 election.
The names of key suspects involved in the violence were handed over to the ICC by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who brokered a power-sharing deal in Kenya in 2008.
Mr Annan's move came after Kenyan politicians failed to set up a tribunal for those accused of instigating the attacks.
In January 2015, a key witness for Mr Ruto was found dead in Kenya after reportedly being abducted a few days earlier.
The ICC said Meshack Yebei had been offered protection in a safe location but had returned home.
Some 600,000 people fled their homes in the 2007 conflict - the worst in Kenya since independence.
Samia Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died in Pakistan in July. Her father and first husband have been held in connection with her death.
Her mother, Imtiaz BiBi, and sister, Madiha Shahid have been declared proclaimed offenders in Pakistan.
A judge issued arrest warrants when they did not appear in court earlier.
Declaring the women proclaimed offenders means the police believe they were involved in Ms Shahid's death and wish to question them.
Both her father and first husband appeared at the court hearing in Jhelum, in the northern Punjab province, where the case was adjourned until 11 November.
Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel is accused of her murder while her father Chaudhry Muhammad Shahid is being held as a suspected accessory.
Neither have been formally charged but their lawyers have previously argued there is no evidence against them.
The men's legal team asked the court to wait for the High Court in Lahore to decide on a petition lodged by Ms Shahid's second husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazim, for the case to be moved from Jhelum.
The High Court is expected to rule on that petition on 24 November but the judge in Jhelum said the court would continue to pursue the matter as no order to stay proceedings had been received.
Ms Shahid, a beautician, married Mr Kazim in Leeds in 2014 and the couple moved to Dubai.
Mr Kazim has claimed his wife, who died while visiting relatives in Pakistan, was killed because her family disapproved of their marriage.
Initially it was claimed she had died of a heart attack but a post-mortem examination confirmed she had been strangled.
The claim: The High Court ruling that the government cannot use prerogative powers to trigger Article 50 could scupper Brexit.
Reality check verdict: The process of obtaining parliamentary approval may delay or complicate the process but it is hard to imagine that Parliament could ignore the outcome of the referendum.
The ruling was made by two of the UK's most senior judges, the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls and another experienced colleague, Lord Justice Sales. The government is appealing to the Supreme Court, which will hear the case in early December.
Dominic Raab, a Conservative MP who sits on the Committee on exiting the European Union, told BBC News: "A lot of people... will be shocked to see a very small group of people go to court and effectively seek the form of redress, which could end up scuppering a referendum."
He later went on to say that he did not think the ruling would stop Brexit happening.
The government currently plans to trigger Article 50 in March 2017 and this timetable may be threatened.
If the Supreme Court rules in late December or January that the approval of Parliament is needed then it would be more difficult for that to happen in time for March.
But prominent Leave campaigner Iain Duncan Smith told BBC News: "I don't think this affects the timetable at all."
However, he did warn that it opened the possibility of Parliament voting against Article 50 being triggered, causing a constitutional crisis.
The High Court did not specify what form the approval of Parliament has to take but there is broad consensus that it would have to be an Act of Parliament.
Passing that legislation could be complicated and time-consuming because it would require there to be debates in the House of Commons and the House of Lords, allowing there to be amendments tabled that could, for example, limit the government's freedom in negotiations about the UK's future relationship with the EU.
It is possible that this could delay the triggering of Article 50 beyond March, but could it scupper Brexit altogether?
If all the MPs voted in the way that they campaigned in the referendum then there would be a Commons majority for staying in the EU, but it is enormously unlikely that they would decide to ignore the outcome of the referendum.
Labour's shadow secretary for exiting the European Union, Keir Starmer, was very clear in telling BBC News: "We accept and respect the outcome of the referendum."
But he added that the court ruling should force the government to set out the outline principles on which it would be negotiating.
Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS), set up by the university in 2002, has bought the former Open University site in Boar's Hill.
It said the new facility, at Foxcombe Hall just outside Oxford, would open in summer 2018 and teach students from China, the UK and the European Union.
They will be given the opportunity to study for a year at the Oxford campus and another year in China.
The business school is based in Shenzhen in the province of Guangdong.
A statement from PHBS said China was "opening its higher education market to the world" in a bid to improve the country's "inferior position globally over the past century".
It added that after the Brexit vote "the EU and the Great Britain have become more competitive in their desire to enhance their relationship with China".
Peking University president Prof Lin Jianhua said: "It is our hope that the new initiative in Oxford will further strengthen the school's international reputation as well as its teaching and research capabilities."
The campus will host its first group of visiting students from China next spring is expected to be fully functioning by the summer of 2018.
In September, Times Higher Education ranked Peking University 29th in the world.
The Open University announced in 2015 that it would close seven regional centres.
Jon Silversides, a partner at estate agent Carter Jonas, said the Open University is due to vacate the premises in May and added: "We wish the business school every success in their investment in the UK."
Miss Norkett, 20, from Llandarcy, Neath, had been the youngest player in the 2014 Rugby World Cup.
Head coach Rowland Phillips and players Carys Phillips and Siwan Lillicrap said they would dedicate the rest of the Six Nations campaign to her memory.
"We play for her. That's our mentality going forward - we'll do it for her and nothing else," said Lillicrap.
Lillicrap continued: "I was in the gym yesterday and I was training on my own, struggling to get through and I thought if Elli was here now she'd get through it, so I've got to get through it for her.
"What's important now for us going forward is knowing that we won't be playing with 15 players, we'll be playing with 16 because she will always be with us on the pitch in some [way]."
Miss Norkett died in a two-car collision on the A4109 Inter Valley Road, between Banwen and Glynneath, at about 19:40 GMT on Saturday, 25 February.
She had been capped by Wales at 15-a-side and seven-a-side rugby and was selected for the Great Britain Students sevens.
Rowland Phillips described Miss Norkett as an "outstanding rugby player" with a bright future who had the potential to fulfil her ambition to play in five World Cups.
He said the impact of her death was devastating for Miss Norkett's family and the wider Welsh rugby family.
"The girls here [Phillips and Lillicrap], myself and Caroline Spanton [national women's rugby manager] went to see the family," he said.
"The one thing that they stressed as a family was how close we were as a rugby team, how important it was to Elli and the impact that the extended family had on her life and it's clear to see the impact she had on ours too.
"What Elli would want is for us to pull together tighter to focus.
"We all show our grief and our respect in different ways, but if we can as a group collectively carry her values and her determination with us as a group that would be the perfect way to show our respect for her as a squad."
Wales women play Ireland in Cardiff on 11 March and France away on 17 March.
The hosts dominated the first half and led 17-0 thanks to early Ollie Devoto and Charlie Ewels tries.
Sale narrowed the deficit to just three points with quickfire Johnny Leota and Andrei Ostrikov scores after the break.
But Semesa Rokoduguni and Will Homer tries made sure of Bath's win, before late scores from TJ Ioane and Leota earned Sale a bonus point.
Sale's late tries ensured they got two points despite defeat, boosting their hopes of a top-six finish.
Bath v Sale as it happened.
Bath, who were without back row Alafoti Faosiliva having suspended him after he pleaded guilty to assault at Bath Magistrates Court on Thursday, avenged last Sunday's 29-17 defeat at Sale in the reverse fixture.
Sale move above Northampton into fifth and are six points behind fourth-placed Leicester.
Bath remain ninth, three points below eighth-placed Gloucester with two matches remaining.
Bath: Priestland; Rokoduguni, Joseph, Devoto, Banahan; Ford (capt), Cook; Catt, Webber, Thomas, Ewels, Attwood, Denton, Mercer, Houston.
Replacements: Dunn, Lahiff, Wilson, Day, Douglas, Homer, Clark, Williams.
Sale: Haley; Addison, James, Leota, Edwards; Cipriani, Stringer; Harrison, Taylor, Cobilas, Evans, Ostrikov, Ioane, Seymour (capt), Easter.
Replacements: Briggs, Lewis-Roberts, Mujati, Mills, Nield, Mitchell, Ford, Brady.
He fell by the wayside at Old Trafford, but his desire to become a professional footballer remained and he moved on to the youth ranks at both Leeds United and Nottingham Forest.
Ultimately, they too proved unsuccessful and Moke began to struggle with being "himself".
As an adult, there were further setbacks after playing for clubs including York and Halifax, and it was not until later that he was told by the Professional Footballers' Association that he was suffering from depression.
"Not being offered a scholarship at Leeds United was tough," he told BBC Sport. "At that time I thought I would never be a footballer.
"Then after all those years it hit me harder because I always worked towards it. When you are at a club and you see another player that doesn't work hard, but gets a contract, you think 'what's the point?'.
"Things like that were getting into my head and I thought 'what more do I need to do to get a contract somewhere?'.
"People were telling me to stick at it and if I kept working hard I would get where I wanted but that is when it really started. I wasn't interested in anything. I wasn't myself.
"I couldn't be bothered going to football or doing anything. At one point I was in bed all day. I woke up at 5pm and my head was all over the place."
Moke signed for York City in the summer of 2011 and made 28 appearances in the following season as they completed an FA Trophy and promotion double.
He moved on to Cambridge United for an undisclosed fee, but had limited opportunities and went to Tamworth on loan before dropping into the Conference North with Halifax.
The 2012-13 season brought another medal when the Shaymen beat Brackley Town in the play-off final to return to the Conference Premier after a five-year absence.
But after what he describes as the "highlight" of his career, Moke, whose father played for Sporting Lisbon, reached rock bottom when Halifax decided not to offer him a new deal.
His depression remained a secret from all but a few people close to him. He felt embarrassed by it and his team-mates were none the wiser - even his brother only found out earlier this year.
Moke was desperate to avoid a move further down the leagues, but signed non-contract terms with Stockport County.
The story of Jamie Vardy's big move from Fleetwood Town to Leicester City, inspired Moke, who once played against the striker during his time with York.
He hoped game-time with Stockport would attract the attention of a full-time club, and he joined Macclesfield Town last summer.
At the start of the 2014-15 campaign, John Askey's side were among the favourites to be relegated from the Conference.
Following a summer of uncertainty and little investment, they had been all but written off with the odds of promotion back to the Football League stacked against them at 66/1.
But the Silkmen proved to be a surprise package and were an unexpected success story, managing 21 consecutive weeks in the play-off positions - until the crunch came.
Their season petered out at the wrong time and as a result of winning just two of their final 10 matches, they finished sixth and missed out on the play-offs by just one point.
In the midst of such disappointment, however, Moke found a silver lining as playing 39 times during the season helped him to control his depression.
"It has been difficult but as team we know we have messed up," he told BBC Sport. "When I signed for Macclesfield my friends told me we were going to get relegated. Everyone was saying it.
"We tried our best and it's been a great achievement. This year I haven't suffered at all. It's the people around me that have helped me. People like my agent and the manager- he has helped a lot."
The 25-year-old says he will forever cherish the chance he was given by Askey, a man he described as '"like a dad" to him after discovering his history with depression.
"We have a really good bunch of lads. I've played for clubs where there is team spirit but the Macclesfield team are more like my brothers. They're like family to me," he said.
"I have a manager who really believes in me and has given me this chance. The fans never get on my back and anything anyone says is positive. That's a first for me and it has really helped."
Moke agrees that talking about his mental health issues has helped, and encourages others to follow suit.
"Depression is a massive thing. I never thought it was but people shouldn't be embarrassed or scared to talk about it. I used to be but anyone can beat it if you really work hard and focus," he added.
"Don't be scared. Come out and say how you feel and what's inside. There is always someone that will come out and help and anyone can beat it.
"Keep focusing on wearing that shirt because it is the best feeling in the world."
27 July 2015 Last updated at 00:15 BST
More than two thirds of India's electricity comes from coal-fired power stations but the country has ambitious targets for new sources too.
Last month Japan's SoftBank said it planned to invest 20 billion dollars in solar power projects here - in partnership with Taiwan's Foxconn and India's Bharti enterprises
But are the government targets realistic? Pratiksha Ghildial reports from Delhi.
A married man in his 40s, with a family, he began to keep an audio diary documenting his journey "into a world beyond sight".
Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness, already the basis of an Emmy-winning short film, has now been used by British film-makers Peter Middleton and James Spinney to produce Notes on Blindness, which mixes authentic sound recordings of Hull and his wife, Marilyn, with their portrayal on the big screen by actors.
"I knew that if I didn't understand blindness, it would destroy me," Hull says in the film.
An emeritus professor of religious education, originally from Australia, he worked on the film with Middleton and Spinney but died, aged 80, in July, a few months before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
Spinney says: "John was an extraordinary man, and this is an unique testimony of someone really trying to understand blindness and to communicate that.
"He was really trying to comprehend what was happening to him.
"So we follow him from loss and despair into an insight into blindness and then even on to a sense of renewal and purpose."
Marilyn Hull calls the film "an extraordinary gift to our family, and perhaps especially to the grandchildren who will never have known him".
"We have made a couple of films together as a family," she says.
"But this is far more personal - it searches at the deepest levels."
Middleton, who first met Hull in 2010, says: "In his office in his home, he had shelves and shelves of boxes of audio-cassette tapes, as John had asked for many academic texts to be recorded when he realised that soon he would have no sight left at all."
"But there were also conversations on the tapes - John's family talking at important family events, audio letters between John and his parents in Australia, but also John himself, talking to himself, recording this diary and the impact of his condition on his relationships, dreams and memories.
"We made a short film about it, and then began to discuss a longer piece charting his full journey into blindness.
"But what was also interesting to us was the distance of 30 years since those reflections were recorded, it was a series of disembodied voices speaking from the past."
British actors Dan Renton Skinner and Simone Kirby lip-synch the words spoken by Hull and his wife.
The film also contains later real interviews with the couple.
And the cinematography is often hazy and fragmented to immerse audiences in the experience of blindness.
Spinney says: "We began to build on the idea of the dislocation of sound and image as the aesthetic for the film.
"All the central voices in the film would be authentic documentary audio, and everything on screen would be a visual interpretation of it.
"We also use John's memories of his dreams, where he is often seeing clearly."
The pain of Hull's experience is apparent from his voice in a scene from December 1984, the first Christmas he spent completely blind, where audiences can hear his voice trying to connect with his family as they open their presents.
Middleton says: "John felt long periods of deep despair of what was happening, and that is part of the process of the film.
"For example, he only ever saw the faces of two of his four children.
"Early on, we document his realisation that he is fast forgetting what his wife and children look like and just how distressing that is.
"He associates his blindness with defeat, but, astonishingly, slowly begins to turn his thinking around and treat blindness like an adventure, appreciating his other senses.
"As he says, 'I must not live in nostalgia, I must live in reality and become blind.'"
The film was praised as "a beautiful, accessible work of art" after its debut, but both Middleton and Spinney believe its virtual-reality companion piece, Into Darkness, is equally important - "because it's a chance for audiences to fully understand and immerse themselves in what a world without sight feels like".
"It's an important piece of our outreach programme, and also to build a conversation of how the partially sighted and the blind can continue to enjoy cinema," Spinney says.
Marilyn Hull says: "I know that John would have been immensely proud and pleased with this work.
"For me, it's been a rare opportunity to re-examine, through the filters of memory, time and love, a painful but utterly transformative part of my own life.
"John would have said to the film, 'Go well, with my blessing. I hope for some of the people who see it, there will be good and useful outcomes.'"
Notes on Blindness is released in the UK on 1 July.
Follow us on Twitter , on Instagram at , or email .
In 2011, 431 cases did not respond to antibiotic treatment compared to 342 in 2010, the HPA said. About 550 more cases of TB were disgnosed in 2011.
The agency said it was disappointed by the increase which "remains a concern".
TB is a bacterial infection that mainly affects the lungs but can be found elsewhere in the body.
Overall, just under 9,000 new cases of TB were recorded by the HPA in 2011, up from about 8,400 in 2010.
Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, head of TB surveillance at the HPA, said he was pleased that the number of overall cases year-on-year remains stable at between 8,500 and 9,000.
But he said: "The increase in drug-resistant cases remains a concern and a challenge to our efforts to control TB in the UK."
He added that the infection "continues to disproportionately affect those in hard to reach and vulnerable groups" such as foreign migrants.
Prof Abubakar urged health commissioners in the worst affected areas to prioritise the delivery of services and treatment.
TB can be spread when someone with the infection coughs, sneezes or talks and another person breathes in the bacteria. However, prolonged contact is usually needed for infection to occur.
Typical symptoms include a persistent cough, night sweats for weeks or months, weight loss, fatigue, high temperature and shortness of breath.
In a modern office in western Kabul, dozens of handsome, carefully groomed young men are queuing patiently. The well-fitted suits and Western hair styles wouldn't be out of place in a fashion show.
And that's where many of them would like to be.
More than 300 young men and women have come to a photo studio in the Gawhar shopping mall to register with the new Kabul Modelling Club and Management, the first ever such initiative in Afghanistan.
All are amateurs with an ambition to follow in the steps of the world's big modelling stars and become professional.
"My role model is Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli," one of the hopefuls, Mohammad Fayaz, told me. "I have been inspired by his style."
He says it's tough to try and be a fashion model in Afghanistan because of the economic and security problems.
"But because I'm passionate about modelling, I've come to have a go. Luckily things are getting better and we have more freedoms to follow our interests than in the past."
After a recruitment drive through social media, Fayaz and his fellow models now go through a three-day casting process which includes a professional photo shoot.
Each participants registers personal details like age, weight and eye colour.
The organisers of the initiative are two Kabul media companies, the Classic Studio of Photography and Vision Media Production.
They say the aim is to bring together all amateur and professional models under one umbrella and produce a directory of Afghan models for the industry to use.
"We decided to bring together everyone who is interested in modelling and wants to appear on TV, in advertisements, magazines, on billboards and even in movies," Edris Salehi, one of the organisers, says.
The idea was born from after an international investment company declined to use existing Afghan models because the same faces appeared in different advertisements again and again.
Some production companies have used foreign actors to get around the limited choice.
In several TV adverts made in Pakistan and running on Afghan channels, you can watch foreign men and women whose voices have been dubbed with local languages for the Afghan audience.
Afghan production companies were unable to come up with new faces to re-version the advert for the Afghan market.
Just 13 years ago, young men were unable to were the kind of outfits on show here.
The Taliban enforced a strict dress code of traditional clothes (Pirahan-Tunban) and even youngsters were not allowed to style their hair or beards.
Short hair, long beards, a white cap and turban where the norm.
All that has changed and today there are numerous shopping malls in Kabul offering Western clothing brands.
Shop windows feature short-sleeved ladies dresses which women wear at private parties and indoor, female-only wedding ceremonies.
Men, too, ask for Western brands and while in most parts of the country the burka and traditional dress is the norm, in the centre of Kabul you find girls and boys with modern dress and style.
But despite the changes, conservative traditions still set strict limits for any aspiring fashion model, especially women.
Only a few young women turned up for the fashion shoot and all declined to talk to me.
Women appearing on TV is a red line for many families, never mind modelling, despite the presence of many female television anchors on various stations.
It's a problem for producers and directors who often have to opt for Iranian, Pakistani and Tajik actors and models.
"Afghan actors and actresses are not flexible with roles," says Roya Sadat, the owner of Roya Film House, who has years of experience in Afghan movies, TV series and video shoots.
She says that the most difficult part of filming is casting, especially casting for female roles.
"When we want to cast actresses, sometimes they read the script, and when they find a scene unusual, they refuse to take part," Roya Sadat says.
"Unusual" refers to scenes which may upset conservative audiences.
"In one of my TV series there was a scene where I showed a husband and wife at bed time," Roya recalls.
She says that, knowing the sensitivities, they decided to turn the lights off in the scene as soon as the couple lay down.
But it still was too much for some, Roya says:
"When the series was broadcast, the actress called me and said that she was beaten by her family, who wanted to know what had happened when the lights went off!"
Roya says that despite such incidents, there's been much change over the past decade and things are getting easier for models and actors.
Aspiring models like Fayaz hope to use these new freedoms.
He says he hopes that the new modelling register will open up opportunities and establish a professional industry in Afghanistan.
"There are many aspiring models like me in Kabul and in other provinces of the country," Fayaz says: "But we are not organised, so having a professional agency will bring us all together so we can become more established."
In an interview with the Times newspaper, Mr Grayling said the move was part of a deal he had reached with the Law Society for England and Wales.
Opponents of the policy had warned the policy would "irrevocably damage the criminal justice system".
But other cuts to legal aid are expected to go ahead.
In a statement in the Commons Mr Grayling said prisoners and households with more than £3,000 per month of disposable income would no longer be able to access legal aid.
And immigrants who had been in the country less than a year would be unable to access aid in civil cases, he said.
By Clive ColemanLegal correspondent, BBC News
If not a complete U-turn, today's revised plans are a major change of direction. So, what happened?
Price Competitive Tendering - bidding for contracts for legal aid work - was central to government plans to reform criminal legal aid. Ministers believed it would have consolidated a fractured and inefficient market with fewer, bigger suppliers.
But it was hugely contentious. Law firms painted a picture of a cut- price service provided by the lowest bidder. They feared underbidding each other to win a contract, and losing out to the commercial muscle of new entrants to the legal services market such as the Stobart group.
The Law Society argued that "quality" rather than a low bid should be what permits a lawyer to undertake legal aid work.
They successfully moved the perennial debate about fat cat lawyers to one about protecting individual rights. Conservative newspapers rallied to their cause, and critically the justice secretary listened.
Ministers had intended to introduce price competitive tendering (PCT) as part of a string of reforms aiming to cut the £2bn annual legal aid bill in England and Wales by £350m a year.
BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman said the proposal was very controversial, with concerns that the lowest bid would win in a "race to the bottom" which could impact quality.
He said that while the bidding proposal had been scrapped other savings would go ahead as the government remained committed to saving money on the legal aid system - said to be one of the most expensive in the world.
There are currently 1,600 legal aid providers and there is potential for that number to be expanded if firms meet minimum quality standards.
The government plans to put a cap on contracts for duty solicitor work at police stations and to reduce legal aid fees by 17.5% across the board.
It also plans to set up a working party to look at how thousands of short hearings can be avoided, or dealt with by email or video link.
Its final proposals on legal aid reform will be subject to a six-week consultation, our correspondent added.
Mr Grayling said: "We will introduce a new residency test that will prevent most people who have only just arrived in the UK from accessing civil legal aid until a year after they had arrived.
"We will limit criminal legal aid for prisoners so that it is not available unnecessarily. There will be no more legal aid available because you don't like your prison.
"We will set out new rules that will mean the wealthiest Crown Court defendants - those in households with more than £3,000 in disposable income left after tax, housing costs and other essential outgoings - will have to fund their own legal costs."
He said that when the government set out its plans in April "I was clear that they were for consultation. I have kept that promise".
He said that the agreement is "a sensible proposal which is tough but realistic".
The shadow justice secretary, Labour's Sadiq Khan, described plans to drop plans to award contracts to the lowest bidder as "a humiliating climb-down" for the government.
He added: "If the government had their way, access to justice for many people would have been threatened, with the very real prospect of increased numbers of miscarriages of justice."
The charity Reprieve said the blocking of legal aid to immigrants who have been in the country less than a year would "deny justice to a wide range of people wronged by the UK government - from victims of torture and rendition to Gurkhas and Afghan interpreters denied the right to settle in Britain".
The organisation's legal director, Kat Craig, said: "The reality is that the residence test is the latest in a long line of attempts by the government to silence its critics in the courts.
"David Cameron and Nick Clegg once thought that torture victims and Gurkhas denied the right to live in Britain deserved their day in court - why are they now backing plans which would shut them out?"
Correction 17 September 2013: This story has been amended to clarify that is the legal aid system - rather than the legal system - that is said to be one of the most expensive in the world.
The 20-year-old was not included in the England squad for the first Test against South Africa at Lord's.
"He's a determined young man and he will use that as motivation," Chapple told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"He'll be disappointed with the first half of the season but he'll put that to one side and work on his game."
Chapple added: "Knowing Hass, he'll be in the nets doing just that and counting down the days for his next chance."
Hameed made his England debut against India in November 2016 as a 19-year-old and impressed during his three Tests on that tour, but is averaging below 20 in the Championship in 2017 and is yet to make a half-century in the four-day competition.
"There is nothing wrong with his game," said Chapple. "It's more about his tactics.
"He looked to expand his game at the start of the season and it wasn't the wrong thing to do. It just didn't pay off and he hasn't made the scores. That can happen to any batter."
Lancashire travel to Durham in Friday's opening round of T20 Blast fixtures and Chapple confirmed that England's Jos Buttler will keep wicket instead of Alex Davies, who has filled the role in Championship cricket.
"We're very excited to have Jos in our team," said Chapple.
"We weren't sure of his contention for a Test place, that may still be the case, but it's a massive bonus to have him at the start of this format.
"Alex is an excellent keeper and he's playing really well, but to start a competition with England's keeper is great for us."
A 17-year-old Afghan boy is under suspicion because a DNA test appears to link him to the spot in Freiburg where the woman was attacked in October.
Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel warned Germans not to exploit the crime "for incitement and conspiracy propaganda".
Last year's massive influx of migrants fuelled tensions over immigration.
The 19-year-old medical student disappeared in mid-October on her way home from a party in Freiburg, south-western Germany. Her body was found in the river Dreisam.
The anti-immigration and anti-Islam Alternative for Germany (AfD) has gained ground in local elections, campaigning against Chancellor Angela Merkel's liberal policy towards migrants.
Mrs Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert condemned the "heinous" crime in Freiburg, but added: "We must not forget that we're talking about the possible act of one Afghan refugee, not that of a whole group of people, who are Afghans or refugees like him."
In the past two years there has been an escalation of attacks on migrant hostels in Germany - in some cases they have been burnt down.
The suspect being questioned by police arrived in Germany as an unaccompanied minor last year. He had been living with a foster family.
Many of the 890,000 asylum seekers who reached Germany last year had fled wars in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
The largest groups of asylum seekers in January-October 2016 were: Syrians (38%), Afghans (18%) and Iraqis (13.5%), the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) reported.
Mrs Merkel was widely criticised for her "open door" policy on refugees, and she has admitted that Germany was ill-prepared for the influx.
The government has hardened its rhetoric on asylum and ministers are trying to toughen deportation laws.
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.
Causeway Coast and Glens Council approved the funding for the project in Glenariff by 19 votes to 18.
In June, the funding was pulled because of opposition by the DUP.
The party said that the gates leading onto the site would "re-traumatise" people affected by terrorism.
The gates carry the names of Charlie McAllister and Pat McVeigh, who were killed in 1922.
Last week, the chairman of GAA club Oisín Glenariffe resigned over a vote to move the set of gates to a different position.
Sinn Féin councillor Cara McShane said the council vote placed no conditions on the funding, such as the gates having to be moved.
She accused the DUP of not wanting council money to be spent in the Glens area.
"It's disgusting and disgraceful behaviour and they are creating nothing but negative impact within the Glens community."
DUP councillor Trevor Clarke said he was disappointed by the outcome and that "elevating an application from one group ahead of all others was unfair and unjust".
He added that his party were "astonished" that a majority of Ulster Unionist Party councillors voted to "endorse proposals for a scheme on grounds named after IRA terrorists".
SDLP councillor Margaret-Anne McKillop welcomed the decision but said she was "angry the community in Glenariff have had to jump through hoops to achieve the backing of the council".
The alleged device was seized in the Middle East after a CIA operation in Yemen and is being studied by the FBI.
Reports say no target had been chosen and no plane tickets purchased by the time the alleged plot was foiled.
Officials say there was never any risk to the public. It is not clear what has happened to the would-be bomber.
Peter King, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee of the US House of Representatives, said counter-terrorism officials had told him: "We don't have to worry about him any more."
The officials revealed that the would-be bomber was alive, but would not say whether he was in foreign custody, Mr King added.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the foiled attack was proof of the continuing need for vigilance around the world.
"These terrorists keep trying. They keep trying to devise more and more perverse and terrible ways to kill innocent people," she said.
US officials said the device had been seized in an unspecified Middle Eastern country outside Yemen within the last 10 days.
"As a result of close co-operation with our security and intelligence partners overseas, an improvised explosive device (IED) designed to carry out a terrorist attack has been seized abroad," the FBI said.
By Jane O'BrienBBC News, Washington
In spite of recent successes against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen continues to be the focus of US counter-terrorism operations.
Targeted killings carried out by unmanned aircraft, or drones, have become a key component of the CIA's campaign against senior al-Qaeda figures. On Sunday, Fahd al-Quso, wanted by the FBI for his role in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, was killed by a missile as he stepped out of a vehicle. It's not clear whether his death was part of the same operation that uncovered the latest plane bomb plot against the US.
The man believed to be responsible for designing the device that would have been used is also said to be hiding in Yemen. Ibrahim al-Asiri, 30, is a Saudi national who helped mastermind the so-called "underwear bomb" plot in 2009 and the 2010 attempt to blow up two cargo planes bound for the US. The FBI says the device it is currently examining is similar but more sophisticated than the ones used in those previous attacks.
"Initial exploitation indicates that the device is very similar to IEDs that have been used previously by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in attempted terrorist attacks, including against aircraft and for targeted assassinations," it added.
President Barack Obama was first informed of the plot in April, White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said, adding the device had not posed a threat to the public.
The BBC's Mark Mardell in Washington says the plot, disrupted as a result of US co-operation with other unnamed intelligence agencies, appears to have been caught at a relatively early stage - after the making of the bomb, but before the public was put at risk.
"What this incident makes clear is that this country has to continue to remain vigilant against those that would seek to attack this country. And we will do everything necessary to keep America safe," Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters on Monday.
Although other agencies were involved, senior Yemeni officials say the government in Sanaa there has no information on this particular plot, according to Reuters news agency.
Officials said it appeared that AQAP leaders in Yemen had instructed a suicide bomber to board any flight of his choosing to the US with the bomb under his clothes, but that he had been stopped before reaching an airport.
It is not clear who built the alleged device, but officials said it shared some features with the bomb sewn into the underwear of would-be suicide bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
The Nigerian was arrested when his device failed to explode fully while on a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.
A US intelligence official said the latest device bore the "hallmarks" of the 2009 underwear bomb, which was built by the Saudi militant, Ibrahim al-Asiri.
It seems it is an improved model, with a more effective detonation system; it has no metal parts and probably would not have been detected by most airport security magnetometers, our correspondent adds.
It is not even clear if it would have been found by the body scanners that have been installed in some US airports after that attempted attack three years ago.
Abdulmutallab's "underwear bomb" was not detected during security checks at airports in Lagos, Nigeria, and Amsterdam before he boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253 for Detroit.
On the flight, the bomb did not detonate fully and passengers had to put out the fire. He has been sentenced to life in prison.
In a previous incident that year, a man also equipped with a bomb in his underwear tried to attack Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, a senior Saudi Arabian counter-terrorism official. The bomber killed himself in the attack, but the prince survived.
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said air security would continue to incorporate threat and vulnerability analysis, pre-screening and screening of passengers, as well as random searches at airports, air marshals and other unspecified security measures.
It added: "We have no specific, credible information regarding an active terrorist plot against the US at this time, although we continue to monitor efforts by al-Qaeda and its affiliates to carry out terrorist attacks, both in the homeland and abroad."
News of the operation emerged shortly after the US marked the first anniversary of the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
It also comes one day after Fahd al-Quso, an al-Qaeda leader in Yemen, was killed by a US drone strike.
The US had offered a $5m (£3.1m) reward for information leading to Quso's capture or death.
The Yemeni government has stepped up its battle against AQAP since Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down as president in November.
However, the group and its allies still control large parts of the country.
|
Former Baltimore Police officer Michael A Wood Jr caused a storm on social media after tweeting shocking examples of police misconduct that he says he witnessed while on the force.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Athletic Bilbao secured a first-leg advantage over Barcelona in their Copa del Rey last-16 tie despite finishing the match with nine men.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The cost of travelling by bus in Jersey will not go down despite a drop in the price of oil.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Described by the former British cabinet minister Vince Cable as "sunny places for shady people", tax havens are much maligned.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Police forces in England and Wales could save £1bn a year by outsourcing backroom services to private companies, private security firm G4S has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
More than £2m has been spent searching for a new site for Jersey's general hospital since 2011, according to the health department.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
More than 1,000 people have put their names to a campaign to protect a historic Sussex village from damage from heavy lorries.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A teacher who allegedly told students what to expect in the Higher English exam sparked a near-emergency at the exams agency, BBC Scotland can reveal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Community hospital beds in north Devon are to close, health bosses have said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Brain training games may not provide the benefits to brain health they claim to, according to experts.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
International judges in the case of Kenyan Vice-President William Ruto have barred the use of recanted testimony.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Arrest warrants have been issued for the mother and sister of a woman believed to have been the victim of a so-called "honour killing".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The High Court has ruled that the government does not have the power to trigger Article 50 - to start formal exit negotiations with the EU - without the approval of Parliament.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A leading Chinese university is to open a campus in Oxford.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Wales women's rugby players and management have paid tribute to Elli Norkett who died after a car crash.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sale Sharks' faint chances of a play-off spot were dented as they lost their game in hand at an improved Bath.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
At 10-years-old, Adriano Moke was living the dream after signing for Manchester United.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Power is one of India's biggest barriers to development and it's estimated a third of the population doesn't have reliable power.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
In 1983, Birmingham-based academic John Hull began to lose his sight completely, after being told by doctors there was nothing they could do for him.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in the UK have risen by over a quarter in the last year, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has revealed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Dozens of aspiring models are being signed up in a new initiative aiming to bring more Afghan faces to the country's advertising and TV industry, reports BBC Persian's Kawoon Khamoosh in Kabul.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Plans to cut the legal aid bill by awarding contracts to the lowest bidder have been dropped, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has announced.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Haseeb Hameed will come back stronger after struggling for runs in 2017 and losing his England Test spot, says Lancashire coach Glen Chapple.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Germans have been urged not to scapegoat migrants, after an Afghan youth was arrested over the rape and murder of a German student.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A council has voted to approve £180,000 of funding for a community project in County Antrim despite a row over the names of two IRA men on the gates of the planned site.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The US has foiled a plot by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to detonate an upgraded version of the failed 2009 "underwear bomb", US officials say.
| 33,293,421 | 16,326 | 815 | true |
Entitled death: the human experience, it houses items showing how death is treated by cultures around the world.
In the opening weekend, the show attracted 1,600 visitors and some 700 are now visiting every day at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.
The exhibits include a Ghanaian fantasy coffin and a hospital mortuary table.
|
An exhibition about death and the human experience has attracted thousands of visitors despite only opening at the weekend.
| 34,648,522 | 71 | 23 | false |
The 30-year-old had denied driving while more than twice the legal limit on 21 February.
The Scottish songwriter had used "the hip flask defence", which suggested he had drunk alcohol after he had driven.
A Scottish Police Authority forensic toxicologist had told the trial that "post-incident drinking" could increase alcohol readings.
During a two-day trial at Paisley Sheriff Court, witness Colin May told the court he saw Nutini driving after ordering vodka in DeBeers bar.
PC Laura Murray told the first day of the trial she was called to Canal Street towards midnight on 21 February to a report of a car being driven by someone who had allegedly been drinking.
The car was no longer there when they arrived but they went to an address where they found a grey Mini and Nutini, who they had been told was the driver of the vehicle.
After testing positive for alcohol following a breath test, Nutini was arrested and taken to Govan police station.
Asked whether he mentioned drinking after returning home, she said: "He said he had had a mouthful of wine at home and this later changed to saying he had a mouthful of whisky."
The court heard Nutini had a reading of 48 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath - more than double the 22mcg legal limit.
Giving evidence, forensic toxicologist Karen Kerr had told the court she did a number of calculations on the alcohol level in Nutini's system.
She explained the amount Nutini claimed he had drunk after driving would account for 31mcg.
She said: "It's saying, had post-incident drinking not taken place, the result would have been 17[mcg] - it's in terms of the hip flask defence.
"The 17 would've been caused by any other pre-incident drinking - drinking prior to the evidential result."
She said the results of the breath test did not fit with his claims about how much he had to drink on the night in question but she conceded he may have been fit to drive at the time he was driving.
"It is possible he would've been under the limit [22mcg] at the time of driving," she said.
"He could be as high as 36[mcg] or as low as 14[mcg].
"I couldn't get 48[mcg] to lie within the range, based on the stated pattern of drinking."
Sheriff Colin Pettigrew acquitted the musician and Nutini left the court without comment.
Nutini's debut album, These Streets, was released in 2006 and peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart, while the follow-up, 2009's Sunny Side Up, debuted at number one.
Both albums were certified quintuple platinum and his third album, 2014-release Caustic Love, was also certified platinum after going to number one.
They warn that they reserve the right to respond to recent bombings of areas around Damascus, Homs and the south.
The rebels describe the attacks as a "bloody message" from President Bashar al-Assad's government.
This comes just days before UN-sponsored talks are due to start in Geneva, Switzerland.
The UN envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has played down hopes for the talks on 23 February.
He said the talks were aimed at seeing if there was any possibility of starting to discuss a political process.
A nationwide ceasefire brokered by Russia, Turkey and Iran took effect on 30 December after peace talks in Kazakhstan.
At least 16 people were killed in government shelling of an area near Damascus on Saturday, monitors and medical workers say.
Casualties were also reported in other rebel-held parts of the country.
There were also reports of rebel shelling of government-controlled areas in Damascus.
These reports have not been independently verified.
More than 300,000 people have been killed and 11 million others displaced since the uprising against President Assad began in March 2011.
She told parliament said she would be doing her job when Alex Salmond, who is standing down as first minister and SNP leader, was "long gone".
Her comments came during the first first minister's questions since the Scottish referendum "No" vote.
Mr Salmond said he had read claims that there were several "anointed successors" to Ms Lamont.
Attacking the Scottish government for its handling of the health service, Ms Lamont told parliament: "When the first minister is long gone, I will still be doing my job on behalf of the people of Scotland."
The independence referendum saw voters backed Scotland staying in the Union 55% to 45%, although a majority for independence was recorded in the traditional Labour stronghold of Glasgow.
Mr Salmond said he had "read in the papers that there seem to be a number of anointed successors for Johann Lamont".
The first minister told MSPs: "Johann Lamont says she's going to be retained in her current position - yes, I hope she continues as leader of the opposition in this parliament for some considerable time."
Ghulam Hussain, 30, from Batley, West Yorkshire, is accused of giving an undercover policeman cash for the trip.
Mr Hussain, of Track Road, is alleged to have bought a plane ticket to travel to Pakistan later this month and return via Turkey a week later.
He appeared before Westminster magistrates charged with two offences under Section 5 of the Terrorism Act.
He is accused of engaging in conduct in preparation for committing an act of terrorism, and engaging in conduct with the intention of assisting another person to commit an act of terrorism.
Mr Hussain is also alleged to have obtained credit cards by providing false details of employment and income.
He was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on 17 November.
The former chancellor left government in July and said last month that it was too early to write his memoirs as he did not know "where his story ends".
Instead, he will pen a book entitled the Age of Unreason, examining the rise of "populist nationalism" embodied by Donald Trump's US presidential bid.
Ed Balls, Nick Clegg and Ken Clarke have all recently released memoirs.
Despite losing his job as chancellor after Theresa May became prime minister, Mr Osborne has said he will remain in politics to fight for the values he believes in and will contest the next election.
Announcing the project, which will take a year, Mr Osborne called for the forces of free markets and open society to take back control of the political debate.
Mr Osborne said: "My book is about the future. I want to apply the lessons I've learnt in victory and defeat to the urgent challenge of this Age of Unreason.
"Capitalism and democracy is in crisis. The West is in retreat. The forces of populist nationalism and prejudice are on the rise, amplified by new technology. The likes of Donald Trump say to people, what the hell have you got to lose. The answer is, a lot. Peace, prosperity and security.
"It's time to say so. It's time for the defenders of open societies and free markets to fight back."
Hutchinson's early career was blighted by injury, forcing him to retire aged 21 in 2010, before he returned a year later.
"I'm probably the happiest I've ever been now, with my kids," he told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"I pushed my family away and my wife sort of saved me. She pulled me out of it and made me play football again."
Hutchinson continued: "I had to deal with it in my own way, like my injuries, and it's made me stronger and more mature."
Hutchinson initially played for Chelsea on his return to football in 2011, before making a loan move to Championship side Wednesday permanent in 2014.
Hutchinson came up through the Chelsea youth ranks and made his senior debut in 2007 under Jose Mourinho against Everton.
Injuries limited his appearances and he played for Chelsea three times in the 2009-10 season, but struggles with his knee forced him to retire in August 2010.
He recently wrote an article for The Sun discussing his battle with depression for the first time.
"I did it not for people to feel sorry for me but to raise awareness for other people," he said.
"It was one of those pieces where it's not about me, it is about the matter in hand and dealing with that.
"Certain people aren't ready to do so and they don't want to speak about it and they shouldn't be pushed to."
After loan spells at Nottingham Forest and Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem, Hutchinson signed for The Owls in July 2014.
He has made 27 appearances this season as Wednesday have pushed for promotion to the top flight, but he has also picked up 12 yellow cards along the way.
"I won't ever calm down because it's not my character," he added.
"It's not how I am off the pitch but sometimes you need it. It's my make-up and it won't change."
Customers have likened the smell to cat urine and rotten animals. They say the smell gets stronger in hot weather and if the windows are open.
Valspar says the problem is caused by an additive being removed from some of its paint. It has now re-added it.
Valspar and B&Q say they will pay for the cost of redecoration.
Charlotte Quine from Brighton recently redecorated her spare room using Valspar paint. She told Radio 4's You and Yours it took her a long time to figure out what was making the smell.
She said: "I assumed a cat must have got into the room through the window and sprayed everywhere. Eventually I moved all the furniture out, washed down all the walls, got some carpet cleaner, but again nothing."
Ms Quine later saw messages left by other Valspar customers on the company's Facebook page complaining that the paint smelt bad. She sniffed her walls and realised where the smell was coming from.
Ms Quine complained and Valspar offered to cover the cost of new tins of paint. Their suggestion to fix the problem was to paint the walls with an alkaline-based sealant, and then reapply the paint, but she was worried that it would just mask the problem.
She said: "What concerns me is it seems that this problem is caused by bacteria growing in the paint and emitting the smell, and until Valspar are prepared to investigate, I am slightly concerned about just painting over it."
Graham Hill is managing director of ECHA Microbiology in Cardiff. He says the problem is likely to be caused by bacterial contamination in the can.
He said: "It's a well known issue in the paint industry. The bacteria grow in the can and release hydrogen sulphide gas which is the bad egg small, and ammonia which is the urine smell."
Mr Hill also suggested that changes in EU law, which restricts the types of preservatives that paint manufacturers can use, mean this problem is becoming more common.
"There's tighter and tighter restrictions on what preservatives we can use," he said. "We've taken solvents out of paints and this does make them more susceptible to bacterial growth. Alkali [sealant] should break down hydrogen sulphide, so it shouldn't smell as much."
Valspar said: "The ammonia-type odour occurs very rarely and when used on walls that are particularly porous, and where the wall is exposed to excessive heat or direct sunlight. The odour naturally wears off over time."
B&Q says anyone affected should ring their customer service helpline on 0333 014 3098.
Thunder Bay's Shelter House was struggling to keep its street outreach programme running.
The man, who is a residential school survivor, donated the money to help his friends "stay safe".
Since his anonymous donation made the news, people from across Canada and the US have donated to the shelter.
Staff member Alexandra Calderon told the BBC the man has been coming to the shelter for about five years. Although he is no longer homeless, the man is not wealthy and appeared at the shelter with a support worker. He still uses some of the shelter's services.
"He was adamant that he wanted to make the donation, because of course my first reaction was he should keep this and use it for other things," she said.
The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, got the idea after he heard the shelter would be shutting down its SOS street outreach programme, which picks up homeless and other at-risk people and brings them to the shelter, hospital or detox clinic.
The programme was only partially funded, and Shelter House said it would have to raise $200,000 if it wanted to keep the programme running all year long. The man was in the shelter's lobby when a representative from Matawa First Nations donated $10,000 to the shelter and challenged others to give too.
He decided to donated his money from a government settlement for residential school survivors. Thousands of indigenous children were forced to attend church-run boarding schools, where they were forbidden from practicing their culture and were often abused.
The last school closed in 1996.
The man said he wanted to use the money to make sure his friends could "get around the city and stay safe".
Ms Calderon said that when he explained why he wanted to donate, they both started to cry.
"He was just so happy, and so grateful that we were happy," she said.
His gift has inspired others as well. People from across North America have donated about $15,000 towards the shelter since Sunday, when his donation was made public. Ms Calderon says they are about halfway through their $200,000 funding drive now.
"It was very important to him," she said. "He was very proud to make the gift."
"We are not saying this is a disaster or this is something where wildlife has really suffered," Grahame Madge from the RSPB told me, keenly aware that when people's lives and homes are being threatened by rising waters, concerns about animal life comes a distant second.
Certainly the December storms and tidal surges had potentially very serious implications for many coastal habitats and species.
A report drawn up by Natural England showed that over 40 Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in England had been affected.
However, the impact of the unprecedented downpours on the Somerset Levels, the Thames and the Severn is much harder to gauge.
Birds and animals should in many cases be able to move away from relatively slow rising river floods, unlike tidal surges.
However, there are worries about some small mammals, particularly hedgehogs, who are hibernating at this time of year. The RSPB expects that many of those caught in flooded areas will drown.
Dabbling ducks will also face problems.
These are water birds that love to stick their bottoms in the air as they up-end in the shallow reaches searching for food.
Mallards, teals and pintails are common on the Somerset Levels but according to Grahame Madge, the floods will have made it difficult for them to feed.
"These are a group of ducks that take food from the few inches at the top of the water column, when it is too deep beyond their dabbling ability they have to move on to other sites," he said.
The RSPB suspects that many of these ducks have moved on to other, more inaccessible sites in the Levels but the floods are making it very difficult for their counters to get out and make certain.
Another bird struggling in the ongoing wet conditions is the Kingfisher. You might be forgiven for thinking that with all the water about, these fish loving brightly coloured fellows would be in their element.
Sadly, that would be short-sighted.
"They suffer when you get a high silt load in the water as they can't see to fish," said Grahame Madge.
"Temperature wise it is probably ideal for them, but when you get these brown rivers they can't see to fish, I would suspect that some kingfishers would be facing a really hard time at present."
There have been some concerns that the massive amount of flooding now being seen across farmland may pick up and concentrate agricultural fertilisers, leading to a poisoning of the water and the land.
"The thing is that maybe smaller floods are worse for over-enrichment," said Tim Collins, from Natural England.
"What we are getting here is massive dilution, so it may be that the stuff that might have been deposited with smaller inundations may actually be dissolved and washed away - we simply can't tell yet."
There have also been suggestions from animal welfare campaigners that other species, including badgers, may be threatened by the duration of the floods.
They argue that animals that have been subjected to a pilot culling trial in Somerset may now be facing a more natural threat.
"Some setts will almost certainly have been damaged or flooded out completely, meaning that whole badger families could be disturbed," said Mark Jones from Humane Society International.
"There will be cubs in those setts right now and it's possible that some cubs will have drowned too."
The scale and extent of the impact of flooding on species like badgers has still to be determined.
According to Tim Collins from Natural England, flooding is part of the way that natural systems work and wildlife generally can cope.
"From an ecological perspective, mortality is a natural occurrence and not something we should be unduly disturbed about at a species level."
What is certain is that there has been plenty of damage being done to conservation infrastructure such as smashed up bird watching hides, footpaths washed away and visitor centres being flooded.
The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust suffered badly as a result of the December surges, and are now looking at £1m insurance claim for damages to paths, hides and buildings.
"At Gibraltar Point which is one of our most popular nature reserves, we're not going to have a visitor centre there for a significant time because it needs complete rebuilding," said Rachel Shaw with the Trust.
"People can still go bird watching but it changes the whole nature of that place as a nature reserve."
It will take some time for the waters to recede, but it will take longer for a full assessment of the true cost of flooding on wildlife and the environment.
Follow Matt on Twitter @mattmcgrathbbc.
Josh Pitt, 24, from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, was shot and killed by a police officer in November last year.
Bedfordshire Police said they were responding to reports Mr Pitt had attacked a woman at a flat in Luton.
A coroner said representatives for the officers would have to make written submissions for anonymity.
Coroner Ian Pears said representatives for Mr Pitt's mother and partner would be able to respond to the officers' applications.
A post-mortem examination found he died from a single gunshot wound to the chest.
He had been treated by paramedics in Tracey Court, off Hibbert Street, where the shooting had taken place, before being taken to hospital.
The shooting was investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which examined body-worn footage from some of the officers at the scene.
The IPCC previously said a forensic examination of the scene took place and "a number of knives" were recovered.
The inquest will take place at Ampthill Coroner's Court later this year.
His annexation of Crimea and military involvement in eastern Ukraine broke the settled pattern of post-Cold War relations in Europe.
The Russian military's increasingly aggressive patrolling and exercises on the margins of Nato have raised genuine concerns - even in a country such as Sweden - that a conflict with Russia can no longer be regarded as impossible.
Reluctant Nato governments are slowly increasing defence spending, and the US is taking steps to reinforce its forward presence in Europe.
Russia, of course, puts the boot on the other foot and blames Nato's expansion for its increased military readiness.
But this is a government widely believed to have sent its agents to poison an opponent in London, leaving a radioactive trail across the city.
Curiously then, the prevailing Western response to Russia's engagement alongside President Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria has been to argue Russia and the West potentially share some common ground.
Russia - at least up to a week or so ago - was seen as a co-sponsor of the diplomatic effort to bring peace to Syria and a vital element in any solution.
Whether this view - in hindsight largely wishful thinking - will survive the onslaught by the Syrian Army and its allies on Aleppo remains to be seen.
It is Russian air power more than anything that has changed the fortunes of the Syrian government.
And this offensive - coming just as a new round of talks was getting under way - effectively poisoned the discussions before they really began.
Russia's Syrian build-up looks long term
Where key countries stand on Syria
So might this be a moment when the scales will fall from Western eyes and Russia's true intentions become clear?
We are not talking here about morality or what is right - there is precious little of that to go round on any side.
Syria is an appallingly complex problem, and no single party can be blamed for the continuation of the war.
What we are talking about is Realpolitik. And here, Moscow has given Western capitals an object lesson in what can be achieved.
To the Western view there is no military solution in Syria, Moscow has effectively begged to differ.
It chose a side - a side credible militarily in the sense it had too much to lose if defeated.
That side had reasonably effective allies such as the Hezbollah fighters and various militias recruited by Iran and guided by Iranian commanders.
And Russia itself deployed sufficient resources to make a difference.
It took a little time, but the results on the ground are now clear.
Russia set for itself an achievable goal - to bolster the Syrian government and ensure it retained control over a significant part of the country.
In so doing, it has unleashed its air force largely against militia fighters backed by Turkey, the Gulf Arabs and the West, and it is winning.
Contrast the Western approach, beset by problems and contradictions at every turn.
The West backs so-called moderate militias - but who exactly are these moderates?
Many are being forced into alliances with groups close to al-Qaeda.
Yes, Washington and al-Qaeda are objectively on the same side - contradiction number one.
Of course, the West is largely in it to defeat so-called Islamic State (IS).
But is this the primary goal of its regional allies such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey?
No, their chief goal is to secure their strategic stakes in Syria - ideally by destroying President Assad.
IS is their enemy, but in many ways a secondary one - contradiction number two.
Then, of course, there is the Kurdish question.
The West's most effective allies on the ground are Kurdish fighters.
But the Turks see them as a threat and any nascent Kurdish entity as a nightmare to be avoided at all costs - contradiction number three.
By contrast Mr Putin's life is simpler.
It is often said he has the advantage over his Western peers of not having to worry about public opinion.
Thus, the downing of a Russian airliner created little of the waves of protest at government policy that might have happened if a Western plane had been destroyed.
But think this through logically.
Is anything about Western policy a reflection of public opinion?
The publics are as confused as their political masters.
How do you react to drowning refugees, terrible suffering, and apparently intractable conflicts in places at one and the same time far away but also so terribly close?
Mr Putin is not just achieving his military goals in Syria.
His success threatens to reduce the country to two enclaves - a coastal rump dominated by the Syrian government and the rest broadly in the hands of IS.
What will the West's choices be then?
Mr Putin has shown Russia remains a force to be reckoned with in the Middle East, just at a time when the Americans seem best characterised by vacillation.
He has shown Russia has a limited but nonetheless impressive expeditionary military capability, and he has given a runout to much of Russia's latest hardware.
So, for now, Mr Putin has a victory of sorts.
I suppose the question is how long will it last?
Russia's own underpinnings are shaky. And with low oil prices set to persist, can the president really afford to behave like a kind of throwback to the Soviet era?
But, make no mistake, the Syrian peace process is stillborn.
The fighting will continue, with so-called moderate forces squeezed between government forces and IS.
The Kurdish question will continue to rear its head.
And the refugee flow towards western Europe will continue unabated.
In unifying ends and means, Mr Putin knows what he wants. And, for now, he seems to be getting it.
Officers from Harlan police department in Kentucky posted a wanted notice on their Facebook page for Elsa from Disney's animated film Frozen.
"Suspect is a blonde female last seen wearing a long blue dress and is known to burst into song 'Let it Go!'," officers wrote.
"As you can see by the weather she is very dangerous. Do not attempt to apprehend her alone."
A few minutes later, police posted another message saying that, all jokes aside, the weather was dangerously cold and temperatures would continue to fall.
Police didn't say if they'd tell Elsa to "freeze" in the event they found her.
Much of the US is in the grip of a fierce cold snap that has caused record low temperatures.
Cold air from Siberia is leading to temperatures falling to 20-40F (-6.6C to 4.4C) below normal for February.
Record lows have already been broken in Kentucky, where it was -8F (-22C) on Thursday and most of the state is below 0F (-17C).
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube
Ministers have set out proposals to prevent people who are struggling financially from being pushed into poverty by the death of a loved one.
They hope to launch the new Funeral Expense Assistance benefit by the summer of 2019.
Equalities Secretary Angela Constance said she was taking "decisive action" over what was a "growing issue".
The cost of burials and cremations has been on the rise, studies have shown.
In 2016 a basic burial, on average, cost more than £1,300, excluding undertakers fees, while the average local authority cremation cost £670.
A 2016 study by the Stirling Citizens Advice bureau found there had been a steep rise in so-called "paupers' funerals", which cost local authorities £500,000 in the previous year.
The new benefit is part of a 10-point plan which commits the government to a range of actions over funeral costs.
It includes a range of advice services, including guidance on funeral costs, consumer protection in relation to funeral plans, a Social Innovation Fund to tackle funeral poverty and the pilot of a "funeral bond" to help people save up for their own burial.
Ms Constance said the government was committed to "supporting those who need it most following a bereavement".
She said: "The death of a loved one is an incredibly difficult time for anyone. It can be even harder when money is tight. We know funeral costs can push people into poverty - and often it is those already in financial hardship who face increased difficulties.
"That is why we are taking decisive action to tackle this growing issue and have engaged with local authorities, the funeral sector and other support services. I am pleased by the willingness to work together to find solutions that support more affordable funerals."
The Scottish government held a national conference on funeral poverty in November 2016, and has hosted a series of round-table discussions on the issue.
The plans were also informed by a report by the Scottish Working Group on Funeral Poverty.
The group's chairman John Birrell said he was "increasingly concerned" about rising costs, saying bereaved relatives would experience "more and more distress" if action was not taken.
The men stood on stage in white gowns praying while a team of hooded men lashed their backs with a cane.
The pair, aged 20 and 23, were found in bed together by vigilantes who entered their private accommodation in March. They have not been identified.
Gay sex is not illegal in most of Indonesia but it is in Aceh, the only province which exercises Islamic law.
It is the first time gay men have been caned under Sharia law in the province.
The punishment was delivered outside a mosque in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.
A large crowd of observers cheered as the caning took place. "Let this be a lesson to you," one of the men watching cried out. "Do it harder," another man yelled.
Earlier, an organiser warned the crowd not to attack the men, saying "they are also human".
The men were sentenced to 85 strokes but the number was reduced by two because they had spent two months in detention.
I met one of the young men in jail a day before the caning, the first journalist to speak to him. He was terrified and his whole body was shaking. He was thin, pale and had a red rash on his skin.
Inmates surrounded us with intimidating glares as we tried to talk. I thought we were going to be speaking in a private room, but he was not granted that.
Before neighbourhood vigilantes broke down the door to his rented room, he was in his final years of a medical degree - his plan was to be a doctor. Now we are told the university has kicked him out.
Videos of the raid that caught him and his partner having sex have been widely shared online. In the mobile phone footage they are both naked, pleading for help.
"I just want the caning to be over and to go back to my family, I have been deeply depressed. I am trying to pull myself out of a deep black hole," he said.
The countries that cane their convicts
Aceh was granted special rights to introduce its own stricter Islamic laws more than a decade ago, and has become increasingly conservative in recent years.
Strict laws against homosexuality were passed in 2014 and came into effect the following year.
In the past public caning sentences have been handed down only for gambling and drinking alcohol.
Indonesia has historically largely been tolerant of homosexuality, but has witnessed increasing official and social hostility towards its small and low-profile LGBTQ community in recent years.
Earlier this month, Indonesian police arrested 14 people in the city of Surabaya for allegedly holding a gay party. They could face charges under ambiguous anti-pornography laws.
On Monday, 141 men were arrested - including a British man - in a raid on what police said was a "gay party" at a sauna in the capital, Jakarta, on similar charges. Most were released on Tuesday.
Rights groups have strongly criticised prosecutions of people involved in same-sex relationships, and the use of caning.
Amnesty International said every human was entitled to a right to privacy and to have consensual relations, but that the two men had been ambushed in their home.
It said caning was a "cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment" and may amount to torture and called on the Acehnese authorities to abandon the practice.
Mohamed Abrini said the group had decided to attack Brussels instead after the arrest of fellow suspect Salah Abdeslam.
He also reportedly admitted being the third bomber in the airport attack, fleeing without setting off his device.
Gun and bomb attacks in Paris on 13 November killed 130 people.
A further 32 were killed in the attacks on an airport and metro station in Brussels on 22 March.
Both attacks were claimed by the Islamic State group, based in Syria and Iraq.
Abrini, who was arrested in Brussels on Friday, reportedly told interrogators that the arrest of Abdeslam on 18 March had prompted the plotters to change track.
Surprised by the speed at which police were closing in on them, the group had "finally taken a hasty decision to hit Brussels", prosecutors quoted Abrini as saying.
Abrini, a 31-year-old Belgian of Moroccan origin, was charged with terrorist activities along with three other men on Saturday.
Prosecutors said earlier he confessed to being the "man in the hat" - the missing third airport bomber seen in CCTV video.
"He said that he had thrown away his jacket in a rubbish bin and sold his hat after the attack," the statement added.
There was no immediate comment from the suspect's lawyer.
A Belgian-based expert on Europe's jihadists, Pieter Van Ostayen, has thrown doubt on Abrini's confession to being the bomber at Zaventem airport, suggesting he may be covering for the actual attacker.
However, facial recognition tests confirmed Abrini as the man in the CCTV footage on seven out of nine points, French TV channel LCI reports, quoting police.
According to investigators, Abrini's fingerprints and DNA were found in two "safe houses" in Brussels, as well as in a car used during the Paris attacks.
Abrini is also said to have been filmed at a petrol station with Abdeslam two days before the Paris attacks.
Abdeslam's alleged role in the attack on the French capital has yet to be established but his brother Brahim was one of those who blew themselves up.
Investigators believe Salah may have driven the three bombers who attacked the Stade de France to their destination, and may have been tasked with an aborted attack a short distance away, after which he fled to Belgium.
The three other men charged on Saturday by Belgian prosecutors have been named as Osama K, Herve BN, and Bilal EM.
Osama K, identified in media reports as Swedish national Osama Krayem, was the man seen Brussels group 'planned to hit France'with the suicide bomber at Maelbeek metro station just before the attack on 22 March, investigators say.
They also say that he bought bags used by the two bombers who struck at Zaventem airport on the same day.
It was preserved raising its beaked head, with feathered wings outstretched in the mud it was mired in when it died 72 million years ago.
The new creature has been named Tongtianlong limosus, "muddy dragon on the road to heaven".
The discovery is published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.
"It was found at a construction site by workmen when they were dynamiting, so they nearly blasted this thing off the hillside," said University of Edinburgh palaeontologist Dr Stephen Brusatte.
"We almost never knew about this dinosaur."
A few small parts of the fossil were in fact blasted off, but considering the circumstances of its discovery, the fossil is remarkably complete.
"It's about the size of a sheep, and it's part of a group of very advanced bird-like, feathered dinosaurs called oviraptorosaurs," said Dr Brusatte.
"They were basically the last group of dinosaurs to blossom before the asteroid hit."
The specimen comes from rocks belonging to the Nanxiong Formation in Jiangxi Province, southern China.
The researchers, from China and the UK, say the fossil is particularly special for the insight it provides into the evolutionary transition from dinosaurs to birds.
"Modern birds came from dinosaurs," said Dr Brusatte, "and its dinosaurs like Tongtianlong that give us a glimpse of what the ancestors of modern birds would have looked like.
"Fossils like these capture evolution in action."
Follow Victoria on Twitter
Three journalists from the BBC Hausa service were on the Hajj in Mina and give their accounts of the incident and its aftermath.
People were going towards the direction of throwing the stones while others were coming in the opposite direction. Then it became chaotic and suddenly people started going down. There were people from Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Senegal among other nationalities. People were just climbing on top of others in order to move to a safer place and that's how some people died.
People were chanting Allah's name while others were crying, including children and infants. People fell on the ground seeking help but there was no-one to give them a helping hand.
Everybody seemed to be on their own. It affected some members of our group. I lost my aunt as a result of the stampede and at the moment, two women from our entourage - a mother and her daughter - are still missing.
Where I'm standing, here in the centre of Mina city, I can see dead bodies wrapped in white cloth. Police have barricaded the area so I couldn't count them, but dead bodies stretch as far as my eyes can see.
Surrounding the area some relatives are hanging around in mourning and other pilgrims who are in the tent city in Mina are also coming round to see the bodies and also to sympathise and mourn. Police officials are stopping people from passing through the area while they deal with all the dead bodies, while ambulances are moving in and out.
Because of the lack of access, we don't know what the ambulances are doing. Helicopters are hovering over the area where the bodies are being kept.
A witness who escaped the stampede said that what actually happened was that the Saudi security at the scene blocked one of the roads to the Jamarat (stoning the devil).
This happened as thousands of pilgrims from different countries like Iran, Cameroon, Ghana and Niger were going to the Jamarat. Therefore, as those who finished stoning the devil were coming back on the same route, they met those heading to the place.
There was a kind of collision between the two groups moving in opposite directions on the same road. Those in the middle were the most affected.
His comments come after three contestants had to pull out of the show after a series of accidents.
"They signed up for this, they're being paid for this. If they are hurting, it can often be self-inflicted," he said in the Daily Mail.
Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle suffered a serious spinal injury on Saturday.
It's understood Tweddle landed her jump successfully but then crashed into a safety barrier. She is now recovering in hospital in Austria following neck surgery.
She's the third contestant to pull out of the show, after actress Tina Hobley broke her arm in two places and former swimmer Rebecca Adlington dislocated her shoulder.
Edwards, Britain's most famous ski-jumper after competing in the 1988 Winter Olympics, said the injuries of contestants serve as a reminder that, in ski-jumping, the "slightest error can be catastrophic".
Linford Christie has also hurt his hamstring but is still proceeding with the competition.
The drop-outs have prompted a review into safety procedures on the reality TV show.
On Monday, Channel 4 confirmed it would be asking producers on the programme to take further safety measures.
"All winter sports carry some element of risk but in light of the number of injuries this year, Channel 4 has asked the producers to review safety procedures again to further reduce the prospect of accident," it said.
Edwards added that, from experience, ski-jumpers need to spend a considerable amount of time training relentlessly to avoid injury.
He said: "I worked on the first two series [of The Jump], and I know time is tight. There might be only a two-hour window to practise on a ramp.
"Those competitors should be up and down the steps relentlessly - jump and go back, jump and go back.
"Instead, too many will have a couple of goes before going off for a coffee and forgetting to return because they're feeling tired."
He added: "For that reason, I don't think this spate of injuries is solely the fault of the producers."
A new biopic, which stars Kingsman actor Taron Egerton, as Eddie the Eagle is due to be released next month.
The actress provided the voice of Howard Wolowitz's unseen overbearing mother on the show.
The episode ended with a message honouring Susi, saying: "Every time you spoke, we laughed. You're in our hearts forever."
Producers have yet to make a decision on how to proceed with Susi's character for the rest of the current series.
Other cast members paid tribute to the actress after she died on Tuesday in Los Angeles.
Kaley Cuoco Sweeting, who plays Penny in the hit sitcom, posted a picture of Susi on her Facebook page adding: "Rest in peace hilarious, adorable, sweet Carol Ann Susi. You will forever be part of the Big Bang Theory family."
Kunal Nayyar, Howard's best friend Raj, added: "My heart is broken. I will miss your smile. Your spirit is forever with us."
His calm and unflappable style became his hallmark, particularly during the decade when he fronted the BBC TV current affairs programme, Tonight.
He was a natural choice to handle big, set-piece events such as the BBC's coverage of a general election.
And he presided over moments of live drama, notably the assassination of President Kennedy and the return of the damaged Apollo 13.
Arthur Clifford Michelmore was born on 11 December 1919 in Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
He never really lost touch with his birthplace, always proudly describing himself as an island person.
He was the youngest of six children and, following the death of his father when he was just three, he was brought up on a local farm by his older sister and her husband
He rejected the opportunity to become a farmer, something he later said he regretted.
I'm a bit of a workaholic," he said. "And you have to be something of a workaholic to work on a farm."
Instead he joined the RAF and was commissioned during World War Two before joining the British Forces Network in 1947 as Deputy Director.
He'd written scripts previously for the BFN but his arrival to run the RAF element of the station sparked a real interest in broadcasting.
He took on a variety of on-air roles including adopting a faux West Country accent to present a weekly gardening feature.
He also took part in radio dramas, once playing Little John to Nigel Davenport's Robin Hood in a play that also featured Brian Forbes and Roger Moore.
Michelmore achieved his big break when he was asked to fill in at the Hamburg end of Two-Way Family Favourites.
The programme went out on Sunday lunchtime on BBC radio and linked members of British forces serving round the world with their families at home
It was fortunate both for his public and his personal life. After striking up a warm on-air relationship with the London anchor, Jean Metcalfe, he eventually married her.
After working as a freelance reporter for the BBC in the South West of England he moved into children's television, presenting the fortnightly Saturday programme Telescope, and also did sports commentary.
In 1955 he moved into current affairs, presenting the BBC TV programme Highlight.
The programme quickly gained a reputation for its uncompromising interview style, something of a departure from the much more restrained way such things were usually done at the time.
In 1957, the BBC launched a new early evening current affairs programme and Michelmore moved over to present it.
The programme blended serious issues with more quirky human features, and also made the names of reporters such as Alan Whicker, Derek Hart, Fyfe Robertson and Magnus Magnusson.
Tonight broke new ground in television news programmes. Studio equipment appeared in shot and Michelmore often presented items while perched on the edge of his desk.
It was a far cry from the formality that was the trademark of news presentation in the 1950s, and Tonight regularly attracted audiences of more than eight million.
His laidback style meant he effortlessly dealt with the technical problems that were part and parcel of a live news programme at the time.
On one memorable occasion he introduced a news item only for nothing to appear on the screen. Michelmore was unfazed.
"Well, we were supposed to be showing you a piece of film now, but it's not there," he said. I don't know what's going on. And it seems no-one else does either."
He later admitted that, beneath the calm exterior, his stomach was churning over during these moments of technical drama.
Tonight was voted best factual programme by the Guild of Television Producers and Directors Television Awards (now the Baftas) in both 1957 and 1958.
He was live on air when the news came through of the assassination of President John F Kennedy on 22 November 1963.
With confusion in the gallery as to what had happened he was asked to fill. "It was certainly a moment that I will remember for ever."
After Tonight ended in 1965, he went on to present its successor programme, 24 Hours.
His most poignant moment came when he was sent to cover the 1966 disaster at the Welsh village of Aberfan, where a slagheap had collapsed on to a junior school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
With rescuers still frantically digging through the rubble behind him, Michelmore struggled to keep his composure as he began his report to camera.
"I don't know how to begin," he said "Never in my life have I seen anything like this. I hope I shall never see anything like it again."
In 1967, he was chosen to front the UK segment of Our World, an ambitious live programme that used the newly emerging satellite broadcast technology to link television broadcasts from around the world.
The BBC contribution featured the Beatles in a live performance of All You Need Is Love.
Michelmore also fronted the BBC's coverage of the Apollo space missions, including the first Moon landing in 1969 and the heart-stopping return of the damaged Apollo 13 in April 1970.
In 1969, he quizzed Prince Charles in the heir to the throne's first TV interview.
And he was a natural choice to be the calm front of BBC general election results programmes.
He also appeared on the 1971 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show, taking part with other presenters in a top hat and tails dance routine.
He went on to present the Holiday programme, in which reporters visited various holiday destinations and compiled pieces on the attractions they found there.
There was some criticism at the time that many of the destinations featured were out of the price range of the majority of the programme's viewers.
The unflappable presenter was still broadcasting on radio in his 80s.
He also fronted a 2007 BBC Parliament programme looking back on the 1967 devaluation of the pound, a story he had covered at the time.
Despite his long service with the BBC he never had a contract and remained a freelance throughout his career with the Corporation.
"Every day since I joined in 1950," he later said. "I've felt insecure. If you are a freelance someone can come up at any time and take your living away; just like that."
The writer and broadcaster Antony Jay, who was one of the editors of Tonight, paid this tribute on Michelmore's 90th birthday:
"There was no pretence, no feeling of 'performance' about him, in spite of the consummate professional and technical skill he brought to the programme. He was just Cliff, take him or leave him. And of course the audience took him, in their millions."
Many of those millions will recall Michelmore's famous sign-off: "The next Tonight will be tomorrow night - goodnight."
Barry Harkcom, 56, from Library Road in Poole, had around 1.9 million images and videos on his encrypted laptop and other devices.
Police said he claimed he "had no interest in child pornography and that he was a hoarder".
He was jailed for two years and one month at Bournemouth Crown Court.
Harkcom had previously pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children and possession of extreme pornography, Dorset Police said.
Det Sgt Sue Bellamy from the force's online investigation team said: "We uncovered a truly alarming amount of images and videos of child abuse."
Mr Lieberman has also resigned as deputy prime minister, and said he would fight to clear his name of the charges.
The case against him relates to a financial scandal dating back more than a decade.
His resignation comes five weeks before Israel's general election.
"Though I know I committed no crime... I have decided to resign my post as foreign minister and deputy prime minister," Mr Lieberman said in a statement released by his office.
He also said he would waive his parliamentary immunity and suggested he hoped to settle the case before the elections, due on 22 January, allowing him to stand as a candidate as planned.
"I am doing this because I am convinced that Israel's citizens should be able to go to the polls after this matter has been settled... and I can continue to serve the state of Israel and Israel's citizens as part of a strong united leadership," Mr Lieberman said in the statement.
Mr Lieberman is the leader of Yisrael Beitenu, the second largest party in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud-led coalition government.
By Kevin ConnollyBBC Middle East correspondent
Avigdor Lieberman is one of the most colourful and belligerent politicians in Israeli public life, but he timed the announcement of his emailed resignation statement for the quiet hours of Friday afternoon when the country begins to shut down in time for the Jewish Sabbath.
A polarising figure, he is seen by his supporters as a tough-talking defender of Israeli interests and by his opponents as an anti-Arab extremist. He may yet try to portray the whole affair as a conspiracy by an old Israeli establishment against a Soviet-born newcomer.
The combined candidate list of Mr Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu movement and Prime Minister Netanyahu's Likud is widely expected to win next month's election easily and it's not likely that his resignation will change that.
The two parties were due to run together in January's general election, with polls suggesting they were on course to win before the charges against Mr Lieberman were announced.
Police had been investigating allegations of money laundering and bribery against Mr Lieberman, but prosecutors instead announced plans to charge him with the lesser offence of breach of trust.
That relates to him receiving confidential documents concerning the investigation against him from the former Israeli ambassador to Belarus, who he later promoted to another post.
The more serious charges of bribery and money laundering relate to allegations that Mr Lieberman received millions of dollars from businessmen with interests in Israel, and laundered the money through shell companies and bank accounts.
Israeli prosecutors said they had been forced to close the case due to a lack of evidence.
Mr Lieberman has denied any wrongdoing, and described the investigations as a witch hunt.
He is seen as one of Israel's most outspoken politicians. Born in Moldova, he is one of the million Israelis who immigrated from the former Soviet Union.
Seen as to the right of Mr Netanyahu, Mr Lieberman has been a harsh critic of the Palestinian Authority and its leader Mahmoud Abbas. He lives in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
The deal included more tax rises and spending cuts, despite the Syriza government coming to power promising to end what it described as the "humiliation and pain" of austerity.
With the country having already endured years of economic contraction since the global downturn, just how does Greece's ordeal compare with other recessions and how have the lives of the country's people been affected?
It is now generally agreed that Greece has experienced an economic crisis on the scale of the US Great Depression of the 1930s.
According to the Greek government's own figures, the economy first contracted in the final quarter of 2008 and - apart from some weak growth in 2014 - has been shrinking ever since. The recession has cut the size of the Greek economy by around a quarter, the largest contraction of an advanced economy since the 1950s.
Although the Greek recession has not been quite as deep as the Great Depression from peak to trough, it has gone on longer and many observers now believe Greek GDP will drop further in 2015.
Jobs are increasingly difficult to come by in Greece - especially for the young. While a quarter of the population are out of work, youth unemployment is running much higher.
Half of those under 25 are out of work. In some regions of western Greece, the youth unemployment rate is well above 60%.
To make matters worse, long-term unemployment is at particularly high levels in Greece.
Being out of work for significant periods of time has severe consequences, according to a report by the European Parliament. The longer a person is unemployed, the less employable they become. Re-entering the workforce also becomes more difficult and more expensive.
Young people have been particularly affected by long-term unemployment: one out of three has been jobless for more than a year.
After two years out of work, the unemployed also lose their health insurance.
This persistent unemployment also means pension funds receive fewer contributions from the working population. As more Greeks are without jobs, more pensioners are having to sustain families on a reduced income.
According to the latest figures from the Greek government, 45% of pensioners receive monthly payments below the poverty line of €665.
The Greek people are also facing dropping wages.
In the five years from 2008 to 2013, Greeks became on average 40% poorer, according to data from the country's statistical agency analysed by Reuters. As well as job losses and wage cuts, the decline can also be explained by steep cuts in workers' compensation and social benefits.
In 2014, disposable household income in Greece sunk to below 2003 levels.
Like during all recessions, the poor and vulnerable have been hardest hit.
One in five Greeks are experiencing severe material deprivation, a figure that has nearly doubled since 2008.
Almost four million people living in Greece, more than a third of the country's total population, were classed as being 'at risk of poverty or social exclusion' in 2014.
According to Dr Panos Tsakloglou, economist and professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business, the crisis has exposed Greece's lack of social safety nets.
"The welfare state in Greece has historically been very weak, driven primarily by clientelistic calculations rather than an assessment of needs. In the past this was not really urgent because there were rarely any particularly explosive social conditions. The family was substituting the welfare state," he told the BBC.
Typically, if a young person lost his or her job or could not find a job after graduating, they would receive support from the family until their situation improved.
But as more and more people have become jobless and with pensions slashed as part of the austerity imposed on Greece from its creditors, ordinary Greeks are feeling the impact.
"This has led to many more unemployed people falling into poverty much faster," Dr Tsakloglou said.
Healthcare is one of the public services that has been hit hardest by the crisis. An estimated 800,000 Greeks are without medical access due to a lack of insurance or poverty.
A 2014 report in the Lancet medical journal highlighted the devastating social and health consequences of the financial crisis and resulting austerity on the country's population.
At a time of heightened demand, the report said, "the scale and speed of imposed change have constrained the capacity of the public health system to respond to the needs of the population".
While a number of social initiatives and volunteer-led health clinics have emerged to ease the burden, many drug prevention and treatment centres and psychiatric clinics have been forced to close due to budget cuts.
HIV infections among injecting drug users rose from 15 in 2009 to 484 people in 2012.
The crisis also appears to have taken its toll on people's wellbeing.
Figures suggest that the prevalence of major depression almost trebled from 3% to 8% of the population in the three years to 2011, during the onset of the crisis.
While starting from a low initial figure, the suicide rate rose by 35% in Greece between 2010 and 2012, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal.
Researchers concluded that suicides among those of working age coincided with austerity measures.
Greece's public and non-profit mental health service providers have been forced to scale back operations, shut down, or reduce staff, while plans for development of child psychiatric services have been abandoned.
Funding for mental health decreased by 20% between 2010 and 2011, and by a further 55% the following year.
Faced with the prospect of dwindling incomes or unemployment, many Greeks have been forced to look for work elsewhere. In the last five years, Greece's population has declined, falling by about 400,000.
A 2013 study found that more than 120,000 professionals, including doctors, engineers and scientists, had left Greece since the start of the crisis in 2010.
A more recent European University Institute survey found that of those who emigrated, nine in 10 hold a university degree and more than 60% of those have a master's degree, while 11% hold a PhD.
Foteini Ploumbi was in her early thirties when she lost her job as a warehouse supervisor in Athens after the owner could no longer afford to pay his staff.
After a year looking for a new job in Greece, she moved to the UK in 2013 and immediately found work as a business analyst in London.
"I had no choice but leave if I wanted to work, I had no prospect of employment in Greece. I would love to go back, my whole life is back there. But logic stops me from returning at the moment," she said.
"In the UK, I can get by - I can't even do that in Greece."
Eight-month-old Derek was rescued from his mother's pouch after she was hit by a car.
He is being cared for by wombat experts on Flinders Island, between Tasmania and mainland Australia, and will eventually be returned to the wild.
The contest was created by Tourism Tasmania, which promotes the region.
Derek is being looked after by Kate Mooney, known as the "Wombat Lady of Flinders Island", who has cared for the island's orphaned wombat joeys for two decades.
Despite the promise of being "chief wombat cuddler", Tourism Tasmania's Phil Souter told the BBC that access to Derek would be entirely "at the discretion of the handler" and would be "very carefully monitored by his handler and carer".
As "potentially rambunctious little creatures", much would also depend on Derek's mood, he said.
"He's still fundamentally a wild wombat."
But whether Derek feels like playing or not, the eventual competition winner will still get three days on Flinders Island - an area known for its natural beauty.
Burns' work was wildly popular in the US from the moment it was first reproduced by "pirate" printers in Philadelphia in 1787 and it had a huge impact on the views of generations of Americans.
Among the poet's many fans were the most influential African-American of the 19th Century and the man widely regarded as America's greatest president.
Both Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln regularly cited the "genius" of Burns and used his philosophy of egalitarianism and the worth of all men to fuel their political campaigns.
When Burns was born in 1759, the United States was still a British colony and throughout his teenage years the British Crown was in conflict with the upstart Americans.
His radical views were heavily influenced by what he learned of the US Revolutionary War.
Arun Sood, author of Robert Burns and the United States of America, told the BBC documentary Burns in the USA: "Burns wrote a handful of poems, songs and letters that mention America. The common theme is an association with liberty."
By the time of Burns' death in 1796, at the age of just 37, it was becoming clear that ideals in the Declaration of Independence were not coming to pass.
The enslavement of black people was endemic in the States.
In the fight to end it, Douglass and Lincoln both drew, in different ways, on the work of Burns.
Frederick Douglass started out as a slave in Maryland but escaped to the northern States in 1838, at the age of 20, and started to make strong arguments as an abolitionist.
His final home is now a museum containing his most precious possessions, including a treasured copy of the Complete Works of Robert Burns.
Mr Sood says Douglass enlisted Burns into his own discourse on slavery and abolition.
Douglass described how Burns himself had lived in the midst of a "bigoted and besotted clergy" and how the Ayrshire ploughmen had been looked upon as being "little better than a brute".
Douglass wrote: "He became disgusted with the pious frauds, indignant at the bigotry, filled with contempt for the hollow pretensions set up by the shallow-brained aristocracy. He broke loose from the moorings which society had thrown around him."
For Douglass, Burns was a man full of faults but "far more faultless than many who have come down to us in the pages of history as saints".
Burns' focus on egalitarianism and liberalism were attractive to Douglass, despite the flaws in the poet's nature.
As his fame grew Douglass became afraid that he might be captured and returned to slavery.
In 1845 he embarked on a tour to Britain to gather support for abolitionism.
The former slave presented himself as a cultured and educated man even though he had little formal schooling.
Prof Gerard Carruthers, of the Centre for Burns Studies at Glasgow University, says: "One of the things that gives him the confidence to appear educated is the exemplar of Robert Burns who had a similar kind of formative experience - non-university, self-taught, but as cultured as anyone else."
In Scotland, Douglass lectured on black emancipation and lobbied the Free Church over taking money from slave-owning states.
He also took a detour to see the birthplace of his poetic mentor and meet Burns' elderly sister Isabella and two of his nieces.
Douglass wrote about his trip to the home of the "brilliant genius" Robert Burns in the New York Weekly Tribune.
He wrote: "I have felt more interest in visiting this place than any other in Scotland for as you are aware, painfully perhaps, I am an enthusiastic admirer of Robert Burns."
The trip to Britain was a great success. He had raised the profile of his cause and his supporters had raised enough to purchase him from his slave owner in the States.
In 1847, Douglass returned to the US a commanding and influential speaker and free man.
It was Douglass who, during the civil war, forced home the argument to Abraham Lincoln that slavery should be abolished immediately.
The president made the emancipation proclamation in 1863, making the freeing of slaves an explicit goal of the war.
Arun Sood says: "Douglass was a hugely gifted orator and a very charismatic individual. During the civil war era, Douglass frequently alluded to Burns's songs and poems, particularly when trying to encourage men of colour to enlist in the Union army.
"He would tout the line that A Man's A Man For A' That, regardless of colour."
"Lincoln believed very much in the founding documents of the United States that talk about all men being created equal and that's something you see in the poetry of Robert Burns as well," says Erin Carlson Mast, director of President Lincoln's Cottage.
"This idea of natural rights is something that Lincoln really latched on to."
Lincoln had little formal education but he was a voracious reader. When he arrived in New Salem, Illinois, at the age of 21 he had a neighbour who had 27 books.
Prof Carruthers says: "With a name like Jack Kelso or Jock Kelso, it is little surprise that this is a Scotsman. He is certainly one of Lincoln's mentors."
Sam Wheeler, state historian of Illinois, says: "Lincoln heard Kelso recite the words of Robert Burns complete in the Scottish dialect, acting out the poems and Lincoln picks up that habit."
According to Prof Carruthers: "What I think is going on is that Lincoln, like many New World cultural figures, is looking for something that isn't British, isn't English.
"Burns to some extent plays into that alternative culture that America is looking for."
The final record of Lincoln's affections for Burns comes from his secretary John Hay. He describes the president's mood as they travelled down the Potomac river.
Erin Carlson Mast says: "John Hay reflects that in the April of 1865 the war has come to an end, that Lincoln himself recites extensively from Robert Burns without notes, all from memory."
One of the poems that came into Lincoln's mind that day is one of Burns saddest, Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn.
Less than a week later Lincoln was shot dead at a theatre in Washington.
However, the fight to end slavery throughout the Union had been won and the nation's founding argument of liberty for all had been upheld.
Burns in the USA is one BBC Two Scotland on Wednesday 25 January at 21:00
ISG said it's decision to withdraw from the scheme was due to rising costs and further delays.
A judicial review over plans for the cinema element of the stadium project was granted in October and will not be heard until early next year.
The city's council said it remained "fully committed" to the scheme and a new contractor would be sought.
Read more about this and other stories from across York and North Yorkshire
The stadium development was first proposed in 2009 and construction had been due to begin next April.
It was originally forecast to cost £37m but in March the council said it was expected to cost an additional £7m and not open until 2018.
In a statement ISG said: "We have worked diligently to explore every opportunity to bring the scheme to site.
"However with further delays caused by the judicial review and increasing cost pressures, we have been unable to reach a consensus for the next phase of the project."
The city council said it was continuing to work with its partners to deliver the stadium within budget.
"We have been clear to the consortium for some time that any further costs on the project can only be accepted once demonstrated that it provides best value in the current market place."
The stadium is due to become home to York City Football Club and York City Knights Rugby League Club alongside leisure, retail, office and community facilities.
The football club has declined to comment on ISG's withdrawal from the project.
In Rochdale, dozens of town centre businesses were underwater by mid-morning, after the River Roch burst its banks, leaving debris and mud behind.
In Littleborough, about 100 properties and two care homes had to be evacuated.
Central Salford suffered its worst flooding for nearly 70 years as late afternoon rains saw homes evacuated in Kersal, Lower Broughton and Trinity.
Mountain rescue teams from Greater Manchester helped the emergency services in the evacuation.
"They did Salford people proud," said the city's mayor Ian Stewart.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service received more than 300 flood-related calls.
Some roads in the area are still flooded following the torrential rain.
Greg Cousins, who runs a hairdressers in Rochdale town centre, said: "I operate on three floors but my ground floor is just totally submerged.
"It was waist-to-shoulder height so I've not actually been able to gain access to see the extent of the damage."
Heavy rains left thousands of homes without power. Electricity has been restored to 15,765 properties in Rochdale with 4,535 still to get power restored.
In Bury, Electricity North West said it restored to 1,859 customers although 439 remain without power.
People are being urged to turn off their Christmas lights in Rochdale to prevent any further power cuts.
Mark Williamson, operations director for Electricity North West, said: "We are asking our customers in Rochdale to reduce their energy use to prevent further power outages while our engineers repair the damage.
"Simple things like turning off your Christmas lights or not using your washing machine or dishwasher for a while would make a huge difference."
Luke Walker, 25, of Brierley Hill, West Midlands, was found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm leading to the death of Chelsea Hyndman, 20, from West Yorkshire, in May 2010.
Walker had denied murder while on trial at Heraklion Mixed Criminal Court.
He was given an eight-year sentence, which was suspended after he lodged an immediate appeal against the verdict.
He was told the jail term would be suspended and he could return to England if he paid 10,000 euro (£8,500) for bail.
The electrician will have to return to the Greek island at a date in the future for a retrial at an appeal court.
The motion came from the public prosecutor after it was argued that Walker did not intend to kill Ms Hyndman.
During the two-day trial the court heard that Ms Hyndman, from Castleford, who had met Walker in the resort town of Malia in 2008, was admitted to hospital with abdominal pains on 16 May 2010 and died from acute peritonitis the following day.
Walker, who lived with his girlfriend, claims she was injured when she fell over on a night out with friends earlier that month.
Some of Ms Hyndman's friends who had been with her on a night out described how she had fallen on a cobbled street.
They said she was holding a glass as she toppled on to the floor and landed with her left arm under her body near her stomach area.
During the trial Walker also denied pushing or hurting her and told the judge that she had not fallen against any furniture.
But in a series of statements read out in court, it was claimed Walker had previously hit his girlfriend.
One letter claiming to be from a woman who signed her name only as "Jessie", said Walker was sometimes jealous of other men talking to Ms Hyndman, particularly when he was drunk.
The writer of the letter claimed to know of two occasions when Walker had beaten Ms Hyndman and kicked her in the stomach.
Another document submitted to the court was purportedly sent to Greek police by a "Peter Rogers".
In it, he said he had overheard a conversation in which Walker's father, Patrick, said his son had admitted hitting Ms Hyndman.
The court was told that in the lead up to her death, Ms Hyndman's stomach became bloated, her eyes yellow and she was sick and constipated.
Walker had been held on remand for five months after his arrest in May 2010.
He was later given bail but had not been allowed to leave the island.
His trial began in October but was adjourned because key prosecution witnesses had not been summoned.
Walker was bailed to return to the UK and arrived back in Crete ahead of the resumption of proceedings.
He will have to return to the island for a retrial at an appeals court.
|
Singer Paolo Nutini has been found not guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol in his home town of Paisley.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Rebel factions in Syria that backed recent peace moves say an intensification of government attacks has put the current truce in jeopardy.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Johann Lamont has insisted she will remain Scottish Labour leader, despite claims her position was under threat.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has appeared in court accused of trying to travel to Syria to join so-called Islamic State.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
George Osborne is to write a book which will explore the background to the "crisis in democracy and capitalism".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sheffield Wednesday defender Sam Hutchinson has said that dealing with depression has made him stronger.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
B&Q says it will compensate hundreds of people who experienced bad smells after painting their homes with Valspar paint that it sold them.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Canadian man who used to live on the street has donated C$10,000 ($7,400, £5,720) to the homeless shelter that took him in.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Wildlife organisations are being very careful in assessing the impacts of the recent flooding on species and the environment.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a man are to ask for anonymity when an inquest into his death takes place.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Viewed from the West, Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, is in the diplomatic dog-house.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
She's wanted by police in America but may be tricky to track down.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Scottish government plans to create a new benefit to help people struggling to pay for funeral costs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two men have been caned 83 times each in the Indonesian province of Aceh after being caught having sex.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The suspected surviving bomber in the Brussels attacks has admitted the group was initially planning a new attack on France, Belgian prosecutors say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A newly discovered species of dinosaur has been identified from an extraordinarily complete Chinese fossil almost destroyed by dynamite.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A stampede during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia has killed at least 700 people and injured more than 860.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards has said the celebrity contestants in Channel 4's The Jump "must bear the brunt of the blame" for their injuries.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
US sitcom The Big Bang Theory has paid tribute to cast member Carol Ann Susi, who died earlier this week from cancer.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
With his avuncular manner and trademark spectacles, Cliff Michelmore was one of the best-known presenters on British television.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has been jailed for downloading more than 70,000 indecent images of children.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has resigned after prosecutors decided to charge him with breach of trust.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The people of Greece are facing further years of economic hardship following a Eurozone agreement over the terms of a third bailout.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An online competition to become the "chief cuddler" of a baby wombat in Tasmania, has made the tiny marsupial an online celebrity.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Robert Burns, the great Scottish bard, never travelled to America but his poetry and songs had a profound effect on the emerging nation.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The main building contractor has withdrawn from long-delayed plans for an 8,000-seater sports stadium in York.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A major clean-up has been taking place after floods devastated large parts of Greater Manchester on Saturday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A British man has been convicted of killing his girlfriend on the Greek island of Crete three years ago.
| 40,430,826 | 16,235 | 753 | true |
However, there are some important differences between the two countries not least that grammars are already plentiful in NI.
While the rest of the UK moved towards a comprehensive education system in the 1960s, Northern Ireland retained nationwide selection at 11.
In fact, there was a government run 11-plus exam until as recently as 2008.
When it was scrapped by the then Education Minister Caitríona Ruane, grammar schools in Northern Ireland set up their own entry tests.
Primary school pupils hoping to gain entry to a grammar sit a series of English and Maths tests every autumn, and the number of entrants has increased in recent years.
There are currently 67 grammar schools and 135 non-grammars, so grammars make up about one third of post-primary schools.
As a result, about 45% of children in Northern Ireland attend a grammar school.
Those who back grammar schools and selection argue that they drive up exam results, offer parental choice and enable social mobility.
In contrast to his predecessor, the current Northern Ireland Education Minister Peter Weir supports academic selection.
He said it had the potential to change people's lives.
"Every child, regardless of background, postcode, social group, religion or ethnicity has equal opportunity to get into a grammar school," he added.
Mr Weir, and others who agree with him, point to the number of children from poorer backgrounds entering grammar schools in Northern Ireland.
According to the Sutton Trust, only 3% of entrants to grammar schools in England are entitled to free school meals.
Almost all grammar schools in Northern Ireland have a higher proportion of pupils entitled to free school meals, some significantly so.
West Belfast is one of the most disadvantaged areas in Northern Ireland.
However, the area contains two highly-performing grammar schools.
Of the 1,180 pupils at St Mary's Christian Brothers Grammar, for instance, more than 38% are entitled to free school meals.
However, that is unusually high, as in the majority of grammars about one in ten pupils are entitled to free school meals.
In some, it is significantly fewer.
That is well below the overall Northern Ireland figure, where 30% of pupils get free school meals.
Opponents of grammar schools use statistics like that to argue that they overwhelmingly benefit pupils from better off families.
They also point to what they say is the iniquity of dividing children on the basis of selection tests at age 11.
Pat McGuckian is the principal of St Patrick's High School in Keady, County Armagh.
It is a highly successful non-selective school with more than 1,000 pupils, many of whom go on to university.
In 2015, it was named the best secondary school in the UK by the Times Educational Supplement (TES).
Ms McGuckian compared selection at 11 to "apartheid," and said it created a "system of haves and have-nots."
"Our school is all-ability and it's predicated on the belief that a child's ability is not fixed at 11," she said.
"Some children are labelled failures at 11 and then consigned to oblivion.
"This is a 19th century solution to a 21st century problem."
In allowing grammar schools to expand, the prime minister has re-ignited a debate in England which has raged in Northern Ireland for years.
|
Divisions over grammar schools and academic selection are as pronounced and passionate in Northern Ireland as in England.
| 37,320,670 | 732 | 22 | false |
The property's extension was built after the 21-month-old from Sheffield went missing in 1991.
South Yorkshire Police said the owners had agreed to officers "dismantling the lower part of the building".
Ben's family believe he was abducted, but police are investigating whether he was accidentally killed.
Speaking at a press conference ahead of the demolition, Det Insp Jon Cousins, of South Yorkshire Police, said: "Early this afternoon I will be dismantling the lower part of the farmhouse including the ground around it... just making sure that I haven't missed any opportunity to get the answers that we require.
"The [Greek] family are clearly upset about what we're doing. They have very kindly agreed to allow us to do that and I am extremely grateful. Clearly it's going to be a very distressing time for them.
"This is where many generations, including the current generation, were born and grew up and we've got to deal with it as sensitively as possible."
Investigators were alerted to the fact the extension was not built in 1991 by a newspaper photograph from the time.
Read more about this and other stories across Sheffield and South Yorkshire
A team of 19 South Yorkshire Police officers, forensic specialists and an archaeologist are excavating the site where Ben was last seen playing 25 years ago.
The search, now in its ninth day, was prompted by a police tip-off following a television appeal in May.
Ben's sister Leigh-Anna said: "We just feel numb and very empty and the moment.
"We're a family that's lived in hope for 25 years that one day he will walk back through that door and now we're facing the possible reality that he was there all along."
A friend of digger driver Konstantinos Barkas, who had been clearing land with an excavator on the day the toddler went missing, told police the man may have been responsible for Ben's death.
Mr Barkas died of cancer last year.
Top seed Agnieszka Radwanska led 6-4 2-0 in her last-eight tie with Dominika Cibulkova when the poor weather hit.
There was a resumption at 18:40 BST but the rain returned an hour later with the score at 6-4 3-2 before event organisers suspended play for the day.
Earlier, Monica Puig beat Kristina Mladenovic to make the semi-finals.
The Puerto Rican won 7-6 (8-6) 4-6 6-3 and will play either Radwanska or Cibulkova in the last four.
The other quarter-final match is between Elena Vesnina and Karolina Pliskova, with the winner to play Konta or Makarova.
That match was also affected by rain on Thursday, with Pliskova racing into a 4-0 lead before the players were forced off.
This represents a fourfold rise on the total last year.
Most crossed by sea, with more than 800,000 travelling from Turkey to Greece. Half are migrants from Syria.
Eleven more migrants drowned on Tuesday, adding to the IOM toll of 3,695 dying or missing at sea.
Seven people were rescued by Turkish coast guards after the craft went down, apparently en route from Kusadasi in Turkey to the Greek island of Samos. One report said the dead were Syrians.
Migrant crisis in graphics
Shelter or despair in Athens
Desperate journeys
The huge influx of migrants has caused significant political rifts within the EU, with some states inside the border-free Schengen area putting up fences and reimposing frontier controls.
Hungary and Slovakia are taking legal action at the European Court of Justice to challenge EU plans to share asylum seekers across EU states.
Meanwhile, many migrants and refugees are pressing to be allowed to settle in richer northern countries like Germany and Sweden.
Migration passed the symbolic milestone on Monday, the IOM said, with the total for land and sea reaching more than 1,006,000.
Entries via six EU nations - Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Malta and Cyprus - are covered in the report.
It found among other things that
The IOM gathers its statistics from registrations, law enforcement agencies and its own monitors.
Its director general, William Lacy Swing, said it was not enough to just count the figures.
"We must also act," he said. "Migration must be legal, safe and secure for all - both for the migrants themselves and the countries that will become their new home."
A joint IOM and UNHCR statement said found a "more co-ordinated European response" was beginning to take shape.
However, it said more needed to be done to improve reception facilities, accommodation and registration, and to identify those who do and do not qualify for refugee protection.
Save the Children campaigns director Kirsty McNeill said: "This is the test of our European ideal. When children are dying on our doorstep we need to take bolder action. There can be no bigger priority."
The EU last week agreed to increase the numbers of Frontex border agency staff in Greece, a key arrival point.
Germany alone has received a million refugees and migrants this year, although many were already within Europe, particularly in the Balkans.
Macedonia is now refusing to allow anyone through its Greek border who does not come from a war zone.
A UN report also last week warned that the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide would "far surpass" 60 million this year.
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.
Paul Lasne put Montpellier ahead three minutes before the interval at Stade de la Mosson when he lobbed the ball over PSG goalkeeper Alphonse Areola.
Ellyes Skhiri curled home a second shortly after half-time after Morgan Sanson cut the ball back, before Ryad Boudebouz's fine individual effort.
PSG are a point behind leaders Nice, who host Toulouse on Sunday.
Unai Emery's side were without Marco Verratti, Adrien Rabiot and Thiago Motta but still included Edinson Cavani, Angel di Maria and Lucas Moura in their starting line-up.
Montpellier's victory over the defending champions was their first in the league against PSG since May 2010 and only their fourth win of the season.
Match ends, Montpellier 3, Paris Saint Germain 0.
Second Half ends, Montpellier 3, Paris Saint Germain 0.
Jesé (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by William Remy (Montpellier).
Jean-Kevin Augustin (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joris Marveaux (Montpellier).
Corner, Montpellier. Conceded by Marquinhos.
Substitution, Montpellier. Souleymane Camara replaces Steve Mounie.
Substitution, Montpellier. Cédric Mongongu replaces Hilton.
Foul by Serge Aurier (Paris Saint Germain).
Ryad Boudebouz (Montpellier) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Thiago Silva (Paris Saint Germain).
Morgan Sanson (Montpellier) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Jean-Kevin Augustin replaces Edinson Cavani.
Goal! Montpellier 3, Paris Saint Germain 0. Ryad Boudebouz (Montpellier) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Morgan Sanson following a fast break.
Offside, Paris Saint Germain. Ángel Di María tries a through ball, but Hatem Ben Arfa is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Serge Aurier (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Ángel Di María (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ellyes Skhiri (Montpellier).
Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Jesé replaces Lucas Moura.
Attempt missed. Steve Mounie (Montpellier) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Ryad Boudebouz.
Corner, Montpellier. Conceded by Thiago Silva.
Attempt missed. Hatem Ben Arfa (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Blaise Matuidi.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Laurent Pionnier (Montpellier) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Blaise Matuidi (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Layvin Kurzawa.
Attempt missed. Blaise Matuidi (Paris Saint Germain) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Serge Aurier with a cross.
Foul by Blaise Matuidi (Paris Saint Germain).
Paul Lasne (Montpellier) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Grzegorz Krychowiak (Paris Saint Germain).
Steve Mounie (Montpellier) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Hatem Ben Arfa (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Lucas Moura (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Hatem Ben Arfa with a through ball.
Foul by Serge Aurier (Paris Saint Germain).
Paul Lasne (Montpellier) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Hatem Ben Arfa replaces Christopher Nkunku.
Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, Paris Saint Germain. Ángel Di María tries a through ball, but Layvin Kurzawa is caught offside.
Foul by Christopher Nkunku (Paris Saint Germain).
Paul Lasne (Montpellier) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
While several voice regret at the potential damage to the widely popular Lula's reputation, they also argue it also sends a strong signal about the rule of the law in Brazil.
"It is a profoundly sad day, but it also demonstrates the fact that no-one, not even Lula, is above the law," Eliane Cantanhede writes in the Estadao daily.
She adds that there is now a strong possibility that the scandal could give a new impetus to attempts to impeach Ms Rousseff.
Cantanhede also voices the fear that this may be a struggle that plays out through violence on the streets.
"Dilma is totally isolated in her palaces, while Lula is moving away from his 'peace and love' image and calling his troops to war," she warns.
In newspaper Globo, Miriam Leitao says the search of Lula's residence and his temporary arrest - codenamed Operation Aletheia ("Truth" in ancient Greek) - has "raised the political temperature to its highest level".
But she also voices satisfaction that "no-one in the country is an untouchable person anymore, and that is what Aletheia is proving".
Writing in Folha de Sao Paulo, Igor Gielow argues that the latest events will give a powerful boost to the campaign to remove the Workers' Party from power, already fuelled by anger at corruption and the poor economy.
He also predicts that supporters of Lula may still have the strength and support to survive the wider investigation against him - dubbed Operation Lava Jato, or Car Wash.
"Lula is a master of resurrections and has the best-known political resilience in the country - but this could be drowned by the [car wash] water jets," he says.
Speaking on Brazil's Radio CBN on Friday, analyst Merval Pereira said he believed Lula would have a tough fight on his hands.
"The evidence that the prosecutors have gathered is very strong and the former president will probably be tried," Mr Pereira argued.
Journalist Carlos Alberto Sardenberg - speaking to the same station - agreed, saying that investigating authorities must be sure of their data as it "will provoke a strong reaction from the PT, its allies and the government, especially President Dilma Rousseff".
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.
Alexander McDonald, 27, who also sexually assaulted Catherine McDonald, 57, admitted manslaughter but denied murder.
Police found his mother's body at their home in Somerset after arresting him for crashing her car in Devon.
The trial at Exeter Crown Court heard that McDonald was high on cocaine and alcohol before carrying out the attack.
Det Insp Julie Mackay said the murder victim was "a quiet person who lived a private life".
She added: "We know he'd been drinking heavily at a wine tasting event the night before the murder, returning home at around midnight. He'd also taken cocaine.
"While he's been convicted of her murder, we may never know what triggered him to attack his mother in such a brutal fashion, before stealing her car which he later crashed in Devon."
The trial heard McDonald used a power cord, knitting needles, scissors and kitchen knife to attack his mother on 30 September last year.
The prosecution said hours before the killing, McDonald was exchanging texts of a sexual nature with a male friend.
A psychiatrist told the jury that Mr McDonald was not aware of what he was doing at the time of the killing.
He crashed his mother's car in Butterleigh and was seen walking away from it. He then walked into a couple's home nearby and was told to leave.
No formal charges were made relating to the break-in, the car theft or the sexual assault.
McDonald will be sentenced on Wednesday.
The bus was connected to the Dervock Young Defenders flute band.
Police said the fire, outside an Orange hall on the Carncullagh Road, was reported to them at about 05:30 BST on Friday. It is being treated as a hate crime.
It is understood the flute band's instruments and other equipment were on the vehicle.
"The cause of the fire is being investigated and we are appealing for witnesses to come forward," Insp Michael McDonnell said.
DUP assembly member Mervyn Storey said he had spoken to police about the incident.
"If this was arson I would appeal for full cooperation with the police and that there is no retaliation," he said.
"Regrettably there are a small element of individuals who are determined to spread sectarian hatred."
Earlier, Ulster Unionist councillor Darryl Wilson said he believed it was an arson attack and that "thousands of pounds worth of instruments and pieces of equipment" had been destroyed as a result.
"The bus was used by the wider community, it was used by the youth development programme in the village, it was used by a number of other organisations within the village," he added.
"The community relied on this bus, it was the community who fought hard for the bus and gathered up funds for the bus over a number of years so it will be a devastating loss to not only the band but the entire community.
"This was not only an attack on the band, but an attack on the entire village as the bus was utilised by the community on many occasions throughout the year."
Ray Laverty of the flute band expressed his sadness at what had happened and believed a number of drums he used had been destroyed.
"To me, I have lost a huge chunk of my heart," he added.
The Orange Order has condemned the attack and said those responsible had "nothing to offer society - only turmoil and discord".
But if you've gone online this week, or tried calling either charity, you'll have had no luck.
That's because the group who look after both charities has got money problems and have shut down their services.
The BB Group told Newsbeat they had "faced a challenging financial environment" for some time.
So bosses have agreed to bring in an administrator - that's someone who oversees the money side of a company to see if it's possible to keep the firm running and make sure everyone gets paid.
But thousands of young people, as well as many of the group's large volunteer base, have been left in the dark as to what is happening to the service itself.
If you want to talk about bullying, the BBC Advice pages have links to charities which can help.
Chloe, 16, used BeatBullying and Mindfull and says she's gutted.
"A lot of people are very lost now the site has gone," she told Newsbeat.
"I know there are lots of alternatives, like the Samaritans and Childline, obviously they do offer support but I think the main factor of MindFull and BeatBullying was the community and the other people that were going through the same situations as you. just to connect to other people.
"It sounds kind of sad, but in a way it was like someone had died.
"The community it created was really strong and the relationships that you built up with people, really inspirational people, who had lots of inspirational story, stories that you would learn from. It was like a big family."
Nikki Bailey is a life mentor for BeatBullying in Brighton.
"I've heard absolutely nothing. I just feel like somebody has died. It may sound crazy, but it's so important to me," she said.
"I'm getting children messaging me saying they're in absolute despair and they don't know what to do."
Neil Poole is another mentor for the charity.
"BeatBullying have the email addresses of all of its mentors and users. It's required when signing up to the site, so I don't see why they haven't told us.
"What I find most shocking is that given the charity prides itself on caring about people's mental health, they apparently did not give any notice to users that their counselling sessions were going to stop. I think ending a counselling relationship suddenly can be very harmful to the counselee's emotions."
BeatBullying has over 50,000 followers on Twitter and Mindfull UK has around 13,000. They were tweeting as recently as last Friday encouraging people to wear their wristbands.
Both websites provide young people with a forum to discuss their problems with other teenagers and trained adult mentors.
One user of MindFull UK told Newsbeat that she's "sad" the website has closed and that it feels like she's "lost a family of people I can trust".
In a statement sent to Newsbeat BB Group said: "This is clearly a difficult time for anybody connected with The BeatBullying Group, particularly the people who have come to depend upon the services and support that they have received.
"Our aim is to resolve this difficult situation as soon as possible. In the meantime we would like to thank the supporters, staff and advisers who continue to work with us."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube
Darren Gordon's body was discovered by a dog walker in the woods around Hesslewood Hall, Ferriby Road, Hessle, on Thursday.
Police said Mr Gordon was "identified as a suspect" for the murder of David Rylands, who was stabbed on a footbridge in Hull on Wednesday.
The force added Mr Gordon's death was "not being treated as suspicious".
Det Ch Insp Matt Baldwin who is leading the murder investigation said: "Enquiries into David Rylands' murder and the circumstances leading up to it are continuing, however, Darren Gordon was a significant interest to the case.
"It is clear from the investigation to date that one man was responsible for the stabbing of Mr Rylands, which ultimately led to his death at Hull Royal Infirmary a short time later.
"Forensic work is ongoing in relation to the scene at Selby Street footbridge and the woodland at Hesslewood Hall to obtain further clarity around Darren Gordon's involvement in David Rylands' murder."
They are now certain of the rarity of a transformation of subatomic particles hinted at previously.
The way this unfolds casts doubt on versions of the theory of physics known as Supersymmetry (Susy).
It was hoped Susy could explain gaps in the most established theory of how the Universe works.
The vast LHC machine, housed in a circular tunnel that runs for 27km beneath the French-Swiss border, smashes beams of protons together at close to light speeds.
Detectors positioned at key points around the underground "ring" are then used to scour the wreckage of these collisions for signs of new particles and physical phenomena.
The theory Susy proposes that each particle has a heavier version of itself which could explain the ever mysterious dark matter, believed to make up a quarter of our Universe.
However, the rate of decay found was predicted by the Standard Model - the framework for particle physics devised in the 1960s and 1970s - even though it's now seen as an incomplete description of nature.
It is not yet able to explain gravity, or indeed the dark matter and dark energy which together make up 95% of the Universe.
Some particles naturally decay into others and the types of decay can help physicists refine key theories. Here scientists found a particle called a Bs meson decaying into two muons for the first time.
The findings were announced at the EPS conference in Stockholm and had the 5-sigma level of significance required to reach the level of a formal discovery.
This builds on a previous announcement of the findings which had lesser statistical significance as the team had not yet analysed all the data.
The observations at LHCb and CMS were so rare that Bs mesons only decayed into two muons about three times in every billion collisions.
The LHCb team announced: "Finding particle decays this rare makes hunting for a needle in a haystack seem easy."
This is due to the hundreds of millions of collisions the LHC produced every second, with each one producing hundreds of new particles that leave electrical signals in the giant detectors.
Val Gibson, leader of the Cambridge particle physics group and member of the LHCb experiment, told BBC News that it was the rarest decay they have observed so far.
"The reason it's so rare is the fact that it doesn't decay easily into the final quark particles we know about. It has to go through a loop process, like a quantum loop. It's not a straight road but it has to go round a roundabout before it can get to the final state particles.
"Because it's got this roundabout in it, it means that other heavy supersymmetric particles [could potentially] enter the roundabout and make a big difference to the decay rate," Prof Gibson added.
But the quarks did not have heavy particles blocking the decay.
"There was no observation of Supersymmetry, you would have to fine-tune the theory to explain the measurements found," Prof Gibson explained.
"The Supersymmetry theorists have not given up, however it is becoming harder and harder for them to explain these findings.
"Measurements of this very rare decay significantly squeeze the places new physics can hide. The UK LHCb team are now looking forward to the LHC returning at even higher energy and to an upgrade to the experiment so that we can investigate why new physics is so shy."
Tara Shears from the University of Liverpool also works with the LHCb, but was not involved with this particular discovery. She said: "Supersymmetry is starting to look less likely to be a good description of the universe."
"The catch is that Supersymmetry is quite a loosely defined theoretical model which means it has many uncertainties in it. It's impossible to rule it out altogether.
"This result has has really put the squeeze on the possibilities of the different ways Supersymmetry could be possible," she told BBC News.
But John Ellis, professor of theoretical physics at King's College London, told BBC News that the results were not evidence against Supersymmetry.
"It is as if the experiments had looked through a powerful telescope and not seen a new star they had been looking for.
"If the telescope is pointed in the wrong direction, it will not find it. Supersymmetry is a complicated theory with many parameters, and there are directions in parameter space where the Bs meson into two muons 'telescope' sees nothing."
• The Standard Model is the simplest set of ingredients - elementary particles - needed to make up the world we see in the heavens and in the laboratory
• Quarks combine together to make, for example, the proton and neutron - which make up the nuclei of atoms today - though more exotic combinations were around in the Universe's early days
• Leptons come in charged and uncharged versions; electrons - the most familiar charged lepton - together with quarks make up all the matter we can see; the uncharged leptons are neutrinos, which rarely interact with matter
• The "force carriers" are particles whose movements are observed as familiar forces such as those behind electricity and light (electromagnetism) and radioactive decay (the weak nuclear force)
• The Higgs boson came about because although the Standard Model holds together neatly, nothing requires the particles to have mass; for a fuller theory, the Higgs - or something else - must fill in that gap
The temporary closure of the Carlisle site hit supplies of McVitie's ginger nuts, Crawford's custard creams and Carr's water biscuits, among others.
United Biscuits said there had been "substantial flood damage" to electrical equipment and ovens.
Manufacturing director Mark Taylor said customers had written to ask when the biscuits would be back on shelves.
How have we coped without biscuits?
A number of shoppers "rather than buy another pack, they actually hunted down the store manager, harangued him for 10 minutes about why ginger nuts weren't there and left the shop without buying anything", he said.
Storms Desmond and Eva caused widespread damage in Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Nearly 40 million litres of water and 540 tonnes of debris had to be cleared before normal production at the Carlisle site could resume, the company said.
Hundreds of staff, suppliers and contractors worked to get the lines running.
"It was a fantastic team effort to clean the place up, repair it and get it back in great shape," Mr Taylor said.
"We can announce officially the biscuit crisis is over."
The factory employs 640 people and produces 80,000 tonnes of biscuits a year.
In the past, such events were sometimes followed by palace conspiracies, loveless marriages or succession wars.
But today they are largely peaceful affairs - unless they take place in a restless country, which Spain now is, where the economic crisis has fostered a reappraisal of the transition to democracy upon which the outgoing king built his legitimacy.
That is why thousands of people, many of them young "indignados", are planning to demonstrate in the evening in the Spanish streets, demanding the establishment of a republic.
Spain is not waging a war of succession, but instead a war of meanings - about the meaning of monarchy in a post-traditional society, and the meaning of Juan Carlos himself in Spanish history.
And it is very likely that the abdication is a move aimed at winning that war.
Four decades ago, when he acceded to the throne, the young Juan Carlos could have hardly foreseen that things would turn out this way.
Born in exile in Rome in 1938 then married to the Greek princess, Sofia, in 1962, he was appointed by the then-dictator Francisco Franco as his successor in 1969 - five years before the latter died in his bed.
Although he had been expected to give continuity to the dictatorship, Juan Carlos I de Borbon revealed himself as a firm and shrewd ally of those who wanted Spain to become a modern democracy. That was what happened.
In such a difficult task, he worked together with Adolfo Suarez, also a member of the Francoist apparatus, who was appointed prime minister by the king in 1976.
They were not the only makers of the Transicion, but they were probably the most important ones, since they manoeuvred to change the dictatorship from within.
When confronted by a military coup in 1981, the king stood firmly on the side of democracy and his reputation was definitively established. That is why Spaniards who preferred a republic declared themselves juancarlistas.
However, the legitimacy he earned by steering the country through democratisation has been undermined by the events of the past decade.
His son-in-law, Inaki Urdangarin, is involved in a vulgar scandal of corruption, whereas the king himself was pictured in Botswana together with an elephant he had shot.
His public persona lost gravitas just as his health deteriorated. The country started to discuss whether he should abdicate. He did not seem inclined to do so.
Yet, unexpectedly, he has done just that.
In his moving but serene TV address to the country, Juan Carlos claimed that a new generation was justly demanding a leading role.
He meant his son, the soon-to-be Felipe VI, but was also acknowledging a wider point about the need to rejuvenate and refresh Spanish institutions after a long crisis that has damaged their legitimacy, especially among the jobless young. The recent European elections have confirmed this trend.
As Spain searches for reasons to explain the deep crisis from which it still suffers, eyes have turned back to the Transicion, seen now by many as a mere pact between insiders and outsiders that did not change anything substantial.
This is a gross misconception - but surely one a new generation is entitled to. By abdicating, Juan Carlos is adding to the feeling that Spain is seeing off the Transicion. New faces are needed for a new time.
The king's exit may thus be his last service to the democracy he helped to create, and whose flaws he did not entirely escape.
However, his place in Spanish modern history should not be in jeopardy.
He looks like winning the postmodern war of succession that is being waged in the Spanish public sphere. And deservedly so.
Councillor John Wilmot has resigned to become an independent councillor for the Hucknall First Community Forum, which he has formed.
It follows the resignation of Ian Campbell, who left the party without a majority in August.
The Conservatives have called on Labour, which said it will continue to run the council, to form a coalition.
Mr Wilmott, who was deselected as a candidate for next month's district elections in Ashfield, blamed "in-fighting" within the party for his resignation.
"It's been a terrible time and it's really affected my health," he said.
Labour remains the largest group at the county council with 32 councillors but no political party has an overall majority.
There are 67 councillors in total, so any group requires 34 members to form a majority, with the Conservatives the closest with 21.
Conservative leader Kay Cutts said she wanted committees to better represent the new political make-up of the council.
"They should probably think of having a coalition of all parties so we can take this council forward for the next two years," she said.
Council leader Alan Rhodes said the party will continue to run the council.
"We live in a democracy - we won the county council in 2013," he said.
"We're developing our Labour program based on our values and what people told us to do. We will continue to do that as long as possible."
24 September 2013 Last updated at 15:09 BST
Peckham Vision, which represents businesses, churches and community groups, said local people are being forced out due to rising costs.
Co-ordinator Eileen Conn, who's lived in the area for 40 years, said the pace of change could have a negative effect: "If there is suddenly a rush of money from elsewhere that's got nothing to do with local developments.. that's not going to be good for Peckham," she said.
Savills UK has published a map showing the gentrification of London between 2001 and 2011 and it profiles areas which have changed due to a number of factors, including an ever-expanding population.
BBC London's Warren Nettleford spoke to Professor Chris Hamnett, from Kings College London, Luke Wooster, from Wooster & Stock Estate Agents, and Eileen Conn, from Peckham Vision.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Ferguson was visibly enraged after Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir sent off Nani for a high challenge on Real's Alvaro Arbeloa after 56 minutes with United leading through Sergio Ramos's own goal.
Real took advantage of the dismissal with quick goals from Luka Modric and Cristiano Ronaldo on his return to Old Trafford to confirm a 2-1 win on the night and 3-2 aggregate victory to reach the last eight.
Nani is the fourth Manchester United player to be sent off at Old Trafford in the Champions League after Rafael da Silva, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt
Source: (Opta)
United assistant manager Mike Phelan replaced Ferguson at the post-match media conference and said: "It's a distraught dressing room and a distraught manager. That's why I am sitting here now.
"I don't think the manager is in any fit state to talk to the referee about the decision. It speaks volumes that I am sitting here now rather than the manager of this fantastic football club."
Phelan continued: "We are extremely disappointed and wondering what has happened and why it has happened.
"We feel as though we had the tactics right for the game on such a big occasion. We felt we were comfortable at 0-0. It was where we wanted to be, then we scored the goal that put us in a commanding position.
"We were in reasonable control and then the game totally changed. The decision was amazing but we had to carry on because it is hard enough playing Real Madrid with 11 men.
"Referees are there to make decisions but there is also an element of doing the right thing. All the media and a television audience watching all over the world will have an opinion on the decision but it was a disappointing one and it spoiled the game."
Simon Hamilton said Northern Ireland had a "wealth of experience" in dealing with mental trauma during the Troubles that the new service could build on.
He has been working on the plan since last year, but the funding announcement coincided with a mental health summit.
The cash will meet "early set-up costs" to get the service "off the ground".
The minister said the first aim of establishing the new service was to "comprehensively address the legacy of the Troubles and address un-met mental health needs".
Mr Hamilton will attend the opening day of the mental health summit, hosted by Action Mental Health.
He described the issue as an "absolute priority" for his department and added Northern Ireland was the "only part of the UK to see an increase in spending by trusts on mental health in the last two years".
"While our mental health services have come a long way in the last decade, we have much more to do and I am committed to further reform and innovation," the minister said.
In 2013, Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt proposed that an international trauma centre should be built as an alternative to the Maze Peace Centre in County Antrim.
Mr Nesbitt, who has campaigned for better mental health provision, made the suggestion after £18m in EU funding was withdrawn due to political disagreements over the peace centre on the former prison site.
The Calderdale Flood Commission said authorities must "act now" to deal with the "immediate issues and future risk".
Almost 2,000 homes and more than 1,000 businesses in the Calder Valley were affected by flooding over Christmas.
The report said incidents were "projected to get worse" due to changing weather patterns, climate change and ageing infrastructure.
The commission - set up to consider the "causes, impact and response" to flooding in Calderdale - also said changes in land management and use were major factors in increasing the likelihood of flooding.
Paul Cobbing, chair of the commission, is due to present the report with recommendations to Calderdale Council later.
The full report can be read here
Mr Cobbing said: "We all know that the Calder Valley is particularly vulnerable to flooding but, due to climate change, the threat of more severe and more frequent flood events is increasing.
"We believe the solutions we implement today must not just tackle risk as it exists now, they must also take into account the increasing year-on-year risk."
The report calls for a significant investment in flood risk management in the Calder Valley and welcomes the creation of a board to "coordinate and monitor" flood risk management and response.
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs said it was "committed to helping with the recovery" and was investing £52m in flood protection in the the Calder Valley.
It was also looking at making affordable insurance more accessible, a spokesperson added.
Paul Kearney, whose home in Mytholmroyd was flooded when the River Calder overflowed, said: "It's always a worry when it rains, and hearing the report that it's likely to happen again it does make you think hat it could happen anytime soon.
"We just have to hope for the best and hope that the things they do to make the river safer are going to work."
That was the choice one shopper made recently at a Japanese convenience store.
The non-Japanese man was seen openly drinking from a bottle of lemon iced tea which he had taken from the shelf, resulting in an argument with store staff.
"What did I do that was wrong? It's written right there on the label," he apparently questioned angrily.
After an explanation by the cashier, it became evident that it was all lost in translation. Free Tea was the brand name, not an offer of a complimentary drink.
The formerly outraged man sheepishly replied: "The store should change its label."
The heated argument was witnessed by Twitter user Domoboku in Tokyo, real name Akiyama Kojiro, who shared his account with his followers.
He told BBC News he had tried to help translating for the foreigner and the staffer, but there was a "bad atmosphere".
His take on the episode generated more than 34,000 retweets and was liked by more than 18,500 users, with people sharing their own experiences of linguistic confusion.
The confusingly named tea is a product of Japanese beverage giant Pokka Sapporo.
The drink "encourages people to be free from a stress-filled society," read an official description on its site.
Mr Kojiro, noted the "irony" of it drink's name and health properties, because the beverage clearly did the opposite in this case.
"This tea ended up causing a stressful problem for both the traveller who came all the way to Japan and an honest shopkeeper," he mused.
The abundance of freebies in Japan, like free oolong tea at restaurants and pocket tissues distributed on the streets, could have added to the confusion, he said.
"Foreigners may misunderstand what a wonderful and free country Japan is!"
He also said that Japanese people too were often sometimes confused by language.
"There are many examples of odd Japanese translations," he said.
"Everyone make mistakes. And I want to emphasise that using foreign languages, we need to be generous and understand each other."
The German sailing team said Heil, who was third at a recent test event held at the same Guanabara Bay venue, was told by a Berlin hospital that he had been infected by multi-resistant germs.
Recent water quality tests revealed drug-resistant bacteria in the bay.
"I have never in my life had infections on the legs," Heil said on a team blog.
"I assume I picked that up at the test regatta. The cause should be the Marina da Gloria where there is a constant flow of waste water from the city's hospitals."
Heil's claims come after South Korean windsurfer Wonwoo Cho was taken to hospital during the week-long test event, with his coach Danny Ok claiming the cause was "probably from the water" at Guanabara Bay.
It led to the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) threatening to move the sailing and windsurfing events to the Atlantic Ocean if the situation did not improve.
But in a statement following Heil's infection, it said: "While work remains to be done, ISAF, Rio 2016 and all relevant local authorities are confident that the venue will be ready to host 380 sailors during the Olympic Sailing Competition in one year's time."
Three of the courses earmarked for the Olympics are in Guanabara Bay and three are in the Atlantic, with up to 1,400 athletes set to compete in water sports at the Games.
Research has shown that "super-bacteria" found in the water is usually found in hospital waste and produce an enzyme, KPC, resistant to antibiotics.
Nearly 70% of sewage in Rio - a city of some 10 million people - is spilled raw into the waters of Guanabara Bay.
A US appeals court on Tuesday granted a new hearing for Kris Maharaj, 78, who has been jailed for more than 30 years for a 1986 double murder in Miami.
The ruling means that Maharaj's lawyers will be able to present new evidence which they say proves the two men were killed by members of a drug cartel.
His lawyer claims a Colombian hit man killed Derrick and Duane Moo Young.
Maharaj's lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith from human-rights organisation Reprieve, applauded the decision, saying "it is a great day for Kris, and I hope now we will finally get him the justice he has long been denied".
But a spokesman for the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office, Ed Griffith, told BBC News: "We stand by the outcome of the very lengthy and fair evidentiary hearing that Maharaj received in the state court, where the judge found these witnesses and/or claims to not be credible or have any merit."
The defence team plans to present new evidence from six cartel associates to argue that the two men, who were business partners of Maharaj, were killed after members of Pablo Escobar's Medellin drugs cartel caught them embezzling laundered drug money.
The new ruling from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta says "new evidence" would demonstrate that Maharaj could not have been found guilty of the Moo Young murders "beyond a reasonable doubt".
The judgment adds that the statements by the witnesses, which include Escobar's preferred hit man John Jairo "Popeye" Velasque, "independently corroborate one another".
They will also present evidence that one hotel guest on the night of the murders, Jaime Vallejo Mejia, was a member of the drug cartel.
The former businessman, who has been in poor health, had been on death row for 15 years but had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment in 2002.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Alapati Leiua's try gave Samoa the lead but three Sam Davies penalties brought Wales within a point at the break.
Wing Evans' first international try put Wales ahead after 42 minutes, only for Manu Leiataua to restore Samoa's lead.
Wales rallied and Evans' second try eight minutes from the end clinched the victory on a slippery pitch in Apia.
It was Robin McBryde's team's second win on the two-Test tour, which saw them start without 12 players on British and Irish Lions duty in New Zealand and saw a further four called up by Warren Gatland before the Samoa game.
It was revealed afterwards that Wales won despite having 10 players taken ill before the match with a sickness bug.
Ospreys lock Rory Thornton was handed his Wales debut in a side which showed seven changes from the one which had started in the previous week's 24-6 win over Tonga.
Samoa made six changes and a positional switch after a 78-0 defeat by New Zealand in Auckland.
The hosts made the perfect start when following a period of pressure Bath scrum-half Kahn Fotuali'i floated a pass to Leiua, who crossed in the corner with Tusi Pisi adding the conversion.
Samoa made life hard for Wales in difficult and wet conditions and a Pisi penalty extended their lead.
Two penalties from fly-half Davies calmed the tourists' nerves as they clawed their way back into the game.
Despite trailing, Wales had a measure of control and Davies' third penalty brought them within a point of the hosts at the break as Pisi failed with a drop goal attempt.
Wales went ahead for the first time within a minute of the second half with a try created by back row forwards Aaron Shingler and Ellis Jenkins.
Shingler charged down Pisi's low kick and from Jenkins' kick and chase the ball was played out to the left wing, where Scarlets' Evans was on hand to cross.
Samoa restored their lead with hooker Leiataua capitalising on sloppy Welsh defensive play to slide over for his side's second try before Pisi added the extras.
But Wales secured victory in the last quarter of the game with Evans, last season's top try scorer in the Pro12, crossing in the corner for a second time.
Wales had lost four times to Samoa before this meeting, and they had to withstand a late onslaught before claiming a sixth win over the Pacific Islanders.
Wales coach Robin McBryde revealed a sickness bug swept the Wales camp, with ten players taken ill before the match.
"We've had a little bit of an illness in the camp and the players could have used that but they dug in so deep," McBryde revealed to BBC Wales Sport.
Media playback is not supported on this device
"I'm just so pleased for the players. It's been such a difficult tour in such a short space of time.
"We put ourselves in a very difficult position. We were 10-0 down early on and Samoa didn't disappoint," he continued.
"We knew they would be physical and get stronger and they did that.
"We didn't help ourselves and hurt ourselves on a couple of occasions but the way the boys dug in and got through the arm wrestle was fantastic really."
Wales: Gareth Anscombe (Cardiff Blues); Cory Allen (Ospreys), Tyler Morgan (Dragons), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins, capt), Steffan Evans (Scarlets); Sam Davies (Ospreys), Aled Davies (Scarlets); Nicky Smith (Ospreys), Ryan Elias (Scarlets), Dillon Lewis (Blues), Seb Davies (Blues), Rory Thornton (Ospreys), Aaron Shingler (Scarlets), Ellis Jenkins (Blues), Josh Navidi (Blues).
Replacements: Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Wyn Jones (Scarlets), Rhodri Jones (Ospreys), Adam Beard (Ospreys), Thomas Young (Wasps), Tomos Williams (Blues), Owen Williams (Gloucester), Scott Williams (Scarlets).
Samoa: D'Angelo Leuila; Alapati Leiua, Kieron Fonotia, Reynold Lee-Lo, David Lemi (capt); Tusi Pisi, Kahn Fotuali'i; Viliamu Afatia, Maatulimanu Leiataua, Paul Alo-Emile, Chris Vui, Faatiga Lemalu, Piula Faasalele, Galu Taufale, Fata Alafoti Faosiliva.
Replacements: Seilala Lam, Nephi Leatigaga, Bronson Fotualii-Tauakipulu, Faifili Levave, Vavae Tuilagi, Dwayne Polataivao, Henry Taefu, Tila Mealoi.
Referee: Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa).
Assistants: Mike Fraser (New Zealand), Rohan Hoffmann (Australia).
Media playback is not supported on this device
The 23-year-old can play at right-back, centre-half or in a deep midfield role and had a year to run on his deal at the newly-promoted Championship club.
O'Connor made 24 Burton appearances last season, scoring once.
"His versatility made him very attractive to us," manager Derek McInnes told the club website.
"He has a good defensive edge to his game and he has good experience for someone so young.
"He has a good maturity about his game so I am very pleased we now have him on board. I think he is someone who will prove to be really important to us over a campaign.
"Anthony is good in both boxes and also good in the air. He is another in the squad with a bit of height and presence."
O'Connor began his career at Blackburn and had loan spells at Torquay and Plymouth before joining Burton last summer.
The Dons have not revealed the length of contract O'Connor has signed but he will be eligible to play in next week's Europa League qualifier with Fola Esch of Luxembourg.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The competition goes on for 23 days, with nearly 200 cyclists from all over the world taking on the 2,000 mile challenge.
Here are the Brits to look out for...
Chris Froome is not only top of the Brits, he's the Tour's reigning champion and favourite to win again this year.
He has won the race three times already: in 2013, 2015 and 2016.
Now he's hoping to add 2017 to his list.
He's not had the best run-up to this year's event though - he finished fourth in the traditional warm-up race, the Criterium du Dauphine, so he'll be hoping to pull it out of the bag for the real thing.
Mark Cavendish is most famous for his daring sprint finishes, which have brought him lots of success in previous years of the Tour.
It's not just the overall winner who matters in the Tour de France - each stage of the race has a winner as well, and that's where Cavendish does best.
He's had an incredible 30 stage wins, which is just four fewer than the all-time record holder - Eddy Merckx.
The flat roads on this year's tour will suit Cavendish's style, but he's also suffered from illness this year which might have affected how well prepared he is for the 23-day challenge.
2017 is Geraint Thomas's seventh Tour de France, and he rides in support of Chris Froome - helping to push him to victory.
Thomas wasn't actually planning to ride in the Tour this year. He was concentrating on another competition, called the Giro D'Italia instead.
But he had to withdraw from that race after a collision with a parked motorbike, so he's changed his focus to the Tour de France instead.
Simon Yates is just 24 years old, and his twin brother won the White Jersey for being the best young rider on last year's Tour.
Yates specialises in climbing, so the steep mountain roads in the Tour de France suit him well and he'll be hoping to have similar success to his brother!
Steve Cummings has raced in the Tour de France four times before, and has had two stage wins.
It wasn't clear if he would be part of the 2017 Tour, after he got injured in a crash earlier this year.
But after a great week at the British National Road Championships, he was finally confirmed to take part.
2017 is Dan McLay's second tour.
He's a sprinter, and won an impressive four top-ten finishes during his first Tour de France in 2016.
He came 170th overall in 2016, but being a fast sprinter, like Mark Cavendish, could put him in with a chance of a stage win.
Luke Rowe is a 'domestique' rider, which means that he works for the benefit of the team, rather than trying to win the race himself.
He's best known for helping teammate Chris Froome who he's supported on both of his last two Tour victories.
Ben Swift is another sprinter appearing for his second Tour de France in 2017.
As well as having speed, he's also known for getting over lumps and bumps on the road better than most sprinters, which is a useful skill on the Tour!
2017 is Scott Thwaites' first appearance at the Tour de France.
As well as getting through the race himself, he's hoping to help Mark Cavendish in the battle for stage wins.
Vilson Meshi, 30, was found dead inside an Audi A4 on Pincey Mead near Pitsea Road, Basildon, on Saturday.
Two 16-year-old boys and a 15-year-old, all from the town, were arrested on Wednesday night.
They are still being questioned over the death, police said. A post-mortem examination found he died from smoke inhalation.
Mr Meshi's friend, Anthony Chooah, has described the victim as a "cuddly bear".
More on this and other stories from Essex
Mr Chooah said he was at a loss to understand why anyone would kill him and was struggling to come to terms with the attack.
"He was probably one of the nicest people you could ever meet," he said.
Mr Chooah added: "I've been spending a lot of the last four to five days in constant tears, having anxiety attacks.
"He was a big cuddly bear... but someone has taken his life."
But there's one group of people with whom President Donald Trump is still hugely popular.
After his first weeks in office, his approval rate among Republicans of 86% is second only to that of George W Bush among all of the party's presidents elected in the last 65 years.
So what are the things that they like so much?
Despite being a Republican, property developer John Delia says he was "too embarrassed" to vote for Mr Trump in November's election because of the controversy about his candidacy.
But he says he was "relieved" to see the New York billionaire win the race - and what has happened since has pleased him even more.
Mr Trump's platform of new jobs, American business and economic renewal has sent the US stock market to record highs. It is investors like Mr Delia who are feeling richer as a result.
"I invest in the stock market and I have succeeded in the short term," says the 26-year-old, based in Columbus, Ohio.
"Investors are definitely feeling more confident. They think Donald Trump is going to bring more jobs and infrastructure, and help us move forward."
From a business perspective, he says he is not fazed about allegations of improper ties to Russia, legal challenges to Mr Trump's travel ban, or complaints about racist rhetoric from the administration.
"Yes, he's a bigot but at least you are aware," says Mr Delia of the US president. "He speaks honestly.
"No matter what happens, most investors just want to make money. We are not going to pay attention to the drama. We're just trying to stay ahead of the curve."
And it is especially Mr Trump's promise to "clean up" America's inner cities that makes Mr Delia, who started his own property portfolio at 20, feel positive about the future. He hopes investment will pour into his own urban development projects.
"I think I'm going to make a lot of money," he says.
The next interviewee asked to remain anonymous, because he says the polarised political climate in the US has left him feeling "a bit paranoid".
"I often feel the country is being torn about and being a white/Christian/conservative makes you a hater and a racist," he says.
But in a social media conversation spanning several days, the 36-year-old coal miner from Indiana explained how Mr Trump's presidency was having a direct impact on his life.
Before the election, the father-of-four says he expected to lose his job in coal within five years, but with Mr Trump in office "it could be as many as 15".
He puts this down to the president's cancelling of an Obama-era environmental regulation known as the "stream protection rule". The bill put restrictions on coal companies wanting to expand and tried to stop them dumping mining waste into streams and waterways.
While environmentalists point out that the rise of cheap natural gas has contributed largely to decline in the US coal industry, the Indiana coal miner we spoke to says the policy put a "stranglehold on coal companies".
"During 2016 our company was in the process of getting permits to strip some land that would add life to the mine," he says.
"The permitting process was put on hold concerning a impact study on the land. Management told the miners that if we didn't get any new permits and most of them were on hold indefinitely, we would be out of work in a few years."
Now Mr Trump has lifted the rule, he feels "hopeful" that he will be able to continue the work done by his great-grandfathers for years to come.
"Some people really dislike the coal industry... but it's the best paying job around and I'm blessed to be able to work and support my family."
Marilyn De Reggi was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer just a month before her late husband, Aime, had his first stroke.
The 76-year-old says her experience of having to "fight hard" for him - while being unwell herself - left her with a low estimation of government-subsidised healthcare.
She welcomes Mr Trump's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare as "extremely important". And while she also supports Mr Trump's tough immigration policies, she sees his push of an alternative system as one of the best things he's done so far.
The Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, helped 20m previously uninsured Americans get health insurance by making it a legal requirement.
However, increases in insurance premiums - which were also a problem before the health law - have irked many Americans. Critics have also decried it as an unwarranted intrusion into the affairs of private businesses and individuals.
Mrs De Reggi, a retired musician and teacher who lives just outside Washington DC in Maryland, says the cost of President Obama's signature healthcare plan has left younger members of her family struggling.
And although medical costs for her and her late husband were covered by Medicare (a different government-run programme available to elderly patients), this made her "very aware" of the problems with federal involvement.
"I encountered the worst of care with my husband and the limitations of government making decisions for you," she says.
The couple went through "a lot of savings" after Aime was denied access to certain sorts of care under Medicare because of his age and condition, she says. Instead they had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure the treatment they wanted.
She is now against "the government making medical choices". "I'm interested in a programme gives people a choice and where there aren't committees that decide what happens to you at a certain age," she adds.
"I think the thing that [Mr Trump] has done so far that will have the greatest long term impact on the law is the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court," says David Rogers, a housing lawyer from Texas.
"I think he brings predictability in the law. The law is not going to change dramatically and that is good."
The Supreme Court has the final legal word on many of the most sensitive US issues. Conservatives celebrated the selection of Judge Gorsuch to fill an empty seat on the bench because of his views on issues such as birth control and euthanasia.
But it is his approach to gun rights that particularly pleases Mr Rogers.
The 52-year-old says he expects the judge to protect the Second Amendment - which guarantees the rights of people to keep and bear arms - because he is known to maintain a strict interpretation of the US Constitution.
"I believe in guns," says Mr Rogers. "Going to the gun range is something I do at the weekend with my children... With Gorsuch, I feel like I don't need to worry that's going to be taken away."
Judge Gorsuch's appointment still needs to be confirmed by the Senate. But if it goes ahead, "Washington isn't going to actively make my life harder", says Mr Rogers.
"Gun rights feel safer under Trump."
The letter was sent by the Nantwich Education Partnership group to parents from 16 schools in the county.
The heads claim games such as Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty contain unsuitable levels of violence.
They warn parents they could be reported for neglect in some cases.
The heads state that playing such games or accessing certain social media sites can increase early sexualised behaviour in youngsters and leave them vulnerable to grooming for sexual exploitation.
Mary Hennessy Jones, the head who drafted the letter, said: "We are trying to help parents to keep their children as safe as possible in this digital era.
"It is so easy for children to end up in the wrong place and parents find it helpful to have some very clear guidelines."
Prime Minister David Cameron announced this month that adults in positions of responsibility could face prison sentences of up to five years if they failed to report allegations of the neglect or abuse of children.
Do you let your children play games rated for over-18's? Are you a teacher concerned about children playing these games? You can email [email protected] with your experience. Please include a telephone number if you are willing to be contacted by a BBC journalist.
Send your pictures and videos to [email protected] or text them to 61124 (UK) or +44 7624 800 100 (international). Or you can upload here.
Read the terms and conditions.
Police notes read out revealed a social worker had confirmed the pair were at least known to each other - a few days after she went missing in August 1994.
Arlene, 15 from Castlederg went missing after a night out at a disco in County Donegal in 1994.
Her body has never been found.
Det Con Gareth Jenkins told the inquest in Belfast that the Omagh-based social worker had confirmed that a "relationship existed".
He added: "What sort of relationship that was, without having anything written down, it would be unfair to comment further."
She was last seen with convicted child killer Robert Howard, who died in prison last year.
Howard was acquitted of Arlene's murder by a jury unaware of his long record of sex crimes, including the murder of a south London schoolgirl. He always remained the police's prime suspect in Arlene's death.
Howard, 71, had been due to give evidence before the inquest. He died at HMP Frankland in County Durham last October.
The court also heard that social services found Arlene had a poor attendance at school, was a smoker and drinker who did not go anywhere without make-up or money and who "looked about 19 years old".
There was also a brief mention of a "relationship" with a second older man.
At the time she was living with her brother, Martin Arkinson, in Castlederg and had, on occasion, gone missing, staying with her father or another relative. However, she had always made contact within 48 hours.
After two days family members told social services that Arlene was missing, but it took two more days before police were informed, the court heard.
The initial missing person investigation had two main lines of inquiry - that Arlene had travelled to Birmingham to obtain an abortion or that Howard was involved.
Although he was aware Howard had been on bail for serious sexual offences, Mr Jenkins said he was unsure whether he was still signing bail when the schoolgirl vanished.
"It was not a criminal investigation at this stage where I had taken my initial answers," he said. "It was not solely focused on Robert Howard. It also focused on the possible travel to England."
The police investigation was heavily scrutinised during Howard's trial.
Mr Jenkins said he had done everything possible but, as a junior officer, could not decide the course of an investigation.
"I had raised my concerns about irregularities in the accounts that the three or four people had given," he said.
Meanwhile, the court has heard harrowing details about an alleged sex attack carried out by Howard.
"I was terrified," said the victim in a statement read out to the court.
In another development, the coroner has requested further clarification on the public interest immunity application request by the Police Service of Northern Ireland to withhold a number of confidential documents.
Another behind-closed-doors hearing may take place on Friday to discuss the matter but this has not been confirmed.
The inquest has been adjourned until next week.
Police were made aware of alleged racial abuse at around 07:40 BST on a tram travelling towards the city centre after a video was posted online.
Two men, aged 20 and 18 and a 16-year-old boy, were detained on suspicion of affray, Greater Manchester Police said.
The video shows a man on a tram at Shudehill being called "an immigrant" and told "get back to Africa".
Footage indicates that the man targeted then retorted with: "How old are you? Are you 18, 19? You are extremely ignorant and not very intelligent. Do you know that?"
One of the men continued to shout "get off the tram now", as he spoke.
One of the group, who were holding beer bottles, then apparently approaches the man and flicks alcohol at him, as a passenger shouted: "There's a baby there - there's absolutely no need for that".
As the youths got off, the victim said to himself: "Seven years in the military," as other commuters told the three, "You are an absolute disgrace. A disgrace to England".
Police said the suspects were being held in custody for questioning.
The Tyne and Wear Integrated Transport Authority (TWITA) says it wants bus firms to run services on particular routes and be paid a set amount.
The authority say the Quality Contracts scheme would "simplify" bus fares and make them "more affordable".
But bus operators say the idea is "flawed" and want to try and block it.
Under the new scheme, the five councils that make up the transport authority will keep the fares collected, but they will then have to make up any shortfall between this money and the cash paid out to bus companies.
The authority also claims the idea would enable some loss making routes to be kept open.
In recent months bus companies in the North East have made cuts and changes to services that have angered many passengers.
The North East Bus Operator's Association (NEBOA) says the Quality Contracts idea is "flawed".
Chairman Kevin Carr said: "The quality contracts are going to be very very expensive.
"They do rely on passenger growth and if passenger growth is not there then it could be very very expensive and the ratepayer will have to subsidise the difference."
He added that legal action could be a possibility if the two sides cannot agree.
"At the end of the day the business would be at risk and we just couldn't afford to lose a business within the north-east of England and therefore we'd have to do everything in our power to ensure we maintain our operation," said Mr Carr.
Houghton and Sunderland South Labour MP Bridget Phillipson has set up a petition to drum up support for the Quality Contracts idea, collecting hundreds of signatures.
She says councils in the region are already putting tens of millions of pounds into financing bus travel and wants them to have more control.
She said: "What this system would deliver is greater transparency about how that money's being spent but also it would give local people more of a voice because they are frustrated that there isn't one simple ticketing system, that they don't have a say when routes are cut."
However, not all politicians are convinced that the Quality Contracts idea, which is already operating in London, is the best way forward.
The Integrated Transport Authority is also considering another idea - a new partnership between bus firms and councils.
Some think adopting this idea could be a middle way and end any danger of legal action.
Newcastle Lib Dem Councillor Greg Stone is a member of TWITA.
He said: "What could be achieved by a voluntary partnership arrangement between the public and private sectors would lead to better results for both sides on this.
"I think the way we're going is going to lead to a war between the transport authorities and the bus companies.
"That will only end up hurting the passenger in terms of the cost to the taxpayer and the cost of a legal battle which I think is looming large on the horizon now, and with the way the Quality Contracts proponents want to go I can't see the bus companies taking this lightly."
|
Police searching for missing toddler Ben Needham on the Greek island of Kos have demolished part of a farmhouse.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Persistent rain has brought play to a close at the WTA event in Eastbourne, where Johanna Konta is set to play Ekaterina Makarova in the last eight.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The number of migrants and refugees crossing into Europe by land and sea this year illegally has passed one million, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Paris St-Germain missed the chance to go top of Ligue 1 after they suffered a surprise defeat at Montpellier.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Brazilian media commentators believe former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's questioning in a major fraud inquiry could have serious repercussions for his future and that of his ally and successor, President Dilma Rousseff.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has been found guilty of murdering his mother by strangling her with a power cord and stabbing her.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A bus used by a loyalist band has been destroyed in a fire in Dervock, County Antrim.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
For many people chat rooms on sites like BeatBullying and MindFull UK are a lifeline.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man Humberside Police said was a suspect in a murder inquiry has been found dead in woodland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Scientists have confirmed one of the rarest phenomena of decay in particle physics, found about three times in every billion collisions at the LHCb.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Full production has resumed at a factory which flooded in December, leading to a national biscuit shortage.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
After 39 years on the throne, King Juan Carlos of Spain has announced his intention to abdicate.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A second councillor has quit the Labour party in charge of Nottinghamshire County Council in under a year.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A community group in south London has raised concerns about how increasing property prices are changing the area.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was too "distraught" to face the media after their Champions League exit against Real Madrid at Old Trafford.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Stormont's health minister has invested an initial £175,000 towards setting up a "world-leading" mental health trauma service in Northern Ireland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Widespread flooding in West Yorkshire will happen again and could become more frequent, a report has warned.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Would you help yourself to a beverage labelled Free Tea?
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
German sailor Erik Heil claims he has contracted an infection after competing in polluted waters which will host sailing at next year's Rio Olympics.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A British man will have a chance to win his freedom after more than 30 years in a Florida jail.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Steff Evans scored two tries as Wales twice came from behind to beat Samoa in difficult conditions on the final game of their summer tour.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Aberdeen have signed Anthony O'Connor following the former Republic of Ireland Under-21 international's release from Burton Albion.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Tour de France - the biggest race in cycling - is getting underway in Germany.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Three teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man's body was found in a burned-out car.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
He's fallen out with judges, journalists and intelligence agents, and his approval rate is a measly 41% among all adults in the US.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Head teachers in Cheshire have warned parents they will report them to the authorities if they allow their children to play computer games rated for over-18s.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Social services alerted police to a possible relationship between County Tyrone schoolgirl Arlene Arkinson and the man suspected of killing her, a coroner's court has heard.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two men and a teenager have been arrested over a suspected "hate" crime on a tram in Manchester city centre.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bus companies say they will not rule out taking legal action over plans to change the way services are run and financed in the region.
| 37,549,565 | 15,914 | 846 | true |
Imps boss Danny Cowley had initially named the same side which started the FA Cup third-round replay against Ipswich, but was forced to make a late change as Sam Habergham was injured during the warm-up so Sean Long came in at left-back.
Barrow - hoping to break into the top six following a winless start to their league action in 2017 - took an early lead through forward Byron Harrison after a free-kick was pumped into the Lincoln penalty area.
Although Lincoln had chances to get back into the match, Richard Bennett secured all three points for the home side on the hour when he converted a knockdown from Paul Turnbull before substitute Ross Hannah added a third from the penalty spot in stoppage time.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Barrow 3, Lincoln City 0.
Second Half ends, Barrow 3, Lincoln City 0.
Goal! Barrow 3, Lincoln City 0. Ross Hannah (Barrow) converts the penalty with a.
Substitution, Barrow. Ross Hannah replaces Jordan Williams.
Elliot Whitehouse (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card.
Sean Raggett (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card.
Paul Turnbull (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Adam Marriott replaces Matt Rhead.
Matt Rhead (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Barrow 2, Lincoln City 0. Richard Bennett (Barrow).
Substitution, Lincoln City. Joe Ward replaces Terry Hawkridge.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Elliot Whitehouse replaces Alan Power.
Second Half begins Barrow 1, Lincoln City 0.
First Half ends, Barrow 1, Lincoln City 0.
Richard Bennett (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Barrow. Liam Hughes replaces Byron Harrison.
Goal! Barrow 1, Lincoln City 0. Byron Harrison (Barrow).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
|
National League leaders Lincoln were well beaten by Barrow ahead of their FA Cup fourth-round tie with Championship leaders Brighton.
| 38,643,977 | 424 | 26 | false |
The latest two statues are by Peter Firmin, who co-created the children's TV character Bagpuss in the 1970s, and fashion designer Wayne Hemingway.
Bagpuss Shaun will be on display at Cabot Circus and Mr Hemingway's Sheepish at Temple Church Gardens.
The trail, featuring 70 statues, starts on 6 July and ends on 31 August.
It is the first time Peter Firmin and his daughter Emily, an artist and sculptor, have worked together. Ms Firmin also played the part of "Emily" - the daughter of Bagpuss's owner - in the 1970s children's TV series, when she was eight years old.
Mr Firmin said: "Emily helped me work out how to paint such a large sculpture, and helped paint the legs, as I found it difficult at my age to bend down to reach them."
Hemingway, who created fashion label Red or Dead, said designing the sculpture had been a "blast".
The statues will be auctioned later this year to raise funds for Bristol Children's Hospital's Grand Appeal.
A previous trail in Bristol in 2013, based on another Aardman character, Gromit, raised £4.5m for sick children after the sculptures were auctioned.
More than 400 members of the service across 86 stations and three contact centres will be working on Sunday.
The restaurants will deliver lunches to the stations on Christmas Eve or Day, depending on the area, as a gesture of goodwill.
The Ambulance service said it would meet the cost of supplying extra meals so all staff are fed.
Meanwhile, some councils and restaurants have said they will provide free lunches for homeless people and the elderly.
The Very Reverend Martin Thrower, 55, pleaded not guilty to two charges of voyeurism at Norwich Crown Court.
The rector of Hadleigh, Layham and Shelley in Suffolk was arrested at the Buttermarket in Ipswich in August 2016.
Mr Thrower was bailed to return to the court for trial on 14 June. He has been suspended by the Diocese of St Edmundsbury.
Live updates on this story and other Suffolk news
He is accused of recording a private act on 4 August 2016 with the intention of viewing footage for his own sexual gratification.
He is also accused of recording another person on or before 4 August for the same reason.
The Families for Justice group are people whose loved ones have died in violent or unsolved circumstances.
They believe Irish police failed to investigate the deaths properly.
The group includes Jim and Lucia O'Farrell whose son, Shane, 23, was killed by a hit and run driver.
It happened while he was out cycling in Monaghan in 2011.
A Lithuanian national who had more than 40 convictions, including some in Northern Ireland, received an eight-month jail sentence that was suspended on condition that he left the country.
Mrs O'Farrell said the man had received numerous suspended sentences in both jurisdictions at the time her son was killed.
"He continued until he killed - the judicial system failed us hugely and this was avoidable," she said.
She and her husband said that they felt that their voices were heard by MEPs in Brussels this week.
Now they hope to continue their battle for justice for their dead son.
"We are hoping to go the European Court of Human Rights. Shane had a right to a life, a peaceful death and a fair trial," Mrs O'Farrell said.
"We were met with a great reception. We were encouraged that they will support us.
"Not alone were we heard, we were listened to intently and we were treated with great compassion."
Also in the delegation was Anne Doherty, whose twin sister, Mary Boyle disappeared and was presumed murdered in 1977, when she was six years old.
Cyril Goonan, whose brother Jim was found dead at the bottom of stairs in his home in Birr, County Offaly, in 2002 was also present.
The mother of the late Clodagh Cullen raised the death of her four-year-old daughter, killed in what she believes was an unexplained road traffic collision in Kilkenny in 2007.
Also with the delegation was Catherine Costelloe, a former officer with the London Metropolitan Police who, since returning to Ireland, has spent many years searching for people who have been murdered but whose remains are missing.
1100s - Swedish crusades subjugate Finns and convert them to Christianity.
Baron Gustaf Mannerheim is seen as the father of modern Finland
1323 - Territory of present-day Finland becomes part of the Swedish realm
1808 - Russian invasion of Sweden supported by Napoleon.
1809 - Finland is ceded to Russia by the Swedes. The Finns retain a considerable amount of autonomy. They keep their own legal system, religion, and are exempt from Russian military service.
1812 - Helsinki becomes capital.
1899 onwards - Russian Tsar Nicholas II inaugurates policy of Russification of Finland, to include conscription of Finnish men into the Russian army and the imposition of Russian as the official language. Protests and a campaign of civil disobedience begin.
1906 - Finland passes the Parliament Act, which establishes universal suffrage, including the right for women to stand for elected office, for the first time in Europe.
1917 - The Russian Revolution allows Finland to declare its independence.
1918 - Bitter civil war, which leads to some 30,000 deaths. A rebellion by leftwing Red Guards is put down by General Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.
1919 - Finland becomes a republic. Kaarlo Stahlberg becomes first president.
1939 - Outbreak of World War II. Finland declares its neutrality. In November the Soviet Union invades. The Winter War begins.
1940 - Despite fierce resistance, the Finns are forced to concede. The Treaty of Moscow gives around 10% of Finnish territory to the Soviet Union.
1941 - Germany attacks USSR in June. Finland launches military campaign to retake territory lost under Treaty of Moscow. Britain declares war on Finland in December.
1944 - The Red Army invades. An armistice is signed in September. Finland concedes more land to the Soviet Union and agrees to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in war reparations.
1947 - Peace treaty signed between Finland and Soviet Union.
1948 - Finland signs friendship treaty with the Soviet Union and agrees to resist any attack through Finnish territory on the Soviet Union.
1950 - Urho Kekkonen becomes prime minister and is subsequently elected as president in 1956. He pursues a policy of friendly neutrality with the Soviet Union.
1952 - Payment of reparations completed.
1955 - Finland joins United Nations and Nordic Council.
1973 - Trade agreements signed with the European Economic Community and Comecon.
1989 - Soviet Union recognises Finnish neutrality.
1990 - Economic difficulties as former Soviet and eastern European markets collapse.
1991 - Centre Party coalition elected. Austerity measures introduced.
1992 - Friendship treaty with Soviet Union of 1948 declared null and void. New treaty with Russia involves no military agreements. Finland applies for membership of the European community.
1995 - Finland becomes member of the European Union. The social democrats emerge as strongest party in elections and form a "rainbow coalition" government with Paavo Lipponen as prime minister.
1999 - Paavo Lipponen's social democrats are returned to power.
2000 February - Tarja Halonen elected as Finland's first female president.
2002 January - Euro replaces the Finnish mark.
2002 May - Parliament narrowly approves construction of a fifth nuclear reactor, the first in Western Europe since 1991 and the first in the country for 30 years. Green Party decides to withdraw from government coalition in protest.
2003 March/April - Anneli Jaatteenmaki's Centre Party narrowly defeats Lipponen's Social Democrats in general election. Forms new coalition with Social Democrats and Swedish People's Party.
2003 June - Prime Minister Jaatteenmaki resigns in leak row. Matti Vanhanen takes over as prime minister.
2004 March - Former PM Anneli Jaatteenmaki acquitted of charges of illegally obtaining secret documents about Iraq war while she was opposition leader.
2006 January - Tarja Halonen re-elected for second term as president.
2006 May - Parliament votes in favour of EU constitution, paving way for ratification.
2007 March - Centre Party wins parliamentary elections by a razor-thin margin and goes on to govern in a centre-right coalition.
2007 November - An 18-year-old gunman kills seven children and a school principal before shooting himself, drawing attention to Finland's accommodating gun laws.
2008 June - Parliament approves EU's Lisbon Treaty.
2008 September - A 22-year-old gunman kills 11 people - including himself - in a shooting spree at a vocational college, prompting the government to impose stricter rules for handgun ownership.
2008 December - Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari receives 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.
2009 May - May start-up date for OL3 nuclear reactor postponed until 2012. The project is also about $2.4bn dollars (1.7bn euros) over budget.
2010 June - Matti Vanhanen resigns as Centre Party leader and prime minister, and is succeeded by Mari Kiviniemi.
Once a world-wide technology giant, Finnish phone-maker Nokia was hit by the rise of the iPhone
2010 July - Finland becomes world's first country to give its citizens a legal right to broadband internet.
2011 April - National Coalition Party conservatives emerge as largest party in parliamentary elections. Populist True Finns break through to third-party status on the back of anti-EU sentiment.
2011 June - National Coalition Party leader Jyrki Katainen forms grand coalition with six other parties, excluding the True Finns.
2012 February - National Coalition Party candidate and former finance minister Sauli Niinisto wins presidential election, easily beating his Green rival Pekka Haavisto. He is first conservative president since 1956.
2014 June - Alexander Stubb becomes prime minister and National Coalition Party leader after Jyrki Katainen steps down to pursue an EU career.
2014 December - Parliament approves plans by a Finnish-Russian consortium to build a nuclear power station, prompting the Greens to leave the government of Prime Minister Alexander Stubb.
2015 April - Centre Party of former IT executive Juha Sipila beats Prime Minister Alexander Stubb's conservative National Coalition in parliamentary elections.
2015 May - Defence ministry instructs nearly a million reservists of their deployment amid rising tension between Russia and east European neighbours.
2016 October - Finland signs an agreement on closer defence collaboration with the United States amid growing concern over Russian military activities in the Baltic Sea region.
2016 December - Finland emerges from a downturn lasting nearly a decade, according to central bank growth forecasts.
One of the most prosperous and politically stable countries in the region, Costa Rica is the only Central American state without a permanent standing army, after it was abolished in 1948.
It also enjoys one of the highest standards of living in the region, although a significant percentage of Costa Ricans - or Ticos - continue to live below the poverty line.
Known for its beaches, mountain ranges, volcanoes and varied wildlife, Costa Rica's rich biodiversity makes it a popular destination for eco-tourists. Traditionally a producer of agricultural goods such as coffee and bananas, its economy has diversified and tourism now ranks as the country's number one earner.
Population 4.8 million
Area 51,100 sq km (19,730 sq miles)
Major languages Spanish (official), English
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 77 years (men), 82 years (women)
Currency Costa Rican colon
President: Luis Guillermo Solis
Luis Guillermo Solis was elected president in April 2014.
As candidate of the moderate Citizen Action Party (PAC), Mr Solis won the run-off election with 78% after his main rival, Johnny Arraya of the ruling National Liberation Party (PLN), withdrew after opinion polls showed he would be soundly defeated. The PLN had been beset by allegations of widespread corruption and economic mismanagement under outgoing President Laura Chinchilla.
An academic and former diplomat, during his campaign Mr Solis pledged to bring transparency and humility to the presidency. Not long after coming to power, he passed a decree banning plaques bearing his name and portraits of him being hung in government offices.
His victory ended Costa Rica's traditional two-party system, which for decades saw power traded between the social democratic PLN and the Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC)
Costa Rica enjoys a vibrant media scene, with nine major newspapers, private and public TV stations and a busy FM radio dial. Cable TV is widely available.
The country "is very proud of its reputation as having the best human rights and freedom of expression in Latin America", says Reporters Without Borders. The watchdog has hailed moves towards decriminalising media offences.
There were more than 4 million internet users - 88% of the population - by November 2015 (Internetworldstats). Access is unrestricted.
Key dates in Costa Rica's history:
1502 - Christopher Colombus sights Costa Rica. Spanish colonization begins in 1522. By 1563, Spain has established the colonial capital of Cartago.
1821 - Costa Rica declares independence from Spain and joins the Mexican empire.
1823 - Costa Rica becomes a province of the Central American Federation along with El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
1838 - Costa Rica becomes a fully independent country after the disintegration of the United Provinces of Central America.
1849-59 - Juan Rafael Mora leads the fight against William Walker, an American who with an army of mercenaries, tries but fails to take control of the region.
1948 - Former president Rafael Angel Calderon loses the election by a slim margin and refuses to accept newly-elected president Otillio Ulate. A bloody 44-day civil war ensues and a temporary government led by socialist landowner Jose Figueres emerges.
1948-49 - A new constitution is adopted, which includes the dissolution of Costa Rica's armed forces.
1955 - Border skirmishes with Nicaragua are resolved through mediation by the Organization of American States (OAS).
1987 - President Oscar Arias Sanchez wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua. He wins a second term in 2006.
2010 - Laura Chinchilla becomes Costa Rica's first female president.
With the news of her death at the age of 87, emotions remain high in Yorkshire's former pit communities about the miners' strike and the role of then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
At times, that strike - lasting from 5 March 1984 to 3 March 1985 - almost seemed to be a battle of wills between the Barnsley-born leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Arthur Scargill, and the Conservative prime minister.
In 1984, when there were 170 working collieries in Britain, employing more than 190,000 people, Mr Scargill obtained a "hit list" of mines the Thatcher government was planning to close.
The ensuing strike against job losses, for which the NUM controversially never held a national ballot among its members, pitted striking miners against Mrs Thatcher's government, the police and other miners, and led to divisions in families which remain to this day.
The bitter year-long stand-off between Margaret Thatcher, Arthur Scargill and the NUM has come to be seen as one of the defining events of the era - not least in Yorkshire where her legacy is often remembered less than fondly.
As Chris Kitchen, Yorkshire-based NUM general secretary, said: "Unfortunately for the vindictive acts she did to myself, my comrades and my family and for the mining community, I'll not be shedding a tear at her demise."
South Yorkshire saw some of the worst violence of the dispute - most most notably at British Steel's coking plant at Orgreave on 18 June 1984.
Those clashes saw about 10,000 striking miners go head-to-head with 5,000 police, and led to 93 pickets being arrested with 51 pickets and 72 police officers injured, according to South Yorkshire Police.
Darren Vaines, a former miner at Ackton Hall colliery near Pontefract, West Yorkshire, was on strike for the entire 12 months of the dispute and was at the so-called Battle of Orgreave.
"It's a very strange emotional feeling because her death brings back a lot of memories and opens up a wound that has never really healed," said Mr Vaines.
"The cut went so deep, people have never been able to forget about it. It's something they can never get out of their system.
"She used miners as a political springboard. She knew what she was doing and it was a horrible way to go about it."
But despite the clashes at Orgreave and at other picket lines across the country, Margaret Thatcher remained steadfast in her commitment to not give in to Arthur Scargill and the strikers.
Ultimately defeated, the miners eventually returned to work in pit communities in Yorkshire and across the country on 3 March 1985, a day of parades, colourful union banners, brass bands and high emotions.
Mick Dickinson who worked at Fryston Colliery near Castleford, West Yorkshire, said Mrs Thatcher would inevitably be remembered as a great leader by many - but they were unlikely to hail from Yorkshire's former mining communities.
"She will go down in history as one of the greatest post-war prime ministers thanks to the privatisation she was driving the country into, and some of the nationalised industries did need to change," he said.
"But I think she took the miners' strike too personally and it became a personal crusade. We have hate and resentment for what she did to the industry."
Fryston pit was closed in 1985 - one of a dozen Yorkshire collieries to close that year - and has since been demolished.
With such a strong mining tradition in Yorkshire, Mr Kitchen from the NUM said animosity to Mrs Thatcher would remain strong even after her death.
"I think you only need to go round the mining community and see the devastation that she left behind in her wake and also the nationalised industry that she ran down for the sake of short-term profit," he said.
"I think with the devastation she brought to the country she doesn't deserve any remorse or respect from me."
It was just a few days ago that the sight of hundreds of parading miners holding banners, led by a brass band, returned to the streets of a South Yorkshire mining town.
The event was to mark the end of deep coal production at Maltby Colliery 100 years after it first began there.
The Maltby Miners Welfare band led the miners' parade to the town's cemetery, where two wreaths were laid and a lump of coal buried.
As a result of Maltby's closure, only three deep coal pits now remain in the UK out of the 170 in operation in 1984.
Louise Richardson was formally installed at a meeting of the university's ruling body at the Sheldonian Theatre.
"In an increasingly complex world the best may not be those who look and sound like ourselves," she said.
Professor Richardson was previously in charge at St Andrews.
She gave a speech to university dons at the congregation, before a procession to the Clarendon Building.
In the speech Mrs Richardson said: "'How do we ensure that they appreciate the value of engaging with ideas they find objectionable, trying through reason to change another's mind, while always being open to changing their own?
"How do we ensure that our students understand the true nature of freedom of inquiry and expression?"
She also said: "In an increasingly complex world the best may not be those who look and sound like ourselves.
"They may not be those who naturally think of coming to Oxford.
"Those with the greatest potential may not be those who have already attained the most.
"We need to seek them out."
Mrs Richardson was born in Ireland and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and has degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Harvard. She became vice chancellor of St Andrews in 2009. She has also held a senior role at Harvard University.
Oxford University appointed its first head in 1230, and all of its vice chancellors have been men.
Prof Richardson, an expert in security and terrorism, was selected in May by a nominating committee headed by the university's chancellor, Lord Patten as the 272nd vice chancellor in Oxford's history.
Oxford is the latest high-profile university to appoint a female leader. Harvard University and Imperial College London are both headed by women.
Today executive Noah Oppenheim wrote in a memo to the morning show's staff that there is "simply no excuse for Billy's language and behaviour on that tape".
Mr Bush has said he was "embarrassed and ashamed" at the remarks.
US presidential candidate Mr Trump has also apologised for the obscene comments made in the 2005 tape.
In the video, Mr Trump was on a bus talking to Mr Bush - then host of NBC's Access Hollywood - ahead of a segment they were about to record.
Mr Trump says "you can do anything" to women "when you're a star" and also brags about trying to grope and kiss women.
Mr Bush tells Mr Trump at one point "the Donald has scored" and also comments on a woman's "good legs".
The presenter, who is the first cousin of former President George W Bush, has since said: "It's no excuse, but this happened 11 years ago - I was younger, less mature, and acted foolishly in playing along. I'm very sorry."
Top Republicans have condemned Mr Trump for the comments. His election rival Hillary Clinton called them "horrific".
The Republican party nominee has said "these words don't reflect who I am... I apologise".
Bush joined the Today team in August, having been anchor of Access Hollywood since 2009 and co-host of Access Hollywood Live since 2010.
Mr Oppenheim said that there would be a "further review" of the matter and did not say how long Mr Bush would be suspended for.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected].
And for the last two years no other parties have been represented on the metropolitan borough in Merseyside which was formed in the local government reorganisation of 1974.
The council takes in towns such as Kirkby and Huyton which grew to accommodate an overspill from Liverpool and other small towns and former villages such as Prescot or Whiston.
Labour is the only party putting up a candidate in the Halewood West and Page Moss wards on Thursday.
And according to Mike Wynne, a former Liberal Democrat councillor in Prescot until 2010, this creates unhealthy politics.
"The Liberal Democrats in Knowsley have got a very hard fight on their hands because there is no opposition to the Labour controlled council - 63 seats and 63 councillors - very unhealthy," he said.
"They can control everything and they can do what they like because there is nobody there to answer and criticise their comments."
The Lib Dems may be a dying breed in other councils, in Knowsley they are electorally extinct but politics Professor Jon Tonge from the University of Liverpool says a one party council may be the voters' wish.
"We have to remember the state of Knowsley's council is what the electorate wants - the people who go and vote overwhelmingly vote Labour," Mr Wynne said.
"I think the council leader Ron Round can take a great deal of credit for effectively mobilising his team which does get its vote out."
Although he is cautious about the benefits of such a council for voters.
"Having no opposition on a council means you are reliant on the dominant party to look at itself and say: 'Are we doing the best job for those electors who voted for us?'.
"And I'm not always convinced that is necessarily the case. What you get is a comfortable complacency. Why should Labour go out and help its voters sufficiently when they know they are going to be re-elected anyway?"
Voters have mixed feelings on how the council has fared. Some are happy but others say they are frustrated by a lack of choice.
But you have to be offered a choice in order to make one. In Kirkby a party formed in the aftermath of the ending of Everton FC's plans to relocate to Kirkby, is fielding six candidates.
Tony Barton, a founding member of 1st 4 Kirkby admits his party is swimming against the tide.
"The vast majority of people vote Labour - it's a religion if you like," he said, adding, "but we've got people now of all ages who are not happy with the kind of representation they are getting from the councillors.
"They main thing they are not happy with is that they feel they are being excluded from decisions about their life."
But standing against him in Cherry Field, Labour Councillor David Lonergan gives a strong defence of his party's record.
He said: "We're standing for the regeneration of Kirkby town centre project which only the Labour party has consistently supported.
"We're delivering key projects on the ground such as the £3m spent on the Kirkby market, the £5m spent on the Kirkby centre with more in the pipeline to come."
Turnout in the 2012 elections was around 30% in most wards. Council leader Ron Round said he would like to see this rise but he disagrees that having a one party council is bad for democracy.
He argued: "We are the people's choice and the people are given an opportunity to support what political party and what particular person they want as their elected member. They speak very, very highly of Labour in Knowsley and they vote accordingly."
Other parties fielding candidates in Knowsley are the Green Party, UKIP, The Trade Union and Socialist coalition, the English Democrats and there are three independents.
Mustafa Bashir, 34, received a suspended sentence at Manchester Crown Court in March for assaulting his wife.
Judge Richard Mansell QC did not impose a custodial term after hearing Bashir would lose out on a professional cricket contract if he were jailed.
But he has said he will review the sentence after Leicestershire County Cricket club denied any offer was made.
Bashir, of Hebers Court, Middleton, Greater Manchester, was said to have used a cricket bat to beat his wife, who he is no longer with, and forced her to drink bleach.
He was given an 18-month sentence, suspended for two years, after admitting assault occasioning actual bodily harm, assault by beating, destroying or damaging property and using a destructive substance with intent to maim.
After the hearing, Leicestershire CCC accused Bashir of "inventing" the job offer "in order, it would seem, to evade a prison sentence".
The club later contacted the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to deny any contact with Bashir.
Judge Mansell drew criticism from domestic abuse campaigners and several MPs when he told the court the victim was not vulnerable as she was "an intelligent woman with a network of friends" and a degree.
Sandra Horley, chief executive of Refuge, said: "[The judge's] comments - that he was not convinced of the victim's 'vulnerability' - show a shocking ignorance around the impact of domestic violence on women."
Areas most at risk are those where Aedes mosquitoes may spread the virus, like the Black Sea coast of Russia and Georgia and the island of Madeira.
Countries with a moderate risk include France, Spain, Italy and Greece, while the risk in the UK is low.
The UN agency is not issuing any new travel advice at this time.
The WHO is calling on countries to eliminate mosquito breeding sites and to make sure that people - particularly pregnant women - have information on the potential harmful consequences of the disease.
The agency says most countries that could be affected are well prepared to pick up any new cases and deal with them quickly - but others must bolster their ability to diagnose the virus.
Zika has been linked to a rise in brain defects in babies and the virus has been seen in more than 50 countries during this outbreak.
And WHO experts say the risk of spread increases in late spring and summer as Aedes mosquitoes - thought to carry the virus - become more active.
The report suggests 18 countries are at moderate likelihood of seeing Zika cases while the UK is one of 36 countries which have a low, very low or no likelihood of transmission.
Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, at the WHO, said: "We call particularly on countries at higher risk to strengthen their national capacities and prioritise the activities that will prevent a large Zika outbreak."
Meanwhile Prof Jimmy Whitworth, at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said the the risk of Zika spreading to Europe was real and called for holidaymakers to heed health advice.
He added: "The main mosquito vector for Zika, Aedes aegypti, is only found in Madeira and around the Black Sea, but another mosquito, Aedes albopictus, is more widespread and is capable of transmitting Zika, although not very efficiently.
"Countries in Southern Europe, including France and Italy, need to be especially vigilant and it's important that holidaymakers follow public health advice while abroad, including taking all the necessary precautions to avoid getting bitten.
"This is especially so for pregnant women, or women planning to become pregnant, travelling to areas where there is Zika, as there is now a proven link with microcephaly and other birth defects."
The 22-year-old woman's car hit a tree in Gibbins Road, Selly Oak, on Thursday at 15:55 BST.
She was held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and child neglect.
West Midlands Police said the woman would be interviewed in connection with the collision at a later date.
She was one of four people who had been travelling in the car and needed treatment following the crash.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said the toddler was confirmed dead at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
A post-mortem examination would take place in due course to determine the precise cause of death, police said.
The child's uncle, Brendan O'Reilly, said she "was always smiling, and never stopped smiling - she was a happy-go-lucky little girl".
He said the last time he had seen the girl was the night before the collision, when she had been her usual happy self.
"She had beautiful blue eyes," he said. "I cannot believe it."
Henna Rai was one of several members of the public, including a medical student, who tried to resuscitate the child at the roadside.
In tears, she returned to the scene on Friday clutching a bunch of flowers.
She said: "We were trying to resuscitate her, and I gave her mouth-to-mouth. A doctor came over to help.
"I just held her, and just wanted her to make it through. When I held her, I saw my own daughter - she was so peaceful."
One person died after jumping from the seventh floor of the building, while the other six died from the effects of smoke inhalation.
More than 130 people were evacuated from the building, many also suffering from smoke inhalation.
An investigation into the cause of blaze has been launched.
Two of the dead were from Senegal, one was Algerian and another Vietnamese. The other three were French nationals.
"For the moment we are not describing what happened as a crime," senior prosecutor, Eric Lallement, said.
Firefighters said the blaze began in a rubbish bin in an adjacent building at around 0130 (0030 GMT).
It is said to have spread rapidly from there to the side of the hostel.
Insulation in the building helped the blaze spread and also generated large amounts of smoke, fire brigade Commander Jean-Louis Marc told Agence France-Presse news agency.
The thick, acrid smoke prevented many of the residents from escaping.
"Some people jumped out of windows," Mr Marc added.
An official from the mayor's office in Dijon told Reuters news agency: "The winds were unfavourable, blowing the flames against the wall of the building."
A number of children were among those receiving medical treatment after the fire. Three of the 93 firefighters who battled the blaze also suffered from smoke inhalation.
Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux is expected to visit the scene of the blaze on Sunday afternoon.
Immigration Minister Eric Besson said: "Last night's fire shocks me because it affected people and families that France has welcomed in, and who were bringing to our country not only their work, but also the richness of their cultures and their origins."
The hostel is managed by the state-owned company, Adoma, which specialises in housing facilities for immigrants, according to AFP.
'The Orbit' is the huge sculpture that's been built next to the Olympic Stadium in London.
The giant tower has been designed by world famous sculptor Anish Kapoor.
It's hoped it'll attract as much attention as the famous 'Bird's Nest' stadium in Beijing for the last Olympics.
5,000 visitors a day will be able to go up to get amazing views.
It's not been cheap to build though, costing over £20 million, but most of that has been given by a rich company that makes steel.
Some people have described the unusual looking Orbit as looking like an exploding red paper clip and a fairground helter-skelter gone wrong!
Once it opens to the public in July visitors will be able to catch a lift up the 35-storeys to the top.
The record breaking steel structure is 22 metres higher than the famous Statue of Liberty in New York.
At exactly 114.5 metres tall it towers over the Olympic stadium next door, which only measures in at about 60 metres.
The Orbit is made up of mostly twisted red steel, which makes it stand out, and over the half the steel used is recycled.
Which is a good job, because in total it took 2,000 tonnes of steel to build.
It will be officially opened to visitors on 28th July.
Piutau had routine ankle surgery on Tuesday and is expected to return to training within eight weeks.
The New Zealander will miss Ulster's game against the Barbarians on 1 June and will not turn out for the Baa-Baas three days earlier against England.
Olding underwent an ankle operation and Herbst had surgery on a knee problem.
Centre Olding had been carried off injured during the second half of Ulster's defeat by the Ospreys at the Liberty Stadium on 29 April.
Guinness World Record confirmed to the BBC that the festive spectacle at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Tuesday exceeded the target of 250 surfers.
The organisers say the record-breaking surf is also an attempt to raise awareness of mental health issues.
The event was kick-started by a local retailer, surf school and surf charity.
RedBalloon, Let's Go Surfing, and OneWave came together to hold the lesson, and rustled up hundreds of participants using social media.
OneWave spokesperson and mental health therapist, Joel Pilgrim told the BBC the surf charity started about three years as a way to bring the local community together and to break down the stigma surrounding mental health issues.
He said the group holds weekly meetings - Fluro Fridays - where surfers dress up in outlandish outfits.
"We're giving people routine and purpose which is key in someone's mental health recovery, and also engaging them in an activity that is quintessentially Australian," he said.
Mr Pilgrim said there were a few confused residents on Tuesday who were a bit angry to find their regular surf break bombarded with red-suited surfers.
This year the University of New South Wales studied how the OneWave surf program affected people living with severe mental illness - finding overall improvements in life, psychological growth, physical benefit, and social support networks.
The results are also reflected in a world-first pilot scheme in Biarritz, France - which prescribes surfing over medication for a range of illnesses, including depression.
Tuesday's surf lesson participants seemed to agree that it was at the very least an enjoyable experience.
"It's good, it's awesome, a lot of people, a lot of fun, a lot of energy [it's] exciting," one surfing Santa said.
The team at King's College London showed that a chemical could encourage cells in the dental pulp to heal small holes in mice teeth.
A biodegradable sponge was soaked in the drug and then put inside the cavity.
The study, published in Science Reports, showed it led to "complete, effective natural repair".
Teeth have limited regenerative abilities. They can produce a thin band of dentine - the layer just below the enamel - if the inner dental pulp becomes exposed, but this cannot repair a large cavity.
Normally dentists have to repair tooth decay or caries with a filling made of a metal amalgam or a composite of powdered glass and ceramic.
These can often need replacing multiple times during someone's lifetime, so the researchers tried to enhance the natural regenerative capacity of teeth to repair larger holes.
They discovered that a drug called Tideglusib heightened the activity of stem cells in the dental pulp so they could repair 0.13mm holes in the teeth of mice.
A drug-soaked sponge was placed in the hole and then a protective coating was applied over the top.
As the sponge broke down it was replaced by dentine, healing the tooth.
Prof Paul Sharpe, one of the researchers, told the BBC News website: "The sponge is biodegradable, that's the key thing.
"The space occupied by the sponge becomes full of minerals as the dentine regenerates so you don't have anything in there to fail in the future."
The team at King's is now investigating whether the approach can repair larger holes.
Prof Sharpe said a new treatment could be available soon: "I don't think it's massively long term, it's quite low-hanging fruit in regenerative medicine and hopeful in a three-to-five year period this would be commercially available."
The field of regenerative medicine - which encourages cells to rapidly divide to repair damage - often raises concerns about cancer.
Tideglusib alters a series of chemical signals in cells, called Wnt, which has been implicated in some tumours.
However, the drug has already been trialled in patients as a potential dementia therapy.
"The safety work has been done and at much higher concentrations so hopefully we're on to a winner," said Prof Sharpe.
This is only the latest approach in repairing teeth - another group at King's believe electricity can be used to strengthen a tooth by forcing minerals into the layer of enamel.
Minerals such as calcium and phosphate naturally flow in and out of the tooth with acid, produced by bacteria munching on food in the mouth, helping to leach out minerals.
The group apply a mineral cocktail and then use a small electric current to drive the minerals deep into the tooth.
They say "Electrically Accelerated and Enhanced Remineralisation" can strengthen the tooth and reduce dental caries.
Black, 68, who had a history of abducting, abusing and murdering young girls, died in Maghaberry prison, County Antrim, last month.
Among his victims was Jennifer Cardy, nine, of Ballinderry in County Antrim.
The Northern Ireland Prison Service said his ashes were scattered "without ceremony, beyond these shores".
A spokesperson said this was done in the absence of anyone claiming his remains and "in accordance with the legal requirements for disposal."
Jennifer Cardy's father Andy said: "I think it was handled discreetly, I think it was handled reverently and with respect and I think it had to be handled like that and I think the authorities did really well.
"I'm very pleased at how they handled it.
"We would now say that it's over. We knew that he would never be out of jail again and that he would never hurt another little girl.
"But probably it would be right to say that that's the end of it and that's quite a relief."
Black's other victims were Sarah Harper, 10, of Leeds, Susan Maxwell, 11, of Northumberland, and Caroline Hogg, five, of Edinburgh.
Black, originally from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, was a predatory paedophile with a long criminal record of sexually abusing young girls.
Jennifer Cardy's killing was the first murder that he was known to have carried out, but it was the last one of which he was convicted.
Black's job as a delivery driver meant he travelled widely across the UK and, at the time, he was in Northern Ireland driving for a London-based poster company.
His nine-year-old victim was cycling to a friend's house near her home in Ballinderry, County Antrim, on 12 August 1981 when Black abducted and sexually assaulted Jennifer, before dumping her body in a dam.
The following year, Black abducted and murdered 11-year-old Susan Maxwell, who had been walking to her home in Cornhill on-Tweed, Northumberland.
In 1983, five-year-old Caroline Hogg disappeared from outside her home in Portobello, Edinburgh, and was later found dead in a ditch in Leicestershire.
Three years later, Black abducted 10-year-old Sarah Harper as she walked from a corner shop near her home in Morley, Leeds.
Sarah's body was later discovered in the River Trent in Nottingham.
Black was eventually arrested in 1990, when police stopped his van and found a six-year-old girl bound and gagged in the back of his vehicle.
The child, who had been kidnapped from a village in the Scottish Borders, was rescued by police but the case led detectives to Black's previous victims.
In 1994, Black was convicted for the murders of Susan, Caroline and Sarah.
He was already serving life sentences for the three killings when he was found guilty of Jennifer's murder in 2011.
Members of the two sects have co-existed for centuries and share many fundamental beliefs and practices. But they differ in doctrine, ritual, law, theology and religious organisation.
Their leaders also often seem to be in competition. From Lebanon and Syria to Iraq and Pakistan, many recent conflicts have emphasised the sectarian divide, tearing communities apart.
The great majority of the world's more than 1.5 billion Muslims are Sunnis - estimates suggest the figure is somewhere between 85% and 90%. In the Middle East, Sunnis make up 90% or more of the populations of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Sunnis regard themselves as the orthodox branch of Islam.
The name "Sunni" is derived from the phrase "Ahl al-Sunnah", or "People of the Tradition". The tradition in this case refers to practices based on what the Prophet Muhammad said, did, agreed to or condemned.
All Muslims are guided by the Sunnah, but Sunnis stress its primacy. Shia are also guided by the wisdom of Muhammad's descendants through his son-in-law and cousin, Ali.
Sunni life is guided by four schools of legal thought, each of which strives to develop practical applications of the Sunnah.
Shia constitute about 10% of all Muslims, and globally their population is estimated at between 154 and 200 million.
Shia Muslims are in the majority in Iran, Iraq, Bahrain, Azerbaijan and, according to some estimates, Yemen. There are also large Shia communities in Afghanistan, India, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Qatar, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
In early Islamic history, the Shia were a movement - literally "Shiat Ali" or the "Party of Ali". They claimed that Ali was the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad as leader (imam) of the Muslim community following his death in 632.
Ali was assassinated in 661 after a five-year caliphate that was marred by civil war. His sons, Hassan and Hussein, were denied what they thought was their legitimate right of accession to the caliphate.
Hassan is believed to have been poisoned in 680 by Muawiyah, the first caliph of the Sunni Umayyad dynasty, while Hussein was killed on the battlefield by the Umayyads in 681. These events gave rise to the Shia concept of martyrdom and the rituals of grieving.
There are three main branches of Shia Islam today - the Zaidis, Ismailis and Ithna Asharis (Twelvers or Imamis). The Ithna Asharis are the largest group and believe that Muhammad's religious leadership, spiritual authority and divine guidance were passed on to 12 of his descendants, beginning with Ali, Hassan and Hussein.
The 12th Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, is said to have disappeared from a cave below a mosque in 878. Ithna Asharis believe the so-called "awaited imam" did not die and will return at the end of time to restore justice on earth.
In countries which have been governed by Sunnis, Shia tend to make up the poorest sections of society. They often see themselves as victims of discrimination and oppression. Sunni extremists frequently denounce Shia as heretics who should be killed.
The Iranian revolution of 1979 launched a radical Shia Islamist agenda that was perceived as a challenge to conservative Sunni regimes, particularly in the Gulf.
Tehran's policy of supporting Shia militias and parties beyond its borders was matched by Sunni-ruled Gulf states, which strengthened their links to Sunni governments and movements elsewhere.
Today, many conflicts in the region have strong sectarian overtones.
In Syria, Iranian troops, Hezbollah fighters and Iranian-backed Shia militiamen have been helping the Shia-led government battle the Sunni-dominated opposition. Sunni jihadist groups, including Islamic State (IS), have meanwhile been targeting Shia and their places of worship in Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
In January 2016, the execution by Saudi Arabia of a prominent Shia cleric who supported mass anti-government protests triggered a diplomatic crisis with Iran and angry demonstrations across the Middle East.
Conrad Procter brandished the chainsaw at Labour councillor Paul O'Kane, who was campaigning for former party leader Jim Murphy ahead of last year's general election.
The incident happened in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, on 6 April last year.
Procter was sentenced to a Community Payback Order at Paisley Sheriff Court.
Sheriff Seith Ireland said 40-year-old Procter had "come very close" to going to prison.
The court had previously heard how Mr O'Kane, 28, had been canvassing in Procter's street in the Auchenback area of Barrhead ahead of the general election.
Procter, who was in his garden at the time, was heard shouting "Red Tories get out of here" before telling Mr O'Kane: "I'll cut your head off" while holding the chainsaw and chasing him down the street.
He had denied behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting, swearing, acting in an aggressive manner, threatening violence while in possession of a running chainsaw and following Mr O'Kane down the street while holding it.
But he was convicted following a trial last month, with sentence being deferred for him to be assessed by social workers.
When Procter returned to court for sentencing, defence solicitor Raymond McIlwham described his client's conduct on the day in question as "unusual and very serious."
He added: "He accepts involvement in this incident but he continues to dispute that any persons were pursued down the street - what he disputes is any movement by him outwith his garden area.
"He's not stupid and fully appreciates how serious this is. Such behaviour simply can't be tolerated in a civilised society.
"It was a gross overreaction fuelled by temper and fuelled by passion on Mr Procter's part, which was totally misplaced and wholly unacceptable."
He asked for leniency for his client, saying he was "willing to make compensation to the victims or the Labour Party."
Sheriff Ireland said he was "persuaded just" that custody could be avoided.
As he placed Procter on a 12-month Community Payback Order as a direct alternative to custody, the sheriff said: "What makes this offence serious is, of course, that it was committed during the currency of a general election campaign.
"It matters not anyone's own, individual, political beliefs - what's important is that anyone's and everyone's political views must be respected in a civilised society, and especially during a time when the country is effectively choosing it's Members of Parliament, Member of European Parliament or local councillors.
"We have the democratic procedure of elections which citizens can participate in and any of the politicians participating in can go round the houses by speaking to citizens in the voting area canvassing, as was the case here, without fear."
The sheriff said Procter had "some troublesome attitudes", and told him: "You've come very close to going to custody."
The victim, aged in his 30s, was shot at an address in Forum Court last week. He has since been treated in hospital.
Frank Warren, 51, of Victoria Road, Dorchester, Dorset, is due to appear before magistrates later.
Simon Webber, 31, of Sydenham Close, Bridgwater, Somerset, who was charged earlier this week, will next appear at Ipswich Crown Court on 25 August.
Three men and two women from the Dorchester and Needham Market areas are currently on police bail pending further enquiries.
Club 1872, the second largest shareholder in Rangers, claims Lennon made "various inflammatory gestures" to fans during Hibs' 3-2 win at Ibrox.
The fans' group wants Police Scotland and the Scottish Professional Football League to speak to the Hibs boss.
Neither Hibs nor Lennon have commented on the Club 1872 statement.
Sunday's European Rugby Champions Cup match was one of five to be postponed after Friday's Paris attacks.
"All the fixtures are already compressed, we have a unique problem," Halliday told BBC Radio Bristol.
"There is turnaround issues, players need to recover, it's a big match in what is seen as the toughest pool."
Former Bath player Halliday said the issue would hopefully resolved in the next 48 hours.
"There is no immediate, obvious weekend we can choose." he said. "That is fact.
"If we did play a midweek game, are you faced with trying to re-arrange a weekend Premiership match? That is a possibility."
Halliday added teams could not just play a big pool match away from home and then an important Premiership game two days later.
"It puts a lot of pressure on people," he said.
"We need to talk to the rest of the clubs in the pool, as it has knock-on effects for the rest of the tournament. We can't just look at the rule book, we need to get to the best solution."
But Bath chairman Bruce Craig has suggested it may never take place because of the difficulty in rescheduling it due to fixture congestion after the World Cup.
"The midweek option is not an option to my mind as that would be to the detriment of player welfare as well as the integrity of two competitions, an important Champions Cup game being squeezed in with all the travel issues between two Premiership weekends," he told the Daily Telegraph.
"There is no way we should be letting that happen. You can't play three high-profile games in a week."
However, Toulon president Mourad Boudjellal has suggested it could be played during the 2016 Six Nations.
"Playing on Wednesday isn't possible," he told French sports daily L'Equipe.
"I can only see one solution... It would mean that the (national team) coaches would have to accept not being able to call up international players of Bath or Toulon in order for us to be able to play the match during a matchday of the Six Nations."
The Proton-M carrier rocket broke down minutes after it was launched from Kazakhstan on Saturday morning, the Roscosmos agency said.
The cause of the accident is being investigated, Roscosmos added.
Russia's space programme has experienced a series of embarrassing mishaps in recent months.
Earlier reports said that the rocket had crashed in Siberia.
On Tuesday Russia was forced to delay the return of three astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) after an out-of-control unmanned cargo ship also burnt up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on 28 April.
Russia used to be a byword in reliability for space technology, but its reputation has taken a hammering recently. Proton rockets now fail with alarming regularity. Officials will try to find the cause of the latest mishap, but confidence is waning, and many commercial satellite operators have already started to take their business elsewhere.
For those who still have contracts with Proton, this failure is a major headache, in particular for London-based Inmarsat. The world's largest mobile satellite services operator is in the midst of rolling out Global Xpress, its next-generation constellation of satellites. This is the largest single commercial space project in Britain, worth more than $1.57bn (£1bn), and will provide enhanced communications to ships, planes, the armed forces and broadcasting companies.
Two of the three satellites in Global Xpress have been launched successfully on Protons. The third was due to be launched next month. This will not happen now, and the anticipated September inauguration of global services on the new constellation will likely be pushed back several months as a consequence.
Problems occurred about eight minutes into the Proton-M flight, which was broadcast live by Russia's space agency Roscosmos.
"There has been a malfunction on board the booster rocket. This broadcast is now over," the presenter said.
Roscosmos said that "an emergency situation took place when the Proton-M rocket launched with a MexSat-1 satellite".
"The reasons are being identified," the agency said in a statement (in Russian).
Space industry sources say that the Mexican satellite has not been found and launches of Proton-type rockets will be grounded until the reason for the malfunction is established.
Roscosmos said in a statement that the communications satellite, booster and third stage burnt up almost entirely in the atmosphere with no evidence of anything falling to earth.
The agency said that the accident happened at a height of 161km (100 miles) and that the satellite had been insured by the customer.
President Putin has been informed of the satellite failure, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Sources say that communications were lost with the Proton-M rocket soon before it was supposed to separate from the third-stage rocket.
The engine of the third-stage rocket accidentally switched off, Russian news agencies reported, citing space industry sources.
Russia earns large amounts of foreign exchange from the launches of Western and Asian commercial satellites.
The Proton-M carrier rocket is Russia's main vehicle for commercial satellite launches, but in recent years has been repeatedly grounded because of mechanical difficulties.
Russia has been using Proton carriers since the Soviet era and now has a monopoly on sending astronauts to the ISS following the mothballing of the US Space Shuttle programme.
Dublin Fire Brigade was called to Belcamp House in the north of the city in the early hours of Friday and again overnight into Saturday.
The Georgian mansion was designed by Kilkenny native James Hoban - architect of the White House in Washington DC.
Belcamp has been significantly damaged by fire and vandalism in recent years.
The site, off the Malahide Road, was formally used as a secondary school - Belcamp College - but was sold for development in 2004.
Dublin Fire Brigade deployed five units to the site early on Friday morning and a further three units overnight into Saturday.
A spokesman said it was too early to say what had caused this week's fires.
An Taisce (the National Trust for Ireland) had previously included Belcamp on its list of buildings at risk and it assessed it to be under "critical" threat.
Following the first fire on Friday morning, An Taisce wrote to Fingal Council urging the local authority to "take urgent action to protect the 18th Century house".
"This morning's fire has caused serious damage to the ornate plasterwork decorated interiors, which are the finest of the late 18th century period in Fingal.
"The extent of damage is still undetermined," the trust said.
An Taisce claimed the building had been "inadequately secured" following the Irish property crash.
It called on the council to "urgently intervene to establish the current ownership of the building and any continuing involvement of NAMA (National Assets Management Agency) and to ensure that the roof is repaired and further damage averted".
Jonathan Hill, former leader of the House of Lords, will appear before the European economic and monetary affairs committee on 1 October.
But leading Green MEP Philippe Lamberts says he thinks ex-lobbyist Lord Hill's appointment is "a joke".
Socialist Gianni Pittella questioned whether the peer could do the job.
Lord Hill was offered the prestigious post of overseeing financial services in the new 28-strong European Commission by EC President Jean-Claude Juncker earlier this month.
The move delighted UK Prime Minister David Cameron who had campaigned hard for Britain to be given a top economic position.
'A provocation'
But some MEPs are concerned about the wisdom of giving a job that will implement banking inside the eurozone to a Brit from outside the eurozone.
Mr Lamberts, who met Lord Hill in Strasbourg this week, said he was not impressed by his knowledge of financial regulation and believes he will be given a rough ride on October 1.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The first time I heard about this, I thought it was a joke - really - and when I learned it was real, I felt this as a provocation.
"Putting a British citizen in charge of that part of new legislation? I'm not sure it is a very wise idea... I mean, a former lobbyist in charge of issuing new legislation, especially in an area where the UK is perceived as protecting the interests of the City of London?
"I think Lord Hill faces a very, very tough hearing and frankly, I wouldn't be surprised to see him failing."
During next month's meeting Lord Hill, Conservative former prime minister John Major's political secretary, is likely to be quizzed about his attitude to financial regulation - possibly at the same time Mr Cameron gives his keynote speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.
'Hugely successful'
Gianni Pittella, Socialist and Democrat Group president, said he and his colleagues would be expressing "our worries, our strong doubts about the fact that a Conservative, a profit-making liberal, could handle the regulation of the financial services".
But Conservative MP Damien Green, who worked with Lord Hill at Number 10 with John Major, said he was sure his friend would cope.
He said it was "hypocritical" and "a fairly barrel-scraping argument" for a Green MEP to criticise Lord Hill for being a lobbyist.
As Mr Major's political secretary, Lord Hill had dealt with the parliamentary Conservative Party "at the time when it was in meltdown" over the Maastricht Treaty, said Mr Green. "So he's gone through some very tough times, so he can cope with problems," he said.
He argued that the peer could have been an MP, but instead set up his own lobbying business "which has been hugely successful which itself requires a degree of toughness, so I'm absolutely sure he can cope with scrutiny".
Former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker was appointed president of the 28-member Commission in the face of staunch opposition from Mr Cameron.
Powerful
Each country has a commissioner, but the EU tradition is for them to work in the interests of Europe as a whole, not to pursue national agendas.
The team includes five former prime ministers, four deputy prime ministers and seven returning commissioners, appointed for a new five-year term.
The Commission is seen as the most powerful EU institution, as it drafts EU laws, ensures compliance with EU treaties and negotiates far-reaching trade deals with international partners.
The nominated commissioners will face scrutiny by relevant committees in the European Parliament.
The full Commission will then be subject to a vote of approval at a full session of the European Parliament and should take office in early November. It will replace the Commission of Jose Manuel Barroso.
Vytenis Andriukaitis (Lithuania) Health and food safety
Miguel Arias Canete (Spain) Climate action and energy
Dimitris Avramopoulos (Greece) Migration and home affairs
Elzbieta Bienkowska (Poland) Internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SMEs (small and medium-sized businesses)
Corina Cretu (Romania) Regional policy
Johannes Hahn (Austria) European neighbourhood policy and enlargement negotiations
Jonathan Hill (UK) Financial stability, financial services and capital markets union
Phil Hogan (Ireland) Agriculture and rural development
Vera Jourova (Czech Republic) Justice, consumers and gender equality
Cecilia Malmstroem (Sweden) Trade
Neven Mimica (Croatia) International co-operation and development
Carlos Moedas (Portugal) Research, science and innovation
Pierre Moscovici (France) Economic and financial affairs, taxation and customs
Tibor Navracsics (Hungary) Education, culture, youth and citizenship
Guenther Oettinger (Germany) Digital economy and society
Maros Sefcovic (Slovakia) Transport and space
Christos Stylianides (Cyprus) Humanitarian aid and crisis management
Marianne Thyssen (Belgium) Employment, social affairs, skills and labour mobility
Karmenu Vella (Malta) Environment, maritime affairs and fisheries
Margrethe Vestager (Denmark) Competition
Paul Williams, 43, keeps bees as a hobby and had one hive in a ditch in a field in Rhydwyn on Anglesey.
He checks on it weekly, but found the £400 hive and the 30,000-40,000 bees inside, had been taken sometime between 26 July and 2 August.
Mr Williams, of Caergeiliog, said: "I was shocked - the whole hive had gone, you don't expect that."
PC Dewi Evans of North Wales Police rural crime team, which is investigating the theft, said: "The fact there were thousands of bees inside suggests they were wearing a full bee suit or they risked being stung to smithereens."
No arrests have been made.
Mr Williams keeps bees with Gary Jones and Peter Bull, and they have about 15 hives between them.
PC Evans said the thief must have had some knowledge of bees or beekeeping "otherwise they wouldn't have done it".
Also, the hive was not visible from any road, so Mr Williams said he doubted it was done by an opportunistic passer-by.
Each hive has a queen bee which the others bees are loyal to and protect, so Mr Williams said if the thief had disturbed the hive, the swarm would have attacked.
"You'd have to know what you're doing. Some people wouldn't go near them - the first thing they think of is the sting," he said.
"It's not the sort of thing you have in your back garden."
This is not the first time sticky-fingered thieves have pinched a beehive on Anglesey - in 2015, one farm suffered two thefts in the space of a month.
The Northern Ireland Assembly's finance committee is to write the department's minister, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir.
The move was initiated by TUV MLA Jim Allister at a hearing on Wednesday.
The committee started investigating the circumstances of the Nama deal during the last assembly term.
But it ran out of time before last month's assembly election to hear from all those it wanted to take evidence from.
Mr Allister described Mr Ó Muilleoir, who was a member of the previous finance committee, as "an enthusiast for having the department reveal various papers".
But a decision on whether the committee continues its inquiry into the sale will be made in the future.
The chair of the committee, the Democratic Unionist Party's Emma Little-Pengelly, said she would also ask the National Crime Agency for advice as she did "not want to prejudice justice".
The agency is investigating the deal and on Tuesday arrested two men in connection its inquiries who were later released on bail.
Nama, a state-owned so-called 'bad bank', was set up in the Republic of Ireland to take control of property loans made by the country's banks before the financial crash in 2008.
It sold all of its Northern Ireland property loans to Cerberus in April 2014.
Independent politician Mick Wallace first made claims about fixers' fees connected to the deal in the Irish parliament last July.
His allegations prompted the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Irish parliament to begin investigations into the deal.
The National Crime Agency, the UK's equivalent of the FBI, is carrying out a criminal investigation into the sale.
In a break with tradition, Mr Bercow said MPs should wear "businesslike attire" but that it was not essential for this to include ties.
Parliamentary custom is for male MPs to wear jackets and ties in the chamber.
Mr Bercow was speaking after Tory backbencher Peter Bone said he had spotted an MP - who was Lib Dem Tom Brake - asking a question tieless.
Mr Bone - who is well known for wearing rather flamboyant ties in the Commons - said he was "not really one to talk about dress sense" but asked whether the rules had changed.
"I think the general expectation is that members should dress in businesslike attire," Mr Bercow replied.
"So far as the chair is concerned... it seems to me that as long as a member arrives in the House in what might be thought to be businesslike attire, the question of whether that member is wearing a tie is not absolutely front and centre stage."
MPs should not be disrespectful towards their colleagues or the House of Commons, he said, but added: "Do I think it's essential that a member wears a tie? No."
To laughter from MPs, Mr Bercow clarified that there was "absolutely no obligation on female members not to wear ties, if they so choose".
Parliament's official rule book Erskine May only has a limited set of rules on members' dress; namely that military insignia or uniforms should not be worn in the Commons and that the custom is "for gentlemen members to wear jackets and ties".
As a parliamentary factsheet notes, the Speaker has "on a number of occasions, taken exception to informal clothing, including the non-wearing of jackets and ties by men".
In 2009, Labour MP Graham Allen was told by the former deputy speaker Sir Alan Haselhurst he was not "properly attired" when he tried to ask a question when not wearing a tie.
Two years later, Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi apologised after a novelty tie he was wearing started playing a tune while he was making a Commons speech.
But according to Saudi Arabia's top Muslim cleric, Twitter is "the source of all evil and devastation".
Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, the grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, made the comments on his Fatwa television show earlier this week.
"If it were used correctly, it could be of real benefit, but unfortunately it's exploited for trivial matters," he said about the social networking site.
"People are rushing to it thinking, 'It's a source of credible information' but it's a source of lies and falsehood."
As the highest religious authority in the country Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh holds a senior government position, advising on the law and social affairs.
He was also voted the 12th most influential Muslim in the world in a recent poll.
He said users were using Twitter to "promote lies, backbite and gossip and to slander Islam".
According to Gulf News, he said: "These are not the high morals that Muslims should have and I call upon all people to contemplate seriously what they write before they post their tweets."
However, citizens of Saudi Arabia, who are some of the heaviest users of Twitter, did not appreciate his remarks.
"This is why I will repent, and close my account to distance myself from this great evil," one Twitter user wrote with apparent sarcasm.
"Respected sheikh, how can you judge something without using it?" another post asked.
One of the reasons Saudis say they like using Twitter is because it allows them to discuss what they really feel.
The hashtag #WhydidTwittersucceedinSaudiArabia began trending in January, with users sharing their reasons they liked the site.
One user tweeted: "People need an outlet to express themselves, to start to disclose what's hidden and drop the masks, without fear or commands, or censorship from anyone."
Another posted: "The reason is that none of the newspapers are concerned with your worries nor do any officials care about you."
Saudi Arabia adopts a strict version of Sunni Islam, which is the largest branch of the religion. The other main group are the Shia.
The split into two happened more than 1,000 years ago when a dispute began over who should lead the Muslim community.
Strict Sunnis believe in segregation of the sexes and this influences all aspects of life in Saudi Arabia.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube
|
The first giant sculptures of Shaun the Sheep, designed by celebrities, are being revealed ahead of a free public art trail in Bristol next month.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
About 30 pubs and restaurants in Wales have agreed to feed Welsh Ambulance Service staff working on Christmas Day.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A clergyman has denied filming men in public toilets for his own sexual gratification.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Families from the Republic of Ireland seeking justice for their dead relatives have travelled to Brussels to raise their case in the European Parliament.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A chronology of key events:
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bordered by Nicaragua to the north and Panama to the south, the tiny republic of Costa Rica has coastlines on the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
In Yorkshire, the mere mention of Baroness Thatcher's name is often likely to lead quickly to talk of the 1984-5 miners' strike.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The first female vice chancellor of Oxford University has called on students to be open minded and engage with "objectionable" ideas.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
US TV host Billy Bush has been suspended from NBC's Today show after a video tape emerged in which he and Donald Trump made lewd comments.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Nicknamed the People's Republic of Knowsley it is the safest Labour council in the country.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A cricketer's sentence for domestic abuse is to be reviewed amid an outcry over the judge's "leniency".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Zika virus could spread to Europe this summer, although the likelihood of an outbreak is low to moderate, the World Health Organization has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A mother arrested on suspicion of killing her two-year-old daughter in a crash in Birmingham has been released without charge.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Seven people have been killed and 11 seriously injured by a fire in a nine-storey hostel housing immigrants in the eastern French city of Dijon.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
It towers over the Olympic Park and has been officially unveiled as the biggest sculpture in the UK.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ulster players Charles Piutau, Stuart Olding and Wiehahn Herbst are set to be fit for the start of next season after undergoing successful surgery.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A pack of 320 surfing Santas have embraced Christmas spirit in Australia and broken the world record for the largest surf lesson.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Teeth can be encouraged to repair themselves in a way that could see an end to fillings, say scientists.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The ashes of child killer Robert Black, who was convicted of the murders of four children from across the UK in the 1980s, have been scattered at sea.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The divide between Sunnis and Shia is the largest and oldest in the history of Islam.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has been spared jail after chasing a councillor down the street with a running chainsaw and threatening to cut his head off.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A second man has been charged with conspiracy to murder after a man was shot in the stomach in Bury St Edmunds.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Rangers supporters' group has urged the police and football authorities to investigate the conduct of Hibernian head coach Neil Lennon.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A busy schedule is creating a dilemma in trying to rearrange the Toulon-Bath fixture, European Professional Club Rugby chairman Simon Halliday says.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Russian rocket carrying a Mexican satellite has malfunctioned and burnt up over Siberia soon after launch on Saturday, Russia's space agency says.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A historic Irish building, designed by the architect of the White House, has been damaged by fire for the second night in a row.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Britain's candidate for European Commissioner is to face a "very tough" hearing over his suitability for the job of overseeing financial services.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A thief - most likely dressed in a full beekeeping suit - has stolen a beehive containing up to 40,000 of the insects.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Department of Finance is to be asked to release further paperwork related to the £1.2bn sale of Northern Ireland property loans by the National Asset Management Agency (Nama).
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Male MPs do not need to wear ties in the House of Commons chamber, Speaker John Bercow has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Twitter users often complain the site is addictive and time-consuming.
| 33,004,218 | 16,067 | 893 | true |
The Scottish Labour leader has accused Stuart Campbell, who runs the Wings Over Scotland website, of homophobia over a tweet.
Ms Dugdale hit out at SNP members for "encouraging" Mr Campbell on social media, asking them to "denounce" him.
Nicola Sturgeon "unequivocally" condemned "abuse of any kind".
However, the first minister said Ms Dugdale's questions were a "smokescreen" over the Aberdeen City Council coalition controversy.
Mr Campbell said he "categorically" rejected claims he was a homophobe, and said he would pursue the matter in court.
The Scottish Labour leader raised the issue during the weekly session of questions to the first minister at Holyrood.
She said she had been sent a letter from Mr Campbell's lawyer after writing a newspaper column condemning a tweet he had posted earlier in the year about Conservative MSP Oliver Mundell, the son of Scottish Secretary David Mundell.
In it, he wrote: "Oliver Mundell is the sort of public speaker that makes you wish his dad had embraced his homosexuality sooner."
Ms Dugdale said the blogger was seeking £10,000 for "damage to his reputation" after she accused him of homophobia.
She said: "I stand firmly behind my comments. I have never kow-towed to a bully and I will not start today.
"There is a catalogue of evidence that demonstrates the bile which Stuart Campbell appears to believe is acceptable. Will the first minister condemn Wings over Scotland and anyone else who poisons the political debate in our country?"
Ms Sturgeon replied: "I condemn anyone who indulges in that kind of language or that kind of abuse. I am not responsible for Stuart Campbell, any more than Kezia Dugdale is responsible for people who hurl abuse at me in the name of being a supporter of the Labour party.
"The abuse I see directed at me on a daily basis would make somebody's hair curl and some of it does come from people professing to be supporters of Kezia Dugdale's party. I do not hold her personally responsible for that. I think we should all accept that there are people out there who will do that and we should all unite in condemning it."
Ms Dugdale went on to say that SNP politicians "continue to positively engage" with Mr Campbell, who she said "not only distorts our political debate but regularly spouts hatred".
She said: "There are a few SNP politicians who have called him out, but 44% of SNP MPs and 50% of SNP MPs have actively encouraged him along. I have the list here and it includes 10 government ministers, the finance secretary, the justice secretary and the transport minister.
"I want to ask the first minister a clear yes or no question - will she today order her politicians and her own ministers to denounce and shun Wings Over Scotland once and for all?"
Ms Sturgeon repeated that she "unequivocally condemned" all abuse, but said Ms Dugdale's line of questioning was "absolutely ridiculous".
She said: "Let's cut to the chase here, this is a smokescreen being erected by Kezia Dugdale today because her party is in disarray, it is civil war, it is in meltdown.
"She is directing this at me to hide one simple fact - as leader of the Scottish Labour Party she is not in control of her own party because she can't stop her councillors going into coalition with Tories up and down the country.
"That is why she is asking about this today, as a smokescreen to protect herself against the state of her own party."
Mr Campbell said the tweet was "obviously not homophobic any way", but was a "criticism of Oliver Mundell's terrible public speaking skills".
He said: "I absolutely and categorically reject any accusations that I'm a homophobe - it's an outrageous and completely false allegation and we'll be pursuing the case in court.
"It's correct that we initially offered to accept £10,000 for a quick settlement, but received no reply, and on the advice of counsel it's likely that we'll seek a higher figure, particularly now that Ms Dugdale has compounded the offence by repeating the defamatory statements on national television and involving the first minister."
|
Kezia Dugdale has called on SNP politicians to "shun" a pro-independence blogger who has sent her a £10,000 claim for damages.
| 39,962,595 | 994 | 38 | false |
Ms Miller, 51, is an investment manager and philanthropist who was born in Guyana but was educated in Britain.
In an interview with Vogue in January, Ms Miller spoke of her early years in the UK after she and her brother moved to Eastbourne in East Sussex leaving their parents in Guyana.
She was sent first to Roedean School on the outskirts of Brighton at the age of 10, then to Moira House Girls' School, in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
She recalls working in local hotels as "a chambermaid or clearing up in the restaurant" while her brother did paper rounds and washed up in kitchens because their parents were not allowed to send money to the UK.
"Whilst we missed our parents dreadfully, and it was difficult juggling our home lives with homework and school, it made us who we are today," she said.
According to her LinkedIn page, she then went to university in London to study law.
Ms Miller married her first husband at 20 and they had a daughter, who has serious learning difficulties.
Her daughter, now 28, has a reading age of six, a writing age of four and very little short-term memory, Ms Miller told the Mail on Sunday.
But she describes her as having "amazing emotional intelligence" and being an inspiration to her.
In the early 1990s, she set up her own marketing company, got divorced and married the financier Jon Maguire.
Her marriage to Mr Maguire, who stood for the anti-EU right-wing English Democrat Party in the 2010 election, did not last and they divorced in 2002.
She married her third husband, hedge fund manager Alan Miller, in 2005 and they had two children.
Ms Miller is best known for having campaigned for transparency in investment and pension funds.
In 2009, she co-founded the investment firm SCM Private and launched True and Fair Foundation - formerly known as Miller Philanthropy - with her husband.
The foundation says it supports smaller charities by providing funding and support. Charity Commission records show it spent £135,982 in 2015.
Ms Miller also began the True and Fair Campaign in 2012, which campaigns against mis-selling and hidden fund charges in the City of London's fund management industry.
According to an interview with the Financial Times in April, this has led some in the industry to label her the "black widow spider".
Speaking about a time she asked three men at an industry party why they were staring at her, she told the paper: "One of them replied that I was a disgrace and that my lobbying efforts would bring down the entire City."
Ms Miller launched the Brexit legal case with London-based Spanish hairdresser Deir Tozetti Dos Santos and the People's Challenge group, set up by Grahame Pigney - a UK citizen who lives in France - and backed by a crowd-funding campaign.
They argued the government could not invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - starting the formal process of the UK leaving the EU - without seeking approval from Parliament.
Three London law firms - Mishcon de Reya, Edwin Coe and Bindmans - agreed to take up the case.
Ms Miller argued that only Parliament could make a decision leading to the loss of her "rights" under EU law.
But she has stressed throughout that the challenge was not an attempt to overturn the referendum decision, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We are all leavers now."
On 3 November, three judges ruled Parliament must vote on when the process can begin. The case went to the Supreme Court in December but the 11 judges rejected the government's appeal by a majority of eight to three.
Speaking after the High Court verdict, Ms Miller told the BBC the case was about scrutinising the details of Brexit, such as "how we leave, how they're going to negotiate, the directions of travel the government will take".
Ms Miller added that the challenge was about more than Brexit.
"It is about any government, any prime minister, in the future being able to take away people's rights without consulting Parliament," she said.
"We cannot have a democracy like that. That isn't a democracy, that is verging on dictatorship."
She has described herself as neither a leave nor a remain campaigner.
Asked whether she was "a remainer to your boots", she told BBC's Andrew Marr Show she had campaigned for "remain, reform and review" during the referendum.
But she said the case was now not about the referendum result, but "how we leave the EU".
She told the then-UKIP leader Nigel Farage that he should be her "biggest fan" following the controversial court case.
"This is about creating legal certainty and actually, everyone in the country should be my biggest fan because I've used my own money and a few of us we have used our own money to create legal certainty for Mrs May to move ahead," she told the programme.
Some newspapers have focused on Ms Miller's private life. However, she said "everyone has a past" and it was "totally irrelevant" to the importance of the case.
She has also spoken about the abuse she suffered as a result of her legal battle.
"I was aware there would be nastiness because anything to do with the word Brexit, people lose their minds and it's all about heart. Actually it is about your head and your heart."
She told BBC Radio 5 live she plans to report online trolls to police after receiving rape and beheading threats.
In December, a 55-year-old man from Swindon was arrested over alleged threats against Ms Miller. He was later released and, after consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, no further action was taken, the Metropolitan Police said.
Ms Miller told the BBC's Clive Coleman that a discussion with the police concluded that employing security would be "sensible" during the Supreme Court hearing.
She also told the Andrew Marr Show she was appalled by fierce criticism by the newspapers of the High Court judges who ruled on the case.
The Daily Mail branded the judges "Enemies of the people", while the Daily Express said the ruling had marked "the day democracy died".
Ms Miller said "that is unforgivable", saying she is "a nobody and they are "the biggest brains in this country".
"They are what make us great."
From the UK, about 150 workers are expected to meet 5,000 counterparts from 15 European countries in Brussels to call for the EU to act to save the beleaguered industry.
Port Talbot was dealt a huge blow last month when Tata Steel said 750 jobs would go as part of 1,050 cuts UK-wide.
Roy Rickhuss, from the Community union, said those in power "desperately need to start defending our industry".
Port Talbot, which employs 4,000 workers, is the biggest steel plant in Britain in terms of workforce and output, but is understood to be losing £1m a day.
When the announcement was made, Business Minister Anna Soubry said the steel industry was having to "take tough decisions in the face of extremely challenging conditions".
First Minister Carwyn Jones set up a task force and said it was as "devastating blow to the community and the wider economy".
The European Commission announced on Friday it was opening three investigations into steel products made in China as cheap imports added to the woes of the UK industry.
It said it would not allow "unfair competition" to threaten Europe.
Trade unions and industry officials have previously called for more action against Chinese steel imports, which they claimed were being sold at artificially low prices.
Mr Rickhuss, Community's general secretary, said: "Steelworkers across Europe are feeling the effects of unfairly traded imports and a lack of government action. Unions and businesses are joining together and with one voice demanding our governments back our steel industry."
During a debate on the newly published independence blueprint, he insisted the move would be "transformational".
But the leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Johann Lamont, challenged Mr Salmond to meet her so they could find the money now to deliver the policy.
MSPs are being given the chance to debate the 670-page White Paper.
Ms Lamont accused the first minister of only just recognising the matter of childcare, while she had known it to be an issue "all of my working life".
She added: "He [Alex Salmond] should put his money where his mouth is and make a difference right now."
The first minister hit back, saying he had discussed the issue with Ms Lamont previously and she had offered no new plan of action.
The White Paper says the education system could play a greater role in lifting people out of poverty
White Paper: Education, skills and employment
A referendum on Scottish independence will be held on 18 September next year, with voters being asked the straight yes/no question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"
The White Paper, which contains the arguments in favour of independence and is intended as a guide to what might happen if it is achieved, was launched by Mr Salmond at Glasgow's Science Centre on Tuesday morning.
Proposals included extending the support available to young people and their families and to expand childcare provision to match the best in Europe.
Under its plans, it said children would be entitled to 30 hours of childcare each week - the same number of hours as a child at primary school - benefiting about 240,000 children.
During a heated debate in Holyrood's main chamber, Mr Salmond said he was looking to bring more than 100,000 women into the workforce.
He said the childcare plan would cost £700m, money that could be found through an independent Scotland choosing not to fund nuclear weapons - what he called a choice between "weapons of mass destruction and educating our children".
He added that a 6% increase in participation would raise £700m in extra tax revenue.
However, Ms Lamont said the money would be required "upfront".
She said: "If it was 'transformational', if [Mr Salmond] believed it was that important, he would start now."
She said she had previously offered to work with Mr Salmond on a new childcare commission, adding: "I'll offer him that now. I'll work with him on his budget to make sure that childcare is properly funded."
In reply, Mr Salmond said a "childcare revolution is impossible under devolution" and challenged Ms Lamont to say what public services she would cut to fund the plan.
The White Paper confirmed that Scotland would seek to secure a Sterling currency union with the remainder of the UK after independence, and asserted that the country would negotiate for a smooth transition to EU and Nato membership.
The leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, said the SNP was "grasping at straws" over EU membership, adding that the average joining time for new EU states was eight years.
She said: "The Scottish government is desperate to prove that they don't have to come out of Europe before they get to go back in. They are contorting themselves. But the weight of evidence just doesn't add up."
Meanwhile, responding to the White Paper, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie called Mr Salmond "the patron saint of blind optimism".
The document makes a series of pledges to be fulfilled if the SNP forms the first government in a newly-independent Scotland.
Most computers will open PDF documents automatically, but you may need Adobe Reader
Download the reader here
These included:
The Arica-La Paz railway was inaugurated on 13 May 1913, and runs from Chile's most northerly port, Arica, to Bolivia's commercial capital La Paz, 440km (273 miles) to the north-east.
Its construction was a remarkable feat of engineering.
The track rises from sea level to over 4,200 metres (13,800ft), making it one of the highest railway lines in the world.
At some points, the gradient is over 6%. It was the world's steepest train track at the time of its construction.
It winds through a landscape of desert and snow-capped volcanoes. It is split roughly half and half between the two countries, with 205km on the Chilean side of the border and 235 km in Bolivia.
The railway took seven years to build and employed thousands of workers in gruelling conditions. Many suffered from altitude sickness, sunstroke and extreme cold at night.
Over the years, sections of the railway have been washed away by the flash floods that regularly hit the Bolivian highlands.
It was closed completely in 2005 but has since been renovated, and the Chileans say their part of it is now fully operative again.
The railway was built by Chile to compensate Bolivia for its loss of land during the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific.
Chile won the war and annexed a swathe of Bolivian land roughly the size of Greece, leaving Bolivia landlocked.
The idea behind the railway was to give Bolivia access to the sea for its exports. It cost Chile £2.75m to build - around £195m ($300m) in today's money.
The Bolivians still demand sovereignty over at least a part of their former Pacific coastline, and last month took their case to the International Court in The Hague.
To this day, the railway remains controversial. The Bolivians claim the Chileans have failed to maintain their side of it.
In January, Bolivian President Evo Morales challenged his Chilean counterpart, Sebastian Pinera, to ride the train with him "to prove that it's working".
Mr Pinera accepted the challenge but the trip has yet to materialise and it is difficult to imagine it will, given the countries' poor relations.
Those relations have deteriorated further in recent months, culminating in the decision to go to The Hague.
The Bolivians have accused the Chileans of being "the bad boy of the region" and of being "unfriendly, provocative and aggressive" for refusing to consider their sovereignty demand.
Chile has responded by accusing Mr Morales of distorting the truth when discussing the history of the dispute.
Monday's ceremony in Arica was therefore an all-Chilean affair, with no representatives from Bolivia.
President Pinera took the train from Arica to the tiny Chilean desert village of Poconchile, a journey of around an hour.
There, he was greeted by dozens of schoolchildren waving Chilean flags.
He gave a speech at the station, describing the construction of the railway in the early 20th Century as "comparable only to the construction of the Panama Canal".
He said he regretted that Bolivian President Evo Morales could not be at the ceremony "but it gives me great satisfaction to show Chileans, Bolivians and the entire world that Chile has met its obligations under the 1904 treaty [with Bolivia]".
Chile would always have the door open to closer ties, he said, but would "defend the territory, sovereignty and sea that belongs to us".
The glory days of the Arica-La Paz railway are probably behind it. The passenger service closed in 1996 due to a lack of demand and there are now paved highways between Bolivia and northern Chile.
Trucks rather than trains carry most of the cargo traffic.
But symbolically, the railway is still important.
It is one of the few things that link Chile and Bolivia - two nations divided by a formidable mountain range, a fraught history and an equally troublesome present.
The charity said it had been advising hundreds of former workers in the sector over the past 12 months.
Some have managed to successfully challenge their former employers, CAB Aberdeen said.
An incorrect selection process has been one area used for challenges.
Zara Strange, the CAB manager in Aberdeen, told BBC Scotland: "It's not the fact that redundancies are required, I mean we all know that, it's just the way people are being selected.
"We have people who we will challenge on their behalf.
"Invariably we will win that case because people are being unfairly selected.
"Or people who should have been included in the pool of people have been missed out, so we're really talking about favouritism in that aspect."
The incident happened in the Ashkamish district of Takhar province.
The victim, who is in her 20s, told the BBC that she did not know the reason for the attack.
Although such mutilation is rare in Afghanistan, reports of violence against women are increasing.
The woman is now in hospital in Kunduz.
Her brother confirmed the nature of the injuries to the BBC, saying his aunt had seen the results of the mutilation.
A doctor at the clinic said the victim was six months pregnant, but lost the baby as a result of the violence.
The woman says her husband attacked her without any reason with a big wooden stick, cut her hair with scissor and shaved parts of her head.
She says his mother and and her sister-in-law helped her husband to tie her up with rope and beat her from head to toe.
The Takhar provincial government's women's department provided photos of the victim, who appeared badly bruised, to the BBC.
The police commander of Takhar, Noor Muhammad Hakimi, said: "The accused is on the run." He also confirmed that a case had been opened against three people, including the husband.
Previous cases of mutilation included two incidents in which husbands cut off their wives' noses.
Reza Gul: The Afghan woman whose husband cut off her nose
Afghan man 'cut off wife's nose with a kitchen knife'
In a second case of gender violence in less than 24 hours, a 20-year-old was reportedly shot dead by members of her husband's family in northern Faryab province.
The head of the provincial human rights commission told the BBC that the young woman's in-laws had accused her of having an affair.
Sayed Hafizullah Fitra said the victim had initially been handed over to local elders and clerics.
But one tribal elder told BBC Afghan that he could not stop others handing the woman over to her in-laws despite his warnings she might be killed.
He also said the victim had been pregnant.
The Faryab police spokesman, Karim Yourush, said the woman's father-in-law had disappeared.
The killing happened in an area where the Afghan government has very limited control. The husband is reported to be in Iran.
Many people in Afghanistan say education and empowerment are key to reducing the high incidence of violence against women.
A landmark Law on the Elimination of Violence against Women came into effect in 2009, but most evidence shows that it remains largely unimplemented and unenforced.
Ginnelly, who joined the Clarets from Shrewsbury Town in August 2015, started in the academy system at Aston Villa.
Coventry-born Ginnelly, who made the first of three league appearances for Shrewsbury in August 2014, scored five times in 20 games on loan at National League side Altrincham last season.
The 19-year-old becomes the League One club's 10th signing of the summer.
Ginnelly is the third new loan recruit from a Premier League club, following Southampton defender Jason McCarthy and West Ham United midfielder George Dobson.
Simeon Jackson, Franck Moussa, Joe Edwards, Kacy Milan Butterfield, Erhun Oztumer, Florent Cuvelier and Theo Vassell have all signed on a more permanent basis.
"This is a great move for me," said Ginnelly, who is yet to make his Burnley debut. I'm a young player who is still learning but I back myself to do well.
"I was in the National League last year and I couldn't have asked for a better loan. I learned a lot from it. Now I've come to a club who were going for promotion in League One."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Andrew Boff, who Mr Goldsmith defeated in the Tory mayoral candidate contest, said it was an error to "equate people of conservative religious views with sympathising with terrorism".
Mr Boff, who is seeking re-election to the London Assembly, told the BBC: "If you are a London politician this is just a bizarre thing to do."
Mr Goldsmith's team is yet to comment.
Both Mr Goldsmith and Prime Minister David Cameron sought to link Mr Khan with Muslim "extremists" by saying he had shared platforms with people who had extremist views.
Mr Boff, the former Conservative group leader on the London Assembly, told the BBC's Newsnight programme: "I mentioned that I thought this was a mistake for future integration in London."
He said Mr Goldsmith's approach was not an example of so-called dog whistle politics, adding: "I don't think it was dog whistle because you can't hear a dog whistle - everybody could hear this.
"It was effectively saying that people of conservative religious views are not to be trusted and you shouldn't share a platform with them. That's outrageous."
Mr Khan has previously said he had "never hidden" the fact that, as a former chairman of Liberty and a human rights lawyer, he had acted for "some pretty unsavoury characters".
Mr Boff said the party had actively engaged with the Muslim community in Newham, but "now those bridges that have been built, a few of them have been blown up by this campaign".
Baroness Kramer, who lost her Richmond parliamentary seat to Mr Goldsmith in 2010, was also critical of the Conservative campaign.
Speaking to BBC Radio London, the Liberal Democrat peer said: "Some of the language has felt vindictive."
She said "innuendo" used about religion and race had been divisive.
The result of the mayoral election is due on Friday evening, with Mr Khan ahead on first preference votes.
The Portuguese died in Dublin after spending 48 hours in a critical condition following a bout.
"Clearly there's a problem," the Irish Sports Minister told RTE Radio 1's Today with Sean O'Rourke.
"I'm going to ask John Treacy in Sport Ireland to see what we can do to try and regulate this sport."
MMA is not funded by Sport Ireland, the umbrella body which governs sport in the Republic of Ireland, but it has become popular in the country following the success of Dubliner Conor McGregor.
Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight champion McGregor, 27, defended MMA as he paid tribute to Carvalho.
"Combat sport is a crazy game and with the recent incident in boxing and now this in MMA, it is a sad time to be a fighter and a fight fan," said McGregor, who lost for the first time in UFC when he faced welterweight competitor Nate Diaz in March.
"It is easy for those on the outside to criticise our way of living.
"For the millions of people around the world who have had their lives, their health, their fitness and their mental strength all changed for the better through combat, this is truly a bitter pill to swallow. We have lost one of us."
However, Irish minister Ring said that he has had concerns about the regulation of MMA for some time and wrote to "17 operators" in 2014 calling for them to comply with safety standards.
"This particular sport is not regulated, has not looked for regulation and has not looked to be part of the Sport Ireland programme. They are not getting any funding from the state," he said.
"Two years ago I saw this danger coming down the line. I've had many meetings with people who are concerned about this and I wrote to these professional bodies.
"I wrote to 17 operators in February of 2014, outlining to them that I expect the safety standards that exist in other sports in Ireland, that they would comply with this regulations."
The minister added that the fragmented nature of MMA in Ireland was a complicating factor.
"If there's any other major sporting event in the country, there's national governing bodies," he said.
"Whoever is hosting that event has to comply with those safety standards and we need to bring in some kind of regulation to deal with this new phenomenon."
Ring added that he found MMA "very difficult" to watch and was something he would not like to see his family or friends engaging in.
"I have watched not very much of it because I couldn't spend too long watching that kind of sport," he said.
Carvalho, 28, was taken to hospital after being beaten in a fight at the National Stadium in Dublin by Laois man Charlie Ward on Saturday night.
Despite undergoing emergency brain surgery, Carvalho died on Monday.
Prince William flew in to the playing field at John Henry Newman School in Stevenage, after transporting doctors from nearby Lister Hospital, for the East Anglian Air Ambulance.
While there he spoke to a number of pupils in the school canteen.
Head teacher Clive Matthew said the visit was "completely unexpected".
"It was really quite bizarre. We have the air ambulance use the school site quite regularly and whenever they land the staff go out, we clear the field of children and offer the crew refreshments," he said.
"We didn't realise who was on the helicopter at the time. And then Prince William jumped off and came into the school.
"He was great. He queued up with the children, he got himself some lunch and sat down. Then he was surrounded by a group of Year 11 boys who had a chat with him - it was really lovely."
Mr Matthew said the duke, who has been a pilot for the charity since last summer, ate roast chicken, cauliflower cheese and vegetables, but did not have dessert.
He said the prince donated the cost of the meal to the school's children's charity.
"One of the boys sat opposite the prince and was shaking so much he nearly lost the pasta off the end of his fork," said Mr Matthew.
"[William] did compliment the meal, saying it was very good."
The Duke of Cambridge has been spotted on a number of missions for the air ambulance, including when he was sent to help a young girl hit by a car in Bedfordshire last September.
Tammy Abraham put the away side ahead just before half-time with a low finish after beating Martin Kelly to Leroy Fer's cross, having earlier seen a close-range effort stopped by Wayne Hennessey following Timothy Fosu-Mensah's slip.
Kelly then tamely headed Palace's first effort on target from a corner after the break, before his mistake let Swansea in for their second.
The defender was robbed on the halfway line by Kyle Naughton, whose through ball was finished off by Jordan Ayew.
Yohan Cabaye came off the Palace bench for his first league appearance of the season and might have converted from a one-two with Jason Puncheon had it not been for Mike van der Hoorn's saving challenge, while Andros Townsend shot just wide after Alfie Mawson's sliced clearance with five minutes to go.
Palace have now lost their opening three matches of the Premier League season under new boss Frank de Boer. They have failed to score a single goal, conceding five in two home matches.
Speaking to BBC Sport, De Boer said: "It wasn't until after we were 2-0 down that we showed we really can play.
"It is a very hard lesson for us. We have to show some balls from the first second of the game. If you do not show courage then you get punished," he added.
"In the second half you saw a different Palace - one who creates chances - and with a bit of luck you make one of those. It just wasn't the day for us. Hopefully you will see a different Palace after the international window."
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes," Mark Twain, author of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is supposed to have said.
Last November Swansea beat Palace 5-4, with an astonishing seven goals scored after the break.
Both teams went into Saturday's game without a goal from their opening two matches of the new league season, but there was only really one side who looked like providing goals and entertainment.
Swansea's front pair of Abraham and Ayew combined dangerously as early as the fourth minute when Ayew headed wide from Abraham's cross, and the away side controlled the entire first half, dominating possession and opening Palace up on several occasions.
After the break Palace did improve slightly and there were a few errors at the back from defender Mawson, but once Ayew punished the home side for Kelly's mistake, the result never looked in doubt.
Swansea manager Paul Clement watched his side beat Palace at Selhurst Park here in January, on the day he was appointed, and this was certainly a happy return.
After James Tomkins was forced off injured in the first half - he appeared to suffer a muscle injury when striking a shot over the bar - Kelly came on to replace him.
It would be harsh to focus too much on one player in a toothless team performance, but the defender found himself at the heart of two key moments that ultimately may have settled the match.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Kelly will rue his missed header, directed straight towards Fabianksi after rising well above the static Mawson at a corner, and moments later the 27-year-old rashly tried to knock the ball past Naughton on the halfway line, a move the Swansea defender easily read.
Ayew was perhaps slightly lucky with his finish - Hennessey rushed out to block with his legs and the rebound fell kindly - but more worrying was the lack of confidence Palace displayed in the few chances they did create when trying to find a way back into the match.
After the game, De Boer spoke of "a lack of courage" from his players, perhaps with the largely anonymous Christian Benteke in mind.
The Chelsea loanee scored Swansea's first goal of the season and looked a real threat up front in combination with Ayew. He had the strength to hold up play, the invention to find others, and displayed a clinical touch to find the net.
Swansea boss Paul Clement, speaking to BBC Sport: "It is hard coming away from home in the Premier League, so four points out of two away games is very positive.
Media playback is not supported on this device
"Tammy Abraham and Jordan Ayew took their goals well, they both scored midweek, it's what you want from the strikers. But our offensive play in the second half needed to be much better. We will not get carried away, we have got to get better and improve.
"We played two games away from home and won four points, our home game was against Manchester United. To also go through in the EFL Cup, we can say it has been a decent start to the season.
"For someone who has only been with us only a couple of days, Sam Clucas has settled in well, we are very happy he is here. We have our eye on a couple of transfer targets, we will try and bring in some quality players to be competitive this year."
Palace's next match is in the Premier League on Sunday, 10 September when they travel to Burnley (13:30 BST) after the international break.
Swansea next play at home to Newcastle, also on 10 September (16:00).
Match ends, Crystal Palace 0, Swansea City 2.
Second Half ends, Crystal Palace 0, Swansea City 2.
Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace).
Oliver McBurnie (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott Dann (Crystal Palace).
Oliver McBurnie (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. James McArthur (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Christian Benteke with a headed pass.
Substitution, Swansea City. Angel Rangel replaces Kyle Naughton.
Attempt missed. Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Timothy Fosu-Mensah (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Carroll (Swansea City).
Attempt missed. Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Leroy Fer (Swansea City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Leroy Fer (Swansea City).
Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace).
Leroy Fer (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Swansea City. Oliver McBurnie replaces Tammy Abraham.
Joel Ward (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Joel Ward (Crystal Palace).
Tammy Abraham (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Scott Dann (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Yohan Cabaye.
Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Federico Fernández (Swansea City).
Attempt missed. Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Scott Dann.
Offside, Swansea City. Wayne Routledge tries a through ball, but Tammy Abraham is caught offside.
Attempt saved. James McArthur (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Christian Benteke.
Substitution, Swansea City. Wayne Routledge replaces Mike van der Hoorn.
Foul by Martin Kelly (Crystal Palace).
Tammy Abraham (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Mike van der Hoorn (Swansea City) header from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Jordan Ayew (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James McArthur (Crystal Palace).
Attempt saved. Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lee Chung-yong.
Attempt missed. Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Joel Ward.
Attempt missed. Timothy Fosu-Mensah (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by James McArthur.
Foul by Leroy Fer (Swansea City).
Joel Ward (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dutchman Robert Gesink won the stage, while Britain's Simon Yates finished fifth to move fourth overall after a stunning ride up the Col d'Aubisque.
Yates finished more than a minute ahead of Froome and Quintana, who were having their own battle on the mountain.
Quintana was unable to break Froome though and they finished together.
It was a fascinating finish to the 196km stage from Urdax-Dantxarinea, which featured four mountain climbs, with Colombian Quintana and Briton Froome riding the first half of the final ascent relatively serenely.
Quintana made the first move with around seven kilometres remaining and Team Sky's Froome took a few seconds to reel in his Movistar rival.
However, Quintana again tried to stretch Tour de France winner Froome, before slowing the pace and then accelerating again - a pattern repeated several times.
Froome, who is looking to become the first rider since 1978 to win the Tour and Vuelta in the same year, would not be shaken off though and followed Quintana round the final left-hand bend to finish a bike-length adrift but close enough to be awarded the same time.
Earlier, Orica BikeExchange's Yates, who started the day three minutes and 25 seconds behind Quintana, had ridden clear of the peloton on the penultimate climb in an effort to recoup some time on leaders.
His plan worked as first his team-mates helped him stay clear on the run to the final climb, before he then caught and passed the remnants of the day's 40-rider breakaway to finish 39 seconds behind Gesink, who picked up his first Grand Tour stage victory.
Yates, who won stage six, is now two minutes, 17 seconds behind Quintana and just 16 seconds adrift of his Colombian team-mate Esteban Chaves, who climbed to third.
Spain's Alberto Contador, who is chasing a record-equalling fourth Vuelta victory, also attacked on the final ascent but his attempt was short-lived and he ended up fading, losing 20 seconds on Quintana to fall back to sixth overall.
Quintana's Spanish team-mate Alejandro Valverde was the day's biggest loser, finishing almost 11 minutes behind LottoNL rider Gesink to drop out of third place.
Gesink missed July's Tour de France after suffering memory loss following a crash in the Tour of Switzerland.
Saturday's stage 15 is not as mountainous but the 118km race climaxes in another summit finish.
Stage 14 result:
1. Robert Gesink (Ned/LottoNL) 5hrs 43mins 24secs
2. Kenny Elissonde (Fra/FDJ) +7secs
3. Egor Silin (Rus/Katusha) +9secs
4. George Bennett (NZ/LottoNL) +31secs
5. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) +39secs
6. Haimar Zubeldia (Spa/Trek) +49secs
7. Jan Bakelants (Bel/AG2R) +1min 11secs
8. Andrew Talansky (US/Cannondale) +1min 14secs
9. Esteban Chaves (Col/Orica) Same time
10. Leopold Koenig (Cze/Team Sky) +1min 16secs
Selected:
12. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) +1min 47secs
13. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) Same time
19. Alberto Contador (Spa/Tinkoff) +2mins 07secs
43. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +10mins 56secs
General classification after stage 14:
1. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) 58hrs 41mins 40secs
2. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +54secs
3. Esteban Chaves (Col/Orica) +2mins 01secs
4. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) +2mins 17secs
Selected:
6. Alberto Contador (Spain / Tinkoff) +3mins 28secs
The 29-year-old left-hander, who has previously played for Surrey, has hit six centuries in 32 Test matches and a total of 28 in first-class cricket.
His arrival is set to fill the gap in Somerset's batting line-up vacated by the retirement of former captain Chris Rogers at the end of the 2016 season.
He will be available for all formats, around his international commitments.
Elgar joins a Somerset top order that includes new club captain Tom Abell and former England opener Marcus Trescothick, who signed a new deal for 2017 in August.
The Taunton-based side finished second in the County Championship in 2016, narrowly missing out on a maiden title as Middlesex triumphed on the final day of the season.
As a slow left-arm bowler, Elgar has also taken 13 Test wickets.
He first played for Somerset in 2013 on a short-term contract, when he provided cover for Alviro Petersen.
The analysis comes from the Resolution Foundation, an economic think tank.
It says the "privileged" self-employed, with good educational qualifications and higher earnings, made up 57% of the growth in self-employment after 2009.
Among them were people working in law, accountancy, health services and management consultancy.
The think tank says they typically earned much more than the average worker, at between £45,000 and £65,000 a year.
"Rising self-employment has been the biggest jobs story of the last decade," said Adam Corlett, of the Resolution Foundation
"This growth has been controversial at times, with several companies finding themselves in court as workers try to address the insecurity that often comes with self-employment.
"But behind the headlines the real recent growth area for the self-employed has been in lucrative sectors such as advertising and banking," he added.
There are now nearly five million people in the UK classified as self-employed (including those self-employed in a second job) and the rise in their numbers in recent years has contributed almost half of the country's growth in employment.
In fact, there are many more self-employed people than either agency workers (approximately 850,000) or workers on zero-hours contracts (roughly 900,000).
Much public discussion has focused on the self-employed who earn very little in the so-called "gig economy", such as Uber drivers and delivery drivers.
The Resolution Foundation says their work is indeed precarious.
But whether precarious or privileged, self-employment has been spreading in many other sectors, including those where being self-employed has been a way of life for decades.
The 10 biggest groups of self-employed workers are, the think tank says, in joinery and plumbing, construction, education, retail, cleaning, taxis, hairdressing, health, agriculture and design.
Meanwhile, the fastest growth of self-employment since 2009 has been in advertising, public administration and banking, but self-employment among taxi drivers has risen by only 7% in that time.
The Resolution Foundation says the division between the privileged and precarious self-employed means that this category of worker is in effect split into two tribes.
As well as earning less and having poorer educational qualifications, the precarious group are more likely to be young, immigrants, underemployed, living outside south-eastern England and in receipt of tax credits.
The report also argues that the growth of self-employment is very significant for the public finances because those with high earnings can cut their tax and national insurance payments by operating as companies.
That will become even more attractive if, as promised by the government, the rate of corporation tax is cut to just 17%.
"The Office of Budget Responsibility estimates a £3.5bn exchequer cost in 2021-22 from incorporations rising faster than employment," said the report.
It also points to other well-known problems with self-employment, such as the lack of legal protection currently given to employed workers, and the fact that the self-employed are less likely to save for a pension.
Words such as '2016', 'effort' and 'Olympian' - or even a picture of a medal - cannot be used by non-approved sponsors in any sort of advertising.
The punishment could mean athletes losing medals, although a reprimand would be the more likely outcome.
The Olympics' Rule 40 means athletes must cut ties with non-official partners until three days after Rio.
The bye-law states only approved sponsors may reference "Olympic-related terms" from 27 July until midnight on 24 August, so personal sponsors such as kit suppliers are not even allowed to re-tweet athletes.
While the bye-law, which is contained in the Olympic Charter, is not new, it has been picked up on since the International Olympic Committee chose not to impose a blanket ban on Russian competitors at the Rio Games.
The World Anti-Doping Agency had recommended the measure in the wake of a damning report into state-sponsored doping in Russia.
British former heptathlete Kelly Sotherton suggested the IOC was more interested in punishing athletes over sponsorship infringements than for doping.
"If your sponsor says good luck to you in Olympic time you face being booted out, but drugs cheats??! #rule40," she posted on Twitter.
According to the IOC, "Olympic-related terms" include the following, depending upon context:
While "Olympic listed terms or expressions" include:
The regulations are not new, and were designed to counter so-called 'ambush marketing' from harming revenue that could be passed on to athletes and federations, while protecting the investment of official sponsors.
National Olympic committees are responsible for enforcing regulations, and Team GB published a guide detailing the restrictions in December.
Since London 2012 the rule has been relaxed slightly, and now athletes can appear in their sponsors' marketing during the Games if they are granted special dispensation.
The blaze broke out in a block of flats in Campbell Street in the town at about 18:10 on Thursday.
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service were called to deal with the "large" fire following a lightning storm.
Torrential rain, thunder and lightning swept parts of the country, with a number of areas in Scotland placed on flood alert.
Following the fire in Greenock, about 20 people had to leave their homes.
They are being cared for at a nearby church hall. The Red Cross has sent an emergency vehicle to support those who are unable to return home.
Scottish Fire and Rescue said later that no one was injured but the building has been "severely damaged" by fire and heat from the blaze.
Firefighters were also dealing with flash floods in Greenock and elsewhere. They received numerous calls from other parts of the country.
Among the worst affected locations were parts of Glasgow and Ayrshire where rainfall was estimated at approximately 20mm.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) issued "be prepared" notices in several areas.
Forecaster Billy Payne, from Meteogroup, said: "The rain band is moving north and breaking up with heavy thundery showers across southern and central Scotland. There have been a few lightning strikes in the Glasgow area and 20mm of rain has fallen locally since daylight began."
The rainstorms follow a three week heat wave during which some of the hottest temperatures for years have been recorded.
As a result of the deteriorating conditions, road maintenance firm BEAR Scotland has postponed resurfacing works on the southbound M9.
Work was due to take place at the weekend but has been shelved due to forecasts for further rain.
The work on the stretch between junction 9 (Bannockburn) and junction 8 (Hill of Kinnaird) will be carried out at a later date.
Scottish Power said "pockets of customers" are without power in the Musselburgh and Tranent areas.
Some flooding was reported in the Borders, at Eyemouth and Kelso.
In Glasgow, the newly-refurbished Tollcross International Swimming Centre was forced shut because of problems with the building's rainwater system.
The centre will host swimming events during next summer's Commonwealth Games.
A spokesman for operators Glasgow Life said: "Tollcross International Swimming Centre has been forced to close as a result of today's adverse weather conditions and an issue with the building's rainwater system.
"Glasgow Life is working with architects and contractors to rectify this and the facility will reopen as soon as possible. We apologise for any disruption to customers."
Albert White, 25, was killed in France after storming an enemy machine gun post in order to save his comrades.
The Liverpool-born sergeant was awarded the Victoria Cross for his "conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty".
A stone has been laid at Liverpool Parish Church, one hundred years after he died in May 1917.
Tom White, the soldier's great nephew, was present during Friday's ceremony alongside veterans and serving soldiers.
He said: "All the family have always known about Albert's heroism. It's been fantastic today and very emotional, because it's been a real focal point for the family to get together, to come together to give Albert due recognition."
The former sergeant in the South Wales Borderers served at Gallipoli, where his battalion lost almost 1,600 men.
He was then posted to France where he survived the opening day of the Battle of the Somme and many other battles.
He was killed at Monchy-le-Preux during the Battle of Arras.
His citation in the London Gazette reads: "Realising during an attack that one of the enemy's machine guns, which had previously been located, would probably hold up the whole advance of his company, Sgt White, without the slightest hesitation, and regardless of all personal danger, dashed ahead of his company to capture the gun.
"When within a few yards of the gun, he fell riddled with bullets having thus willingly sacrificed his life in order that he might secure the success of the operations and the welfare of his comrades."
Liverpool's Lord Mayor Roz Gladden said the stone would be a permanent reminder of the "incredible contribution" Sgt White made.
Some 68,000 medical systems from a large unnamed US health group have been exposed, they said.
Security researchers Scott Erven and Mark Collao presented their findings at hacker conference Derbycon.
They also revealed that they had created fake medical devices which attracted thousands of hackers.
Interfaces connected to medical systems were available via search engine Shodan, the researchers told conference-goers.
The researchers used Shodan - a search engine specifically for internet-connected devices - to look for exposed software from a range of health treatment providers, such as radiology and paediatric clinics, as well as one large healthcare organisation.
They told tech news website the Register that they ended up with "thousands of misconfigurations and direct attack vectors".
Hospitals whose networking equipment and administrative computers were exposed online risked attacks and the exposure of patient data, they said.
Such information would allow attackers to build up details on health organisations, including exact information about where medical devices were housed, they added.
Then it would be a case of "crafting an email and sending it to the guy who has access to that device with a payload that will run on the machine", Mr Collao said.
Presenting their findings at hacking conference Derbycon, the researchers said they had reported dozens of vulnerabilities to big-name medical device manufacturers over the last year.
The pair also ran an experiment to illustrate how hackers were already targeting medical devices.
For six months, they ran fake MRI and defibrillator machines in the form of software which mimicked the real devices.
The two fake machines attracted tens of thousands of login attempts and some 299 attempts to download malware, the researchers said.
The fact that their "honeypot" devices attracted so much interest suggests that medical devices are a target for hackers, said security researcher Ken Munro.
He emphasised the need to make the real-life versions more secure.
"Medical devices should not be available on the public internet. They should be behind multiple layers of protection," he said.
"Based on their research, we can see that hackers will have a go at devices that are clearly critical medical systems. That is scary, if unsurprising.
"What is even scarier is that the research shows that some medical devices have already been compromised."
The new ban has been ordered by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), which runs drug testing across many sports.
It follows concerns that athletes were breathing these so-called noble gases to encourage the growth of red blood cells that boost stamina.
But despite being piloted, a valid test is not yet ready, the agency says.
The idea of doping with gases more usually associated with arc welding, neon light bulbs and anaesthesia may seem bizarre, but Wada believes there is enough evidence of their enhancement potential to ban them.
Media reports earlier this year indicated that athletes in Russia have been using the gases for years as a means of boosting their stamina ahead of international competitions.
Indeed the company that developed techniques to help athletes prepare using xenon, has a "badge of honour" on its website from the Russian Olympic Committee for "the organisation and conduct of inhalation remediation".
Inhaling xenon, mixed with oxygen, is believed to improve stamina because it increases the body's production of a protein known as hypoxia inducible factor 1, or HIF1.
In turn this stimulates the production of natural erythropoietin (EPO) which regulates the number of red blood cells. The more of these cells, the more oxygen you can carry, and the greater your athletic stamina.
Doping with artificial EPO has been one of the biggest threats to the integrity of sport over the past 20 years. The clampdown on using the drug has seen sports scientists develop other methods including the use of xenon and argon.
Earlier this year Wada's executive committee decided to ban these two named gases by adding them to the prohibited list from this month.
"We had serious information that xenon was being used," Wada's science director Dr Olivier Rabin told BBC News.
"We believe it has been used in the preparation for some major events."
Now that xenon and argon are banned, the agency needs to have an effective test for the gases.
Developing one is not an easy task.
As well as being present in the air we all breathe, albeit in minute quantities, xenon is also used in many countries as an anaesthetic.
Dr Rabin says that Wada scientists are close to developing a direct test for the gas.
"We had some preliminary pilot results that do indicate that detection is not too much of an issue but we just need to make it solid and robust in the anti-doping context and make sure that any result in the future will be accepted by a court."
Validating a test like this to the level that it can stand up in the Court of Arbitration for sport is not easy. When I asked Dr Rabin if the test would be in place by the end of the year, he was unable to give that reassurance.
"I cannot give you a specific date, we usually do not, what I can tell you is that the science is very solid and certainly we will do our best, now that the gases are on the prohibited lists to make sure there are detection methods available as soon as possible."
Other researchers though are not convinced that a reliable test will be quickly forthcoming.
They also question why Wada has banned the use of these gases but allows athletes to use oxygen tents or hypoxic chambers that mimic the effects of sleeping at altitude with the aim of producing a similar blood boosting effect as xenon.
"Their whole argument is based on false grounds," said Dr Ben Koh, a former athlete and an expert on sports medicine.
"What is happening among elite athletes is a very artificial process, involving hypoxic chambers before competitions. This is artificial, and it is no different from the artificiality of xenon."
Wada says that there could be dangers to the health of the athletes if they use large amounts of xenon or argon and this another reason for the ban, as well as the performance enhancement.
Dr Koh rejects this argument.
"I would argue that xenon is actually safer than hypoxic tents, in terms of heart failure, trauma to the ear and to the lungs, the risks are very well documented from hypoxic tents, on the other hand, xenon gas from the published literature seems to be quite safe."
There is a possibility that Wada has information that xenon can have other sports enhancing effects in athletes that go beyond an increase in stamina.
"The concern would be that there's some secondary benefit not due to HIF1, and that seems to me entirely possible," said Dr Chris Cooper, from the University of Essex, who has researched the science of doping.
"I'm surprised if the effect in these animal models is due to increased hematocrit, there is something else going on."
Wada say they have named xenon and argon for the sake of legal clarity.
I asked Dr Rabin what would happen if similar inert gases such as krypton, say, are shown to have a similar effect.
"Xenon and argon are only examples, it is not a closed list as we do have for narcotics - tomorrow any gas that has a HIF1 activation is de facto prohibited."
So no krypton-powered super athletes then?
"Absolutely not!"
Follow Matt on Twitter @mattmcgrathbbc.
The Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the sector fell to 45.9 last month, down slightly from June and below 50, which indicates contraction.
The latest number suggests output in the construction industry shrank at the fastest pace since June 2009.
The Brexit vote was the main factor weighing on activity, the report said.
It follows Monday's survey indicating a sharp downturn in factory activity. On Wednesday, the PMI survey for the services industry will be released.
The surveys are based on replies to questionnaires sent to purchasing executives and they are seen as one of the earliest indicators of the economy's performance.
"Anecdotal evidence suggested that economic uncertainty following the EU referendum was the main factor weighing on business activity in July, especially in the commercial building sector," the report said.
However, it added that there were also reports that suggested demand patterns had been more resilient than expected.
"UK construction firms frequently cited ongoing economic uncertainty as having a material negative impact on their order books," said Tim Moore, author of the report.
"In particular, survey respondents noted heightened risk aversion and lower investment spending among clients, notwithstanding a greater number of speculative enquiries in anticipation of lower charges."
He added that construction firms generally suggested that clients adopted a wait-and-see approach rather than curtailing or cancelling forthcoming projects during July.
Meanwhile, building suppliers firm Travis Perkins has warned that the EU referendum has created "significant uncertainty" in the outlook for its business.
It saw "weaker demand" in the run up to the 23 June referendum and immediately afterwards, the company said in its half-year earnings statement.
"In our view it is too early to precisely predict end-market demand and we will continue to monitor the lead indicators we track and will react accordingly," it added.
Samuel Tombs from Pantheon Economics said that given the Brexit negotiations were likely to be protracted, businesses will remain "reluctant to commit to major capital expenditure for a long time to come".
"Meanwhile, the public investment plans won't be reviewed until the Autumn Statement at the end of the year and most major construction projects have long lead times. So it's hard to see the construction sector escaping its recession within the next year."
However, in contrast to the PMI survey, the Mineral Products Association, which represents companies that make products such as asphalt and cement, said its figures pointed to an uptick in activity in the construction industry.
Sales in ready-mix cement, for example, which is delivered direct to a construction site, are up 3.3% in the second quarter compared with the first, and up 6.5% compared with last year.
A spokesperson said they were "scratching their heads" to explain the discrepancy.
The Bank of England meets on Thursday and is widely expected to cut rates to help the economy in the wake of the referendum vote.
Panels put into Lakanal House in south-east London, which caught fire in 2009, had four-and-a-half minutes of fire resistance.
The inquest jury at Lambeth Town Hall was told firefighters had expected them to have lasted one hour.
The panels were being put in to replace asbestos.
The inquest was also told a surveyor was not familiar with building regulations which relate to fire spreading.
James Cousins, a surveyor who was hired by contractor Apollo, said: "We put in materials that were less fire resistant than what was there before."
The surveyor said Southwark Council - the landlord - did not instruct him to make sure the refit met building regulations and that he would normally have acted on their behalf. However, the council told the inquest it was Apollo's duty.
John Hendy QC, the lawyer for the families of those that died, described it as "a fundamental breach of building regulations… a lamentable failure of the contractor Apollo".
Catherine Hickman, 31, Dayana Francisquini, 26, and her children, six-year-old Thais, and Felipe, three, were killed in the fire.
Helen Udoaka, 34, and her three-week-old daughter Michelle also died.
The inquest continues.
Media playback is not supported on this device
The Welsh swimmer achieved the qualifying standard for the 400 metres freestyle with a time of four minutes 4.33 seconds in Glasgow.
Carlin had won the 200m and 800m earlier in the week, but her final swim proved decisive.
"I did it on the last swim, so I left it a bit late but I couldn't be any happier right now," she said.
Carlin secured her berth in Rio along with Siobhan-Marie O'Connor and Ben Proud on the third day of the British Championships.
The 25-year-old, who failed to qualify for London 2012 after illness interrupted her preparations, said: "I was trying not to focus on the time too much.
"I was trying to relax and enjoy the race, enjoy the atmosphere, enjoy the Olympic trials, whereas towards the start of the week I was stressing myself out, being so tense and really moody with everyone around me."
Carlin acknowledged her 2012 heartbreak had pushed her on.
"I watched the Olympics. I had a month or so out of the water and I thought 'you know, I can give this one more shot'," she said.
"It was amazing to watch the GB swimmers race but I don't want to watch on the sidelines - I want to be there as part of the Olympics.
"There's a saying that failure pushes you to success and I've really used that, the real lows, to bring me up to where I am now.
"This week has been tough. I have really put pressure on myself, so it feels like a massive weight has been lifted off my shoulders."
Ryan Eastwood, from Grasmere Mews in Coleraine, allegedly set up a Facebook account to contact 16 women and "interview" them on Skype, police said.
Mr Eastwood, 23, denied knowledge of the offences, which were committed in 2016 and 2017.
His first alleged target ended up naked and carrying out a sex act, police said.
Police said at least one other woman engaged in a similar action.
The women had been traumatised by the experience, with some having sought medical help and counselling, a detective constable told Limavady Magistrates' Court.
Mr Eastwood was linked in court to the Facebook account of a Shannon Donnelly, a model recruiter.
One woman told police she spoke to a man with an Irish accent who called himself Matthew and held a Skype interview last year, the detective said.
The encounter began with the woman posing fully clothed, then in underwear and then naked, subsequently leading to her carrying out a sex act, he added.
Upon further investigation, police said they had connected Mr Eastwood to 15 other women, although most did not engage in sexual behaviour.
He faces charges including causing a person to engage in a sexual act without consent and improper use of electronic communications to cause anxiety.
Police identified the internet provider used by the person calling himself Matthew and linked it to the defendant's address.
Mr Eastwood told detectives he had not used Skype since he was 16, and denied any knowledge of the offences.
He also denied any knowledge of the Shannon Donnelly Facebook account.
When police searched his devices, they located 17,500 images of women, most of which had been deleted but were still stored as thumbnails.
The detective constable said: "It became more apparent that we had a number of other potential victims."
Police contacted a company in London called UK Models, on which the suspect allegedly based the fake agency.
The firm provided investigators with details of 20 women who had contacted them reporting similar cases.
Police said they could connect the accused to 15 of these.
Mr Eastwood argued that someone had set up the accounts in his name.
A judge released him on £500 bail to appear at Coleraine Magistrates' Court on 8 May.
The defendant was ordered to report regularly to police and not to access the internet.
Mr Bain, who was on a committee of directors set up to assess takeover bids on behalf of shareholders in the club, was paid £360,000.
The details emerged during an 11th day of evidence at the High Court in Glasgow where Craig Whyte is accused of a fraudulent acquisition of Rangers.
He denies a charge of fraud and another under the Companies Act.
Chartered accountant and former Rangers director Michael McGill said Mr Bain's role in the deal was "limited", but that he had a contractual arrangement in place.
During cross-examination by Craig Whyte's defence QC, Donald Findlay, Mr McGill was asked: "£360,000 for what?"
Mr McGill replied: "He had a long-standing arrangement with the Murray Group, entered into some years before."
Mr Findlay asked: "Did he do anything to help the sale of Rangers to the Whyte group?"
The witness said: "I won't comment if he helped or not. His role, as a whole, was limited, but there was an agreement from years before."
It was also previously heard during the case that Mr Bain had been given a new contract with a 39-month notice period.
The court was also told that David Horne, a lawyer from Sir David Murray's Murray Group, also received a £160,000 payout following the sale to Mr Whyte.
The jury heard that Rangers former owner, Sir David Murray, had wanted £5m per year for four years to be invested in the playing squad as part of the sale to Craig Whyte.
However, Mr Whyte's QC claimed to the court that £5m "would not get you Messi's left foot".
Mr Findlay added: "The economic reality is that it is not going to make any difference."
Mr McGill said: "I don't know if I am qualified to say that £5m will make a difference to the football team."
Mr Findlay said it was "a figure plucked out of the ether" and "a bit of PR window dressing".
The jury later heard of a number of emails relating to Mr Whyte's takeover before he took the helm at Ibrox.
In one dated April 2011, Mr McGill stated: "Given the useless twits don't have the funds, it appears somewhat academic."
Mr Findlay asked the witness: "Murray was determined to sell Rangers for the right reasons or not?"
Mr McGill: "No, I would not agree with that."
Mr Findlay: "According to you, you sold Rangers to useless twits who did not have the funds."
The witness told the court that reflected "frustrations" at that time.
Prosecutors allege Mr Whyte pretended to Sir David Murray, and others, that funds were available to make all required payments to acquire a "controlling and majority stake" in the club.
The Crown alleges Mr Whyte had only £4m available from two sources at the time but took out a £24m loan from Ticketus against three years of future season ticket sales.
The court has heard the sale was eventually made to Mr Whyte for £1 but came with obligations to pay an £18m bank debt, a £2.8m "small tax case" bill, £1.7m for stadium repairs, £5m for players and £5m in working capital.
The second charge under the Companies Act centres on the £18m payment between Mr Whyte's Wavetower company and Rangers to clear a bank debt.
The trial before eight men and seven women continues.
|
Gina Miller has become the figurehead of the legal fight to get Parliament to vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU - but who is she?
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
About 50 steelworkers from Wales will join a protest in Belgium on Monday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Childcare plans in the independence White Paper would see families save up to £4,600 per child each year, First Minister Alex Salmond has told MSPs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Chile has marked the centenary of one of the most spectacular railways in the world, a railroad that straddles the Andes and lies at the heart of the country's long-standing border dispute with Bolivia.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The number of people contacting Aberdeen's Citizens Advice Bureau claiming unfair redundancy from the oil and gas industry has doubled in a year, BBC Scotland has learned.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A woman is critically ill in northern Afghanistan after her husband nearly beat her to death, and cut part of her genitals, family members say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Walsall have signed winger Josh Ginnelly from Premier League side Burnley on loan until January 2017.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Zac Goldsmith has "blown up bridges" by linking Labour's Sadiq Khan with Muslim "extremists", a fellow Tory has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Irish Minister of Sport Michael Ring says he plans to regulate mixed martial arts in the country following the death of fighter Joao Carvalho on Monday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Duke of Cambridge made a surprise stop at a school for a chicken dinner as he took a break from a helicopter flying mission in Hertfordshire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Crystal Palace manager Frank de Boer said his side need to show more courage after Swansea picked up their first Premier League win of the season with a deserved victory at Selhurst Park.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Chris Froome repelled a series of attacks from Nairo Quintana to stay 54 seconds behind the Vuelta a Espana race leader after stage 14's summit finish.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Somerset have signed South Africa opener Dean Elgar as their overseas player for 2017.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The rapid growth of self-employment in the UK has been driven more by people in higher-paid than low-paid work, according to a new report.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Having a sponsor tweet you good luck at the Olympics could get an athlete into trouble - and even cost them medals.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A lightning strike is thought to have caused a house fire in Greenock, Renfrewshire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A World War One hero who survived the Battle of the Somme has been honoured with a commemorative stone, a century after he was killed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Thousands of critical medical systems, such as MRI machines, are available for hackers to access online, according to researchers.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Doping experts have yet to find an effective test for athletes using xenon and argon, despite introducing a ban on the gases' use by sports stars.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Activity in the construction industry fell again in July, confirming "a clear loss of momentum since the second quarter of 2016", a survey has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Materials used in the refurbishment of a tower block caught fire "too quickly" in a blaze which claimed the lives of six people, an inquest heard.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Jazz Carlin experienced huge relief and joy after realising her Olympic dream with her third British title in a week.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has appeared in court accused of using a fake modelling agency to persuade women to commit sex acts.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former Rangers chief executive Martin Bain received a bonus for his role in the club's sale, a court has heard.
| 37,861,888 | 15,503 | 785 | true |
Armed officers have been deployed on and off outside Holyrood since the terror attack at Westminster in March.
Parliament chief executive Sir Paul Grice told members that in light of subsequent attacks in London and Manchester, an "enhanced visible deterrent" would be maintained.
Patrols will also be extended into the search area inside the main entrance.
The new arrangements will be reviewed quarterly.
In an email to all MSPs and staff, Mr Grice said a review of security alongside Police Scotland had found that Holyrood "has in place a substantial number of effective security features".
He said: "Police Scotland has taken the operational decision to continue to deploy an armed police presence to the public areas outside of the Scottish Parliament building.
"This is being done as a precautionary step following recent events. While the advice is that there is no specific threat to the parliament at this time, their clear rationale is to provide an enhanced visible deterrent and ensure the safety of all those who work in and visit Holyrood."
Police Scotland's Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins said the move was "proportionate and justified and was in line with the operational response at other devolved legislative assemblies in the UK".
|
Armed police officers are to remain on patrol at the Scottish Parliament after a review of security.
| 40,302,559 | 264 | 21 | false |
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.
|
Juventus have been fined 30,000 euros (£25,685) for their fans' racist abuse of AC Milan players on Sunday.
| 22,257,314 | 150 | 28 | false |
They were a "grave threat to our national security", he added, and pledged to get to the bottom of them.
US media published photos of evidence from the scene of Monday night's blast.
Earlier, UK police said they had stopped sharing information with the US as a consequence but those ties have now been resumed.
The decision to end the suspension was taken after assurances were received by counter-terrorism officers in the UK.
A diplomatic tiff broke out after the New York Times published photos on Wednesday appearing to show debris from the crime scene, including bloodstained fragments from the bomb.
The move outraged British police and government officials, and prompted Mr Trump to address the matter during a visit to Brussels.
"These leaks have been going on for a long time," he said.
He pledged to ask the US Department of Justice to launch a review, and "if appropriate, the culprit should be prosecuted".
"There is no relationship we cherish more than the special relationship between the US and the UK," he added.
Meanwhile, police have been assessing "potentially suspicious items" found at a property in Wigan, some 16 miles from the scene of Monday night's attack.
A street was evacuated for several hours and a bomb disposal unit called in. The cordon has now been lifted and residents have been allowed to return to their homes.
No controlled explosion was carried out, but the search at the address continues.
The raid comes after Salman Abedi blew himself up at the end of an Ariana Grande concert three days ago, killing 22 people and injuring 116.
Mr Trump, who is at a Nato summit along with UK Prime Minister Theresa May, paid tribute to those who died in the attack.
"Innocent little girls and so many others were horribly murdered and badly injured whilst attending a concert," he said.
"Beautiful lives with so much great potential, torn from their families for ever and ever. It was a barbaric and vicious attack upon our civilisation.
"All people who cherish life must unite in finding, exposing and removing these killers and extremists, and yes, losers, they are losers.
"Wherever they exist in our societies we must drive them out and never, ever let them back in."
Abedi detonated his "nuts-and-bolts" bomb at the end of the gig as people were making their way out of the arena. Others were waiting in the foyer to pick up family and friends.
Security officials say they have thwarted 18 plots since 2013, including five since the Westminster attack in March.
General election campaigning, which was suspended in the wake of the Manchester attack, will resume on Friday, with Labour set to draw links between wars abroad and terrorism "at home".
Leader Jeremy Corbyn will say that under a Labour government, UK foreign policy would change to one that "reduces rather than increases the threat" to the country.
Greater Manchester Police were said to be "furious" with the New York Times' report and said they would temporarily stop sharing information with the US.
Police chief constable Ian Hopkins said the leak undermined the investigation and had distressed families "already suffering terribly with their loss".
The New York Times newspaper defended its decision to publish the pictures, saying they were "neither graphic nor disrespectful of victims".
Prime Minister Theresa May said she would make clear to Mr Trump that shared intelligence must remain secure, at the Nato summit.
UK officials believe that US law enforcement rather than the White House is the likely culprit for the leaks, BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera says.
The Queen has been to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital to meet some of the injured, and members of the emergency services.
During her visit, she paid tribute to Manchester and the "extraordinary" way the city had responded to the attack.
Earlier, a minute's silence fell over offices, public squares, shops and in homes as people honoured the victims.
In St Ann's Square, a perfectly-observed silence was followed by applause, cheers and a spontaneous crowd rendition of the Oasis song Don't Look Back in Anger.
Lydia Rullow, who started the singing, told BBC Radio 5 Live: "It just felt like the right moment.
"It wasn't something that I'd planned or thought about, but I had been thinking about that song in particular in the past few days.
"Everyone started joining in and it was really beautiful. You should drown out any of the fear and hate with beautiful voices. That's the best thing to do."
In other developments:
Police believe Manchester-born suicide bomber Salman Abedi, from a family of Libyan origin, acted as part of a network.
Whitehall sources say 22-year-old Abedi was among a "large pool of people whose risk was kept under review" by security services.
In total 10 people have been arrested in the UK since Monday night. A man and a woman have since been released without charge.
Eight men remain in custody as part of the ongoing investigation.
Raids involving controlled explosions have been carried out at flats in the city centre and at an address in Moss Side.
In the Libyan capital Tripoli, Abedi's younger brother Hashem, 20, and their father, Ramadan, were held by special forces linked to the interior ministry.
Analysis
By Dominic Casciani, BBC home affairs correspondent
It could be over in hours - or it could take weeks.
That's how unknowable an acute counter-terrorism investigation can be for MI5 and the police.
While there is a sense that there has been significant headway in the last 24 hours, we should be careful about reading too much, too soon, into how long it will take Greater Manchester Police and their colleagues to be sure they have dealt with every single possible lead after Monday's events.
In recent years, we've got a greater understanding of how the more secretive end of these massive operations play out.
At any one time, MI5 is handling in the region of 500 active investigations involving 3,000 "SOIs" - "subjects of interest" in security world jargon.
Read more from Dominic here.
Of the 22 victims killed at Manchester Arena, 21 have been named.
The youngest known victim so far is eight-year-old Saffie Roussos from Lancashire, who was described as "simply a beautiful little girl" by her head teacher.
The oldest victim was Jane Tweddle-Taylor, 51 and from Blackpool, who had gone to the arena with a friend to pick up her friend's daughter.
An off-duty Cheshire police officer Elaine McIver was also among the dead.
In a statement, her family said: "Despite what has happened to her, she would want us all to carry on regardless and not be frightened by fear tactics."
On Thursday evening, well-wishers in a convoy of bikes, scooters and cars adorned with pink ribbons and balloons wound their way from Bury to Manchester to pay tribute to 15-year-old Bury victim, Olivia Campbell.
Of the 116 injured, 75 remain in hospital. Of those, 23 are in critical care - five of them children.
More details have begun to emerge about 22-year-old suicide bomber Abedi.
His sister, Jomana, has said she believed her brother may have been reacting to US-led strikes in the Middle East.
"He saw the explosives America drops on children in Syria, and he wanted revenge.
"Whether he got that is between him and God," she reportedly told the Wall Street Journal.
It is also being reported that a Libyan government spokesman said 15 minutes before he blew himself up, Abedi called his mother and brother.
His movements in the run-up to the attack have also come into focus, with reports that he left the UK for a while, but returned in the days before the bombing.
During a trip back from Libya, where his parents now live, he briefly stopped at Düsseldorf Airport, having reportedly been in Prague, but remained in the airport's transit zone.
The BBC also understands Abedi was in Manchester earlier this year, when he told people of the value of dying for a cause and made hardline statements about suicide operations and the conflict in Libya.
At the age of 16 and during his school holidays, Abedi is believed to have fought with his father in Libya against the Gaddafi regime, according to BBC Newsnight.
Greater Manchester Police would not comment on these claims.
In recent days, former classmates of Abedi have variously described him as jokey, gullible and short-tempered.
Another, who did not want to be named, told the BBC's World At One Abedi did not "come across as an intelligent person".
Asked whether he thought Abedi might have been manipulated by more intelligent people, he replied: "A hundred percent.
"I can't imagine the idea that he would be able to go through with such a complicated procedure. He must have had help."
"I wasn't shocked," the classmate added. "He fits the profile for a suicide bomber."
Profile: Who was Salman Abedi?
Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning
|
Leaks to American media about the investigation into the Manchester Arena attack are "deeply troubling", US President Donald Trump has said.
| 40,048,565 | 2,067 | 29 | false |
Media playback is not supported on this device
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.
Media playback is not supported on this device
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!
Media playback is not supported on this device
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."
Media playback is not supported on this device
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.
Peabody welcomed the decision to leave the Paris accord.
"We believe that abiding by the accord, without significant changes, would have substantially impacted the U.S. economy, increased electricity costs and required the power sector to rely on less diverse and more intermittent energy," the company said.
A renegotiation of Britain's membership of the EU is under way - or so they are told - but they don't know what the government at Westminster really wants.
The European mood was summed up by the French Economy Minister, Emmanuel Macron, during his recent visit to London.
"We need," he said, "a precise proposal… you have to say what you need."
You hear similar comments in Paris and Brussels.
They want to see a document. They are impatient for a proper proposal that sets out British aims.
Everywhere are signs of a great debate on hold.
The British Chambers of Commerce said that "business people want more clarity".
In the meantime, half of its members are undecided whether the UK should stay in the EU.
In the vacuum, public opinion seems to be shifting against staying in the EU.
For several months, there have been trips to European capitals by the prime minister and the chancellor.
But they are described as "probes", preparing the ground.
Certainly the focus of talks in Brussels has been on technical and legal issues.
But for ministers such as Mr Macron, the strategy is the wrong way round. The French want to see the proposal first.
"The question," he said, "is not about how, but what."
The strategy of not sharing anything on paper is, of course, deliberate.
There is the legitimate fear of leaks.
The government is wary of allowing pockets of opposition to build before the real negotiations have started.
In particular, they want to avoid the Conservative conference scrapping over the proposals.
The government's plan is to wait until after the Polish elections on 25 October, which will be an important indicator of how the migrant crisis is changing European politics.
After that, the expectation is that a substantive document will be on the table in time for the European Summit in December.
The plan would be to reach an agreement by March next year, with a view to holding the referendum by the autumn of 2016.
Already some ministers believe that timetable is too ambitious.
So what does the government want?
At the outset David Cameron defined his project as a negotiation for "fundamental change." That now appears a high ambition.
The government seems to have settled on five basic demands:
Some of these can be more easily delivered than others.
The commission is already committed to less regulation.
Last June, the European Council described the words "ever closer union" as "allowing for different paths of integration for different countries".
It was wording with British fingerprints very much on it.
There is already a mechanism for national parliaments to put a brake on legislation.
The two remaining demands are much tougher.
Restricting benefits to EU migrants risks undermining the principle of free movement of labour and would be judged discriminatory.
It may just be possible to apply a residence qualification that would apply to British nationals and non-nationals alike.
In the government's favour are a cluster of other countries that do not believe that freedom of movement should be "freedom to claim social benefits".
Finally, protecting the City and the single market from being outvoted by eurozone countries.
There is suspicion on both sides. The French and the Germans have long believed that the UK wants an optout for the City, and they won't agree to that.
The fear in the UK is that the euro countries would use their majority to vote for rules that harmed the City and the single market.
The UK points to a recent decision to use a fund that Britain contributes to in order to give a bridging loan to Greece even though Britain had negotiated an exemption.
As Charles Grant, from the Centre for European Reform, says: "The British government has not convinced many of its partners that its concerns about the relationship between the euro and the single market are justified."
Even if these negotiations were successful, there would be a minefield of problems.
Would they amount to a "fundamental change" in the UK's relationship with the EU?
Would voters see it that way? What would be the big headline that could sway a referendum? Will the government speak with one voice?
Conservative Party election manifesto 2015
Other European leaders are uncertain as to how hard David Cameron will fight to stay in the EU.
There is a significant section of his party who believe that as prime minister he should remain neutral.
The view in Brussels is that it is essential that David Cameron campaigns not just on the detail of the renegotiation but on his conviction that Britain's future lies with the European project.
Here is the prime minister's dilemma: for the "stay" side to win, they need David Cameron to become the great persuader.
But the harder he campaigns, the greater the risk he will split his own party.
Some Conservative MPs are putting down markers.
Liam Fox says: "Any deal that is worth its salt will require treaty change. If our negotiation requires treaty change, then we must have it before the referendum takes place."
Even though treaty change will eventually be necessary to support further integration of the eurozone, it won't happen before 2017.
Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe, says: "Treaty change is simply not feasible within the timeframe set by the PM, not least because so many member states are opposed to undertaking such a process."
So the government may have to fall back on getting binding commitments, but many MPs will be sceptical that you can bind future governments.
One other factor in the government's calculations is the migrant crisis.
On the one hand, it might just persuade other EU countries to settle with Britain in the face of a much bigger crisis.
On the other hand, voters could be turned off by an EU that has lost control of its borders.
The latest polls indicate that over the summer the mood has moved against staying in the EU.
But sooner rather than later the government will have to publish its plan to fundamentally change the UK's relationship with the EU - and that moment is approaching fast.
The celebrity chef and his wife were expecting their fifth child.
He wrote on Facebook: "We had a devastating weekend as Tana has sadly miscarried our son at five months.
"We're together healing as a family, but we want to thank everyone again for all your amazing support and well wishes."
"I'd especially like to send a big thank you to the amazing team at Portland Hospital for everything they've done," he added.
The chef revealed the family were expecting another child on The Late Late Show with James Corden last month.
The couple have been married since 1996.
They are parents to 18-year-old Megan, twins Holly and Jack, 16, and Matilda, 14.
Miscarriage
Source: NHS Choices
Media playback is not supported on this device
The Wales and British and Irish Lions flanker scored a try in each half as Ospreys ran out 39-22 winners to claim their third successive Pro12 win.
Tipuric, who was captain for the day, also had a hand in two more tries in a fine all-round display.
"Justin is a class act. When he plays like that he can be pretty much unplayable," said Tandy.
"He leads from the front and the way in which he plays the game - he doesn't say a lot when he does speak everyone listens."
Tipuric took advantage of a defensive slip by Zebre wing Kayle van Zyl to score his first try, which came two minutes after his pin-point pass had put Eli Walker over for a score.
And in the second half Tipuric dummied and side-stepped his way over from 40 metres before again splitting the defence to set up a try for Jonathan Spratt.
After winning once in their opening six Pro12 games this season, the Swansea-based region have now won three consecutive league matches.
Ospreys top their qualifying pool in the European Champions Cup after a win against Exeter and gaining two bonus points in their defeat at Clermont Auvergne.
And Tandy believes Ospreys are in good shape for their match against Bordeaux-Begles in Swansea on 12 December.
"It's a six day turnaround but we were able to rest some of the players who played in the World Cup so we should be in good shape for that," he added.
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate features alongside books on history, science and travel.
They include Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantanamo Diary and Laurence Scott's The Four-Dimensional Human, about technology's impact on people.
The £20,000 prize was won last year by Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk.
The prize-winning memoir recounted how the death of Macdonald's father prompted her to follow a childhood dream of training a goshawk. Judges described it as a "book like no other".
This year's longlist also includes Steve Silberman's Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently.
The book explores the history of autism and why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years. Unusually, Silberman is a technology writer - whose interest in the subject was sparked by his interviews with Silicon Valley innovators, many of whom had autistic children.
Bate's biography of Ted Hughes attracted attention last year when the author said the poet's estate wrote to tell him it was withdrawing its co-operation from his book.
Damon Parker, solicitor for the Ted Hughes Estate, said it had withdrawn support for the book because it feared the author was straying from an agreement to focus on Hughes' poetry and not write a standard biography, and he had not shown the estate his work in progress as agreed.
According to Anne Applebaum, chair of judges for the Samuel Johnson Prize, this year's selection contains "something for everybody".
She added: "We didn't plan it this way but this year's longlist includes pretty much every important non-fiction genre," saying the list should have wide appeal, "whatever your tastes".
Here is the list in full:
The judges had to whittle nearly 200 books down to 12, with the the final choices representing "what the judges believe to be the very best of the year's non-fiction writing, from across a huge variety of genres".
Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist Applebaum is joined on the judges' panel by Emma Duncan, the editor of Intelligent Life, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, the editor of New Scientist, Professor Rana Mitter, the director of China Centre at Oxford University and Tessa Ross, former controller of film and drama and head of Film 4.
The shortlist will be announced on 11 October.
Update 23 September 2015: This story was amended to add an updated comment from the Ted Hughes Estate.
Nicky Wroe volleyed over for the hosts following Marek Rodak's weak punch, before the Welling keeper did well to save from Richard Peniket.
Kingsley James put the Shaymen in front when he reacted quickest after Rodak could only parry Connor Hughes' shot.
But Kadell Daniel curled an effort past Sam Johnson late on to secure a point for Welling.
Media playback is not supported on this device
GB, who drew with Australia in their first game on Friday, were two down before the midfielder consolation.
Britain need to realistically win all of their remaining three pool fixtures to reach the 17 June final.
"We dominated and had our chances but didn't even take shots at times and it was terrible really," Jackson said.
"We weren't very good against Australia last night, but we ground out and got a point - today we were just lacking real quality and it's fairly embarrassing," he told BBC Sport.
Mandeep Singh gave India - the lowest ranked team in the competition - the lead in the second quarter after a swift counter attack, before Harmanpreet Singh doubled their advantage with a penalty stroke.
Jackson struck in the third period but despite late pressure GB were unable to find an equaliser.
"One of the things that's frustrating for us is that we did create the chances but didn't actually manage to convert them into corners and goals," forward Simon Mantell told BBC Sport.
"There's definitely frustration in there for us and a lot to go away and think about because we need to build up our performance throughout the competition."
In the day's other fixtures world number one side Australia beat South Korea 4-2, whilst Germany salvaged their second late draw of the event in a dramatic 4-4 encounter with Belgium.
After each of the six teams have played each other in the initial 'pool' stage, the top two ranked nations will compete for gold - with third and fourth facing off for bronze.
Great Britain's men next face South Korea on Monday.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.
My target is to win here, as it is at every race, and that's all I'm thinking about as the weekend starts.
I look back at this year and I've won 10 races, got 11 pole positions. I won the championship - and that makes it a perfect year as far as I'm concerned.
Not only that, but this has been without any doubt the best year of my career in terms of my driving and overall performance.
People have been asking whether I have subconsciously backed off a little because the championship has been won. Of course you will never know whether that's the case, but it has certainly not been my intention.
If I'd won every single race and got pole everywhere, that would just be boring. It would suck. Where's the fun in that?
There have been some ups and downs. I've not always had it my own way. That's the way racing is supposed to be.
Even though Nico has been on pole for the last five grands prix, I've won three of them. That says a lot in itself.
And in the two I haven't won, I have been right with him all the way, I've just not been able to get past.
That difficulty in being able to overtake is one of the aspects of Formula 1 that can be frustrating.
Nico and I are allowed to race but unfortunately with the way the sport's rules are, we have to use strategy to affect the races.
Ideally, we shouldn't have to rely on strategy so much; it should be more about race-craft out on track.
The problem is that the tyres drop off, and you can't get close to another car because the aerodynamics of your car are disrupted.
Media playback is not supported on this device
It has been the same for years and I don't know why more changes haven't been made to improve that situation.
That puts pressure and stress on the pit-stop strategy, so that has become a focus in the battle between Nico and me. Even though the team's approach has worked perfectly for two years now.
As far as that goes, the team doesn't care what kind of race we have, as long as we finish one-two. It's a good philosophy to have in many respects but maybe for the fans it's not the best.
But that is not the core of the problem. It's actually the regulations. I hope that with the big changes to the cars coming for 2017 something can be done about that.
In terms of my overall performance in the last few races, what I can definitely say is there has been a change in the car.
We had a difficult weekend in Singapore, when we were off the pace and did not know why. And we are still trying to get to the bottom of that as a team.
No-one knew what on earth had happened. The engineers looked into it and came up with lots of different explanations and we grabbed at one and changed a few things.
But the car had been fantastic all year, so that doesn't really completely make sense to me. And the car balance has not felt the same since.
It has gone from being underneath me - as racing drivers describe it when they feel confident in what the car will do - to not underneath me.
The car balance has changed and it has not been as comfortable, while Nico seems to be more comfortable with it.
I've still got the pace in the race, but it has definitely taken some of my advantage away overall, so now I have to push to try to get the car back to where it was for me.
I looked into it over the gap between Brazil and here and we'll do some more work on it as the weekend goes on and see where we are.
Beyond that, it's a special weekend. The number 44 - my car number - is everywhere here. The United Arab Emirates is celebrating its 44th National Day - I'm really proud to be celebrating that with them. And I am still going for my 44th career win.
I spent some time at the Nascar season finale last weekend before coming here to Abu Dhabi.
I went there because I wanted to be with Jeff Gordon, a four-time Nascar champion, at his last race.
Jeff and I met in Nashville a couple of years ago. I was there working with a music producer and he took me to a bar where the Nascar people were. I bumped into Jeff and we stayed in touch from there.
I'm a big fan of his. He's a legendary dude and a really nice guy. We have always been very supportive of each other, messaging each other after our races and so on.
He told me that this was his last year and I thought: "I've got to make it to a race, because I've never been to a Nascar race before."
So I dropped everything I had and flew out to Florida just for that day and had an amazing time.
Nascar is absolutely huge in the States. It gets massive audiences and I actually found it way more appealing in real life than it may appear on television.
It's a very different world from F1 - the teams are much smaller, to the extent that it almost reminded me of my Formula Three days.
It's not plush. The fans can get really close in the paddock and even be right next to the pit stops. And, in terms of the technology the teams have, it is kept much simpler compared to F1.
The atmosphere at the track is fantastic. There was one long grandstand that was absolutely packed with fans. The lap is only 30 seconds long, so you see the cars constantly. The cars sound amazing and they are freakin' rapid.
The race was 267 laps - really long - but I thoroughly enjoyed it, trying to understand the strategy and the differences between the cars. It was neat.
It made me want to drive one - I really fancy a race in a Nascar one day. I'm not sure I'd do an oval, but possibly a road circuit course.
I have no big plans for the winter yet. I am working until a little bit later this year but normally by now I would know what I am doing. I have not booked anything yet.
My best friend called me on Wednesday because we are meant to be spending New Year together but I haven't figured out where we're going to go yet.
What I do know is that I will go to my house in Colorado at some stage and spend some time chilling out. That's where I always go to relax, train, recharge my batteries and get set to go again next year.
You can follow Hamilton on Twitter,Facebook and you can see exclusive content on his website.
Lewis Hamilton was talking to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson.
Three years earlier, in 2004, after previously working in insurance, he had got his first job selling the handsets.
And things did not initially go well for the man from Norwich, in the east of England.
"Before I started I'd talked my way into doubling my basic salary, but the only problem was that I then had to do the job," says Jacyn, now 33.
"It was boom time for mobiles, but it wasn't working for me, I couldn't get one sale. One day the boss said to me, 'Get out of the office, and don't come back until you have a sale.'
"So I drove to an industrial estate, sat in my car and cried. I phoned my mother to say 'I'm useless, I need to jack this in.'"
Thankfully for Jacyn, he decided to tough things out. Instead of quitting he devised a strategy to succeed.
Today the founder and boss of Epos Now, the UK's 13th fastest-growing technology business, Jacyn is still quick to come up with ways to get around the unforeseen problems that all businesses face.
Back in 2004, his dilemma was very simple - he was trying to sell mobile phones to businesses, would spend all day cold calling firms, and they would always say no.
Then Jacyn says it dawned on him that the reason no-one was interested was because their existing contracts weren't due for renewal.
So instead of trying to sell phones in the first instance, he would instead ask companies when their current contracts were due to run out.
He'd write this down, and soon built up a long list of forthcoming renewal dates.
Phoning back at a time when firms were indeed looking to upgrade their handsets, Jacyn says he started to win order after order.
"I was 500th out of 500 members of staff on the sales list, then all of sudden I was 200th, then 50th, then number one," he says.
Working for a company in East Anglia at the time, he was soon headhunted by a rival mobile phone business in London.
Jacyn says his meticulous planning meant that his sales figures continued to boom, and he raked in commission payments.
So much so that by his 24th birthday he was "completely financially secure", and treated himself to a brand new Ferrari.
But two years later he decided to quit the world of sales. "I was little burned out, I decided I'd go back to Norwich and just chill out," he says.
"I'd reached the pinnacle in sales, I'd done everything I could do, so I thought I'd open a bar with a mate."
Opening his bar in Norwich in 2009, Jacyn says he soon discovered that he had a woeful lack of knowledge regarding the finances of running a small business, despite his parents owning their own pub.
"I didn't really understand profit and loss, VAT and payroll. And was I a limited company, or a sole trader? I didn't know.
"But the biggest problem was that while we were making money, we didn't know where it was all going. When we sat down and went through everything, we realised there were a lot of costs we hadn't factored in - suppliers, telecoms, broadband, cleaners etc."
To better get to grips with the bar's cash flows, Jacyn realised that he needed to get an epos (electronic point of sale) system. This is a computerised till system that typically has a touchscreen and software that enables a retailer to easily check all in and outgoings.
After checking the prices of such systems, Jacyn says he found that they typically retailed for about £6,000, which he thought was far too expensive for him and thousands of other small firms.
He immediately recognised that there was a business opportunity to produce a version for less than a quarter of the price.
So, selling the Ferrari and remortgaging his house, Jacyn decided to enter the epos marketplace.
Importing the hardware from China, and paying to download a software system, Epos Now was born in Norwich in 2011.
Retailing for £1,000, sales soon boomed, with the company advertising on Google, paying "5p a click" whenever someone in the UK typed in the word "epos".
However, a year later Jacyn says the business faced a significant problem when its then software provider pulled out.
Epos Now had to quickly find and employ its own software designer, and it was able to stay in business.
"Everything was stacked against us," says Jacyn. "But I was all in by then, everything was in.
"You never know if you are going to be successful [when you start a business], but you just have to make a real run at it and overcome any problems."
Today Jacyn says Epos Now is turning over £17m a year, and it has entered the US and German markets.
The company had planned to open its American office in Silicon Valley, but Jacyn says it was far too overpriced, so instead the business's US operation is based in Orlando, Florida.
Looking ahead, technology journalist and IT consultant Adrian Mars cautions that epos firms such as Epos Now face ever growing competition from cheaper competitors, driven by big falls in the price of the hardware.
However, Jacyn says he is confident that Epos Now - of which he owns 100% of the shares - will achieve an annual turnover of £100m in five years' time.
"Everyone is offering me money for the business, last year I was offered £50m in cash," he says. "But I don't do this for the money, I do it because it is fun. I enjoy the negotiations, the deal making."
Follow The Boss series editor Will Smale on Twitter @WillSmale1
Willie Cameron, who runs a range of hospitality businesses in the Highlands, believes the fact that the pound tanked against the Euro following the EU referendum has benefited the sector in the short-term.
But its long-term repercussions are more uncertain.
A recent survey suggested that more than a quarter of EU nationals - normally the most loyal and lucrative visitors - would be less likely to holiday here because of the vote to leave.
Mr Cameron said: "In the short term it's extremely good as far as the tourism industry is concerned.
"However, in the long term we don't know what's going to happen and this is where the big question mark regarding tourism generally is concerned - we're entering very, very uncertain times."
Any potential investment in the industry is being "put on the back burner", he added.
"There are no decisions being made, there's no indication of decisions being made, it is very worrying."
Part of that uncertainty surrounds the attitude of potential EU visitors. Would they really turn their backs on the UK as a holiday destination as a recent poll suggests?
Simon Calder, travel editor of The Independent, said: "It is not unreasonable for people on the continent to feel a bit miffed with the result of the EU vote.
"Effectively we were saying, 'We don't want to play' and therefore, of course, there will be a number of people who will say, 'Right, well if you don't want to be part of our great economic experiment, then we don't want to come on holiday to your country'.
"I think a bigger worry, actually, are people who will infer for some reason - maybe all the rhetoric that was going on at the time of the referendum - that somehow they'll need a visa to come to Scotland.
"It's very unlikely that the traditional Scottish markets will need that but it might deter some people."
The numbers of tourists coming to Scotland's shores is just one side of the coin.
Increasingly, the staff serving them in the cafes and making the beds in the hotels are from other EU states, especially eastern and central Europe.
Restaurant worker Erik Harrmann, from the Czech Republic, said he was shocked and baffled by the Brexit vote.
"I was surprised. We all thought that Britain would remain. Yes, it was like shock for us, for all of us," he said.
His colleague, Julie Barbusinova, added: "I was so sad. Everybody was sad in work."
Many observers reckon foreign seasonal workers are the backbone of the tourist industry here.
George Stone runs a programme which has brought hundreds into the Highlands in recent years and he has real concerns about what might happen if there is a hard-line approach to such immigration.
"They form a huge part of the workforce in the hotels," he said.
"And it's not just in the unskilled jobs that don't require a language, but the waitresses and, to an increasing extent, the people in the kitchen, not just washing the dishes but preparing the meals, are coming from Europe, particularly the central European countries.
"There are going to be two sets of losers. First of all, the young, dynamic people from places like the Czech Republic but also my friends, the hotel owners and managers here in the north of Scotland.
"It will be difficult for them to replace the staff from other sources."
The Scottish tourist trade is just one sector still trying to find out what exactly Brexit will mean for them.
More than 200 children queued for more than an hour for the ??10-a-head party at the Begelly Arms Hotel in Kilgetty.
Parents said the room was too small, the advertised buffet consisted of crisps and a mini chocolate bar and the present from Santa was a 5p lolly.
The pub said it rented the room in good faith to organisers Pembrokeshire Mascots, who have refused to comment.
A Disney Europe spokesman said: "This event was not in any way authorised by Disney and we're sad to hear that families were disappointed thinking they were going to have a genuine Frozen experience."
Parent Joy Williams said: "We expected a winter wonderland but there were no decorations, no tinsel, nothing."
Pembrokeshire Mascots did respond to complaints on Facebook, saying they moved queues as quickly as possible and have taken people's concerns on board.
The company has now cancelled three other events planned in the run-up to Christmas.
The 32-year-old striker has not played for Pools since January as the club initially attempted to deal with the problem with a series of injections.
He was Hartlepool's top scorer with 15 goals last season and had netted four times this campaign.
Head physio Ian Gallagher told the club website that Paynter is expected to be back for pre-season training.
As one of the most influential writers of the 20th Century, George Orwell's impact is still felt decades after his death.
Big Brother, the ominous leader of Oceania in his chilling dystopian novel 1984, is mentioned frequently whenever CCTV or surveillance is on the agenda, while the concept of Room 101 has become a shorthand for people's pet hates and biggest fears.
But Orwell's influence is not restricted to debates about the security state, as a trip to a local pub can show.
On 9 February, 1946, Orwell wrote an article for the Evening Standard warmly describing his favourite pub, the Moon Under Water, a small backstreet establishment with no music, china pots with creamy stout and that crucial ingredient: a welcoming atmosphere.
The Moon Under Water may itself have been a fiction, a composite of Orwell's favourite London pubs, but its importance as a symbol of the friendly local lives on.
DJ Taylor, who has written an acclaimed biography of the author, said the essay shows Orwell's love of the pub as a traditional institution.
"The whole question about Orwell and pubs is very interesting," he said.
"It was a symbol of working class life that he tended to sentimentalise."
What constitutes the perfect pub was the topic of Orwell's last essay for the Evening Standard, with previous articles covering other aspects of typical British life, such as how to make a good cup of tea.
And, despite never existing, Moon Under Water left a sizeable legacy.
Seventy years on the essay's criteria for the perfect pub - which includes old-fashioned Victorian decorations, a snack counter, barmaids who know their customers and a garden - are still cited by ale aficionados looking for the ideal spot for a pint.
And landlords running a new breed of pub say Orwell's rules are key to a revival in real ale drinking in the UK.
The micropub does what it says on the label: it's a small pub, often only one room, and it focuses on providing good beer, a good atmosphere and a quiet, friendly place for people to talk, perhaps while nibbling a light snack (though it's not likely to be the liver sausage or mussels favoured by Orwell).
The majority have no music, television, games machines or other features of pubs that go against the criteria set out by the author, who railed against "modern miseries" like glass-topped tables, "sham roof-beams" and fake wooden panels. Many don't even have wi-fi - naturally, this was not a concern for Orwell.
In 2005 only one - The Butcher's Arms at Herne in Kent - was in existence, with only a handful around the UK in 2010, but the popularity has exploded in recent years, with the Micropubs Association saying 162 establishments were up and running by the end of 2015.
Martyn Hillier, who still runs The Butcher's Arms and was awarded last year by the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) for his role in reviving pubs, said the reasons for their success were similar to the principles laid out by Orwell.
"When I started the concept people asked what the rules are, and it's basically about having a good pub that gets everyone talking to each other," he said.
"It's all about selling good beer and meeting interesting people."
Four years after opening his pub in an old butcher's shop, Mr Hillier gave a presentation at Camra's annual general meeting in Eastbourne, where he showed people how easily they could set up micropubs.
The talk proved influential, and since then micropubs have popped up in former barbers, post offices and other empty premises.
Tansy Harrison and Graham "Grum" Newbury, who also hail from Kent, opened Bridge Street Ale House in a former antiques shop in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, in the summer of 2014, having previously run bigger pubs for larger pub-owning companies.
It was the first micropub to open in North Staffordshire, and has since been followed by three more, all of which focus on real ale, cider and encouraging conversation.
Mr Newbury says the move has been a success founded on sticking to the principles of "proper" pub fans, and giving licensees a better chance at achieving a balance between work and their private lives.
"All I want in a pub is a guarantee the beers are good, I don't have to be looking over my shoulder and I don't have to compete with a TV or jukebox," he said.
"With everything these days people can just stay at home and entertain themselves with films, computer games or whatever - people come to the pub for social interaction."
The rise of micropubs has been welcomed by Camra, which has been campaigning for more pubs to focus on traditional cask beer for more than 40 years.
Tim Page, chief executive of the organisation, sees direct links between them and the cherished ideals of Orwell.
"Much of what he was describing is characteristic of what micropubs seek to represent," he said.
According to Camra, 29 pubs are closing across the UK every week, down from more than 50 about 10 years ago.
Mr Page sees the rise of micropubs as "a positive development" after many troubling years for the industry.
Echoes of the Moon Under Water may be visible in the modern micropub, but how do the pubs that helped inspire the author 70 years ago fare when compared to his criteria today?
Lizzie Arnold is the manager of the Hen and Chickens Theatre Bar in Islington, one of several back-street London pubs used by Orwell to come up with his criteria for the perfect pub.
It may play music on the weekend, but she says its focus on atmosphere and beer means its old patron would still enjoy it.
"It's always busy in here, it can get quite crazy, but we don't do food and we've got a good few regulars. I like it that way," she said.
"People come here for the atmosphere, they don't come in shouting or whatever, even on match-days [Arsenal's stadium is nearby]."
Seven decades on not all of Orwell's ideas on pubs have endured: the smoking ban has done for the tobacco-stained roofs of old, few pubs sell aspirin behind the counter (though some double up as village shops), and boiled jam rolls have fallen out of culinary favour.
However, Mr Hillier hopes the micropub's focus on quality beer and a convivial atmosphere will continue in much the same way as Orwell set out in his 1946 essay.
"At first I didn't know that much about the history of pubs, so it was quite interesting to see that I related to what he was saying," he said.
"I'm just going back to how pubs used to be."
For DJ Taylor, Orwell's attachment to his own era - not to mention a contrarian streak - makes it difficult to predict if we would have seen him in a micropub, a pink china mug of stout in hand.
"He was very much a traditionalist when it came to licensed premises," he said.
"It's hard to say what he would have thought about them, but he would have certainly taken a serious interest."
And regardless of whether Orwell would have approved of the micropub, Mr Page believes that its future is rosy.
"The pub is a really great meeting place, because it's one of the few places where people can go that goes across the class divide," he said.
"It's more than a place to go and have a drink - that's what Orwell was saying, and it's what micropubs are saying."
Media playback is not supported on this device
The Seasiders had the upper hand for much of the game, with Barnsley's Adam Davies by far the busier keeper.
He denied striker Kyle Vassell three times after Jim McAlister had pulled an early opening wide of the post.
Barnsley raised their game after the break, and Sam Slocombe did well to deny Conor Hourihane a late winner.
Midfielder Hourihane burst through the home defence just a couple of moments after shooting wide from Stefan Payne's flick, but the home keeper kept out his effort with his legs.
Sam Winnall, the Championship player of the month for December, had a quiet game after being restored to Barnsley's starting line-up against a Blackpool side who were well worth a second chance at Oakwell.
Blackpool boss Gary Bowyer: "I thought it was a proper cup tie and we did ourselves justice against a very good Championship side.
"Their keeper has made some really good saves, he was the busier of the keepers, but we had to rely on Sam Slocombe to make a save at the end too.
(on 3-5-2 system) "The players only had one session on it because the pitches were frozen on Thursday but they took it on and against a talented team like Barnsley they did very well with it.
"It might be something we look at in the league as it gives us a chance to be flexible and pick a system for certain opposition."
Barnsley head coach Paul Heckingbottom: "Blackpool came out here and had a right good go at us. The first half has cost us - we didn't perform as individuals and that puts you on the back foot.
"I knew we'd perform better second half but we just couldn't break through. I was disappointed that they got too many attempts at our goal as well.
"I think Blackpool will come to Oakwell and be as determined and dogged as they were here.
"You just want to get through in the FA Cup, that's the nature of it. The further you get, the more likely you are to draw a really big team and have really big days."
Match ends, Blackpool 0, Barnsley 0.
Second Half ends, Blackpool 0, Barnsley 0.
Attempt missed. Bright Samuel (Blackpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.
Corner, Barnsley. Conceded by Sam Slocombe.
Attempt saved. Conor Hourihane (Barnsley) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Sam Winnall (Barnsley) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Josh Scowen.
Attempt missed. Aidan White (Barnsley) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Barnsley. Conceded by Will Aimson.
Attempt blocked. Bright Samuel (Blackpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Conor Hourihane (Barnsley) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Marc Roberts.
Attempt blocked. Josh Scowen (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Aidan White (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Bright Samuel (Blackpool).
Attempt missed. Bright Samuel (Blackpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Kent (Barnsley) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Jamille Matt (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Brad Potts (Blackpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Barnsley. Stefan Payne replaces Tom Bradshaw.
Substitution, Barnsley. Ryan Kent replaces Adam Hammill.
Attempt missed. Bright Samuel (Blackpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.
Substitution, Blackpool. Danny Pugh replaces Jack Payne.
Attempt missed. Tom Bradshaw (Barnsley) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt saved. Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Sam Winnall (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Marley Watkins (Barnsley) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Adam Hammill (Barnsley) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Blackpool. Jamille Matt replaces Kyle Vassell.
Substitution, Blackpool. Bright Samuel replaces Mark Cullen.
Attempt missed. Tom Aldred (Blackpool) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Adam Davies.
Attempt saved. Kyle Vassell (Blackpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Conor Hourihane (Barnsley) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Adam Hammill (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jim McAlister (Blackpool).
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Josh Scowen.
Josh Scowen (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Josh Scowen (Barnsley).
Brad Potts (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Daily CO2 readings at a US government agency lab on Hawaii have topped 400 parts per million for the first time.
Sir Brian Hoskins, the head of climate change at the UK-based Royal Society, said the figure should "jolt governments into action".
China and the US have made a commitment to co-operate on clean technology.
But BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin said the EU was backing off the issue, and cheap fossil fuels looked attractive to industries.
The laboratory, which sits on the Mauna Loa volcano, feeds its numbers into a continuous record of the concentration of the gas stretching back to 1958.
Carbon dioxide is regarded as the most important of the manmade greenhouse gases blamed for raising the temperature on the planet over recent decades.
Human sources come principally from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas.
Ministers in the UK have claimed global leadership in reducing CO2 emissions and urged other nations to follow suit.
But the official Climate Change Committee (CCC) last month said that Britain's total contribution towards heating the climate had increased, because the UK is importing goods that produce CO2 in other countries.
The last time CO2 was regularly above 400ppm was three to five million years ago - before modern humans existed.
Scientists say the climate back then was also considerably warmer than it is today.
Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, said a greater sense of urgency about tackling climate change was needed.
"Before we started influencing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, over the last million years it went between about 180 and 280 parts per million," he said.
"Now, since the Industrial Revolution and more in the last 50 years, we've taken that level up by more than 40% to a level of 400 and that hasn't been seen on this planet for probably four million years.
"But around the world, there are things happening, it's not all doom and gloom," he added.
"China is doing a lot. Its latest five year plan makes really great strides."
China's plan for 2011-2015 includes reversing the damage done by 30 years of growth and increasing the use of renewable energy.
The world number one amateur from Cavan carded birdies at the second and sixth to go along with 16 pars in a steady round at Kingsbarns.
It leaves Maguire as the leading amateur in the tournament on six under and in a tie for 22nd.
South Korea's Kim In-kyung holds a six-shot lead on 17 under.
Maguire is three strokes clear of nearest amateur challenger Sophie Lamb going into the final round.
Banners reading "Jesus is the son of Allah" were hung on several churches on Sunday, including the one targeted. It is not clear who was behind the attack.
Church leaders deny putting the banners up. The attack is seen as a reprisal.
People of all faiths use Allah in Malay to refer to God, but a court ruled last year that non-Muslims must not do so.
The appeals court ruling in October said that Allah must be exclusive to Islam or it could cause public disorder.
It overturned a 2009 decision pertaining to the use of "Allah" in a local Catholic newspaper, which sparked attacks on mosques and churches.
Christians in Malaysia argue they have used the word, which entered Malay from Arabic, to refer to their God for centuries and that the ruling violates their rights.
And church leaders have remained defiant and said they will continue to use Allah in their worship.
Nobody was injured in this latest attack and the church was not damaged, but there are fears that tensions could escalate as they did in 2009.
Earlier this month, Islamic authorities seized more than 300 Malay-language Bibles from the office of a Christian group because they used the word Allah.
Bibles in the Iban language, which is used by an indigenous group on Borneo island, were also seized for using the word Allah.
Malay Muslims make up almost two-thirds of the country's population, but there are large Hindu and Christian communities.
|
New Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal said his players' confidence would be "smashed" after the worst possible start to his reign at Old Trafford.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Addictive mobile game Flappy Bird will return to Apple's app store, creator Dong Nguyen has confirmed - although he declined to give a specific date.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man who tipped boiling custard over his former partner's head during seven-years of abuse has been ordered to carry out unpaid work.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Weekends are the most important days of the year when you're a tennis player, so if you're working that's a good thing.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Preston North End midfielder Alan Browne has signed a new three-year contract with the Championship side.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
New Zealand's Sonny Bill Williams has been told he no longer has to wear logos from banks, alcohol brands or gambling companies on his club's kit.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Jazz, hip-hop, chart pop, folk and literate punk all rub shoulders in a "poll of polls" to find the top 10 albums of 2015.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Plymouth lost top spot in League Two as a superb defensive display saw Barnet hold on for a 1-0 win at The Hive.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
US coal producers welcomed President Trump's decision on Thursday to pull the US out of the Paris climate deal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
In the capitals of Europe and in Brussels, there is frustration at what they see as British shadow-boxing.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Gordon Ramsay's wife, Tana, has suffered a miscarriage five months into her pregnancy.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Head coach Steve Tandy praised "unplayable" Justin Tipuric after Ospreys' five-try win over Zebre.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A book about poet Ted Hughes, which triggered a dispute with his estate, is one of 12 works of non-fiction on the longlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Welling ended their run of five successive defeats with a draw at Halifax in the National League.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Great Britain's 2-1 Champions Trophy defeat by India at London's Olympic Park was described as "embarrassing" by goalscorer Ashley Jackson.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
It's the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi this weekend and, even after 18 races at the end of a long season, I feel fresh and excited about a special few days.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
For a mobile phone salesman who was so successful he was able to buy himself a Ferrari for his 24th birthday, Jacyn Heavens didn't have the most auspicious of starts.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Hotels, restaurants and historic attractions in the north of Scotland have just enjoyed a bumper season - but there is uncertainty about the future of the tourism industry following the Brexit vote.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Parents have demanded their money back after children were left in tears at a Frozen-themed party in Pembrokeshire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Hartlepool captain Billy Paynter will miss the rest of the season after having surgery on an Achilles injury.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Seventy years after George Orwell published an essay on what makes the perfect pub, BBC News examines how the author's views are influencing the micropub movement.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
League Two Blackpool had to settle for a replay despite an impressive FA Cup performance against in-form Championship side Barnsley.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Scientists are calling on world leaders to take action on climate change after carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere broke through a symbolic threshold.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ireland's Leona Maguire maintained her good form at the Women's British Open by posting a two-under-par 70 in Saturday's third round.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Malaysian police have increased security around churches in Penang state after one was hit by petrol bombs in a row over the word "Allah".
| 28,820,607 | 16,133 | 816 | true |
Media playback is not supported on this device
You can now create a My Sport page on any device - this page becomes your one-stop shop with news, live coverage and stats tailored to your interests.
My Sport is available now for users in the UK, and will be available soon for international users of BBC Sport online.
The key benefits of My Sport are:
As an example, choosing from more than 300 available topics, you might opt to follow Swansea City, Premier League football, the Wales national team, Scarlets rugby union team, cycling and Get Inspired articles.
By adding these topics to a My Sport page, all the latest news, live coverage and reports for these sports and teams would be available in one place, as will football scores. This builds on the existing push alerts offering, with alerts available for football, cricket, rugby union and league and formula 1.
In the near future we will be offering even more topics to pick from, and easier ways to follow your My Sport topics from the new Sport homepage.
We have a blog post which outlines more information about My Sport.
What is My Sport?
My Sport is a new page in BBC Sport where you can easily keep up to date with the latest news and scores for the sports and teams you love. It will let you follow more than 300 sport topics, including competitions, and teams. You can add as many as you like to create your own My Sport page. We'll be looking to add more features in future too.
What happens when I add topics?
When you add a topic, it will be added to your own My Sport page, where you can read the latest stories and scores just from your topics. It will also show you the latest fixtures and results for any football team you follow. You can even reorder topics, to see your favourite stories at the top of My Sport.
Why do I need to sign in?
Sign in to get the most out of BBC Sport. It's quick, free and easy to create a BBC iD account. By signing in, your preferences & My Sport page will be available across devices running the app. This means you can keep up to date with the topics you love on a phone or a tablet and, in the near future, on a computer too. Read more about about BBC iD.
What happens to my quick links?
Your quick links will remain in the menu when you update the app. They will appear under "My Sport". When you sign into the app, your quick links will be used to create a personal My Sport page with stories and results that most interest you. To edit your menu and My Sport page you will have to sign into the app.
Ryan McLaughlin gave Oldham a first-half lead but the Latics slipped to a third straight defeat as goals from Joe Edwards and Oztumer completed a Walsall turnaround.
Oldham took the lead on 32 minutes as McLaughlin's low cross evaded everyone in the box and trickled home.
It could have been 2-0 on the brink of half-time but Aaron Amadi-Holloway's 20-yard strike was clawed away by Walsall keeper Mark Gillespie.
Walsall levelled as a corner broke to Edwards, 18 yards out, and his deflected drive found the bottom corner.
It was all Walsall from there as Oztumer nodded wide from close range and later struck the post from 20 yards, with Amadou Bakayoko firing the rebound wide from six yards.
But the Saddlers found the winner they deserved as James Wilson's flick-on from a long throw was prodded home by Oztumer from close range.
Oldham could have rescued a point deep into stoppage time but Tope Obadeyi's bullet header was superbly foiled by Gillespie's point-blank save.
Report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Walsall 2, Oldham Athletic 1.
Second Half ends, Walsall 2, Oldham Athletic 1.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Mark Gillespie.
Attempt saved. Anthony Gerrard (Oldham Athletic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall).
Brian Wilson (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Walsall. Simeon Jackson replaces Erhun Oztumer.
Goal! Walsall 2, Oldham Athletic 1. Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by James Wilson.
Attempt blocked. Tope Obadeyi (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Joe Edwards (Walsall).
Tope Obadeyi (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Anthony Gerrard.
Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Courtney Duffus replaces Aaron Holloway.
Anthony Gerrard (Oldham Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt saved. Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Adam Chambers (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aaron Holloway (Oldham Athletic).
Attempt saved. Aaron Holloway (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Joe Edwards (Walsall).
Ousmane Fane (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Wilson (Walsall).
Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Mark Gillespie.
Attempt saved. Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Peter Clarke (Oldham Athletic).
Attempt blocked. Kieron Morris (Walsall) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall).
Anthony Gerrard (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Adam Chambers (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tope Obadeyi (Oldham Athletic).
Attempt saved. Anthony Gerrard (Oldham Athletic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Adam Chambers (Walsall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Adam Chambers (Walsall).
Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Ben Wilson (Oldham Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Luke Leahy (Walsall) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.
Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) hits the right post with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Figures from the county council revealed six claims were made that year and a significant amount went to a middle school-aged pupil who fell during a school trip in 2009.
The council would not disclose further details for fear of identification.
Nothing has been paid to pupils so far in 2014, the figures showed.
A total of £1,091,082 was paid to pupils aged five to 18 between 2011 and 2013 - but the vast majority of that amount was paid in 2013, with the amounts for 2011 and 2012 being £3,850 and £47,450 respectively.
The accident resulting in the largest payout involved a pupil falling from a height and suffering a spinal injury at the Malvern Hills Outdoor Centre in June 2009, the Health and Safety Executive confirmed.
The centre was run by the council at the time.
The authority said 90% of all payouts were made by its insurance company.
Lord Hain said while campaigning is under way, more could be done.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who will address a pro-remain rally in Cardiff on Friday, has faced criticism for his role in the campaign.
Vote Leave said Labour remain campaigners had lost the argument.
Ahead of the rally, Mr Corbyn said the impact of Brexit on Wales could be "devastating".
But Iain Duncan-Smith, who is in north Wales on Friday, said leaving the EU would be a "shot in the arm" for democracy.
Lord Hain told BBC Wales: "There is a great deal of confusion about what the Labour position is. There is a lot of activity going on but we need to do more.
"This is the right time to be really engaging people. We need to step up the pace.
"We need to have a major Labour drive, and that is what all our efforts are going to.
"Where that is happening, I am very confident about it. This is definitely winnable."
But he said this will depend on the extra work of Labour MPs, AMs and councillors getting out on the doorstep.
"If they do that then we will win this comfortably, if they do not it's going to be tough," he added.
Lord Hain's comments come after the GMB union's Tim Roache said Mr Corbyn has been a "half-hearted" supporter of the EU.
But he attributed the confusion among Labour voters to the dominance of Tory infighting in the campaign which he said had acted as a "complete turn-off".
Vincent Bailey, a spokesman for Vote Leave Cymru, said: "This is not a question of getting through to people or of better communication to Labour voters, this is about the fact that they have lost the argument.
"Labour are having problems motivating their own supporters to come out and vote, because people understand that as part of the European Union we have no say about how many immigrants come to the UK and we have no say over immigration policies from Europe."
Labour leader Mr Corbyn said Labour wants to "remain and reform the EU".
Prior to the rally in Cardiff, the UK party leader said if Britain left the EU the impact would be felt in Wales "more than anywhere else in the UK and could be devastating."
He added: "While there is a lot of uncertainty about what would happen if Britain votes to leave the EU, the one thing we do know is that it would be a Tory government intent on scrapping rights for working people, and that has slashed Wales' budget that would be charged with negotiating our exit."
Meanwhile, former secretary of state for work and pensions Iain Duncan-Smith, who is visiting Conwy Harbour, Llandudno, and Colwyn Bay, said a leave vote is a "chance to put power back in the hands of local communities".
"All too many laws affecting our everyday lives are being taken by unelected politicians from other nations - instead of by Welsh politicians, in the Welsh parliament," he said.
"The EU is a political project and if we stay things will only get worse. Instead, let's take a different path, deliver a shot in the arm for British democracy, and take back control of our own affairs."
Endeavour, which will be filmed in Oxford, will feature The Take star Shaun Evans in the role made famous by John Thaw.
Set in 1965, the story revolves around a hunt for a missing schoolgirl and will give viewers the chance to see where the detective's love for crosswords and classic cars came from.
It is expected to air on ITV next year.
"Morse as a young man is a wonderful character that I'm very excited to be playing," said Evans.
"My hope is that we can complement what's come before, by telling a great story and telling it well."
ITV drama commissioner Laura Mackie said the drama, titled after Morse's first name, was "a beautifully written story".
The first Morse was broadcast in 1987 with a total of 33 films made over the next 13 years.
Nearly 14 million people tuned in to watch the final episode in 2000 when novelist Colin Dexter's hero died from a heart attack.
John Thaw died of cancer in 2002 at the age of 60.
Evans has appeared in the films Being Julia and Boy A and played Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain in a stage play.
An Ofsted report rated the city council as inadequate across a range of services including child protection, adoption, and children in care.
The government said a commissioner for children's services would be appointed to ensure improvements are made.
The council pledged to undertake a "root and branch overhaul" of its structure.
The report highlighted high case loads for social workers, a number waiting to be dealt with, and poorly co-ordinated services for children at risk of sexual exploitation.
It also criticised poor information sharing by Northumbria Police, which says it is working to improve its relationship with Sunderland Council.
Ofsted said: "Inspectors identified serious weaknesses in basic child protection practice and oversight of services for care leavers, alongside poor leadership at all levels.
Sunderland City Council said there is a growing demand on its services, with a 26% rise in the number of children with protection plans, and an 18% rise in the number of children in need in the past year.
Councillor Paul Watson, leader of the council, said: "We have increased the amount we spend on safeguarding and invested a further £5.4m to address some of the concerns we have identified.
"We have also increased the number of social workers significantly to help deal with rising demand, and we are investing in training and development."
The former head of children's services in Richmond-upon-Thames, Nick Whitfield, had been appointed as the commissioner for children's services in Sunderland to oversee improvements.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "Any failure in children's services is very serious and it is vital swift action is taken to tackle underperformance so there is a relentless focus on the protection of children."
SystemsUp operates out of London and advises clients on how best to use cloud computing.
The deal involves an initial £9m in cash, with the remainder based on performance over the year to March 2016. That could be worth between £1m and £3.5m.
SystemsUp is a partner to Google, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft.
In the year to March, it had revenue of £4m and doubled profits from the previous year, to £1.5m.
It is to retain its independence of Iomart as a provider of cloud storage capacity, meaning it can recommend to clients that they use the rival companies' services.
Angus MacSween, chief executive of Iomart, said: "The market for cloud computing is becoming incredibly complex and the demand for public cloud services is increasing at pace.
"With the acquisition of SystemsUp, Iomart has broadened its ability to engage at a strategic level and act as a trusted adviser on cloud strategy to organisations wanting to create the right blend of cloud services, both public and private, to fit their requirements."
The Glasgow firm will publish its annual results on Tuesday. In April, the firm announced it expected adjusted pre-tax profits for the year to March to be in the region of £16.6m.
The economy grew a seasonally adjusted 0.4% in the October to December period from the previous quarter when growth hit 0.9%.
Fourth quarter growth of 2.7% from a year ago also missed market forecasts.
Economists said a slump in infrastructure spending and exports had a big impact on the country's growth.
Construction investment fell by a seasonally adjusted 9.2%, the worst since 1998 as weaker tax revenue led the government to cut back spending on projects.
Barclays economist Wai Ho Leong said that annual growth of 3.3% in 2014 had fallen below the bank's forecast of 3.5%.
"[Growth will] remain soft in the first quarter of 2015 before reaccelerating from the second quarter as the pass-through of lower oil prices rekindles global external demand," he said in a note.
The disappointing data could lead the country's central bank to cut interest rates again to boost the economy, according to economists.
The Bank of Korea has cut the interest rate in three steps since the current easing cycle began in May 2013.
The most recent move came in October when it cut the base rate to a record low of 2%.
However, last week the central bank did cut its growth forecast for this year to 3.4% from an earlier forecast of 3.9%, anticipating the slowdown in the economy.
The central bank is set to meet on 17 February.
The Northern Irishman finished 20 under in Indiana, two shots clear, and looked in superb form with the Ryder Cup less than three weeks away.
England's Lee Westwood continued his recent improvement to finish strongly, tying for second with Phil Mickelson.
Match Play Championship: Second
The Honda Classic: Won
Cadillac Championship: Third
Wells Fargo Championship: Second
PGA Championship (major): Won
Deutsche Bank Championship: Won
BMW Championship: Won
The American, 18 under, was a stroke clear of two compatriots, Tiger Woods and Robert Garrigus.
Overnight leader Vijay Singh fell away with a one-over 73 in his final round, leaving the veteran still searching for his first Tour win since 2008.
But Tour success is not in short supply for world number one McIlroy, 23, who combined long and straight drives with composure on the greens to register his seventh top-three finish of 2012, and fourth victory.
McIlroy has already won one of the four PGA play-offs this year - last week's Deutsche Bank Championship - and will be among the 30, including Woods and Westwood, who will reconvene at Eastlake in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, 20 September for the final event of the series.
"It is good to be able to win events like this when the quality of the fields are so good," said McIlroy.
"I felt like I was on my game more last week but I scrambled well yesterday to give myself a chance going into today," said McIlroy. "I did some great work on the range last night and and set myself up beautifully to attack those pins today.
"I knew if I played to my ability I would win events but I didn't think everything would come so quickly. I am on a great run at the moment and just want to keep it going as long as possible."
Two-time play-off winner Woods, who will come up against McIlroy when the USA face Europe in Medinah, Illinois in the Ryder Cup at the end of the month, shot a back-nine 33 in a four-under final round of 68.
"I figured I was going to have to shoot 29 or 30 on the back nine," said the 36-year-old.
"But I had to go lower than that. Rory is putting on a show out there and we've got one more tournament."
The former Norfolk county cricket ground at Lakenham in Norwich is being redeveloped for new homes.
The last building to go is its distinctive thatched cricket pavilion and changing room block.
England stars like WG Grace, the Edrich brothers and Clive Radley all played on the ground where cricket matches had been held since 1827.
Planning for new homes had been delayed because of local concerns about the historical pavilion.
A final appeal by a planning inspector decided new homes were a higher priority and the pavilion had no historical merit.
Norwich City Council dismissed the original application because it regarded the pavilion as a "heritage asset", but in 2001 English Heritage rejected this status.
Terry Denning, chairman of the Lakenham Cricket Ground Residents' Association, said he was sad to see the building go.
"It's a wonderful building architecturally but the inspector did not agree. Inside, it still reverberates with the history of cricketers, footballers and rugby players.
"I'm no cricketer but I can feel the history attached to the building. It's been neglected for so many years and now has to go."
Jacques Rudolph (51 not out) steered them home with help from David Lloyd (30) and Craig Meschede (36 not out).
Derbyshire had reduced the hosts to 85-4 at Colwyn Bay, but Meschede blasted Glamorgan home with several boundaries.
Earlier Derbyshire added 123 runs, with Billy Godleman making 106 and Matt Critchley 70 not out, as they made 536.
Glamorgan looked to be easing towards their target after an opening stand of 56 between Mark Wallace and Nick Selman, but lost four wickets for 29 either side of tea.
Derbyshire kept up the pressure removing Lloyd and Graham Wagg in quick succession to try to end their own spell of 12 months without a red-ball win.
But the target proved too modest despite a magnificent fightback from the visitors, who had followed on 341 runs behind.
The match will be remembered for Glamorgan teenager Aneurin Donald's spectacular hitting on day one as he smashed 234 off just 136 balls.
Derbyshire captain Billy Godleman will receive a three-point disciplinary penalty for his reaction when given out lbw in the first innings.
Glamorgan head coach Robert Croft told BBC Wales Sport: "There were nervous moments, but Michael Hogan just summed it up as the best win he's been involved with here and I can understand why because it was full graft, we spent over 200 overs in the field.
"You can't put a price on experience and to have Jacques coming in at four - we knew if we had one guy to anchor it, it allowed the other guys to play their natural strokeplay around him.
"The three games leading up to this, we've been playing better cricket and we did it here.
"Full credit to Colwyn Bay Cricket Club for the welcome and the excellent pitch."
Derbyshire head coach John Sadler told BBC Radio Derby: "We are very disappointed, it's never good when you lose so credit to Glamorgan, they worked very hard for this win and they probably deserve it.
"We fought really hard second dig, we said we wanted to bat for two days, to try to put them under pressure so the way we fought back and grafted was superb, I'm proud of them.
"The 20 minutes on day one when we dropped four catches ultimately has put us on the back foot and we didn't apply ourselves first dig, those two things have cost us the game."
Sanjeev Varghese, 44, admitted showing the footage on WhatsApp to fellow workers at Manchester Royal Infirmary while on a shift in October 2014.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) found him guilty of misconduct in November, but a decision to strike him off was suspended pending an appeal.
A High Court judge ruled it was right.
The court heard Mr Varghese, a nurse of 20 years, was working in the endoscopy unit of the hospital when he showed the video to colleagues.
During the NMC hearing, a panel heard the footage "appeared to be in a clinical setting, showing a female kneeling on a trolley and having a sex toy removed from her anus".
Mr Varghese denied he had found the video "hilarious" and claimed he had shown it in a "professional... not a sinister way" before deleting it and blocking the friend who had sent it to him.
Mr Justice Mostyn found the NMC hearing was conducted with "scrupulous fairness" and the evidence examined with "exhaustive thoroughness".
A finding of impairment due to misconduct was, he said "inevitable".
During the NMC hearing, one colleague said said she was traumatised by what she had seen, while another said she had "retched" after seeing the footage.
At the High Court, Mr Varghese said his accusers had held a "personal grudge" against him and should not have been believed.
But Mr Justice Mostyn rejected his arguments and said his decision to accuse those who complained against him of perjury had made matters even worse for him.
He was ordered to pay the NWC's £4,000 legal costs.
Earlier Mr Varghese said he was "extremely sorry for what happened but there was no bad intention".
Media playback is not supported on this device
On a night when holders Ballymena United were beaten 2-1 at home by Ards, Matthew Clarke, Ross Gaynor and Andrew Waterworth notched Linfield's goals.
Joe McKinney hit both Ards goals while PSNI beat Albert Foundry 3-0.
Extra-time goals from David Cushley and Brandon Doyle helped Crusaders see off Glentoran 2-1 at the Oval.
At Windsor Park, Cliftonville defender Caoimhin Bonner blocked early efforts by Mark Haughey and Waterworth but it was a contest of few openings before hesitation by Tomas Cosgrove allowed Clarke to strike the Blues ahead on 41 minutes.
A misdirected ball across his own penalty area by Aaron Donnelly gifted Gaynor Linfield's second goal on 61 and Waterworth headed the third with 10 minutes left as Cliftonville posed little threat.
A bad night for the Reds was topped off by Bonner's sending off as he picked up a second yellow card for a late challenge on Waterworth.
After their 5-0 Premiership hammering by Glenavon on Saturday, holders Ballymena suffered another disappointment as McKinney's two goals sealed a deserved success for Ards at the Showgrounds.
McKinney had already tested home keeper Ross Glendinning early on before firing the north Down club ahead in the 28th minute.
As Ballymena rarely threatened, a mix-up between keeper Glendinning and Caolan Loughran allowed McKinney to double the lead after the break and Ards held on despite Allan Jenkins' 89th-minute reply.
Glentoran had the bulk of the chances in normal time against a largely second-string Crues with Alex Leu missing their best opportunity in the first half as he failed to beat Michael Dougherty from close range after being set up by Nacho Novo.
Ex-Ballymena man Cushley half-volleyed Crusaders ahead in the fourth minute of extra-time and after Glentoran's Ciaran Caldwell hit the underside of the crossbar, Brandon Doyle struck the visitors' second goal after being set up by Cushley.
Glentoran's near misses continued as Jonathan Smith struck the woodwork before Steven Gordon did reply in the final minute of extra-time.
In the game at Seaview, Darius Roohi put the PSNI 1-0 against the Amateur League side and after a Joe West own goal doubled their lead, Lukasz Adamczyk completed the scoring.
Baby carriers, slings and wraps were rejected in favour of expensive buggies and prams.
But today "babywearing" or "kangaroo care" is enjoying a revival among new parents across the UK.
Many are joining local sling libraries, which offer expert advice and support on choosing the right product for the baby and their families.
Victoria Ward, director of Babywearing UK, said the explosion in the number of these groups across the country reflected the increased interest in carriers.
Since Preston Sling Library was established in 2007, volunteers have set up at least 127 similar not-for-profit organisations across the country.
Ms Ward said: "There are new sling libraries starting up lately each week.
"Slings have started to be seen as a more mainstream product rather than a hippy alternative to a buggy."
In Dumfries, two babywearing groups are supported by the local health board.
Talks to promote kangaroo care to parents with babies in the town's neonatal unit, in partnership with the sling libraries, are due to start soon.
Liz Hood, the infant feeding co-ordinator for NHS Dumfries and Galloway, said babywearing helps the bonding process between parent and child.
"Human babies are born immature and are unable to move about or feed alone for many months," she added.
"'Babywearing or "kangaroo care" allows babies to continue their development in the perfect environment - safe in the arms of their mother, father or other caring adult."
At Dumfries Sling Library, 19 volunteers have been trained by Babywearing UK to offer expert advice to new parents on selecting a carrier.
One of the peer supporters is Ami Aindow, mother to 14-month-old daughter, Rae.
"We are all mums ourselves. We have added it up and we reckon we have got about 50 years experience of babywearing between us," she said.
The library allows parents with babies under four months old to borrow free stretchy wraps to carry their newborns. Others can hire carriers for £5 a week.
Mrs Aindow said: "Often mums buy a sling, pay £50 for it, bring it home and then it hurts her back. But mums can come here and hire the slings until they find out which suits them best."
Babywearing arouses a passionate response from many converts in Dumfries. None more so than Laura Romay Castineira, a Spaniard who lives in the area with her seven-month-old son Oscar.
She said: "I think that babywearing is an amazing thing that gives you freedom, gives you power, gives you a calm baby and a safe baby and I think that we don't do it anymore.
"I think this culture has moved on to the pram and I think that it's good for us to make it public and help everybody, empower mums to realise this is really easy to do, it's magic and it shouldn't be lost."
Amina Slimani said she carries 11-month-old Adam in a sling for the bonding experience and because it allows her to have her hands free for her three-year-old child.
She added: "It's practical as well. As a Muslim, I have to pray five times a day. I wouldn't be able to do that if he was not in a sling."
Carrying your baby in a wrap or sling
Liz Hood, infant feeding co-ordinator, NHS Dumfries and Galloway
Parents are also offered safety advice at the meetings. Just last year an inquest in London heard that a five-week-old baby suffocated in a sling while his mother went for a walk.
The National Childbirth Trust (NCT) recommends the TICKS checklist, which ensures carriers are tight enough to keep the baby close and that the infant is close enough to kiss.
What do you think? Would you be willing to ditch your pushchair in favour of a sling? Email [email protected].
Bernard Cazeneuve said the service was "illegal" and ordered police and prosecutors to enforce its closure.
His announcement followed a day of sometimes violent protests by French taxi drivers, who say the US-based firm Uber is stealing their livelihoods.
US rock singer Courtney Love Cobain was caught up in the unrest.
She tweeted her frustration, saying her taxi had been ambushed as she left the airport.
The musician shared an image of the window of her car spattered with egg, and thanking two motorcyclists she said rescued her.
Uber officials have insisted they will continue their activities until France's highest court rules on the service - an attitude Mr Cazeneuve called "cynical and arrogant".
Key highways around Paris were blocked and tyres were burned during the day-long strike. Barriers also appeared around Marseille and Aix-en-Provence in southeast France.
Some cars were overturned and others had their windows smashed with bats.
Aeroports de Paris, the operator of the French capital's Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and Orly airports, warned passengers to travel by train, saying "access by road is completely blocked".
Some travellers walked along the side of the motorway to reach the airport.
Taxi drivers also blocked access to Marseille and Aix train stations and protested on the main access to Marseilles-Provence airport.
France's taxi drivers - who have to pay thousands of euros for a licence - say they are being unfairly undercut by UberPOP.
"Many taxis drivers are infuriated," Abdelkader Morghad, a representative of the FTI taxi union, told Bloomberg.
He said a law that forbids unlicensed drivers to carry paying passengers should be implemented.
France's licensed drivers have lost between 30% and 40% of their income over two years because of the growth of UberPOP, Mr Morghad said.
UberPOP is a car-sharing service offered by Uber, which brings together customers and private drivers at prices lower than those charged by both traditional taxi firms and even other Uber services.
UberPOP differs because it allows non-professional drivers to register their car and transport other passengers.
It has been illegal in France since January, but the law has proved difficult to enforce and the service continues to operate, AFP news agency reports.
Mr Cazeneuve said on Thursday that he had ordered police in Paris to issue a decree banning UberPOP and said any cars defying the order would be seized.
Uber spokesman Thomas Meister said the firm had contested the law under which UberPOP has been ruled illegal, and accused the interior minister of overriding the normal legal process.
"The way things work in a state of law is that it's for the justice to judge whether something is legal or illegal," he was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying.
San Francisco-based Uber says it has a million users in France, including 250,000 for UberPOP. Uber also operates a luxury service which is not banned.
Uber has faced similar teething problems in cities all over the world, with traditional taxi drivers protesting against being undercut by the unlicensed company.
But licensed taxi drivers have been criticised for being slow to adopt the app-based geolocation technology behind Uber's success.
Commentators say Mr Abbott's choice was out of step with public attitudes and raised doubts about his judgement.
Mr Abbott re-introduced knighthood and damehood honours last year, nearly 20 years after they had been discontinued.
Australia, a parliamentary democracy, has Britain's monarch as head of state.
The prime minister's decision to grant a knighthood to the Prince - announced on Australia Day on Monday - has been described by the press as a "captain's call", which failed to take into account the opinion of party colleagues.
The leader of the opposition Labor party, Bill Shorten, said the decision to honour a British royal was "anachronistic". He has called for Australians to rally behind declaring their country a republic.
Australia's honours system
At a conference on Wednesday, Mr Abbott defended his choice but also said he had listened to the criticism.
"I understand why some people don't like it," he said. "I take it on the chin but I want to assure people that I have heard and there will be more consultation around these awards in the future."
Mr Abbott had praised the Prince's work as a campaigner, highlighting the achievements in Australia of his youth charity, the Duke of Edinburgh Award.
Many politicians - including some from Mr Abbott's party - said they were bewildered by the award.
Queensland Premier and Mr Abbott's conservative colleague, Campbell Newman, has described the knighthood as a "bolt from the blue".
Mr Newman goes to the polls on Saturday for the state's general election. Mr Abbott's widespread unpopularity is considered to be a drawback for the campaign.
The prime minister, who has not appeared in Queensland during the campaign, did not answer a journalist's question about whether he owed Mr Newman an apology, saying only that his federal government had done much that had benefitted Queenslanders.
Brook, 31, defends his title against American Errol Spence Jr at Bramall Lane, home of the club he supports, Sheffield United.
He meets the unbeaten and much-hyped 27-year-old at 147lbs, having fought two divisions higher when he suffered a broken eye socket in defeat by Gennady Golovkin last time out.
"I think there will be a lot of drama," said Brook. "We could both maybe hit the canvas."
There will be enhanced security at a stadium which has not hosted boxing since 1984, when about 3,000 fans attended.
Up to 27,000 will be present for a night which features two world title contests as co-main events - George Groves also faces Russian Fedor Chudinov for the vacant WBA world super-middleweight strap.
Promoter Eddie Hearn said it is "important for the whole country that major events go ahead without disruption" in the wake of Monday's attacks in Manchester.
Groves believes this is his "best opportunity" to land a world title at the fourth attempt after a tumultuous three years, losing twice to Carl Froch - once at a packed-out Wembley Stadium - before being narrowly out-pointed by Badou Jack in Las Vegas.
That 2015 defeat by Floyd Mayweather's fighter prompted 'Saint George' to join trainer Shane McGuigan and four wins have followed.
"Yes I've lost three title shots but I don't feel beat up, I don't feel exposed," said Groves, 29. "This time I am not going to allow it to be close. Everything is in my favour and we are in a good place to go and win."
Groves is expected to win and is hopeful Chudinov's recent inactive spell of just one fight in 20 months will prove key. But Chudinov, 29, has lost just once in 15 fights as a professional - losing the WBA title to Felix Sturm, who later vacated the belt and tested positive for steroids.
It will likely be a career-defining night for Groves whatever the outcome. But while he admits to feeling "pressure" as favourite, he has been quick to call on boxing to show solidarity following Monday's Manchester attacks.
"You're hoping there's a British sprit of 'we are not going to let these people beat us'," he told BBC Sport. "It gives events like Saturday more purpose. A terrible thing happened but in the same week we are going to show strength."
Brook-Spence Jr will be televised in the US, with Stephen Espinoza of the Showtime network stating the bout has received "tremendous attention" across the Atlantic.
Spence, who competed at London 2012, has been dubbed "the real deal" by former five-weight world champion Sugar Ray Leonard and insists he will make it 22 wins from 22 fights to take the title.
"It's going to be another man down," said Spence. "I'm looking to come forward, I won't be taking a backward step."
Brook was encouraged to move up a weight division after the defeat by Golovkin, which resulted in him having titanium placed into his eye socket.
But he defied advice and stayed in the division to make his fourth - and undoubtedly toughest - defence of the title at a venue which he first visited as a fan aged seven.
"You'll have to rip this belt off me," said Brook. "There are question marks over Spence, he has never been in with anyone like me or even close to me.
"He will give me many problems. An ex-Olympian, a very good fighter, he has knocked over whoever he has come up against. But I want it with all my heart."
Trainer Dominic Ingle possibly saved Brook's career in throwing in the towel against Golovkin. He has since set about rehabilitating the Sheffield fighter, after a first loss in 37 career fights, at his training base in Fuerteventura.
Brook weighed about 12st at middleweight on fight night against Golovkin and has since therefore lost over a stone and a half to make welterweight, a challenge given he has always been seen to be physically big in the division.
"Kell burns around 2,500-3,000 calories a day," Ingle told BBC Sport. "He operates on a calorie deficit so he will take on 500-1,000 less than what he burns. That works out at about 2lbs a week in fat loss."
Brook trims the timber with three runs a week, where focus is on speed and power through treadmill sprints rather than long endurance-based runs. On run days he will also do pad work in the afternoon.
On two other weekdays he conducts a sparring session in the morning and weights after lunch, while a Saturday can often throw up a 30-mile bike ride to shed more weight.
BBC Sport boxing correspondent Mike Costello:
There are two key factors in this fight. One is the talent of Errol Spence Jr. We've seen from the opposition he has faced so far that he is pretty special but he's never been hit as hard as he is going to be hit on Saturday, how he reacts to that will be key.
The other factor is how Brook has lost his weight. He has never been comfortable at this weight and we have seen boxers in the past struggle to come down when they have put weight on, especially if it is muscle. How he reacts to boiling down will be key.
I do have a feeling this will be really special. Brook has the experience, Spence has the talent. This is Brook's toughest ever challenge at welterweight.
Get all the latest boxing news sent straight to your device with notifications in the BBC Sport app. Find out more here.
Millions of people - many of them children - were forced to leave where they lived because of fighting in the Middle East.
In particular, the conflict in Syria drove millions of people from their homes. It also meant lots of families got separated from each other.
Many travelled to Europe, in the hope that they might find a better life in a European country, with many hoping to come to the UK.
The leaders of European countries have had many discussions to try to decide how to deal with so many extra people, who are now in Europe but have nowhere to live.
Something called the Dubs Amendment formed part of how the UK said that it could help these refugees.
Find out more about what it is below.
Thousands of refugees fleeing across Europe ended up in Calais in north France, in a refugee camp known as the Jungle (which has now been shut down). Many came from Syria.
This is because they hoped to cross over to England from there, to start a new life in the UK.
While the Jungle was being used as a temporary home for thousands of people, there was a lot of worry about their safety - especially for children.
Countries around Europe discussed how they were going to deal with all of these people who had nowhere to live and who were living in awful conditions in the Jungle.
Some countries made promises about how many refugees they were going to take from the Jungle to live in their countries.
The UK parliament made a decision about how the UK could help, which was called the Dubs Amendment.
There is a piece of EU law, called the Dublin III regulation, that says that families have a right to stay together.
This means that refugees have a right to go to join family members if they are legally in another country, so the family can be with each other.
This meant that refugees living in Calais who had family members in the UK had a right to apply to come over here to join them.
But there were many unaccompanied children in the Calais camp, who did not have families here.
So the UK launched a scheme to enable a number of unaccompanied children to come to live safely in the UK - even if they did not have a straightforward family link here.
It was called the Dubs Amendment. It was named after a man who led the scheme being introduced, called Lord Alf Dubs.
He was a child refugee himself when he was younger, as he came over to the UK from Czechoslovakia when it was occupied by the Nazis during World War II.
His father was Jewish, and so he and his family were in danger because the Nazis wanted to kill Jewish people. The UK gave him somewhere safe to live as a young boy.
The Dubs Amendment did not make a promise about how many children could come to the UK.
But Lord Dubs and his supporters said the UK could help about 3,000 refugee children.
So far, around 200 children have come to the UK under the Dubs Amendment scheme.
But the government has recently announced that it will stop the scheme after another 150 are settled here.
They say that councils are not able to find homes for more children than this.
This means that 350 children will have come to the UK because of it - not 3,000, as Lords Dubs suggested was possible.
Many people think that the UK should let more children come to live here safely and that the government has not done what it said it would.
Lord Dubs himself said that by stopping the scheme like this, he felt the government had "gone back on their word".
But the government has said that the scheme only encourages more young people to make the dangerous journey across Europe in the hope they might be allowed to come to live here.
It has said that it is not giving up on these vulnerable children, because there are other schemes that can help them to come to the UK.
But why aren't the pumpkins?
It's all down to our long, wet summer, which has led to a case of soggy bottoms, according to one farmer.
Alan Lockhart, from Newry, County Down, says his normally plentiful pumpkin crop has this year fallen victim to poor weather over July and August.
Pumpkins are mainly made up of water - about 85 to 90% of it - and they usually thrive in wet conditions. But they don't like sitting in waterlogged ground for long.
Alan said his crop suffered because of a lack of sunshine and poor levels of pollination at the start of the season.
He said this was partially down to diminishing numbers of bees as a result of the poor summer weather.
In an average year the Alderside farmer would expect to plant about 2,000 pumpkin seeds, which normally produce two or three pumpkins each.
But this season his seeds have only managed to yield an average of 0.37 pumpkins per plant.
Alan said that even the surviving pumpkins were not up to the standard he would normally expect.
Despite a bright and mild autumn season, the fruits have not had time to ripen in time for Halloween and Alan considered cancelling his annual pumpkin-picking event at the farm.
But in the spirit of the season, the popular event went ahead, with green pumpkins galore.
Alan said he thought the green gourds looked even more ghoulish than the familiar orange-coloured ones.
He was one of the luckier pumpkin farmers in Northern Ireland, managing to produce a small crop of bright orange pumpkins, while others struggled to grow any.
Jacqui Baird, from Castle Ward Estate, said the main supplier for the annual Halloween Pumpkinfest usually provided about 3000 pumpkins, but this year was only able to produce 300 of a suitable size and colour.
They lost by seven wickets after being bowled out for just 90 in a rain-shortened match at the Riverside.
"We fell a long way short. The game was reduced, but still to be bowled out for 90 in 22 overs is not good enough," Rushworth, 29, told BBC Newcastle.
"The guys have accepted that something has to change, whether it's the way we approach it, or the way guys practice."
A four-and-a-half-hour rain delay saw the game reduced to 22 overs a side, but Durham's score was their lowest against Worcestershire since becoming a first-class county in 1992.
Only Mark Stoneman and Paul Collingwood made it to double figures with 29 and 17 respectively.
"It was good conditions to bowl in, but you have to find a way to get through a tough spell and get runs on the board," said Sunderland-born Rushworth.
"You have to consolidate sometimes, you can't play the big shots every time.
"If we're going to chase down and beat teams we've got to be able to put scores on the board,."
Durham next face Nottinghamshire on Wednesday.
"Something has to change because we're playing [Nottinghamshire] who have put 400 on the last couple of games they've played," Rushworth added.
Preston City Council wants to demolish the station, saying it would cost more than £17m to modernise.
Its leader, Peter Rankin, said news of the listing was "not the outcome we were hoping for".
But campaigners welcomed the decision taken by Ed Vaizey, the Minister for Culture, saying it was "brilliant news".
By Chris RiderBBC Lancashire political reporter
Ed Vaizey has certainly put the cat among the pigeons with this announcement. It is some kind of reprieve for the bus station, which has been under constant threat of demolition.
Preston Council leader Peter Rankin might be calling the Culture Minister to ask for some financial help given that it costs the council £300,000 a year to maintain the building.
For those who have campaigned against demolition this will be very welcome news indeed.
For the two councils [Preston and Lancashire] involved, there is a heavy burden ahead and this long running saga continues.
English Heritage said the Grade II listing would not prevent changes being made to the building, provided its architectural significance was protected.
Councillors say it costs £300,000 a year to run the bus station and the estimated cost of getting it up to "modern-day standards" would be between £17m and £23m.
Labour councillor Mr Rankin said: "We've always said the bus station is too big, provides relatively poor facilities for bus passengers and costs Preston taxpayers over £300,000 a year to maintain.
"We will have to take some time now to consider the listing decision and the options for moving forward.
"We need to look at costs and the impact on budgets and how it affects Preston taxpayers.
"We will work closely with Lancashire County Council as transport authority to consider the next steps."
The Royal Institute of British Architects Journal, which has backed a campaign to save the building, posted a message on Twitter, saying: "Well done to all campaigners."
Journal Editor Hugh Pearman added: "Ed Vaizey, you are a star. Our very savvy architecture minister has listed the wonderful Preston Bus Station."
A spokeswoman for English Heritage said the building "fully deserves this marker of recognition".
"Preston Bus Station is truly remarkable," she said.
"The boldness of vision, the ingenuity of the design, the attention to detail and the aesthetic impact mark it out from the vast numbers of public buildings built since the Second World War.
"We are aware that Preston City Council faces challenges in maintaining the structure and integrating it effectively with the city centre and that, as a result, it has decided it wishes to demolish it.
"We will, however, continue to explore with the council how these challenges can be addressed so that the building can once again play a key role in the life of the city."
Built in the 1960s, the bus station is seen as a prime example of the Brutalist school of architecture.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has announced a voluntary redundancy scheme affecting staff in four of its offices in NI.
The offices affected are in Enniskillen, Londonderry, Newry and Belfast.
An HMRC spokesperson said the redundancies were necessary as more customers choose to do business with them online.
The number of staff eligible to apply for redundancy is 24 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh; 77 in Londonderry; 134 in Newry, County Down, and five in Belfast.
The HMRC spokesperson said: "An increasing number of customers are choosing to do business with us through our online services, which has reduced our need for physical sites.
"This change has seen the nature of our work shift away from the mass processing work of the past to the more specialist, but less labour-intensive, roles required in effective policing of the tax system.
"As a result some areas of our work do not require as many staff."
The spokesperson added: "We are not closing any offices today."
Sinn Féin MPs Conor Murphy and Michelle Gildernew, along with SDLP MP Mark Durkan, are to travel to Westminster to press the UK government to reconsider the job losses.
Mr Murphy, MP for Newry and Armagh, said: "This has come out of the blue for the workers.
"They have been told they have to agree to a voluntary exit scheme by 18 December, and are adamant there is no opportunity for redeployment."
Osprey Lydiate is back training after suffering a neck injury while Liam Williams (foot) played 60 minutes for Scarlets last weekend.
"Everything's good with Liam and Dan Lydiate has joined back in," said Wales forwards coach Robin McBryde.
Williams played the first hour of the Scarlets' defeat in Connacht on Sunday.
Media playback is not supported on this device
It was his first appearance since limping off during Wales 15-6 defeat by Australia on 10 October.
Lydiate was forced off during the Ospreys' New Year's Day win over Newport Gwent Dragons and has not played since.
"Things went as well as they could for Liam," added McBryde.
"He definitely won one collision (when Connacht wing Matt Healy was forced off through injury) and he was pretty secure under the high ball.
"Difficult circumstances for him, but he's come through unscathed so whether he's fit enough to start an 80 minutes - he's certainly fit enough to play some part."
Lydiate is not alone as a Wales back-rower short of match time.
Captain Sam Warburton has played just once for Cardiff Blues in the last two months, against Calvisano on 22 January, because of an ankle injury.
"I think we've got to look at each individual as to how much game time they need before they get back to full steam," added McBryde.
"Sam Warburton doesn't need a lot of match time and he's straight back up there.
"It's a discussion to be had with Dan (Lydiate).
"The one thing we are seeing in a positive light is that Dan is taking part in our training sessions which are quite intense, and he's come through those scenarios okay, though it's not the same as a game."
Warburton did not play for Cardiff Blues against Edinburgh despite saying he would like more game time after his comeback.
"Warren just held him back," said McBryde.
"It was hard to manage last week because we lost all the French and English-based players after the start of the week, which left us with 10 or 11 players for the Friday and Saturday session."
Wales are due to announce their team to face Ireland at 1100 GMT on Wednesday, 3 February.
The king adopted Tongdaeng in 1998 as a puppy and wrote a book praising her loyalty and obedience.
Last month, a man was charged with insulting Tongdaeng on social media and could face up to 37 years in jail under Thailand's lese-majeste laws.
The strict laws protect the king and his family against defamation.
As he has aged, King Bhumibol's public appearances have become more scarce - but until recently, when he did appear, it was often in the company of the reddish-brown dog Tongdaeng, says the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.
The name means "red-gold", or "copper", in Thai.
The book he wrote about her became a huge bestseller in Thailand, where it was seen as a plea from the much loved monarch for his people to behave better, our correspondent says.
However, it was not enough to stop the country descending into a bitter and protracted political conflict from which it has yet to emerge, and which has drawn in the monarchy, with increasing numbers of people being given long prison sentences for defaming the royal family, he adds.
Tongdaeng's death will doubtless remind Thais of the increasing frailty of the 88-year-old king, and of the anxiety and uncertainty which still surrounds the succession to a new monarch, he says.
Brian Clough's "miracle men" won an unlikely European Cup double in 1979 and 1980 after he guided them from the bottom half of the second division.
Notts County, known as the Magpies, are being honoured for being the world's oldest league club.
Ex-Forest player John Robertson will also be celebrated at the event later.
Former ITV broadcaster Gary Newbon, who is compering the ceremony at the Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham, said it would be a "terrific night" for the city.
He said: "Normally it is done in Manchester the home of the National Football Museum, but because it's so special with these two clubs, they're coming to Nottingham."
Tommy Johnson, a former Notts County player and now coach, said the accolade for the Magpies was "long overdue" and he was looking forward to sharing the night with rivals Forest.
John Robertson proved to be a key figure in both of Forest's finals setting up the winning goal for Trevor Francis in 1979 and scoring the only goal in Forest's 1-0 win over Hamburg a year later.
He said it was a "great honour" to be inducted into the hall of fame.
"These things that have happened to me have been wonderful," he said.
"Brian Clough made me have a look at myself when I wasn't living right. I was a bit of wild boy in those days."
He added that the film I Believe in Miracles, about his team's exploits, helped put them back "in the spotlight".
Robertson's former teammate Martin O'Neill will also be at the ceremony.
Don Masson, who captained Notts County to three promotions, and Phil Turner who helped them win the Anglo Italian Cup in 1995, will also attend.
National Football Museum Hall of Fame
Source: National Football Museum
Souths won their first premiership in 43 years in 2014 and have the English trio of Burgess brothers - Sam, George and Thomas - in their side.
The Australian has spent seven years at the RFL, of which the past two were served as general manager.
"This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the best," Solly said.
"South Sydney Rabbitohs are a powerhouse on and off the field, the most successful club in NRL history with a passionate fan base and extremely strong board.
"It will be tough to leave a great group of people at the RFL and Super League, and I would like to thank the staff, clubs and fans for their support."
Rabbitohs chairman Nicholas Pappas said: "His experience in managing one of the code's largest professional bodies internationally, coupled with his background in the legal profession, is a perfect mix for our club."
Solly will replace interim chief executive Shannon Donato at Redfern, and will link up with former Gateshead Thunder owner Shane Richardson, who is general manager.
Marketing director Mark Foster serve as interim Super League general manager while the RFL begin the search for a successor.
Sabrina Walsh, 32, died in October 2016 at the Woodlands Centre in St Leonards.
An inquest heard a nurse said Ms Walsh should be moved to a secure unit in Crawley after earlier suicide attempts.
A jury in Hastings concluded she fell victim to a "gross failing of medical care" for which Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust apologised.
The hearing was told that after being was sent to Woodlands, an "inadequate and serious failure" in her handover meant staff did not know Ms Walsh was high-risk.
Diane Hull, chief nurse for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, said: "Ms Walsh was a vulnerable young woman under our care and she died in tragic circumstances. For that I am sorry."
The court heard Ms Walsh, known as Sabby, deliberately hanged herself with a ligature.
She was only checked on once an hour instead of having one-to-one observation - as admission procedures dictate.
Speaking after the inquest Ms Walsh's mother Christine Lavers, said: "Sabby was a highly intelligent, loving and caring young woman, but she was very vulnerable and she was failed.
"There was no care that day. It's horrendous.
"She may still be alive if they actually assessed her and put her on one-to-one observation, she couldn't have harmed herself."
The jury concluded: "By not following procedures this has had a clear and direct effect on her passing. This is a gross failing of medical care from staff at Woodlands."
Ms Hull said changes, including replacing bathroom doors with ones where there are no ligature points, had been made to "ensure nothing like this can happen again".
There was a similar incident seven years ago when the centre was closed after two suicides within months of each other.
Coroner for East Sussex, James Healy Pratt, said he would be writing a Prevention of Future Deaths Report regarding the ongoing lack of CCTV cameras in the communal areas of the ward.
The show's artistic director, Danny Boyle, said the 'Isles of Wonder' ceremony was inspired by The Tempest.
Six months before the performance kicks off London 2012, the Oscar winner said it would be about a land recovering from its industrial legacy.
One billion people are expected to watch the opening ceremony on 27 July.
Billy Elliot director Steven Daldry, London 2012's executive director of ceremonies, said the task of putting on "the greatest shows on earth" - albeit with a budget of £81m - equated the task to producing 165 West End musicals at the same time.
"They [the Olympic and Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies] will represent one journey to the end of the Paralympics, looking at who we are, who we were and who we would wish to be," he said.
Boyle, who is best known for directing Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire and Trainspotting, said the Isles of Wonder theme captured the essence of Britain.
He added that the stadium's 27-tonne bell was being cast on Friday at London's Whitechapel Foundry - where 13.5-tonne Big Ben was cast in 1856 - and would be inscribed with a quote from The Tempest's Caliban: "Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises".
The bell would hang at one end of the stadium, and Boyle said he wanted people to hear it "for hundreds of years".
"We'll be celebrating the whole of the country... there are so many Isles of Wonder," he said.
With £27m to spend on the opening ceremony - far less than the £65m given to Chinese film director Zhang Yimou for the Beijing 2008 spectacular - Boyle said he would be taking his lead from previous Olympics.
"You're standing on shoulders of giants - you cannot but live in the shadow of your predecessors," he said.
He described Beijing's opening ceremony as "extraordinarily, eye-wateringly spectacular" and that of Athens 2004 as "incredibly beautiful". But Boyle said he would be most honoured if his spectacle was compared to the opening of Sydney 2000 - "a wonderful people's Games".
A full dress rehearsal will be held for a capacity crowd of 80,000 in the Olympic Stadium, which will be fitted with a million-watt sound system.
Before the 20,000-cast event kicks off on 27 July at 21:00 BST, with the tolling of the bell, an Olympic Stadium packed with 80,000 spectators will be entertained by a pre-show that will start at 12 minutes past eight - 20:12 BST.
Some 900 youngsters from the six Olympic host boroughs would be given roles in the opening and closing ceremonies, he added.
A total of 1,650 children from 18 primary and seven secondary schools in east London have been auditioning for the roles in recent weeks.
Boyle also revealed that nurses would have a starring role in the ceremony sequence because, he said, the NHS is one of things that is "unique about us... along with our sense of humour".
While organisers will try to keep some part of the opening ceremony secret, protocol dictates it will include a welcoming of the Queen by IOC and Locog bosses, a parade of athletes, and the ceremonial lighting of the Olympic flame - the culmination of the 70-day Olympic torch relay around the British Isles.
For the opening ceremony Boyle will be collaborating with electronic musical duo Underworld whose 1990s rave classic Born Slippy featured in the gritty blockbuster Trainspotting.
The pair, who also worked with the director on his acclaimed stage production of Frankenstein last year, have been named musical directors of the three-hour ceremony.
The BBC's home of 2012: Latest Olympic news, sport, culture, torch relay, video and audio
Some 15,000 performers using 25,000 costumes will take part in the opening and closing ceremonies of both the Olympic and Paralympic Games. They will be drawn from members of the public and more than 10,000 have already been auditioned.
Both Olympic and Paralympic closing ceremonies will be directed by Kim Gavin, the brains behind Take That's theatrical stadium shows, while artistic directors Bradley Hemmings and Jenny Sealey will be behind the opening of the Paralympics.
The ceremonies are expected to be watched by four billion people, which advertising experts estimate is worth up to £5bn in airtime exposure.
Speaking earlier on Friday about the challenges that lay ahead in the next six months, London 2012 Chairman Seb Coe said it was a fabulous opportunity but a "heavy weight of responsibility".
Locog Chairman Paul Deighton said it would be all about attention to detail as well as building the excitement and helping people to be a part of what will be "the greatest thing this city has seen in their lifetimes".
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, meanwhile, defended last month's doubling of the ceremonies' budget to £81m, saying the Games represented "an extraordinary business opportunity" likely to attract foreign investment.
And Steven Daldry emphasised that despite the augmented budget, London 2012 would be spending "considerably less" on ceremonies than the two previous Summer Olympics.
Friday also saw an event to mark the handover of the Olympic Park's Athletes' Village from the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) to Locog.
The 2,818 flats will now be fitted out to cater for 16,000 athletes and officials from 200 countries.
Spink, part of Bruce's backroom team at Birmingham City, Wigan Athletic and Sunderland, has been linked to Villa.
But, although he hopes Bruce gets the job, at 58, Spink says he is too old.
"I'm racing towards 60. If I started kicking 100 balls a day, probably my leg would fall off," he told BBC WM.
"I'm pro Steve Bruce. And I'm happy to speak to him about all departments and would give him 100 per cent backing. But there's nothing in that story.
"I haven't spoken to Steve for some 18 months or so. I texted him when Hull City got to the FA Cup final, wished him all the best and got a nice reply. But I've since been busy with my business.
"And if he was to ask me, the answer would probably be no. That might come as a surprise to Villa fans, but a goalkeeping coach job is for a younger man."
Spink continued: "I'm fit and healthy, my business is running well and, if I took the job and it only lasted two years, I would lose business which it would take a while to get back.
"In any case, I enjoy being a fan. I know we haven't had much to jump and down about over the last two years, but I still enjoy going down there. To be sat watching the supporters and their passion has been a real eye opener."
Spink, who came off the bench against Bayern Munich in Rotterdam to help the club win the European Cup in 1982, was also part of the last Villa team to be promoted to the top flight under Graham Taylor in 1988.
After working as a goalkeeping coach for four clubs, he now runs his own white-van courier business, in Sutton Coldfield.
Pat Murphy, BBC Radio 5 live
"Villa's managerial recruitment team have completed their due diligence on the short list and will recommend a candidate in the next 24 hours to the club's owner, Dr Tony Xia.
"Dr Xia is in China on business and, unlike his sole decision in the summer to appoint Roberto Di Matteo, will be relying on the findings of chief executive Keith Wyness, former manager Brian Little and technical director Steve Round. But the final decision rests with Villa's owner.
"Steve Clarke, acting caretaker manager was interviewed on Monday, while the three discussions Bruce has had with Wyness over the past five days constitute a formal interview in the opinion of the recruitment team. But Bruce and Clarke are not the only candidates.
"Villa are also considering an approach to a manager contracted to another club, but need to be certain he is the one they definitely want before committing themselves.
"If they do and they fail in their overtures after asking for permission to speak to that manager, then Bruce and/or Clarke will know they were not first choice.
"There is no timescale on the appointment. Once the candidate agrees to join Villa, there will be detailed discussions over the contract, backroom staff and budgets. It may be a day or so before the successful applicant is publicly confirmed. But Bruce remains the odds-on favourite."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.
|
Whoever you support, whichever sports you follow, you can now get all the sport that matters to you on one page.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Erhun Oztumer's 90th-minute winner gave Walsall their first victory of the season as they beat Oldham at the Banks's Stadium.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
More than £1m was paid in compensation to school pupils in Worcestershire in 2013, a freedom of information request has shown.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The man leading Welsh Labour's campaign for the UK to remain in the EU has admitted there is confusion among the party's traditional voters about what its position is on Europe.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Inspector Morse is to return to TV screens in a one-off show about the detective's early career.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
There are "serious and widespread" failings in the care of children in Sunderland, a watchdog has found.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Glasgow-based cloud computing company Iomart has bought a consultancy in the sector for at least £9m.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Growth in Asia's fourth largest economy, South Korea, fell to a six year low in the fourth quarter of last year.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Rory McIlroy produced a final-round 67 to secure the BMW Championship and his third Tour victory in four outings.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A pavilion from which famous cricketers have stepped out to the crease has been demolished to make way for housing.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Glamorgan notched up their first Championship win in 12 months as they passed their target of 196 to beat Derbyshire with four wickets in hand.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A nurse who laughed as he showed colleagues a "revolting" video of a woman having a sex toy removed has been struck off.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Linfield avenged their Premiership defeat by Cliftonville a week ago as they defeated the Reds 3-0 in the County Antrim Shield quarter-finals.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
For years they have been considered little more than a hippy alternative to a conventional pushchair.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
France's interior minister has ordered a ban on the low-cost car-sharing service UberPOP after a day of nationwide protests by taxi drivers.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said he will consult more widely before announcing knights and dames, after criticism of his knighthood for Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
IBF world welterweight champion Kell Brook will "relish" being a bookmakers' underdog against an opponent he believes will provide "many problems" on Saturday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Last year, Newsround reported many stories about the refugee crisis in Europe.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Halloween is coming, the evenings are growing shorter and the leaves are turning orange.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Seamer Chris Rushworth says "something has to change" for Durham after their One-Day Cup defeat by Worcestershire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Preston's under-threat bus station has been given Grade II listed status by the government.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Almost 250 civil service jobs could be lost in Northern Ireland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Full-back Liam Williams and flanker Dan Lydiate are in contention for Wales places in the Six Nations opener against Ireland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej's favourite dog, Tongdaeng, who became a national celebrity, has died at the age of 17.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Nottingham Forest's European Cup winning teams and Notts County are set to be officially inducted into English football's hall of fame.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Super League general manager Blake Solly will leave his post in May to take up a role as chief executive of NRL side South Sydney Rabbitohs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A mental health trust has apologised over the death of a patient who took her own life just four hours after arriving at a Sussex unit.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Europe's largest bell will ring to start a £27m Olympic opening ceremony inspired by Shakespeare and featuring NHS nurses and 900 local pupils.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Aston Villa legend Nigel Spink has dismissed reports of a goalkeeper coaching role with the Midlands club if his old boss Steve Bruce is appointed as the club's new manager.
| 34,476,378 | 15,961 | 875 | true |
The anniversary on 25 April marks the first major battle involving Australia and New Zealand in World War One.
Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs Dan Tehan said his government had received information of a possible threat to Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula.
He did not detail the information but urged travellers to be cautious.
"Ultimately, it is up to the traveller to make the final decision on whether to travel or not," Mr Tehan said.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade updated its travel advice for Turkey but did not lift a warning classification level.
"We have confidence in the Turkish authorities to secure the peninsula and other celebrations in the area," said Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan.
In 2015, about 15,000 Australians travelled to Gallipoli for the centenary of Anzac Day.
Set 309 from 44 overs, Lancashire ended the chase after makeshift opener Jos Buttler was out for a 14-ball 26 and closed on 80-1 at Old Trafford.
Middlesex earlier declared on 240-8, Dawid Malan top-scoring with 87.
Lancashire will need 11 points from their final match against Warwickshire to ensure relegation is avoided.
Middlesex hold a nine-point advantage over second-placed Yorkshire, who visit Lord's next week.
A draw, or a Yorkshire win, could let in Somerset, who play bottom club Nottinghamshire at Taunton.
That neither side was able to force victory was down in part to an increasingly flat pitch and two moments involving Lancashire's Buttler.
The first came when John Simpson, on eight, edged Tom Bailey to offer a very difficult chance, one that the wicketkeeper could not take in his left hand.
Simpson (74) and Malan went on to share 151, taking Middlesex from their third-evening position of 55-4 to relative safety.
Malan eventually edged Simon Kerrigan behind, one of six wickets for the left-arm spinner, before Middlesex declared to leave Lancashire a fanciful target.
Buttler's promotion to the top of the order showed that the hosts briefly entertained chasing the victory that would have guaranteed their safety, the England wicketkeeper going through his whole repertoire of strokes.
But, after he got a leading edge off Steven Finn to be caught at cover, Rob Jones and Haseeb Hameed saw Lancashire through.
By the time hands were shaken, first-innings centurion Jones had passed 500 minutes at the crease in the match without being dismissed.
Lancashire cricket director Ashley Giles told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"It was a good fightback. We didn't bowl well on the first day, or field well. We showed a lot of character from there.
"Had Middlesex not been in such a tight position maybe they would have given themselves a bit more time to bowl us out.
"I'm delighted with some of the individual performances, but this was the story of the season. We need to start better, and get into games quicker."
Middlesex captain James Franklin told BBC Radio London:
"It's dangerous to want and need a draw. We want to beat Yorkshire. Nothing changes just because it's the last game.
"There is potential of nice rewards at the end of it. We have one more hurdle to get over. We have a huge week ahead. We need to be clear with our thought processes and go again.
"We had a tricky morning this morning to contend with, and Malan and Simpson did a great job. It was a team effort. That's why we are in the position we are in."
Albert Kelly scored his eighth try in four games and Hull added two more scores to build a 20-8 half-time lead.
Russell added to his first-half double and Daryl Clark also touched down to give the hosts hope.
And Kurt Gidley's kick, one of three successful efforts, sealed a point.
Australian playmaker Gidley could have won it had he landed a drop goal, one of four missed between the two sides in a tense finish.
The result, although a relief for Warrington, was put clearly in perspective by the death of prop Dom Crosby's baby daughter Ada in midweek, which was respectfully marked by a minute's silence before kick-off.
Warrington needed character to reply after handing Hull the initiative before the break, but turned the screw towards the end as they chased down the visitors' total.
It was the second week running in which Hull built up a healthy first-half lead but fell away in the second, and although they got away with it in their win at Wigan, they could not hold out for victory at the Halliwell Jones.
Two of their tries were impressive intercepts, from Jake Connor and Jamie Shaul respectively, and while Kelly's try showcased his talents he was less effective after the break.
Warrington head Tony Smith: "I've got to be happy about our second half. There was a lot of improvement, in the second half in particular. In the first half we were still way too guilty of self-inflicted harm.
"I thought Hull were a bit flat today and we let them off the hook in the first half - we gave them most of their points, either through penalties or intercepts.
"I said we just needed to be pretty strong and basic today to get a decent result and I wasn't far wrong. The boys are working hard and competing and they've got desire and unity.
"We've still got a few rough edges got to knock off and, when we do that, we will be getting the two points and not the one."
Hull FC head coach Lee Radford: "At the end it was a point gained. It was a really bizarre game.
"I was over the moon with the lead we built up, but in the second period we very much went in to our our shells and end up hanging on for dear life.
"It was very similar to last week and we're going to have to address that really sharp. We can't build a lead up and hand it back to the opposition."
Warrington Wolves: Ratchford; Russell, T. King, Atkins, Evans; Brown, Gidley; Hill, Clark, Cooper, Westwood, Hughes, Westerman.
Replacements: Sims, Dwyer, G. King, Philbin.
Hull FC: Shaul; Fonua, Connor, Griffin, Michaels; Kelly, Sneyd, Taylor, Washbrook, Bowden, Manu, Minichiello, Ellis.
Replacements: Litten, Thompson, Watts, Turgut.
Referee: Jack Smith (RFL)
Cue Card almost landed the hat-trick last season when winning the Betfair Chase and King George VI Chase before falling in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Joe Tizzard, the horse's assistant trainer, said Cue Card would be aimed at the treble again.
"This is brilliant news. That's what he'll be aiming at this time," he said.
Jockey Club Racecourses managing director Paul Fisher said the bonus was covered by an insurance policy.
19 November 2016 - Betfair Chase, Haydock, three miles 24 yards
26 December 2016 - King George VI Chase, Kempton, three miles
17 March 2017 - Cheltenham Gold Cup, three miles two furlongs 70 yards
If successful, the bonus would be awarded as follows:
£650,000 - Winning owners
£150,000 - Trainer
£100,000 - Jockey (£33,333 per race if different riders)
£100,000 - Split between winning stable's staff
Sgt Mark Wright and his colleagues were called to an incident at a house in Lurgan.
When they got to the scene Sgt Wright was attacked by man armed with a knife and sustained stab wounds to his head.
The officer has been speaking about the assault after the 42-year-old man who carried it out was sentenced to seven years in prison.
In his first broadcast interview, Sgt Wright told BBC News NI what happened on that evening in 2012.
"I was on duty with my police officers in the Lurgan area in the early hours of the morning," he said.
"There were a number of calls about a serious domestic incident saying women were hysterical and a man in the house had become out of control through drink and drugs.
"We duly responded and when we arrived we found some women outside the property. They were very distressed and it was clear some of them had been injured."
Sgt Wright said he went to the back of the house and looked through the patio doors. He said furniture was upturned and there was blood on the floor.
"It became apparent that there were two children in the house - a one-year-old and a three-year-old," he said.
"It was decided we had to do something very quickly to protect those children and subdue and arrest the man in the house."
Sgt Wright said he went back to the front door and was preparing to force his way in when the man opened the door and came out.
"When he came out I realised he was armed. He had a large carving knife which had a six to eight inch blade," he said.
"He tried to stab me through the right ear. I took immediate evasive action, which was to get inside the arc of the knife, and in doing so sustained a slash wound to the back of the head."
Despite having sustained a deep slash wound to the back of the head Sgt Wright still managed to grab hold of one of the man's arms while his colleague grabbed the other.
"Unfortunately my colleague slipped and fell backwards. I lost control of him and at that stage he got another knife which he had in his right hand," he said.
"I tried to restrain him again but I sustained a puncture wound to my face and a slash wound to my forehead adjacent to my right eye.
"The man then tried to stab my colleague in the throat but I managed to drag him off and restrain him for a second until other officers disarmed him."
Sgt Wright said that despite being injured and knowing his life was at risk, his focus was on disarming the man.
"As it unfolded I became aware I was losing an awful lot of blood and it actually became hard to see because there was so much blood," he said.
"I received first aid and was removed from the scene, but I am pleased to say that the children were uninjured.
"They were a one and a three-year-old. They are effectively babies and it was totally the wrong place for them to be but they were unharmed.
"I believe those children's lives were in danger. There was a risk to their lives if we did not arrive promptly and deal with the situation."
Following the incident Sgt Wright was off work for six months, but he said the big impact was on his family.
"They are worried about you and get very distressed when they see the pictures," he said.
"It was worrying for them when the police initially called to say I had been injured and was in hospital.
"It takes some time to adjust afterwards but I tried to work as soon as possible.
"This is a situation that could face a police officer any day or night of the week and I'm lucky I was not on my own.
"It could happen to anyone."
The 42-year-old man was sentenced to seven years in prison at Craigavon Crown Court.
During the sentencing, the judge commended police for using minimum force and said the level of force used was "meritorious" and proportionate.
The building, on land next to the main security entrance to the dock, would include state-of-the-art training and classroom suites, accommodation and social and fitness facilities.
There would also be waterfront access and docking facilities for warships.
The Royal Navy said it would "meet the aspirations of the UK's reserves forces for the next 50 years".
Vice Adm Jonathan Woodcock, the Second Sea Lord, said: "I am delighted to announce the development of a reserve hub in Cardiff Bay.
"The Royal Navy has a strong connection to south Wales and this investment reflects the Royal Navy's continued commitment to the area."
The new site would offer shared accommodation for three naval units - the RNR Unit HMS Cambria, The Royal Marine Reserves Cardiff Detachment and the Wales URNU.
Cdr Steve Fry, commanding officer of the local RNR unit HMS Cambria, said: "We are very excited about this project.
"This significant investment by the Royal Navy in Wales will provide great opportunities for our reservists and for anyone wishing to be part of the reserve forces."
A planning application will be submitted in the new year, with work on the building due to start next year and be completed by 2019.
The project would be delivered by the Reserve Forces' & Cadets' Association for Wales in partnership with the Royal Navy and Associated British Ports.
Mohammed Ali, 31, was convicted at the Old Bailey of attempting to possess a chemical weapon following a trial in July.
Ali, from Liverpool, struck a deal with a supplier in January to buy 500mg of powder - enough to kill 1,400 people.
He was unaware that his source was in fact an FBI agent.
The trial heard the father-of-two was sent harmless powder hidden inside a toy car.
After opening the package, which had been treated with a marker substance, he was arrested at his home the following morning.
The court heard Ali, of Prescot Road, a computer programmer, first heard about ricin after watching the US crime drama Breaking Bad.
He told jurors he was just "curious" and wanted to test the boundaries of the Dark Web, and was unaware ricin was illegal.
"I was interested in the Dark Web and ricin. I just wanted to know what the fuss was about," he said.
Computer analysis showed Ali first began trawling the internet for information on poisons such as abrin, ricin and cyanide in October last year.
The court heard he approached the undercover agent in January with a private message, saying: "Hi, would you be able to make me some ricin and send it to the UK?"
In a series of encrypted chats, they discussed the price of a lethal dose, discounts for bulk orders and ricin's "shelf life", jurors were told.
At one point, Ali asked: "How do I test this ricin?" and received the instruction: "You must test it on a rodent."
Records showed that on February 4 - days before the delivery - he made a payment in Bitcoins, the online currency.
Around this time, Ali had made a to-do list on his computer which included the entries "paid ricin guy" and "get pet to murder", the court heard.
He had also made a series of internet searches for chinchillas, animal rescue centres, rabbits and "pocket-sized pets".
The judge, Mr Justice Saunders, said Ali's actions created a "real risk".
He said: "Everyone needs to know that the possession of a chemical weapon is extremely serious and long prison sentences will follow.
"I am afraid that because of the need for a deterrent sentence, the sentence will appear harsh to the defendant and his family."
After Ali took delivery of the toy car with five vials hidden in the battery compartment, police swooped to arrest him at his home.
Under ultraviolet light, his face lit up, showing he had handled the package.
The judge continued: "I am satisfied that Mohammed Ali had no intention of disposing of ricin immediately. He intended to keep it.
"That created a real risk that, at some stage in the future, he might decide to experiment with it or it fall into the wrong hands."
Ali, who was diagnosed with mild Asperger's or autistic traits, stood impassively in the dock as the judge told him that possession of a chemical weapon was "much more serious than possessing a firearm".
A woman in the public gallery, believed to be a family member, cried loudly as he was sent down.
Mitigating, Joel Bennathan QC, said: "Mr Ali has a large supportive family who care for him.
"They are distraught and appalled by the mess he has got into."
The police operation to arrest Ali was coordinated by Merseyside Police and the North West Counter Terrorism Unit (NWCTU).
After the sentencing, Det Ch Supt Tony Mole, of the NWCTU, said: "Ali attempted to buy a deadly poison and we can only speculate on what he planned to use it for, but in any case such as this, we take swift and decisive action.
"Thanks to the vigilance of officers from a number of different law enforcement agencies, we were able to intervene before this man did get hold of such a deadly substance from a genuine seller."
Wolves keeper Carl Ikeme twice rescued his side with saves from Danny Ward before Weimann scored in first-half injury time.
That came 10 minutes after Rotherham keeper Lewis Price had saved Helder Costa's penalty.
But Wolves could not add to their lead and, but for a poor late miss by Semi Ajayi, Rotherham would have drawn.
Defeat for the Millers leaves the Championship's bottom club still with only one away point this season.
Wolves' first victory since winning at Barnsley on 31 January, three days after their FA Cup win at Liverpool, leaves Paul Lambert's side still just a point clear of trouble.
The hosts could have been two goals down inside the first 20 minutes after lone Millers striker Ward was twice sent clear, the first thanks to a careless misplaced pass from Romain Saiss. But keeper Ikeme twice repelled the threat, as Ward fired straight at him each time.
Wolves wasted a chance to go one up on 34 minutes when, having himself gone down under Joe Mattock's challenge, Costa took a weak penalty that was saved at a comfortable height to his left by Rotherham keeper Price.
But on the stroke of half-time, Weimann chased an apparently lost cause, won possession and rounded Price before tucking the ball into an empty net.
Seconds later, he clattered into full-back Will Vaulks with an inflammatory challenge right in front of the away dugout that ended up with a booking for Weimann and a lengthy lecture for both managers from referee Jeremy Simpson.
The second half was a more open affair, with chances at either end before centre-half Ajayi's late miss.
Wolves head coach Paul Lambert: "We have been playing better than that every week but losing.
We have won the game and that is all that matters, I would absolutely take winning the game and playing badly.
"I am sick to death of playing well but losing games that we have dominated. We were very nervy at the end when their lad has had a chance but I am just pleased with the win.
"That is four points from the last two games, which I felt was a minimum requirement and it's two clean sheets which is a bonus.
"We have got to try and win our game in hand on Tuesday now to give us more breathing space."
Rotherham interim boss Paul Warne: "I was pleased with the performance but not the result. We were really well prepared for the game, the lads were really well motivated.
"I thought we were the better team, we created three really good chances and the one at the end would have got us a really good away point and would have been a nice bit of sugar for us.
"Unfortunately we didn't and people will think it is the same old story, but it wasn't. I don't think we deserved to lose."
Match ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Rotherham United 0.
Second Half ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Rotherham United 0.
Attempt missed. Semi Ajayi (Rotherham United) right footed shot from very close range is too high.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Lee Frecklington.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Joe Mattock.
Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lee Frecklington (Rotherham United).
Joe Mattock (Rotherham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Morgan Gibbs-White (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Mattock (Rotherham United).
Attempt missed. Semi Ajayi (Rotherham United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Will Vaulks with a cross.
Foul by George Saville (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Jerry Yates (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Morgan Gibbs-White (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by David Edwards.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Ivan Cavaleiro replaces Ben Marshall.
Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Ben Marshall tries a through ball, but Andreas Weimann is caught offside.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Alex Bray replaces Anthony Forde.
Andreas Weimann (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lee Frecklington (Rotherham United).
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Morgan Gibbs-White replaces Jack Price.
Foul by David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Joe Mattock (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Aimen Belaid (Rotherham United) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Anthony Forde with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Kortney Hause.
Attempt missed. Jon Taylor (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Lee Frecklington following a corner.
Attempt missed. Lee Frecklington (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jon Taylor with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Conor Coady.
Foul by David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Tom Adeyemi (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Romain Saiss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lee Frecklington (Rotherham United).
Attempt blocked. Lee Frecklington (Rotherham United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jon Taylor.
Attempt missed. Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by George Saville following a fast break.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Jón Dadi Bödvarsson replaces Hélder Costa.
Foul by David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Anthony Forde (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Jerry Yates (Rotherham United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Anthony Forde with a cross.
David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lee Frecklington (Rotherham United).
Attempt saved. David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Hélder Costa with a cross.
Researchers surveyed the UK's 31 medical schools
and found instruction was "sparse or non-existent".
Only four taught undergraduates about the benefits of physical exercise in each year of their course.
Last week,
a study found a third of UK adults do not do enough physical activity
.
In the new study, curriculum and medical studies leaders for each medical school were sent a survey which asked about the quantity and content of education about the promotion of physical activity.
They were also asked if the Chief Medical Officer's (CMO's) guidance on physical activity for all age groups, published in July last year, was part of the curriculum.
Five of the schools said they did not include any specific teaching on physical activity in their undergraduate courses. And only half included the current CMO guidance in their course.
Source:
BBC health
How to make your lifestyle more healthy
Discover of your BMI is healthy
The total amount of time spent on teaching physical activity was "minimal", the research suggests, averaging just four hours compared with an average of 109 hours for pharmacology (the effects and uses of drugs).
The researchers, led by Dr Richard Weiler, of University College London Hospitals, write in the journal: "A basic understanding of the benefits of physical activity, how to effectively promote it (with behaviour change techniques), and combat sedentary behaviour for different age groups underpin the ability of future doctors to manage modern non-communicable chronic diseases and follow clinical guidelines."
And they suggest there is a "major disconnect" between undergraduate medical education, clinical guidelines for long-term conditions and national policy.
They call for dedicated teaching time on physical activity for all medical students, as a matter of urgency.
Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo deny murdering Hannah Witheridge, 23, of Norfolk, and David Miller, 24, from Jersey.
Their bodies were found on a beach on Koh Tao in September 2014.
Lawyers for the accused asked a British court to order disclosure of a police report in the hope that it might help their defence, but this was refused.
Rejecting the application, Mr Justice Green, sitting at the High Court in London, said: "There is nothing in the report which is exculpatory or would be of material assistance to the claimants in the operation of their defence in the course of the trial."
The report was prepared to reassure the families of Miss Witheridge, from Hemsby, and Mr Miller about the Thai authorities' investigation into the deaths.
The prosecution told the trial, which started last month, that there was a DNA match between samples found on Miss Witheridge's body and the two defendants and this was central to its case.
Defence lawyers had asked for the samples to be independently verified but have now been told there is nothing left of them to re-test.
Police have, however, agreed to hand over the garden hoe which was the murder weapon, along with a shoe and a plastic bag.
The discovery of the bodies sparked a major police investigation and intense local and international pressure to find those responsible.
Mr Zaw and Mr Wai (also known as Win Zaw Htun), both 22 and migrants from Myanmar, also known as Burma, were arrested several weeks later.
They are said to have confessed to the crime but later retracted their statements.
The defendants have repeatedly stated their innocence over the murders, with the defence alleging they were framed.
The trial continues.
The federal agency which protects US presidents has been renting office space in the Midtown Manhattan skyscraper since 2015.
But its representatives are baulking at the cost and other unspecified rental terms, reports the Washington Post.
The Trump Organization said the agency should look elsewhere.
Since Mr Trump became a front-runner in the presidential race two years ago, the Secret Service has stationed its command post in a unit one floor below his triplex residence.
But its nerve centre was relocated in early July this year to a trailer 58 floors below on the street, it has now emerged.
Judge me on four things, said Trump. So we did
What has Trump said about your country?
Trump's promises before and after election
What has the president achieved so far?
The General Services Administration, a government agency which arranges office space for federal employees, has been negotiating terms with the Trump Organization.
According to the New York Times, it was the president's real estate company that objected to the insertion of a clause in the contract.
The Trump Organization did not clarify the sticking point.
But in a statement to the BBC, spokeswoman Amanda Miller said: "After much consideration, it was mutually determined that it would be more cost effective and logistically practical for the Secret Service to lease space elsewhere."
Secret Service spokeswoman Catherine Milhoan told the BBC it was continuing the search "to obtain permanent work space in an appropriate location".
Mr Trump has not visited the tower since his inauguration, but his two adult sons, Eric and Donald Jr, often work there.
Security analysts say the Secret Service's relocation to a trailer outside could hamper radio transmissions between agents and the president's family inside the building.
GSA spokeswoman Pamela Dixon told National Public Radio in an email that the agency does "not comment on projects in active procurement".
The Secret Service is not the only government agency occupying space in Trump Tower.
The Pentagon is renting a 3,475 sq ft unit there for $130,000 (£100,000) a month, but it is reported to be privately owned so the Trump Organization will not profit.
The youth-focused clothes firm, hit by years of losses, will continue trading while it negotiates a potential sale of assets to Canada's Gildan Activewear.
Gildan said it had offered $66m (£53m) for the rights to the AA brand and stock, but did not want the stores.
AA, known for racy advertising and legal battles with founder Dov Charney, emerged from bankruptcy in February.
The company said last week that it was winding down its operations in the UK.
American Apparel has been looking for a buyer and has had talks with brand licensing firms Sequential Brands and Authentic Brands, as well as a financial company, B. Riley Financial.
It is the latest in a growing list of clothing brands that have gone under recently, including Aeropostale, Quiksilver, Wet Seal and Pacific Sunwear. Chains are struggling as consumers shun stores in favour of online shopping.
American Apparel filed its first bankruptcy in October 2015, following a steep drop in sales and a drawn-out legal battle with Mr Charney, who was ousted in 2014.
The retailer emerged from bankruptcy this year under the ownership of a group of former bondholders led by hedge fund Monarch Alternative Capital.
But it continued to face falling sales, exacerbated by its costly manufacturing plant in Los Angeles. Under mounting pressure, American Apparel hired investment bank Houlihan Lokey earlier this year to explore a sale.
The company has insisted that any sale must involve keeping its manufacturing plant in the US.
Red Cross worker Khuram Shaikh, 32, from Rochdale, was shot and stabbed at a hotel while on holiday in Sri Lanka on Christmas Day in 2011.
He was killed when he tried to break up a fight.
Sampath Vidanapathirana was jailed for 20 years for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, along with three other men.
Lahiru Kelum, U. Sama Deshapriya and Praneeth Chathuranga who were convicted of Mr Shaikh's killing with the former council leader were all also found guilty of raping a woman.
Judge Rohini Walgama said: "I finished this case in three-and-a-half months, it's a historical win.
"I have given this judgment by taking into account the evidence that was led in accordance with my conscience."
Lawyers for the men told the BBC they would appeal against the verdicts.
Two men, Mohottige Sarath and Chanuka Chathuranga, were acquitted of the charges at the High Court in Colombo.
Mr Shaikh's brother Nasser said: "The country has done what many people hoped and prayed for.
"Those who killed my brother have been punished and are now behind bars for a long time."
Mr Shaikh had been working in Gaza fitting prosthetic limbs, but was holidaying in the resort of Tangalle when he was killed while trying to break up a fight.
The trial had been delayed for over two years amid allegations of interference because of Vidanapathirana's political connections, but there was pressure from the UK government for the trial to go ahead.
The judge added: "I faced more insults than the accused or the prosecutors during this trial."
Mr Shaikh's brother said: "Our campaign was not only about justice, but to bring awareness of the wonderful work my brother did around the world, working in humanitarian aid.
"He is a true inspiration for many and we hope his legacy continues with those he left behind.
"Today is a symbolic moment: A day the country delivered justice, a day I delivered my promise to a brother."
A statement from the British High Commission in Colombo said: "We hope that this will bring some closure for his family and friends who have faced a long and difficult fight for justice.
"We will continue to monitor any developments in the case closely."
A Sam Vokes header in a 1-0 win against QPR at Turf Moor on Monday guaranteed the Clarets an immediate return to the top flight with one game to spare.
"We've balanced the books and been successful again," Dyche told BBC Radio Lancashire. "I couldn't be more proud."
Burnley reported profits of £30.1m in March, following their 2014-15 season in the Premier League.
They broke their transfer record to sign striker Andre Gray from Brentford in August, having recouped sizeable fees from the departures of Danny Ings to Liverpool, Kieran Trippier to Tottenham and Jason Shackell to Derby.
Dyche said the amount of money spent by other clubs had made the Championship "a different league this year", adding: "People have been having a real go this season financially, putting money into it."
Asked about the challenge of the Premier League, Dyche told BBC Radio 5 live: "We'll be written off immediately.
"I asked two years ago (when Burnley were promoted in 2014) for people to give us 24 hours to enjoy it, before they started slaughtering us and telling us we've got no chance.
"If they could just be lenient and give us maybe 48 hours this time, that would be nice."
Burnley, who are unbeaten in 22 league games since a 3-0 defeat by Hull on Boxing Day, will clinch the Championship title with victory in their final game at already-relegated Charlton on Saturday.
Either Brighton or Middlesbrough will be promoted automatically alongside the Clarets - they play each other at the Riverside on Saturday, with a draw good enough for Middlesbrough.
Burnley produced a long undefeated run to seal promotion after an indifferent first half of the campaign, which saw them eight points adrift of the automatic promotion places on Boxing Day.
Former Watford manager Dyche, who masterminded Burnley's return to the Premier League just 359 days after they left it, said the Championship presented a "different challenge" from when the club last won promotion in 2014.
Dyche added: "The expectation rises from everyone, the money available to the club for its future - all of the things that it brings.
"The mentality of the players has been firm all year. We were questioned heavily around Christmas, but I never blinked.
"I knew what we were about, I knew the group we'd got, I knew the mentality and I knew we could go all the way.
"Last time we were under the radar, it was a fairytale. This one was organised, it was business-like and it was well-fashioned from all involved, especially the players."
Dyche's sentiments were shared by striker Gray, who has scored 22 league goals for the Clarets this season.
"It's crazy, it's been a hard-fought year and the last five or six games have been very tough," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"It was a bit nervy as we knew the Brighton result and knew we needed to win. We got over the line in the end."
Centre-back Ben Mee, who has been an ever-present this season, added: "All the boys have been immense and everyone has contributed to this.
"We'll enjoy this, but we want to go and win the league now. That is the next step."
The Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) aims to slash the amount of pirated content on the internet.
But signatories including Google co-founder Sergey Brin claim it amounts to China-style censorship.
The bill has the backing of Hollywood and the music industry.
Sopa was introduced by Judiciary Committee chairman Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, who said the legislation was designed to "stop the flow of revenue to rogue websites... that profit from selling pirated goods without any legal consequences".
It would give content owners and the US government the power to request court orders to shut down websites associated with piracy.
Sopa aims to stop online ad networks and payment processors from doing business with foreign websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement.
It could stop search engines from linking to the allegedly infringing sites. Domain name registrars could be forced to take down the websites, and internet service providers could be forced to block access to the sites accused of infringing.
A similar law, the Protect IP Act, is making its way through the US Senate.
Critics argue that the proposals are too broad and could lead to the closure of a range of sites.
The latest letter, published in several US newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and the New York Times, reads: "We've all had the good fortune to found internet companies and non-profits in a regulatory climate that promotes entrepreneurship, innovation, the creation of content and free expression online.
"However we're worried that the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act - which started out as well-meaning efforts to control piracy online - will undermine that framework."
The letter said that the legislation would require web services to monitor what users link to or upload.
The bill would also "deny website owners the right to due process" and "give the US government the power to censor the web using techniques similar to those used by China, Malaysia and Iran", the letter goes on.
"We urge Congress to think hard before changing the regulation that underpins the internet... Let's not deny the next generation of entrepreneurs and founders the same opportunities that we all had."
The letter was signed by Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams; Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake; Yahoo! co-founders David Filo and Jerry Yang; LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman; YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley; PayPal co-founder Elon Musk; Craigslist founder Craig Newmark; eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.
Another appeal, signed by 83 key internet engineersincluding father of the internet Vint Cerf, has also been sent to Congress.
"We cannot have a free and open internet unless its naming and routing systems sit above the political concerns and objectives of any one government or industry," it reads.
"Censorship of internet infrastructure will inevitably cause network errors and security problems. This is true in China, Iran and other countries that censor the network today; it will be just as true of American censorship."
A group of US politicians is proposing an alternative to Sopa that would see funding cut off to foreign websites accused of copyright infringements in a similar way to how the US ended Wikileaks' commercial operation.
They argue that the International Trade Commission (ITC) should take charge of combating piracy, instead of judges. The ITC would be tasked with reviewing claims of online infringement against foreign website owners, ordering them cut off from funding if the claims prove true.
While the US moves to tighten its copyright laws, the UK is aiming to relax its own.
The Intellectual Property Office has launched a consultation exercise intended, among other things, to allow the ripping of CDs to digital music players.
It follows recommendations from Professor Ian Hargreaves inhis review of intellectual property.
Other plans include allowing data mining of scientific research for non-commercial use and a licensing scheme to make it easier for digital services to gain access to copyrighted works. It also proposes relaxing copyright rules around "parody" videos which are increasingly popular on YouTube.
The move was welcomed by the British Library and watchdog Consumer Focus, but The Publishers' Association said it was concerned that the relaxation could make intellectual property theft easier.
The blaze at Wokefield Park, broke out at about 17:30 GMT in a ground floor linen area and spread to the roof.
The hotel, which features an 18th-Century building and modern executive centre, sits in 250 acres of land featuring a championship golf course.
Twelve fire engines were initially called to the hotel, near Mortimer, but they were scaled back to six at about 23:30, the fire service said.
Up to 100 guests of the hotel, part of the De Vere group, had been evacuated safely, Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue group manager Chris Bunyan said.
By midnight, he said the fire had been "fully surrounded and under control".
"There are six fire appliances still on site and crews are damping down and checking for hotspots," Mr Bunyan said.
"About 30 staff in total remain at the scene - I would say they will be there until at least three or four o'clock in the morning, with some there into the daylight hours."
The fire service said the initial fire was centred around a newer building on the site.
A spokesman from the hotel company said: "We can confirm that there has been a fire within a section of Wokefield Park.
"Our priority at this time is the safety of our guests and staff and we are working very closely with the fire brigade who are on site now.
"We will provide further information as it becomes available."
Fire engines that battled the blaze are from Whitley Wood, Dee Road, Caversham Road, Wokingham Road, Bracknell, Wokingham, Ascot and Newbury.
A further four are from Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service.
A spokesman for South Central Ambulance said there were no reported casualties.
The hotel's modern executive centre has 222 bedrooms and 30 meeting rooms, along with a pool, gym and sauna.
The historic mansion house has 87 bedrooms, 21 meeting rooms and a restaurant.
The islands are marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Dr John Rae.
He was born in 1813, and later signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company - with the fur trade in Canada at its peak - and charted huge areas of unmapped territory using his surveying skills.
A statue of Dr Rae will be unveiled on the Stromness harbour front.
It was in his search for traces of Capt Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition of 1845 - he and his entire crew perished - that Dr Rae condemned himself to obscurity.
In 1854, he recorded accounts from local Inuits, who said that some of Franklin's crew had resorted to cannibalism in a last desperate effort to stay alive.
He reported his findings in confidence to the British admiralty, but was horrified when they appeared in a newspaper article.
Franklin's widow - and much of Victorian society - was horrified at some of Dr Rae's finding, and his reputation never recovered.
The controversy overshadowed the fact that, during his searches for the Franklin expedition, Dr Rae had mapped out a navigable shipping route linking the north Atlantic to the Pacific.
He died in 1893 in relative obscurity.
Canada's native Cree called him 'Aglooka' - meaning 'he who takes long strides'.
His memorial lies in Orkney's St Magnus Cathedral.
Onyekuru, 20, scored 22 goals for the Belgian top-flight club last season and has been linked with Arsenal, West Ham United and clubs throughout Europe.
However, the player is understood to have had a medical with Everton on Monday.
Onyekuru is expected to be loaned to Anderlecht for the next 12 months to continue his development in Belgium.
He is regarded by Everton director of football Steve Walsh and manager Ronald Koeman as one for the future.
Onyekuru made his senior debut for Nigeria in the 3-0 friendly win over Togo earlier this month.
Everton are also hoping to make a formal announcement soon on their deal for Malaga's Spain Under-21 striker Sandro Ramirez, who has also had a medical and agreed personal terms.
They will pay £5.2m for 21-year-old Sandro, the transfer fee release clause inserted into his contract when he left Barcelona last summer, but official confirmation has been delayed by his involvement in the European Under-21 Championship, where Spain face Italy in the semi-final on Tuesday.
Everton have already signed England Under-21 goalkeeper Jordan Pickford from Sunderland for £30m and Ajax captain Davy Klaassen in a £24m deal.
Toffees boss Koeman and director of football Walsh are now expected to intensify their pursuit of Burnley's £25m-rated England defender Michael Keane and Swansea City's Iceland midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson.
They are also considering a £10m for Burnley striker Andre Gray.
The Tunisian criminal fired on police who asked him for ID during a routine patrol in the Sesto San Giovanni area in the early hours of Friday.
German authorities say fingerprints they provided have confirmed the dead man is Amri. They are trying to find out if he had accomplices.
Monday's attack on a Berlin Christmas market left 12 people dead and 49 injured.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was "relieved" that the attacker had been neutralised but added that terrorism was "a recurring threat to us".
Her government's main priority was to protect German citizens, she told journalists, adding that this case had raised "many questions".
"Further changes to our laws and regulations will have to be made," Mrs Merkel said at a news conference.
But leading Eurosceptics - including French National Front leader Marine Le Pen - have criticised open European borders, a result of the Schengen pact, for allowing a fugitive to move between countries.
Meanwhile, the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group has released a video showing Amri pledging allegiance to its leader, Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi.
He does not make any reference to the Berlin attack, which IS claimed soon afterwards. It is not clear when or where the video was filmed.
Shortly before releasing the video, IS acknowledged Amri's death in Milan.
When Italian police stopped the suspect, who was on foot, at 03:00 (02:00 GMT), he "immediately drew out a gun" and shot at the two policemen, Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti said.
Officer Cristian Movio was injured in the shoulder but his injuries are not life-threatening.
His junior colleague, Luca Scata, who had been in the police for just nine months, was the one who fired the shot which killed Amri.
German officials found Amri's fingerprints inside the truck that was used in Monday evening's attack.
Federal prosecutor Peter Frank said the focus of the criminal investigation into the killings now was to establish whether Amri had had a network of supporters who helped him to plan and carry out the attack or to flee.
Investigators are also trying to establish whether the gun used in the shooting in Milan is the same weapon used to kill the Polish driver of the truck, who was found dead with stab and gun wounds in the cab.
The attack took place at a busy Christmas market at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the west of the German capital.
According to the Italian news agency Ansa, Anis Amri travelled by train from France to Turin, and then took another train to Milan.
From the central station he travelled on to Sesto San Giovanni, a working-class area.
Amri, a Tunisian national aged 24, had served a prison sentence in Italy after being convicted of vandalism, threats and theft in 2011.
He was known to Italian authorities for his violent behaviour while imprisoned.
After his release he was asked to leave the country. He later arrived in Germany where he applied for asylum in April of this year.
His application was rejected by the German authorities but they were unable to deport him to Tunisia because he had no valid identification papers.
Chancellor Merkel has talked with the Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi about the case.
"I told my Tunisian counterpart that we need to speed up the deportation process," she told reporters.
Anis Amri was named as a suspect in the Berlin attack by German federal prosecutors, and a reward of up to €100,000 (£84,000; $104,000) was offered for information leading to his arrest.
The German authorities issued an alert for Amri on Wednesday after immigration documents identifying him were found in the cab of the lorry used in the deadly attack.
Amri's family had urged him to give himself up, and on Friday his mother criticised Italian and German security officials for not sending him back to Tunisia, where the rest of the family still live, in an interview with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
A spokesman for Germany's interior ministry would not comment on reports in the German media that Amri had been filmed at a mosque in Berlin in the hours after the attack.
Separately, police arrested two people in the German city of Oberhausen on suspicion of planning an attack on a shopping centre.
Mr Minitti praised the two police officers who had apprehended Amri, and said the operation showed how Italy's security system was working well.
"As soon as this person entered our country, a fugitive wanted across Europe, we immediately identified him and neutralised him," the minister said.
German Interior Minister Thomas Maiziere said the case again highlighted the importance of close European and transatlantic co-operation in combating terrorism.
The end of the manhunt was not the end of the investigation, he said, as the authorities were still seeking Amri's "network of accomplices".
Mr de Maiziere added: "The terrorist threat facing Germany has not changed, unfortunately it remains high."
Can police protect Christmas crowds?
Correction 5 January 2017: An earlier version of this article reported Angela Merkel's warning that Islamist terrorism was "a recurring threat to us". It has since been amended to clarify that she was referring to the "general threat" of terrorism.
A federal judge certified the legal proceedings, Reuters reports, saying investors who claim they lost money could pursue their claims as groups.
Facebook told the BBC that it was disappointed with the decision and it has launched an appeal against it.
The firm's initial public offering (IPO) in May 2012 raised $16bn (£10bn).
The investors say that by purchasing the firm's shares at inflated prices they lost money.
That year, its shares began trading on 18 May in New York at $38 per share, but the price fell to almost half the amount of $17.55 on 4 September.
The price stayed below the IPO price for more than a year, but shares ultimately rebounded and closed up at $107.26 on the Nasdaq index on Tuesday.
District judge Robert Sweet gave the lawsuits class action certification on 11 December, but the order was made public on Tuesday, Reuters reports.
Investors claim that Facebook omitted information about revised revenue projections and the impact that increased mobile usage, at a time when there was little advertising on mobile devices, would have on its revenues.
But Mr Sweet said Facebook provided "an impressive amount of evidence" to indicate that shareholders knew how mobile usage would affect the firm's revenue.
However, he rejected the tech giant's argument that shareholders should pursue their claims individually.
In a 55-page decision, Mr. Sweet said that given the extraordinary size of the case, allowing two subclasses "in fact adds more weight to the predominance of common questions and answers, practically negating the individualized questions raised".
Facebook told the BBC that it believes the class certification is "without merit".
The tech giant also said the decision "conflicts with well-settled Supreme Court and Second Circuit law", and it has already filed an appeal seen by the BBC.
"The suggestion that class members' knowledge might be inferred on a class-wide basis flouts due process," the appeal said.
O'Reilly retired from international duty last year with 231 caps, three Olympic gold medals and victory in the 2015 World Cup.
The 32-year-old has joined from FC Kansas City, having previously played for New Jersey Wildcats, Sky Blue FC and Boston Breakers.
The Gunners won the Women's FA Cup in 2016 and finished third in WSL 1.
O'Reilly, whose contract length has not been disclosed, told Kansas City's club website: "I will have conversations about my potential future in the NWSL when those conversations need to happen."
She made her international debut in March 2002 at the age of 17, is the second American to join a WSL club so far in January, following winger Crystal Dunn's move to Chelsea Ladies from Washington Spirit.
The 21-year-old had recently been on trial with the Championship club and played against them for Cheltenham Town in a pre-season friendly on Monday.
The former Austria Under-19 player made one league appearance for Austrian Bundesliga side Ried before joining German champions Bayern in 2014.
"We'll look to get him a loan," head coach Lee Johnson told City's website.
"There's no compensation for actually playing games. I believe he needs to earn his stripes and previously he's been a training goalkeeper really at a top club."
Speaking after Monday's friendly win, Johnson told BBC Radio Bristol: "He's athletic, he kicks the ball well and it's interesting to take a punt on one like that, because he's got a really good pedigree."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The Lions play 10 matches on the tour, with the first game taking place at the start of June, just a week after the Premiership and Pro12 finals.
"It is ludicrous they are playing 10 games," Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall told BBC Radio 5 live.
"No-one talks about it, because it's the Lions, and the Lions are special."
Lions chief executive John Feehan said the schedule is the same as 2009 and 2013 in terms of number of games and timing of the opening match.
Do they have to have 10 games? Could they start a week later?"
A number of Saracens players are set to be included in the Lions squad, and McCall is concerned about the physical impact the schedule could have on those involved.
"It's going to be tough, and something that needs to be looked at," he insisted.
Because of the schedule, the Lions will have limited preparation time and will be forced to fly out in separate parties, with those involved in domestic finals travelling to New Zealand in the week of the tour opener.
The third and final Test against the All Blacks takes place on 8 July, when clubs will be starting pre-season training ahead of the 2017-2018 campaign.
The Wasps boss Dai Young - a former Lions prop - agrees that the schedule is incompatible with the oft-stated priority of player welfare.
"It seems a bit dull really to have the first game [on that date], when they know the finals are in place," Young told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I'm a big supporter of the Lions, it's a fantastic thing which I was lucky enough to experience, and it's something that should be kept on.
Find out how to get into rugby union with our special guide.
"But do they have to have 10 games? Could they start a week later?
"I know what it meant to me as a player, and I'm sure they can give New Zealand a run for their money.
"But if our players are lucky enough to go, what are we going to pick up at the end? Players are going to need a lot of patching up."
Feehan said: "The season structures have been set in place for many years and the period between the end of the domestic/European season and the first tour match is the same as it was in 2009 and 2013.
"Likewise, the number of matches (10 games in New Zealand in 2017) was agreed with Sanzar [governing body of Super Rugby and The Rugby Championship in the southern hemisphere] a long time ago and is the same as the 2009 and 2013 tours.
"Ideally we want as much preparation time as possible but the domestic and European season is complex and we understand the pressures on clubs, provinces and regions who are hugely supportive of the Lions."
2017 British and Irish Lions tour fixtures:
3 June - Provincial union team (Toll Stadium, Whangarei)
7 June - Blues (Eden Park, Auckland)
10 June - Crusaders (AMI Stadium, Christchurch)
13 June - Highlanders (Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin)
17 June - Maori (International Stadium, Rotorua)
20 June - Chiefs (Waikato Stadium, Hamilton)
24 June - New Zealand (First Test, Eden Park, Auckland)
27 June - Hurricanes (Westpac Stadium, Wellington)
1 July - New Zealand (Second Test, Westpac Stadium, Wellington)
8 July - New Zealand (Third Test, Eden Park, Auckland)
Listen to 5 live on Tuesday evening from 1930 BST for a comprehensive preview of the Premiership and Pro 12 seasons. James Haskell and Jamie Roberts are among the studio guests.
Set up 50 years ago, Strawberry Studios in Stockport was one of the few UK recording spaces outside London.
Big names including The Stone Roses, Paul McCartney and The Buzzcocks all recorded there before it shut in 1993.
On Friday, memorabilia from the studio which was co-owned by 10cc, will be on display at Stockport Museum.
Music historian Peter Wadsworth said the exhibition would help people "understand the role Strawberry played in the Manchester music narrative", something he said "has been missing for too long".
Set up in 1967 in a 20ft square room above a record store in the town centre, it was initially called Inter-City Studios.
But after Peter Tattersall bought it for about £500 and Eric Stewart, then a member of the Mindbenders, became a partner, it was renamed Strawberry Recording Studios.
They moved it to a building in nearby Waterloo Road and began to offer technical facilities that were previously unavailable in the north of England.
Backing from 10cc's Graham Gouldman and artist-management firm Kennedy Street Enterprises then turned it into a hub of northern recording until it shut in 1993.
Factory Records producer Martin Hannett later used Strawberry as his studio of choice, paving the way for a new generation of post-punk Manchester music.
"The vision of people like Peter Tattersall and 10cc, who challenged the London dominance of the recording studio industry from their studio in Stockport, deserves to be recognised and remembered," Dr Wadsworth, from the University of Manchester, said.
Strawberry Studios: I Am in Love opens on Friday and will run for a year.
Father Gary Donegan said the threats were made against people accused by some individuals in their communities of "anti-social or criminal activity".
Two men have been shot dead in the city within the last month, while others have been injured in gun attacks.
"The people that perpetrate the crimes are coming out of the shadows to do these things," Fr Donegan said.
"And they disappear back in again."
On Monday night, takeaway deliver driver Dan Murray was murdered after being lured into a part of west Belfast by a bogus call, in what was a third shooting in the city in 24 hours.
Police have said it is too early to comment on a motive for the killing.
A post mortem examination is due to be carried out on Wednesday.
And last month, Michael McGibbon was killed in an alleyway shooting close to his north Belfast home.
Fr Donegan, of Holy Cross Church in Ardoyne, said he had been aware of 15 threats in the last few days.
He added: "That's on top of nine previous ones, and there was a mother who came to me whose son was out of the area she came from for 10 weeks.
"The people [making the threats] are saying these people are involved in either alleged anti-social or criminal activity.
"We have, in a civilised society, a way of dealing with that.
"Nothing justifies [murder], no matter what people have been involved in.
"If your way of dealing with alleged anti-social or criminal activity is to shoot the problem away, it's a very strange way of dealing in a civilised society."
Fr Donegan called for those responsible for the threats to speak publicly.
"What I've been saying is: 'Put somebody forward - what exactly do you actually stand for?'"
Under the scheme, migrants will be moved from Italy, Greece and Hungary to other EU countries.
But Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary voted against accepting mandatory quotas.
Czech President Milos Zeman said: "Only the future will show what a mistake this was."
The BBC's Europe correspondent Chris Morris says it is highly unusual for an issue like this - which involves national sovereignty - to be decided by majority vote rather than a unanimous decision.
The scheme to take in migrants appears on the surface to be voluntary, he says, although countries are likely to be given little choice in the matter.
In the latest reaction:
Under the EU's rules, a country that does not agree with a policy on migration imposed upon it could have the right to appeal to the European Council.
But Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, who chaired the meeting, said he had "no doubt" opposing countries would implement the measures.
Read Tuesday's developments as they happened
Follow BBC correspondents covering the crisis on Twitter
Finland abstained from the vote. Poland, which had originally opposed the proposal, voted for it.
"We felt that it was much better to negotiate, to negotiate all these conditions, which for us are important," Poland's Europe minister, Rafal Trzaskowski, told the BBC.
"We preferred to be an active member of this debate."
The scheme must now be ratified by EU leaders in Brussels on Wednesday.
Source: European Commission
Relocation deal explained
Hungary proposes its own deal
Why central Europe says 'No'
How is migrant crisis dividing EU countries?
EU migration: Crisis in graphics
Under the plan, Hungary will have to take in a share of migrants. Had it not opposed the scheme, it would have been exempt.
Hungary's anti-immigration Prime Minister Viktor Orban could present his own proposals before EU leaders on Wednesday.
The UN refugee agency said the scheme would be insufficient, given the large numbers arriving in Europe.
"A relocation programme alone, at this stage in the crisis, will not be enough to stabilise the situation," , UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said.
The number of those needing relocation will probably have to be revised upwards significantly, she said.
The UN says close to 480,000 migrants have arrived in Europe by sea this year, and are now reaching European shores at a rate of nearly 6,000 a day.
Criticism is already ringing out from countries that voted against the relocation scheme, but under EU law they are now obliged to take part. It is highly unusual - unprecedented, really - for a majority vote to be used in a situation like this, which involves basic issues of national sovereignty.
But the European Commission says it is determined to enforce what was agreed. What's not yet clear is what will happen if any country simply refuses to comply - and that has certainly been the suggestion from some capitals.
Will financial sanctions be sufficient? It is another sign that this crisis is testing European unity like no other.
After the meeting, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said: "Today is an important building block, but no more than that."
A statement from the European Commission said foreign ministers would now discuss reforms to the Dublin regulation, which demands that migrants register as refugees in the first EU country in which they arrive.
The UK has opted against taking part in the relocation scheme and has its own plan to resettle migrants directly from Syrian refugee camps.
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 Australian government has warned that terrorists may seek to target Anzac Day commemorations in Turkey later this month.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Middlesex will need to win their final match against Yorkshire to guarantee a first County Championship title since 1993 after drawing with Lancashire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Matty Russell's hat-trick helped Warrington end their six-game Super League losing streak, but they remain winless in 2017 after an error-strewn draw with Hull FC.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The offer of a £1m bonus for any horse winning big steeplechases at Haydock, Kempton and Cheltenham is to be renewed by the Jockey Club.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A police officer has described how he was attacked and stabbed after responding to a call in County Armagh.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Plans for a new £11m facility for Royal Navy reservists in Cardiff Bay have been revealed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man who tried to buy deadly ricin poison from the Dark Web after being inspired by the TV series Breaking Bad has been jailed for eight years.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Andreas Weimann got the only goal against Rotherham as Wolves edged to a nervy first win in eight games.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Most medical students are not being taught about the benefits of exercise for patients, research in the British Journal of Sports Medicine suggests.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The men accused of killing two British tourists on a Thai island have failed in their bid to see a confidential Metropolitan Police report.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Secret Service has moved out of Trump Tower in New York City to a street-level trailer in a dispute with the Trump Organization over a lease.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
US retailer American Apparel (AA) has filed for its second bankruptcy protection in just over a year.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Sri Lankan politician has been convicted and jailed for killing a British aid worker.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Burnley manager Sean Dyche believes the club's "business-like" approach to their Championship campaign paid off.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The founders of Google, Twitter and eBay have signed a strongly worded letter criticising controversial US legislation ahead of a debate in Congress.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Firefighters have been tackling a major fire at a Berkshire hotel.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
One of Scotland's great forgotten explorers is to be celebrated in Orkney this weekend.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Everton are close to signing Nigeria striker Henry Onyekuru in a £7m deal from KAS Eupen.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Berlin market attacker, Anis Amri, has been shot dead by police in Milan.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two US class action lawsuits against Facebook by shareholders alleging it hid growth concerns ahead of its 2012 public listing can now go ahead.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former USA midfielder Heather O'Reilly is to join Arsenal Ladies for the 2017 Women's Super League Spring Series.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bayern Munich goalkeeper Ivan Lucic has signed for Bristol City on a two-year deal for an undisclosed fee.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The schedule for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand next summer has been called "ludicrous" by leading figures in the English club game.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The legacy of a recording studio where 10cc, The Smiths and Joy Division created their iconic Manchester sound is being celebrated in an exhibition.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A north Belfast priest has said he is aware of 25 people who have been threatened with paramilitary violence.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Central European countries have reacted angrily after plans to relocate 120,000 migrants across the continent were approved by EU interior ministers.
| 39,511,162 | 14,789 | 747 | true |
The document presents the government's 12 "principles", which were recently laid out by Prime Minister Theresa May in a key speech in London.
Brexit Secretary David Davis unveiled the plan to the House of Commons.
It focuses on a series of themes, including trade, immigration, devolution and the Irish border.
DUP Deputy Leader Nigel Dodds said the "central stress" of the plan was the opportunity the UK's withdrawal from the EU offers to "strengthen the union".
"This is why the DUP supported Brexit, and this is precisely what Brexit lets the UK do," he added.
"I am glad that the government took the time to restate the obvious - that Brexit would have no impact on the Common Travel Area, or the unique relationship between British and Irish citizens.
"This long predated EU membership and will happily outlast it."
However, the White Paper received a less favourable reaction from Sinn Féin, which campaigned for the UK to remain inside the EU.
Michelle O'Neill, Sinn Féin's leader north of the border, said the government is "acting in its own self-interest".
"It's clear the only credible approach is for the north to be designated a special status within, rather than outside of, the EU," she said.
The SDLP's Mark Durkan was also heavily critical of what he saw in it, saying it was "padded out with platitudes" and there was "not a lot of solid content".
The Foyle MP added that the government was going in the wrong direction and had set a route to Brexit with "no sat-nav, map or compass".
Both Sinn Féin and the SDLP want Northern Ireland to have special status after Brexit, but such a move has been ruled out by Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire, who believes it is the "wrong approach".
The Ulster Unionist MP Danny Kinahan welcomed the publication of the White Paper, saying that "clarity" is what constituents and businesses "deserve in order to best plan for the future".
He added: "Now that we know the government's intentions, we will work tirelessly to hold them to their commitment to ensure a frictionless border, protect the rights of UK citizens in EU member states and secure the best trade deal possible for Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK."
MPs backed the European Union Bill by 498 votes to 114 on Wednesday evening after two days of debate.
The DUP and the Ulster Unionists supported the bill, while the SDLP and independent unionist Lady Sylvia Hermon voted against it.
MPs will discuss the bill in more detail next week, when it reaches the committee stage in the Commons, and the Labour Party has vowed to force through amendments.
|
Sinn Féin and the SDLP have criticised the government's plan for Brexit, but a White Paper published on Thursday has been welcomed by unionists.
| 38,848,649 | 615 | 36 | false |
"They kept us in detention for three days and took our fingerprints. Then they released us, so we tried again."
Iman and her family had just disembarked from a Greek coastguard vessel, en route (they hope) from Syria to Germany.
As winter turns into spring, the coastguard has begun picking up hundreds of refugees and migrants every day, as soon as their flimsy rubber boats enter Greek territorial waters.
It marks a change in policy. Previously the coastguard would intervene only if migrants were clearly in danger, or boats were about to sink.
It is one sign that the management of the migration crisis in the Greek islands is, gradually, becoming more organised.
Have EU promises been kept?
Why is EU struggling with migrants and asylum?
Desperate migrants plead to escape
But as EU leaders prepare to hold a summit meeting with Turkey, there is no evidence on Lesbos that the number of arrivals is about to fall.
"We haven't seen any significant changes in the attitude of the Turkish coastguard - we haven't seen more boats patrolling the area from their side," said Lt Comm Antonis Sofiadellis.
"It's a big concern for us," he added, "and if nothing changes, I think the flows will increase again."
That is one of the reasons why the political focus is beginning to shift, from a policy of prevention to a policy of swift return.
Asked on Friday if the plan was to send back all non-Syrians to Turkey in a systematic fashion, the EU's Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopolous said: "This is one of the main goals we have to achieve.
"The ones who come over to Europe and are in need of international protection will have it. The others will have to be returned," he said.
If that means Iraqis and Afghans are to be included, roughly half the arrivals so far this year would no longer be eligible to stay in Greece at all.
That would represent a much tougher European policy, as governments across the continent struggle to come to terms with the scale of the migration crisis.
But agreeing such an ambitious repatriation policy may be a lot easier than implementing it.
At every step, Turkey's full co-operation will be essential.
The Turkish authorities say they have already prevented some 24,000 migrants from leaving the country illegally in the first six weeks of this year.
But even if they are taken into custody, as Iman and her family were, most will simply try to cross the Aegean again as soon as they are released.
So in order to ease the mounting strains on the system, a large-scale readmissions policy needs to be part of a much broader package.
In particular, EU leaders are being urged to speed up the relocation to other parts of the Union of refugees who have already arrived in Greece.
Such a policy is already in place on paper. But it has barely got off the ground.
Countries like Hungary and Slovakia are in open revolt against a mandatory measure that was agreed last year under EU voting rules.
It is not the only issue that could make this summit a fractious affair.
The bottleneck in Greece, caused by border restrictions further north in the Balkans, has already provoked some sharp public exchanges. Thousands of refugees and migrants are stranded.
EU leaders will also have to wrestle with one chicken-and-egg conundrum in particular.
If the number of arrivals on the Greek islands were to fall significantly, Germany and others may be prepared over time to resettle hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees directly from camps in Turkey.
But the Turkish authorities appear to want to see evidence that the resettlement programme really will happen, before they commit extra resources to take on the smugglers in remote areas of the Aegean coast.
It is a time for hard bargains. But that time is running short.
It follows a tweet from Donald Trump that highlighted an "almost 40%" rise in bilateral trade between the two nations in the first quarter of 2017.
China didn't dispute that number, but state media suggested the president's comment was unfair and selective.
The US has been urging Beijing to put pressure on Pyongyang as tensions mount over Kim Jong-un's nuclear ambitions.
China is North Korea's only major ally, trading partner and aid donor.
Figures from China's Ministry of Commerce show that bilateral trade with North Korea was up 37.4% in the first three months of 2017, compared with the same period a year earlier.
That is roughly the figure President Trump quoted. But the ministry said that when the first five months of the year were taken into account, trade grew by only 13.7%.
And over the same period, imports of North Korean goods into China fell 9.3% to $720m the ministry said.
A report in the state-controlled Global Times suggested the first three months of 2017 were an exception, and came after three consecutive years of declining trade between the two countries.
Responding to Mr Trump's tweet, the paper's editorial said: "First quarter data cannot speak for the whole year".
It added China's trade with North Korea was now roughly equal to its trade with Mongolia, which has an eighth of the population.
China has banned the import of coal, iron ore, gold and rare earth minerals, and several other raw minerals from North Korea. It has also banned sales of jet fuel to North Korea.
The fresh trade data was released as tensions rose following North Korea's latest test of a long-range missile, which it is believed was capable of reaching Alaska.
President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are preparing for meetings at the G20 summit in Hamburg, where North Korea's nuclear aspirations are expected to be high on the agenda.
At a press conference in Poland before the summit, Mr Trump promised to confront North Korea "very strongly" and said the US was considering "severe things".
US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has indicated the US might take a tougher line on countries that have economic ties to North Korea.
China has called for restraint and made clear it did not want to be targeted by US sanctions.
Last week Washington imposed sanctions on several Chinese businesses that it claimed were supporting Pyongyang.
US authorities have also tried to seize millions of dollars from major US and European banks that might be linked to North Korea.
Prosecutors allege the banks have processed more than $700m of "prohibited" transactions since 2009.
The West Coast service will call at Watford Junction, Aston, Wolverhampton and Wembley Central.
The London Midland Class 350 model was unveiled by Taylor's widow Rita, at Watford Junction.
The firm said it was in "recognition of a man who made such a lasting mark on the sport across the country". Taylor died in January of a suspected heart attack, aged 72.
Visit the BBC's Local Live page for more Hertfordshire stories
The train's unit number is 350377, recognising the year 1977 when Taylor first joined Watford.
Head of West Coast services Steve Helfet said: "We can't really think of a better way to mark the passing of a great man than naming one of our newest trains after him.
"He served areas right the way across our network with distinction."
This is only the third train the company has named.
The first was named after Samaritans founder Chad Varah in an industry-wide initiative, and the second was named after the Lichfield Festival, an event with which the operator has had a longstanding partnership.
Mr Helfet said the idea had been put forward by one of its conductors and the company approached Taylor's family through Watford Football Club to gauge their opinion.
"We were delighted that within a matter of hours, Rita had confirmed that she was happy and thought it was a really fitting tribute," he said.
When the idea was announced, Scott Duxbury, the chairman of Watford Football club, said: "Alongside other planned tributes, this gesture is a mark of just how widely Graham's work and warm personality were appreciated across our town."
Graham Taylor's managerial career
Taylor led Lincoln City to the old Fourth Division title in 1975-76 before joining Watford
In his first spell as Hornets boss between 1977 and 1987, Taylor took the club from the Fourth Division to the top flight, and the team finished second to Liverpool in 1983. He also took them to the 1984 FA Cup final.
Appointed by Villa in 1987, he led them to promotion into the top tier and took them to second place in 1990.
He became England boss in 1990 but resigned after the team failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup
Taylor returned to club management with a brief stint at Wolves before again taking over at Watford, leading them to two promotions in as many years as he guided them back into English football's top flight.
He returned to manage Villa in 2002 but retired a year later.
Cyril Hanouna used a feminine tone of voice and tricked those he spoke to into revealing their sexual fantasies.
One of the victims was left in a "state of appalling distress", LGBT campaigners said.
They accused the presenter of homophobia.
Nearly 20,000 complaints about the segment on Mr Hanouna's nightly show Touche pas à mon poste (TPMP - "Don't touch my TV" in English) had been made to the media regulator by Monday afternoon, reports said.
Mr Hanouna had posed online as a bisexual man called Jean-José who was "very sporty and well endowed" and "liked being insulted", Ouest France newspaper reported.
He engaged in suggestive chat with the men who responded as guests, a studio audience and more than a million viewers watched.
Nicolas Noguier of Le Refuge, an association that works with young victims of homophobia, wrote on Facebook that one hotline operator had spent most of the night talking to one of the men Mr Hanouna deceived.
"We were devastated by his tears and his fear of being found out by his parents and those around him," Mr Noguier said.
Joël Deumier, president of SOS Homophobie said the segment was "scandalous, shameful and homophobic".
"When you let people get away with behaviour like this, you trivialise homophobic discourse. The sketch was deeply homophobic," he said, quoted by the Gay Times.
Mr Hanouna said on Friday that he felt "hurt" by allegations of homophobia and said it was "everything he had been fighting against for years and the opposite of TPMP".
The presenter had also used a photo of YouTube star Max Emerson's torso for the profile picture without permission, the Gay Times reported. Mr Emerson has spoken out on social media, saying he hopes Mr Hanouna "learns a lesson".
Mr Hanouna's show has been the subject of complaints about sexism and homophobia before.
In October a male guest on his show kissed a female guest on her breast after she rebuffed his requests for a kiss.
That prompted more than 250 people, including then women's rights minister Laurence Rossignol, to complain to the regulator.
The duo made a combined 232 appearances for the Blues as players.
Rees joins from the Dragons as a backs coach, while Robinson will work as a kicking coach.
"I'm delighted to welcome Nicky and Richie to Cardiff Blues," coach Danny Wilson said. "They bring a wealth of experience and have a strong association with the region."
"I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the Dragons but when the opportunity arose to come back to Cardiff Blues it was one I simply could not turn down as I have such a big connection with the region," Rees said. "It is great to be back and I'm really excited about this role."
"I really enjoyed my involvement on the coaching side last year and this is a great opportunity for me," Robinson added.
Robinson and Rees will work with the academy and first team squad.
Yet for several hours, that is what pro-government media outlets and even the current president's handpicked successor, Daniel Scioli, were doing.
"Scioli wins," read the rolling red electronic strap on the television screens in the packed media annex at the Front for Victory movement's headquarters in Buenos Aires.
Four hours after the polling stations had closed, Mr Scioli took to the stage, thanked his loyal supporters and set out his programme for government. Only indirectly and very subtly did he refer to the possibility that he might not have secured a clear first-round win and there might be the need for a run-off vote.
Two hours later, Mr Scioli had failed to return to the stage - as party officials had promised he would. With no exit polls or official results, there were whispers and rumours that things might be "going south" for the government.
The results, when they finally came, had everyone in shock.
Mr Scioli and his centre-right opponent, Mauricio Macri, were neck and neck.
The powerful Peronist party machine that dominates Argentine politics from the smallest provinces to the presidential Casa Rosada (Pink Palace) had been humbled.
The party faithful, who at the start of the evening had been in typically boisterous mood, were rolling up their huge banners and trudging out of the hall. Some were even in tears, fearful that this was the end of their progressive utopian dream.
Yes, they knew that their beloved Cristina - as the sitting President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, is popularly known - had to stand down after eight years in power.
But through her chosen successor, Mr Scioli, the project of popular but expensive welfare programmes and interventionist politics that define the "Kirchnerist" government would surely continue.
The future course for Argentina looks much more uncertain today.
Not only did the ruling party fail to dominate the presidential vote, they also lost their congressional majority and - arguably as hurtful as anything else - the polemical government minister Anibal Fernandez, one of President Fernandez's top allies, failed in his bid to become governor of Argentina's most important province, Buenos Aires.
Divisions within the Peronist party are already being laid bare.
Some of those close to President Fernandez, the ultra loyal Campora movement, have always been lukewarm about Mr Scioli's ability to step into her shoes. They were suspicious, in particular, about his commitment to continue her radical but divisive style of government.
Others within the wider party argue it was that combative but divisive style of politics, personified by President Fernandez, that led to the meltdown.
As one newspaper headline succinctly but correctly put in the morning after the night before: "Two countries."
As the banners were falling to the floor at the governing party rally, across town at Mr Macri's Cambiemos (Let's Change) headquarters they were blowing up balloons, dancing on stage and promising a bright, very different Argentina.
Politicians are, of course, full of promises and some of the slogans in this election have been particularly bland and uninspiring, but Mr Macri and his movement have tapped into a deep dissatisfaction that opinion polls and overconfident government ministers missed or ignored.
Mr Macri, the former mayor of Buenos Aires, appealed for independent and undecided voters to back him in November's second round, saying that Argentina had clearly voted for change.
He will be painted, in these interceding weeks, as a charlatan who wants to slash government spending and abandon the expensive welfare programmes that are so popular with many of Argentina's Peronist-supporting working classes.
But he also recognises that the country is in desperate need of reform.
Inflation is running at worryingly high levels, the Central Bank coffers are almost empty and relations with the important agricultural sector are at an all time low.
Mr Scioli may indeed recover to become the next president of Argentina, with the help of the party machine and the votes of those who supported the independent Peronist candidate Sergio Massa in the first round.
But this is a changed country.
Whoever occupies the Casa Rosada in December, when President Fernandez returns to her Patagonian ranch, will need to be a bridge builder - one who can mend fences between conflicting sectors of Argentine society as well as rebuilding the country's reputation overseas.
With an extra number in the import quotas (now up to 14), coaches have been furiously signing up top names from Canada, the United States, Russia, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Slovakia.
Four top-level clubs north of the border - Braehead Clan, Edinburgh Capitals, Dundee Stars and Fife Flyers - plus Manchester Storm make up the Gardiner Conference.
Incidentally, the Gardiner Trophy for which they compete was named after Charlie Gardiner, the Edinburgh-born netminder who captained Chicago Blackhawks to the Stanley Cup in 1934.
Five more teams competing in the Erhardt Conference and the top eight points scorers from the two sections progress to the play-offs and battle it out for a place in the grand final at Nottingham's National Ice Centre in April.
All 10 Elite League sides play each season for the Challenge Cup, so there is plenty of on-ice game time to give you shivers, even if you do remember the thermals.
As the first fixtures loom, BBC Scotland caught up with the Scottish clubs to see how each is shaping up for the 2016/17 season.
Head coach Marc LeFebvre admits that Dundee Stars have had a tough time reeling in the big fish as import numbers increase, given the financial implications, but believes they are putting a strong side on the ice.
"One thing we wanted to do was improve our goal-tending and I think we've done that with Joe Fallon," he said. "He's got a great CV.
"I think our defence is a lot better, a lot more youthful back there, and we've added more size, and up front we've got a lot faster.
"Ice hockey is a pretty fast game, so we want to be a bit faster than we were last year. So we've improved in a lot of areas.
"We want to win our conference - four points away from winning it last year - so that's one of our targets and again make the play-offs, like we did last year, but take it one step further and get into the final-four weekend and try and qualify for the cup play-offs as well.
"We have small targets that we want to reach - and exceed them.
"When we do the recruiting, we try and look for the diamonds in the rough to compete. It makes it harder, but it's a good challenge."
Head coach Todd Dutiaume promises a more offensive Fife Flyers line-up this season as they hope to make it third time a charm in the play-offs.
"We've seen some highlights and been keeping an eye on the signings," he said. "Once again, the league keeps pushing forward in the standard, so we're definitely going to have to be right on pace to keep up.
"My initial impression of the dressing-room is one of unity and the guys are having a great time. So, if we can get that to transfer onto the ice, I'm really excited about the upcoming season.
"Last year was a heartbreaker - tying for Conference and losing out to a great Braehead team on a tie-breaker. We want to challenge for that title again and obtain that goal of obtaining some silverware for Fife.
"Every other competition we want to improve on - our league standing, we want to get further in the Challenge Cup competition and, if we are fortunate enough to get to that final four again, I'd love to see the Fife Flyers in a final, where anything can happen.
"I know that's asking an awful lot. But, if we can push on as a group and get to a point where we can give ourselves even a chance of success, I'd be absolutely thrilled with that."
Scott Neil, Edinburgh Capitals' general manager, admits it was a very frustrating end to 2015/16 but says they have made improvements to make them more competitive and hopefully more consistent this season.
"At the start of last season, we had a great a great run of victories - most consecutive wins ever in a season - and we were fourth in the league at one time looking very strong and unfortunately we went on a slide we couldn't recover from," he said.
"Hopefully we've got more depth in different areas this year, I think we're a little bit more versatile. We've got guys who can play good defensive role - and guys who show up offensively.
"Our top pedigree players are Jared Stall, ex-NHL and Russia's Pavel Vorobyev, who also played in the NHL."
Head coach Ryan Finnerty believes Braehead Clan have a good mix of "size", "skill" and "toughness" and is looking forward to seeing that transfer onto the ice.
"I think, on paper, I feel really good about it," he said.
"We set out what we wanted to do at the start of our recruitment process and we wanted to get a bit bigger and bit stronger but make sure we kept that skill level we've had this last couple of years.
"This season is our season to take that next step. We've been knocking on the door - we're one point away, five points away. This is our year.
"Everybody has upgraded, but that's our motto this year - we're tired of being the bridesmaids.
"We've been coming so close and so close and haven't been able to close it off and this is the year we want to do it. This is the year we feel we have to do it.
"Our fans have been patient, but everybody wants that success, including myself.
"We really put a lot of emphasis this year on winning and that's what we want. We want to win trophies, we want to experience that success and we want to bring it to Braehead."
The 34-year-old is his country's most capped player with 121 appearances, having made his debut in 2002.
He was part of the Czech side that reached the semi-final at Euro 2004, losing to eventual champions Greece.
"When I was a kid, my ultimate dream was to play for the national team at least once," he told Arsenal's website.
"Having done it so many times makes me really proud."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.
The 19-year-old was at London Irish last season where he progressed through their academy, but he failed to make a first team appearance for the club.
He had agreed to join National League One side Darlington Mowden Park this summer but has now agreed a long-term deal with the Sharks.
"I definitely see this as a chance to play first-team rugby," he said.
"There aren't too many hookers here so I hope there will be opportunities to play for the first team and then I hope to kick on."
Until now, SNCF has said its workers were forced to assist in deportations by the occupying German army.
The change of language is clearly linked to the lucrative market for high-speed rail contracts in the US.
The company has been criticised in the US for failing to apologise for its involvement.
French state-owned trains and state-paid rail workers were responsible for carrying some 76,000 Jews from France to Germany and the east in World War II. Only a few of them returned.
Ever since, SNCF has insisted that it was not responsible: the rail operator was requisitioned by the German occupier and workers had no choice but to obey.
But now on a trip to the United States, the rail company's chief executive Guillaume Pepy has issued a statement that goes much further.
He said that SNCF expressed its "profound sorrow and regret" for the consequences of its actions.
As a statement of contrition, it is unprecedented, but it does not come out of the blue.
In two US states - California and Florida - SNCF is hoping to win multi-billion dollar contracts to build high-speed rail links, similar to the ones that it has operated for years in France.
However, in both states there have been efforts by some lawmakers and Jewish groups to bar from the bidding any concern that does not come clean about its wartime role in the deportations.
The French company is clearly the target of these moves, which have been decried by some as patently protectionist in motivation.
The protest at Aberthaw, Vale of Glamorgan also called for more renewable energy jobs.
In September, the European Court of Justice found it had been emitting illegal levels of air pollution.
Plant operators RWE said they were investing £5m in technology that would "significantly lower" the station's toxic nitrogen oxides emissions.
A spokesman said the station would also see a reduction in generation levels this year to ensure it can continue to provide electricity competitively while operating within its Environmental Permit.
But Alyson Austin, from the United Valleys Action Group, said this was "a sticking plaster for a severed arm, it's just not good enough".
She said: "We need to put something positive in place of Aberthaw. It is inevitable Aberthaw is going to close.
"Renewable energy could provide thousands of jobs."
She called for Aberthaw workers to be "re-skilled" now, to allow this to happen.
Her action group was joined at the protest by Reclaim the Power, Bristol Rising Tide and the Coal Action Network.
An RWE spokesman said: "The combination of fewer operating hours and a lowering of emissions will ensure that Aberthaw Power Station can provide security of electricity supply for Wales and beyond into the 2020s.
"UK generation margins have fallen to record low levels a number of times so far this winter, with associated warnings from National Grid.
"Whilst Aberthaw provides an important bridge to the UK's vision of a renewable future, in the short to medium term it is an important partner to balance renewable technologies and help to keep the nation's lights on."
He added: "For the more than 200 men and women who work at the site, the impact of the changed operations means that staff structures are being updated and it is, regrettably, a challenging time for them."
The bank has set out plans to abandon the requirement placed on it by the Commission in 2009 that it should sell a large portion of its business.
This is to enable competition to be improved.
RBS carved out the division now known as Williams and Glyn, with assets of £20bn.
But it has failed either to find a trade buyer for the division, or to float it on the stock exchange, at least by the deadline of next December.
It has, however, spent more than £1.5bn trying to get it ready for separation, much of that on the complex process of disentangling the IT platform and creating a new one.
The divestment was one of several requirements from the European Commission, in giving permission for the government bail-outs of RBS in 2008 and 2009.
It also had to sell some overseas operations and divisions, slim its balance sheet substantially, and it was barred from further acquisitions. It has met the other requirements.
The plan now is to retain that division with RBS, and instead to help rival banks with a £750m payment into an independent fund.
This is to boost switching of small and medium-scale enterprise (SME) customers away from RBS, while the bigger bank would give branch facilities to those smaller rivals.
RBS funding would also help develop financial technology for the wider banking sector.
The Royal Bank plan, put forward by the Treasury for approval by the European Commission, is seen as so unusual that it is difficult to know how or whether it would work.
The European Commission has begun a month-long in-depth investigation, inviting the UK government as well as others to submit their views.
Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, said: "RBS is the leading bank in the UK SME banking market and received significant state support during the financial crisis.
"The commission is now seeking the views of all interested parties on an alternative package proposed by the UK to replace RBS's commitment to divest Williams and Glyn.
"We can only accept this proposal if it has the same positive effect on competition as the divestment of Williams and Glyn would have had. This is important for fair competition."
The Armagh paper ran a story this week on DRD Minister Danny Kennedy's railway service consultation exercise.
Getting a gripping headline out of a story like that might have been a tough chore for most journalists.
The Gazette, however, ran with "Over £100m! Is this the rail price? Is this just fantasy? Caught up in land buys, No escape from bureaucracy!".
In case you're one of the few people reading this who doesn't recognise that ancient call to prepare to bang your head up and down, here are the first few lines of the fabled Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen:
"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality".
The Ulster Gazette's deputy editor Richard Burden is the man responsible for that outstanding bit of glam rock pastiche.
"I just always liked to do that type of headline. If there's a film, a song, a lyric - anything that springs to mind and it lends itself, you'll try to fit the words in round it," he says.
But why choose Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody? Is it some deep and meaningful commentary on Danny Kennedy's plans for our rail network?
"They're my favourite all time band, so it was an obvious thing for me.
"It's one of those iconic songs, the tempo and the lyrics lend themselves to the headline. You recognise it right away, it's not an obscure song, I think it's pretty obvious what it's on about.
"Campaigners in Armagh might say that the amount of money involved or suggested doesn't add up and it just lent itself to the lyric, you know - is it a real price or is it just fantasy?".
Richard and the Gazette are no strangers to the art and science of witty headline wrangling.
"I like to do unusual headlines, something that catches the imagination; it gets more people to read the actual story," he says.
"There's no point telling the whole story basically in the headline, because then there's no need to read what comes after it."
Richard seems most pleased with his newest baby, but there are a few past masterpieces which would do any hack proud.
"We had one story on an upturn in Christmas sales. The headline was The Tills Were Ringing Out For Christmas Pay."
"Asda had been interested in acquiring the former Drumadd Army Barracks and decided to withdraw from that as Tesco had expressed an interest in town, the obvious one there had to be Asda la Vista. It's a bit of fun, but it does get people talking."
When covering a controversy over Armagh council increasing parking charges at one of their facilities, the Gazette dubbed it The Charge of the Tight Brigade.
A debate about introducing a one-way system around the Mall in Armagh gave Richard another chance to dip into his big bag of lyrics.
"That had to be One Way or Another, obviously going for the Blondie reference.
"We've had a lot of toxic waste dumping and that going on around south Armagh. There was one at Carnagh forest so the headline there was Forest Dump.
Richard admits that sometimes, he's had to sacrifice his art for the greater good.
"There's probably a few that come close to the knuckle. We've looked at it and we thought 'oh no we'll not go ahead with that'," he says.
"You have to ask yourself too: is it offensive? Will people take it the wrong way? You make a collective decision."
Among some of his greatest hits, Richard recalls:
And Richard's Bohemian Rhapsody tribute in this week's paper has now attracted official approval.
"We were giving the minister the opportunity to respond - he was going to write a platform piece. He couldn't help commenting on the headline - he admitted he thought it was very good.
"It was very nice that Danny Kennedy would concede that he was quite amused by the headline himself."
Any way the wind blows...
Harry Thrush, 92, travelled the region to pay his respects to soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, most of whom he did not know.
His family had invited all military personnel to attend his own funeral.
Daughter Janet Smith said: "It would mean the world to him to have that same representation at his funeral."
She said her father, a World War Two veteran from Leeds who died on Christmas Eve, wanted to "pay respects to the young soldiers and comrades" who had been repatriated back home from both wars.
"I think it did mean a lot to those families," she said.
"After I lost my mum he spent more time at remembrance parades and pursuing interests with the likes of the British Legion, so that had become a big part of his life in the last few years."
Ms Smith said she had hoped the same gesture would be returned to him from "some of the families whose lives he had touched".
"It's just the send off he would want and it's just an absolute fitting tribute to my dad."
Mourners joined a procession from the veteran's home in Robin Hood to St Mary's Parish Church in Beeston, where the funeral service took place.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim had said he thought as many as 14,000 teachers were associated with terror activities.
Turkey, alongside Western countries, regards the PKK as terrorists.
Tens of thousands of school workers and private teachers were purged separately after a failed coup in July.
Tens of thousands of people have died in a decades-long insurgency by the PKK, who want more self-rule for Kurdish people.
Who are the PKK?
Who are the Kurds?
Who did Turkey purge after the coup?
Turkey's education ministry said 11,285 teachers had been suspended and were on paid leave pending an investigation.
The state-run Anadolu news agency said they were suspected of activities "in support of the separatist terrorist organisation and its affiliates".
It also said the number was meant to grow to 14,000 after an investigation carried out alongside local governors' offices.
It is not clear what part of the country the suspended teachers are mainly from, but Turkey's Kurdish population is concentrated in the south-east, near the borders with Syria, Iraq and Iran.
There are 850,000 teachers in Turkey, meaning the suspensions only affect less than 2% of teachers.
However earlier this year, 15,200 education ministry officials lost their jobs and 21,000 private school teachers had their licences revoked, amid a crackdown on followers of cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed for the failed 15 July coup.
Amy Smith, 17, six-month-old daughter Ruby-Grace Gaunt and friend Edward Green, also 17, died in the blaze at Langley Mill in Derbyshire last June.
Peter Eyre and his sons Simon, 24, and Anthony Eyre, 22, are alleged to have deliberately started the fire in an act of revenge.
All three deny three counts of murder.
Jurors previously heard Ruby-Grace's father, 18-year-old Shaun Gaunt, and another teenager who survived the fire were also inside the flat, but had escaped with the help of neighbours.
Nottingham Crown Court heard that prior to the fire, Mr Gaunt and a group of friends visited another of Peter Eyre's sons - Aaron Henshaw - after a friend told him he had stolen his Piaggio Zip moped, which went missing "in March or April".
Giving evidence, Mr Gaunt told the court he heard Peter Eyre on the phone to Mr Gaunt's friend during the row outside the defendants' home in Sandiacre, Derbyshire, when he said: "You need to sort this... out before I body bag the lot of you."
It is alleged Peter Eyre, 44, made the comments.
"I believe it was aimed at everyone," Mr Gaunt said.
A jury was told Mr Gaunt drank between 15 and 17 bottles of the tequila-flavoured beer Desperados, with Mr Gaunt saying he had been drinking "most of the day" before the fire.
Mr Gaunt and his friends continued to "drive around" in Mr Green's Peugeot 106 before going back to the defendants' house just before 01:30 GMT, because a friend was "adamant" Mr Gaunt's moped was there.
It is claimed by Mr Gaunt that after his friend demanded to know where the moped was, Peter Eyre came outside with a large lump hammer and said: "I'll show you".
Mr Gaunt said he responded by smashing a bottle of Desperados he was carrying "for protection".
Mr Gaunt then told the court as the group were driving off, he saw someone get into a black Skoda parked outside the Sandiacre house and begin to follow them.
The teenager said the car was driving just "a few feet" behind them, with the Peugeot itself travelling at "about 80mph" at the same time.
Shaun Smith QC, defending Peter Eyre, cross examined Mr Gaunt, and said any comment about body bags had not been made until Mr Gaunt and his friends had left the house.
The defence also disputed there was a car chase following the confrontation.
The trial continues.
Ms McCall, who has been at EasyJet for seven years, will take over the running of the commercial broadcaster early next year. ITV's previous chief executive, Adam Crozier, left in June.
She will be paid an annual salary of £900,000, plus pension and possible bonus and incentives.
Before running EasyJet, Ms McCall was chief executive at the Guardian.
She also is a non-executive director at fashion company Burberry, sits on the board of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and is a trustee at the Royal Academy.
Ms McCall said the decision to leave EasyJet had been "really difficult", but after seven years at the company the time was right for a move: "The opportunity from ITV felt like the right one to take. It is a fantastic company in a dynamic and stimulating sector."
Straight talking, no-nonsense, charming, effective. Those are some of the descriptions I've heard of Dame Carolyn McCall who this morning confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in British business that she will become the new CEO of ITV.
For the customers and shareholders of EasyJet, her track record is impressive. Since taking over in 2010, passenger numbers have grown 56% and the share price has tripled.
But it's perhaps her impact on the industry as a whole that will prove most lasting. Michael O'Leary freely admitted that EasyJet had "wiped the floor" with Ryanair - forcing his company into a rethink on its approach to customer relations.
EasyJet doesn't like the terms "budget" or "no frills" - preferring the word "value". EasyJet played a big part in redefining what that word meant to customers and in doing so ruffled the feathers of the big birds of aviation like BA, Lufthansa and KLM.
ITV's outgoing CEO Adam Crozier was considered a great success and will be a tough act to follow at ITV but tough is another word you could chuck in to describe Carolyn McCall.
ITV chairman Peter Bazalgette said: "In a very impressive field of high calibre candidates, Carolyn stood out for her track record in media, experience of an international operation, clear strategic acumen and strong record of delivering value to shareholders. I'm delighted we'll be working together at ITV."
John Barton, EasyJet chairman, said: "I speak for absolutely everyone at EasyJet in saying we will be sorry to see Carolyn leave and that we wish her well in her exciting new role."
Her bonus plan on joining ITV will be up to a maximum of 180% of salary, and there will be a long-term incentive plan up to 265% of salary.
ITV described it as "broadly the same remuneration opportunity" to Mr Crozier's.
The broadcaster's shares were the top riser on the FTSE 100 in early trading, jumping almost 3% to 180p.
Analysts at Liberum said it was a positive appointment, noting that she had been credited with transforming EasyJet's fortunes over the past seven years.
"She is seen as being very good with people, at building a strong management team around her and at the ability to 'work the room'," Liberum said.
"She also has very good links on the government side, which should be very helpful in areas such as retransmission revenues for ITV."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Rogers required 14 stitches in a facial gash following a challenge by Tyrone's Tiernan McCann seconds after the opening throw-in at Armagh.
Slaughtneil man Rogers had the stitches inserted on Sunday and will almost certainly be out for a number of weeks.
Lynn suffered a suspected broken ankle late in the game after a fine display.
Greenlough club-man Lynn's injury appeared to come after an innocuous challenge but the ailment will almost certainly rule him out for several months and end his hopes of featuring in the Football League which starts this weekend.
Rogers, meanwhile, also looks certain to miss a number of Derry's Division 2 matches which start with Sunday's opener against Fermanagh at Owenbeg.
Slaughtneil player Rogers was named at midfield for Saturday's contest and the match video suggests that he may have been caught by McCann's right elbow immediately after challenging for the initial throw-in.
After the ball was thrown in, McCann comes in from the side and the footage shows the Tyrone man clattering into Rogers although the Red Hand county player appears to be focusing on the ball rather than the Derry midfielder when the contact is made.
Rogers' misfortune is also a blow to Queen's as he would have been in line to play for the Belfast university in the Sigerson Cup opener at Maynooth on Tuesday.
Despite requiring the 14 stitches, Rogers attempted to make light of the incident in a tweet on Sunday.
McCann was the involved in controversy last summer when he theatrically collapsed to the turf after having his hair ruffled by Monaghan's Darren Hughes in the All-Ireland quarter-final at Croke Park.
The Tyrone player's reaction to Hughes' action led to the Monaghan man being sent off.
After the outcry following the incident, McCann was handed an eight-week suspension by the GAA's Central Competitions Control Committee but the ban was later ruled out of order following the Tyrone player's appeal.
In terms of the McKenna Cup decider, the Ulster Council may feel the need to peruse several incidents in the match video, including the second-half fracas which led to two dismissals and Derry manager Damian Barton being ordered to the stand.
That particular incident flared up after a dangerous sliding challenge by Derry forward Daniel McKinless on Tyrone defender Ronan McNamee.
Media playback is not supported on this device
That particular incident flared up after a dangerous sliding challenge by Derry forward McKinless on Tyrone defender Ronan McNamee.
The Tyrone man reacted by pushing over McKinless, and appearing to make contact with the Derry man's throat in the process.
As other players and Barton joined the fray, Tyrone goalkeeper Niall Morgan attempted to pull up McKinless up off the ground and the Derry boss then pushed the Red Hand keeper before, in turn, being jostled by Cathal McCarron.
After order was restored by Cavan referee Noel Mooney, McKinless and McNamee were both handed yellow cards which resulted in the Tyrone man being sent off as he had been cautioned earlier.
Derry boss Barton was also ordered to the stand while Cathal McCarron received a straight red card for his part in the melee.
McKinless was sent off late in normal time after picking up a second yellow card although he was able to rejoin the fray during extra-time, which is regarded as a new game under GAA rules.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Stephen Hunt has lodged a formal complaint with the FA after months of argument over funding and facilities.
"West Ham need to be fined until they start to act like a 21st century club," he told BBC Sport.
In response, West Ham claim Hunt has "threatened the club" and "refused to align" with their principles.
The Hammers also say they are dedicated to equality in sport but the current arrangement with Hunt has not worked and they plan to take over the running of the women's team in due course.
Hunt has listed a number of issues he has with West Ham.
He claims they have stopped his team from finding their own sponsors and says they are short on funds because they had to buy their own kit.
He alleges West Ham promised a cheque to cover the costs but the money has not come through and the club have stopped answering their emails.
Hunt also claims his team, who play in the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division, the third tier of women's football, have to train by the side of a road as West Ham will not let them use the gym.
He adds that they also cannot afford a physio or a bus to take them to matches and are playing in last season's home kit, with the names of last season's players crossed out on the back.
"I think West Ham have breached the underlying objectives of the FA to promote equality and grassroots football at all levels," he said.
"Initially, what I thought was a lack of interest I now understand is a positive intent by senior people at West Ham to block the growth of West Ham Ladies.
"It's beyond negligence, it is trying to starve us of any sort of funding."
West Ham issued a statement insisting that "supporting, nurturing and facilitating the women's game is very important" to them and claim they are "a club with strong community principles and a dedication to equality in sport".
The statement also explains the club's version of events.
"The day-to-day management of West Ham United Ladies FC was transferred to a third party some time ago and unfortunately it is an arrangement that has simply not worked," it read.
"Mr Hunt has refused to align with West Ham's principles throughout his tenure as chairman and has, on a number of occasions, threatened the club.
"The club have been working for some time on plans to take West Ham United Ladies FC 'in house' and, in light of Mr Hunt's most recent deeply concerning comments, we will now be seeking to do so at the earliest opportunity.
"We will, of course, seek to maintain the current West Ham United Ladies FC squad personnel where possible, and provide them with the best possible support and management moving forward.
"As a result of this, women's football at West Ham United will become bigger, better and stronger, as we continue our commitment to the growth and development of the women's game, both on and off the pitch."
In response, Hunt denies he has threatened the club and says he would be happy to hand the women's team over to the club if he got guarantees and assurances that the ladies are protected.
Lord Warner was named by the government 12 months ago after years of the department being rated inadequate.
In 2013, it was branded a "national disgrace", but last year the council pledged £9.2m to improve practices.
Lord Warner said there had been "significant improvements", but more was needed.
Since 2006 there have been 24 serious case reviews in the area.
"I think they're safer than they were 12 months ago and certainly Birmingham City Council has put a lot more money into those services, not before time I might add, but they're not as safe as they could be," he said.
"The issue is around have they got enough social workers, particularly enough experienced social workers, and is the social work practice good enough? And the answer to both those questions is it's not good enough yet.
"They've made children's services the top priority for the council and at a time of great financial hardship they've committed to big increases in the funding for children's services all the way up to 2017 and 18."
He said changes meant the council, the local NHS and police were all working much better together and there were about a third more children being referred than a year ago.
Despite offering increased salaries, the council said earlier this month it was still struggling to appoint enough experienced staff.
"What's happened since last year, when I arrived, is certainly Birmingham has improved the front door - the people who receive the referrals and the contacts of which children are at risk," Lord Warner said.
In August, Bernadette McNally was appointed to take over running children's services in Birmingham, but in October she said she was no longer interested in the role.
An interim boss was found and in February Alastair Gibbons took over as executive director, the fourth since 2009.
Despite the "hiccup" surrounding Ms McNally's appointment, Lord Warner said improvements had also been made in management.
However, he said changing the culture would "take time".
The peer is due to finish his time as commissioner to Birmingham's children's services at the end of May.
Only about 20% of loans come directly from banks in America, with the rest being supplied by investors who buy debt that is parcelled into bonds and sold to them.
In Europe, by contrast, 80% of loans come from banks.
So when the West's banks were hobbled in 2008 by the crisis, this was much more devastating to the supply of credit and the functioning of economies on this side of the Atlantic than on the other.
The flow of funds to companies and individuals recovered much faster in America than in Europe, because - spurred by unprecedented money creation by the US Federal Reserve - the credit tap was kept open by investors in the way it wasn't to the same extent by banks.
That is why quite a lot of the thrust of government policy here is not only to strengthen banks, so that they can supply precious loans needed by businesses and households, but also to encourage the establishment of other sources of credit, to reduce the potentially disastrous dependence of our economy on banks.
But here is the thing (as I am apparently wont to say).
The Treasury's proposed pension reforms could significantly reduce the supply of credit to companies and to the government from a source other than our banks - it could shrink what little competition there is to the banks in the UK in the business of credit creation.
Here's why.
Under the current rules, those who retire and have been saving in defined contribution pension schemes buy around £11bn of annuities every year.
Now of this £11bn, the vast majority is invested in bonds, and something like £7bn flows to companies through purchases of corporate bonds.
So if sales of annuities were to collapse after the government abolishes the requirement on retirees to invest in them, there would be a fall in the supply of credit from this source to companies - and a reduction in credit provided to the government, to infrastructure projects, to social housing and property.
That would be what economists would call the static effect. And, many would say, it would not be benign.
However there are many who believe that the flow of funds into defined contribution pension schemes could actually increase, as and when savers know they have more freedom over what they can do in retirement with their accumulated pot.
So the dynamic impact of the changes could be to increase the size of pension schemes, and some of this additional saving could be directed into credit for businesses and households.
That said, the dynamic and positive impact would be rather less certain than the static and negative impact.
And there's another thing.
There would be a much more serious and graver shrinkage in the supply of credit from pension funds - especially credit supplied to the government - if savers in final salary schemes were to convert their pension pots into defined contribution schemes, to take advantage of this new freedom to take the money and run on retirement.
For example, of the £1.1 trillion pounds of assets held by private-sector final salary schemes, some £290bn is held in government bonds and £200bn in corporate bonds. These holdings represent something like a quarter and a half respectively of the entire market for these bonds.
So as the government points out in a consultation paper, even relatively small numbers of savers saying they want out of final-salary pension schemes could could make huge waves in the market, if those funds were forced to cut their holdings of government and corporate bonds: the cost for the government and for companies of borrowing could rise pretty sharply, and could stay elevated, if pension funds' appetite and capacity to lend to them were permanently reduced.
Which is why in giving additional freedom to those in defined contribution schemes to do what they like with their money, the Chancellor is minded to give rather less freedom to those in defined benefit schemes - he has signalled he will probably ban members of final salary schemes from switching to defined contribution funds.
Shirley McCay scored the opener in the 35th minute when she reacted quickest to a bobbling rebounded ball from Zoe Wilson's initial sweep.
Anna O'Flanagan dragged a good chance wide before Seul Ki Cheon netted with a superb drag flick.
Katie Mullan ensured victory over the world ranked number nine team with a goal on the reverse.
Ireland defeated Olympic bronze medallists Germany 2-1 in their opening match on Thursday but lost 5-2 to China in their second fixture on Friday.
Speaking after the victory over Korea, Ireland head coach Graham Shaw said "We controlled the phases a lot better today than we did against China.
"It's very pleasing to see the areas we discussed being implemented and we're very happy with the performance and result.
"This 4 Nations has been invaluable for us in our preparation for World League in Johannesburg and we'd like to thank German Hockey for the invitation."
Ireland were using the tournament to prepare for World League 3 in July and the Eurohockey Championships in August.
Media playback is not supported on this device
He drove a measured race, controlling the gap to his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg throughout as the team left the rest of the field behind.
Ferrari's improved form was confirmed as new signing Sebastian Vettel took third, beating Williams's Felipe Massa.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Jenson Button achieved his aim of finishing in the slow and unreliable McLaren-Honda but was 11th and last.
The season started in dramatic style as the field lost three cars cars even before the start, in front of a capacity crowd in Albert Park under blue Melbourne skies, the warm sunshine tempered by a cool, strong and blustery wind.
Williams's Valtteri Bottas was ordered not to race by the official doctor after suffering an injured disc in his back in qualifying and spending the night in hospital.
McLaren-Honda's poor reliability struck Kevin Magnussen as he headed around to take his place on the grid, the Dane stopping in a cloud of blue smoke between Turns Five and Six.
Red Bull also lost a car before the start, Daniil Kvyat stopping shortly afterwards, just failing to make it around to the pits after hitting gearbox trouble.
With the absence of the Manor Marussia team, who did not run at all throughout the weekend, that meant just 15 cars took the start.
Media playback is not supported on this device
And another was lost within a few hundred metres, as Lotus's Pastor Maldonado was tagged by Felipe Nasr's Sauber at the first corner and spun into the barriers, bringing out the safety car.
When the race finally started, the excitement ebbed away as Hamilton quickly built a lead and then controlled his pace until the first stops, holding it at about two seconds.
It was the same story after their pit stops, Hamilton allowing an initial 4.6-second lead to reduce to the region of two seconds and holding it there.
Movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger presented the trophies and did the podium interviews, Hamilton telling him: "My team did an amazing job today and it's an incredible feeling to win and also to be here with you, man. I thought you were taller!"
Rosberg said: "I was trying every lap to my maximum and I will do all year. I will give him a big run for his money and hopefully beat him."
Mercedes were in a race of their own at the front and behind them Ferrari managed to get Vettel into third ahead of Massa with clever strategy.
Massa was caught behind Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo on his first lap after his pit stop and Vettel was ahead when he emerged from his own tyre change two laps later.
The second Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen, the only leading driver to make two pit stops, dropped back after a slow first stop caused by a problem fitting his left rear.
Raikkonen was planning to challenge Massa after his second stop but after another problem with the same wheel he was sent on his way without it being properly fitted and was forced to pull off just four corners after rejoining.
There will be a post mortem at Ferrari after Raikkonen suffered similar problems at both stops and the team face punishment from the FIA for an unsafe release.
The Finn's retirement promoted Sauber's Felipe Nasr to an impressive fifth place on his debut, to give the struggling Swiss team their first points for more than a year.
Media playback is not supported on this device
The Brazilian held off Ricciardo on a poor weekend for Red Bull, who were only slightly faster than their junior team Toro Rosso.
Novice Carlos Sainz was running strongly in seventh early in the race, just behind Ricciardo, but dropped to the back after a slow pit stop.
Sainz fought back to run eighth in the closing laps, behind Force India's Nico Hulkenberg, but was passed by Sauber's Marcus Ericsson with two laps to go.
Force India's Sergio Perez took the final point, despite a spin when fighting with Button early in the race.
Button languished more than 20 seconds behind the Mexican, lapping more than two seconds off the pace of the next slowest car, but just managed to nurse the car to the flag despite a gearbox problem.
The second Toro Rosso of Max Verstappen, the youngest driver in F1 history, had been promoted to sixth when he retired shortly after half distance.
Australian GP full results
Australian GP coverage details
Judge Emmanuel Amadi said they were all guilty of treason but had leave to appeal within 30 days.
A correspondent in court told the BBC that relatives broke down in tears as the judgement was read out.
It is not the first time army officers have been accused of plotting against President Yahya Jammeh.
Mr Jammeh seized power in 1994 as a young army lieutenant and has won three widely criticised multiparty elections since then.
The men were accused of procuring arms, ammunitions, equipment and mercenaries from Guinea to stage a coup.
"After going through the evidence of the prosecution and the defence, I find all the persons guilty and accordingly sentence them to death on all three counts," Judge Emmanuel Amadi is quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
Fabakary Ceesay from Gambia's Foroyaa newspaper told the BBC the alleged plotters were in court for sentencing.
They included former army chief Langtombong Tamba, former intelligence chief Lamin Bo Badjie and former deputy chief of police Modou Gaye.
Mr Ceesay says the men tried to comfort their relatives who began wailing as the verdict was announced.
According to AFP, the last time someone was executed in The Gambia was in 2007.
Several people were sentenced to long prison terms over the 2006 coup attempt.
Media playback is unsupported on your device
4 September 2015 Last updated at 02:06 BST
In Indonesia, prices for red chillis have tripled this year, which has caused problems for consumers.
The BBC's Kiki Siregar in Jakarta looks at what can be done about it.
The US Agency for International Development said it had reached a deal with the company that employed Alan Gross at the time of his arrest.
His release triggered an announcement from the US that it was seeking to restore Cuba relations after 50 years.
Mr Gross was trying to set up internet access for the island's small Jewish community under a USAID programme.
He was arrested, accused of subversion and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
USAID said it had reached agreement with Development Alternatives Inc of Bethesda, Maryland, in an attempt to head off further claims.
A spokesman later said the sum was $3.2m.
Mr Gross, 65, and his wife filed a suit against the US government for negligence, saying he had been sent into a situation known to be dangerous.
But in November a federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of that suit, saying the government was immune from any claim arising in a foreign country.
Relations between the US and Cuba have remained frozen since the early 1960s, when the US broke off diplomatic relations and imposed a trade embargo after Cuba's revolution led to communism.
But President Barack Obama said the US was looking to open an embassy in Havana in the coming months, as part of the wider effort to bring Cuba out of isolation.
Mr Gross's release was part of a deal that included the return from the US of three Cubans convicted of spying.
An unnamed spy imprisoned in Cuba went the other way, back to the US.
Made On Our Land features material from the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.
The films include one made by an Aberdeenshire mother and daughter that documents farm life around Aboyne and another shows 1960s holidays to Islay.
There are also World War Two propaganda films and a post-war film made to dissuade Highlanders from leaving their home area to live and work in cities.
Using a mobile cinema and starting in Arran on 22 July, the tour will also visit Aboyne, Benbecula, Castle Douglas and Peebles.
Made on Our Land curator and tour producer, Shona Thomson, said: "I love the strong tradition of rural cinema-going that started with the Highlands and Islands Film Guild 70 years ago and continues today.
"It's an honour to be celebrating that tradition by showing films from the 1930s to the 1980s that have a relevance to the modern rural audiences now served by the Screen Machine and Film Mobile network."
The 58-year-old tumbled from Striding Edge towards Nethermost Cove, on Helvellyn, at 13:30 BST on Wednesday.
Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was taken to the summit by The Great North Air Ambulance to help the casualty, who was then flown to hospital.
The "difficult" five-hour rescue involved 18 rescue team members.
With a 950m (3,117ft) summit, Helvellyn is England's third highest peak.
The East Belfast MLA is acting leader following David Ford's resignation last week after 15 years in the job.
Nominations remain open until 17:00 BST on Wednesday. She will be the first woman to lead the party.
Seconding her nomination, ex-Alliance minister Stephen Farry said she was the best communicator in Northern Ireland politics.
Only assembly members are entitled to stand as candidates for the leadership post.
Ms Long said if she was elected, she would to take the opportunity to "refresh, renew and re-energise the party".
"If elected, I will not only be the first woman to lead the party, but it will also mark a generational change, as I will also be the first leader younger than Alliance itself," she said.
"As such, I am conscious that, while the core values of the Alliance Party are still as relevant as ever, we need to be willing to renew our message, refresh our vision and re-energise not just our current members but a public growing increasingly weary of what often passes for politics here.
"I believe Alliance is ready to step up to that challenge."
The contest will be decided at a special party council on 26 October.
In May 2010, Mrs Long became the first Alliance Party MP when she was elected for East Belfast, defeating DUP leader Peter Robinson.
However, she lost the seat in 2015 to the DUP's Gavin Robinson.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Clarke, 48, will be eligible for the lucrative Champions Tour in the US when he turns 50 in August 2018 and he hopes to "hit the ground running".
"I'm 48 now so it's not too long until the Seniors Tour," Clarke told the BBC.
"When I do get there, I want to be competitive. So until then I'll be playing on the European Tour."
By dint of his 2011 Open win, Clarke will be assured of number of starts on the Champions Tour and he is likely to operate in a similar fashion to Miguel Angel Jimenez by combining senior events in the US with regular European Tour outings.
With his focus almost exclusively on preparations for the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine, Clarke competed in only 11 European Tour events this year, with his best performance a share of 30th at the Open Championship.
Earnings of just over 85,000 Euro left Clarke down in 169th spot in the Race to Dubai standings although his European Tour card remains secure thanks to his emotional win at Royal St George's five years ago.
With his Ryder Cup commitments now over, Clarke is determined to at least attempt to regain some of the form which has helped him accumulate 15 career wins, including World Golf Championship triumphs in 2000 and 2003.
"I want to get back to playing again. The last couple of years have been taken up with the Ryder Cup.
"The golf swing is alien to me at the moment and the timing is not there.
"But you get sharper playing in tournaments and I need to get myself back into that. I still have a burning desire to compete."
The Northern Irishman will begin his 2017 campaign at the South African Open in the second week of January before competing in two legs of the middle east swing in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
A globe-trotting start to the season continues with the Maybank Championship in Malaysia in early February before he returns to South Africa for a two-week stint at the Joburg Open and Tshwane Open.
Clarke was speaking at Royal Portrush after surveying some of the course changes being made for the Open's return to the Northern Ireland venue in 2019.
The 2011 champion believes the course alterations being made by the R&A in conjunction with course architect Martin Ebert are "sensational".
"It already was an unbelievable golf course and they have just made it better," added Clarke.
"It has probably made the golf course maybe one and a half to two shots shots more difficult than it was before."
|
"The first time we tried to cross the sea, our engine failed," Iman said, "and the Turkish authorities took us back to Turkey.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
China has issued data suggesting trade with North Korea was not as strong as implied by the United States.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A train named after ex England manager Graham Taylor has been unveiled.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A record number of people have complained after a French TV presenter posted a spoof ad on a gay dating website and made fun of people who responded live on air.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former Wales internationals Nicky Robinson and Richie Rees have joined the Cardiff Blues coaching team.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Only the most ardent, committed and perhaps blinkered of governing Peronist party supporters could interpret Sunday night's elections in Argentina as a victory.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Scotland's ice hockey teams are ramping up the training ahead of this weekend's return of Elite League action.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech has announced his retirement from international football with the Czech Republic.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sale Sharks have signed England Under-20 hooker Curtis Langdon for the upcoming Premiership season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
France's state rail company has for the first time publicly expressed regret for its role in transporting Jews to Nazi death camps in World War II.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
About 100 protesters marched at Wales' largest coal-fired power station calling for its closure on Saturday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Plans for the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) are to be scrutinised in an "in-depth investigation" by the European Commission.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
If you recently found yourself head banging your way through an article about a department for regional development consultation paper rather than yawning you were probably reading the Ulster Gazette.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Hundreds of people have turned out for the funeral of a war veteran who attended memorial services for fallen soldiers across Yorkshire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
More than 11,000 teachers in Turkey have been suspended for alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a week before children go back to school.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A father accused of murder after a baby and two teenagers died in a fire had threatened to "body bag" people during a row over a moped, a court has heard.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
ITV has appointed the boss of EasyJet, Carolyn McCall, as its new chief executive.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Derry's Dr McKenna Cup final defeat by Tyrone came at a further cost with Enda Lynn and Brendan Rogers sustaining serious injuries in the feisty contest.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
West Ham have been accused of breaking Football Association rules on discrimination - by the chairman of the ladies' club.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
More work is needed to protect children in Birmingham, according to the commissioner appointed to oversee the children's services department.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
As you may remember me mentioning before, one of the big reasons why the US economy recovered faster than the UK and European economies after the 2008 crash is that America is much less dependent on banks for credit.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ireland secured their second win at the Four Nations Cup in Berlin by beating Korea 2-1 on Sunday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Lewis Hamilton dominated the Australian Grand Prix to get his world title defence off to the perfect start.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Gambian judge has sentenced eight men, including a former army chief, to death for their part in an alleged coup plot last year.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Chillis are an essential ingredient for many cuisines across Asia.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An American freed last week after five years in a Cuban jail will receive $3.2m (£2m) from the US government.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A new cinema project is to take archived films on a tour of Scotland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Mountain rescuers were called to the summit of a Lake District mountain during a thunder-storm after a man was injured in a fall.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Naomi Long looks certain to be the next Alliance Party leader after securing the backing of all the party's MLAs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Beaten Europe Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke will play a lengthy European Tour schedule next year in preparation for his Senior Tour debut in 2018.
| 35,731,325 | 15,384 | 860 | true |
Sir David has announced he will step down in March 2014 from his position as chief executive of NHS England.
He has spent seven years in charge of the NHS, but in recent months has faced repeated calls to resign over his role in the Stafford Hospital scandal.
He spent 10 months in charge of the local health authority in 2005 and 2006 at the height of the problems which led to hundreds of needless deaths.
Soon after that, he was appointed NHS chief executive, before taking charge of NHS England, the body set up under the government's reforms to take charge of day-to-day running of the health service.
Campaigners and MPs had called for him to resign after publication of the public inquiry into the failings, which involved the neglect and abuse of vulnerable patients.
The report published in February said the system has "betrayed" the public by putting corporate self-interest ahead of patients.
In March, Sir David, whose career in the NHS spans 35 years, told MPs on the Health Select Committee he was determined to carry on despite the furore over his involvement.
But in his letter to bosses announcing his retirement from the £211,000-post, he said "recent events continue to show that on occasion the NHS can still sometimes fail patients, their families and carers".
He went on to say "this continues to be a matter of profound regret to me".
He also said by giving such notice he hoped to give NHS England time to recruit a high calibre successor while continuing to give stability while the changes, which came into force in April, bed in.
NHS England chairman Professor Malcolm Grant praised his "exceptional" career and leadership in recent years.
"I should like to express my personal appreciation for all Sir David's support and guidance to date.
"And I know that I speak on behalf of the whole board when I stress how much we welcome Sir David's commitment to continuing to lead NHS England over the coming year in delivering on our challenging agenda."
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt added: "Under Sir David Nicholson's leadership, NHS waiting times have fallen, infection rates reduced, and mixed sex accommodation is at an all-time low.
"His job has often been incredibly complex and very difficult, and yet he has always had a reputation for staying calm, and maintaining a relentless focus on what makes a difference on the NHS frontline."
But Julie Bailey, from the campaign group Cure the NHS, which has led the calls for the under-fire boss to resign, said that his position had been untenable since the publication of the public inquiry.
"It is fantastic news. This is the start of the cure for the NHS.
"We can start to look to the future now. He was part of the problem - not part of the solution.
"We now need a leader who will galvanise and inspire the front line, not bully them."
The ICO confirmed to the BBC that it was "aware of an incident" and was making enquiries.
According to technology website The Register, the breach in September saw employees' unencrypted data stolen.
A spokesman for Sports Direct would not be drawn on the details of the breach.
"We cannot comment on operational matters in relation to cybersecurity for obvious reasons," he told the BBC.
"It is our policy to continually upgrade and improve our systems, and where appropriate we keep the relevant authorities informed," he added.
The Register was told by "an inside source" that a hacker had attacked a system that Sports Direct used to run a staff portal.
New regulations coming from the EU will require companies to declare a data breach within 72 hours.
According to the ICO's current guidelines, it is important companies notify "individuals who may have been affected" to allow them "to take steps steps to protect themselves".
Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner told the BBC: "Sports Direct workers will be anxious to know what personal details have been hacked in this apparently serious data breach and why they weren't immediately informed about it by their employer.
"This is potentially sensitive and personal information such as national insurance numbers and bank details that we're talking about.
"It's completely unacceptable that the workers affected appear not to have been informed and the data breach swept under the carpet."
The union has contacted Sports Direct to clarify what happened in the breach, but urged staff to check their financial records, change passwords and report any suspicious activity.
Dr Jamie Greaves, chief executive at cybersecurity company ZoneFox told the BBC: "The way Sports Direct has handled their data breach last year is a perfect example of how not to deal with a cyber-attack.
"Keeping their 30,000-strong workforce in the dark for over a year is simply unacceptable."
It is not the first time Sports Direct has been criticised for how it treats its staff.
The chairman of the government's Business, Innovation and Skills committee Iain Wright suggested that Sports Direct's working practices were "closer to that of a Victorian workhouse than that of a modern, reputable high street retailer".
The company has also been investigated over staff being paid below the minimum wage.
John Haruna, a deputy inspector general of police, was among four police personnel who were killed.
They were on a routine aerial patrol of Jos and the cause of the crash is not yet known.
Police are part of a special task force to contain inter-communal conflict in Jos, which has also been targeted by Islamist Boko Haram militants lately.
Jos is the capital of Plateau state, which lies on the fault line between Nigeria's mainly Muslim north and Christian and animist south.
Witnesses said the aircraft burst into flames when it crashed in the residential suburb of Rukuba.
Yushau Shuaib, the national spokesman for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency, says the helicopter crashed into homes, but no-one else was hurt, the AP news agency reports.
Nigeria, like many African countries, has a poor air safety record, though some efforts have been made to improve it since a spate of airline disasters in 2005.
On Tuesday, in Abuja there was a complete shutdown of operations at the capital's international airport, following a power surge that damaged lights on the runway.
Hywel Dda health board has said complex hospital births in Pembrokeshire are to be switched to Carmarthenshire.
Meanwhile, A&E services at Llanelli's Prince Philip Hospital will become led by GPs and nurses, prompting concerns.
But Mr Justice Hickinbottom said he was "wholly unconvinced" the health board's procedure was in any way unlawful.
The Welsh government said it was an "important day" for changes to NHS services in Wales.
Senior health board managers had referred the final decision to relocate Pembrokeshire's specialist baby care services to Health Minister Mark Drakeford.
The consultation process was challenged by campaign group Save Withybush Action Team (SWAT).
Campaign group Save Our Services Prince Philip Action Network (Sosppan) also challenged the way Hywel Dda had carried out a consultation on the Llanelli hospital changes.
In his ruling, the judge:
The judge said: "There is no doubting the sincerity of the claimants, and those who support them, in seeking to maintain the services at their local hospitals.
"They deeply believe that some of the changes proposed should not be made.
"The [health board] and the minister do not accept that premise. They say that the changes will result in better health services.
"This court is not concerned with the substance or merits of relevant decisions. The services to be provided to those who live in west Wales are a matter for the [health board] and the minister.
"It is they who have to grapple with the difficult decisions of providing health services to a population with increasing and competing demands for such services, in times of financial constraint.
"This court is only concerned with the lawfulness of the decisions, focused on the process adopted.
"On the basis of the submissions and evidence before me, I am wholly unconvinced that any aspect of the procedure adopted by the [health board] or the minister was unfair, or unlawful."
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "This is an important day - and an important judgement - for service reconfiguration in Wales.
"Health services need to evolve and modernise to meet the changing needs of the population and take full advantage of the benefits of new technology and advances in clinical skills.
"The court considered in detail the regulations and guidance underpinning the decision-making process for major service change in Wales.
"It found all aspects of the procedures adopted by both the health board and the health minister to be fair and lawful."
Health board corporate services director Chris Wright said he hoped the judgement provided staff, patients and the public with the assurance that its consultation over the planned changes was not only lawful but fully compliant with best practice.
"Our legal costs in defending the case are in the region of ??300,000 - money that would have been better spent on front line services," he said.
"We are now eager to continue working with our clinicians to deliver a fit for purpose emergency service for Llanelli."
Student Ninorta Bahno, 26, fled the civil war in Syria more than three years ago.
The Syrian Christian was crowned wine queen in the city of Trier, western Germany, in the Moselle wine region near the border with Luxembourg.
She said that she hoped the prize would encourage integration.
"I want to show that Germany is a welcoming country and that the Germans are very hospitable and work towards integrating refugees quickly and successfully," said Ms Bahno, quoted by Deutsche Welle.
"As a refugee, it's very difficult to integrate into a new place at the beginning."
Last year, Germany received more than one million migrants, many of them fleeing the war in Syria.
Ms Bahno will spend the next year representing winemakers from around Trier at festivals and events.
She said that other refugees she had spoken to were "very happy" about her new title.
Ms Bahno said she had taken a crash course on local wine-making and that her favourite variety was a sweet Riesling.
The tradition of German wine queens dates back to the 1930s.
Every September, the wine queens from German's 13 wine regions compete for the title of German Wine Queen.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has published a global action plan to improve management of the world's forest genetic resources.
It describes forest ecosystems as "essential refuges for biodiversity".
The call for action comes ahead of a key UN forestry meeting, which is being held in Rome at the end of June.
"Data from 86 countries illustrate that insufficient awareness of the importance of forest genetic resources... often translate into national policies that are partial, ineffective or non-existent," explained Linda Collette, secretary of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA).
"Only about 3% of the world's tree species are actively managed," she added.
"Governments need to act and implement the global plan of action."
The action plan describes forest genetic resources (FGR) as the "heritable materials maintained within and among tree and other woody plant species that are of actual or potential economic, environmental, scientific or societal value".
The document identifies 27 priorities, which have been grouped into four areas:
It say genetic diversity forms the "mainstay of biological diversity", enabling species to adapt to changing environments, such as climate change and emerging diseases.
The plan adds: "FGR provide a direct food source for human and animals, even at times when annual crops fail."
Food and nutrition security
The release of the global action plan coincided with the publication of another report, The State of the World's Forest Genetic Resources, described as the first of its kind.
Building on data from 86 national reports, the FAO document covers 8,000 woody species (trees, shrubs, palms and bamboo) that are among the most utilised by humans.
It found that a third of these species, about 2,400, were actively managed specifically for their products and/or services.
The report concluded: "The high number of species used and their multiplicity and services indicates the enormous value of FGR.
"It suggests their great potential to support agriculture, forestry and environmental sustainability, as well as food and nutrition security, if better evaluated and developed."
FAO assistant director-general for forestry Eduardo Rojas-Briales observed: "Forests provide food, goods and services which are essential to the survival and well-being of all humanity.
"This report constitutes a major step in building the information and knowledge based required for action towards better conservation and better management of the planet's precious forest genetic resources," he added.
On 8 August, Mr Farry said plans to expand the Londonderry site were "off the table" due to budget cuts.
The decision was criticised by Derry representatives of Sinn Féin and the SDLP.
Mr Farry met University of Ulster representatives on Thursday.
Speaking on BBC Radio Foyle on Thursday, Mr Farry said it was "impossible" to increase the number of student places in the context of overall cuts.
"Any (additional) places can't be considered at the same time as we're making cuts in terms of a higher education budget," he said.
"You can't simply expand and cut at the same time - those are contradictory actions."
The minister said he had "always supported" expansion at Magee, but because his department faced cuts of £34m he had no choice but to halt plans.
He said: "It's on hold because there is no money available to progress it any further. I have to, first of all, ensure my budget is sustainable, I have to ensure the entire sector is sustainable. I'm not going to stretch my budget."
Mr Farry made it clear that the meeting would not focus only on the future of Magee.
He said: "This is not a crisis meeting for Magee, this is a meeting for the overall budget of the University of Ulster.
"In terms of Magee, I will make clear that we will look at the business case when it arrives but we can't process anything until we have certainty in terms of our budget."
A business case for the project is due for publication in September.
Prof Deirdre Heenan, the university's pro vice-chancellor, said she expected "a full and frank discussion" at the meeting.
Mr Farry was also meeting a delegation of representatives from Sinn Féin, Derry City Council and a university lobby group on Thursday afternoon to discuss the future of the campus.
Mr Farry said Northern Ireland was in a "budget mess" and that the Magee expansion plans and higher education budgets generally would suffer until the situation was resolved.
He said: "It is due to the politics and failures of the SDLP and Sinn Féin. We have to face reality, we have no option but to process welfare reform and we're potentially facing a worse budget next year.
"People have to see the logic of where the situation lies."
Labour's Alex Rowley and the Conservative's Murdo Fraser said key questions, including about maintenance of the structure, needed answering.
Their plea came as Transport Minister Derek Mackay addressed MSPs about the closure which happened last Friday.
Outside the chamber, he told the BBC he would co-operate with an inquiry if one was called.
He emphasised that it would be up to the parliamentary authorities to conduct an investigation.
Speaking to the BBC's Scotland 2015 programme, Mr Mackay said: "We are more than happy to co-operate with an inquiry and answer any question that is asked. If people want more information, then that can be provided."
Earlier, he had told Holyrood that the fault was not predicted and maintenance programmes had not been curtailed.
Mr Mackay said: "On balance, following advice from engineers, closure is the right decision - essential for the safety of the travelling public and to prevent further damage to the structure of the bridge."
He reiterated that the fault had "only occurred in the last few weeks".
Mr Mackay said MSPs had been offered a "technical brief" about the situation.
He added: "We will be transparent around the nature of this fault which I think shows that the government has taken all appropriate action."
On the issue of funding, the minister said: "There are no critical repairs that were requested to be funded by Feta [Forth Estuary Transport Authority] that haven't been funded by government or Transport Scotland."
Earlier, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was "absolutely" not true that cuts to maintenance budgets led to the closure.
The bridge will be shut to all traffic until the new year after a defect was found in one of the support beams on the north tower.
A crack of about 2cm in width had appeared in the load-bearing link.
On Tuesday, engineers used gritters to carry out a controlled test to check out structural behaviour on the bridge.
Detailed repairs will be carried out next week and Mr Mackay said it was hoped the bridge would re-open "in time for people to return to work in the new year".
Mr Rowley said the issue was a "serious one" and "no stone should be left unturned" in finding out why it had happened.
He added: "The Forth Road Bridge is one of the most important transport links in Scotland, it is crucial for the east of Scotland economy.
"Transport authorities need to be well resourced for the challenges we face over the next month and potentially beyond - but we also need full and frank answers on what has gone wrong here.
"There appear to be a string of issues around the Forth Road Bridge going back years. We need answers as to what has gone wrong here."
Mr Fraser echoed Labour's call for a parliamentary inquiry saying it was the only way to "find out the facts".
He said: "While the efforts of the Scottish government, its agencies and the transport companies are appreciated, there are still problems and the priority must be resolving these.
"But we also need to have a fully independent inquiry into what went wrong, and that has to report early in the new year."
Transport Scotland insisted a 2010 strengthening programme that was subsequently cancelled, and last week's problem were "unrelated".
It said the Scottish government had fully funded all programmes since taking over the funding of the annual grant from Feta in 2008.
Transport Scotland said that Amey, the private contractor that is now responsible for bridge maintenance, had told it the ongoing truss end strengthening works were to a different part of the linkage system to that which failed.
The elected and internationally-recognised government has only tenuous control over the eastern region of Cyrenaica where its fledgling, badly equipped and poorly trained army is battling jihadist militias in Libya's second city of Benghazi and other key towns.
Its authority is challenged by an Islamist-led administration installed by a parliament whose mandate has long run out but which is in control of the capital, Tripoli.
Some elements of the two rival groups have signed up to a United Nations-sponsored power-sharing deal but others remain opposed and peace remains elusive.
It is the militias operating across the country, thought to number nearly 2,000, who are really calling the shots.
Most recently, fighters from the so-called Islamic State (IS) have established a stronghold in the central coastal city of Sirte, and have advanced towards nearby oil sites in Sidra and Ras Lanuf, an attractive source of revenue for the militant group.
Libya Dawn is a grouping of pro-Islamist militias that in summer 2014 attacked Tripoli International Airport and went on to seize large parts of the capital.
The militia alliance can be viewed as the "armed forces" of the General National Congress (GNC), the former parliament which has been reconvened in Tripoli.
Libya Dawn, which has acquired military planes, controls virtually all coastal cities, from Misrata to the border with Tunisia as well as cities further south, including Gharyan, Nalut and Jadu in the mainly Berber mountain range of Nafusa.
The name Libya Dawn originally referred to the militias' operation to seize Tripoli but soon came to refer to the armed group coming under its umbrella.
Many of its fighters came from the city of Misrata, but in the last year the powerful militias based in that city appear to have drifted from the Libya Dawn coalition.
There appears to have been a rift within the militia over support for the UN-sponsored talks and the proposed Government of National Accord, which seeks to unite the rival governments.
Libya Shield
The Libya Shield grouping is made up of several militias of the same name that operate in various parts of the country.
The Central Libya Shield supports the defunct GNC and is viewed by the unrecognized Tripoli authorities as part of its "Ministry of Defence" forces. The Central Shield is further broken down into smaller groups. Its Third Force seized control of Birak al-Shati airport in central Libya, over 700km south of Tripoli.
The Shield's Benghazi branch (known as Libya Shield Force 1) is led by prominent Islamist commander Wisam Bin-Hamid, who has fought alongside the now deceased commander of the hardline al-Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia group, Muhammad al-Zahawi.
Bin-Hamid is also a field commander in the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council (see below).
In addition to Libya Dawn, the GNC also relies on other armed groups that it deems to come under the control of its self-proclaimed "commander-in-chief", GNC Speaker Nuri Abu-Sahmain.
These include Battalion 166, which alongside Libya Dawn forces, has engaged in clashes with IS in and around Sirte.
The militias reportedly withdrew from Sirte ahead of IS's takeover of key swathes of the city in May 2015, prompting the internationally-recognised authorities in the east to accuse them of "collusion" with IS. For their part, supporters of the militias said they had not received enough support from the GNC to fight IS.
The GNC continues to maintain that the chief of staff when the congress was in power, Maj-Gen Jadallah al-Obaidi, continues to hold the post and head the "armed forces".
In recent months, the Libyan Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) has become more prominent due to regular clashes with IS militants.
The group's politics are unclear, although it may be described as a parastatal force that is broadly supportive of the GNC. It is led by Ibrahim al-Jadran who has condemned IS, although his brother is said to be an IS commander.
Early in 2016, the PFG distanced itself from the internationally-recognised government and launched a scathing attack on the commander of the Libyan National Army, saying that he and IS were "two sides of the same coin".
Libya's rival power bases (as of August 2015)
Islamic State (IS)
A major development on the ground in Libya in 2015 was the emergence of IS.
IS built on an existing presence in the eastern city of Derna, a long-time jihadist hub, where groups active pledged allegiance to IS and took over local administration buildings.
Although IS was driven out of most areas of Derna in July 2015 it went on to seize "complete control" of the central coastal city of Sirte, the birthplace of former leader Muammar Gaddafi. In June, the group's official radio station, al-Bayan, which is already operating in Syria and Iraq, reportedly began broadcasting from Sirte.
IS has claimed that it has captured the coastal town of Bin-Jawad, as well as having a "strong presence" in Nofilia, Sidra and Ra's Lanuf, putting it significantly closer to installations in Libya's oil rich region, and leading to repeated clashes with the Petroleum Facilities Guard (see above).
IS has managed to strike in Tripoli and Benghazi by launching high-profile one-off attacks, for example those targeting embassies and hotels in Tripoli in January and February 2015, and most recently on a police training base in Zliten, near the capital.
The group is also present in Benghazi and has cells in Tripoli.
IS has divided Libya geographically into three "provinces": Barqah (Cyrenaica) in the east, Tripoli (referring to wider Tripolitania) in the west, and Fezzan in the centre and south.
According to a UN report issued in December, IS has between 2,000 and 3,000 fighters in Libya, including 1,500 in Sirte. The group seems to be attracting fighters from sub-Saharan countries.
The main armed militias in the fight against IS in the city are the Derna Mujahidin Shura Council and the Abu-Salim Martyrs Brigade, which are known for their ties to Ansar al-Sharia (see below).
Al-Qaeda's Libyan affiliate, Ansar al-Sharia, is most prominent in eastern Libya. In Benghazi, its militants have been present since the overthrow of Gaddafi in 2011 and have been continuously battling the Libyan National Army (LNA) of the internationally recognized government based in Tobruk (see below).
The group also has a presence in Derna and Sabratha in the west.
The militia has been accused of involvement in the attack on the US consulate in September 2012 in which Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed and is listed by the United States as a terrorist organisation.
It uses its Twitter account, which is routinely suspended and reopened, to advertise its attacks on army forces.
A coalition of Islamist militias, the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council is made up of groups including Ansar al-Sharia, the 17 February Brigade and the Rafallah al-Sahati Brigade.
As with its key component Ansar al-Sharia, the Benghazi Shura Council is another firm opponent of the LNA. It maintains strongholds in parts of the eastern city that army forces have struggled to seize.
IS has criticized the Benghazi Shura Council for not pledging allegiance to the group, accusing it of being loyal to Libya Dawn and the "forces of democracy". IS has cited these as evidence of the council's "apostasy".
Another al-Qaeda-affiliated group, the Derna Mujahidin Shura Council, is a coalition of Islamist militias formed in December 2014.
It came into the spotlight particularly in July 2015, after driving IS militants out of most areas of Derna.
Clashes between the two groups escalated significantly after IS killed two Islamist figures linked to the Derna Mujahidin Shura Council.
The Ajdabiya Revolutionaries Shura Council is an Islamist militant group based in Ajdabiya, a coastal town west of Benghazi and is led by Muhammad al-Zawi.
Twice in January the IS-linked "news agency" A'maq reported that al-Zawi and a number of his men had pledged allegiance to IS.
The council issued a statement, dated 2 January, saying it had nothing to do with the matter and the pledge represented an individual acts.
The militia has been engaged mainly in fighting the LNA.
On the side of the internationally-recognised authorities are various forces comprising the Libyan National Army (LNA) and units supporting it.
Maj-Gen Khalifah Haftar, who in May 2014 launched Operation Dignity against Islamist groups, and had largely operated alongside but outside the military's official ranks, was appointed army commander by the House of Representatives in March 2015.
The LNA is supported by various units, including militias (see below) and the Special Forces, al-Saiqa, which declared their support for Gen Haftar at the time of his announcement of Operation Dignity. Along with the government forces' Tanks Battalion, the al-Saiqa forces have been particularly targeted by Islamist militia attacks.
The Zintan, al-Sawaiq and al-Qaqa brigades are anti-Islamist militias that operate especially in the west of Libya.
The powerful Zintan militia supports the internationally-recognised authorities and has clashed on numerous occasions with Libya Dawn. It continues to detain Saif-al-Islam al-Gaddafi, the son of the former leader who was sentenced to death in Tripoli last year, in the western city of Zintan, while most other Gaddafi-era officials are held by pro-Islamist forces in Tripoli.
The al-Qaqa and al-Sawaiq battalions are also pro-official authorities and anti-Islamist. They attacked the GNC in Tripoli soon after Operation Dignity was announced in May 2014.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here
The vans were stopped and stolen on the M11 and M25 by fake officers in an unmarked car using blue lights.
Essex Police advised motorists they would only use unmarked car to pull over drivers in an emergency.
They now say the risk to motorists is low. Officers will return to using unmarked cars, which may stop vehicles.
The thieves, dressed in police uniforms and, in one case, carrying a handgun, drove a silver Ford Mondeo equipped with blue flashing lights and targeted van drivers.
DCI Stuart Smith of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate said: "My team of detectives have reviewed the circumstances of both incidents and alongside the intelligence have concluded the risk to motorists in cars is low.
"That does not mean that the only risk is to van drivers, but the only vehicles which have so far been stolen are vans."
His advice to van drivers is to "remain alert and vigilant and try and establish whether unmarked vehicles are genuine with our control room whilst remaining compliant with the police vehicle".
Ch Insp Nick Lee, head of roads policing, added: "The law states that you cannot use your mobile phone whilst driving, however, we have discretion we can apply and if someone is in genuine fear of their life we would take a sensible approach in those circumstances."
Essex Police issued the new guidance because there had been "no further reports of vehicle robberies in the county".
Police said the attack took place in the Commercial Arcade in St Peter Port in the early hours of Saturday.
Officers said the victim was subsequently taken to hospital for treatment.
A man from Guernsey is due to appear before magistrates on Monday.
8 August 2013 Last updated at 18:20 BST
Not only had they spotted a pair of rare Southern Right Whales - one of them was an albino whale.
The completely white calf was closely following its mum as they swam around the shores of the Chile, which is unusual as the creatures are normally found near Argentina hundreds of miles away.
As you can see it was a real treat for these guys - who said it was a dream come true!
Ella Chadwick, of Whitworth, Rochdale, was born with a rare kidney disease and had 40 operations before she was six.
It was the second time she has taken part in the 1km (0.62 miles) Mini Great Manchester Run but the first time she has crossed the finishing line unaided.
Her mother Karen Hughes said it was "a huge step in her recovery".
Ella - who has congenital nephrotic syndrome - was running for the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.
Ms Hughes said crossing the finishing line without the use of a walking frame was a "fantastic moment and another huge step in her recovery".
Hannah Thomas, from the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital charity, said she was "thrilled" and "so proud" Ella finished the race without her walker.
"Ella is such an inspirational and cheerful little girl who never fails to put a smile on our faces," she said.
"Ella and her family are long-term fundraisers for our charity and we are very grateful for all of their continued support."
The measures include one that would bar employees convicted of corruption from ever returning to a state job.
A leaked tape appeared to show adviser Carlos Moreno plotting to "mine" the system for personal gain. He denies wrongdoing and says he was framed.
A recent poll showed an eight-point fall in approval for the president.
Sunday's Ipsos poll registered a drop from 63% to 55% in Mr Kuczynski's rating since the scandal involving Mr Moreno broke. The adviser has resigned from his post.
Mr Kuczynski made a televised statement on Monday saying that corruption was a historical structural problem for the country.
He said that under his new scheme, which would be implemented immediately, "anyone who has been convicted of corruption can never return to work in the state".
Mr Kuczynski also ordered a thorough review of the presidential office.
He would also set up a council of state, in which he would join the president of Congress and the head of the judiciary in overseeing the fight against corruption in key institutions.
In the Ipsos poll of 1,289 respondents, only 39% believed the government was committed to tackling corruption.
The findings were a setback to Mr Kuczynski, 78, who had seen his ratings rise since June's narrow presidential election run-off victory against Keiko Fujimori.
Every winter, the service (SAIS) provides reports for Lochaber, Glen Coe, Northern Cairngorms, Southern Cairngorms, Torridon and Creag Meagaidh.
And, as images taken by the various SAIS teams show, conditions have been changing quickly in the hills.
A 90-year-old man suffered throat injuries and his wife, in her 80s, was left with head injuries when they were assaulted at their home in Elm Grove, Scunthorpe, on Tuesday.
Officers are questioning a man aged 22 on suspicion of aggravated burglary.
Police are holding a woman aged 27 on suspicion of assisting an offender.
A Humberside Police spokesman said: "The elderly couple injured in the aggravated burglary remain in hospital and are both described as being stable."
Police were alerted after members of the public reported seeing a man running from the pensioners' home.
A man was seen driving away in a white van following the attack, which happened at about 17:20 GMT.
Det Insp Jon Cross said on Tuesday evening: "This was a vicious attack on two elderly and vulnerable members of the community in their own home."
A 36-year-old man arrested in Brigg, North Lincolnshire, on Christmas Eve has been released on bail pending further enquiries.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Taylor, playing his first Test for three years, made an unbeaten 74 to move the tourists to 222-4.
England accelerated late on a largely painstaking day to close 12 behind.
Alastair Cook made 49, Ian Bell 40 and Jonny Bairstow 37 not out for the tourists, who must win to avoid a series defeat.
Both Cook and Bell fell to the leg-breaks of Yasir Shah, who served notice of his threat on a pitch that turned less than the first day but is still hard work for the batsmen.
With a large fourth-innings chase likely to be a difficult task, England require significant occupation of the crease on day three if they are to build a match-winning lead.
Cook and Bell shared a second-wicket stand of 71, but England were almost derailed by an impressive display of Pakistan bowling after lunch.
As Yasir and left-arm pace bowler Rahat Ali brought scoring to a standstill, Cook and Joe Root fell for the addition of only seven runs.
At 97-3, right-hander Taylor, recalled in place of Jos Buttler after being overlooked for the first two Tests of the series, arrived for only his fourth innings in Test cricket.
In the company of Bell, he first absorbed the Pakistan pressure, then gradually accumulated in the busy, energetic style that has brought him success in England's one-day side.
Looking particularly accomplished against the spinners, Taylor mixed powerful sweep shots, balletic foot movement and deft nudging of singles on both sides of the wicket.
After Bell departed, he combined with the fluent Bairstow for an unbroken stand of 83 as England scored more quickly against the second new ball late in the day.
"It's been a real tough wicket to bat on. But Taylor has made it look simple, which is the biggest compliment you can give him," former England captain Michael Vaughan told Test Match Special.
"He clearly trusts and believes in his game. I'd say he's going to be a fixture now in the Test team."
While Pakistan might have expected more success on a pitch that had seen them bowled out for 234 on the first day, leg-spinner Yasir gave a further demonstration of the danger he will pose to England later in the match.
A sustained period targeting the pads of Cook saw the England captain twice fortunate to avoid being caught at short leg before lunch, only for the left-hander to fall in just that manner right after the break.
Bell had looked comfortable in both attack and defence, but he was also undone by Yasir just after tea.
The right-hander was fortunate to survive a reviewed caught-behind decision off left-arm spinner Zulfiqar Babar, only to be lured in the next over by a dipping, spinning Yasir leg-break and stumped by Sarfraz Ahmed.
"He's bowled beautifully," said Vaughan. "He's put dip and energy on the ball.
"Countless times the ball has gone past the outside edge. He's certainly bowled well enough to get a lot more than two wickets."
Though many saw Moeen Ali's promotion to open the batting as a short-term measure that allowed England to play an extra bowler in the UAE, Cook suggested before the series it could be a more permanent move if the Worcestershire man impressed.
However, Moeen's return of 62 runs in five innings suggests the experiment will end after this Test meaning Cook will have an eighth opening partner in little more than three years when England play South Africa in December.
Not only are the numbers poor, but the manner of his dismissal on the second morning was not befitting of a Test opener.
In only the seventh over of the day, Moeen looked to slog sweep the fourth delivery he faced from off-spinner Shoaib Malik and could only top edge straight up and into the hands of Younus Khan at slip.
"That was irresponsible, stupid, ridiculous," former England opener Geoffrey Boycott said on Test Match Special. "Moeen bats better down the order. I don't understand England keeping him as an opener."
Ian Bell: "Today was about grinding out a day of Test batting. It wasn't going to be the best-looking style of cricket, but about trying to get a lead. If we can win the first session tomorrow then we are in a great position. There's a lot of batting to come and every run we get puts us in a better position."
Geoffrey Boycott: "I wouldn't say England are fully on top, but they've put themselves in such a condition that it might allow the bowlers that bat to attack the bowling tomorrow. A lead of 50 or 70 would be good but anything else would be outrageously marvellous. They won the battle today but they haven't won the war."
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said heavy Russian air strikes had helped the offensive. There is no Syrian or Russian confirmation.
A US-backed alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters started a campaign in May to expel IS militants from land north of Raqqa.
IS seized the city in 2013 from rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad.
The jihadist group quickly established its headquarters there and began imposing its vision of a state, implementing a strict interpretation of Islamic law.
It proclaimed a "caliphate" in 2014.
What is left after five years of war?
Islamic State crisis in seven charts
The Syrian Observatory said there had been clashes with IS militants on the Athria-Tabqa road as the Syrian troops moved from Hama province in the south-west.
The Syrian military were trying to reach Lake Assad and the main road linking Raqqa to Aleppo.
Tabqa is home to a key airbase taken by IS in August 2014.
To the north of Raqqa, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are believed to have deployed about 30,000 fighters as they try to force IS out of the city.
Russia has promised to co-ordinate with the SDF and the US on the offensive.
The alliance, which is dominated by the Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) militia, has emerged as a key ally of the US-led coalition over the past two years, leading the fight against IS on the ground in northern Syria.
US officials estimate that about 3,000 to 5,000 IS fighters are inside Raqqa.
The loan was made to Northampton Town on the basis that developing land around the stadium would pay off a large part of the debt, it said.
Northampton Borough Council said it had not been given a "full account" of where the money had been spent.
Club chairman David Cardoza said he expected the issue to be resolved by the end of October.
The £10.25m loan was originally given to the club for the re-development of its Sixfields stadium.
A council spokesman said: "It is for the football club to account for how that money has been spent.
"The council has made proper inquiries as to the use of these funds, but cannot say that it has been given a full and complete account."
He added time was "now short" to ensure the club was not liquidated on 16 November, following a winding up order issued by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
An earlier statement from the club said the debt was "a temporary issue".
Earlier this week, the developers building a new stand at Sixfields said they had stopped work because they were owed nearly £3m and it emerged a prospective takeover of the club had also fallen through.
On 25 September, the council gave the club three weeks to repay the loan, but on the deadline day, HMRC officials issued the winding up order.
Northampton Town chairman David Cardoza said he was in talks with HMRC.
Writing on the club's website, he said: "Meetings have and are continuing .. and we are very close to reaching an agreement on the sale of the club to one of a number of interested parties and we believe we will have some definite news very soon."
He never followed the beaten path, carving out his own niche as captain. He remained calm on the field, both in moments of triumph and defeat.
His style made him "the captain cool" for his fans. If legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar is the "god of cricket", then Dhoni is the "Buddha of cricket".
His fans will miss his unorthodox decisions after his resignation as India's limited-overs captain on Wednesday.
Dhoni resigns as India one-day captain
Why MS Dhoni's place in cricket history is assured
Dhoni decided to step down on Wednesday ahead of the ODI series against England, which begins on 15 January.
Here are five of his decisions that shocked many, but won crucial matches for India.
Dhoni led a young Indian side in the inaugural World Twenty20, and not many expected his team to do well in the newest format of the game.
Yet he not only won the 2007 tournament, but also used it as a platform to showcase his unorthodox style of captaincy.
The final was played between arch rivals Pakistan and India in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Pakistan needed 13 runs in the last over with one wicket in hand, but an in-form Misbah-ul-Haq looked set to score the winning runs.
Now any captain would go for the most experienced bowler in the team, but Dhoni did the opposite.
He picked Joginder Sharma, who was playing his fourth Twenty20 match, for the job. The decision paid off and Sharma dismissed Misbah (43 runs) with his third ball.
Pakistan lost by five runs, India won the tournament and Dhoni announced his arrival as a captain in the world of cricket with style.
Before clashing in the final of the inaugural World Twenty20, India and Pakistan also played a group match.
Games between the two sides are always tense but not many would have predicted the dramatic finish of this clash.
The match went into a bowl-out after Pakistan matched India's score of 141, but couldn't cross it.
Pakistan picked trusted bowlers Yasir Arafat, Umar Gul and Shahid Afridi for the bowl-out, but they all failed to hit the stumps.
Dhoni went for batsmen Robin Uthappa, Virender Sehwag and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who all knocked off the bails.
While Sehwag had some bowling experience, Uthappa had rarely bowled in international matches.
Dhoni won the ODI World Cup in 2011 for India for the first time since 1983.
The hosts looked comfortable chasing Sri Lanka's total of 274 in Mumbai, but when Tillakaratne Dilshan dismissed Virat Kohli, India's chances looked uncertain at 115-3.
Dhoni, who had struggled throughout the tournament, unexpectedly promoted himself ahead of in-form Yuvraj Singh and played the innings (91 not out) of his life to finish the chase with a thundering six.
Not many Indians will ever forget the six that ended the country's long wait for a World Cup victory.
Hosts England looked set to win the Champions Trophy in 2013 against India with 28 needed off 18 balls, and set batsmen Eoin Morgan and Ravi Bopara at the crease in Birmingham.
At this stage of the game, Dhoni turned to pacer Ishant Sharma, whose earlier overs were very expensive.
Once again, his gamble worked.
Sharma, who had leaked 32 runs in his first three overs, dismissed both batsmen and ended England's prolonged search for an international one-day title.
India secured a thrilling one-run victory against Bangladesh last year to keep their campaign alive in the World Twenty20.
Bangladesh needed one run to win off the last ball in Bangalore, and that's when Dhoni told Hardik Pandya to bowl a bouncer to tailender S Hom.
Dhoni expected the batsman to miss the ball and go for a run, and that's exactly what happened.
The batsman went for a single, but Dhoni, who had removed one glove in readiness for the final ball, ran out non-striker Mustafizur Rahman.
Inside a temporary holding room for immigration detainees, he launched himself from a concrete bench, head first, hoping to snap his own neck.
In an interview during his intake to the Eloy Detention Center, a long term Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Arizona, he again told a registered nurse that he had wanted to kill himself because he feared the coyotes, who are smugglers who bring people across the US border illegally.
As Deniz-Sahagun moved through Ice custody, person after person failed to make a note in his official records of his past suicide attempts and ongoing suicidal thoughts.
Two days after entering Eloy, the guards did put Deniz-Sahagun on round-the-clock suicide watch, which should have meant check-ins every 15 minutes. The guards did their rounds at random intervals, sometimes after just five minutes, or after nine, or seven, 15, 25. They filled out the pre-printed time sheets as if the checks happened at 15 minute intervals, as prescribed.
Between the final two check-ins - 15 minutes apart - on 20 May 2015, Deniz-Sahagun asphyxiated himself in his cell.
His suicide was the third in two years and the fifth since 2005. Despite that history, the staff had no comprehensive suicide prevention plan, a fact that Ice noted in a review of Mr Deniz-Sahagun's death.
A new report by the Human Rights Watch and Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (Civic) found that detainees received subpar medical care in 16 of 18 Ice death investigations obtained by the group, and evaluated by several health professionals.
Additionally, the doctors reviewed 12 sets of medical records from people who had reported inadequate medical care to a hotline run by Civic.
"We're not claiming that this is a representative sample," said Grace Meng, senior researcher at Human Rights Watch. "But the problems that were found were systemic problems that would put other people at risk."
Suicide isn't the only health concern that went overlooked in the records detailed in the report. A man who complained of symptoms of cancer for two years didn't get a diagnosis until two months before he died from the disease.
Another man with severe diabetes and pneumonia died after delays in emergency medical care, because of confusion around which detention centre employees could call 911.
"What was particularly interesting to us is that we found insufficient care in both private and public facilities, indicating that the problems are systemic," said Christina Fiahlo, co-founder and executive director of Civic.
Ms Meng and others who contributed to the report worry that a proposed ramping up of immigration enforcement could heighten the risks for detainees - many of whom haven't been convicted of crimes.
About 400,000 people are held in detention each year, with President Trump saying he wants to double that figure. In the recent budget approved by Congress, Ice received funding for an additional 5,000 mandated-detention beds,
"Now we have an administration that is trying to cram even more people into a system that is not effectively monitored," Meng said. "We're really looking at a recipe for more preventable deaths."
Ice officials have promised a careful review of the HRW report.
"(Ice) will review the report to determine what changes, if any, should be made based on its recommendations," said Jennifer Elzea, an Ice spokesperson, in a statement.
"Ice is committed to ensuring the welfare of all those in the agency's custody, including providing access to necessary and appropriate medical care."
The report warns that simple changes - like firing an ineffective nurse or putting in place a suicide prevention plan - will likely not be enough to improve the system overall. They recommend more comprehensive, top-down changes that can improve medical care on a systematic level.
"It's not just 'Sam's doctor had a bad day and made a mistake' but multiple mistakes on multiple days at multiple facilities and no indication that it is going to get better," said Marc Stern, the former medical director of the Washington State Department of Corrections, who reviewed the medical records evaluated in the Human Rights Watch report.
"The system being broken means the fix is at the system level, at the highest levels of the organization," he says. "It's not a quick fix."
If you are depressed and need to ask for help, there's advice on who to contact at BBC Advice.
From Canada or US: If you're in an emergency, please call 911. If you or someone you know is suffering with mental-health issues, call Kids Help Phone at 1-800-668-6868. If you're in the US, you can text HOME to 741741
From UK: Call Samaritans on 116123 or Childline on 0800 1111
The shooting happened outside a house on Shancastle Drive, Clondalkin, just before 21:00 local time. It is believed two men arrived in a car and fired several shots at the victim.
Gardaà (Irish police) said that the man's injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
The shooting is not believed to be related to an ongoing feud between two rival criminal gangs in the city.
The IBF claimed it was safety risk for professionals to face amateurs and said any boxer who competes in Rio will be removed from its ratings for a year.
Britain's Anthony Joshua, James DeGale and Kell Brook all hold IBF titles but are not expected to compete in Rio.
Professionals will be able to fight at the Olympics for the first time after the International Boxing Association (AIBA) approved a rule change in June.
"We felt it was important for the IBF to take a stance as part of our commitment to this sport is to promote the health and well-being of the boxers," said IBF president Daryl Peoples.
The Rio Games get under way on 5 August.
The 31-year-old joins on a free transfer after leaving Championship side Rotherham United.
Collin has played more than 200 league games in the past four seasons, one with Carlisle and three at Rotherham.
But he only played twice for the Millers last term, with a further three appearances during a loan spell with Scottish club Aberdeen.
League Two side Notts released veteran keeper Roy Carroll at the end of last season.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Carl Mills, 28, denies killing Kayleigh Buckley, 17, their six-month-old daughter Kimberley and her grandmother Kim.
The three died in a fire at their home in Cwmbran, Torfaen.
In police statements read out at Newport Crown Court, Mr Mills said there were no relationship problems.
But he admitted they were "paranoid" about each other cheating.
The jury were given more details about the relationship between Mr Mills and his girlfriend through statements he made when he was arrested by Gwent Police after the fire in Coed Eva in September 2012.
The court heard all three inside the house died as a result of the fire and the products of fire.
The jury was told the couple met on Facebook in August 2010 when Kayleigh was aged 15.
They kept in contact and in the October Mr Mills caught a coach from Manchester where he lived to visit her.
Mr Mills said he stayed in a B&B during the visit.
In the interviews Mr Mills said: "We didn't get together until she was 16, just after her 16th birthday."
Kayleigh turned 16 in December 2010 and the court was told the couple did not have sex until May 2011.
Initially, the jury heard, Kim Buckley did not approve of the relationship.
Mr Mills said: "Her mother found out about us in March. She didn't like it, she kept taking Kayleigh's phone off her.
"But then she gave up and told Kayleigh she could do what she wanted."
When asked about the state of their relationship, Mr Mills said: "We were happy, holding hands like a normal couple."
He said their relationship was "really good" and Kayleigh was "all right, a good laugh and everything like that".
Eventually, Mr Mills moved from sleeping on the sofa at her house and into her bedroom.
Kayleigh became pregnant in September 2011.
Mr Mills said the pregnancy was "kind of" planned.
"She said she wanted kids but I was not bothered," he added.
When asked how he felt about the pregnancy, Mr Mills said: "I was alright about it. I was worried about what her mum would say because her mum said she was too young."
He said Kim Buckley was "shocked at first" but eventually "became happy".
The court was told Kayleigh's pregnancy was problematic and she went into labour 15 weeks early, the day after she had received laser treatment following the stillbirth of Kimberley's twin sister Angel.
Kimberley was born on 10 March, deaf and blind and suffering with lung difficulties.
The jury heard how Mr Mills had told police he and Kayleigh were "mainly in love" but that they had "a few arguments".
He admitted there was "paranoia" on both sides.
He said: "If I didn't answer my calls she will think I've cheated on her."
Eventually, Mr Mills's access to Kimberley was stopped because of his alcoholism.
On the third day of police questioning, the defendant was asked in detail about text messages to Kayleigh in the hours before she died.
At this point Mr Mills stopped answering questions, the jury heard.
The prosecution has finished its evidence and the trial continues.
And they suggest that cutting down on sugar-sweetened beverages could make a dent in the number of people developing diabetes in the UK.
Other experts, however, warn that being overweight and inactive are likely to play a stronger role in the disease.
The study appears in the British Medical Journal.
Scientists have warned of a link between obesity, sugar-sweetened drinks and diabetes for some time.
But few studies have unpicked whether people who consume lots of sugary drinks are more likely to develop diabetes, regardless of their weight.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge analysed 17 studies in this area.
And the pattern they found hints that drinks with added sugar could be linked to an increased risk of diabetes, regardless of weight.
Dr Fumiaki Imamura, a lead researcher, told the BBC: "Our study suggests that if everyone reduces soft sugary drinks, everyone gets the benefit."
But he acknowledges there are limitations to this research.
For example, the study did not account for changes in people's drinking habits or lifestyle over the years.
And their calculations are based on an assumption that the drinks directly lead to diabetes - but a direct link is yet to be proven.
Prof Tom Sanders, previously professor of nutrition and dietetics at King's College London, argues that age, obesity and physical inactivity are the main risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes.
Hidden sugar
How much sugar is hiding in your food?
And he points out that most new cases are seen in people over the age of 50 - an age group not traditionally associated with sugary drink consumption.
He added: "It is important to stress that this study does not prove a cause-effect relationship and there are no trials as yet showing that reducing sugar-sweetened beverages decreases the incidence of type 2 diabetes."
However, he acknowledges there is evidence that the disease can be prevented by increasing physical activity and losing weight - which can include restricting sugary drinks.
Dr Alasdair Rankin, director of research at the charity Diabetes UK, said the study added to evidence that sugary drinks are bad for health and can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes but suggested further work is needed to understand this.
He added: "It does not provide strong evidence about whether this is because of the calories they contain or if there is something else going on in the body that is leading to an increase in risk."
Medical and playing facilities are under review there.
Teufaiva Stadium in Nukuʻalofa is being rebuilt for the 2019 Pacific Games and WRU chairman Gareth Davies says the work may not be completed in time for Wales visit.
If the stadium does not meet criteria, Tonga will play Wales in New Zealand.
Samoa are also scheduled to host Wales on Saturday, 24 June.
"There's a Welsh Rugby Union representation out there now (Tonga) looking at a stadium that's not complete yet, so that is a difficult scenario," said Davies.
A World Rugby spokesman said they are also "involved in that site visit".
He added: "As regards the venue redevelopment, World Rugby is not contributing to the funding of that ground construction.
"We are, however, assisting the Pacific unions in funding these fixtures with Wales as we have done previously with Italy, Scotland and other teams that have toured there - and will continue to do.
"In October, our chief medical officer Dr Martin Raftery was in Tonga to look at medical facilities as part of a union review."
Former Wales fly-half Davies hopes caretaker coach Robin McBryde will be able to go to Tonga.
"It would be a good statement, a very supportive statement from Wales if we can go to both Tonga and Samoa," said the former Wales and British Lions fly-half.
"However, we're all conscious of player welfare and need to make sure all the appropriate medical back-up and, indeed, the playing facilities, are in place.
"We've had confirmation through World Rugby that medically we should be okay and the various assessments have been made in recent weeks.".
Tonga completed a first unbeaten northern hemisphere tour in their history in November, 2016.
After beating the United States and Spain, they shocked Italy 19-17 a week after the Azzurri had beating South Africa for the first time.
Councillors agreed to cut 367 full-time jobs and reduce the number of libraries from 74 to 34.
The moves are part of the council's bid to save £262m by April 2020 following government cuts.
Since January 2014, 1100 people have taken voluntary redundancy.
Among the measures approved are removing funding for subsidised bus services, ending free transport for faith schools and ending the funding of five museums - Queen Street Mill, Helmshore, Museum of Lancashire, Judges' Lodgings and Fleetwood Museum.
Jennifer Mein, the Labour leader of Lancashire County Council, said: "The decisions we have taken today are heartbreaking but reflect the unprecedented financial situation we face."
Gary Coxall will replace Ken Hodcroft, who stepped down on Friday, as the club's chairman, while Russ Green will remain as chief executive.
Previous owners Increased Oil Recovery Limited had run Hartlepool since 1997.
"This is a very well-run club and we aim to build on the positive momentum created by the finish to last season," Coxall told the club's website.
"JPNG will not be coming in here to make wholesale changes; the players that [manager] Ronnie Moore targeted before we arrived are still the players he'll be targeting going forward.
"We're in a great position to progress the club now and Ronnie and Sam Collins [assistant manager] can look forward to our full support as they continue to improve the squad ahead of the new campaign."
The takeover comes four months after a proposed sale of the club to TMH2014 fell through.
Hartlepool finished 22nd in League Two last season, four points clear of the relegation zone.
The US Geological Survey said the quake was 535km (330 miles) southeast of Vanuatu island.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre issued a local tsunami warning for areas close to the earthquake, though this was later cancelled.
There were no initial reports of damage or casualties.
Quakes are fairly common in the region. Two similar sized tremors last October and December caused no damage.
Friday's quake initially registered with a magnitude of 7.6 but was later downgraded. It was measured at a depth of about 10km.
The brief local tsunami warning included areas of Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji.
Conservative Philip Hollobone said the law should apply equally to everyone.
Citing examples of antisocial behaviour, the Kettering MP urged ministers to "listen to these concerns from the heart of middle England".
But during the Westminster Hall debate, he was criticised by Labour MPs who said his "offensive" comments would "stigmatise" the communities.
Mr Hollobone called for the end of a section of the Housing Act 1994, which says councils must take into account the "accommodation needs of gypsies and travellers residing in or resorting to their district".
"I simply do not see why, and neither do my constituents see why, there should be any special provision at all in the planning system for gypsies and travellers," he said.
He said he was not "picking" on travellers but said residents had been left "in tears" because land near their homes had been designated as potential sites for pitches.
He said fly tipping and hare coursing were common occurrences, with residents who protested intimidated, adding that the current policy was "stirring up resentment and hatred between one community and another".
Another Conservative MP, Gary Streeter, said he was "baffled" that travellers were "treated as a vulnerable community, when most of them have far greater wealth than we will ever have in this room".
But Labour MP Andy Slaughter said traveller communities often had more long-term health problems and lower educational attainment.
"On almost any social indicator, gypsies and travellers come lowest," he said, adding there were "simply not enough sites" to accommodate them.
Urging Mr Hollobone not to "look for the worst in people", he added: "I think this country is big enough, rich enough and generous enough to accommodate these communities as many other countries do."
Another Labour MP, Sharon Hodgson, questioned which other ethnic group would be "stigmatised" in the way she said gypsies and travellers were Mr Hollobone's debate.
Communities Minister James Wharton said it was important to have a fair planning system and to ensure "that everyone in our society feels they have a place in it".
Legitimate concerns had been raised on both sides of the argument, he said, adding that new measures under consultation would lead to improvements.
Council have "extensive powers" to deal with unauthorised sites, he added.
Spar, hosted by journalists Anton Berg and Martin Johnson and released via podcast platform Acast, has been examining the imprisonment of Kaj Linna for the last two years.
Mr Linna was initially sentenced to life in prison in 2004 for murder and robbery.
Robert Lindberg was killed in an attack in northern Sweden which also left his brother Sune injured.
But a witness who had been involved in the initial trial appeared to undermine his own testimony while being interviewed for the podcast.
After the episode was released, Mr Linna used the audio as part of his appeal, and a retrial was granted in December.
The audio was also used in court proceedings during the retrial, which concluded at the end of May and found there had been insufficient evidence to convict Mr Linna.
Mr Linna has now been released from prison and reunited with his family.
In a statement, the Swedish Court of Appeal president Margareta Bergstrom said: "Our conclusion is that the evidence presented at trial is insufficient and therefore can not lead to a conviction."
"We're very happy and relieved. We are frankly impressed that a podcast could have this kind of impact," Berg told the BBC.
Acast co-founder Karl Rosander added: "It means so much because Kaj Linna has been in jail for 13 years. We actually helped free an innocent man, it's so amazing, and I'm happy for the journalists who wanted to look at the story."
The series looking at Mr Linna's case has released eight episodes so far, with each one attracting around 300,000 listeners, according to Berg.
"We released the podcast in May 2015, and the retrial was granted by the Supreme Court in December 2016, so that process alone took a year and a half," he explained.
The retrial was granted partly due to the audio which had been gathered by Berg and Johnson during the production of the podcast.
"We met with a man who was the main witness, and he came up with a different story to the one he put forward in the trial," Berg said.
"We had two different microphones in that interview, I was doing the main recording and Martin was sitting next to me and he had a stereo microphone which was there to record atmosphere.
"The witness asked us to switch off the microphone at one point, which I did, and he started giving us details which he had not put forward in the trial.
"When we got home, we found out that Martin's microphone had been on all the time. Then I called the man and said we had it, but strangely he said that he was fine with that and we could use the audio."
Mr Linna's fight for a retrial has been covered widely in the Swedish media since the audio came to light.
"The Supreme Court listened to the interview with the witness, and when they did they made quite a fuss about this decision and they granted the retrial. They said that it was crucial, because there were things that the courts hadn't been told before," Berg said.
"The case had been built on the testimony of the man we spoke to, and after we interviewed him, he started giving us a new version of events. He was clearly not trustworthy or reliable."
He added: "I hope the police will now further investigate this crime, because it's a terrible thing that's happened. It's a murder and robbery, and now it's unsolved again."
It is the longest-served sentence to be followed by a retrial in Sweden's legal history.
Speaking to Swedish media on Thursday, Mr Linna said: "My time in jail was completely wasted, worthless."
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected].
The Met Office said ice would be a "hazard" on Saturday morning and likely to cause travel disruption.
Snow has also been falling across parts of Wales. It follows a yellow "be aware" warning for wind around Wales which was issued on Friday.
On Tuesday, Storm Barney left more than 7,500 homes and business across the country without power.
Gray had a medical on Saturday and has signed a four-and-a-half year deal with Leicester, who had a bid turned down for the 19-year-old in August.
If the Football Association confirms his registration, he will be available for Sunday's FA Cup tie at Tottenham.
"I watch a lot of football. The way Leicester play suits my style," said the England U-20 player.
Bournemouth were also said to be interested in the highly-rated teenager, who burst onto the scene with a hat-trick against Reading in December 2014.
Gray came through the Blues' youth system and made 78 senior appearances for the club, scoring eight goals.
|
The head of the NHS in England Sir David Nicholson is retiring next year.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A data breach at retailer Sports Direct last year was reported to the Information Commissioner's Office but not to staff whose data may have been compromised, according to reports.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
One of Nigeria's most senior policemen has died in a helicopter crash in the central city of Jos, police have said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Campaigners against planned changes to hospital services in west Wales have lost three High Court judicial reviews into the legality of the shake-up.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Syrian refugee has been crowned "queen" of one of Germany's top wine-making regions, the first asylum seeker to receive such an accolade.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Forest species are coming under increasing pressure from human activities and climate change, and face the risk of extinction, the UN warns.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Farry has defended his announcement that plans to expand the University of Ulster's Magee campus have been put on hold.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Holyrood's Opposition parties have called for a parliamentary inquiry into the closure of the Forth Road Bridge.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Five years after the start of the unrest that culminated in the ousting and killing of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya remains without a single government with authority over the whole country.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Drivers warned not to stop for unmarked police cars after two van robberies have now been told they should pull over.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 25-year old man has been charged with indecent assault following an attack on a woman in Guernsey.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
For the surfers enjoying the waves off the coast of Chile, this sighting was a double whammy!
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An eight-year-old girl who has had two kidney transplants has taken part in a race to raise funds for the hospital she was treated at in Manchester.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has launched a crackdown on corruption in the government, in the wake of allegations against a health adviser.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Scottish Avalanche Information Service has come to the end of its first week of its latest season assessing for the hazard in Scotland's highest mountains.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man and a woman have been arrested by detectives investigating a burglary in which an elderly couple were left with serious injuries.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
James Taylor's maiden half-century moved England into a good position on the second day of the third and final Test against Pakistan in Sharjah.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Syrian troops have crossed into Raqqa province, nearing the capital of so-called Islamic State, activists say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A council loan of more than £10m to a League Two football club will not be written off, the authority has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is loved by millions as a batsman but as a captain, he is simply worshipped.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
When Jose de Jesus Deniz-Sahagun entered US Border Patrol custody in May 2015, he told agents that he thought Mexican coyotes were going to kill him, and he wanted to kill himself.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 27-year-old man has been shot in the arms and legs in an attack in Dublin.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Any IBF champion who fights at the Rio Olympics will lose their title.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Notts County have completed the signing of experienced goalkeeper Adam Collin on a two-year contract.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man accused of murdering three generations of family, including his girlfriend, said the pair were in love and planned to marry, a jury has heard.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Having regular sugary drinks may increase the chance of developing type 2 diabetes, even for slim people, researchers say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Officials from the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and World Rugby are assessing Tonga's ability host Wales on their June tour to the South Pacific.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Plans to cut hundreds of jobs and close museums and libraries have been confirmed by Lancashire County Council's cabinet as it looks to save £65m over the next two years.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The JPNG recruitment group has completed its takeover of League Two side Hartlepool United.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake has struck off the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Planning laws are "favourably skewed" towards gypsy and traveller communities, an MP has claimed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man who has spent 13 years in prison in Sweden charged with murder has been released after new evidence came to light in a true crime podcast.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A warning to commuters about "difficult driving conditions" due to ice on the roads has passed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Leicester City have signed Birmingham City winger Demarai Gray after meeting a £3.7m release clause in his contract.
| 22,607,989 | 15,911 | 1,014 | true |
Lauren Winfield (51), Heather Knight (53) and Natalie Sciver (51) all hit half-centuries as the tourists were bowled out for 295 in their 50 overs.
Sri Lanka, never in the hunt, were bowled out for 173 in 48.5 overs.
England join Australia in qualifying for the World Cup, which takes place in England in June and July next year.
The top four teams in the eight-team ICC Women's Championship table qualify automatically, with the bottom four joining six other sides in a qualifying tournament, to be held in Sri Lanka early in 2017, to determine the final four World Cup qualifiers.
West Indies will become the third side to qualify automatically if they beat India on Sunday, while New Zealand and South Africa are battling for fourth place.
After Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field, England made best use of the conditions at the R Premadasa Stadium as three of their top four passed 50, though none of them passed 53.
Captain Knight struck three sixes, while the free-scoring Sciver's 51 came from only 27 balls.
When she fell, England were 198-5 in the 36th over - but while the lower order was occasionally prone to folding in their recent series in West Indies, this time Georgia Elwiss (46) and Danielle Hazell (29) marshalled the tail well, as the last five wickets added 97 in 15 overs.
It set up what would have been a record run chase for Sri Lanka, whose record ODI score of 282-5 against India at the 2013 World Cup was the only occasion on which they had made more than 251.
That never looked likely as off-spinners Hazell (3-38) and Laura Marsh (2-35) put the brakes on, five Sri Lankans were trapped lbw and two others run out as England cruised to victory, claimed a 2-0 lead in the series - and the two points to guarantee qualification.
Opener Tammy Beaumont donned the wicketkeeping gloves, which she had not done for England since 2011, as keeper Amy Jones was forced to miss the game through illness.
England captain Heather Knight: "We're really chuffed. It's been a long road to get here which started two years ago. We have the best fans in the world, so to get the opportunity to play in a World Cup on home soil is really exciting.
"A few of us got out for fifties, ideally you'd like one of those to go on and get a big score. Katherine Brunt had a bit of a niggle, so we were a bowler down.
"But with Sri Lanka having nine left-handers, having two world-class off-spinners and seeing them bowl in tandem was brilliant."
Top four teams qualify automatically for 2017 World Cup
|
England clinched qualification for the 2017 Women's World Cup by beating Sri Lanka by 122 runs in their second one-day international in Colombo.
| 37,947,619 | 623 | 34 | false |
The ruling on Thursday by South Africa's Constitutional Court - that he breached the country's constitution by refusing to repay government money spent on his private home in rural Nkandla - has left him with limited room for manoeuvre.
Mr Zuma has survived numerous allegations of corruption and cronyism. Here are five possible scenarios that could determine his fate:
This was always going to be unlikely to happen, and the odds lengthened even further after Friday's apology. President Zuma is not someone who gives up easily. He is a master strategist who always tries to be ahead of the game.
The Youth League and Women's League of the governing African National Congress (ANC), key groups, have already come out to support him.
The opposition in parliament led by the Democratic Alliance (DA) has already filed a motion to move for impeachment. They also rejected his apology, saying it was "an insult to our intelligence."
The word impeachment does not actually appear anywhere in the South African constitution. The phrase used under Section 89 is the Removal of President.
But for now, let's agree to use impeachment.
They would need a two-thirds majority - that is 267 MPs out of 400 - to succeed in their quest to remove Mr Zuma from power. Unfortunately for them the numbers do not stack up.
The DA is the largest opposition party but has only 89 MPs, compared with the ANC's 249. They would need a significant number of ANC MPs to vote with them for this to happen. Julius Malema's radical Economic Freedom Fighters has 25 MPs.
Even though DA leader Mmusi Maimane told me he thinks ANC MPs would vote with their conscience, I think it is still highly unlikely. The ANC responded within minutes of President Zuma's TV address, rejected by opposition parties, to say it "welcomed the president's apology" and stood by him.
But do not mistake Friday night's public show of support for Mr Zuma as the voice of a unified party. The ANC is bitterly divided now. There are those who would agree with the motion because they are keen to see the back of their leader.
But others would never vote against a leader who was elected at an ANC congress with a majority mandate from 5,000 delegates.
If impeachment fails, it means the president stays. However, the DA can call for a Motion of No-Confidence.
The difference between Removal of President (i.e. impeachment) and Motion of No Confidence is that the former is a punitive measure.
By going through the impeachment route, the DA wants to punish the president, Lawson Naidoo, executive secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the SA Constitution, told me.
"If the president is removed through this process he loses all the benefits of his office, for example he will not receive his pension. He also cannot hold any other public office. But if he is removed through the motion of no-confidence, he can receive benefits."
The DA also said it would go back to the Constitutional Court to make it difficult for the ANC to justify keeping President Zuma in office.
Even if they do that, it would be hard to see how any judgement from the judiciary would order the president to step down.
Under South Africa's electoral system, there is no judge who can remove a democratically elected president. Separation of powers prohibits the courts from ordering the firing of an official elected by the will of the people.
Even Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng pointed this out during Thursday's historic judgement.
He said: "It falls outside the parameters of judicial authority to prescribe to the National Assembly how to scrutinise executive action‚ what mechanisms to establish and which mandate to give them‚ for the purpose of holding the Executive accountable and fulfilling its oversight role of the Executive or organs of State in general. The mechanics of how to go about fulfilling these constitutional obligations is a discretionary matter best left to the National Assembly".
What Mr Zuma must pay for
How Zuma's Nkandla home has grown
Profile: Jacob Zuma
Even though the top six leaders welcomed Mr Zuma's no-resignation-apology, the ANC's 100-member national executive committee can convene a special meeting and ask the president to resign, and replace him with the current Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa.
This would create the dreaded two centres of power that the ANC has tried to avoid since 2007. It would mean Mr Ramaphosa would be president of the republic while Mr Zuma remained head of the party.
There was some talk that the party term, which ends in 2017, ought to be aligned with the national election scheduled for 2019 precisely to navigate away from having two separate individuals running the state and party respectively.
According to the constitution, there is a two-term limit for the president. The ANC does not have a limit, even though it punished Thabo Mbeki when he wanted to stand for a third term as party leader but knowing that he would step down as head of state.
This could well happen but probably only after the municipal elections expected later in the year. In other words, the jury is still out on whether Mr Zuma could be recalled.
The ANC does nothing at all and sticks with President Zuma at the helm. And for now, given the rallying call to support him after he apologised live on TV, this seems to be the case.
The most plausible outcome is that the ANC will wait until after the municipal elections due later this year before it makes any move.
There is an argument that it is too risky to remove Mr Zuma now as it would cost the party dearly in the forthcoming polls.
But there is another hurdle which might force party officials to move ahead of time.
In a couple of months, a Pretoria High Court is expected to deliver a ruling on whether to reinstate corruption charges against Mr Zuma.
The DA took the matter to court because it believed the decision to drop over 700 corruption charges shortly before Mr Zuma became president in 2009 should not have happened.
This is likely to further tarnish the name of the ANC in the middle of an election campaign. No-one at party headquarters in Luthuli House would want that, particularly after the hurricane ruling by the Constitutional Court this week.
|
Following President Jacob Zuma's apology live on TV on Friday night is the 73-year-old leader likely to see out his remaining three years in office?
| 35,941,848 | 1,417 | 35 | false |
The retired Canadian astronaut touched down in Manchester where he spoke to local students during a special BBC Radio 5 live programme, revealing how he grew by 4cm (1.5 inches) and would "float past experiments on my way to the bathroom" aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
One of 500 or so people who have been in space, Colonel Hadfield also reminded his audience at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) about the groundwork that goes into exploring the universe.
Life in space is just a small part of the job, he said.
"I was an astronaut for 21 years," Mr Hadfield later told BBC News. "I only flew in space for less than six months. The job of an astronaut is not flying in space - the job of an astronaut is to support space flight and it's immensely different.
"We invent spaceships, we invent space procedures, we push back the edges of the envelope of how we understand space flight.
"I trained for four-and-a-half years for my second space flight and for my third space flight. In between, I supported other astronauts that were flying in space and their families, and I worked to help recover the space programme after the Columbia accident [when all seven astronauts on the shuttle were killed in 2003]."
He also helped change procedures for flying the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that ferries astronauts to the ISS.
"It's not like you sit around and wait, and then you fly in space and then everything else is some limbo or something. It's the job on Earth that matters […] that's where the meat of it is."
The former ISS commander retired last year at the age of 53. His last space trip was in 2012-13 when his photos and videos, including a zero-gravity version of Space Oddity, captivated many on planet Earth, reminding its inhabitants of the wonders of both home and the universe.
His Manchester stopover was part of a tour to promote his new photography book You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes - the profits of which will go to charity.
Mr Hadfield sees it as an "extremely important" part of an astronaut's role to "let people know what you're up to - it's not just purely the technical side but it's also the vanguard, the inspirational side of what we are doing".
MOSI organisers, recently granted a £3m investment by the government, hoped the former astronaut's visit would excite students' interest in science, technology, engineering and maths - often collectively known as STEM.
There has long been concern that many young people are shunning these subjects, with one recent survey reporting that some consider them intimidating or boring.
In its 2014 Education and Skills Survey, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) highlighted "an urgent need to improve the supply of STEM-skilled people if economic growth is not to be held back".
"I think that was a big concern of the ancient Egyptians 3,000 years ago," said Mr Hadfield. "It's always been a concern. The young don't take education serious enough. We're not giving them the grounding in the 3Rs or STEM or whatever our current acronym is - that's normal, we always feel that way.
"Yet somehow we continue to advance civilisation - incredible new discoveries and advances that are going on right now. We live in perpetually improving standards of living so I tend to downplay a little bit the transient concern as if this is the first time this has ever happened. It's a perpetual battle to make sure our young are educated as well as possible.
"It's more that we need to fire the central flame of curiosity," he added.
There has also been concern about a lack of girls taking up STEM careers, with fewer female university applicants holding science A-Levels compared to their male counterparts, especially in physics, according to figures from university admission body UCAS.
Among the students attending the MOSI event was Chloe from Ellesmere Park High School who had visited the Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a holiday in the United States.
"I don't like chemistry because it's confusing with all the elements and reactants. I don't understand how people get it. But I do find space interesting - that there might be other people out there that we don't know."
Mr Hadfield highlighted that some of the highest leadership roles in space exploration were held by women, including former ISS commander Suni Williams and Janet Kavandi, director of flight crew operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"Obviously the opportunities and education both exist and we need to continue to promote them for everyone," he added.
The Canadian was himself enlightened during the BBC Radio 5 live broadcast at MOSI, when he struggled for the correct demonym for the people of Manchester.
"Mancunian? That sounds like an alien to me."
|
Better known as the singing spaceman, Chris Hadfield became an internet sensation when he performed David Bowie's Space Oddity while "sitting in a tin can far above the world".
| 30,336,348 | 1,104 | 46 | false |
Jatupat Boonpattararaksa pleaded guilty to charges of defaming the monarchy.
He was arrested for sharing the profile, published by BBC Thai, two days after the new king ascended the throne in December 2016.
Thailand has very strict lese-majeste laws, which ban any criticism of the country's monarchy.
Mr Jatupat, an opponent of the military-backed government who has taken part in numerous protests, is the only person to be prosecuted over the article.
He was one of more than 2,600 people to share the online profile of King Vajiralongkorn, 64.
In December, Mr Jatupat was charged with defaming the monarchy and detained in north-eastern Thailand. The court in Khon Kaen later denied at least 10 requests for his release on bail.
The student, who had initially contested the charges, agreed on Tuesday to plead guilty. He was facing up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Pleading guilty in lese-majeste cases can significantly reduce sentences in Thailand, where punishment can be severe; in June, one man was jailed for 35 years.
The United Nations has joined human rights groups in criticising the heavy sentences imposed at lese-majeste trials, which have a conviction rate of more than 90% and are often held behind closed doors.
Earlier this year, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Thailand to amend its laws.
Since the country's military coup in 2014, more than one hundred people have been charged with defaming the monarchy.
King Vajiralongkorn's father, the revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, died on 13 October at the age of 88 after seven decades on the throne.
|
A student activist in Thailand has received a prison term of two-and-a-half years after sharing a profile of King Maha Vajiralongkorn on Facebook.
| 40,938,914 | 400 | 39 | false |
The haul included plastic knuckle dusters and what are suspected to be printed gun parts.
If confirmed, the state's police force has said it would be the first time it had discovered 3D-printed firearm components in a home.
Australian authorities released a series of videos in 2013 highlighting the dangers of using 3D-printed guns.
"We've obviously got to get it through our ballistic experts but we can identify most if not all of the major components of a weapon," detective inspector Scott Knowles of Queensland Police Service told ABC News following the arrest of a 28-year-old suspect in Mudgeeraba.
"To us, it appears that they are complete weapons just requiring assembly.
"The technology's dangerous [because] the materials they're using aren't able to sustain the sorts of forces that come as a result of the weapons they're trying to discharge."
He added that the owner of the printer thought to have been involved had given the machine to the suspect to be calibrated, and was not aware that it was going to be misused.
Last year, Australia's Senate held an inquiry into gun-related violence, during which there were calls for the country's laws to be updated to take account of new technologies.
"We're going to have a situation where someone is going to be shot and injured with the use of a 3D device," warned Howard Brown from the Victims of Crime Assistance League at the time.
It was suggested that it be made an offence to own computer files that would allow 3D-printed weapons to be manufactured.
However, DI Knowles noted that Queensland's current laws were already adequate to prosecute a case if ballistics experts confirmed the 3D-printed parts involved were designed for use in firearms.
"With weapons and parts manufactured this way still being classified as a firearm under current legislation, people can also see themselves before the courts for manufacturing and possessing these items" he said.
3D-printed weapon arrests are still a relatively rare occurrence.
However, a Japanese man was jailed for two years in October after making guns with a 3D printer at his home in Kawasaki, Japan. It is believed he is the first person to have received a prison sentence for such an offence.
Yoshitomo Imura was arrested after he uploaded a video showing how he had created the weapons to the internet.
He told officers that he had not believed his actions had been illegal.
Tighter rules about who is eligible for the scheme are to be introduced, the Ministry of Justice said.
Prisoners will only be allowed out for a specific purpose, such as work experience, and day-release prisoners will also have to wear electronic tags.
Campaigners criticised the move, saying there had been only a few failures.
But the MoJ cited several of the cases in which there had been serious failings as being behind the move.
They include that of Ian McLoughlin, who was convicted of murdering Graham Buck in the village of Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, last July, while on day release.
McLoughlin, who had killed twice before, was sentenced to a whole-life order.
Another incident, which led to an offender being convicted of attempted robbery, also prompted the change, the department said.
Prisons minister Jeremy Wright said: "We're not prepared to see the failures of last summer repeated and public safety compromised.
"Temporary release can be an important tool in helping offenders reintegrate but it should not be an automatic right and we must do all we can to ensure it does not lead to a permanent blight on innocent members of society.
"The system has been too lax up to now and that must change.
"In future when prisoners are let out on licence I want to be sure they are tagged and strictly risk-assessed so we know where they have been and can be sure that they have been tested in the community under strict conditions before being released."
The MoJ said that, from now on, prisoners eligible for release on temporary licence would have to earn it by demonstrating the "right behaviour and a commitment to change".
It will no longer be considered an automatic right which is given when inmates are deemed suitable for open conditions.
There will also be a more thorough assessment of risks before temporary release is authorised.
For prisoners with a history of serious crimes, there will be a new "restricted" level where they will undergo stringent risk assessments by probation and other professionals.
Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: "For a government committed to rehabilitation, justice ministers should feel ashamed that only a quarter of men, and fewer than one in 10 women, leave prison with a job to go to, and proud that their well-established release on temporary licence programme has worked over years to help thousands of prisoners go straight on release.
"Now, in the face of a thankfully few terrible cases, and for the sake of a tough headline, they risk destroying a programme that has proved its worth instead of investigating its few failures and learning from its many successes."
Unlike President Obama, who hesitated in 2013 when confronted with a clear violation of his red line, Trump did not seek allies, ask Congress for permission, or evidently worry about long-term implications.
President Trump, in brief remarks at Mar-a-Lago following a dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping, indicated that the strikes targeted the Syrian military forces that carried out the Idlib chemical weapon attack, an action he suggested "crossed a lot of lines".
The response sent a message, that the use of chemical weapons in Syria carried consequences.
While a dramatic display of military force, it is unclear what impact it will have on the ground. Fifty-nine cruise missiles are unlikely to change Mr Assad's no-holds-barred approach to the six-year old Syrian civil war.
As Mr Obama discovered after negotiating the removal of most (but evidently not all) of Syria's chemical stocks in 2013, it still leaves the Assad regime free to use conventional weapons, and chlorine barrel bombs, to continue his assault on the so-called moderate Syrian opposition and civilians, backed fully by Russia and Iran.
Given that reality, Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham have already encouraged the president to go further and take Syria's air force "completely out of the fight".
Mr Obama feared just such a slippery slope. He chose to define America's vital interest in Syria more narrowly, defeating the so-called Islamic State without getting more deeply involved in another costly Middle East quagmire.
Ironically, until today, so did Mr Trump, who opposed military action in 2013 and was elected to fix problems in America, not Syria. As he acknowledged, he is now responsible for the situation in Syria. But beyond appearing decisive, it's doubtful he yet knows what to do about it.
P.J. Crowley is a former US Assistant Secretary of State. He is now a professor at The George Washington University and author of Red Line: American Foreign Policy in a Time of Fractured Politics and Failing States.
EU proposals should be considered by the UK both as an EU member state, and in terms of their Brexit implications, the European Scrutiny Committee said.
Policies would affect the UK up to, and in some cases after, Brexit, it said.
The government has said it "will continue to negotiate, implement and apply EU legislation" until Brexit.
Prime Minister Theresa May formally began the Brexit process last week when she triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, meaning that, unless the UK and the 27 remaining EU member states agree to extend the deadline for talks, the UK will leave on 29 March 2019.
Brexit: All you need to know
Article 50: What happens next?
Is Whitehall ready for Brexit?
Until then, the committee points out, the UK continues to take its place in negotiations on EU legislation at the European Council and in the Council of Ministers.
Brexit Secretary David Davis has pledged to "exercise our influence over what we think is the best interests of the European Union until the moment we leave".
But the committee heard from the UK's former ambassador to the EU, Sir Ivan Rogers, who said, in the six months after the EU Referendum, he "saw a diminution of Whitehall attention and effort on day-to-day dossiers".
He also suggested that other EU member states may already be preparing for life after Brexit as new legislation goes through: "Others are, frankly, looking at opportunities in the next couple of years to land things in directives and regulation that they know are going to cause us difficulty."
The committee said all departments should consider new EU proposals both from the perspective of the UK as a member state and in terms of their Brexit implications. It said the government must give "proper priority to negotiations on existing dossiers" as well as "minimising the risk that changes to current EU law may disadvantage the UK after Brexit".
"The government may consider that there will be occasions when it feels it should vote against proposals it considers to be against the national interest, rather than allowing agreement by consensus," the committee said.
Commons Leader David Lidington warned that "an approach to negotiations on dossiers that enabled others to paint us as wreckers would not be helpful in the exit negotiations". The committee said while they would not want the UK to be seen as a "wrecker" it was "entitled to oppose [European] Commission proposals and to make their views known".
"We consider that it may now be appropriate for the government to be firm in its attitude to proposals it considers misguided and to be readier to vote against such proposals if it does not manage to negotiate satisfactory changes."
While recognising "clearly considerable" pressures in Whitehall and UKRep - the UK permanent representation to the EU - the committee raised concerns that "departments may not have been giving sufficient priority to negotiations on new and existing EU dossiers" which would continue to affect UK law until Brexit - and in areas like trade or EU energy policy, afterwards.
"It cannot start from the assumption that EU policy and legal frameworks are fixed. Rather than driving away from a fixed petrol pump, Brexit is analogous to disengaging from mid-air refuelling. Both parties are moving; the challenge is to separate them without either losing momentum."
Shadow Brexit minister Paul Blomfield accused the government of "failing to grasp and prepare for the complexity of the Brexit negotiations" adding: "The government is treating EU law and policy as fixed, when the committee is right to say it's evolving."
A government spokesman said: "We have been clear that we are a full member of the European Union until the day we leave and so we will continue to respect the rights and obligations of EU membership and engage with day-to-day EU business. "That is why ministers from across government have regularly represented the UK at EU Council meetings since last year's referendum."
The 48-year-old was taken to hospital after an altercation at The Grafton Hotel in Midland Road at 23:30 GMT on Saturday.
He died several hours later and an investigation into his death has been launched, Bedfordshire Police said.
A 39-year-old man has been arrested and is in custody. Witnesses to the incident in the bar area of the hotel are asked to contact the force.
More on this and other news from Bedfordshire
The baby died in a maternity unit linked to the new Glasgow Royal Hospital for Children at the weekend after contracting Serratia marcescens.
The baby was premature and had "existing complex medical problems".
The bacteria are also present in five other babies in the maternity unit, and seven who have left hospital, but none is giving cause for concern.
Alan Mathers, chief of medicine for women and children's services at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC), said: "Our deepest sympathies are with the family of the baby who has so sadly passed away.
"Serratia marcescens can be naturally occurring in the gut and its presence on or in the body (colonisation) is not harmful in healthy people.
"However, given the vulnerability of premature babies, Serratia marcescens infections, where the colonised bacteria gets into the bloodstream, can occur."
Mr Mathers said that none of the five babies in the neonatal unit, who are colonised, was giving cause for concern.
He added: "Since the increase in incidence of Serratia marcescens colonisation cases was indentified as part of our routine surveillance we have been closely monitoring the situation in line with national guidance.
"Given that there are no other cases of infection and that all the appropriate infection control procedures are in place the unit will continue to admit new patients as normal.
"Our staff are in communication with the families to keep them fully informed."
NHS GGC said that it had identified a small increase in Serratia marcescens colonisation cases in July during "routine surveillance".
The neonatal unit where the baby died opened in 2009 as part of the redevelopment of the former Southern General Maternity Unit.
It is now linked to the maternity unit at the Royal Hospital for Children, which is part of the £842m new "super-hospital" campus, which also includes the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
His departure is regarded as a blow to the government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
His centre-right Liberal Party (VVD) is trailing in opinion polls ahead of a general election in March.
Mr van de Steur is the third member of Mr Rutte's government to resign over the scandal.
Former Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten and his junior minister, Fred Teeven, resigned in 2015 after misleading parliament over the 2001 deal.
The affair revolves around a deal prosecutors reached with a drug trafficker, Cees Helman, worth €2m (£1.7m; $2.1m).
Mr van de Steur has been criticised for his role in answers provided to parliament over the issue.
He has denied advising certain information be withheld.
PM Rutte has also come under fire from opposition politicians.
The Freedom Party, led by anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders, is leading public opinion polls.
The Springboks star's leg was in a brace when he returned to Belfast with the Ulster squad on Sunday night.
However, Ulster director of rugby Les Kiss said on Monday scans had revealed "no damage of major proportions".
"We had really good news about Ruan earlier today," said Kiss.
"The scan just showed a couple of things that you would expect with a jar on the knee.
"We'll just need to see how the next 24 or 48 hours go and then we'll take a decision but it looks very positive."
The scrum-half, 32, will leave Ulster at the end of this season after the IRFU refused the province's request to extend his contract for another contract extension after seven years with the club.
Ulster need a victory to get their European hopes back on track after the concession of three late tries saw them losing Sunday's opener 28-13.
Kiss felt the turning point in Sunday's contest was just before half-time when prop Andrew Warwick knocked on when he seemed certain to score a second Ulster try which would have extended their lead to 15-3.
"If we put that try over the line, it's game over," added the Ulster boss.
"We've got to be a little more clinical and desperate to win those moments."
The Australian had no complaints with his team's commitment on Sunday but said the failure to clear their lines on a few occasions in the second half, when faced with Bordeaux pressure, had been punished.
Media playback is not supported on this device
"We were never going to put a big scoreline on them.
"We just gave them the access to our try-line for too long and when we tried to get out, we did it poorly a few times.
"That kept giving them a chance with their big forwards who hurt us."
Kiss knows that Ulster must regroup with a win in Saturday's second European game against Exeter to maintain realistic hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages with two games against French giants Clermont coming up later in Pool Five.
Clermont hammered the English Premiership side 35-8 at Sandy Park on Sunday as Exeter's early-season struggles continued.
Exeter reached last season's Premiership final but they have lost three of their opening six games in their domestic competition.
The 25-year-old centre-back had only scored six career league goals before joining the Pilgrims last July.
Asked if he could reach double figures, Bradley told BBC Radio Devon: "It's possible - I don't see why not.
"There are seven games to go, [so] maybe one more brace and a late one last game of the season - who knows."
Only forwards Graham Carey and Jake Jervis have scored more for League Two Plymouth, who are in second place.
All of Bradley's goals have been headers, with the winner at Doncaster on Sunday his sixth away from home.
"I don't know where the (celebration) knee slide came from. I felt my hamstring straight after it, I thought 'why have you done that'," he joked.
"It's a great feeling, and when you get that feeling you want it again, again and again.
"I think if we keep working on it and the deliveries keep coming in like they are, I see no reason why I can't score more."
In the final Old Firm match of the season Caixinha's men were dismantled by the champions, who sealed their biggest ever win at Ibrox.
"We played well but I am to blame, it is my total responsibility," Caixinha said.
"Things didn't go in the direction we were supposed to have planned so I am the man responsible."
Celtic, who have won five of the six Old Firm matches this season, with the other a 1-1 draw, took an early lead through Scott Sinclair's penalty.
Brendan Rodgers' champions were in confident mood and Leigh Griffiths doubled their lead before half time.
Callum McGregor and Dedryck Boyata extended the lead before Kenny Miller replied for Rangers, but Mikael Lustig curled in a late goal to restore the four-goal cushion.
Despite the manner of the defeat and the scoreline, Caixinha felt his side performed better than in last week's 2-0 Scottish Cup semi-final defeat at the hands of the same opponents.
"The players tried to do their very best, they had a fantastic attitude and they raised their level," the Portuguese added.
"I saw more from my players this week than in last weekend's Scottish Cup semi-final defeat, the way we started the game was in that direction.
"You need to judge me all the time. From day one since I came here. I not a guy who puts the responsibility on others, I take it all the time.
"So judge me all the time. For things that are not going in the right direction I am responsible and I always will be."
The gulf between the sides was brutally evident for Rangers' fans and while Caixinha is confident of cutting the gap to their rivals, he admits major surgery is required in the summer.
"We need to make a lot of changes, we are very keen to reduce the difference," he said.
"It is possible to bridge the gap and we need to do it. That's what everyone is working hard towards."
Eleven companies, including brokerage giant Guotai Junan Securities, started taking investor subscriptions and another nine will follow on Friday, tying up more liquidity.
The Shanghai Composite dropped 3.7% to close at 4,785.36.
Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index closed down 0.2% at 26,694.6
The rest of Asian stocks were mostly lower after the Federal Reserve said there would be "only gradual increases" in interest rates by the end of the year if the US economy seemed strong enough.
The US central bank has kept its benchmark borrowing costs near record lows since 2008.
Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 1.1% to close at 19,990.82 and the broader Topix shed 1% to 1,616.66.
Stocks in Japan were also hit as the yen strengthened. The dollar slipped to 122.96 yen from 123.43 yen in New York trading.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed 1.3% lower at 5,524.90.
However, South Korea's Kospi index bucked the trend, rising 0.3% to close at 2,041.88.
In the currency markets, the New Zealand dollar fell by 1% after the country reported its slowest pace of quarterly growth in two years.
New Zealand expanded by a seasonally adjusted 0.2% in the first three months of the year after a drought hit its farming sector.
The numbers were below market estimates and increased speculation that the Reserve Bank of New Zealand will cut interest rates again next month.
Meanwhile, shares of AirAsia rose by more than 9% after the Malaysian budget carrier defended its financial and accounting practices after they were questioned by a research firm.
AirAsia's shares have fallen by about 30% after GMT Research issued a report on the company on 10 June.
A week-long curfew has been announced. Schools and many businesses are closed.
On Monday, hundreds of people set fires, looted stores and confronted police across the city.
City officials have been criticised for not responding more aggressively.
US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that the riots have unfairly overshadowed the peaceful protests about police use of force.
"There is no excuse for the kind of violence we saw yesterday," Mr. Obama said. "They are not protesters. They are not making a statement. They are stealing."
Volunteers and city workers began cleaning up affected areas on Tuesday morning. Smoke still rose from buildings set alight the night before.
Officials said about 200 people were arrested and more than 100 cars were set on fire on Monday. Fifteen buildings were destroyed.
African-American Freddie Gray, 25, died on 19 April after suffering injuries to his spinal cord and spending a week in a coma. The US justice department is investigating exactly where and when his spinal injuries were sustained.
Officials have suspended six police officers who were involved in the case.
Monday's clashes began hours after Mr Gray's funeral.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said it was very clear there was a difference between the "peaceful protests of those who seek justice" and the "thugs who want to incite violence".
National Guard commander Linda Singh said that up to 5,000 troops could be put on the streets.
"We will be out in massive force," she said, adding that armoured vehicles would be used, but the city would not be under martial law.
Extra police officers are also being drafted in from the Mid-Atlantic region.
Earlier, President Barack Obama said his administration would provide whatever assistance was needed.
Some looted and ransacked the city. Others waited for the chaos to subside - then started to rebuild.
Joseph Adeola stayed even after his store, Best Care Pharmacy, was robbed. He has invested in the neighbourhood and in the country, too. His family is from Nigeria, and he has tried to make a new life here.
Then the riots started. Looters and rioters ransacked sections of the city. Fifteen police officers were injured, and a state of emergency was declared.
National Guard officers are watching over some of the streets. They stand in a line near the harbour, chatting amongst themselves in the bright morning light.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan issued an executive order to "protect the lives and property of citizens being impacted by this public emergency".
He said calling in the National Guard was a "last resort" and that he had "not made this decision lightly".
Capt Eric Kowalczyk of Baltimore Police said the 15 officers were wounded by thrown objects including bricks and bottles. Two remain in hospital.
Police made at least 27 arrests on Monday.
A fire broke out at a newly constructed community building near a church in the east of the city.
Kevin Harris, a spokesman for the mayor, said the fire was at the Mary Harvin Transformation Centre, described online as a community-based organisation that supports young people and families.
Freddie Gray's death is the latest in a string of high-profile cases where black men have died after contact with the police.
Nationwide protests followed the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.
The violence is an escalation of earlier protests. There were 34 arrests as peaceful demonstrations by about 1,200 people outside Baltimore's City Hall on Saturday afternoon got out of control.
Are you in Baltimore? Have you been affected by the violence? You can share your experiences by emailing [email protected].
If you are willing to speak with a BBC journalist, please leave a contact number.
You can send a picture, video or message to our WhatsApp number +44 7525 900971
You can email your pictures, video or audio to us at [email protected]
Or you can upload pictures.
The man, from Welwyn Garden City, died at the scene of the crash in Luffenhall, Hertfordshire, at about 10:00 BST on Tuesday, police said.
Witness Peter Broadhurst said the Kolb FireFly came down "very steeply" and "hit the ground with a big whump noise".
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has been examining the wreckage.
The pilot was found by agricultural contractor James Irwin, who said: "I didn't see it come down, but saw it in the corner of my eye as I drove past at about 10:15."
More on this and other news from Hertfordshire
"I went over to it and you could see he was dead. He was just wearing an open-faced helmet.
"The engine was still running and petrol was coming out of the tank. I rang for the ambulance and fire brigade. They were here pretty quickly."
The deceased was the only person on board the single-seater ultralight aircraft, which was the subject of another AAIB investigation after its pilot was forced to land when the aircraft lost its propeller shaft during a flight in July 2013.
The League Two side finished 90th out of 92 in the Football League and did not win any of their last 11 games.
Feeney has offered terms to eight players and taken up one-year options on 19-year-olds Tom Owen-Evans and Kieran Parselle.
Mark Byrne, Andrew Hughes, Alex Rodman, Danny Holmes, Darren Jones, Scott Boden, John-Christophe Ayina and Medy Elito have all been offered new terms.
However, Yan Klukowski, Matt Partridge, Seth Nana-Twumasi, Rhys Taylor, Joe Green, Nathan Ralph and Scott Barrow have been released.
Loanees Janoi Donacien, Ben Davies, Souleymane Coulibaly, Dean Morgan, Tommy O'Sullivan and Deanne Smalley return to their parent clubs.
First team strikers Lenell John-Lewis and Tom Meechan and goalkeeper Joe Day are already contracted for next season.
Academy graduates Lewis Bamford, Dafydd Jones and Ben Jones - brother of defender Darren - and Wales Under-19 international Liam Angel have also agreed terms to remain at Rodney Parade.
Forty-six such incidents were logged by aviation authorities in the first week of January, the reports said.
Protest letters have been sent to Beijing and the UN's aviation body.
Vietnam is among several nations challenging China's claims of sovereignty in the area.
China has been running test flights to an artificial island it built in the Spratly Islands, which Vietnam also claims.
The flights prompted Vietnam to complain its sovereignty had been violated.
What is stoking the tensions?
Media playback is not supported on this device
The stroll through 10 straight victories in Euro 2016 qualifying was commendable and offered warmth - but the cold shower inevitably came with the best opposition they have faced since that nadir in Brazil.
Spain's 2-0 win beneath the steepling stands of Alicante's Estadio Jose Rico Perez was as predictable as it was comfortable - so what can Hodgson and England take from the defeat?
England's effort can be described as "plucky" - rather in the manner of an inferior FA Cup minnow hanging on and hoping for the best against a superior opponent until resistance is eventually broken.
As far as the Fifa rankings can be taken seriously, England are ninth and many would regard that as generous given their failure at the World Cup and with a renewal built on the back of a favourable Euro 2016 draw.
In real terms, England are not a member of world football's elite and have not been for some time. They are strictly second tier.
Media playback is not supported on this device
This defeat, and the ease with which Spain inflicted it, may simply be the reality check that was always coming once England met a very good side. It was a night when their place in the game's order was emphasised.
It also put any growing optimism about England's aspirations in France next summer firmly into context. They can travel with hope but the lid should be kept on expectations.
Hodgson left captain Wayne Rooney out and the side carried an experimental air but perhaps this is simply where they currently stand, namely beneath that top level - look at how brutally Arsenal were exposed in that 5-1 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
If good can come of defeat, it was in getting a close-quarters look at the standards of possession, movement and quality England need to somehow achieve, or at least get closer to achieving, before next summer.
It was always suggested England may learn more from friendlies ahead of Euro 2016 than they would from the games that actually got them there. This was a case in point and if England take lessons away from Alicante, defeat will not have been in vain.
No-one would suggest for one minute that manager Roy Hodgson should throw caution to the wind against a team of Spain's creative talents - but this was simply too conservative, especially in a friendly.
England had hoped to hit Spain on the counter-attack but they sat too far back and it is hard to see the streetwise opponents they may meet at the sharp end of Euro 2016 being too troubled by the idea of Hodgson's side flooring them with a sudden, unexpected blow if this is their approach.
They had the appearance of a team that did not truly believe they could win, that they were naturally Spain's inferiors - an attitude even more likely to lead to defeat in a major tournament than it is in a friendly.
England do have flair and it will be a key component of Hodgson's job to harness it before next summer.
Would Hodgson "risk" Everton's gloriously gifted Ross Barkley if England were starting a Euro 2016 game tomorrow against a tournament favourite? A personal view is that he would not.
And yet Barkley was one of the England players who looked like he might flourish in the Spain side, his passing crisp and one turn and run in the first half drawing applause from the home fans.
Raheem Sterling, if he can get consistency, offers pace on the break while a defensive pairing of Chris Smalling and John Stones is young and rich in promise.
Why Hodgson did not use this partnership against Spain is a complete mystery. Manchester United's Phil Jones actually did reasonably well against Diego Costa but now is the time to be pairing Smalling and Stones against the best to bed them in, or at least discover how much they need to improve.
This was a missed opportunity on many levels.
England should have arrived in Spain with a confidence overload after their qualifying campaign and yet they were callow and timid.
Fortune favours the brave - and if Hodgson and England are not brave in France they will get nowhere.
Possession is nine tenths of the law - or so the old saying goes - and yet England remain guilty of criminal negligence when they most need to be obeying the adage.
It was infuriating, as it has been on many occasions watching England against superior opposition, squandering possession with alarming regularity. It has been one of their worst, and most lingering, flaws.
Not only is this demoralising for England but it is also tiring, making the late goals from Mario Gaspar and Santi Cazorla even more predictable.
One passage of play in the first half summed up England's predicament and its dangers. Fabian Delph, trying to find Sterling with a simple pass, over-hit it with a lack of finesse and Gerard Pique's shot was deflected just wide.
Possession is priceless at this level and this is something England do not seem to be able to come to terms with.
Spain moved the ball around at pace with precision while England laboured. Michael Carrick, celebrated for his use of the ball in possession at Manchester United, looked anonymous and horribly out of his depth - a symbol of their struggles in Alicante.
Once more, if the penny does not drop England's outside chances of making a mark in France will recede even further into the distance.
After the defeat in Alicante I took part in a Q and A on Match of the Day's Facebook page.
Here's a selection of some of the best questions and how I answered them:
Haytham Hendow: Based on tonight's performance, what is the future of the England football team, both at the Euros and next World Cup cycle?
Phil: Tough to base anything on one game Haytham, but this was a night when England were shown just how far they have to go. They cannot be regarded as serious contenders for a major tournament unless there is a dramatic, unexpected, improvement.
Paul Golding: Has there been a worse pool of players for an England manager to pick from since Graham Taylor's tenure? Could Tony Daley and Carlton Palmer make it into this team?
Phil: I think there is a decent pool of players to pick from Paul... I worry about the lack of a holding, defensive midfield player because Carrick can't have too many more chances and I hope England will be bolder than this, otherwise they have no chance in France.
Jolan Wright: Why is Fabregas turning up for Spain and not for Chelsea?
Phil: He certainly looked like a different player tonight didn't he? Maybe just a change of scenery and playing in a team that is not struggling badly.
Rick Fox: What changes to the England setup would you make?
Phil: I think Hodgson is selecting the best players available but the approach tonight was so negative. It looked as if he would have been elated with a draw. It was a friendly and while I'm not suggesting throwing caution to the wind, where was the boldness, the attacking intent? Nowhere - and that was disappointing.
The 3.1 mile (5km) road links the A370, near Long Ashton, to the Cater Road roundabout in Hartcliffe.
The plans have been drafted with Bristol City Council and North Somerset Council. People have until 21 August to comment on the proposals.
Campaigners opposing the road say it is a "poisoned chalice" and a "staggering" waste of public money.
They claim the cost of the road is £43.1m, which works out as more than £8,600 per metre.
A spokeswoman for the West of England partnership said the road was needed because of traffic congestion.
She said a lack of transport links in south Bristol discouraged investment by businesses and acted as a barrier to employers locating in the area.
The combined road and bus route also includes new cycle and pedestrian paths.
Bristol City and North Somerset Councils are contributing some £15m towards the cost of the road with other funding coming from the Department for Transport.
Paper of the plans copies can be inspected at City Hall, Bristol; Bishopsworth Library, Gatehouse Centre, the Town Hall, Weston-super-Mare; Castlewood, Clevedon, and Long Ashton library.
The Portuguese was sent to the stands by referee Mark Clattenburg for an incident "in or around the tunnel area during half-time" of Saturday's goalless draw with Burnley.
He will serve a touchline ban for the game against Swansea on Sunday and will have to pay an £8,000 fine.
He was also fined £50,000 for comments he made about referee Anthony Taylor.
The United boss said it would be "difficult" for Taylor to officiate their game with Liverpool prior to the match at Anfield on 17 October.
Managers are not supposed to speak about referees prior to matches, but Mourinho added that appointing Taylor for the Liverpool match had put "pressure" on the Manchester-based official.
An FA statement said Mourinho accepted that the comments "constituted improper conduct, but denied they brought the game into disrepute".
However, an independent regulatory commission "found the disrepute element of the charge proven and as well as being fined, Mourinho was warned as to his future conduct".
Mourinho "admitted using abusive and/or insulting words towards a match official and accepted the standard penalty", following the incident against Burnley on 29 October,
Mourinho appeared to be upset when United were not awarded a penalty during Saturday's match, after Jon Flanagan challenged Matteo Darmian inside the Burnley box.
The 53-year-old emerged for the second half during the match but was escorted to a seat in the stands before being moved a second time, this time to the directors' box. He declined to speak to the media after the match.
Last season when he was in charge of Chelsea, Mourinho was given a one-match stadium ban and fined £40,000 in November 2015 after he was sent to the stands after going to speak to referee Jon Moss in his room at half-time.
He was also fined £50,000 for saying that referees were afraid to award penalties against his side after the Blues were beaten 3-1 by Southampton in October 2015.
BBC Radio 5 live football pundit and ex-Republic of Ireland captain Andy Townsend
With Jose's 'previous', he has got off a little lightly. I don't understand what is happening to him and those closest to him must be seeing a different man.
In some ways he is unrecognisable to the charm and sparkle he had when he first arrived in England. People change, but I would love Jose to relax a little more, and let a bit more of what he had previously come to the fore.
But what does being British actually mean?
It's not an easy question to answer, so we set Nel the challenge of having a go.
All this week she'll be travelling the country trying to find some answers.
Are there certain things that make you a British person?
Perhaps it's a tradition you follow, the values you have - or maybe it's a British person in history you identify with.
We asked what you thought. Thanks for all your comments.
If you send us a comment, it may be published on the Newsround website. Some comments may be used in our TV bulletins.
We'll use your first name, your age and your home town to show that it's your comment; your personal details won't be used for anything else.
Here's what some of you told us:
"To be British means to respect our country and to respect how British things are done."
Ben, Bristol, England
"I believe being British is showing pride, respect and being proud of living in the UK. It also means showing knowledge and respect for the royal family and drinking lot of tea!"
Bethany, Essex, England
"British is a hard thing to describe... BUT I'M PROUD OF IT!"
Holly, Scotland
"I think that being British means that you are proud of the country you live live in. It does not matter if you you weren't born there or your family aren't from there."
Rahila, Greater London, England
"I think being British means having British citizenship."
Josef, Fareham, England
"Traditional British food like English Breakfast, Sunday Dinner and Fish and Chips. No other country makes this sort of food like Britain."
Beth, Stoke-On-Trent, England
"I think being British means you are proud of being from Britain. I was born in Scotland but I class myself as Scottish and British."
Ceri, Scotland
"Living in Britain, speaking English and having some English culture in your daily life."
Clare, Derby, England
"Being British, in my opinion, cannot be shown on a piece of paper or passport, but just living in Britain no matter where you come from."
Mollie, Newcastle, England
"Being British means having a well-known, respected, Royal Family and having many successful different people now and in the future."
Safa, West Yorkshire, England
"To be honest if someone asked me about my nationality, I'd rather say that I'm Scottish rather than British. Being part of a certain country means that you have a sense of belonging there and are proud of it."
Amy, Paisley, Scotland
"Being British means being respectful."
Kene, Oxford, England
"I'm so proud to be British. I think that we have a lovely country that is free from many worldwide hazards like floods. I think the Queen's Jubilee is going to be awesome!"
Reshma, Leicester, England
"I think that if you live in Britain and you have for a long period of time you should be classed as part of the British Community."
Alice, Belfast, Northern Ireland
"I may be half Chinese but my mom's side of the family are British full blooded. On the inside I'm British and proud of it!"
Kaleb, Manchester, England
"Personally, I think being British means you love your country for what it is."
Shauna, Michigan, USA
"Being British means that you are born in either Scotland, England, Northern Ireland or Wales even if your Mum and Dad are from a different country."
Claire, Glasgow, Scotland
"We are British if we have a British passport or we were born there."
Bryanna, Goa, India
"To me being British means having a Royal family because not many other countries have one."
Liam, Middlesbrough, England
The amended proposal is for one new English-medium school with a sixth form and this would involve merging the town's two existing schools.
Previous proposals, which involved centralising sixth forms to a new centre at Pembrokeshire College, were met with a series of protests.
The consultation will begin next month.
A final decision on the new school is then set to go back before the council in July.
McDowall has been in charge of first-team matters since Ally McCoist resigned as manager and was placed on gardening leave in December.
McDowall leaves Rangers in third place in the Scottish Championship, five points behind second-place Hibernian and 22 behind league leaders Hearts.
Former Motherwell boss Stuart McCall is set to be announced as Rangers manager until the end of the season.
On 19 January McDowall followed McCoist in tendering his resignation, signalling his intention to quit the club at the end of his 12-month notice period. However, he will not see that out.
Walter Smith brought McDowall to Ibrox as part of his coaching staff from rivals Celtic - where he served as youth and reserve team coach - in January 2007.
When Smith stepped down from the manager's position in 2011 to be replaced by McCoist, McDowall was promoted from first-team coach to assistant manager.
"It was an honour and privilege to work for Rangers Football Club and I will leave with so many positive memories," McDowall said in a statement on the club's website.
"I have worked with so many talented people since I joined and I will forever be in Walter Smith's debt for bringing me to Rangers.
"Working with Walter, Ally McCoist, Ian Durrant, Jim Stewart and all the backroom staff plus the staff at Ibrox and Murray Park was a pleasure and I wish the club well for the future.
"I was delighted to play a part in the club's history and I wish the supporters and new management team all the very best."
Interim chairman Paul Murray said: "Everyone at Rangers Football Club thanks Kenny for his contribution and we will never forget the part he played in our success since he joined under Walter Smith in 2007.
"He is a man of integrity and honour and gave everything during his time at the club.
"Kenny worked under extremely challenging circumstances in recent months but he always gave everything he could to try to secure results for the football club."
McCall is expected to be announced as the new Rangers manager later on Thursday.
It was organised by the Workers' Party after the murder of Dan Murray on Monday night.
The protest took place on Wednesday night on the Grosvenor Road, close to where the 55-year-old takeaway delivery driver was shot.
The crowd was addressed by community and political representatives, who called for an end to the violence.
Police officers also handed out leaflets urging people to give information about crime to the police.
Monday night's murder was the third shooting in a 24-hour period.
A teenager and another man were also shot in paramilitary-style attacks in north Belfast.
Their injuries were not life-threatening.
Workers' Party representative Chris Bailie said people in west Belfast were "absolutely disgusted" by Mr Murray's and other violence in the area.
"We are here as a community to unite against these attacks," he said.
"We can't let these people think they can dictate the agenda and rule by fear and intimidation.
"They want to ignore democracy and the rule of law, but we can see by the growing crowds that people are willing to show their faces in the face of intimidation."
The Switzerland midfielder, 24, joined the Potters for a then club record £12m from Inter Milan in July and has scored three goals, with five assists, so far.
"We're really pleased with how he has come into games and had a positive impact," Hughes told BBC Radio Stoke.
"Arguably he's been on his best run of form in terms of end product."
Shaqiri has helped Stoke up to ninth in the Premier League and within four points of a potential Europa League place next season.
But a thigh injury forced him off after half an hour of their 2-1 defeat by Southampton and Hughes is not expecting him to be fit in time for Saturday's trip to Watford.
"There looked like there was a bit of damage near the top of his thigh," Hughes said.
"We don't know the extent of it and hopefully it's not bad but he's a major doubt."
Stoke captain Ryan Shawcross is also a doubt for Vicarage Road.
After six weeks out with a back injury, the 28-year-old returned to action against the Saints only to suffer another setback late in the game.
"He got knocked off balance and that's when all the pressure went through one side of his back," Hughes said.
"We're hopeful it's just a jarring and there's no damage. There's nothing you can do about it, it's just how Ryan's luck has gone of late."
Thousands of tins of beans were strewn across three lanes of the M11 in Essex in 2012 after a lorry swerved to avoid a car and smashed into the central reservation.
No-one was hurt in the accident near Epping, but a mini-digger had to be called in to scoop up the cans of pulses and clear the road.
The southbound carriageway between junctions six and seven was closed for around three hours.
The M1 ground to a halt in the winter of 2011 when 20 tonnes of yeast extract oozed across the carriageway near Sheffield.
Specialist teams were dispatched to stop the sticky black mess spreading in a clean-up operation that took 12 hours.
The Environment Agency was called in to help over fears the substance could pollute local waterways and suffocate fish.
Hundreds of cans of lager rolled across the M6 at Coventry in 2011 after a van overturned and shed its load.
The link road between the M69 southbound and the M6 northbound was closed for almost four hours while Highways England picked up every single tin of beer by hand.
Ten tonnes of salmon had to be picked up by hand in the dead of night after an HGV overturned near Goole in 2013.
The frozen fish was strewn across both the east and westbound carriageways and the 44 tonne lorry was blocking several lanes.
Highways England worked into the early hours to get the road reopened in time for rush-hour traffic in what they described as a "complicated" clean-up mission.
Hundreds of chickens perished on the M62 in Greater Manchester last year after a lorry smashed into a safety barrier.
The vehicle was carrying 6,800 chickens when it crashed and about 1,500 died from the impact or were killed by passing traffic.
Some 2,000 birds escaped and had to be recaptured by rescuers scouring nearby fields in the dark.
Nasty substances spilled on our roads pose quite the challenge for agencies cleaning them up.
It took almost four hours for specialist teams to mop up animal blood from the eastbound carriageway of the A50 at Stoke-on-Trent in 2011 after the tanker carrying the liquid sprang a leak.
Similarly, in 2009, the Environment Agency had to be drafted in to deal with the aftermath of an HGV crash which saw raw human sewage seep across the A3 near Guildford.
It took five hours for the hazardous material to be removed.
An acid spill closed the M11 near Stansted Airport for more than 12 hours last year after a lorry overturned, pouring melamine formaldehyde resin and phosphoric acid across several lanes.
More than 325 metres of carriageway had to be cleared and teams scrambled to clean up the mess before the substance solidified on the road.
Highways England was faced with a similar challenge just a couple of weeks later when powdered cement was spilled across the M6 on the hottest day of the year.
Motorists were left stranded between junctions 34 and 35 following a smash between two lorries and a car, which saw several hundred gallons of diesel from one of the vehicles mix with the powder, causing it to set.
It took 18 hours to clear and resurface the road.
The 28-year-old had been named in coach Joe Schmidt's 32-man squad for the three-Test tour last week.
Fitzgerald's misfortune could open the door for uncapped Connacht wing Matt Healy, who rounded off a terrific season with a fine display on Saturday.
Connacht full-back Tiernan O'Halloran is another option available to Schmidt.
A decision on Fitzgerald's replacement should be made in the next few days, with Healy the favourite to get the nod.
Ulster's in-form Craig Gilroy could also be in the running to join the squad,
The Leinster back joins a lengthy list of absentees for the tour which includes wings Simon Zebo and Tommy Bowe, and forwards Cian Healy, Denis Buckley, Nathan White, Sean O'Brien, Peter O'Mahony, Josh van der Flier and Andrew Conway.
Meanwhile South Africa have named hooker Adriaan Strauss as captain for the series.
New coach Allister Coetzee praised the 30-year-old's leadership skills in what is a new-look squad.
"Adriaan's leadership qualities are impressive and well-established and he has the respect of his team mates on and off the field," Coetzee said in a statement from SA Rugby.
Strauss will become the 57th Springboks captain, taking over from Jean de Villiers who retired after last year's Rugby World Cup.
The 30-year-old hooker has 54 international caps with the 'Boks and he served as vice-captain in 2012 and '13.
Ireland face the Springboks in the first Test in Cape Town on 11 June, with the sides meeting again over the following two weekends in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth.
Forwards: Finlay Bealham (Connacht), Rory Best (Ulster), Sean Cronin (Leinster), Ultan Dillane (Connacht), Tadgh Furlong (Leinster), Jamie Heaslip (Leinster), Iain Henderson (Ulster), David Kilcoyne (Munster), Jack McGrath (Leinster), Jordi Murphy (Leinster), Sean Reidy (Ulster), Mike Ross (Leinster), Quinn Roux (Connacht), Rhys Ruddock (Leinster), Donnacha Ryan (Munster), CJ Stander (Munster), Richardt Strauss (Leinster), Devin Toner (Leinster).
Backs: Keith Earls (Munster), Robbie Henshaw (Connacht), Paddy Jackson (Ulster), David Kearney (Leinster), Rob Kearney (Leinster), Kieran Marmion (Connacht), Luke Marshall (Ulster), Conor Murray (Munster), Stuart Olding (Ulster), Jared Payne (Ulster), Eoin Reddan (Leinster), Johnny Sexton (Leinster), Andrew Trimble (Ulster).
The online crime groups were shunning mobiles and newer technologies in favour of phishing campaigns, said the report from Verizon.
The annual analysis catalogues more than 100,000 security incidents that hit thousands of companies in 2015.
Almost 90% of the incidents involved attempts to steal cash, it said.
The gangs were sticking to booby-trapped emails because they were proving increasingly effective, said Marc Spitler, lead author on the report.
And, so far, there was little evidence novel technologies involving net-connected gadgets or smartphones were becoming a popular attack route.
About 30% of phishing emails had been opened by people in targeted organisations in 2015, said the report, up from 23% in 2014.
And, of the scam emails opened, about 13% had been able to launch malware because staff had run the attachments they had carried.
This meant, said Mr Spitler, it often took just minutes for criminals to compromise the network of a targeted company.
"If an attack works, then it works very quickly," he said.
"The phishing email typically leads to the installation of malware or the compromise of a user's PC by some sort of malicious code that can establish control or persistence on a network," said Mr Spitler.
Unfortunately, he added, although companies fell victim quickly, they could take far longer to notice they had been breached.
Statistics gathered for the Verizon report suggest 84% of the organisations questioned took weeks to spot that criminals had won access to internal systems.
The report said that the complexity of the kind of nuclear reactor destined for Hinkley Point was itself a "handicap" to its construction and its cost.
So it should come as no surprise that wherever the new European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) is being installed - in Finland, France and China - the projects are beset by delays and massive increases in price.
The EPR is what's called a Third Generation reactor and it's designed to be safer, more powerful and more efficient than earlier versions. Ironically, it's also meant to be easier to build. But so far the reality has been the opposite.
The first of the reactors was sold to a Finnish power company where, amid a blizzard of lawsuits, it's on course to be nine years late.
The second was ordered for an EDF site in Normandy where, as the BBC's Business Editor Simon Jack reports, it will be six years late. Two more are being assembled in China and are now estimated to be "only" two years late.
I put it to the engineers running the Hinkley project that a source of difficulty for the EPR could be all the new safety features - for example an extra layer of containment and a sophisticated device called a "core catcher" that sits below the reactor where it would trap any molten radioactive material if there was ever a meltdown.
No, came the answer. The new features are all manageable. The basic design is similar to the previous generation. We are very confident we can build it.
The problem is that, as the EDF Board prepares to make its final investment decision, there is not yet a single example that anyone can point to of the reactor actually working.
And its development has become something of a saga which not only involves huge questions about finance and politics but also about technology.
Simon Jack has highlighted the concerns about the forging of the reactor's housing - what's known the pressure vessel, a tower of steel that houses the actual process of nuclear fission.
This acts as the beating heart of the power station and, in the EPR's case, would help generate more power than was ever possible with earlier designs.
But tests last autumn rang an alarm bell.
They found that the dome capping the vessel installed at Flamanville in Normandy contained impurities - amid the steel there was a small zone with too much carbon.
This could potentially undermine the vessel's strength. The intense radiation generated within the reactor bombards the pressure vessel and, over the decades, makes the metal as brittle as glass.
Bizarrely, in a world of gleaming high technology, this area of excess carbon in the dome is referred to as a 'carrot' because of its shape.
This makes it sound rather innocent. In fact, it's forced a major pause. The dome in Normandy is now undergoing detailed investigations.
And the domes that had already been built for the first of Hinkley's reactors - one for the top of the vessel and one for the bottom - have been returned to their makers, the troubled French nuclear firm Areva.
Replacements have been ordered from a specialist Japanese steelmaker.
So will this add yet more delay to the project at Hinkley? No, we were told.
One line, above all, is being determinedly pushed: that lessons have been learned from Finland, Normandy and China.
Contractors are lined up. The 3D modelling has ironed out potential log-jams. The sequencing of concrete pouring and deliveries and electrical work and host of other jobs has been carefully choreographed.
And many of the engineers who lived through the challenges of the other EPR projects will be on hand at Hinkley. 'Veterans', as Simon Jack, calls them.
That could mean they have plenty of useful experience. Or they really know just how uncertain a task they face.
The 20-year-old academy graduate, who can play in midfield and at right-back, will now stay at the Banks's Stadium until at least 2018.
"I'm over the moon to get it sorted, it gives me a bit of stability," Kinsella told BBC WM.
"It's been tough getting in the team this year but I'm learning every day."
Kinsella, son of former Walsall and Aston Villa midfielder Mark, has made 13 appearances for the first team since making his debut against Bradford City in August 2014.
With the Saddlers currently third in League One, three points behind Burton Albion in the second automatic promotion place with a game in hand, Kinsella says the club's success has this season has helped make him a better player.
"The guys have been outstanding this season, it's improving me just being around this sort of atmosphere," Kinsella said. "I just need to take my opportunity when I get a shot."
Steve Feltham had hoped to complete his challenge in three years after giving up his job and selling his home in Dorset to move to Dores near Inverness.
This year marked the 25th anniversary of his effort to explain sightings of Nessie.
He has been named Ambassador of the Year at the Highlands and Islands Tourism Awards.
Mr Feltham, who continues to search for the monster, said: "Winning this award makes me realise that what I've been doing for two and a half decades doesn't just make my heart sing, it has a knock-on effect for the tourism industry in the Highlands of Scotland."
He has previously been recognised by the Guinness Book of World Record for the longest continuous vigil hunting for the Loch Ness Monster.
Is it President Richard Nixon, with his mercurial temper, paranoid scheming, penchant for scandal and divisive politics? Perhaps it's the foreign policy hawkishness - fuelled by an evangelical certitude and oil patch brashness - of President George W Bush?
Or maybe it's not an American at all. One Canadian writer recently drew parallels to Russian President Vladimir Putin, with his "contempt for the media", anti-democratic tendencies and - yes - love of hockey.
It's the similarities between the Canadian prime minister and the conservative politics of his neighbour to the south that seem to come up the most, however.
"Normal, peaceful, thoughtful Americans wouldn't enjoy it here anymore," Heather Mallick, writing in Harper's Magazine, tells those in the US who once looked to Canada as a progressive counterweight to their own nation's right-wing political drama. "We're becoming precisely what you're trying to escape."
Meanwhile, many American conservatives are touting Mr Harper's legacy, built over nearly 10 years in office, as he seeks to become the first Canadian prime minister in more than 100 years to win a fourth successive term in office next month.
"Conservatives, wherever they live, can be pleased with Stephen Harper," writes the National Review's Jay Nordlinger. "He is a leader of the West, an advocate of freedom, democracy, capitalism, human rights - Western civilisation, we could say."
"He is a leader who speaks our language, thinks our thoughts," Nordlinger concludes.
It's difficult to dispute that Mr Harper has a list of accomplishments that would make an American Republican blush.
His cuts to national consumption and income taxes have dried up money for social programmes - a "starve the beast" style of conservatism that first emerged during US President Ronald Reagan's rise to power during the 1980s.
He discontinued a national long-gun registry, boosted mandatory criminal sentences and increased funding for prison construction.
"Our government believes in standing up for victims of crime and their families, putting their rights and interests ahead of those of criminals, and that a prison sentence should mean what it says," Mr Harper recently said.
He's cut funding to government-funded research into climate change, pulled Canada out of the Kyoto Protocol agreement to control greenhouse gasses and - his critics allege - singled out environmentalist groups for tax audits.
He pushed stricter voter identification rules and cut funding to government election outreach efforts.
In foreign policy he's advocated Canadian air strikes in Syria, offered a full-throated support of Israel and amped up the "war on terrorism" rhetoric. Following the attack on the Canadian parliament building by a lone shooter last year, he pushed through Bill C-51, which increased government policing, information-sharing and surveillance powers.
The rightward trajectory of Canadian politics, then, seems clear. Whether Canadians still support this course is increasingly in doubt, however.
The latest opinion surveys have Mr Harper's party polling around 30%, roughly even with the left-leaning Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party. In other words, nearly two-thirds of the Canadian public currently prefers something other than what the Conservative Party is selling.
In the hours before the Canadian leaders faced off in Calgary last week, Mr Harper's critics were out in force outside the debate site, chanting and hoisting signs. Many cited the above items as examples of how, in their view, Mr Harper has steadily pulled Canada away from its traditional moorings of tolerance, openness and good-government values toward a more divisive - read, American - style of politics.
"He's definitely brought the politics of division to Canada," said Alex Shevalier, an NDP supporter and president of the Calgary and District Labour Council. "I think there's a certain segment of the population that's anti-government, and he's figured out a formula to capitalise on it."
Emily Kaupp, a third-year student at the University of Calgary who supports the Liberal Party, said she didn't think Mr Harper "disrespected" the office, but the man who has been prime minister for much of her life is leading the nation in the wrong direction.
"Canada is losing its legacy as a country that helps in peacekeeping, and in other humane areas of society," she said.
When BBC Pop Up asked its Canadian audience what they thought of the state of their nation's politics, many echoed these sentiments - that the Canada they know has changed.
"Harper's government has eroded Canada's standing in so many ways," writes Claire in Kingston, Ontario. "He has taken us backwards on climate change, offender rehabilitation, international relations, and research and development. He has implemented a 'tough on crime' policy that is in absolute opposition to the evidence on what works in reducing reoffending."
"The Canada that I was so incredibly proud of is now hardly recognisable after Harper's ideological onslaught the past 10 years," writes a reader from Edmonton, Alberta. "Harper came into office promising transparency and accountability, and fiscal prudence. But under his tenure the reality has been the very antithesis of that; we now have a government that is paranoid, secretive and controlling, and who has grossly mismanaged the public service and economy."
Heather in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, writes: "We have had a leader who, rather than inspiring us to become more in our own eyes and in the eyes of the world, reminds us that we have to look out for ourselves and not others too. This, I think, is because of the idea that we will lose out if we don't see things his way."
Thanks in part to Mr Harper's long tenure in office, much of the passion during this campaign seems to be on the side of the opposition - which could explain the vehemence of the response to the BBC's request. The Conservative Party wasn't without its supporters, however.
Mr Harper, writes John in Calgary, Alberta, is a warrior who protects Canada and "keeps it strong".
"The job he has done has been remarkable to me,' he writes. "Even standing up for Israel when it looks like many others are turning away."
At the debate last week, Mr Harper's blue-clad supporters - while fewer in number - also fiercely defended their man's legacy.
"We've weathered a recession, and are currently weathering another one, better than any other country of the G-7," said Tyler Van Bliet, a first-year student at the University of Calgary.
"I think people forget that we'd be the envy of a lot of the world right now just for the way we've bounced back from these recessions. We've been able to keep jobs afloat, create new jobs, while keeping our taxes down low."
Elvie Valeroso, a Philippine immigrant, said the Conservative Party has been good to her community. If there's one place Canadian-style conservatives have departed from their American counterparts - at least the Donald Trump wing of the party - it's in the quiet inroads Mr Harper has made with immigrant voters, in part through the savvy use of ethnic media.
"They have opened the door to our people in terms of needs in whatever capacity they can," Valeroso said. "Mr Harper is helping seniors and children and families, lowering the taxes and of course protecting the economy."
On 19 October Canadians will head to the polls. Like most elections when an incumbent party has held office for a long time, the vote will be, in part, a judgement on Stephen Harper, his legacy, and his vision of Canadian values and priorities.
"By saying what we will do and doing what we say, one step at a time, we are moving Canada in a conservative direction, and Canadians are moving with us," Mr Harper said in 2011.
The Canadian public will soon have a chance to tell him whether they still agree or if, in their view, their nation has gone south - in more ways than one.
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea called for India to suspend its court case against the two marines, pending international arbitration.
It also rejected Italy's request for the marines to be freed while they await the final ruling.
The case has led to a bitter diplomatic row between Delhi and Rome.
Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone face murder charges and are on bail awaiting trial.
Mr Girone is currently staying in the Italian embassy in Delhi, while India's Supreme Court has allowed Mr Latorre to temporarily return in Italy on health grounds.
The marines were guarding an Italian oil tanker when they opened fire, killing two men off the Kerala coast in South India. The marines said they mistook the fishermen for pirates.
Italy says that as the shooting took place in international waters, the men should be tried in Italy.
However, India wants the men tried in an Indian court. It has ruled out the possibility of the death penalty.
The tribunal said that in addition to halting all current court proceedings, both countries should "refrain from initiating new ones which might aggravate or extend the dispute".
Both sides should submit a report to the tribunal by 24 September ahead of hearings, it added.
|
Police in Australia have seized 3D-printed weapons after a raid in a suburb of Gold Coast City, Queensland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Day release from prison is to be scaled back following a series of serious crimes committed by offenders temporarily out of jail.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
President Donald Trump drew his sharpest distinction from his predecessor, Barack Obama, by swiftly ordering a military response to the apparent use of chemical weapons by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad earlier this week.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ministers must continue to scrutinise - and be prepared to vote against - new EU measures while it remains a member of the EU, a committee of MPs has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has died following an alleged assault at a hotel in Bedford.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A baby has died at Scotland's newest "super-hospital" campus after becoming infected with harmful bacteria.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Dutch Justice Minister Ard van der Steur has resigned in a row over a 2001 compensation payment to a convicted drug trafficker.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ruan Pienaar could still feature in Ulster's European game against Exeter on Saturday after fears that he sustained a knee injury in Sunday's defeat by Bordeaux eased.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Plymouth Argyle defender Sonny Bradley says he can reach 10 league goals this season, after scoring his seventh of the campaign in their win at Doncaster.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha took full responsibility for his side's 5-1 home hammering by Celtic.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Mainland Chinese shares saw sharp falls as a huge wave of initial public offerings on Thursday put pressure on the market.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Thousands of troops and outside police officers have been deployed to the US city of Baltimore, following violent protests linked to the death of a black man fatally injured in police custody.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A pilot in his 70s has died after the light aircraft he was flying crashed in a field.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Newport County boss Warren Feeney has allowed 13 players to leave the club.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Vietnam has accused China of threatening regional air safety by conducting unannounced flights through its airspace to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, state media reported.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
England's unbeaten run stretched back 17 months to the damp day in Sao Paulo when two goals from Luis Suarez gave Uruguay victory and sent Roy Hodgson's side out of the World Cup.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Formal plans for the proposed south Bristol link road have been submitted to two local authorities.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has been banned for one match and fined £58,000 for two separate offences.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Jubilee, the Olympics... If ever there was a summer to celebrate being British - this is it!
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A fifth public consultation into the future of secondary education in Haverfordwest will take place after a Pembrokeshire council vote.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Caretaker manager Kenny McDowall has left Rangers, the club have announced.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
About 100 people have attended a protest in west Belfast against paramilitary attacks.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Stoke City manager Mark Hughes is delighted with the efforts of summer signing Xherdan Shaqiri in his first Premier League season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Just days after a lorry caused severe delays by shedding 24 tonnes of lard across a motorway slip road, BBC News takes a look at the strangest items spilled on England's roads.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Luke Fitzgerald has been ruled out of Ireland's summer tour to South Africa by a knee injury suffered in Leinster's 20-10 Pro12 final defeat by Connacht.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Cyber-thieves are sticking to email as their preferred way to trick victims into falling for scams, suggests a report.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Six years ago a French government inquiry issued a warning that makes for chilling and highly relevant reading even today.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Walsall youngster Liam Kinsella has signed a one-year contract extension with the League One promotion chasers.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man who has spent 25 years trying to solve the Loch Ness Monster mystery has been honoured with a tourism award.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's political opponents have a difficult time figuring out exactly which disliked US leader he most reminds them of.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A UN-linked tribunal has ordered a halt to all legal proceedings in the case of two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012.
| 31,416,838 | 15,792 | 949 | true |
Kim Gavin is a master at choreographing events on a grand scale.
The former ballet dancer is widely recognised as one of the UK's leading creative directors and choreographers.
He has produced some of the biggest live events of recent years, including Concert For Diana in 2007 and Take That's latest stadium tours.
When Gavin was announced as artistic director of the Olympic and Paralympic closing ceremonies in February 2011, he said it was "a once in a lifetime opportunity".
Now, Gavin has overseen the first of those two closing shows, titled A Symphony of British Music, which featured performances from, among others, the Pet Shop Boys, Madness, Ray Davies and Annie Lennox.
Gavin described it as the "after-show party" to celebrate the main sporting competition.
He said earlier this year: "Music has been Britain's strongest cultural export of the last 50 years and we intend to produce an Olympic closing ceremony that will be a unique promotion of great British popular music."
Gavin's creative team includes designer Es Devlin, music director David Arnold and lighting director Patrick Woodroffe, alongside executive producer Stephen Daldry.
Born in Bournemouth, Gavin trained at the Royal Ballet School, and enjoyed a successful career as a dancer on television and in the theatre.
He began to turn that theatrical experience to choreography and directing, and masterminded his first major shows in the 1990s, including early tours by the boy band Take That, with whom he has gone on to enjoy a long working relationship.
In 1997 Gavin directed and choreographed the 1970s musical Oh! What A Night, starring Kid Creole as hip New York DJ Brutus T Firefly. The show has toured the UK and internationally over several years.
In 2002 he choreographed the West End musical 125th Street at the Shaftesbury Theatre, and in 2005 he devised and directed the musical Love Shack, which toured the UK with a cast including Jon Lee from S Club, Faye Tozer from Steps and Noel Sullivan from Hear'Say.
Love Shack featured a song written specifically for the production by Take That frontman Gary Barlow, as well as 25 cover hits including It's Raining Men and I've Had the Time of my Life.
Since then, Gavin has staged a long list of large-scale live events including the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium in 2007 and the Help for Heroes concert at Twickenham Stadium in 2010.
He also produced the Ryder Cup opening concert in 2010, which saw Welsh soprano Katherine Jenkins make her entrance by being lowered from the ceiling of the Millennium Stadium. The concert included performances from Dame Shirley Bassey and choir Only Men Aloud.
But it is Gavin's work with Take That's comeback stadium tours Circus (2009) and Progress (2011) that have made him the ideal candidate to take on the spectacle of an Olympic ceremony.
The Circus show featured the group along with 50 circus performers and dancers who flew from trapezes and made up a human Ferris Wheel.
The show's centrepiece was a mechanical elephant nearly 8m (26ft 3in) tall - and animated by 13 puppeteers - which carried the band to the main stage.
Gavin invited London 2012 chiefs to see Take That's Wembley show. "I thought it would be a very good advert," he said on his first day as Olympic artistic director.
While the main Olympic closing ceremony is over, British band Coldplay have been announced as headliners for the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
They will take to the stage at the Olympic Stadium on 9 September for the ceremony, titled Festival of Flame.
The investigation relates to the alleged transfer of £1m to a charitable account connected to the federation.
Three serving police and one retired officer were arrested on suspicion of fraud and released on bail last month.
The IPCC said it will carry out a "thorough independent investigation".
The criminal inquiry was originally launched by Surrey Police, following a report from the federation, which has its headquarters in Leatherhead.
The IPCC said it will also take over the criminal investigation into the allegations.
Those arrested include two serving Metropolitan Police officers, one South Wales Police officer, and a retired Greater Manchester Police officer.
In a statement, the IPCC said its investigators were liaising with Surrey Police about the handover of documentation relating to the case.
IPCC Commissioner Jennifer Izekor said: "We will carry out a thorough independent investigation into these serious allegations.
"The investigation is in its very early stages and we will be working closely with Surrey Police to ensure a smooth handover of the investigative work which has been carried out so far."
The Police Federation - which represents rank and file police officers - has said it is co-operating with the inquiry.
The teenager, who doesn't want to be identified, says she suffered physical, emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of her ex when they were both 13.
It comes as charity ChildLine launches a campaign warning how adult content can influence children's behaviour.
"Everyone else was going out with each other so when he asked me, I just thought why not," she recalls.
"But it wasn't serious. It was always with everyone else at first - just cinema, we went to the park after school.
"When we were at the park and everyone left, he changed towards me and that's when things went downhill.
"He was very much different on his own to when he was with his friends.
"I knew what they were watching but they'd ask me to wait outside. That's when I realised, I started to click in with what porn was and how it was affecting my friendships and me as a person.
"I had just walls and walls of abuse around me - physical abuse, emotional and sexual abuse.
"With physical abuse he'd hit me, and with sexual abuse it can range from anything you can imagine really, and emotional abuse it was mainly telling me I wasn't good enough and comparing me and things like that - putting me down.
"The way that I interpreted that was that were people were against me because everyone watches porn and it's really easily accessible.
"So that made me feel trapped, it made me feel like I didn't really want to be alive any more."
"I ended it because towards the end he let me go to this party. I hadn't been allowed to see friends or anything.
"I started talking to this boy. He was older and he was my friend's brother and he took an interest. I felt safe by him and I felt like he was a way out and he was a friend at the time."
The abusive relationship might have been over, but the effects weren't.
"Initially I felt like it just ruined me for the first year.
"The second year I started to fall into what it was and the situation. I was growing up a bit and I made the decisions really to draw back and I understood more - I was getting counselling at that point as well so I was more understanding of what was going on. I was getting better - I wasn't in a good place still but I was getting better.
"It's ruined my trust a little bit in terms of pornography because so many people watch and are influenced by it.
"I'm kind of growing up in the wrong generation. I feel because when I get older it will be very difficult to find someone who's not influenced by it. But I'm OK with that - I'll get dogs instead, it's fine."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube
It puts Wales top of the so-called pool of death on nine points - three ahead of their hosts who have six after receiving a bonus point in defeat.
Scott Williams, Hallam Amos and Liam Williams were all injured - five days before Wales face Fiji in Cardiff.
Fly-half Dan Biggar kicked 23 points - including the winning penalty from the halfway line and the conversion to scrum-half Gareth Davies' second-half try.
Wales greats Martyn Williams and Jonathan Davies give their verdicts:
"It's an incredible result, I just cannot believe it.
"When the injuries happened Wales were behind and I thought that was it.
"But momentum is massive in sport and when they had the momentum they kept it and they scored that wonderful try.
"Their backs were against the wall - it was incredible. They can be so proud of the performance.
"But we have to back it up on Thursday [against Fiji] otherwise this win is worthless.
"Fiji is a huge banana skin. They were strong in the scrum against England, they'll throw the ball about and our injuries are a major worry.
"They'll have to keep it tight, have a good kicking game, good carrying in the centre, but when it's on go wide and hopefully come out on top."
"We've seen that type of performance from this team time and time again over the past three or four years.
"They hang on in there and sometimes when the chips are really down, you've got nothing to lose and you just go out and play. The shackles are off.
"We still had world-class players out there and they found the energy from somewhere.
"England's backline were all at sea in defence and to pull that off is just incredible.
"To be 25-18 down and lose three of your backs I thought it was game over - they've got no chance of coming back.
"But they did, they kept on in there and what an unbelievable win.
"Looking ahead to Fiji it will be difficult, but we're back in the Millennium Stadium.
"I don't think they [Wales] should train at all, get as many as possible fit.
"Win against Fiji and then fingers crossed and give it your best shot against Australia."
Wales face Australia at Twickenham on Saturday, 10 October.
Watch all the analysis on Scrum V Rugby World Cup Special, 19:00 Sunday, 27 September, BBC Two Wales.
The 22-year-old joined Quins from Saracens last season and made 10 appearances in all competitions in his first year at the club.
"The whole experience has been great from day one and I can't wait to carry on wearing the shirt in the hope to bring more success," he said.
Morris, who can also play on the wing, was part of the England Under-20 side which won the 2014 Junior World Cup.
Winger Andrew Fenby scored a hat-trick as The Exiles, bottom of the English Premiership, ran in six tries in total.
The hosts secured the try-scoring bonus point before half-time, with Alex Lewington, Johnny Williams and Aseli Tikoirotuma all going over to seal an emphatic victory.
Greig Tonks kicked two penalties for Edinburgh's only points of the game.
Fenby, making his first start since the opening Premiership weekend, cut inside from the blindside wing from halfway to cross for his first try before squeezing over in the corner four minutes later from Sean Maitland's pass.
Winger Lewington then found space behind Edinburgh's back line for Irish's third try on 27 minutes after picking up a reverse pass 40 metres out.
Irish had the bonus point in the bag as Williams snuck over in the corner before the break for his fifth try in four games.
Edinburgh saw more of the ball in the second half, but could not break down their opponents.
Centre Tikoirotuma added the fifth try on the hour and Fenby completed his treble, running on to a kick over the top from Lewington.
Irish move to the top of Pool Five and face Edinburgh again at Murrayfield on Friday in their next game.
London Irish assistant coach Clark Laidlaw told BBC Radio Berkshire:
Media playback is not supported on this device
"We're certainly happy with the win and happy with certain aspects of our game.
"We scored a few really nice tries, a couple that we've been working on for a few weeks and haven't quite pulled off previously.
On Andrew Fenby's hat-trick:
"We're delighted for him. He's been frustrated and we've been having regular chats on where he's working on his game.
"He's taken on that feedback and he's working hard on his game and he's got the rewards."
Edinburgh head coach Alan Solomans said:
"We were very poor. Our strength in depth was found wanting.
"Our defence was the worst I have seen this season and our inability to finish was poor.
"We must have had five opportunities to score and didn't take any of them."
London Irish: Maitland; Lewington, Tikoirotuma, Williams, Fenby; Geraghty, McKibbin; Court, Ellis, Franks, Sheriff, Sinclair, Narraway (capt), Gilsenan, Treviranus.
Replacements: Stevens, Smallbone, Halavatau, Sisi, Cowan, Allinson, Brophy-Clews, Waldouck.
Edinburgh: Fife, Brown, Allen, Strauss, Katoa, Tonks, Fowles; Sutherland, Cochrane (capt), Andress, Bresler, Toolis, Ritchie, Watson, Du Preez.
Replacements: Turner, Shiells, Berghan, Bradbury, Dean, Hidalgo-Clyne, Kinghorn, Hoyland.
The jet, carrying 359 people, ran into trouble after taking off from the Gold Coast at 22:20 (12:20 GMT) on Monday.
Passengers reported hearing loud noises and seeing sparks coming from an engine before the flight landed safely in Brisbane an hour later.
"Two bird remains were found on the runway," the airline said.
One passenger, Tim Joga, said he heard "four or five bangs" before seeing an "orange light" outside.
"The plane started shuddering then there were a couple of loud bangs and a lot of light," he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Another passenger, Eric Lim, said the incident happened immediately after take-off.
"Successive sparks boom boom boom went off and some people were crying and calling out 'oh my god oh my god'," he wrote on Facebook.
AirAsia X chief executive Benyamin Ismail said the pilot and crew took "swift action" to reassure passengers during the incident.
"AirAsia X will arrange for a special flight to transport all guests on Flight D7 207 to Kuala Lumpur as soon as possible," he said in a statement.
Last week, an AirAsia X flight was forced to turn back to Perth after an engine problem left it "shaking like a washing machine".
Earlier this month a China Eastern Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Sydney after a huge hole appeared in one of its engine casings.
In December 2014, an AirAsia plane crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 162 people on board after the aircraft's rudder control system malfunctioned during the flight.
Rabbi David Singer told BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday Sequence that he has received suspicious e-mails and come across anti-Jewish graffiti in the centre of Belfast.
He said there has also been graffiti daubed on Belfast's synagogue.
Thirteen Jewish graves were attacked in west Belfast in August.
They said they became aware of details of his injuries only when the medical examiner's report was released on Thursday.
Mr Lesin, 57, was found dead in a US hotel four months ago. US coroners say he died of head injuries.
Medical examiners say the exact circumstances of death are not clear.
Russian media had reported his death as a suspected heart attack.
He was one of the most influential figures on the Russian media scene.
Who was Mikhail Lesin?
The Russian embassy in Washington told the BBC that it became aware of the injuries sustained by Lesin only on Thursday, when the medical examiner's report was released.
Press Secretary Yuri Melnik said Russia had made repeated requests for updates on the investigation but very few facts had been given.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said no detailed information about the case had been provided to Moscow via the channels used for such cases.
"In the light of these media reports we hope that we will receive the detailed information," he said.
Washington DC's chief medical examiner said Mr Lesin had, as well as head injuries, blunt force injuries to the neck, torso, arms and legs, without concluding how the injuries had been sustained.
Police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said the case remained under investigation, the Washington Post reports.
He declined to say whether the post-mortem examination results meant a crime might have been committed.
The New York Times reported that Mr Lesin's injuries were the result of "some sort of altercation" that happened before he returned to his hotel.
A former Russian press minister and one-time head of the powerful Gazprom-Media Holding group, Mikhail Lesin was found dead on 5 November 2015 in the Dupont Circle Hotel.
It is unclear why he was in Washington but several family members were resident in the US and had business interests there.
He worked as an aide to the presidency between 2004 and 2009 and was instrumental in the creation of Russia's state-funded international broadcaster RT (formerly known as Russia Today).
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow says that for years Mr Lesin was the mastermind behind the Kremlin's wholesale takeover of the Russian media landscape after Vladimir Putin became president.
As Russian press minister and media adviser to the president, he earned the nickname The Bulldozer for the way in which he crushed all Kremlin critics in his path, our correspondent says.
After Mr Lesin's death, President Putin spoke of his "enormous contribution" to Russian media.
Competing theories
Various theories are swirling in the media about what happened to Mr Lesin now it has it emerged that he suffered multiple injuries.
Last November the UK's Daily Mail raised the possibility that the FBI could have faked Lesin's death in order to give him witness protection - as a valuable information source, since he had long been a Kremlin insider.
It also quoted Mikhail Seslavinsky, head of Russian media regulator Rospechat, as saying Mr Lesin had appeared happy and healthy a month earlier. He added that he had undergone complicated surgery for a spinal injury, but was now practising sports.
There are unconfirmed reports that Mr Lesin had had a dispute with financier Yuri Kovalchuk, a longstanding friend of Mr Putin.
A Russian forensic expert quoted by Lenta.ru website (in Russian), Alexander Aulov, said Mr Lesin's injuries were consistent with a severe beating, not an accident or the result of convulsions.
In 2014, Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker called for an investigation into Mr Lesin over possible money laundering, saying he had moved his family to the US and bought several multi-million dollar properties in California.
Some of the properties reported to have been bought by companies connected to the family include, according to the LA Times, a house in the Pacific Palisades for almost $4m and a house in Beverley Hills bought in 2011 for almost $14m.
His son Anton Lessine has produced several high-profile Hollywood films, the Business Insider website reports, featuring stars like Brad Pitt, Woody Allen and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Lesin's Gazprom-Media group is owned by Gazprombank which, in turn, has links to Bank Rossiya, described by the the EU and US authorities as "the personal bank" of top Russian officials.
Bank Rossiya is under EU-US sanctions, as is the bank's biggest shareholder Yuri Kovalchuk. He is a longstanding close aide to President Putin.
The incident occurred at McClays Corner on the Letterkenny side of Stranolar at about 02:50 BST.
The road was closed and diversions are in place. Gardai (police) have appealed for anyone who witnessed the accident to contact them.
The name of the man who was killed has not yet been released.
In Facebook posts, two of PM Lee Hsien Loong's siblings accused him of going against their late father Lee Kuan Yew's wishes and abusing his power.
The family dispute centres on a legal tussle over a house which belonged to their father.
The prime minister, a popular leader, strongly denied all the allegations.
But the row has shocked many in the city-state, where the Lees, widely considered Singapore's "First Family", are held in high regard.
Lee Kuan Yew was the prime minister of Singapore when it reluctantly became independent in 1965, and is credited with steering its rapid economic and political transformation.
Known to many as LKY, he was often criticised for his restrictive approach to politics, jailing or suing his opponents and restricting freedoms.
Despite this, he is still held in huge affection by Singaporeans, who turned out in the thousands to mourn him when he died in 2015.
The family dispute first became public last year on the anniversary of Mr Lee's death, when the prime minister's sister, Lee Wei Ling, accused him of exploiting the late leader's legacy for his own gain.
In the early hours of Wednesday, Ms Lee and her brother, Lee Hsien Yang, released a statement saying they had lost confidence in their brother as the nation's leader.
They accused the prime minister of being opposed to carrying out their late father's wishes - as stated in his will - that the family home at 38 Oxley Road be eventually demolished, rather than becoming a monument to him.
The prime minister had previously stated he would remove himself from all government decisions on the house, and he personally wished to honour his father's wishes.
But his siblings accused him of backtracking from this position, and said they felt "threatened" by Mr Lee's "misuse of his position and influence over the Singapore government and its agencies to drive his personal agenda" and "fear the use of the organs of state" against them.
They gave no specific evidence of alleged personal harassment.
Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister since 2004, said in a statement on Wednesday that he was "very disappointed" that his siblings had publicised "private family matters" in a statement that "has hurt our father's legacy".
He denied all their allegations, including "the absurd claim" that he had political ambitions for one of his sons.
Mr Lee, who is overseas and on leave, said he would consider the matter further after his return this weekend.
Lee Hsien Yang, who is chair of Singapore's aviation authority, told the BBC he would "leave Singapore soon" and was "looking at a number of options" on places to move to.
The allegations have generated intense debate online, with many expressing sympathy for the prime minister while others have sided with his siblings.
But the general reaction appeared to be of shock and dismay at the family feud spilling out in public once again, with many urging for reconciliation.
"Don't disgrace your father by making use of media to settle personal disagreement, that's childish and it will only make issues and [the] sibling relationship worse," said one Facebook user called Marcellus Louie.
Police said the suspect wielded what appeared to be a firearm during the incident at the U Save shop in Hamilton Road, Rutherglen, at about 09:40.
He demanded money from the staff before running off up Hamilton Road, onto Gallowflat Street.
He is believed to have made off with a "two-figure" sum of money.
Officers are carrying out door-to-door enquiries and gathering CCTV footage.
Det Insp Colin Campbell said: "I am appealing for any information on the suspect or the incident.
"The shop is well used by members of the local community. I'm sure many people will have been out and about at the time of the incident and may have seen the suspect prior to, or following the incident.
"If you have any information or knowledge about the suspect or the incident, please contact us."
The suspect, who was wearing a balaclava, was white, aged 20-25, about 5ft 11in tall and of medium build.
He was wearing a grey coloured Adidas top, grey coloured tracksuit trousers with black trainers with a white sole.
The governing body's independent ethics committee also fined the 55-year-old 100,000 Swiss francs (£70,800) after it investigated allegations of misconduct relating to sales of World Cup tickets.
During the inquiry, other acts of potential misconduct arose concerning travel expenses and regulations.
Valcke's lawyer said his client had done "absolutely nothing wrong".
The lawyer's statement said: "With today's decision, the Fifa ethics committee has shown that it is not a credible, independent or objective decision-making body.
"In reaching an entirely unsupported, unjust and politically motivated decision, it wholly ignored the uncontroverted and exculpatory evidence that had been presented to it.
"Mr Valcke is confident that when all the facts come out, it will be clear that he did absolutely nothing wrong in carrying out his duties for the good of Fifa and the sport."
In September last year Valcke was put on leave and released from his duties until further notice after Fifa had "been made aware of a series of allegations" involving him.
His dismissal was confirmed in January and Fifa recommended he be banned from football for nine years.
Regarding the 12-year ban imposed on Friday, a Fifa statement said: "Amongst other things, the adjudicatory chamber found that a sports marketing firm had gained an undue advantage from the selling of World Cup tickets.
"In this respect, not only did Mr Valcke do nothing to stop these activities, he even encouraged the persons responsible to do so.
"By travelling at Fifa's expense purely for sightseeing reasons, as well as repeatedly choosing private flights for his trips over commercial flights without any business rationale for doing so, Mr Valcke gained an advantage for himself and relatives.
"In doing so, Mr Valcke acted against Fifa's best interests and caused considerable financial damage to Fifa.
"Concerning the issue of TV and media rights for the Caribbean, it was found that Mr Valcke attempted to grant the TV and media rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to a third party for a fee far below their actual market value and had taken concrete preparatory action in this regard.
"Furthermore, it was found that Mr Valcke deliberately tried to obstruct the ongoing proceedings against him by attempting to delete or deleting several files and folders relevant to the investigation, despite being aware of his duty to preserve all data and to collaborate in order to establish the facts of the case."
In December last year, Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Uefa boss Michel Platini were suspended for eight years from all football-related activities following an ethics investigation which concluded they had demonstrated an "abusive execution" of their positions.
"I'm terrible - I can barely figure out tips on a bill," Dev Patel says.
"My dad is an accountant and I always let him down because I'm horrendously atrocious with maths, so to play one of the greatest mathematicians in history is quite the irony."
The mathematician in question is Indian Srinivasa Ramanujan, who Patel plays in his latest film The Man Who Knew Infinity. Ramanujan's name may not be familiar to many, but he was a pioneer who revolutionised mathematical and scientific theories - many of which are still used today, particularly in relation to black holes.
Set in 1913, the biopic follows a 25-year-old, maths-obsessed, Ramanujan as he leaves Madras and travels to Cambridge University at the invitation of meticulous professor and mentor GH Hardy (played by Jeremy Irons), to prove his theories - much to the displeasure of the other Cambridge fellows who are unwilling to accept or credit him.
With maths hardly at the top of many people's fun lists, Patel - who is now the same age as Ramanujan - says he's aware the film may be a hard sell to audiences.
"When the script first came to me I was like 'I don't know anything about maths, so maybe I'm not your guy'," he says. "But what I connected to was the almost dysfunctional father-son relationship [between Ramanujan and Hardy].
"You've got a guy that's come fresh off a boat from the middle of nowhere in South India to Cambridge, into a very snotty environment where he faces a lot of adversity, racism and prejudice.
"Hardy put his whole reputation on the line for this Indian man, but at the same time almost failed to see him as a human for a lot of it.
"These two people are completely different, but the one thing they have in common is maths. So to see them come together and create something great is beautiful - it's like a mathematical 'bromance'."
While Ramanujan faced racism and prejudice from not only the Cambridge establishment, but also people on the street, Patel says he is fortunate enough to not have been on the receiving end of such extreme treatment - although it did hit close to home for his Gujarati Hindu family.
"I'm very lucky compared to what my parents had to face when they first came to London and what their parents had to face," he says.
"There were certain scenes where Ramanujan is being called a 'wog' and it started to hurt a little. I thought 'I don't feel comfortable about this', and I didn't expect that to happen."
Filming took Patel back to India, where he filmed his break-out role in the 2008 Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. Perhaps surprisingly, the actor had only been to the country once before that - which he remembers as an unhappy experience.
"I was dragged along to a family wedding when I was not even six, so I didn't enjoy it," he says. "I just remember missing my GameBoy and been bitten to death by mosquitoes.
"But then I reconnected with this culture and saw [Mumbai] for the first time with [Slumdog director] Danny Boyle and it was pretty amazing. It's like finding a part of yourself when you get connected to parts of your heritage that way."
Proud of his ethnic background, Patel has played his fair share of Asian characters. But in a 2010 interview he criticised Hollywood for the lack of roles for Asian actors, saying he struggled to find work beyond the stereotypical parts of "a terrorist, a cab driver or smart geek".
Since Slumdog he's notably starred in two Best Exotic Marigold Hotel films as eager hotel manager Sonny Kapoor, US drama series The Newsroom as reporter Neal Sampat and 2015 sci-fi film Chappie, playing robot creator Deon Wilson.
His next role is opposite Nicole Kidman in Lion, about an Indian boy adopted by an Australian couple who sets out to track down his long lost family in his adult years.
Now he's been in the business longer, Patel says he has a changed perspective on the stereotyping issue.
"The scripts that I'm offered are quite typecast," he says. "But I'm starting to look at it as more of a blessing than a curse because I get to play characters like Ramanujan and bring great Indians from my heritage to the screen and tell their stories.
"Things are changing now because I've been around a bit longer, but I don't feel as typecast as I did when I first came on the scene."
The modest actor maintains he's just thankful to get work: "[Comedian] Chris Rock says when you are doing a job you are constantly looking at the clock, but when it's a career you can't get enough of it. That's what it is for me.
"I'm so lucky that I'm getting paid to do that. My mum cares for the elderly and she works a lot harder than I do.
"I'm playing all the time, but she's really grafting - it puts everything into perspective really."
The Man Who Knew Infinity is released in cinemas on 8 April.
The 22-year-old won the Koser Jewelers $25,000 Tennis Challenge in Landisville, USA, with a 6-0 6-0 win over the USA's Julia Elbaba.
Robson, beaten by Angelique Kerber in the first round at Wimbledon, is ranked 285 in the world after missing much of 2014 and 2015.
It is her second win on the second-tier ITF Tour.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Serena beat the world number 65 Christina McHale, 6-7 (7) 6-2 6-4 on Centre Court while Venus won 7-5 4-6 10-8 against teenager Daria Kasatkina.
Serena trailed 2-0 at the start of the deciding set but won in two hours 29 minutes on Centre Court against her fellow American.
The top seed took out her anger on her racket after losing the first set.
She hammered her racket repeatedly into the ground before tossing it backward. It slid on the grass and landed in the lap of a cameraman.
"I was just really, really, really angry. I had a lot of chances," said Serena, who hit 40 unforced errors in the rain-affected second round match.
"She got really lucky on some shots. She just was playing great. I was a little disappointed in myself at that point."
Shortly after an interruption while the Centre Court roof was closed because of rain, the world number one had a set point but failed to convert.
She thought she had won the opener but was denied by a narrow Hawk-Eye overrule before the impressive McHale went on to claim it on a tie-break.
"It was a really good match. She played great and always does against me," added Serena.
"I know that mentally no one can break me and I knew being a break down in third set I had to put my mind to it and that's what I did."
Williams will now face Germany's Annika Beck in the third round.
Rain three times interrupted 36-year-old Venus Williams, a five-time champion at Wimbledon, as she faced an opponent 17 years her junior in the third round.
The final interruption came as Williams had match point on the Kasatkina serve at 7-6 in the deciding set.
After a break of 72 minutes the Russian 29th seed impressively won three straight points to take the match further.
Both players struggled for rhythm at times during the match but it was Williams, seeded eighth at this year's Championships, who progressed to round four for the 14th time after two hours 41 minutes on court.
"I can't say that I've ever had a rain delay at match point," she said. "Probably not ideal. She handled it well. She played smart.
"It was just, I guess, non‑stop action. It was like a Hollywood script."
In the fourth round, Williams will face Spanish 12th seed Carla Suarez Navarro who beat Marina Erakovic 6-2 6-2.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Malorie Bantala, 22, was eight months pregnant when, it is claimed, Kevin Wilson and a teenager ambushed her outside her Peckham home on June 15.
She suffered life-threatening internal bleeding and a fractured hand. The baby boy was delivered stillborn.
At the Old Bailey, Mr Wilson and the 17-year-old deny child destruction.
Mr Wilson of Longfield Estate, Bermondsey, and the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also deny causing grievous bodily harm.
Giving evidence in court, the Marks and Spencer shop assistant said how her then boyfriend and his alleged accomplice emerged from bushes outside her flat disguised in motobike helmets and scarves pulled up to their eyes.
But she said despite their disguises "something clicked in my mind" and she knew it was Kevin, from his posture, build, clothes and trainers.
Miss Bantala said: "Kevin proceeded to kick my stomach, probably three or four times, and then he stamped on my stomach twice.
"By then I had screamed 'Kevin' for him to stop but he continued to kick my stomach. They were harsh kicks.
"My instincts were to put my right hand on my stomach. I broke two fingers because I was trying to protect my son."
Miss Bantala told jurors the other male was behind her and he stepped over to deliver a stamp to her belly too.
Earlier, Miss Bantala said in the months prior to the attack Mr Wilson had repeatedly tried to persuade her to have an abortion.
She said a relationship between them in 2011 had fizzled out because he blew "hot and cold" but she had turned to him in November 2014 following the death of her young nephew.
She said she was "shocked and scared" to learn she was pregnant following their meet-up.
"I had just watched my nephew's mum grieve for her son. To have an abortion would be the worst thing to do", she said.
She said after initial uncertainty she decided to keep the baby and told Mr Wilson, but he maintained he did not want to be involved and arranged an appointment at an abortion clinic.
She said: "He called me selfish, he called me a bitch. It was a roller coaster. It ended with him saying 'I'm going to commit suicide and take a picture of that so I'm going to inflict the same pain you are inflicting on me'."
They met up once more and Mr Wilson told her he would be moving to Ghana for a job.
The trial continues.
McKenzie, 27, beat American Adonis Diaz in the -60kg category on Friday to finish third in Mexico.
He had earlier missed out on a chance for gold after losing to Brazilian Phelipe Pelim in the semi-final.
There will be seven British judoka in action on Saturday, including 2016 Rio Olympic bronze medallist Sally Conway in the -70kg category.
The Cancun Grand Prix is part of the International Judo Federation's World Tour and runs from Friday, 16 June to Sunday, 18 June.
Nicola Sturgeon was responding to a Labour proposal to freeze fares in order to "give passengers a break".
ScotRail's regulated fares are due to rise in January.
The increases would see a passenger using an annual season ticket to travel between Edinburgh and Glasgow having to pay £71 more next year.
Speaking at First Minister's Questions, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale highlighted fresh disruption at Glasgow Central station on Thursday morning, with a points failure leading to delays and cancellations.
It came the day after ScotRail declared a major incident after finding a broken insulator between Partick and Glasgow Central, which caused disruption and cancellations between Glasgow Central and Dalmuir, Milngavie and Maryhill.
Ms Dugdale said: "I think passengers deserve a break and that is why today Labour is publishing plan to freeze all regulated rail fares next year.
"Surely the first minister agrees with us that people deserve a break. She has the power to give them one. So will she back Labour's call for a 2017 rail fare freeze?"
Labour has said it believes the proposal will cost between £1.9m and £2.2m.
Ms Sturgeon responded by saying that "of course we will consider any proposal that is put forward", but added that the government would particularly look at how the proposal would be paid for.
She added: "We have an investment package that I have spoken about that it is important that we are able to implement and deliver.
"Of course we do not want to see rail fares increase any more than is absolutely necessary. That is why we at the moment have increases in rail fares that are at their lowest level since power over railways were devolved to this parliament in 2005.
"We see peak time rail fare increases limited to inflation. Off peak rail fair increases are actually limited to inflation minus one percent."
Dutch firm Abellio took over the ScotRail franchise in April last year in a 10-year deal worth up to £6bn but with the option for the Scottish government to cancel it at the halfway point.
ScotRail's figures remained better than the average for all UK train operators - with the company also enjoying better than average customer satisfaction figures when the latest data was published earlier this year.
But its contract commits ScotRail to ensuring that 91.3% of trains arrive within five minutes of schedule, which is the UK standard for punctuality.
The latest figures suggests ScotRail is currently achieving 89.8% over the past year and 86% over the last month - lower than the target, but slightly above the UK average.
The Scottish government has said that performance is not good enough, and ScotRail was ordered to implement an improvement plan last month which has not yet been made public.
But after being pressed on the issue by Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, Ms Sturgeon told MSPs that ScotRail would publish the 246-point plan in full within the next few days.
She added: "There is a summary of all of these action points that is already on ScotRail's website that any member of the chamber, and member of the public indeed, can read.
"What they cover are improvements to infrastructure, improvements to the Scotrail fleet and improvements to operations.
"And of course all of this is backed by an investment of £5bn over the remainder of this decade in improving our rail services."
Ms Davidson claimed the rail network had been a "shambles", and questioned why it had taken the Scottish government a month to reveal what it was doing to improve services.
She also questioned Ms Sturgeon on the Scottish government's plans to prepare a public sector bid for the ScotRail franchise when the current contract ends.
Ms Sturgeon said the SNP had made a manifesto commitment to preparing a public sector bid, thanks to recently devolved powers, and would now start making plans to ensure that is possible.
Mr Lopez was found guilty of inciting violence during protests in 2014 in which 43 people - from both sides of the political divide - were killed.
He has repeatedly said that his sentence was politically motivated.
Thursday's ruling on an appeal by Mr Lopez's defence makes the conviction final, officials said.
"Under this dictatorship, every sentence is null," said Mr Lopez's wife, Lilian Tintori, as she arrived in Caracas following a meeting in Washington with Mr Trump.
"Trump is with the people of Venezuela," she added.
On Wednesday, Mr Trump posted a photo of himself at the White House standing alongside Ms Tintori, writing on the social media site Twitter that Mr Lopez should be allowed "out of prison immediately".
Before the tweet, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had said that he did not want "problems with Trump".
However Mr Trump's remarks raised tensions and Venezuela's Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez accused the US president of interfering in her country's affairs.
Ms Rodriguez wrote on Twitter that she rejected "the meddling and aggression of US President @realDonaldTrump who tries to give orders in our fatherland".
She also tweeted that Mr Trump had "sided with the boss behind violent acts" while Mr Maduro had proposed "initiating a new era of respectful relations" between the two.
Mr Lopez, who leads the Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) party, had earlier claimed through his defence team that there had been serious irregularities in the trial, with the judge hearing 138 witnesses for the prosecution but only one of the 50 witnesses and pieces of evidence submitted by the defence.
His supporters insist that he is innocent and say he was jailed on trumped-up, politically-motivated charges.
Moe Sbihi, 29, was part of the coxless four that won gold in Rio, while Will Satch, 27, and Tom Ransley, 31, helped win the men's eight.
They will go in the four from 5-7 May.
"The event offers us the opportunity to stake our claim in the new Olympic cycle," said British Rowing performance director Sir David Tanner.
Listen: Moe Sbihi - I used to ignore my team-mates in training
Men's eight: Tom Ford, Tim Clarke, Callum McBrierty, Cameron Buchan, Tom Ransley, Adam Neill, James Rudkin, Lance Tredell, Henry Fieldman (cox).
Men's four: Mohamed Sbihi, Will Satch, Matthew Tarrant, Stewart Innes.
Men's pair: Boat one - Jacob Dawson, Matt Rossiter. Boat two - Sam Arnot, Thomas Jeffery.
Men's quadruple scull: Jack Beaumont, John Collins, Tom Barras, Jonny Walton.
Men's quadruple scull (U23): Harry Leask, Harry Glenister, Andrew Joel, Rowan Law.
Men's single scull: Peter Lambert.
Lightweight men's double scull: Boat one - Peter Chambers, Will Fletcher. Boat two - Zak Lee-Green, Samuel Mottram.
Lightweight men's pair: Sam Scrimgeour, Joel Cassells.
Women's pair: Karen Bennett, Holly Norton.
Women's quadruple scull: Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne, Beth Bryan, Holly Nixon, Jessica Leyden.
Women's single scull: Victoria Thornley.
Lightweight women's double scull: Boat one - Katherine Copeland, Charlotte Booth. Boat two - Maddie Arlett, Emily Craig.
It appeared on Saturday and has washed ashore along about a mile of the coast between Gorleston and Hopton.
The Eleni V sank off the coast of Norfolk in 1978 after being blown up by the army, losing more than 5,000 tonnes of fuel.
Great Yarmouth Borough Council leader Graham Plant said the oil is believed to have leaked from the Eleni V.
Mr Plant said: "What has happened is the oil is getting to the shoreline, but the rest of the beach and the promenade is fine. It is a legacy of the Elena V."
He said council staff would be going down to the beach on Monday to assess any clean-up operation needed.
The Greek-registered ship got into difficulties and then capsized after colliding with the bulk carrier Roseline off the Norfolk coast in May 1978.
Army experts blew up the ship a month later.
The 22-year-old, who began his career as a trainee with Arsenal, most recently played for Boreham Wood on a one-year deal during 2016-17.
He scored three times in 26 appearances for Wood last term, including the winner against Sutton in November.
"After seeing the whole set up and a great group of players, it became an easy decision to make," Jeffrey said.
"I had many offers but this feels right on all levels and I can't wait to get going."
Drivers in the firm are seeking a pay rise of 15% over the next three years.
Dublin Bus has said it cannot exceed an increase of 8.25%, recommended by the Labour Court.
It also said the dispute has cost more than 4m euros (£3.4m) so far, and will leave the firm in a loss-making position by the end of 2016.
The National Bus and Railworkers' Union has said that the action could spread to Bus Éireann and Irish Rail.
In a statement, Dublin Bus said the additional 13 days of planned stoppages in October will cost the company a further 15m euros (£12.9m).
"This will have a catastrophic impact on Dublin Bus's financial position," the company said.
Dublin Bus passengers face disruption until normal services resume on Sunday, with further strike action planned for next week.
Irish Minister for Transport Shane Ross has said his department will not fund pay hikes.
The threats follow two killings in a gangland feud in Dublin in the past week.
The journalists have been "formally notified" by police that their safety is at risk from organised criminals.
Mr Kenny said "journalists must be afforded the freedom to go about their jobs without fear of reprisal".
In a statement, Independent News and Media (INM), which owns the Irish Independent newspaper, said it was working with police to increase security around its reporters.
Its Editor-in-Chief Stephen Rae said they "would not be deterred".
He added: "This is an outrageous threat to the freedom of the press in Ireland and we are taking the threats with the utmost seriousness.
"Our media group will not be deterred from serving the public interest and highlighting the threat to society at large posed by such criminals."
Group managing editor of the INM, Edward McCann, said the "people in question" had been "formally notified" by Irish police that their safety was at risk from organised criminals."
5 February - One man, is shot dead and two others are injured when masked gunmen open fire at a boxing weigh-in event at Dublin's Regency hotel. The dead man is later named as 33-year-old David Byrne.
8 February - A group purporting to be the Continuity IRA, a dissident republican faction, claims responsibility for the hotel shootings. However, hours later a second statement, also claiming to be from the Continuity IRA, denies any involvement.
A second shooting takes place in inner city Dublin on Monday evening in what police believe could be a reprisal for David Byrne's murder. The second victim is named as Eddie Hutch Snr from North Strand.
9 February - Irish police say they are to establish a permanent armed support unit for Dublin in the wake of the gangland feud.
Mr McCann said the paper was well aware of the dangers that journalists faced.
"INM has lost two journalists in the last 20 years," he said.
"Veronica Guerin and then there was Martin O'Hagan in Northern Ireland so we're well aware as a group of the dangers posed to journalists."
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Irish secretary, Seamus Dooley, said he was "gravely concerned at the development".
"Journalists and media organisations will not be intimidated by such threats, which have no place in a democratic society," he said.
On Tuesday, Irish police said they were working to set up a permanent armed support unit for Dublin in the wake of the gangland-style shootings.
BBC News NI reporter Lisa McAlister, who is in Dublin, said gardaà could not comment on individuals or the threats facing them, but said they do have processes in place and take all threats seriously.
They called for an "intermediate step" that would still allow carriers to charge more to use mobiles abroad.
And net neutrality rules would bar discrimination in internet access, but allow prioritisation of some services.
The proposals were a significant departure from those first floated in 2013, observers said.
According to documents seen by the BBC, far from ending data roaming charges as was promised, the Council of the European Union has recommended that operators be allowed to add surcharges to their domestic rates.
The proposals were said to be "transitional" and mindful of "wholesale costs" incurred by the mobile operators.
But, according to Ovum analyst Matthew Howett, they would amount to the continuation of data roaming charges until at least 2018, when European lawmakers would reconsider whether or not to ban them.
The watering down of the original plan would be a blow to consumers, he told the BBC. However, he said, that was tempered by the fact that many operators had already introduced more reasonable charges.
The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) - the fourth largest grouping of MEPs in the European Parliament - said it would fight "vigorously" for an end to data roaming by the end of this year, adding that the current proposals lacked "ambition".
The proposals also covered net neutrality rules. They sought to ensure that internet users could get online however they wanted and view any legal content they wanted, free from discrimination by their service providers.
But they also included a provision for specialised services "other than internet access services" to be prioritised if they required high quality internet access to function.
The exact types of service were not defined in the proposals, which were sent from the Council of the European Union to the European Parliament for consideration this week.
But observers speculated that they would include connected cars and other elements of the internet of things.
The Council of the European Union specified, however, that service providers would have to ensure a good standard of internet access for consumers if they did prioritise such services.
The ALDE said the proposed rules on net neutrality were "extremely disappointing".
A spokesman said the proposals, which were weaker than those previously promised, could "lead to commercial practices that go against consumer interests".
The European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association said it was equally unimpressed by the net neutrality rules.
It called for a "light-touch approach" in the interests of innovation, which it felt could be stymied if strong net neutrality laws were enacted.
"Today's internet-related innovation was born without net neutrality regulation. Let's make sure we can develop the innovation of tomorrow in the context of future-proof rules," a spokesman said.
Yahya Jammeh, an authoritarian president who ruled for 22 years, has confirmed he will step down.
"I will help him work towards the transition," Mr Jammeh said on state TV on Friday evening, after speaking to the president-elect by telephone.
Mr Barrow, 51, who has never held political office, won Thursday's election with 45.5% of the vote.
Hundreds of Gambians took to the streets to celebrate one of the biggest election upsets West Africa has ever seen.
Mr Jammeh, also 51, took power in a bloodless coup in 1994 and has ruled the country with an iron fist ever since.
President Jammeh took 36.7% of the vote, while a third party candidate, Mama Kandeh, won just 17.8%.
The BBC's Umaru Fofana, who spoke to Mr Barrow, said the president-elect seemed bewildered by the result.
President Jammeh has congratulated the property developer and vowed not to contest the results after deciding "that I should take the backseat".
Who is Adama Barrow?
"I am very, very, very happy. I'm excited that we win (sic) this election and from now hope starts," Mr Barrow told the BBC's Umaru Fofana, adding that he was disappointed not to have won by a larger margin.
Born in 1965 near the eastern market town of Basse, Mr Barrow moved to London in the 2000s where he reportedly used to work as a security guard at an Argos catalogue store.
He returned to The Gambia in 2006 to set up his own property company, which he still runs today.
Mr Barrow, who is leading an opposition coalition of seven parties, has promised to revive the country's struggling economy, look at imposing a two-term presidential limit and introduce a three-year transitional government.
Why was it such a shock? By Alastair Leithead, BBC Africa correspondent
Despite a surge of support for an opposition broadly united behind one candidate, most people expected the status quo to prevail.
Hopes weren't high for a peaceful transfer of power, with a crackdown on opposition leaders months before the polls, the banning of international observers or post-election demonstrations, and then the switching off of the internet on election day.
But in a place where glass beads are used in place of ballot papers, it seems that the marbles have spoken.
The unseating of an incumbent president is not the usual way politics goes in this part of the world - but it's becoming popular in West Africa at least, with Muhammadu Buhari unseating Goodluck Jonathan in Nigeria just last year.
Former businessman Adama Barrow now has his chance to tackle the poverty and unemployment which drives so many young Gambians to join the Mediterranean migrant trail every year.
How has incumbent President Jammeh reacted?
The incumbent president has asked his successor to set up a time to meet and organise the transition period.
Yahya Jammeh, a devout Muslim, had once said he would rule for "one billion years" if "Allah willed it".
"It's really unique that someone who has been ruling this country for so long has accepted defeat," the electoral commission chief, Alieu Momar Njie, said on Friday.
Human rights groups have accused Mr Jammeh, who in the past claimed he could cure Aids and infertility, of repression and abuses of the media, the opposition and gay people.
In 2014, he called homosexuals "vermin" and said the government would deal with them as it would malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Several previous opposition leaders were imprisoned after taking part in a rare protest in April.
Mr Barrow has promised to undo some of Mr Jammeh's more controversial moves, including reversing decisions to remove The Gambia from the Commonwealth and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Where is The Gambia?
The Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa, with a population of fewer than two million.
It is surrounded on three sides by Senegal and has a short Atlantic coastline popular with European tourists.
Tourism has become The Gambia's fastest growing sector of the economy, and it is known to travellers as "the smiling coast of West Africa".
Last year, President Jammeh declared the country an Islamic Republic in what he called a break from the country's colonial past.
Read more on The Gambia
However, Brain Injury Matters said there was uncertainty around the figures due to the lack of a dedicated children's brain injury unit.
It said early detection of the injury was vital as difficulties may not be initially evident.
Instead, they gradually develop into problems as the brain matures.
One mother whose son was eight when he became ill said he recovered as a completely different boy.
Janet McCullough's son, Eric, had a kidney infection that developed into encephalitis - swelling of the brain.
"He had been on antibiotics but his body turned on itself and targeted the brain," said Janet.
"His head was sore and he was sensitive to light and was sick.
"He was hospitalised in the Causeway Hospital, then the Royal Victoria Hospital, but when he emerged he was a different wee boy due to the infection."
One year on, the family is keen to raise awareness alongside Brain Injury Matters.
Janet said her son becomes tired, both physically and mentally, much quicker than before - and has no concept of time.
"From being a bright wee boy he is now dyslexic and needs a lot of help - he finds it hard to concentrate," she said.
"But he's still my boy - he's great."
Acquired brain injury has become more prevalent as medical advances in care have led to decreased mortality.
It can occur as a result of a road traffic accident, a fall, an infection, a lack of oxygen or, perhaps, a stroke.
While it can affect all ages it tends to peak in early childhood years up to the age of four, from the ages of 15 to 29, and in males more than females.
Fiona McCabe, the chief executive of Brain Injury Matters, said the charity was helping an increasing number of families.
"From evidence elsewhere in the UK and what we know anecdotally, we suspect that there could be as many as 1,000 new cases of brain injury in children per year in Northern Ireland," she said.
"If we don't know just how many children collectively have a brain injury in Northern Ireland we are on the back foot as it is difficult to allocate resources.
"An increase year on year makes this an even tougher task."
Eric's mother said her family was receiving help from both Brain Injury Matters and the Child Brain Injury Trust.
"We are getting a lot of help at home, especially with the other children," she said.
"It is hard for them, too, to adjust to a new Eric because that is what he is - the other Eric we had before has gone."
The 22-year-old avoided a two-year ban after successfully arguing that the drug was passed on through "kissing".
An independent arbitrator ruled no fault or negligence by Barber, who finished a lowly 10th in Rio.
Athletics Canada called the decision "fair and reasonable".
Barber posted an online advert seeking a casual encounter with a woman who was "drug and disease free" the night before the Canadian Olympic trials.
He won the title and set a national record but will have to forfeit both.
Barber claimed he had sought the sexual encounter to relieve stress.
The woman involved said she had consumed cocaine and during their meeting kissed Barber several times without informing him she had taken the drug.
"At no time during my actions did I even fathom the possibility of being able to be contaminated with cocaine," said Barber in a statement.
Barber's lawyer, Paul Greene, added: "Forensic toxicologists have looked at the case and understood... that it was impossible to have taken this amount of cocaine intentionally.
"You have inadvertent ingestion of cocaine that is passed to an athlete by way of kissing, which is exactly what happened."
Barber's case was heard on 5 August, the day of the opening ceremony in Rio.
The decision was released six days later and he competed on 15 August.
I've never come across anything like this before. I had never really considered you could ingest prohibited substances in this way so it's a lesson for everyone.
Although it is a bizarre explanation, I believe he has been lucky in not receiving a ban as he is ultimately responsible for his actions.
William Meredith, from Hillview, Kentucky, was subsequently arrested by police.
According to local media, he was arrested and charged with first degree criminal mischief and first degree wanton endangerment.
Mr Meredith told the BBC that he fired three shots at the drone before it crashed in the woods behind his house.
On Sunday, Mr Meredith's daughters came in from the back garden to tell their father that they had spotted a drone flying overhead.
Mr Meredith explained that the drone was hovering above his neighbourhood. When it moved over his property, he shot it down.
Three shots from his Benelli short-barrel shotgun took the craft out of the sky.
"I went to my safe, retrieved my shotgun, went back out," he said. "I felt that I was well within my rights as an American citizen to defend my property."
He explained that he was concerned that the drone was invading his privacy and that of his daughters and that it was not the first time a drone had been sighted in the area.
Four men, including the owner of the downed drone, later confronted Mr Meredith outside his house.
"They were pretty upset, there were some words exchanged and they started towards me," he said.
At that point, Mr Meredith explained that he felt he had the right to defend himself and made the men aware that he was armed.
"My gun was holstered on my belt and never came out, I never brandished the gun, never pulled it out or waved it around, anything like that," he said.
Police in Hillview arrested Mr Meredith and charged him with offences relating to the discharge of a firearm.
This is far from being the first time that US home-owners have taken to warding off small drones with guns.
Just this week, a court in California ruled in favour of a drone-owner who sued a man who shot his hexacopter.
But the law isn't always in favour of drone pilots.
Over the weekend, Californian officials agreed to offer a total of $75,000 (£48,000) in rewards for information that would help catch drone operators who flew their vehicles over recent wildfires in San Bernardino County.
The flight of hobbyists' drones near to wildfires caused firefighting aircraft to be grounded for safety reasons, leading to the faster spread of the fires.
District attorney Mike Ramos said in a statement: "We want to know who was flying drones, and we want them punished.
"Someone knows who they are, and there is $75,000 waiting for them."
It brings the bank's PPI bill to £5.275bn so far.
The further provision means Lloyds has been pushed into a loss of £144m for the third quarter of the year.
After Barclays' recent decision to set aside a further £700m for PPI compensation, the banking industry's bill now stands at just over £12bn.
Despite the news, Lloyds' shares rose 7% in morning trading, as investors took heart from the bank's underlying financial position.
Lloyds described the further PPI provision as a disappointing "legacy issue".
"The volume of complaints received in relation to legacy PPI business during the third quarter declined when compared to the previous quarter," said Lloyds Banking Group's chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio.
"However, it remained above the level which we anticipated at the time of our half-year results and as a result the group believes it is appropriate to increase its provision for expected PPI costs by £1bn.
"This increases the expected cost of contact and redress, including administration expenses, to £5.3bn," he explained.
The bank warned that the eventual final bill for PPI was still uncertain, suggesting it may rise further.
Marc Gander of the Consumer Action Group said banks still had no incentive to avoid bad behaviour in the future.
By Ian PollockBusiness reporter, BBC News
When, in April 2011, the banks lost their High Court challenge to the FSA's rules on PPI mis-selling, the compensation cost was put at £4.5bn.
It has been rising ever since.
Initial estimates by the FSA itself were based on the assumption that just 20% of PPI victims would claim.
It seems that many more people - millions in fact - are now doing so.
In some cases they have been encouraged by claims management firms.
In others cases, the individual payments have been huge.
What the saga shows is just how much profit banks were able to squeeze out of their customers simply by getting them to buy an insurance policy.
"What the banks don't reveal is that while they have had their hands on their customers' money - the ill-gotten money - they have been lending it out at interest rates as high as 28% - compound," he said.
"Yet they are only being required to refund at 8% simple."
The cost to the banking industry of compensating customers is rising fast, as complaints from aggrieved customers continue to pour in.
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), which handles grievances that banks reject, has now received half a million complaints from disgruntled people who claim they have been unfairly denied any compensation.
PPI was widely sold by banks in the last decade, and the insurance was supposed to make sure that mortgage and credit card borrowers would be able to repay their loans if they fell ill or lost their jobs.
However, it became apparent that many customers had been mis-sold the insurance because they either did not need it in the first place, or would have been automatically excluded from making a valid claim, typically because they were self-employed.
Under instruction from the financial authorities, the industry is now going back through past sales and alerting customers to the possibility that they can now make a claim for compensation - a process which is generating a huge bill for the UK's banks.
MoneyBoomerang, an online claims management company, said banks like Lloyds were still stalling on many legitimate claims.
"Lloyds has made a huge additional provision and yet it is not showing any interest in dealing with the very valid claims it is receiving," said the company's managing director, Craig Lowther.
"We are just about to send roughly 8,000 Lloyds cases to the FOS. We firmly believe these are valid claims and if so they will cost the bank millions."
But Lloyds replied that it every incentive to settle legitimate complaints, because banks have to pay for each case that goes to the ombudsman.
"We... have to pay the costs of each claim (£850) as well as incremental administrative costs regardless of who the FOS upholds in favour of," a bank spokesman pointed out.
Despite the loss in the third quarter, Lloyds said its underlying financial position was improving.
Although the bank's income has fallen by 14% in the first nine months of the year, this was outstripped by further benefits from cost-cutting - which saw 4,796 jobs cut - and a reduction in the amount of money it has had to set aside for losses on past loans that have turned bad.
Those provisions in its accounts are down to £4.4bn, from £7.4bn in the first nine months of the previous financial year.
With restrictions on sales commission on financial policies being imposed by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) early in 2013, Lloyds has decided to stop offering independent financial advice to anyone who has less than £100,000 to invest.
"Customers with over £100,000 of investible assets who would benefit from holistic financial planning will be referred to our private banking service," the bank said.
"For customers who hold less than £100,000 in savings and investments we will not offer an investment advice service but will continue to give these customers information and help with savings products on a non-advised basis."
Lloyds is still partly owned by the UK taxpayer following its bail-out at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.
As such, it is still not paying any dividends to its investors.
The bank is still in the process of negotiating the sale of 632 of its branches to the Co-operative Bank.
|
The Spice Girls, George Michael and Take That have taken part in the Olympic Games closing ceremony, a carnival of music and colour that was co-ordinated by artistic director Kim Gavin.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Allegations of fraudulent activity at the Police Federation of England and Wales are to be investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
For one 17-year-old girl, her ex-boyfriend's addiction to porn was anything but harmless.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Wales overcame a 10-point deficit to clinch a remarkable 28-25 win over England in World Cup Group A at Twickenham on Saturday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Harlequins full-back Aaron Morris has signed a new contract.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
London Irish went to the top of their European Challenge Cup pool with a bonus-point win against Edinburgh.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An AirAsia X flight bound for Kuala Lumpur has been forced turn back to Australia after a suspected bird strike left passengers shaken.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A rabbi who ministers to the Jewish community in Belfast has said he believes there has been an increase in anti-Semitism in Northern Ireland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Russian officials have criticised a lack of communication by US authorities over the death of Mikhail Lesin, a former aide to President Putin.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man in his 60s has died after being hit by a car in County Donegal in the early hours of Sunday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A long-running feud among the family of Singapore's prime minister over the legacy of their father, the country's first leader, has resurfaced.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A shopkeeper was assaulted and two members of their staff threatened during an armed robbery in South Lanarkshire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Fifa has banned its former secretary-general Jerome Valcke from all football-related activity for 12 years.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bafta-nominated Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel explains why his latest film is a "mathematical bromance" and why being typecast is "more a blessing than a curse".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Britain's Laura Robson has won her first tournament since returning to fitness following a wrist injury.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Defending champion Serena Williams and sister Venus both survived scares to progress at Wimbledon.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A woman told a court of her desperate bid to protect her unborn baby as her ex-boyfriend stamped on her because she refused to have an abortion.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Commonwealth judo champion Ashley McKenzie won bronze for Great Britain on day one of the Cancun Grand Prix.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Scotland's first minister has said she will consider freezing the country's train fares next year amid concern over the reliability of ScotRail services.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Venezuela's Supreme Court has upheld the 14-year jail sentence of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, a day after Donald Trump called for his release.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Three Olympic champions have been included in Great Britain's 43-strong squad for the first World Rowing Cup of the season in Belgrade.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Oil that has washed up on a beach in Norfolk is thought to have come from a tanker which sank almost 40 years ago.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sutton United have signed former Forest Green Rovers winger Anthony Jeffrey on a one-year contract.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Up to 400,000 commuters in Dublin are facing travel disruption as strikes by Dublin Bus drivers enter a fifth day.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has condemned the threats made against a number of journalists in the Republic of Ireland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
European regulators have dropped plans to ban roaming charges and have proposed net neutrality rules allowing privileged access in some cases.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Property developer Adama Barrow says his shock win of the Gambian election heralds new hope for the country.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
One thousand potential new cases of acquired brain injury are recorded in children in Northern Ireland each year, according to a rehabilitation charity.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
World champion pole vaulter Shawn Barber was right to compete at the Olympic Games despite testing positive for cocaine ingested during a sexual encounter, says Athletics Canada.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man in the US has shot down a drone hovering over his back garden.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Lloyds Banking Group has set aside a further £1bn to cover compensation for customers who were mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI).
| 19,094,398 | 16,007 | 935 | true |
The group became stranded "a couple hundred yards from shore" near Looe, Cornwall, with the boat "filling with water", the RNLI said.
Two lifeboats were launched after several people reported the stricken vessel at about 16:30 BST on Sunday.
All the people onboard were taken to shore and the submerged boat was towed in to harbour.
The RNLI said by the time the lifeboat reached the small speedboat waves were breaking over the vessel and flooding it at Plaidy, East Looe.
Dave Haines, Looe's lifeboats operations manager, said: "Those rescued were lucky they were spotted by someone ashore.
"If it had been a bit later, the outcome might have been different. Although they were all wearing lifejackets they were a couple hundred yards from shore, over the rocks with a strong swell'.
He said several lifeboat crew and people on the shore helped the local group who were "wet through and cold" but otherwise safe and well.
The drummer's injury occurred at the base of his neck, and will require several months rest and treatment.
"I'm absolutely gutted that we've had to postpone the tour," he said in a statement to fans.
"I've honestly tried everything to make it work, but I'd never want to do a tour where I wouldn't be able to give you the 110% performance you deserve."
The tour, which was due to kick off in June, has already been rescheduled for September.
Singer Tom Fletcher said: "Sorry we've had to move the tour. Completely Harry's fault. All complaints to be sent to @mcflyharry.
"On a more positive note, it gives Danny more time to learn the words to our songs. See you all in September."
Judd, who won the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing, appeared in a Sport Relief wrestling match earlier this year.
He won the bout but his opponent, TV personality Paddy McGuinness, landed a powerful right hook to his head during the early stages.
It is not thought that his neck injury is related to the match.
McFly have scored seven number one hits in their career, with songs including All About You, Star Girl and 5 Colours In Her Hair. They have recently started touring in their own right again, following a stint as a "supergroup" with associated boyband act Busted.
The band's Anthology 2016 tour sees them play three-night residencies in Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham and Dublin.
Each night will feature a setlist based on one of the group's first three albums.
Tickets for the original dates will be honoured at the rescheduled shows, details of which are available on the McFly website.
Media playback is not supported on this device
The 19-year-old wildcard's huge serve helped him to a 7-6 (7-5) 5-7 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 victory on his Centre Court debut, and he will play Milos Raonic next.
Ranked 144, Kyrgios is the first man outside the top 100 to beat a world number one at a Grand Slam since 1992.
Nadal, 27, has failed to make the last eight at Wimbledon since 2011.
He lost in the second round two years ago, the first round last year, and now experiences the kind of defeat not suffered by someone at the top of the rankings since Jim Courier's loss to world number 193 Andrei Olhovskiy at Wimbledon 22 years ago.
The Spaniard had lost the first set in each of his first three matches before recovering to win in four, but could not repeat the effort against a rampant Kyrgios.
Despite being tipped for greatness by the likes of Andy Murray and Pat Cash in recent weeks, Kyrgios had only claimed his first top-50 win last week when he saved nine match points to beat Richard Gasquet in the second round.
But firing down aces, racing between points and leaping in celebration, the young Australian took Centre Court by storm.
"I was in a bit of a zone out there and didn't really notice the crowd," Kyrgios told BBC Sport. "I was struggling a little on return but I worked my way into it and I served really well throughout, so am very happy.
"You have to believe that you can win the match from the start and I definitely did. I am playing really well on grass."
Nadal pressed as best he could in the face of a barrage, lining up a forehand at 30-30 in game six only to see a backhand rocket back past him, and his opponent leap and punch the air in celebration.
If the 14-time Grand Slam champion was banking on a failure of nerve in the tie-break, he was to be disappointed.
Kyrgios saw his opponent save two set points on serve before calmly hammering an ace out wide to clinch it.
When Kyrgios hit an outrageous winner between his legs in the second set, it appeared he could do no wrong, and Nadal had failed to win a point on the Australian's first serve as they headed towards a second tie-break.
Media playback is not supported on this device
That run came to an end when Kyrgios fell 30-40 down at 6-5, and after saving a set point - and first break point - with another ace, he could only find the net as Nadal leapt on his opportunity.
A huge fist pump illustrated the relief felt by the two-time champion, but the rhythm of the match did not alter.
The third set followed a similar pattern, with Nadal looking marginally more likely to break, but again Kyrgios grabbed his chance as the tie-break sped by.
When a set point arrived, the teenager stepped in on a second serve and blasted a forehand return that a scrambling Nadal failed to recover.
Kyrgios stood, arms raised in celebration, and Nadal trooped back to his chair knowing he was facing an early exit for the third year running despite having not yet dropped serve.
Two heavy backhands helped the wildcard finally make the breakthrough to move 3-1 ahead in the fourth set, and he powered through to the finish line, sealing the win of his life with ace number 37.
But throwing a tantrum because your complimentary nuts aren't served right might seem a tad unreasonable to most.
Even if you virtually own the airline it's not a good idea as Heather Cho, the daughter of Korean Air's chairman, just found out.
She's been jailed for a year for throwing a wobbly when her macadamias were served in a bag not a bowl.
Cho - who was also an exec at the airline - demanded the flight turn back to the terminal and whacked the attendant who'd served the offending nuts with a book.
She treated the flight "as if it was her own private plane", said Judge Oh Sung-woo in Seoul.
"It's doubtful that the way the nuts were served was so wrong," he said before jailing her for breaking flying laws and assault.
It's not just nuts that can make people angry - although as Newsbeat's discovered access to food and drink does play a large part in displays of bad behaviour on board.
Requests for particular snacks, for more alcohol or even to take home unfinished booze, have all been seen in-flight.
Amy tweeted saying she saw another passenger requesting a meal for an invisible passenger in an empty seat just so her son could eat more.
@Blewyn admits: "I asked a stewardess to ask a guy to stop his nine-year-old girl singing. Seems harsh, but at the time I'd been working three days."
Bad behaviour obviously sucks for other passengers, but cabin crew get totally fed up too.
So much so that air crew from all over the world have started naming and shaming what can only be described as in-flight anti-social behaviour.
"Some of these people might be feeling anxious," says psychologist Dr Katharine Ayivor.
"You get a large random group of people in a confined space and it can lead to anxiety and they become demanding."
She also thinks flying is a time when passengers are often tired and they lose focus on what really matters.
"People have less control - they can't just walk to the shops for food for instance - and that's when small things get blown out of proportion," she explains.
"Maybe they feel hemmed in and they want to claw back some of that control."
According to flight crew taking off socks is one of the most offensive passenger habits as well as noisy children, hair hanging over the back of seats and eating smelly food.
One of the most ridiculous demands has to come from Martin Ward though who tells us he overheard a request for some fresh air.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube
Barnsley Council has lost more than a third of its workers with 2,233 losses, while 1,981 jobs have been cut in Hull - a 32% reduction in staff.
Peter Davies, from the GMB Union, said it was a "miracle" councils were able to deliver "any resemblance of public service".
The local government minister said councils had managed budget cuts well.
The BBC asked all 20 councils in Yorkshire how many full-time jobs, excluding school staff, had been lost since 2010.
Craven District Council, Ryedale District Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council did not respond.
In Sheffield, 1,733 jobs have gone - a 24% reduction in staff - while Leeds City Council has axed 2,500 jobs, which is 17% of its workforce.
North Yorkshire County Council has cut more than 11% of staff with 757 losses.
The total number of job losses among all the councils which responded is 18,513.
Some of these losses include council posts that have been transferred to other organisations.
All of the authorities have seen between a 30 to 54% reduction in government funding over the five years.
Launching his spending review on Tuesday, George Osborne told government departments to prepare for cuts of up to 40% by 2019/20.
Leeds City Council labour leader Judith Blake said the situation was likely to get worse.
"We know that there is a real loss of experience and we are anticipating more cuts next year.
"We've got a situation in Leeds where over 60% of our budget is spent on (looking after) adults and children and if this carries on we do not know where we are going to go with the limited resource we have got coming in."
Local government minister Greg Clark said he had "huge admiration" for councils, which had made savings in a "responsible" way.
He added: "Council spending is a quarter of all public spending so it was always going to be the case that there were going to be cuts, but actually what the public has said is that their satisfaction with services has been maintained and sometimes increased."
The former youth coach at Crewe Alexandra denied the eight counts when he appeared at Chester Crown Court.
The charges all relate to allegations of abuse between 1981 and 1986.
Mr Bennell, 63, wearing a blue polo neck shirt and appearing via videolink from HMP Woodhill, in Milton Keynes, answered "not guilty" to all the charges as they were put to him.
The ex-coach, who also worked at Manchester City, Stoke City and junior teams in north-west England and the Midlands, was remanded into custody until 20 March.
Owen Edwards, prosecuting, told the court the alleged victim "preserves his anonymity".
The 44-year-old replaces Chris Powell, who was sacked on Wednesday with Town 18th in the Championship table.
He had previously been linked with rejoining ex-Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp on the coaching staff at Liverpool.
Academy manager Mark Lillis will be in charge of the team for Saturday's Championship derby against Leeds, with Wagner to take over on Monday.
"David's football philosophy is directly in line with ours; he fits for what we need," Huddersfield chairman Dean Hoyle told the club website.
"It is a new departure for us. He will be head coach; he is the club's first from outside the UK and Ireland and he brings a new approach and new ideas.
"In his own words, and as we hope will be seen in practice, his playing style echoes the one that has brought Borussia Dortmund such success over the last five years."
Wagner quit his role as Dortmund's under-23 manager at the start of this month after four years.
The former United States international helped Borussia Dortmund II, Dortmund's reserve side, to promotion to the German third tier in 2012.
They were relegated back to the regionalised fourth tier last season.
Ian Workman, 58, of Vale Street, Turton, was convicted of the murder of Susan Workman during an argument over their divorce settlement in April.
At Preston Crown Court he was ordered to serve at least 17-and-a-half years.
Det Supt Neil Hunter said he was pleased with the verdict as it was "a tragic crime which has left a whole family devastated by their loss".
Workman attacked his former partner while arguing in the kitchen of their matrimonial home on 7 April.
The pair were in dispute over the financial settlement of their divorce, which had seen Mrs Workman claim £1.4m from her husband and him offering £918,000.
The mother of three had been typing an account of their rows on her laptop, including descriptions of Workman's abusive language towards her and his instructions for her not to bar him from entering the house.
The final entry - "Standing, staring at me acro" - was ended abruptly by Workman's attack.
He stabbed his former wife once in the chest, before wiping the blood from his hands and the knife and calling the emergency services.
He inflicted wounds to his own stomach in a bid to disguise his crime and told police his ex-wife had attacked him.
Both were treated by paramedics at the scene but Mrs Workman died before reaching hospital.
Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor Ian Rushton said Workman had "killed his ex-wife out of pure greed and anger because of the financial proceedings in their divorce".
"His defence, that the fatal stabbing was self inflicted by Susan Workman during a struggle after she attacked him, was an outright lie, which the jury by their guilty verdict today have rejected," he said.
Mr Hunter said it had been a "particularly challenging investigation that was built around the absence of any eye witnesses, CCTV, and only moderate forensic and pathology evidence".
He added "This is a wicked and shocking crime in which Workman violently murdered his ex-wife and then repeatedly denied his involvement.
"I am relieved for the family that he has finally been found guilty."
A spokesman for Mrs Workman's family said: "Sue did not deserve to have her life ended this way for greed and money".
"All she wanted was a reasonable settlement, so she could live a comfortable life with her boys, Ben and Nick."
Police found the woman's body inside the flat in Skye Road after being called at about 00:50 on Friday.
A 26-year-old man, who had been assaulted, was taken to South Glasgow University Hospital for treatment.
A 35-year-old man was later arrested and is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday.
Great Western Air Ambulance Charity [GWAAC] in Filton and Wiltshire Air Ambulance [WAA] in Devizes will use blood from Southmead Hospital.
John Wood from GWAAC said: "The blood will always be available to all our patients whenever we're operational."
GWAAC expects to give two to four transfusions a month. WAA expects one or two patients will need transfusions.
Blood from the North Bristol Trust Transfusion Laboratory at Southmead Hospital will be taken to the air ambulance bases by the charity Freewheelers EVS.
If the blood is not used within 24 hours, it will be taken back to Bristol and put back in the bank.
Mr Wood, the GWAAC operating officer, said: "It will be mainly use for trauma, so it will be road traffic collisions, falls from height, industrial accidents and those kinds of incidents.
"It will also be for medical patients who bleed spontaneously for a variety of reasons - we would also be able to transfuse blood for those patients too."
Other air ambulances across the country already offer the service. London's Air Ambulance began the scheme in 2012.
The away side are just three points above the relegation zone, while Southport's first win since 1 March moved them up to 16th place.
Jonny Margetts opened the scoring in the first half with a close-range finish before Craig Westcarr's long-range lob beat goalkeeper Dan Atkinson.
Guiseley's Emile Sinclair went close to scoring when he hit the crossbar.
It marks the sixth time in four years that the web portal has announced sizeable job cuts.
The news coincides with plans by Skype to create about 400 new posts across five cities.
The internet video-calling business - which is owned by Microsoft - said it was initially looking to take on staff in London and Stockholm.
Other posts will later be created in Tallinn, Estonia; Prague, Czech Republic; and Palo Alto in California, US.
Yahoo said its cuts aimed to deliver a"smaller, nimbler, more profitable"company that was cheaper to run. It added that the action was designed to save about $375m (£236m) a year.
The move follows a period of turmoil at the firm.
Carol Bartz was dismissed as chief executive in September after failing to turn around the company's fortunes. Chairman Roy Bostock and co-founder Jerry Yang also later resigned from its board.
In January, former Paypal executive Scott Thompson was named the organisation's fourth chief executive in five years.
A recent study by the analytics company Comscore suggested that Yahoo's share of online search queries in the USfell below 14% for the first time in February, putting it further behind Google and Microsoft.
A statement issued by Mr Thompson's said: "We are intensifying our efforts on our core businesses and redeploying resources to our most urgent priorities. Our goal is to get back to our core purpose -putting our users and advertisers first - and we are moving aggressively to achieve that goal."
It added that the firm would now focus on a "deep" personalised experience for users and a return on investment for investors.
The firm has not given any indication of when the cuts would be made. It said it would provide more information about its "future direction" when it released an earnings update on 17 April.
As Yahoo shrinks, Skype is growing. Once all the new positions are filled, the business expects to have 1,600 employees worldwide.
As part of the expansion it is launching a new technology centre in central London. It says the move would increase its headcount in the city by 40% to 330 posts.
The UK government's desire to monitor people using its services did not influence Skype's decision
It aims to have completed the first stage of the hiring process by the end of June.
Skype's vice-president of product and design told the BBC the new jobs would cover software engineering, product management and design.
"We have one project about 'big data', which is about making use of data that our users generate when using the product to improve the quality of the products we offer," said Rick Osterloh.
"We also a number of initiatives we are working on in the web area, and we are hiring some positions for our newly formed Xbox division."
Skype's move signals that it is not overly concerned about the UK government's intention to give the country's security services increased access to internet data.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has specifically identified Skype as one of the services that the government wants to be monitored.
A statement from Skype said that: "We are not in a position to comment on the UK government's proposed legislation. We do of course comply with legislation in all countries in which we operate."
Skype's use of peer-to-peer technology for its call and instant-messaging services means that it does not store the contents of communications on its servers, and so could not hand the information over unless it changed its systems.
The 32-year-old left-back played in their first competitive fixture in 2004 and has so far made a total of 634 appearances for the club.
"There's a few of us in the same boat where we don't know what is going on," Lewington told BBC Three Counties.
"I think the club are trying to focus on staying in the league and look towards the end of the season."
"There's not much else you can do, so it's a case of waiting and playing. They'll make a decision when the time comes.
Also coming to the end of their contracts at Stadium:MK are goalkeeper David Martin, 31, striker Nicky Maynard, 30, and midfielders Dean Bowditch, 30, Ben Reeves, 25, and Daniel Powell, 26.
"You always keep doing your job and you're playing for the club as long you're contracted to, and do your best." Lewington added.
Ahead of Tuesday's trip to Charlton Athletic, Robbie Neilson's side are 14th in League One, eight points above the relegation zone.
The 16th-placed Addicks, who are managed by former MK Dons boss Karl Robinson, have won just one of their last 13 games.
It is the club's third meeting since Robinson left the Dons last October after six years in charge.
Nia Davies's affair with the girl, an A-level student, was deemed to amount to unacceptable professional conduct.
An Education Workforce Council disciplinary hearing found six allegations of misconduct proven against the Coleg Sir Gar teacher.
Ms Davies, 31, from Cardiff, was banned from teaching for at least two years.
The panel was told the teenager's father told college bosses about the secret relationship after he spotted a love bite on her neck.
Presenting officer Cadi Dewi said: "Davies showed a willingness to overstep boundaries at the college. There were frequent references to the use of drugs, using cannabis and alcohol.
"It was an extremely close and highly inappropriate relationship. It became a relationship that was sexual in nature."
The girl admitted to her parents she had spent weekends away in Bath and London with her teacher.
She denied having sex with Ms Davies when interviewed by police, but admitted they had kissed and would sleep together at Ms Davies's home.
Ms Davies was arrested and bailed by police, but never charged.
The college investigation was not completed before Ms Davies's contract expired. She refused to attend subsequent investigation meetings.
Davies admitted counts of engaging in communication of a social nature and seeing the girl unaccompanied on a social basis outside of college.
The proven claims included inviting the girl into her home address, allowing her to sleep at her home, kissing her and giving her a love bite.
Claims of sharing a bed with the girl in London and engaging in sexual intercourse were not proven, but panel chairman Peter Williams said: "Ms Davies' conduct was found to be sexually motivated."
George Pollitt, representing Ms Davies, said: "She said they have engaged in some sort of relationship, which is not platonic, since 2015 when the girl was over the age of 18, and when my client was not employed at the college.
"I cannot put a label on what the relationship is, but I'm told it's hard to define. They met up socially as friends and things blossomed."
Several hundred demonstrators rallied outside the reception hall in Rishon LeZion on Sunday, amid high security.
The groom, Mahmoud Mansour, had sought a court order to try to stop the protest from taking place but failed.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has condemned the demonstrations against the couple's union.
Supporters of the far-right Jewish Lehava group, who oppose the intermarriage of Arab Muslims and Jews, were granted permission to picket the wedding as long as they did not come within 200 metres of the wedding hall.
But four protesters were arrested for failing to follow police instructions, Israel's Ynet News website reported.
A counter-demonstration of left-wing protesters was also staged in support of the couple's marriage, with hundreds of police deployed to keep the two sets of demonstrators apart.
The bride, Morel Malka, and her husband invited 500 guests to celebrate their marriage on Sunday. Ms Malka, 23, had converted to Islam ahead of the ceremony.
"We live in true coexistence, and I don't really care what people say," Mr Mansour, 26, told Israel's Channel 2 ahead of the wedding,
President Rivlin has been quoted by Israeli media describing the Lehava demonstrators as "rodents gnawing under the shared democratic and Jewish foundation of Israel".
The march was barred from proceeding along a stretch of road that separates unionist and nationalist communities.
Within minutes of the parade reaching police lines, empty bottles, bricks and metal bolts were thrown at police.
Politicians and other key figures gave their reaction in the aftermath of the violence.
"[The] violence and attacks in north Belfast on PSNI officers as they go about their duty trying to keep the peace is wrong and cannot be justified regardless of the frustrations or the cause.
"It is vital that those involved in such riotous activity cease and are held accountable. They do a massive disservice to the wider cause they claim to support.
"Orangemen and supporters were attacked whilst returning from Twelfth demonstrations this evening, and such attacks again demonstrate the intolerance of those who are not prepared to respect and build understanding of cultural diversity."
"The loyalists responsible for [the] riot in [north] Belfast must be condemned. Leadership required from unionist political leaders.
"I unreservedly condemn those responsible for the attack on the bus in Greysteel and the Verbal Arts Centre, and other incidents in Derry."
"I condemn these disgraceful attacks on the police. Those responsible do nothing to further the cause they claim to promote.
"They damage Northern Ireland and wreck a day which should be about respectful celebration of cultural tradition."
"Attacks on police officers are totally wrong, however outrageous the Parades Commission continues to behave.
"Over the years, the Parades Commission has caved in to republican violence and threats of violence. This has created a severe problem in relation to community relations and respect for law and order.
"The way forward is to recognise the failures of the past cannot be repeated and a new way forward for parading and protesting is badly needed. Secretary of State take note."
"What the residents have said on an ongoing basis is that they are up for dialogue. We've worked out many, many problems, but it all began with dialogue.
"In terms of the Parades Commission, there needs to be an independent body. While I have often disagreed with their decisions, I think it's the only way to deal with this issue until it can be dealt with between those who decide to march through these areas and the people who live there."
"We cannot continue to open wounds every summer and hope that the body politic and society in general in Northern Ireland and north Belfast will just continue on as usual.
"We need to reflect very carefully and we need to resolve this situation in Ardoyne and we need to do that urgently."
"There is disappointment in north Belfast once again that the three Ligoniel lodges and the band were not able to return home to their starting point.
"Ten or more years of republican violence at Ardoyne on the Crumlin Road was rewarded by the Parades Commission. I would have to say if it's wrong to engage in violence, it's wrong to reward violence."
"Those involved in violence should desist. It is not only counterproductive but also plain wrong.
"Such actions are only strengthening the hand of those who wish to further curtail our parades."
"Once again, officers demonstrated their patience and professionalism even though their lines were under attack.
"The scenes we witnessed were deplorable and shameful.
"The behaviour of those who viciously targeted police lines was mindless and unacceptable."
"We had hoped that the scenes of violence witnessed were a thing of the past, but clearly there is a minority who do not want Northern Ireland to move on.
"They have disregarded all those in the community who have worked hard to ease tensions, and must be brought to justice."
"The scenes in north Belfast are a serious step backwards for stability in Northern Ireland.
"The small minority determined to return to the bad old days must not be allowed to prosper.
"[The] events underline the importance of marginalising the extremists and pressing ahead with implementation of the [Stormont House Agreement]."
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said 549 miners would receive eight weeks' back pay of up to £3,800 each.
The union claimed miners at the North Yorkshire pit, which closed in 2015, received smaller payouts than workers at Thoresby in Nottinghamshire.
It successfully argued the closure of the two pits had been the same and therefore payouts should be similar.
Miners at Thoresby, which closed in July 2015, were granted a "protective award" when UK Coal, the mine's owner, and the government accepted the mine was closed without proper consultation with workers.
The union successfully argued before an industrial tribunal in Sheffield the same circumstances applied to the closure of Kellingley six months later, yet there was no agreement to provide the same level of financial support to workers.
An NUM spokesman said it was "money the men were entitled to and shouldn't have had to fight for".
Yvette Cooper, the Labour MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, whose constituency includes Kellingley, said: "This tribunal judgement proves that the government's decision to deny the Kellingley miners the same support as the Thoresby miners was an outrage and a betrayal of the Yorkshire miners who kept working until the very end."
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has been approached for comment.
It is believed the pair got into trouble near Trearddur Bay when one of the men fell out of his kayak.
The Trearddur Bay lifeboat team and coastguard staff went to the scene but a coastguard helicopter lifted the men from the rocks.
They were assessed by paramedics but did not need hospital treatment.
The former first minister is to star in Alex Salmond Unleashed at the annual arts festival in August.
All 15 performances have now sold out - with Mr Salmond selling a total of 5,250 tickets at the 350-capacity Assembly Rooms.
The show is described as a "festival of fun, friends and freedom", and a chance to find out what he "really thinks".
The 62-year-old former SNP leader will be joined on stage with a different celebrity guest each night, with the promise of "light-hearted banter and a few behind the scenes revelations about his time in power".
Tickets had been on sale at £22.50 each, or £17.50 for concessions.
Speaking as he announced the show earlier this month, Mr Salmond said: "I have always fancied a spot at the Edinburgh Fringe and this is going to be lots of fun.
"Obviously in the show there will be lots about politics but the emphasis will be very much on the lighter side.
"Among the invited guests there is already plenty of excitement and quite a few surprises. I suspect some people might be taken aback at the range of friends whom I invite along."
Mr Salmond lost his Westminster seat in June's general election. It has been reported that former SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, who also lost her seat in the election, will be one of the producers of his show.
Meanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's appearance at the fringe has also sold out.
Mr Corbyn will be appearing at the New Town Theatre on 27 August, when he will speak to comedian and broadcaster Susan Morrison about "what makes him tick, how he deals with adversity, and why our country, and its politics, needs to be transformed".
Nigel Day was last seen at his home in Portland Road, Wyke Regis, on Tuesday.
On Thursday, police and the coastguard helicopter searched for him around the coast of Portland when a bag of belongings were found on Chesil Beach.
Officers believe Nigel entered the water and came to harm.
He is described as white, of thin build, and around six foot tall with shoulder-length hair and a beard.
He made phone contact with a relative on Wednesday but no one has seen or heard from him since.
Sgt Jeremy Cuff, of Weymouth Police, said: "It has been five days since Nigel was last in contact and, following the discovery of his clothing and other items on Chesil beach, we are extremely concerned for his welfare."
Dorset Police is appealing for information.
Watson won 190 one-day international caps, scoring 5,757 runs at an average of 40.54 and taking 168 wickets at 31.79 apiece.
The 34-year-old has played in 56 T20 internationals and is in Australia's squad to face Pakistan on Friday.
Watson, who retired from Tests in 2015, is the only Australian to have scored centuries in all forms of the game.
He will continue to play in domestic T20 tournaments, including the Big Bash.
"Shane should be proud of his contribution to Australian cricket," Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said.
"To be bracketed with [former captain] Steve Waugh as Australia's most prolific batting all-rounder in Test and one-day cricket is a very significant statement about his international career."
A powerful batsman and seam bowler, Watson, who made his ODI debut in 2002, has the highest score in that format by an Australian - 185 against Bangladesh in 2011.
Twice a winner of the Allan Border Medal as Australian player of the year, he featured in three World Cups and was part of the Australian sides which triumphed in the 2007 and 2015 tournaments.
He has also appeared in all six World T20s and was player of the tournament in 2012.
Watson retired from Tests following last summer's Ashes series in England having won 59 caps, scoring 3,731 runs at 35.19 and taking 75 wickets at 33.68.
He captained his country in one Test in India in 2013.
Mermoz, who had previously been linked with a move to Bath, has made 11 appearances in the Top 14 this season.
The 30-year-old has scored three tries in 35 international appearances.
He will help Tigers cover for the loss of England centre Manu Tuilagi, who suffered a season-ending cruciate ligament injury earlier in January.
Shephard, who made his Swansea debut in the FA Cup third round defeat by Oxford in January, made 20 appearances for the Glovers in a loan spell last season.
The 21-year-old has won two caps for Wales at under-21 level.
He will not be available for Friday's game against Carlisle, as international clearance has not been received in time.
"Both The FA and FAW are assisting the club in trying to contact FIFA offices, who are now closed due to the holiday season in Switzerland," the club said in a statement.
"With today being the final day of the loan window, the club are very disappointed that the offices at FIFA closed early, causing problems for clubs ahead of a busy weekend of football."
Yeovil are 20th in the League Two table, 11 points above the relegation zone with nine games to play.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Woods, 40, has not played competitively since August and has had two operations in an attempt to cure a back problem.
The 14-time major winner pulled out on Friday after saying last week that he was making progress but was not in shape to play four consecutive days.
"I'm not quite there yet. I've pushed through a lot of injuries and rehabs before," he said.
Woods, who won the Open in 2000, 2005 and 2006, has been replaced by Marcus Fraser of Australia, while England's Luke Donald is now first on the reserve list.
American Woods, who is now ranked 594 in the world, added last week: "I keep getting physically better. I just hope that everything clicks in and I can do it sooner rather than later.
"I just need to get to where strength-wise I can handle the workload of playing out here on a weekly basis, practising after rounds, not having to go ice my back and all that kind of stuff.
"I am trying to do it correctly at this time."
Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed the measure into law on Monday.
The move makes Utah the only US state to use firing squads as a method of execution.
Some US states are considering alternative execution methods as they struggle to obtain lethal injection drugs amid a nationwide shortage.
Drug inventories dwindled after European manufacturers opposed to capital punishment refused to sell the lethal concoctions.
Civil rights groups have said use of firing squads makes Utah "look backward and backwoods".
Governor Herbert finds the firing squad "a little bit gruesome,'' but said the state needs a back-up execution method.
"We prefer to use our primary method of lethal injection when such a sentence is issued," the governor's spokesman Marty Carpenter told the Associated Press.
"However, when a jury makes the decision and a judge signs a death warrant, enforcing that lawful decision is the obligation of the executive branch."
It will probably be years before Utah's next execution. The head of Utah's prison system has said the state does not have any reserves of lethal injection drugs.
The new Utah law reinstates the use of firing squads more than a decade after the state abandoned the practice.
Because of the intense media attention, Utah lawmakers stopped offering inmates the choice of a death by firing squad several years ago.
But a handful of inmates sentenced to death before 2004 still have the option of going before a firing squad.
Ronnie Lee Gardner, a convicted murderer who shot and killed a lawyer in attempt to escape from prison, was the last inmate executed by a firing squad in 2010.
Pakistan has rejected accusations that it killed any Indian soldiers or fired across the Line of Control (LoC) which divides Kashmir.
India called the attack "barbaric" and summoned Pakistan's top envoy in Delhi over the incident.
Claimed by both countries, Kashmir has been a flashpoint for over 60 years.
A statement from the Indian foreign ministry said the soldiers' bodies had been subjected to "barbaric and inhuman mutilation" which was "in contravention of all norms of international conduct".
By Andrew NorthBBC News, Delhi
Indian TV channels are calling this a "Kargil-type stunt" - when Pakistani forces breached the Line of Control in 1999, sparking the third major conflict between the two neighbours over Kashmir.
This is the first reported incursion by Pakistani troops since then - something it denies, of course.
It's a nasty shock for India, after a tentative thaw helped by some trade and cricket diplomacy. "It's a bad one," said a former Indian security official, adding that "it couldn't have happened without high-level approval."
Islamabad denies India's allegations, but Delhi is now under domestic pressure to take a tough response.
Its options are limited, though, if it wants to avoid further escalation.
India's chief military spokesman told the BBC one of the soldiers had been beheaded by the Pakistani army.
Troops searched the area afterwards but could not find the head, the spokesman said. India believes the Pakistanis took the head with them when they retreated.
The spokesman confirmed the body of the other soldier had been mutilated but would not give any further details.
The Pakistani foreign ministry says India's allegations are "baseless" and it is willing to have a UN investigation.
A Pakistani military official said Pakistan had verified the facts on the ground and found "nothing of the sort" had happened.
He denounced the Indian claim as "propaganda" to divert attention away from a clash on the LoC two days earlier.
Pakistan said one of its soldiers was killed on 6 January after an Indian incursion. India denies its soldiers crossed the line.
India says a patrol was attacked by Pakistani soldiers near the LoC on Tuesday. It says two soldiers were killed in the firefight near Mendhar, 220km (140 miles) north of the Indian city of Jammu.
The battle lasted about half an hour before "the intruders retreated back towards their side" of the LoC, an Indian statement said.
Defence Minister AK Antony told reporters that the "Pakistan army's action is highly objectionable and also the way they treated the body of the Indian soldier is inhuman".
Pakistan's high commissioner in Delhi was summoned to a meeting with the Indian foreign secretary.
Q&A: Kashmir dispute
Earlier, Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid pledged a "proportionate" response to the attack.
He said Tuesday's incident was an "attempt to derail the dialogue" between the two countries.
Exchanges in the disputed area are not uncommon but rarely result in fatalities.
There has been a ceasefire in Kashmir since late 2003.
India suspended a peace process with Pakistan following attacks by Pakistan-based militants in Mumbai in 2008. Negotiations resumed in February last year.
Thousands of people have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir since an armed revolt against Indian rule erupted in 1989.
Last month, India and Pakistan signed an agreement to ease visa restrictions on travel for some citizens.
Crews were called to the Clearwater plant, in Boden Street, in the city's Bridgeton area at 17:30 on Thursday.
Three staff were evacuated and local people were advised to keep windows and doors closed as a precaution.
A scientific advisor established there were no harmful particles in the air. Crews left the scene at midnight.
Assaults on people living there are increasing, volunteer legal teams have claimed, and they described the situation as "endemic".
One Syrian, called Ahmed, told the BBC he and his friends had been severely beaten one night and taken to hospital.
About 5,000 migrants trying to reach the UK are thought to live at the camp.
Ahmed suffered a broken jaw and a black eye. One of his friends suffered a severe concussion, and was under medical supervision for four days because of a bleed on the brain.
The men say the attack on them lasted about 20 to 30 minutes.
Marianne Humbersot, the head of a legal centre opened by volunteers in the camp about a month ago, says she has been told of 20 attacks in the last two weeks.
Many migrants do not want to make a complaint to the police, she says.
The investigations have not yet identified any individuals, but Jean-Pierre Valensi, one of the main prosecutors in the region, says they know they drive a black BMW and use metal weapons.
Bulldozers started to clear part of the makeshift camp last month.
The move was part of a new housing project which is aimed at improving conditions in the camp.
The man was one of three suspected illegal gold miners detained on Friday on Belizean territory.
Belize says its troops acted in self-defence when the Guatemalan tried to attack an army patrol with a machete, but Guatemala contests that.
The two Central American neighbours have a long-standing border dispute.
Last month, Guatemala deployed 3,000 troops along the frontier following a shooting incident in which a Guatemalan teenager was killed.
Belize said the presence of large numbers of Guatemalan troops along the border had increased tensions between the two countries.
In a statement, the government of Belize said one of the three detainees had acted "aggressively" and ignored a warning shot before being shot and wounded in the elbow.
Guatemala's foreign ministry rejected Belize's version of events.
It said that one person with a machete could not attack a "properly equipped and armed" patrol.
The territorial dispute between the two nations dates back more than 150 years.
Belize became independent from Britain in 1981. However Guatemala did not recognise it for another decade because of the land dispute.
US shares jumped on Wednesday after hints from the Federal Reserve that interest rates could rise in December.
But on Thursday, the Dow Jones eased 0.02% to 17,732.75 points, while the S&P 500 lost 0.11% to 2,081.24. The Nasdaq shed 0.03% to 5,073.64.
Intel led the Dow's risers, up 3.44% after announcing a dividend hike.
The S&P healthcare sector was the worst performer among the 10 major sector on the index with a 1.63% fall. Drugmaker Pfizer fell 3.06% after reports that its talks to buy Allergan and re-domicile in Ireland were in final stages. Allergan lost 2.82%.
Electronics retailer Best Buy dropped 2.11% after its third-quarter revenues fell below analysts' expectations.
Revenues fell 2.4% to $8.82bn, although profits rose 16.8% to $125m.
The train hit the end of the platform at Once station in the capital Buenos Aires during the morning rush hour.
"We assume that there was some fault in the brakes," Transportation Secretary JP Schiavi said.
Dozens of people were trapped for hours in the wreckage but all have now been successfully taken to safety.
The government declared two days of mourning and called off planned carnival festivities in the country.
"The train was full and the impact was tremendous," a passenger identified as Ezequiel told local television after the crash on Wednesday.
Medics at the scene were overwhelmed by the casualties, he added.
"People started to break windows and get out however they could," another eyewitness told Reuters.
"Then I saw the engine destroyed and the train driver trapped amongst the steel. There were a lot of people hurt, a lot of kids, elderly," the eyewitness added.
Police outside Once station had to "keep back the curious and concerned as paramedics treated the injured", eyewitness Tom English told the BBC.
By Vladimir HernandezBBC News, Buenos Aires
Last year, at least 23 people died and over 300 were injured in train accidents in Argentina. The Once station crash is the worst since the 1970s and raises questions about the safety of the rail network.
"It is still quite safe," says Juan Alberto Roccatagliata, the director of the National Rail Authority until 2010. But, he says, accidents can happen.
"However, investment levels and maintenance have not been up to what is required to reduce the probability of things like this happening."
The Buenos Aires rail system transports some 400 million passengers a year, making it the biggest in South America. In the 1990s, most of it was privatised in the hope of boosting investment in infrastructure.
"But this did not happen as the contracts given to private companies did not oblige them to invest in the network," says Pablo Martorelli, president of the Argentine Rail Institute.
"Companies are not interested in investing as they already get their income from state subsidies," he says.
The train had hit the barrier at about 12mph (20km/h), destroying the front of the engine and crunching the carriages behind it, Mr Schiavi said.
One of the carriages was driven nearly 6m (20ft) into the next, he added.
Survivors told local media that many people had been injured in a jumble of metal and glass.
Emergency medical system director Alberto Crescenti said that some passengers who survived had to have limbs amputated. Many suffered from arrested breathing and trauma to the thorax region.
Many are in a critical condition in the city's hospitals and there are concerns that the death toll could rise, the BBC's Vladimir Hernandez in Buenos Aires reports.
Five accidents have occurred in and around the city in recent months, our correspondent says.
Many parts of Argentina's rail network are antiquated and in need of repair and this incident will increase concern about lack of investment in the system, he adds.
"This is the responsibility of a company that is known for insufficient maintenance and... improvisation," Edgardo Reinoso of the train workers' union told Reuters.
"Lack of controls" on the part of state agencies was also to blame, Mr Reinoso added.
Trenes de Buenos Aires, the firm which owned the train, expressed its "deep regret" over the accident.
"The firm sends its condolences to all the families of those passengers who died and remains worried for the state of health of those who were injured," it said in a statement.
In September 2011, 11 people died when a commuter train in Buenos Aires hit a bus crossing the tracks and then hit a second train coming into a station.
This latest accident is Argentina's worst train crash since February 1970, when a train smashed into another at full speed in suburban Buenos Aires, killing 200 people.
McCann was appointed as Paul Hartley's successor last week, with the team sitting second bottom of the Scottish Premiership.
Calderwood guided Kilmarnock and Ross County to safety and believes man management is key.
"You've got to try to take the pressure off the players," Calderwood, 62, said.
Kilmarnock were the first to appoint Calderwood as a troubleshooter, bringing the former Aberdeen and Dunfermline manager in to succeed Jim Jefferies in January 2010, with the team second bottom of the top flight with 20 league games remaining.
Despite succeeding at Rugby Park, Calderwood was not appointed full-time and in February 2011 Ross County took him to Dingwall with the team second bottom of the second tier, then known as the First Division. Calderwood steered County to eighth place and safety.
Former Dundee, Hearts, Rangers and Scotland winger McCann has five games to try to move the Dens Park side out of the relegation play-off position, after a run of seven straight defeats resulted in Hartley's sacking.
"There's a certain pressure, obviously, and a lot of money involved," Calderwood said.
"It's very difficult, but the main thing is to try to keep them bubbly, lots of talking. It's no use them going in [with the attitude] 'aw no, here we go again'.
"There might have been times when you thought, 'I'm going to give him a rollicking', but that wouldn't work out. You would go up instead and say, 'is everything alright with you?' You would do a lot more talking than you would normally do.
"You try to keep them with a smile on their face, coming into training, making wee jokes - [assistant manager] Jimmy Nicholl was brilliant at it, so they weren't coming in with their heads down."
There have been other instances of Scottish clubs making appointments towards the end of the season to achieve safety, although not as late in the campaign as Dundee.
Kilmarnock brought Lee Clark to Rugby Park last season with the team third bottom of the Premiership table.
Clark's side finished in the relegation play-off place, but he oversaw a 4-1 aggregate victory against Falkirk across two legs to achieve safety.
The Englishman went seven games before winning his first match as Rugby Park manager, though, and Calderwood won only one of his first five games in charge of Killie. At Ross County, he drew his opening three games and won only one of his first seven, which illustrates that the appointment of a new manager does not always bring an immediate upturn in results.
This season, four Premiership clubs have changed manager during the season, with mixed results across their first five games.
Calderwood believes there is enough talent in the Dundee squad to steer the team to safety, with the bottom six sides now all facing each other in the remaining five games.
"It's not down to managers, it's down to the players," Calderwood said. "If you've got good people, okay you can have had a bad season, but you can still make it. You've just got to be as positive as you can be.
"If the players can take that on board, you hope they're going to be good enough and you can have the luck in the games."
The front-runner in the Republican race was on the defensive in Detroit as Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz piled in.
In a testy debate, Mr Trump admitted he had changed his stance on issues but said flexibility was a strength.
Senior Republicans say Mr Trump is a liability who would lose the election.
The debate began with Mr Trump being asked about an attack earlier in the day by Mitt Romney, the 2012 nominee, who accused the businessman of bullying, greed and misogyny. Mr Trump dismissed Mr Romney as a "failed candidate".
Katty Kay: Europe hates Trump
US election 2016: Super Tuesday results
Ohio Governor John Kasich was the fourth Republican contender to take part in Thursday's debate.
Leading the attack on Mr Trump, Florida Senator Marco Rubio said he was "not going to turn over the conservative movement to someone who thinks the nuclear triad is a rock band from the 1980s".
In one of the most bizarre moments, Mr Trump defended the size of his hands and then quipped about another part of his anatomy.
There were plenty of personal insults from Mr Trump, who labelled the Florida senator "little Rubio" and the senator from Texas as "liar Ted".
What is the big deal about Trump's 'small' hands?
Since Super Tuesday, Donald Trump has faced relentless, withering criticism from his own party.
He was challenged on his various policy changes, on his failed businesses, on his support for Democrats.
He told the audience he reserved the right to be "flexible" and change his mind on issues if he felt like it. He was shown tapes of all the times he'd done just that.
The mud-slinging continued and at one point Ted Cruz urged Mr Trump to "breathe, breathe, breathe". But it is the Republican Party who appear to be gasping. They are trying to stop the front-runner, fearing he will destroy the party. The problem is Trump supporters have so far proved to be loyal no matter what is flung at their man.
The New York businessman was forced to explain a civil lawsuit involving the collapse of Trump University.
He said he would win the case but Mr Rubio said he was trying to "con people into giving him their vote, just like he conned people into giving him their money".
Mr Trump was also challenged by the Fox News panel for changing his stance on Syrian refugees, the war in Afghanistan and President George W Bush.
He replied: "I have a very strong core. But I've never seen a successful person who wasn't flexible, who didn't have a certain degree of flexibility."
The debate, sponsored by Fox News, brought Mr Trump face to face with presenter Megyn Kelly, whom he dismissed as a "bimbo" after they clashed in the first primary debate.
This time he was all smiles and he complimented her looks when he took her first question.
Other debate highlights:
Hours earlier, Mr Romney led growing calls by leading Republicans against a Trump nomination.
Calling him a "phony" and a "fraud", the former standard-bearer of the party said Mr Trump's policies - like the deportation of undocumented migrants and banning Muslims from entering the US - would make the world less safe.
Others like Paul Ryan, John McCain and a host of national security committee members have also attacked the New Yorker.
Republicans in four states - Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Maine - go to the polls on Saturday. The billionaire has won 10 of the 15 states that have voted so far, with his promise to "make America great again".
His supporters value his perceived authenticity and business acumen, and say he is the strong leader the country needs.
With the effective departure of Ben Carson this week, the field of Republican candidates - once 17-strong - has now been narrowed to four.
In the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton has 10 states, five more than rival Bernie Sanders.
The two will take to the debate stage in Flint, Michigan, on Sunday.
5 March: Kansas caucuses, Louisiana primary, Kentucky and Maine caucuses (Republican), Nebraska caucuses (Democratic)
6 March: Maine caucuses (Democratic)
8 March: Hawaii and Idaho caucuses (Republican), Idaho primary (Republican), Michigan and Mississippi primaries
15 March: Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio primaries
It was like a scene from an action movie.
In the morning of 5 January, a team of police and militia was despatched to a farm that belonged to the family of Doan Van Vuon.
Their mission was to force 52-year-old Mr Vuon and his family out and to seize their land, a stretch of marshes along the coast in the northern city of Haiphong.
As they moved in towards the farmhouse, a homemade mine buried in the grass exploded, knocking two policemen off their feet.
From inside, Mr Vuon's men began firing shotguns at the approaching police, injuring six, including the local district police chief.
Reinforcements were sent in a show of force on a scale that had never been seen before in the city - more than 100 police officers with firearms, sniffer dogs, and minesweepers in bullet-proof gear.
The head of Haiphong police himself was present, together with four of his deputies. Loudspeakers broke the morning quiet.
After four hours, when police finally broke into the house they found it empty apart from a couple of gas cylinders that officers believed were intended for use as improvised explosive devices. All the men were gone.
The incident immediately became headline news, not least because of the unexpectedly fierce resistance by the farmer's family. Rarely have the police been fired at during land clearances before.
As all land in Vietnam belongs to the state, Doan Van Vuon was given the land to farm by the district government for 14 years, according to an agreement between the two parties.
Now the local government wants it back, saying part of it is needed for a future infrastructure project. The remaining part can be rented at a higher cost.
Mr Vuon protested against the decision, arguing that his family had spent 20 years developing the land. Not only did he have to work hard, he also had to borrow a large sum of money.
Without the land rights, he could not see how he could repay the debt and make a living.
Eight meetings to negotiate new terms with the family failed and the local government decided to evict them.
Mr Vuon, his brother and two other relatives were arrested one day after the shooting incident and they are now in detention on attempted murder charges.
His wife, Nguyen Thi Thuong, told the BBC: "We were pushed into a corner. We didn't know what to do. We had nowhere to go."
The local authorities insist everything was done in accordance with the law.
Yet the public are now raising questions about the Land Law, which many think is far from perfect.
The law, in effect since 1993, stipulates that households and individuals are entitled to land rights for a "limited period" of 20 years. After that, subject to availability and other factors, local governments will decide whether the land use can be extended.
This, some say, gives officials at district level too much power in deciding people's livelihoods and creates a fertile environment for corruption.
The 20-year limit is another topic for heated debate among the population and in parliament.
Former Vice-Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Hung Vo, when in office, argued that farming was a long-term business and 20 years were not enough for farmers to yield a proper income. He proposed increasing it to 99 years or abolishing the time limit.
More than a million individuals in Vietnam were awarded land rights in 1993. Next year some of them will face the danger of their farmland being redistributed, or worse still, confiscated.
There are already calls to privatise land in order to manage it better and more fairly.
According to Vietnam's constitution, all land belongs to the state and comes "under ownership of the entire people". To privatise land ownership means changing the constitution, something politicians are reluctant to consider as it clashes with "the very core principle of socialism".
Nguyen Dinh Loc, former minister of justice who sat on the drafting board of the current constitution, recalled in an interview with domestic media that "nobody had the courage to speak about [privatisation]".
Land rights remain one of the most contentious issues in Vietnam, with hundreds of cases of public grievance occurring each year, each more serious than the other.
And the problem continues ticking away while lawmakers struggle to figure out what to do next.
|
Five people and a baby were rescued from a sinking speedboat in a "strong swell".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Pop band McFly have been forced to postpone their UK tour after drummer Harry Judd suffered a herniated disc.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Australian teenager Nick Kyrgios caused a sensational upset as he beat world number one Rafael Nadal to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
It's pretty well known that too much alcohol can lead to some nasty in-flight incidents.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Yorkshire councils have cut more than 18,500 jobs in the past five years, figures obtained by the BBC show.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former football coach Barry Bennell has pleaded not guilty to eight charges of sexual assault against a boy under 16.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Huddersfield Town have appointed former Borussia Dortmund coach David Wagner as their new head coach.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A millionaire car dealer from Lancashire who stabbed his ex-wife to death has been handed a life sentence.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has been arrested after a 36-year-old woman died and another man was assaulted in a disturbance at a flat in Cathkin, South Lanarkshire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two air ambulance charities are to carry out emergency blood transfusions on board their helicopters.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Southport edged towards National League safety as they extended Guiseley's winless run to eight league games.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Yahoo has confirmed it is axing about 2,000 posts, which amounts to 14% of its workforce being laid off.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
MK Dons captain Dean Lewington says he has not yet held talks with the League One club about a new contract.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An art teacher has been struck off for a "sexually-motivated" relationship with a 17-year-old student at a Carmarthenshire college.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Four far-right Jewish protesters have been arrested at the wedding of a Jewish-born woman who converted to Islam and an Arab Muslim man in Israel.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Trouble flared in north Belfast on Monday night where the Orange Order was not allowed to complete its return from an annual Twelfth of July parade.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Miners made redundant through the closure of Kellingley colliery are to receive additional payments.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two men have been winched to safety off rocks after getting into difficulty whilst kayaking on the Anglesey coast.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Alex Salmond's two-week stint at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has completely sold out.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Police say they are "very concerned" for the welfare of a 52-year-old man who has been missing for nearly a week, as wet clothes were found on a Dorset beach.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Australia all-rounder Shane Watson will retire from all international cricket after the World Twenty20 in India.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Leicester have agreed to sign France centre Maxime Mermoz from Toulon until the end of the season, subject to French Rugby Federation approval.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
League Two side Yeovil have re-signed Swansea and Wales Under-21 right-back Liam Shephard on a one-month loan deal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Three-time champion Tiger Woods has withdrawn from this month's Open Championship at Royal Troon.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Utah will resume the use of firing squads to carry out the death penalty when lethal injections drugs are not available.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
India says one of two soldiers killed in an alleged cross-border attack by Pakistan troops in the disputed territory of Kashmir was beheaded.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Smoke and dust from a blaze at a waste management and treatment plant in the east end of Glasgow contained no toxic chemicals, the fire service has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
French prosecutors are investigating at least six attacks on migrants at the makeshift Calais camp called the Jungle, the BBC understands.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Guatemalan government has accused Belize's army of using excessive force following the injury of a Guatemalan man arrested for illegal mining.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
(Close): Wall Street's main markets edged lower, with rises in technology stocks offset by falls in healthcare shares.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
At least 49 people have been killed and more than 600 injured in the worst train crash in Argentina in 40 years, officials say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Jimmy Calderwood saved two clubs from relegation and says Neil McCann must raise the spirits of the Dundee players.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Presidential contender Donald Trump has come under attack from his rivals at a Republican debate, after a day in which the party's veteran politicians urged voters to desert him.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The BBC's Nga Pham looks at how a violent stand-off over farmland repossession has focused attention on the issue across Vietnam.
| 34,377,234 | 13,890 | 996 | true |
Assistant zoo manager Lisa Britton said it "infiltrated" their home at Penguin Bay during the night.
Five adult and three infant Humboldt penguins died in the attack. A ninth was injured but made a full recovery after treatment from a vet.
The remaining 20 penguins have since been moved to a secure location.
Ms Britton said staff at the zoo, which has only just released details of the June attack, were "shocked and saddened" by the loss.
"We are investigating why this happened, as Penguin Bay, only built in 2015, had special measures put in place specifically to deter foxes," she said.
Penguin Bay has been closed while additional security measures are undertaken.
A note on the adventure park's website reads: "Our Humboldt penguins are currently enjoying their other home behind-the-scenes while we make alterations to Penguin Bay."
Chessington World of Adventures features a theme park with more than 40 rides as well as a zoo and sea life centre.
|
Eight penguins have been attacked and killed by an "urban fox" that broke into their water enclosure at Chessington World of Adventures.
| 40,718,427 | 239 | 33 | false |
The UUP's Doug Beattie has described as "perverse" Mr Adams' comments that his refusal to name IRA figures was like journalists refusing to reveal sources.
Mr Stack, chief prison officer at Portlaoise Prison, was shot in the neck as he left a boxing match in 1983.
He was left paralysed and died 18 months later.
"You're a journalist, you protect your source, I'm about the business of making peace," he told BBC News NI.
"I listened to a journalist yesterday from the Irish Independent being asked who gave him the email which I sent to the Garda, he says 'I'm not going to give away my source'.
"I listened to another TD, Mattie McGrath, who said he was approached by a journalist say 'no I will not give away my source'."
On Thursday, Brian Stack' son Austin confronted Mr Adams during a Sinn Féin press conference and accused him of lying in the Dail (Irish parliament).
He said Mr Adams should give police the name of a senior republican with knowledge of his father's murder who met the Sinn Féin leader, Mr Stack and his brother Oliver.
Mr Stack told Mr Adams it would be an absolute disgrace if he didn't do so.
On Sunday, the UUP's Mr Beattie said: "There is something inherently perverse about a political leader who says he protects the identity of a source in the same way the media protect the identity of sources.
"The only difference being of course, is that Gerry Adams is referring to a murder, is an elected representative and the leader of a political party - Sinn Féin."
Sinn Féin's Máirtín Ó Muilleoir was answering questions from members of the assembly's finance committee.
Under the Fresh Start deal, the executive made a commitment to cut the tax rate to 12.5% in 2018, on the basis that the measure is affordable.
A cut in corporation tax will mean less revenue is collected for the Treasury.
European rules mean the executive will have to make up the shortfall through a cut in its block grant.
That is likely to mean a cost of about £200m a year when the measure reaches a steady state.
Mr Ó Muilleoir said he was "rebooting" negotiations with the treasury on the issue of "secondary benefits".
That refers to the additional consumption tax revenues, such as VAT, which would be collected if the corporation tax cut leads to significant economic growth.
There is currently no mechanism for any of those additional revenues to be assigned to Stormont.
Mr Ó Muilleoir said it was "unacceptable" that the Treasury would get all the secondary benefits.
TUV leader Jim Allister put it to Mr Ó Muilleoir on Wednesday that the public perception is that corporation tax is "a done deal".
Mr Ó Muilleoir said that had not been his perception.
The first bones were found as Northern Powergrid replaced underground cables in the Knavesmire area in November 2013.
York Archaeological Trust said radiocarbon dating of two of them suggested they had died in the 1460s.
The trust said the men could have been soldiers or criminals executed at the nearby Tyburn.
Following the discovery of the first skeleton, further excavations in two trenches revealed all 12 remains.
All were male and had been aged between 25 and 40 at the time of their death.
Two have evidence of significant bone fractures which archaeologists said could be evidence of fighting, perhaps associated with professional soldiers.
Ruth Whyte, osteo-archaeologist for York Archaeological Trust said: "We knew this was a fascinating find as, unlike 15th century Christian burial practice, the skeletons were all together and weren't facing east-west.
"The Knavesmire was the site of York's Tyburn, where convicted criminals were executed right up until 1802. Were these individuals criminals or could they have been Lancastrian soldiers?
"They may have been captured in battle and brought to York for execution, possibly in the aftermath of the Battle of Towton during the Wars of the Roses, and their remains hastily buried near the gallows."
The Battle of Towton, fought on 29 March 1461, saw the Lancastrian forces of Henry VI defeated by those of Edward of York who became King Edward IV, the older brother of Richard III.
The battle location is nine miles (14km) from York.
It was taken from St Giles' Cathedral at about 15:30 on Sunday by a man who removed it before making off, via the shop, on to the High Street.
The tapestry - which is made of 305 individually embroidered panels - went on display last week.
Nearly two years ago a panel from the Great Tapestry of Scotland was stolen, and has never been found.
The suspect in the latest incident was described as white, 6ft tall with a slim build, a receding hairline with short cropped hair at the sides and a fair complexion. He was wearing a long-sleeved white top, light trousers and carrying a jacket.
The stolen panel is a 50cm x 50cm white linen square displaying hand stitched religious images.
Det Con Chris Harding said: "The Scottish Diaspora Tapestry is a priceless piece of artwork with great historical significance and this brazen act of destruction and theft has left the owners of the tapestry and the staff at St Giles Cathedral shocked.
"As part of our inquiries we are keen to hear from anyone recognises the description of the suspect, or who is approached by anyone looking to sell or pass on the stolen panel.
"In addition, anyone with any further information that can assist with our ongoing investigation should come forward."
Sarah O'Connor Phemister, visitor centre manager at St Giles' Cathedral, said: "We're disappointed and very sad that a panel of the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry was stolen while on display in St Giles.
"We are doing everything we can to assist the police in their investigation and are hopeful that the panel will be recovered.
"This beautiful artwork has been lovingly sewn, by people across the globe as a celebration of the contributions of Scottish people and their descendants. As such, its value is beyond price.
"We appeal to whoever took the panel to return it as soon as possible."
In September 2015, a panel from the Great Tapestry of Scotland was stolen while while it was on display in Kirkcaldy.
A team of stitchers last week unveiled a panel they had painstakingly recreated to replace the missing piece.
Almost every one of Canvey Island's 13,000 inhabitants had to leave their homes during the North Sea tidal surge.
The floods have been depicted on panels along a mural on Concord Beach, painted by professional artists and Canvey inhabitants.
The project was made possible with a £10,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The idea to paint the mural was put forward by the charity Friends of Concord Beach.
Its chairman, Colin Letchford, said the mural was intended to "involve and educate the community".
He said school groups and others had already been to visit the wall and learn about the history of the island and its relationship with the sea.
"People have wept at the pictures because of the memories they've brought back. They've also wept with joy," he said.
There had been a suggestion she would attempt the double in Rio after winning the 400m, 800m and 1500m on the same day at the South African trials.
Semenya, 25, is unbeaten over 800m this season and posted a world leading time of one minute 53.33 seconds at July's Diamond League meeting in Monaco.
She was subject to gender testing after winning world 800m gold in 2009.
Semenya was cleared to compete by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 2010 after being sidelined for 11 months while she had tests.
She won silver at the 2011 World Championships and 2012 Olympics, but she failed to qualify for last August's world final, finishing last in her semi-final in 2:03.18.
Semenya has recorded three of the four fastest times in the world this year and her world-leading time lowered her personal best by more than a second.
New regulations requiring female athletes to take testosterone-lowering medication if their natural levels were above the legal mark were suspended for two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport last July.
Sharapova, 30, needs an invitation to compete at this month's French Open after defeat in the Stuttgart Open semi-finals at the weekend.
The tournament was the Russian's first since serving a 15-month doping ban.
"Loads and loads of press went there to cover the event - whereas the Slams don't need that coverage," said Murray.
"It probably doesn't change their event much either way, so they have a different decision to make."
There is something to be said for working your way back up the rankings
Upcoming events in Madrid and Rome have also taken the decision to award wildcards to Sharapova, who was suspended in 2016 after testing positive for meldonium.
The five-time Grand Slam winner needed to reach the final in Germany to make the world's top 200 and be eligible for French Open qualifying. But defeat to Kristina Mladenovic in the last four pegged her ranking at 262.
She requires a wildcard to compete in qualifying or the main draw at the tournament in Paris, which starts on 28 May.
The French tennis federation is set to announce its decision on 16 May.
Briton Murray, 29, said the French Open and Wimbledon can do "whatever they want" regarding wildcards but added "there is something to be said for working your way back up" the rankings.
"[Sharapova's] playing at a level where she's capable of winning a tournament like Stuttgart already - it would be a three-, four-week period before she'd be competing at the biggest events again," he said.
"To reach the semis in the first tournament back shows that very soon she's going to be back up at the top of the game. It will be a matter of months."
Murray added, however, that he "wouldn't imagine" Sharapova's form would have any bearing on a Grand Slam tournament's decision to issue a wildcard.
The decision to assist Sharapova's return to the WTA Tour has been criticised by rival players, with 2014 Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard branding the former world number one "a cheat" who should not have been allowed to play again.
Having missed Great Britain's Davis Cup quarter-final defeat to France with an elbow injury before returning in Monte Carlo, Murray continued his comeback at the Barcelona Open where he was beaten by Dominic Thiem in the semi-finals.
He will next compete on clay at the Madrid Open, starting on Monday, followed by the Italian Open on 15 May.
"My elbow is always sore, so that's nothing to do with the injury - for the last three or four years, it's always been a bit stiff," said Murray, speaking at The Queen's Club, where he will defend his Aegon Championship title next month.
"It was great in Barcelona for the amount of tennis I played - I pushed it, playing three hours and then having to come back the next day and play again, and the elbow felt really good.
"I just need to start serving better which hopefully will happen over the next few weeks."
Versatile forward Henderson, who scored a try in Ireland's 27-24 win over Australia in Dublin, is expected to overcome a slight shoulder problem.
McCloskey is set to return after suffering a fractured bone in his foot against Glasgow earlier in the season.
Andrew Trimble and Jared Payne will miss the game through injury.
Both Irish internationals are major doubts for a crucial forthcoming series of fixtures, including the European Champions Cup double-header with Clermont Auvergne in December.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Trimble and Payne sustained injuries in the hard-fought victory over the Wallabies at the Aviva Stadium and are still waiting to find out the full extent of their problems.
Trimble is suffering from an ankle injury, while Payne has a rib injury which means he is likely to have played his last game of 2016.
Centre Stuart Olding damaged a hamstring while training with the Ireland squad at Carton House, but his injury is regarded as the least serious of the three.
Rory Best and Paddy Jackson will miss the trip to Cardiff under the IRFU's player management programme, but prop Rodney Ah You is available after not featuring since the Champions Cup triumph over Exeter in October.
Flanker Chris Henry is in line for his first appearance of the season after being named in the line-up for the home game against Zebre, which was called off on Friday night because of a frozen pitch.
Ulster have dropped to sixth in the Pro12 table after suffering four consecutive defeats, but have a game in hand over their rivals above them in the standings following the postponement of their game with the Italians.
A report into the incident was compiled by the Police Ombudsman after a complaint by the girl's mother.
The girl reported that the assault happened in north Down in late 2014.
Prosecutors dropped the case 18 months later as the officer had not submitted medical records or witness statements.
"We will never know what decision the PPS (Public Prosecution Service) might have reached if the investigating officer had conducted a full and prompt investigation," a Police Ombudsman investigator said.
The Ombudsman report indicated that the incident happened after the girl was involved in a fight with the man's daughter.
It said that the girl's mother had described the incident as having a "profound and ongoing impact on her daughter" but that the officer had "failed to obtain all relevant evidence and had not responded to her calls or pleas for him to progress the case".
The report said that, at one stage, the girl's mother arranged for a witness to be at her house to submit a statement at the same time the officer was due to take a DNA sample from her daughter.
However, the officer failed to turn up and the mother said she had not heard from him since.
The Police Ombudsman investigator said that the officer failed to obtain forensic evidence from the golf club and independent witness evidence, both of which were vital to the case as there were conflicting witness reports as to whether a golf club had been used.
The investigator also pointed out that the PPS had remarked on the poor quality of the file submitted by the officer and the slow response to requests for more information.
"The lack of progress in the investigation speaks for itself," said the investigator.
"The officer failed to speak to witnesses and to follow up on evidential opportunities and generally failed to take action until directed to do so by his supervisors.
"Even then his response was unusually tardy."
The PSNI has confirmed that the officer has been disciplined following the Ombudsman's report.
Paul Heckingbottom and Tommy Wright are currently sharing managerial duties after Johnson joined Bristol City.
Heckingbottom has been with the Tykes since 2015, while Wright was Johnson's assistant at Oldham and Barnsley.
"There's two people at the club who are very competent and we're not in any rush to appoint a new manager," Mansford told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"In Paul, we have someone who is Barnsley through and through. His focus is to do what's best for Barnsley as a club.
"He's supported by Tommy, who is committed, and we're very confident they will continue to succeed."
Barnsley have won seven consecutive league matches to move them up to 10th place in League One.
Recently sacked Rotherham manager Neil Redfearn, who made 292 appearances for Barnsley as a player, has been linked with a return to Oakwell.
"If Paul and Tommy can continue this run they give themselves every opportunity to knock on our doors and see if they can secure it permanently," Mansford added.
"The players showed on Sunday they won't let Lee's departure adversely affect them. We've stayed strong as a team and that's the most exciting thing."
The political wing of the Islamist organisation, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), is contesting nearly every parliamentary seat.
Throughout central Amman, where the roadsides are plastered with colourful election posters, its candidates feature prominently.
At public debates in the capital, a traditional bastion of support, they also get the biggest rounds of applause.
"I think this is a strong comeback. It's enabled us to go back to our grassroots and present our political agenda in a clear, acceptable way," said IAF candidate, Dima Tahboub.
In the past, the IAF was Jordan's main opposition party - bolstered by the Muslim Brotherhood's large network of support and social welfare programmes.
However it boycotted the last two legislative polls, following an election marred by fraud in 2007.
Recent electoral changes, introducing a form of proportional representation, only partly satisfy demands for reform, but the IAF was determined to join this vote.
In challenging times, the party desperately needs to prove its relevance and is casting itself in a nationalist, reformist light.
"We in Jordan have our own unique example of political participation," says Ms Tahboub. "As an Islamic movement, we're part of the system. Even when we were boycotting we were part of the official opposition."
Back in 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood emerged as a key player in uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria.
Its followers in Jordan were emboldened and joined anti-government rallies.
While they worded calls for reform carefully, they did not escape the regional backlash when Egypt's Brotherhood president, Mohammed Morsi, was overthrown.
Jordan's King Abdullah was quoted describing the Islamists as a "Masonic cult… run by wolves in sheep's clothing".
Only last year, the original Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, dating back seven decades, was declared illegal and its offices were closed after defectors registered a new society.
However, the Jordanian authorities now hope that the IAF contesting the parliamentary poll will boost the elections' legitimacy and voter turnout.
"The people will decide how many representatives they will have," says minister of political and parliamentary affairs, Musa Maaytah.
"But anyway, I am not worrying, the government is not worrying. And we are happy that everybody is participating in this election."
Amid concerns about a lack of public enthusiasm, Jordanian television is broadcasting cartoons explaining how to register and cast ballots.
New political parties are being encouraged in the hope of electing a parliament with broad representation.
This could share with the king the burden of a weak economy and social tensions over a huge influx of refugees from Jordan's war-torn neighbours.
Violence and turmoil in Syria and Iraq have recently spilled over Jordan's borders, raising security fears and leading to further clampdowns on home-grown extremism.
Analysts suggest this is a good time to give more moderate Islamists a voice.
"I think the name of the game is inclusion rather than exclusion," said pollster and security expert, Fares Braizat.
"The experience of the Islamists in Jordan in the last few years is that when they are inside the system rather than outside then they tend to moderate their discourse."
Already changes can be seen in the IAF during this campaign.
With the new system setting seat quotas for religious minorities and women, the party has included Christians on voting lists and as speakers at election events.
It is confronting new rivals like Zamzam, a Brotherhood splinter group, which recently set up its own National Congress Party, and claims it takes a distinct political line.
"We are so different. We are looking for a civil state not an Islamic state," said Kamal Awamleh, deputy chair of the new party's steering council.
"Islam is a background we believe in, but Islam is not politics. Religion is good but it will not deal with our daily crises, solving economic problems, health problems."
Five years on from the Arab Spring, the political landscape has shifted.
Business Secretary Greg Clark and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said such a deal would be "in the interests of public health and safety".
"The UK would like to find a way to continue to collaborate with the EU," they wrote in a Financial Times letter.
There are fears Brexit may cause delays in UK patients getting new drugs.
Currently the London-based European Medicines Agency (EMA) authorises drugs for use across the EU, including the UK.
However, it is expected to move out of the UK after Brexit, raising uncertainty over whether the UK will need to develop its own separate drug approval system.
Industry experts have warned that if this happens pharmaceutical firms could be slower to seek permission for their drugs to be used in just one country, focusing instead on getting their drugs approved for larger, more lucrative markets.
The UK pharmaceuticals trade association has also warned that Brexit could undermine future investment, research and jobs in the country.
But speaking on the BBC's Today programme, the UK managing director of US drugs giant Pfizer, Erik Nordkamp, said there were other issues than Brexit that the industry wanted to see addressed.
"The letter in the FT this morning is significant... because it acknowledges there are some risks that need to be addressed with regulation, with trade, but at the same time the government needs to address the long-standing issues that are there."
The ministers wrote that the UK "will look to continue to work closely with the European Medicines Agency (EMA)."
"Our overall aim is to ensure that patients in the UK and across the EU continue to be able to access the best and most innovative medicines," they added.
In the letter, they cited examples where the UK and EU partnership had helped patients, including the licensing of 130 products to treat rare diseases.
In an attempt to reassure the industry, they also said if it wasn't possible to arrange "our desired relationship with the EU", then Britain would "set up a regulatory system" to process drugs licences "as quickly as possible."
In April, EMA executive director Guido Rasi said continued co-operation was theoretically possible but it would be up to EU governments to decide whether to offer such a deal.
Pharmaceutical firms have been pushing for some kind of clarity over what the UK's exit from the EU will mean for the industry.
Mike Thompson, chief executive of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, said the ministers' letter was "a welcome recognition that the future of medicines regulation is a key priority for the government".
May Brown, 23, from Weymouth in Dorset, said she had been told by her consultant that her sister Martha is a "10 out of 10" tissue match.
The African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT) said Martha had been refused a visa because her income was too low.
The Home Office said immigration rules were applied to all visa applications.
Mrs Brown, a patient at King's College Hospital in London, has been told her only chance of survival is an urgent stem cell transplant.
Medical tests identified Martha as a perfect match, the ACLT said, but she was refused a visa because her teacher's salary of £222 per month was too low.
The charity said Mrs Brown had offered to cover all of her sister's costs.
It has set up an online petition, signed by more than 2,000 people, to reverse the visa decision.
The Home Office said it could not comment on individual cases.
A spokesman added: "We are sensitive to cases with compassionate circumstances but all visa applications must be assessed against the immigration rules.
"The onus is on the individual to provide the necessary supporting evidence to prove they meet the requirements."
Powys's cabinet wants to replace two schools in Brecon with a new-build English medium secondary, and close Llandrindod Wells High School.
The council said three schools were in special measures and it had to "take action for the sake of our learners".
The cabinet has voted for a full consultation to be carried out.
People from Llandrindod Wells gathered outside the town's council offices to oppose the plan to shut Llandrindod Wells's school and the dual-language Builth Wells High School, replacing both with a new dual-language site in Builth Wells.
Deputy mayor Jon Williams, who is also on the board of governors at Llandrindod Wells High, said the council's figures did not add up.
"We have got the full backing of the townsfolk and the business people because if the high school was to shut and move to Builth Wells it would have a knock-on effect on the town's businesses and the future of the town," he told BBC News.
He said no other option had been put forward, but suggested a better solution to sustain both schools would be to retain Llandrindod Wells High as an English-medium school and convert Builth to a Welsh-medium only school.
"Llandrindod has a bigger catchment area so we are already drawing in pupils from 10-15 miles away," he said.
"It would extend their journeys to up to 23 miles every day [to go to Builth] or they'd have to travel 30 miles the other way to Newtown."
In south Powys, Gwernyfed and Brecon secondary schools would also close and be replaced by an English-medium secondary school in Brecon under the plans.
Arwel Jones, schools' cabinet member, said the plan allowed for a broader post-16 curriculum at one location, would improve cost effectiveness and efficiency, cut maintenance costs and reduce surplus places.
He also said the proposed new site in Builth Wells would provide a "critical mass" of pupils at post-16 level, enabling more subjects to be taught in one location and reduce travel and transport needs.
He added: "Decisive action is needed in the region to strengthen our secondary provision. Three of the four secondary schools are in special measures and the fourth is subject to Estyn monitoring.
"We must take action for the sake of our young learners."
However, with 39 out of 85 seats it was four short of a majority, meaning the party will now attempt to form either a coalition or minority administration in the city for the first time.
Glasgow had been under Labour control for almost 40 years.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon hailed it as a "fantastic, historic result" and the "end of an era for Glasgow but the start of an exciting new era".
Labour, which had been in power in the city since 1980, dropped to 31 seats, while the Tories increased their number of councillors to eight and the Scottish Greens took seven seats. The Liberal Democrats lost their only councillor.
Ms Sturgeon played down suggestions her party had not done as well as expected.
"We've won this election today, or certainly we look as if we're on course to winning the election," she said. "I can't but feel proud of the SNP today.
"More seats, more votes, more councils won, bringing nearly 40 years of Labour administration to an end and becoming the largest party in all of our major cities.
"The SNP hasn't lost ground across Scotland today, what we've seen is the collapse of Labour and that's the reason for the increase in the Conservative vote."
Labour's former council leader Frank McAveety, who retained his seat in Shettleston, said: "The SNP predicted they could return 56 councillors, they've only returned 39 councillors.
"The people of Glasgow have made a quite clear signal to the SNP to stop dividing the country and stop dividing Glasgow. They claim that Glasgow was a 'Yes' city, today they have said 'no thanks' to the SNP."
Thomas Kerr, 20, was one of the Conservative councillors elected as the party's fortunes rose, taking a seat in Shettleston.
He said: "I'm shocked... when you stand as a candidate for the Conservatives in the east end of Glasgow you don't expect something like this to happen, but I think people recognised I'm a local voice and will stand up for local issues."
SNP group leader Susan Aitken retained her seat in Langside and hinted at forming a coalition to run the council, rather than running as a minority administration.
Green co-convener Patrick Harvie, whose party is seen as a front-runner for a coalition pairing, praised the surge in the Green vote and said a more "balanced" council would give the elected Greens the chance to push for a more radical agenda.
The threat it poses has only grown since then.
Deutsche Bank shares hit their lowest level in over three decades today as investors had their first chance to react to unconfirmed reports in Friday's German media that Angela Merkel had ruled out state financial assistance for the once mighty bank.
Shares were down over 7% today and are down 52% this year.
On paper, Deutsche Bank is worth over €60bn. It is currently valued at less than a quarter of that.
Why is state aid even being discussed for Germany's biggest bank?
Already weak, the bank was in no shape to withstand the shock last week of US authorities first estimate of the amount it could owe to settle litigation stemming from the subprime mortgage scandal. $14bn was their opening gambit.
That is nearly triple the amount Deutsche Bank has put aside for that purpose and would put the bank's finance under life-threatening pressure.
No one expects Deutsche to pay that amount but even half that would pose a serious problem.
Germany's flag-carrying bank needs more capital - and that can come from only three places.
It can sell stuff to raise money.
Its already started this process and hopes to sell its stake in a Chinese bank by year end. However this process has been much delayed and would only raise around $4bn.
It can sell more shares in itself to raise money.
That makes the current shares worth less each and is something current boss John Cryan has so far resisted as it would be another bitter pill for investors who have swallowed massive losses already.
Third - and very much a last resort - would be assistance from the German government.
Eight years after the financial crisis, that would not only be extremely unpopular but probably illegal under EU state aid rules.
Nevertheless, the Italian government is currently exploring ways to help its ailing banking sector and it has been thought that if Italy was allowed to bend the rules, Germany would be too.
If that option is ruled out - then Deutsche Bank is truly on its own in a world where being a bank is tough even when you have a strong balance sheet.
Deutsche Bank's is not.
The world's most dangerous bank just got more dangerous.
Police said the man entered the Mamies Day to Day store in McKenzie Street at about 21:40.
He threatened staff with a weapon and demanded money before running off in the direction of Tannahill Road.
Officers said the robber escaped with a "two-figure sum of money". No-one was injured in the incident.
Det Insp Thomas Parker said: "Officers are in the process of reviewing CCTV footage in an effort to gain more information about the suspect and the incident.
"It's imperative we trace the man responsible and I am appealing to anyone who may have been in area of Tannahill Road and McKenzie Street around the time of the incident to get in touch with us - you may think what you saw or noticed is unimportant but please do pass it on to police."
Media playback is not supported on this device
The young midfielder nodded in Craig McGuffie's cross to set up a last-eight tie away to either Hearts or Hibernian.
Declan McDaid's 20-yard strike early in the game put Ayr ahead, but Clyde created plenty of chances.
And in-form David Gormley headed the Bully Wee level after 88 minutes before the extra-time heartache.
The League Two hosts had been unbeaten in nine games against Ayr at Broadwood and were looking for a seventh straight win over the Honest Men in Cumbernauld.
But it is Ayr, whose only other win in their last 13 games came against Queen's Park in the previous round, who reach the quarter-finals for the first time since 2012.
It was Ayr youth product Wardrope's first goal of the season and proved to be a highly important one, despite being a tad harsh on the home side, who visiting boss Ian McCall felt deserved to win the game.
Hearts assistant head coach Austin MacPhee was at Broadwood to watch who his side might face if they get the better of Hibs next week.
One thing the Northern Irishman will have noted is the potency of former Partick Thistle midfielder McDaid's right foot, which unleashed a terrific low drive from outside the box to beat Quinn at his near post after good work by Alan Forrest.
Barry Ferguson's Clyde had two great chances either side of that goal. MacDonald's lob landed just the wrong side of the post and Higgins hit his own 20-yard drive narrowly wide as well.
MacDonald would have two further chances saved by Fleming before United's Brian Gilmour spurned an excellent opportunity from 10 yards out - the midfielder controlling a cross well but lifting the shot well over the crossbar.
Gormley, a goalscorer in the 1-1 draw at Somerset Park on Saturday, played in Higgins again perfectly before the break, but he dragged his effort wide of the far post.
The second half started in just as lively a manner. Clyde winger Scott Ferguson created space for himself nicely and got a shot away that the Ayr defence blocked.
At the other end, McDaid fizzed another effort wide and Ayr substitute Michael Rose went close from distance too.
Both sides had penalty shouts - with Clyde appealing when Scott Ferguson was felled and Ayr making their claims when Chris Smith appeared to bring down McDaid, who was booked for a dive.
Gormley brought Clyde level with a brilliant header from Scott Linton's corner and substitute Aaron Millar put a good chance wide in extra-time.
With the game a couple of minutes away from penalties, Wardrope got on the end of McGuffie's delivery from the left to bundle a header into the bottom corner.
Clyde manager Barry Ferguson: "The boys are disappointed, but I think we were the better team.
"I said to the boys that football can be cruel sometimes and it was certainly cruel to us - we deserved it.
"If you had a neutral at the game tonight, you would think we were the Championship team and they were the League Two team.
"That's not being disrespectful to Ayr because we wish them all the best in the next round.
"I'm just disappointed because some of our players will not get the chance to play at places like Easter Road or Tynecastle."
Ayr United manager Ian McCall: "It's great for our club to come from where we were a couple of years ago to get into the last eight of the Scottish Cup.
"But I must admit I felt Clyde deserved to win tonight - I don't think we deserved to go through.
"Although after Saturday, when Barry Ferguson said they deserved a draw, I thought it should have been 4-0 to us at half-time on Saturday.
"One key moment of the game was what looked like a penalty for a foul on Declan McDaid. There was contact and it looked like a stone-wall penalty and that would have killed the game.
"I'm delighted for Mick Wardrope and I'm delighted we're in the hat for the last eight."
Match ends, Clyde 1, Ayr United 2.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Clyde 1, Ayr United 2.
Philip Johnston (Clyde) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sean McKenzie (Ayr United).
Attempt missed. Craig McGuffie (Ayr United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Goal! Clyde 1, Ayr United 2. Michael Wardrope (Ayr United) with an attempt from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Craig McGuffie.
Foul by Aaron Millar (Clyde).
Daryll Meggatt (Ayr United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Clyde. Jon Paul McGovern replaces Sean Higgins.
Corner, Clyde. Conceded by Ross Docherty.
Foul by Sean Higgins (Clyde).
Ross Docherty (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Ayr United. Michael Wardrope replaces Paul Cairney.
Foul by Matthew Flynn (Clyde).
Paul Cairney (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Second Half Extra Time begins Clyde 1, Ayr United 1.
First Half Extra Time ends, Clyde 1, Ayr United 1.
Attempt missed. Peter MacDonald (Clyde) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Foul by Aaron Millar (Clyde).
Peter Murphy (Ayr United) is shown the yellow card.
Conrad Balatoni (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Chris Smith (Clyde) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Aaron Millar (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Peter Murphy (Ayr United).
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Ross Perry.
David Gormley (Clyde) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daryll Meggatt (Ayr United).
Attempt saved. Paul Cairney (Ayr United) right footed shot from long range on the left is saved in the centre of the goal.
Hand ball by Matthew Flynn (Clyde).
Substitution, Ayr United. Sean McKenzie replaces Brian Gilmour.
Attempt missed. Ewan McNeil (Clyde) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Aaron Millar (Clyde) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Peter MacDonald (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Conrad Balatoni (Ayr United).
Peter MacDonald (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Nicky Devlin (Ayr United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nicky Devlin (Ayr United).
Philip Johnston (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Cairney (Ayr United).
First Half Extra Time begins Clyde 1, Ayr United 1.
"You've got the classic pattern of someone who's in a fatigue cycle," she says.
"You're running on survival energy. Your sympathetic nervous system is in overdrive. I would guess you feel pretty shattered mid-afternoon which would mean you are running on adrenalin, noradrenalin, cortisol."
I'm turning into a dopamine junkie - the brain chemical associated with pleasure that is released when we are stimulated, whether that is by food, sex, excitement... or screen time.
It sounds convincing. Or am I being blinded by pseudo-science?
Dr Ramlakhan works at the privately run Nightingale Hospital, and is a member of its technology addiction treatment team.
Surely tiredness is a by-product of a busy modern life - children, work, hobbies etc - rather than that relaxing time spent watching Netflix in bed?
"The thing many of my patients have in common is the fact that they are in front of screens all the time. Even when they try to sleep at night. It has become so pervasive," she says.
"They go to bed but can't sleep, or fall asleep exhausted and wake up tired. People started telling me they couldn't switch their brains off."
One patient was suspended from work after sending an inappropriate email to a client in the early hours of the morning, she adds.
"When we unpicked the story we realised he was spending more time at work and finding it more difficult to switch off."
He is now on the road to recovery - and hopes to return to his job.
Another recent patient was a 17-year-old who had suffered a seizure.
It turned out he was up all night playing computer games.
Tech-related burnout is also common in people with certain personality traits, Dr Ramlakhan continues.
"Are you a perfectionist? Are you a control freak? Do you grind your teeth at night?
"That's an A-type personality - they are driven, competitive, aggressive, run on imperatives - have to, must do, should do," she says.
"They are likely to find themselves unable to switch off, they can't relax, if they do they crash into exhaustion.
"Even if they are watching TV they have multi screens. It's a level of hyperactivity driven by a fear of not being in control."
I suggest that perhaps they just want to multi-task.
"It's the accessibility, the sensory experience of swiping that screen, the instant gratification… there is something quite pleasurable about that," she counters.
"Our generation hasn't got the hang of how to respond to it so we respond very reactively.
"For a lot of people it's the lack of offline time which causes hyper-arousal of the brain. People walk about in a state of distractibility."
Author and psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair also thinks multi-tasking - or multi-screening - is a dangerous game, especially for children.
"We see a decrease in memory, a decline in grades, they're not developing the part of their brain that's a muscle that needs to be developed for singular focus," she told the BBC.
"It seems to decline the more people do split screening."
The Steiner-Waldorf School philosophy actively discourages any screen time at all for under-12s, and British health watchdog NICE guidelines suggest a limit of two hours of screen time a day for adults and children, although this is more in order to increase physical activity.
"It takes us decades to adjust to new technology," says Dave Coplin, Microsoft's curiously titled chief envisioner.
"Technology is a wonderful thing if we use it properly - and we need to use it properly."
It is the current generation, those of us who remember life before the internet, for whom the draw to technology is irresistible, agrees Dr Ramlakhan.
She says her 11-year-old daughter is already "bored" by Facebook and suggests I ask my four-year-old son to collect up the family gadgets as he will find it far easier than me to initiate switch-off.
"Up-and-coming digital natives will be more discerning than us," she explains.
"We're still in the 'Ooh, isn't it wonderful?' phase of technology, we are still excited by it. Our generation hasn't got the hang of how to respond to it so we respond very reactively."
After a few days of following Dr Ramlakhan's advice I have to admit that I do feel better. I am definitely sleeping more and despite medics disagreeing over whether drinking extra water is actually beneficial, it does seem to make me feel more alert.
Of course, it could well be a placebo effect - I know what I'm doing is supposed to be improving my wellbeing.
At the Wilderness festival in Oxfordshire, where the phone reception is terrible but it still costs £5 to charge your mobile, I meet Dr David Cox, a former Accident and Emergency doctor who is now chief medical officer at subscription-based meditation app Mindfulness.
He echoes Dr Ramlakhan's words.
"I don't believe we can be engaging with something to this extent and for it not to be having an effect on our brains," he says.
"The reason we are feeling stressed about all this stuff is that our brains aren't used to doing what we are asking them to do.
"Our brains are very good at adapting and they will continue to do that."
So how is the next generation shaping up?
A recent study by the London School of Economics suggested that in schools which banned mobile phones, children's test scores increased by more than 6%.
I pay a visit to my son's former pre-school, Wildflowers, in Hampshire - a forest school where there are no screens and outdoor play is non-negotiable, rain or shine.
Head teacher Helena Nilsson says children are like "bees to a honeypot" if she gets out her laptop but without the distraction they engage in much more creative play.
The little ones, however, seem less convinced about the benefits of their enforced digital detox.
"Do you think we should have a computer, tablet or TV at Wildflowers?" she asks.
"YES!" chorus the enthusiastic under-fives unanimously.
Listen to the Business Daily report on tech addiction, from the BBC World Service
Arthur 'Misty' Thackeray, who was chief of staff for the party's MEP David Coburn, appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
He pleaded guilty to offences which occurred between October 2007 and December 2015.
Sheriff Martin Jones QC deferred sentence until next month and continued bail.
The court heard all of the calls took place at Thackeray's home in Glasgow, at 1 Colme Street in Edinburgh and "elsewhere".
Thackeray admitted nine charges of intentionally sending, or directing "sexual verbal communication" between December 2010 an December 2015.
One charge pre-dates the Sexual Offences Act introduced in 2009 and was a breach of the peace charge between October 2007 and February 2008.
Police linked him to the calls when they discovered he had also called for a taxi from the same phone as he had used to speak to one of his victims.
The court heard none of the women, whose ages ranged from 25 to 66, knew Thackeray or how he obtained their numbers. But it is believed he contacted some after seeing posters advertising slimming classes.
Several women said it appeared from noises in the background Thackerary was watching pornographic material while he was talking to them.
The matter was first reported to the police in September 2013.
Procurator fiscal depute Mark Allan said: "Whilst the police investigated there was insufficient evidence at that time.
"This was until December 2015 when another woman contacted the police and reported the calls being made to her."
Although the calls were made from a withheld number, the woman's phone service provider was able to help trace the number registered to Thackeray.
His home was searched and phones recovered and analysed. It was found Thackeray had made a call to Central taxis in Edinburgh on 18 December 2015.
Mr Allan added: "Between 10 and 11pm there was a call, the accused's voice identified, made to the taxi company using his nickname Misty.
"He arranged for a taxi to take him from the office where he worked in Edinburgh where he was the chief of staff for an MEP, to take him to Haymarket Station."
The women involved described being "disgusted" and one said she also felt "violated and alarmed".
The group are part of an experiment to chart how a person's thinking power changes over their lifetime.
The reunion takes place 70 years to the day since many of the participants sat an intelligence test in the 1947 Scottish Mental Survey.
Some of the group - members of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 - are 96.
The other group involved in the study, from the 1936 cohort, are now aged 81.
They will meet the University of Edinburgh researchers behind the project to mark their achievements on the understanding of the ageing brain.
As well as regularly re-sitting mental tests, both groups have, in the recent decades, taken three-yearly medical examinations, including blood and ultrasound tests, brain scans and retina examinations in older age.
They have also reported on their diet, social background, activity and feelings of wellbeing.
Researchers have looked at a number of mental and physical functions of the group as they grow older including memory, speed of thinking, and many aspects of fitness and health.
During the reunion of the Lothian Birth Cohort, the researchers will reveal some of their key findings.
The University of Edinburgh's Prof Ian Deary, who originated and leads the study, said: "These anniversaries of Scotland's national intelligence testing in June 1932 and 1947 are a lovely way to bring these special individuals together to celebrate what they have contributed to ageing science.
"From the start of the Lothian studies, almost 20 years ago, I've made sure that the participants see their basic results before we report them.
"Of course, it's also a happy occasion in which to have a good blether and to swap the pleasures and pains of growing older."
The project has been funded by Age UK.
Kingsley Burrell died on 31 March 2011, four days after he was detained after a disturbance at a shop in Birmingham.
His family has previously claimed he was restrained using excessive force.
In July, the Crown Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence to prosecute anyone over his death.
The 29-year-old died at the Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital from a cardiac arrest.
An inquest at Birmingham Coroners Court heard he was taken to a mental health unit after calling emergency services to the Haymer shop in Winson Green on 27 March 2011, claiming he had been threatened by two armed men while with his four-year-old son.
His sister Kadisha Brown-Burrell said she had visited the mental health unit at the QE Hospital later in the day and been concerned by his condition.
"When he walked over he walked over stiff. He couldn't move his head, couldn't move his body, couldn't move his shoulders," she said.
"Kingsley had three lumps, one on his forehead. I said to [his partner] Chantelle 'take a photo of that'."
She told the inquest when she visited the following day her brother had urinated and had been left on the floor in handcuffs for five or six hours.
"He said that while he was in the QE during assessment he was on the floor, and all he wanted was a glass of water," she said.
Ms Brown-Burrell said her brother, a father-of-three, had described being involved in a struggle with police officers in the back of an ambulance.
"Kingsley said 'They've drugged me up in the head, they have injected me into my brain'."
Police officers told the family he had gone "berserk" in the ambulance and attacked his own son, and had to be restrained.
Ms Brown-Burrell described her brother as "calm, collected and outgoing", but said he had been worried by a paternity issue with an ex-girlfriend, who claimed her son was not his.
The jury was told he had been worried two men in the shop in Winson Green had come to threaten him over that issue and he had dialled 999 to say that armed gang members had "put a machine gun" to his head.
CCTV footage played to the court, however, revealed no sign of armed men but showed Mr Burrell looking agitated near the counter.
Andy Gillespie, a firefighter who was one of the first on the scene, described Mr Burrell as "very distressed" and said "it was almost that he felt relieved that he hadn't been shot".
The inquest also heard that Mr Burrell had been carrying a CS canister on the day he was detained, as well as claims that he was a gang member and drug dealer. His partner Chantelle Graham said he was not a heavy drug user.
Many of his family wore red T-shirts to the inquest with his photo and the slogan "Justice for Kingsley Burrell".
The inquest is expected to last six weeks.
The road was closed between junction 33 Capel Llanilltern and junction 34 Miskin after the accidents on Saturday, with traffic queuing for hours.
Many of the injured were pensioners who were on the coach heading from Maesteg to see the Top Hat musical in Cardiff.
Police said they will be speaking to witnesses and looking at CCTV footage.
A woman was airlifted to hospital while 27 others were taken in ambulances following the collisions.
Most were walking wounded but six were more serious. However, none were believed to have life threatening or life changing injuries, police said.
The first accident happened at about 11:50 GMT after the coach collided with four other cars on the eastbound carriageway.
A few minutes later, a vehicle towing another one overturned on the westbound side but no-one was injured.
Eyewitnesses caught up in the disruption said traffic was gridlocked on the M4 and surrounding roads for a number of hours following the crashes.
South Wales Police said its collision investigations unit would be continuing to investigate what had caused the crashes.
A spokeswoman said officers would be speaking to witnesses and viewing any CCTV of the scene.
Prayer services were held to pay tribute, and hundreds of Indians lined roads and stood outside Mr Kalam's residence to catch a final glimpse.
The much loved Mr Kalam died while addressing a gathering of students at a university in the north-eastern state of Shillong.
Social media has also been filled with tributes, images and quotes from the former president's speeches and books.
The Cameroon international, 23, was on loan to the Ligue 1 club last season, scoring four goals.
Njie joined Spurs from Lyon in 2015 for a reported £10m and made 14 appearances for the club, though he suffered a serious knee injury in December 2015.
"We wish Clinton all the best for the future," Tottenham said.
He will leave the City regulator in September, the FCA announced.
Chancellor George Osborne thanked Mr Wheatley for his service, adding he had done "a brilliant job of launching the FCA in tough circumstances".
He added: "The government believes that different leadership is required to build on those foundations."
Mr Wheatley will be replaced on an interim basis by his deputy, Tracey McDermott, while a search for his successor is launched.
He said he was "incredibly proud" of what he and his team had achieved together in building the FCA over the last four years. "I know that the organisation will build on that strong start and work so that the financial services industry continues to thrive."
Make no bones about it, the Treasury was behind Martin Wheatley's surprise decision to stand down as the head of the Financial Conduct Authority.
I am told that discussions were held with the head of the FCA in recent weeks where it was made clear that the Chancellor would not be asking Mr Wheatley to stay on when his contract came up for renewal in March 2016.
With that sword hanging over his head, Mr Wheatley decided that he would go early.
The Treasury has always had a scratchy relationship with Mr Wheatley who famously said he would "shoot first" and ask questions later when he came across wrong doing in the financial services sector.
The banking industry didn't much like such a gung-ho attitude and Mr Wheatley was often the subject of poisonous comments from senior banking executives.
Read Kamal's blog in full
Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Treasury Committee, thanked Mr Wheatley for his work.
He added: "Martin took over at an exceptionally difficult time. He was faced with the challenge of changing the culture of both the regulated community and the regulator, given the exposure by the crisis of the shortcomings of the FSA.
"With the interests of millions of consumers to protect, tens of thousands of firms to regulate and the need to secure more competition in the financial services sector, it will be essential to find a high quality successor."
Mr Wheatley joined the forerunner to the FCA, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), in September 2011 before moving on to take over from Hector Sants as chief executive of the newly beefed up City regulator, which launched in April 2013.
Mr Wheatley made a reputation as a tough regulator in a number of markets including Hong Kong and also at the Securities and Exchanges Commission in the US.
It was understood at the time that it was for these reasons that he was appointed to the role of chief executive of the FCA.
In the past month, Mr Wheatley has repeatedly tried to reassure City grandees that the regulator was not attempting to put "heads on sticks" nor hunting for scalps under new rules designed to increase accountability in the banking sector.
But the FCA has also handed out some of the biggest regulatory fines seen in the City.
The regulator, however, has not been scandal free, running into trouble with the insurance industry last year when a story, leaked to the Daily Telegraph, warned the regulator was planning an investigation of 30 million pension policies, some of which had been sold as long ago as the 1970s.
Billions of pounds were wiped off the share prices of big insurance companies, prompting a parliamentary inquiry and four senior executives, including Mr Wheatley, lost their annual bonuses.
The 23-year-old has not played a single game for Town this season.
He joined the Championship side from Southampton in June 2011 and has made 67 appearances in total for them.
"It is important that we have the right balance in the team as I have felt that the balance has not been correct in the last couple of weeks," Chesterfield boss Paul Cook told the club website.
He was apologising privately by text and telling me he loves me at the same time as abusing me in public, but his gear is rascal - absolutely terrible - so there was no way I was taking that kind of criticism from him!
But although his fashion sense is dodgy, as a footballer he is someone I rate extremely highly and know very well after playing alongside him for QPR.
Charlie is only 26 and, following QPR's relegation, seems to have been linked with half of the Premier League over the summer but he is still at Loftus Road for now.
They are holding out for £15m for him but when you think about how well he did for a struggling side last season, plus the going rate for strikers in today's market, I think he is a snip at that price.
And when you consider the number of top-flight clubs who need a frontman, I am even more surprised that no-one has moved for him yet.
I was expecting to be talking to him about watching him on MOTD again this season, not the other way round.
I actually texted Charlie first on Saturday, after he had scored his first goal of the Championship season for QPR against Cardiff.
I just wrote "nice to see you back mate, that was one hell of a finish" to wind him up because the ball had just ricocheted in off his belly.
His response was "look for the score in Sunday's papers - all it will say is Austin, 56 min".
That sums him up because he is just obsessed with scoring goals and I have not come across many strikers in my career who are as single-minded as him in that respect.
At Tottenham I played with Robbie Keane and Dimitar Berbatov, both brilliant players who knew where the back of the net was, but who were more concerned with their all-round game.
If Keano went through the whole game and scored but was not seen for the rest of the 90 minutes he would be pretty upset with himself and Berbo was similar.
They were both players who wanted to be fully involved with everything that was going on during the match, whereas Charlie is more like Darren Bent or Jermain Defoe in that scoring is what interests him.
He is kind of like a throwback because not many forwards make the runs he makes anymore - they would rather be waiting on the edge of the area for a cut-back for a nice finish.
Charlie is more like an old-school English striker who is prepared to hurt himself to score goals.
He gets across defenders and the goalkeeper to get on the end of balls into the area like Alan Shearer did when I played with him at Newcastle.
Charlie is a fantastic finisher but from playing and training with him I know there is a lot more to his game than just that.
There seems to be a perception that he does not do much outside the box but a lot of that is to do with how QPR used him last season.
They used Bobby Zamora as the target man and looked for Charlie to just get on the end of things in the area and I think they got the best out of him by doing that.
He still covered a lot of ground, and he will always work hard. I played up front with him for a couple of games in the 2013-14 season and his work-rate and fitness levels were phenomenal. He was constantly harassing and closing down defenders.
The performance I remember best is when we won the 2014 Championship play-off final after getting a man sent off against Derby.
Charlie played on the left wing for the last half hour, grafting and basically doing whatever it took to get the victory for the team.
West Ham chairman David Sullivan said on Thursday that he had concerns about Charlie's knee but he has proved in his two years at Loftus Road that he is absolutely fine.
He started 35 league games out of 38 last season and was at the absolute top of his game for the whole campaign, so it cannot be a problem - and based on what I saw of him in matches and day-to-day in training when I was at QPR it was not an issue at all.
I think the reason he has not been snapped up yet is that the clubs interested in him are thinking that his price might come down as we get closer to the end of the transfer window.
I am not sure that will happen. QPR manager Chris Ramsey has said that they need the money from selling Austin to rebuild, but he is also adamant they want £15m for him, and I can understand why.
When you see Ross McCormack joining Fulham for £11m and Blackburn turning down a £12m bid from Middlesbrough for Jordan Rhodes when neither player has even played in the Premier League, let alone scored 18 goals in a season, then it is a fair valuation from QPR's perspective - even if it won't help Charlie.
He got into the England set-up at end of last season but to stay there and make the plane to Euro 2016 he has to be playing in the Premier League.
Is he good enough? Without question.
As well as the likes of Tottenham and Newcastle, I have seen Charlie linked with Chelsea and now Manchester United.
If he went to either of those clubs it would raise a few eyebrows because he is not a big name but when you see Chelsea sign someone like Radamel Falcao instead, part of me thinks they might have been better off turning to Charlie.
For Chelsea or United, £15m is not a lot. They know Austin can score in the Premier League and he is young, fit and hungry so why not say to him "come and be our number two striker" who they can bring on when they need a goal?
Whatever happens next, Charlie will not change.
We are mates and I know how hard he has worked to get from playing for Poole Town in the Wessex League in 2009 to where he is at now.
He earned his chance at the highest level and proved himself there. I think he deserves to stay there, and that is probably how he feels too.
In the past I have seen players in a similar situation basically down tools until they get the move they want. As bad as it sounds, it usually works because the club thinks "well we are not getting anything out of him, we might as well sell".
So it is a testament to Charlie's character that he has got more about him than going down that route. Instead he has carried on doing what he is paid to do.
I don't think that is down to him starting out late in the professional game, or coming through the lower leagues. It is just the way he is, how he was brought up and the values that were engrained in him.
He is very down to earth and just constantly wants to improve himself and I think that is why, when you look at his career, he has done well wherever he has gone.
That attitude is another reason I think he is worth £15m - hopefully other clubs will notice it, as well as all those goals he has scored.
Jermaine Jenas was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Beverley, Doncaster, Middlesbrough, Otley, Scarborough and Settle have all been chosen and the exact route will be announced in December.
The three-day men's race will start on 29 April, with a women's race held on Saturday 30 April.
The event was held for the first time in May this year and was watched by an estimated 1.2m people.
It was established after Yorkshire hosted the Tour de France Grand Depart in 2014.
The event organisers, Welcome to Yorkshire, said it had received 14 expressions of interest from towns wanting to host a start or finish 2016 event.
The inaugural men's race was won by Norwegian Lars-Petter Nordhaug for Team Sky.
More than 140 riders took part in the 500km (310 miles) race, including Olympic champion and Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins.
The visitors added 28 to their overnight total as they were bowled out for 264 in their first innings.
Somerset got to 46-0 in reply before veteran spinner Batty ripped through their batting order as the hosts collapsed to 102 all out.
However, Jack Leach (3-37) helped reduce Surrey to 94-6 at the close.
Having decided against enforcing the follow-on, Surrey crumbled to 51-6 before Zafar Ansari (26 not out) guided them through to a lead of 256 runs at the close.
Marcus Trescothick and Tom Abell gave Somerset a solid foundation to their first innings, but the home side's batting line-up fell apart once the pair had departed in successive overs.
Batty, ably supported by pace bowler Stuart Meaker (3-39), took all 10 wickets between them for just 56 runs.
But slow-left-armer Leach, who took 4-34 in Surrey's first innings, kept Somerset in with a chance of forcing a victory with three more wickets when Surrey batted for a second time.
Paul Ramchandani, an expert in child mental health with Imperial College, London, will take up the post in January.
He beat off a global field of applicants and is expected to earn around £84,000 a year, the average for Cambridge professors.
Funding for the new role will come from a £4m grant from the Lego Foundation.
It has also paid for a specialist play research centre (PEDAL), built in 2015 and based in the Faculty of Education.
Professor Ramchandani currently leads the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research Unit at Imperial College, and has spent the last 15 years specialising in child development research.
He will officially become Lego Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, and study the role of play - and playfulness - in young children.
"Everyone has an opinion about what role play should have in early education and there is some wonderful research, but there are also big gaps in our knowledge," he said.
"We need the best evidence possible in order to inform the vital decisions that are made about children's education and development and I look forward to taking that work forward together with colleagues at Cambridge."
The team at PEDAL say the priority for their research will be equipping children with 21st century skills like problem solving, team work and self-control.
Cambridge University began the search for a professor of play in June 2015. The process closed in January 2017.
The job description specified a candidate with an "outstanding research record of international stature" and "vision, leadership, experience and enthusiasm".
It is not the first time the prestigious university has invited unusual job applications.
In 2014, the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology advertised for a doctor of chocolate - to study how and why the substance melts.
The German, 25, who has just returned after 20 months out with a knee injury, pulled up during Saturday's 2-0 win over Stuttgart.
"I will come back and carry on from where I had got back to after my long injury absence," he said.
New signing from Roma Mehdi Benatia could replace him against City.
It was initially thought Badstuber had only strained his thigh, but a test on Sunday revealed he had torn muscle tendons.
"Of course I'm very disappointed right now," said the 25-year-old on his club's website. "But I'm now used to it and I know how to deal with such situations. I will not give up."
Badstuber had been highly praised by Bayern coach Pep Guardiola for his performances this season.
Four-year-old Sean Turner, from Wiltshire, died in March 2012 at Bristol's Royal Hospital for Children.
A coroner ruled the hospital had not failed Sean but his parents Steve and Yolanda disagreed and tweeted Prof Sir Bruce Keogh to "sort this out".
Within hours Dr Keogh responded that he would be in contact to "fix a date".
Sean suffered a brain haemorrhage and cardiac arrest six weeks after he had undergone corrective heart surgery at the Bristol hospital.
His parents blamed doctors and nursing staff for transferring their son from intensive care too soon and for missing the signs of his worsening condition.
But in a narrative verdict at the inquest last month, coroner Maria Voisin said there were "lost opportunities" in Sean's care, but it did not amount to neglect.
After Mr Turner, 47, tweeted Sir Bruce, saying: "Will someone please pick up the reins, stand to post and sort this out?".
Within 24 hours, NHS England's medical director had responded: "Steve, I will meet all concerned parents. Will contact you on Monday to fix a date convenient to families. This week?".
Mrs Turner said they had been "gobsmacked" when they got the response.
"We never expected Sir Bruce to tweet back," she said.
She added they initially thought it was a "hoax".
An NHS spokesman confirmed the tweet was genuine and said a meeting would be set up "at the earliest opportunity" for Sir Bruce "to hear them voice their concerns and to understand their concerns".
Although Mrs Turner said it would not be "practical to meet all concerned parents this week", she said they would be "waiting for his call".
|
Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams has rejected criticism of why he will not reveal information on the IRA murder of senior Portlaoise prison officer Brian Stack.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Northern Ireland's Finance Minister has said the executive has not yet agreed that cutting corporation tax is affordable.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A group of 12 skeletons, uncovered during power work in York, have been dated back to the War of the Roses.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A piece of the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry has been stolen from an exhibition in Edinburgh.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Floods which devastated an island in 1953, killing 59 people, have been remembered on a 262ft (80m) sea wall.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
South Africa's Caster Semenya will not run in the 400m at the Rio Olympics to focus on winning gold in the 800m.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
World number one Andy Murray says Grand Slams face a "different decision" from smaller tournaments when it comes to giving Maria Sharapova a wildcard.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ulster hope to have international pair Iain Henderson and Stuart McCloskey available for Saturday's Pro12 game against Cardiff Blues.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A police officer has been disciplined for conducting what has been described as an "appalling" investigation into an allegation that a man struck a teenage girl in the face with a golf club.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Barnsley chief executive Ben Mansford has confirmed the club are in no hurry to replace ex-head coach Lee Johnson.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Elections taking place in Jordan on Tuesday mark a return for the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been in retreat across much of the Middle East.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The UK will continue to co-operate with the European Union on medicine testing after it leaves the bloc, two senior ministers have suggested.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Nigerian woman has been refused permission to enter the UK to donate bone marrow to her sister who has leukaemia, a charity says.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
About 600 pupils, parents and teachers have gathered to hand in a petition against plans to reorganise secondary school education in Powys.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The SNP has replaced Labour as the largest party in Glasgow.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Last month the IMF described it as the world's most dangerous bank as it is the weakest link in the chain of globally significant financial institutions.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Staff at a shop in Paisley were left badly shaken after they were threatened with a "weapon" during a robbery on Friday evening.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Michael Wardrope's header in the dying minutes of extra-time put Ayr United into the Scottish Cup quarter-finals at the expense of a spirited Clyde.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Just five minutes after meeting sleep and energy expert Dr Nerina Ramlakhan in her central London clinic, she delivers some bad news.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The former chairman of UKIP in Scotland has admitted making vulgar phone calls to 10 different women.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
More than 400 people in their 80s and 90s who have been the subjects of a decades-long research project are being reunited at an event in Edinburgh.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man detained under the mental health act was beaten by police, left handcuffed on the floor of a hospital ward and injected in the head just days before he died, an inquest heard.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Police are investigating the cause of two crashes on the M4 near Cardiff involving a coach and six cars which injured 28 people.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The death of former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam has triggered an outpouring of grief in the country.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tottenham forward Clinton Njie is to join French side Marseille on a permanent deal after the two clubs agreed a deal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The head of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Martin Wheatley, is to stand down from his post after just two years in charge.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Chesterfield have signed Huddersfield Town midfielder Oscar Gobern on a one-month loan deal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
I was being given some stick on Twitter for the shirt I wore on Match of the Day last weekend and QPR striker Charlie Austin jumped on and got involved, even though he has absolutely no room to talk.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Six towns have been selected to start or finish a stage of the 2016 Tour de Yorkshire cycle race.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Surrey captain Gareth Batty took 7-32 before Somerset responded strongly as 18 wickets fell on day two of their Division One fixture at Taunton.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The University of Cambridge has appointed its first "Lego professor of play".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bayern Munich defender Holger Badstuber will miss Manchester City's Champions League visit on Wednesday after being told he needs a thigh operation.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The NHS's medical director has agreed to meet the parents of a boy who died after heart surgery after they pleaded with him on Twitter.
| 38,283,480 | 16,070 | 1,022 | true |
Wood's brother Chris Foote Wood said the donation from Dame Judi, who played M in the Bond movies, was a "massive boost" to the appeal fund.
He said it meant the appeal to erect a statue of his sister in Bury, Greater Manchester, where she grew up, was halfway towards its £20,000 target.
The Bafta-winning comedian and writer died aged 62 in April.
Mr Foote Wood said he was delighted by the donation from Dame Judi and hoped it would encourage other stars to make pledges to the appeal.
He said his sister once dismissed the idea of being a national treasure - nominating Dame Judi rather than herself.
Mr Foote Wood, who has the backing of Bury Council, wants to show his sister "in typical pose" seated at a piano in the statue.
Wood was born in Prestwich and lived in Bury until she was 18.
But Education Secretary Justine Greening, also addressing the British Chambers of Commerce, says she wants firms to back a "skills revolution" and her plans for new technical qualifications.
With warnings of a post-Brexit skills gap, the Labour and Conservative representatives gave business leaders their plans to improve skills.
Labour leader Mr Corbyn told a British Chambers of Commerce conference in London that investing in education was the path away from "stagnant living standards", even if it meant raising taxes.
But Ms Greening called on business leaders to support the so-called "T-levels", which are intended to raise the quality and status of vocational qualifications.
The education secretary said that in England from next April, £50m will be available to fund work placements and £15m to help improve further education.
The investment is part of the £500m for technical education announced by Chancellor Philip Hammond in the Budget in March.
Ms Greening told business leaders that she wanted an "army of skilled young people".
But Mr Corbyn said the economy needed to be revived by a much bigger investment in skills - and that would mean businesses paying higher corporation tax.
The Labour leader said that improving the UK's poor record on productivity meant investing in education and training.
Otherwise he warned of an economy built on "low-paid insecure jobs".
Mr Corbyn said that too often only "lip service" was paid to valuing vocational training.
He rejected the idea of lower taxes, saying that there were "no short cuts" for a strong education system, and the alternative was becoming a "low tax haven on the shores of Europe".
Mr Corbyn repeated his commitment to scrapping university tuition fees - and said that high levels of debt could deter young people from staying in education.
He said that "not everyone can access the bank of mum and dad to go to university".
Mr Corbyn called for better funding for schools - saying that it was "utterly unacceptable where schools were having to beg parents for donations to cover the basics".
"We lose out as a society if we don't have a highly qualified workforce," he told the business and education conference.
On Monday, a judge gave the former Olympic Council of Ireland official the go ahead to leave the country.
Justice Marcello Rubioli ordered that Mr Hickey's passport be returned to him after it was confirmed that 1.5m Brazilian real (about £350,000) was lodged with the court.
Mr Hickey has stood aside as president of the Olympic Council of Ireland.
It follows an investigation into alleged mis-selling of tickets for the 2016 Games in Rio. Mr Hickey has denied all allegations made against him.
He was arrested in August and spent two weeks in Bangu Prison in Rio.
In September, Judge Juliana Leal de Melo from the Special Court for Supporters and Large Events, accepted charges against Mr Hickey and another Irishman, Kevin Mallon, that were forwarded by public prosecutor Marcus Kac.
They are among ten defendants charged with criminal organisation, ticket touting, ambush marketing, larceny, money laundering, and tax evasion.
Also charged with Mr Hickey and Mr Mallon are co-defendants Marcus Paul Evans, Michael Glynn, Ken Murray, Eamonn Collins, Maarten Van Os, David Patrick Gilmore, Martin Studd, and Barbara Zancope Carnieri.
The Olympic Council of Ireland will elect a new president to succeed Pat Hickey at an extraordinary general meeting on 9 February.
Stimpson won last Saturday's first ITU series race in Abu Dhabi, with Jenkins finishing third.
But Stanford says the outcome of such events may not decide who goes to Rio.
"Even if one of them wins the race, it doesn't necessarily guarantee their selection," said Stanford.
"So it's going to be an interesting one and I'm very glad that I'm all wrapped up, done and dusted and on the plane."
Stanford and training partner Vicky Holland qualified in Chicago last year.
Jenkins and Stimpson will continue their rivalry at Australia's Gold Coast on the weekend of 9-10 April, with the selectors making their choice after that event.
Stanford added: "Helen swam and biked very, very strongly (in Abu Dhabi). Jodie was a little bit down on the swim, but ran very well.
"So it all really depends on how the race pans out on the Gold Coast.
"And that's the thing with triathlon - it's quite unpredictable and each race is different.
"So it will be very interesting to watch.
"I couldn't call it. I don't know which girl is going to perform better on the day.
"It's not just about the person that crosses the line first.
"The selection policy says it's showing an ability to podium in Rio so there's a lot of other factors that are going to come into play."
Stanford believes she is in a "very strong position" to win a medal in Rio, but says United States' Gwen Jorgensen will be the "hot favourite".
"She has been undefeated almost for the last two years - quite incredible and she's quite a formidable athlete and the complete triathlon package," said Stanford.
The ITU series began in Abu Dhabi and finishes in Mexico on the weekend of 17-18 September, almost a month after the Rio Games ends.
Stanford's focus is entirely on bidding to win a medal in Brazil, for which she will treat the world series as preparation, and may not return to it when the Games are over.
"We'll very much make a decision after the games as to whether I continue racing for the rest of the season," said Stanford.
"Nobody really knows how they're going to come out the other end of it in terms of whether they're still able to race or whether they just need to take a break."
Stanford plans on racing in Cape Town on 24 April and at her base in Leeds on 12 June, among other events.
Media playback is not supported on this device
British journalist Nick Ames was inside Belgrade's Partizan Stadium for the Euro 2016 qualifier between Serbia and Albania on Tuesday. Here is his eye-witness account of what happened as the match was abandoned amid chaotic scenes…
It was tempting to think Serbia's Euro 2016 qualifier against Albania - the latter's first visit to Belgrade since 1967 - was going to conclude without incident.
Serbia had dominated a slow-paced game and looked favourites to win at 0-0.
There had been little yet to rile a crowd that was bereft of away supporters after Uefa had stepped into a dispute over the terms under which travelling fans could attend the game.
That would change with the passing of a few confusing seconds that still require some untangling.
Martin Atkinson, an English Premier League referee, had already stopped play once when a flare thrown from the stands disrupted an Albanian corner.
He had to do so again shortly after the 40-minute mark when another firework only narrowly missed its white-shirted target.
But there was something else afoot - a fact Serbia's players, Danko Lazovic chief among them, were straining to tell Atkinson as he supervised the extinguishing of the flare.
What few had noticed was that hovering over the Serbian half with a mixture of menace and filmic quirkiness was a small remote-controlled drone. More easily noticeable, once attentions had been caught, was the flag suspended from it that was being lowered slowly on to the pitch.
The flag bore the Albanian black-eagle insignia, a map of a notional 'Greater Albania' and the faces of Ismail Qemali and Isa Boletini, two important figures in the era that centred around the country's independence in 1912.
The politics relevant to the game can accurately be explained by Kosovo - a largely ethnically-Albanian territory that unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008.
A war was fought over Kosovo in the late 1990s, when the territory's ethnic Albanian insurgents battled with the Serbian military and police. Some Albanians see it as a natural part of the 'Greater Albania' that would include all areas of ethnic Albanian population. Kosovo has been recognised by the United States and major European Union countries but not by Serbia.
As soon as the flag was caught by Serbia's Stefan Mitrovic, events spiralled out of control.
The defender was confronted by two Albanian players, Andi Lila and Taulant Xhaka, who attempted to retrieve their flag - it was eventually recovered by their team-mate Bekim Balaj who ran with it towards the edge of the pitch.
But what had happened in the meantime was the death knell for this Balkan derby: a number of fans - including the unmistakeable figure of Ivan Bogdanov, a notorious Serbian ultra who served time in jail after hooligans caused a Euro 2012 qualifier in Italy to be abandoned in 2010 - penetrated the ring of police around the pitch.
Matters escalated quickly as members of staff from each side also piled in.
One supporter attacked Balaj with a plastic chair before he was wrestled to the ground by Albania captain and former Sunderland player Lorik Cana.
Scuffles were breaking out everywhere, hands raised and blows being struck, and the pattern only ceased when the visiting players opted to run for the tunnel - situated below were some of Serbia's more vociferous ultras were positioned.
The Albanians scurried inside, pelted by missiles from the crowd, while another supporter broke through and aimed a head-high kick at one player.
In the press box, we received the unlikely news that the match might resume, but another 15 minutes or so later the game was abandoned.
Within an hour, there was little hint of the astonishing scenes that had just passed.
There were, of course, no obvious visiting fans. The identity of the drone's controller is still unclear despite a couple of early mis-steps in the local media - it is thought to have been operated inside the stadium - and other equally pressing questions remain.
The stadium's security, criticised heavily by Cana after the game, appears to have plenty to answer for given the ease with which supporters entered the pitch and the drone was brought in.
Serbia will fear a heavy punishment after this latest in a string of controversies, which has included Partizan Belgrade fans displaying an anti-Semitic banner in last month's Europa League match against Tottenham Hotspur.
They can point to provocation, although their own fans were far from angelic in much of their chanting towards the Albanians.
A Uefa investigation into the events is already under way.
The woman featuring on the sample note's image was substituted for a Caucasian woman after focus groups complained.
The Bank of Canada said its designers had unintentionally created an image representing one ethnic group.
Critics said that the re-design of the note had been racist.
"I apologize to those who were offended - the Bank's handling of this issue did not meet the standards Canadians justifiably expect of us," a statement from Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney said.
"We will be reviewing our design process in light of these events. Our bank notes belong to all Canadians, and the work we do at the Bank is for all Canadians."
Eight focus groups were shown design proposals for new $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 plastic bills.
Documents obtained by the Canadian Press suggest there were concerns over the representation of an Asian woman for the largest denomination, which was designed to celebrate Canada's medical advances.
"Some have concerns that the researcher appears to be Asian," said a 2009 report commissioned by the bank, according to CBC News.
"Some believe that it presents a stereotype of Asians excelling in technology and/or the sciences. Others feel that an Asian should not be the only ethnicity represented on the banknotes."
Bank spokesman Jeremy Harrison said in an interview modifications had been made to the design of the note based on the focus group's feedback.
The bank said that the image had been based on an original photograph of a South Asian woman.
Last week, May Lui, a spokeswoman for the Chinese Canadian National Council, accused the Bank of "caving in to the racist feedback".
Building work on the project, in the western city of Campo Grande, overran and the fish died in temporary tanks.
The company contracted to look after them, Anambi, blamed the deaths on a drop in overnight temperatures in May, as winter set in.
But authorities in Mato Grosso do Sul state blamed the company.
Officials said a study had found evidence of poor oxygenation and inadequate cleaning of the tanks.
Many of the fish had been imported from Africa, Asia and Oceania and should have been transferred to a permanent aquarium six months ago.
"The transfer of fish was planned between January and February, but the [permanent] tanks were not ready," Anambi's Augusto Silva told Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.
The Aquario do Pantanal was initiated by the previous governor, Andre Puccinelli.
The project has so far cost about $50m (£30m) and it is not clear when it will be finished.
It is hoped that the aquarium will attract thousands of tourists to Campo Grande.
The city is the main hub for people travelling to visit the Pantanal, the world's largest freshwater wetland, covering much of Mato Grosso do Sul state and parts of Bolivia and Paraguay.
The estate, to include schools, shops, an industrial estate and traveller sites will be built on green field land between Loughborough and Shepshed.
Garendon Park and Countryside Protection Group, who oppose the plans, intend to apply for a judicial review.
Charnwood Borough Council's planning committee said the "right decision" has been made.
Opposition group member Neil McHugh, who has fought the plans for years and lives opposite the approved development, said he had "concerns of safety" over traffic build-up and noise pollution.
Some campaigners against the proposal were "outraged" and described the decision as "disgusting".
Councillor Sandy Forrest, vice-chair of the committee, said: "There have been many objections, feelings have run very high over it and a lot of people will be very disappointed.
"It wasn't an easy application to decide... in the end we've made the right decision."
The committee voted 10-2 in favour of the Garendon Estate development after more than four hours of deliberation.
Last November, Aa £445m development for 4,500 new homes was approved to address a housing shortage.
The site between Barkby and Thurmaston, which is around 12 miles away from the new site, will be Leicestershire's largest single housing development.
CCTV footage taken from the Angels Club in Leicester showed dancers and some of the audience touching in an "intimate and sexual manner".
The city council's licensing committee, which also heard the club failed to provide adequate records, declined a renewed sexual entertainment licence.
Owner KN Leisure Ltd has 21 days to decide whether to appeal.
It can remain open in the meantime, but faces closure if it does not challenge the decision, or loses any appeal.
Live updates and more from Leicestershire
Police obtained the CCTV from the club in December, the hearing at the City Hall was told.
A solicitor for KN Leisure, argued the footage showed a "blip" rather than a persistent breach of regulations preventing physical contact, but licensing officer Bobby Smiljanic said he did not accept it was a one-off.
The committee also heard staffing checks and records left "much to be desired".
The hearing was told that when council officials visited the club in October, the firm failed to provide details of the 19 dancers working there, and had no records on the premises.
KN Leisure said the club had been burgled, and that it had since "thought more carefully" about storing documents.
It later sent the details of 10 dancers, but the committee was told information on the remaining nine had still not been received.
ECB chief Mario Draghi was delivering his opening remarks when a woman jumped on his desk, throwing paper and confetti at him.
She was restrained by security and the briefing restarted soon after.
Activists have previously targeted the ECB for its role in imposing austerity measures on some European countries.
Mr Draghi looked shocked during the incident, but later made light of it, joking he "would have to improvise" unless he found his script.
Sweeping confetti off his desk, he went on to say the eurozone economy was recovering thanks to a huge bond-buying plan.
Craig Mackinlay, the MP for South Thanet, is being investigated over alleged overspending in the 2015 general election campaign.
Mr Mackinlay defeated the then UKIP leader Nigel Farage in the ballot.
Karl McCartney, whose bid to retain his Lincoln seat is also being probed, says a draft report into the controversy has been withheld by Tory central office.
Seventeen police forces across the country are looking into whether some MPs' agents should have filed costs associated with battle bus visits to their constituencies in their local expenses.
The Tories said they had been campaigning "across the country for the return of a Conservative government" and, as a result, associated costs were regarded as national not local expenditure.
Mr McCartney has accused Conservative Central Office (CCHQ) of keeping back from MPs a draft report from the Electoral Commission on the investigation.
In an email leaked to Sky News, he wrote to the party chairman, Patrick McLoughlin saying MPs felt "completely cast adrift" and "left to fend for themselves".
The message continued: "We didn't create this mess, the clever dicks at CCHQ did, and I don't see their professional reputations being trashed in the media much."
In a statement Mr McCartney said: "The Conservative Party advised us that the so-called campaign 'battle buses' were, as at previous general elections and in keeping with the practice of both the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats, a national campaign expense.
"This meant that they were not to be declared in our own election expenses."
The office of Craig Mackinlay, who was questioned on Saturday, said it would not be commenting.
The Tories have blamed an "administrative error" for not declaring £38,000 of expenses for their Battlebus tour.
It follows a Channel 4 investigation into spending in key constituencies.
In June, Kent Police were given a further 12 months to investigate the claims of improper spending.
Granting the extension, District Judge Justin Barron described the allegations as "far-reaching".
The inquiry, he said, could lead to election results "being declared void."
Michael McLean, 17, was fatally injured at Denholm Oilfield Services in Inverurie in August last year.
Michael, from Kincorth in Aberdeen, was on his last day of a summer placement.
Police Scotland said a 21-year-old man had been charged in relation to the industrial incident, and that a report has been submitted to the procurator fiscal.
The foursome were beaten by The Lumineers, who scored their first number one with Cleopatra.
The US folk-rockers were just 301 sales ahead of Adele's 25, at number two.
In the singles chart, Drake landed his first UK number one as a lead artist with One Dance, followed by Sia and Mike Posner at numbers two and three.
Once again, this year's winner of The Voice struggled to make an impact on the chart.
Kevin Simm, the former Liberty X star who emerged victorious on the BBC talent show on Saturday, reached number 24 with the winner's single All You Good Friends.
Posner's former number one, I Took a Pill in Ibiza, was the most streamed song of the week, despite sitting behind Drake and Sia's Cheap Thrills in the top three in overall sales.
Fifth Harmony's Work from Home fell to number four, while Zara Larsson completed the top five with Lush Life.
The Lumineers described their number one album victory - overtaking the ubiquitous Adele by the narrowest of margins - as "shocking".
"We didn't ever think this would happen," the trio said. "We feel really great because it means people are still buying records and they're into a whole body of work."
All Saints' last appearance in the album charts was in 2006, when Studio One reached number 40.
The '90s hit-makers reformed in 2013, when they joined the Backstreet Boys on tour, and have subsequently returned to the recording studio.
The Deftones - another midweek challenger for this week's top spot - ended up at number five in the album chart with Gore.
That put them one place behind classical singer and presenter Aled Jones, whose One Voice is at number four.
He is replaced as skipper by former Shropshire all-rounder Joe Leach, 25, who steps up from vice-captain.
Mitchell, 32, said on Twitter losing the captaincy was "devastating news".
"It was tough news to take, and tough for me to give. I just felt we need to freshen things up. It's no slight against Daryl," Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Sport.
"He has done a fantastic job, got us two promotions in the County Championship and to two T20 quarter-finals.
"But, in Joe, we have a player who has shown he can have a really big impact on games. He was 10th in the MVP (Most Valuable Player) rankings in 2015 and was fourth this season."
Mitchell, one of few Worcestershire players who hails from within the county boundary, added, in a club statement: "Although I disagree with Bumpy's decision, I fully respect it.
"I know it has been made with the very best intentions. I would like to thank Bumpy for giving me the opportunity to fulfil a childhood dream of becoming captain of our great club."
Opening batsman Mitchell has scored almost 15,000 runs in all competitions since his debut for Worcestershire in 2005, including 24 first-class centuries.
Worcestershire came third in Division Two of the Championship in the season just finished, were beaten in the quarter-finals of the One-Day Cup by Somerset and failed to make it out of the group in the T20 Blast.
When he succeeded Vikram Solanki as skipper in 2010, Badsey-born Daryl Mitchell was the first Worcestershire captain from within the current county boundary in 85 years - since Maurice Foster in 1925.
But his predecessor, Wolverhampton-bred Solanki, came through the ranks at New Road, as did a succession of locally-reared captains between 1952 and 1967.
Ronnie Bird, was from Quarry Bank, near Dudley, Reg Perks and Peter Richardson were born in Hereford, while Don Kenyon, captain of their 1964 and 1965 Championship winning sides, was born in Wordsley.
The borough council said there had been 11 unauthorised incursions at Granville Road this year.
It has set aside the money to prevent further camps being set up on its parks and other pieces of land.
The latest measures include installing knee-high metal barriers and earth mounds around a grassy area between Granville Road, Southcote, and the A4.
A spokesman said fencing would also be installed in Dwyer Road and work had already been carried out to prevent vehicles accessing Coley Recreation Ground and Courage Park.
According to the authority's website, there are no authorised traveller sites in the borough.
National guidelines require councils to assess the need for accommodation for travellers.
The last assessment, carried out in 2006, found a need for seven pitches in Reading but its only provision was a site for travelling show-people at Scours Lane.
The authority's latest draft plan, published in May, said the council was carrying out an updated assessment that was anticipated to "identify a need for pitches arising from the high recent numbers of unauthorised encampments".
It comes days after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras rejected a set of reforms put forward by EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker.
The EU and IMF want further economic reforms before they release €7.2bn (£5.3bn) of bailout funds.
It is believed Athens has conceded ground on VAT reforms, pensions and the country's primary surplus target.
The reform plan comes a day before Mr Tsipras meets the French president and German chancellor.
Last week, Greece "bundled up" a €300m (£221m) payment to the IMF, delaying the payment until the end of June when a total of €1.5bn is due to be paid.
Among the plans being put forward by the government, it is believed Greece is willing to increase VAT, but still maintain three rates: a standard rate, a reduced rate for food and medicine and a further reduced rate for books and hotel accommodation.
The government has proposed increasing its three rates of VAT, according to Greek newspaper Ekathimerini.
Athens is also willing to move closer to creditor demands over the primary surplus as well, the newspaper reports.
The EU and IMF want the economy to run a primary surplus of 1% of GDP this year and 2% next year. Athens prefers a target of 0.6% of GDP this year and 1% next year.
Another possible measure being put forward is thought to include a proposal to increase pensioner contributions to healthcare from 4% of their monthly income to 6%.
Creditors "are now in the process of studying" the list of "counter-proposals", sources told the AFP news agency.
Mr Tsipras warned earlier on Tuesday that a failure to reach a deal on Greece's bailout, which expires at the end of the month, would be the beginning of the end for the eurozone.
He is due to meet Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Francois Hollande on the sidelines of an EU-Latin America summit in Brussels on Wednesday.
Speaking at the G7 Summit in the Bavarian Alps in Germany, Mrs Merkel echoed the Greek premier's sentiments, warning that time was running out for a deal to keep Greece in the eurozone.
Europe would show solidarity but only if Greece "makes proposals and implements reforms", she said.
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, meanwhile, said it was time to stop finger-pointing and find an agreement.
The counter-proposals arrived two days after Mr Juncker complained the Greek prime minister had not fulfilled a pledge made at a meeting last week to send Brussels his plans.
He also accused Mr Tsipras of failing to respect "minimal rules" in their negotiations and refused to take a call from the Greek leader at the weekend, saying the Greek prime minister had to submit the promised alternative reform plan first.
Tom Lawrence had put the visitors ahead, cutting in from the left to curl beyond goalkeeper Chris Maxwell.
Ipswich keeper Bartosz Białkowski made a series of saves from Paul Gallagher, Callum Robinson and Aiden McGeady.
Preston continued to press, with Hugill pouncing with a close-range equaliser.
Preston's leading scorer Hugill started for the hosts just two days after Ipswich's second approach for the striker was turned down the Lilywhites.
He threatened early on and earned Simon Grayson's side a share of the spoils in a tense climax, which also saw Jermaine Beckford threaten.
The draw moves Preston up a place to 10th in the Championship table, while Mick McCarthy's side earn their first point away from home in three games to stay 14th.
Lawrence's sixth goal in six games means that only one of Ipswich's seven goals since the start of 2017 has not been scored by the winger.
Preston North End manager Simon Grayson:
"It was always going to be tough against Ipswich. They're resilient and well-organised, and we struggled to break them down.
"It wasn't our best performance, but we kept plugging away and asking questions, and in the end we gained our reward.
"I hope he [Hugill] keeps scoring goals, of course. He did well to follow up his couple at Villa with another well-taken one here."
Ipswich Town manager Mick McCarthy:
"We're disappointed, to be honest. Of course we thought we'd done enough to hang on, but the late goal was a big blow.
"It wasn't the best of crosses at the end, and then sod's law the ball falls to Hugill. To be fair to the lad he tucked his shot away well.
"We defended really well throughout the game, but then to concede so late is frustrating.
"We could have done with a bit better concentration at the back there, but I can't complain too much."
Match ends, Preston North End 1, Ipswich Town 1.
Second Half ends, Preston North End 1, Ipswich Town 1.
Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Grant Ward (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aiden McGeady (Preston North End).
Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Pearson (Preston North End).
Goal! Preston North End 1, Ipswich Town 1. Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aiden McGeady.
Attempt saved. Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cole Skuse.
Attempt blocked. Jermaine Beckford (Preston North End) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Preston North End. Conceded by Luke Chambers.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Thomas Spurr (Preston North End) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Hugill.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Kieffer Moore replaces Freddie Sears.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Tom Clarke.
Foul by Joshua Emmanuel (Ipswich Town).
Jermaine Beckford (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Preston North End. Simon Makienok replaces Marnick Vermijl.
Corner, Preston North End. Conceded by Luke Chambers.
Attempt blocked. Tom Clarke (Preston North End) header from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Aiden McGeady with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Marnick Vermijl (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Preston North End. Conceded by Joshua Emmanuel.
Corner, Preston North End. Conceded by Bartosz Bialkowski.
Attempt saved. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jermaine Beckford.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. David McGoldrick replaces Brett Pitman.
Attempt missed. Brett Pitman (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Tom Clarke.
Foul by Luke Chambers (Ipswich Town).
Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Brett Pitman (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from long range on the left is high and wide to the right.
Brett Pitman (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul Huntington (Preston North End).
Substitution, Preston North End. Jermaine Beckford replaces Paul Gallagher.
Attempt missed. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Marnick Vermijl (Preston North End).
Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Preston North End. Daryl Horgan replaces Callum Robinson.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Kevin Bru replaces Toumani Diagouraga.
Offside, Preston North End. Daniel Johnson tries a through ball, but Paul Huntington is caught offside.
The 23-year-old spent time in the third tier last season on loan at Coventry City and had been told by the Brewers his contract would not be renewed.
Reilly came through the youth system at Birmingham City where he worked under Shakers boss Lee Clark.
"The project the chairman told me about sounds fantastic and it's something I want to be a part of," he said.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The tech giant reported net sales of $78.4bn (£62.3bn) for the last three months of 2016, up 3% on last year, and marking its strongest quarter ever.
However, the firm warned some customers were holding back on phone upgrades in anticipation of the 10th anniversary iPhone later this year, suggesting the strong performance may not continue.
The release is expected in September.
Prior to this quarter, the firm had suffered three quarters in a row of falling revenue as mounting competition, particularly from Chinese rivals, hit sales of its flagship iPhone.
The slowdown in iPhone sales - which account for two thirds of income - led to Apple reporting a drop in annual revenue in October, the first such fall in 15 years.
Investors appeared to be relieved by the apparent turnaround, with the firm's shares rising 3% in after-hours trading.
Chief executive Tim Cook said Apple had sold "more iPhones than ever before", with the quarter also setting new records for revenues from its Mac, Apple Watch and services divisions, he said.
"We're thrilled to report that our holiday quarter results generated Apple's highest quarterly revenue ever, and broke multiple records along the way," Mr Cook said.
A momentary sigh of relief for Tim Cook as the iPhone performs very well indeed over the holidays.
But it's worth looking to the future a little, because that's what investors do in these situations.
In its forecasts, Apple said it anticipated people holding off from upgrading until the new iPhone is revealed, meaning a slump in growth, or maybe a return to decline, over the next few months.
While people waiting for the new phone is nothing out of the ordinary, you get the sense Apple fans, both casual and dedicated, are gearing up for something extraordinary.
And that's because this will be the 10th anniversary iPhone - and some are hoping for a major new innovation, rather than the slightly more incremental improvements made in the past couple of years.
As ever, Apple is a victim of its own success. Pressure weighs heavy ahead of the launch which will likely be in September.
Mr Cook said demand was particularly high for the larger iPhone 7 Plus during the quarter.
The iPhone 7 models - which were released in September and included an improved camera but ditched the traditional headphone socket - now account for about 17% of Apple's phone sales, according to research firm Localytics.
Apple said it had sold 78.3m iPhones in the three months to 31 December, up from 74.8m a year before.
It reported revenue of $54.3bn from iPhone sales, along with $7.2bn from the Mac, $5.5bn from the iPad and $4.0bn from other products, including the Apple Watch.
Revenues from its services division - including the App Store, Apple Music and iCloud - were $7.1bn. The segment is now close to overtaking the Mac as Apple's second biggest source of revenue.
"Services obviously continues to be a real success story for them," said Jackdaw Research analyst Jan Dawson. "It's one of the fastest-growing segments they have, driven largely by the App Store."
Analysts expect growth in services to help offset declining hardware sales as the smartphone market matures.
Paul Mallin killed Karen Reid, 53, and John Down, 86, at the Fernways sheltered housing unit in Ilford, north east London, on 5 September last year.
Prosecutors at the Old Bailey had accused Mallin of murder, but accepted his plea following "high level" reports about his mental state.
He will be sentenced at a later date.
After psychiatric reports suggested Mallin had a case for diminished responsibility, Judge Richard Marks QC said it was "entirely proper and appropriate" and praised both victims' families for accepting the decision to drop the murder charges.
He said the families had dealt with the "traumatic set of events" with "great dignity, grace and propriety and that is very much to your credit".
Mallin, who lived in the unit in Cecil Road, had admitted manslaughter on 4 January.
The judge told him he had "pleaded guilty to two extremely serious offences" and he was "likely to be detained for a considerable amount of time."
Mallin was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on a date to be fixed pending reports on his potential risk to the public.
Symphony Street will be aimed at four to eight-year-olds and it is hoped it could be screened on Welsh channel S4C.
One of the characters will be voiced by the Neath-born mezzo soprano, who said the recent birth of her daughter Aaliyah had inspired the project.
The series will follow a group of musical friends, and will feature music from a variety of genres.
Jenkins, 36, said: "Music is the international language: it doesn't see colour, race, class or creed, and the lessons learned through it are easily translated into everyday life.
"It was with this in mind, that my husband and I set out to create a fun and exciting musical platform to teach our own young daughter."
Symphony Street will be produced in Wales by children's entertainment studio Splash Entertainment, which is run by SuperTed creator Mike Young.
He said the chance of working with "iconic talents such as Katherine and Andrew" on a music-driven children's show produced in Wales was "too good to miss out on".
"Symphony Street is a fresh, funny and innovative series that will be designed for the media platforms they now frequent, it's a win-win," he said.
Jenkins' husband Andrew Levitas is a film producer and director, as well as a university professor.
Speaking in Greece on his final foreign trip, he said: "We have to guard against... tribalism built around an 'us' or a 'them'."
He said the US was painfully aware of the danger of divisions "along lines of race or religion or ethnicity".
He also put the victory of Donald Trump down to "the view of the American people to just shake things up".
Mr Obama was speaking after talks with Greek PM Alexis Tsipras in the capital, Athens, as part of a final tour that also takes in Germany and Peru.
He said again that he had been surprised by Mr Trump's victory.
Mr Obama said part of the result was down to "natural desires for change if you've had an incumbent who's been there for eight years".
"At times of significant stress, people are going to be looking for something and they may opt for change even if they are not entirely confident what that change will bring."
He added: "The lesson I draw is that we have to deal with issues like inequality, economic dislocation, people's fears that their children will not do as well as they have."
Mr Obama said the UK's vote to leave the EU and the US vote showed that people generally were now "less certain of their national identities and place in the world" and that had produced populist movements both on the left and the right.
He said a suspicion of globalisation and elites, wrapped up in issues of religious or ethnic or cultural identity was "a volatile mix".
He said: "Now we need to satisfy the people who are fearful, angry or concerned and that's going to be a pretty big test."
Mr Obama insisted his vision - where "the future will be decided by what we have in common, rather than what leads us into conflict" - was the right one.
He also said he was responsible for facilitating a good transition, presenting to Mr Trump his best ideas about how to move the country forward.
Mr Obama will be using the European leg of his trip to try to reassure leaders about future US commitment to its international alliances.
For the first 30 minutes of their news conference, Mr Obama and Mr Tsipras managed to avoid talking about President-elect Trump. Given the drama of last week's election result, that surely sets some kind of record.
But the two leaders soon faced questions about Mr Trump's impact. Mr Obama chose his words carefully. He obeys two American traditions which come together on this trip: an outgoing president is normally gracious about his successor and a president on a foreign trip doesn't criticise his opponents back home.
Mr Tsipras - who himself came to power as the leader of a populist movement - said he knew very little about Mr Trump and hadn't read his book The Art of the Deal. The Greek PM then aligned himself with the position laid out by Mr Obama since the election result - that the United States is bound by a series of commitments to Europe and Nato that will endure.
But Greece will be worried. President Obama has advocated debt relief for this country. President-elect Trump may be unlikely to do the same.
Before leaving the US, Mr Obama said President-elect Trump had "expressed a great interest" in maintaining the US commitment to Nato, although during the campaign the Republican had said he might abandon a guarantee of protection for fellow Nato countries.
Article 5 of the Nato treaty commits allies to come to the aid of a member state under attack. Mr Trump's statements had alarmed the Baltic states, which fear Russian aggression.
Much of Mr Obama's news conference with Mr Tsipras concerned the Greek economy.
Greece's debt jargon explained
Greece's third debt bailout
Mr Tsipras praised Mr Obama for his support and for pursuing an economic policy in the US that focused on quantitative easing and job creation, rather than on the austerity measures favoured in Europe.
Greece agreed a third economic bailout package with international creditors in the middle of last year.
It was worth about €86bn ($92bn) but came with strict austerity measures. Greece says it needs a major debt restructuring programme to ease its economic malaise.
Mr Obama again signalled support for that, saying the Greek economy needed "space to return to growth" and that austerity could not be the only strategy.
Greek anarchist and left-wing groups later held protests in Athens "against the representative of imperialist powers".
Police used tear gas to disperse some 3,000 demonstrators who had tried to break through a cordon of police vehicles.
The protesters then pulled back to the Athens Polytechnic area and threw petrol bombs at officers.
At least four people were arrested.
Police have banned public gatherings in central Athens and near the city's international airport until after Mr Obama's departure on Wednesday.
It came with the teary announcement from Martin Ferguson, a Labor minister who resigned from the government because of his support for the former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, that he was stepping down as the MP for the seat of Batman.
Mr Fergusson, a gruff former union chief, broke down as he paid tribute to the parents who had helped launch his career.
More surprisingly, there was emotion, too, from the leader of opposition, Tony Abbott, as he bade farewell to a politician regarded as one of Labor's more competent performers.
"Well may we shed a tear," said Mr Abbott, as he himself struggled to contain his feelings, "for things which were, which should be, but which are not."
As Abbott retook his seat, Julia Gillard turned to her front bench and rolled her eyes. The subtext of his remarks, after all, was that Mr Ferguson would never have resigned had Kevin Rudd remained as leader.
But that afternoon, and on the evening news bulletins that came later, it was Mr Abbott who came across as the more prime ministerial of the two.
After Julia Gillard ousted Kevin Rudd in June, 2010, her first words on the floor of parliament came when Tony Abbott approached to offer a congratulatory hand.
"Game on," she uttered sotto voce, clearly thinking she had his measure.
Three years on, virtually everyone in Canberra, including senior Labor figures, looks upon her as the loser.
As the 14 September election draws closer - there are now 100 days to go - her rival is affecting the air of a prime minister-designate. Barring some catastrophic revelation or dramatic unforeseen event, he should become the country's 28th leader.
"Australia, it seems, is not having an election on 14 September," says the ABC political presenter Barrie Cassidy, "but a handover. Never before has there been this level of expectation that a government is about to be thrown out."
Out of all the thousands of words written this year about the forthcoming election, few have so pin-pointedly hit the mark.
The polls suggest not only a defeat for Labor but also a rout. I have spoken to senior figures within the party who think it will be lucky to hold onto 30 seats, which in a parliament of 150 MPs would be calamitous. In Queensland, they could face a near wipe out.
Some Labor insiders fear they will retain just one seat - that, emblematically, of Kevin Rudd in Brisbane. They also expect to lose a swathe of seats in the western suburbs of Sydney, another key battleground.
High-ranking figures, like the Treasurer Wayne Swan and the defence minister Stephen Smith, face a struggle to retain their seats.
Last-ditch hopes that the federal budget handed down in May could spur some sort of a comeback have now evaporated.
Kevin Rudd, a potential saviour who did not have enough support to mount a successful challenge for the Labor leadership in February, has ruled out a return in any circumstances.
Small wonder that a gallows humour has taken hold within Labor ranks.
"It's like the Titanic - we're in the final scenes," one Labor backbencher, who supports Kevin Rudd, told ABC News. "Third class has realised the doors are locked and they're not getting out. And first class are running around looking for a dress to put on."
Such is the air of defeatism that some senior Labor strategists believe they should fight a noble campaign with a view to future elections rather than a nasty campaign, centred on personal attacks against Tony Abbott, that might mitigate their losses this time round.
Better to protect what is left of the Labor brand, the thinking goes, than to resort to negative tactics that have proven so off-putting to voters.
Outsiders might be surprised that a country that has weathered the global financial crisis without plunging into recession is about to punish the government so severely.
However, while Australia has enjoyed a period of relative economic stability, Canberra has gone through a phase of extreme political volatility.
Many of the government's problems flow from the coup that ousted Kevin Rudd in 2010.
The former prime minister, and his allies, have been a wilfully destabilising presence. Julia Gillard has struggled to stamp her authority on the government, and also to find her prime ministerial voice.
Though her minority government has pushed through popular reforms, like the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the Gonksi education programme, too often Labor has given the impression of self-absorption.
Its focus, many voters feel, has been on internal politicking rather than national governance.
Nor can Julia Gillard catch a break right now.
Last week, when she visited a school in Canberra to announce a major new school funding deal, television reports devoted more time to how she had been targeted by a flying salami sandwich - a copy-cat prank modelled on a vegemite sandwich aerial assault a few weeks before.
The turn-around has been stunning. Less than six years ago, when Kevin Rudd's victory ended 11 years of conservative rule, Labor's domination was complete.
Back then, the party ruled every state and territory, and the most senior Liberal office holder was the mayor of Brisbane, Campbell Newman.
Now New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland, where Mr Newman is now the premier, are all held by the conservative coalition.
So often underestimated, Mr Abbott can claim much of the credit. In the months after the failed Copenhagen global warning summit, when the politics of climate change were completely upended and the Rudd project seemed to stall, he seized the initiative and contributed to his opponent's downfall.
His attacks on Julia Gillard for adopting a carbon tax, despite promising during the 2010 campaign not to do so, have damaged her credibility.
More recently, with speeches on indigenous affairs and his backing for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, he has sought to recast his public image from the attack dog of old to a leader-in-waiting.
Once seen as erratic and overly aggressive, he has emerged in recent months as a more substantial and multi-dimensional figure.
He remains a deeply polarising figure, and polls continue show he is far from being a popular figure.
But he does not appear to elicit the same fear and loathing from sections of the electorate that stopped him from winning in 2010. He seems to be passing the plausibility test.
Barrie Cassidy has likened this pre-election phase to a US presidential transition, when the winner is known, but unable to take power until the actual inauguration.
After all, few here doubt that in roughly 100 days time, Tony Abbott will be taking the oath of office.
Laura Sciortino and her husband Sam, from Woking, Surrey, had planned to marry in Santorini on Sunday and had flown there ahead of their family earlier in the week.
When a major IT failure grounded British Airways flights, Laura's brother, aunt, uncle and three bridesmaids were unable to join them.
So Laura and Sam found themselves rushing to rearrange the wedding they had planned for two years.
After a stressful 24 hours,the ceremony took place on Monday instead - a day later than planned.
Laura and Sam told the BBC it had been an emotional time.
"We had to contact suppliers, and change all the arrangements.
"Luckily our wedding planner and hotel were very understanding and we couldn't have done it without them," Laura explained.
Laura's brother and his family made it to the wedding just in time, after booking flights with a different airline, but Laura says the first time she saw them was when she was walking down the aisle.
"They arrived on the island late on Monday morning. I didn't have time to receive them," Laura said.
"They rushed to the hotel and made it to the ceremony but my sister-in-law and nieces were unable to wear their bridesmaids' dresses, as they were in the luggage they had to leave behind at Heathrow."
Aside from missing bridesmaids' dresses, groom Sam said the wedding went well:
"There were just a few minor things like the lighting and decor not being quite what we expected.
"We also had to move the ceremony an hour forward as the registrar had another marriage to officiate.
"As soon as he married us he hurried off so we didn't get a chance to thank him," Sam explained.
"We are happy that the wedding went well and pleased our family made it, but the BA chaos caused a lot of unnecessary stress and confusion."
Mr and Mrs Sciortino are now enjoying their honeymoon.
By Rozina Sini, BBC's UGC and Social News Team
At present, the government "strongly discourages" the practice and anyone doing it could be in breach of the law.
But Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham said companies should be free to decide on their own security.
He said ideally Royal Marines would be posted on all UK ships, but currently resources did not allow that.
Piracy in the Indian Ocean, particularly off the coast of Somalia, has become a growing problem in recent year. Many companies have been forced to pay large ransoms to secure the release of hostages and cargo.
During World War I and II, British merchant vessels were routinely armed, but since then the legal position has been unclear, and any shipowners who employ armed guards could be in breach of the law - as could the guards themselves.
But giving evidence to the foreign affairs committee, Mr Bellingham said the government wanted to clarify the situation.
He said there had not been a single recorded hijack of a vessel with private security and a lot of shipping lines had been "pressing very hard" for a change in the Department for Transport's guidelines.
"We want them to change those guidelines to at the very least neutral," he said.
"The government recognises that armed private security companies are a fact of life.
"We take the view that the UK government shouldn't encourage this, but should not discourage it, so it would be a decision for the shipping industry on a case by case basis."
Mr Bellingham said a review was currently taking place and he had written to Home Secretary Theresa May to discuss the changes that would be needed to firearms legislation.
He said he believed the changes could be brought about by secondary legislation, with the home secretary issuing permits to any companies wishing to carry weapons.
The British government is thought to be one of the first to promise statutory changes on the issue, but the minister said it would be important to work with other countries because a lot of UK companies use vessels registered elsewhere.
The committee asked whether it would be possible for the Ministry of Defence to follow the example of France and Spain and provide so-called military vessel protection detachments (VPDs) to protect individual ships.
Mr Bellingham said that would be "a very welcome step forward" but the current pressure on resources made it impractical.
"At the moment our armed forces are very heavily committed. If a stage was reached when our armed forces were less committed I'm sure the MoD would look at a request for providing VPDs."
Capt David Reindorp, head of the MoD's defence crisis management centre, estimated the UK would need about 500 Royal Marines at any one time to protect all of its vessels.
"That doesn't take into account the 500 that would be preparing to take over from them and the 500 that would be recovering from having been there," he said.
"That's a considerable burden. If you wish them to do that they would have to stop doing something else."
Britain's Chamber of Shipping has said it supports the government's actions to clarify the law, but said armed guards should only be used as a resort and relying on them demonstrates a failure by naval forces to protect merchant shipping.
The committee also demanded to know why nine out of 10 suspected pirates captured off Somalia by the Royal Navy were released without charge.
They said that last month alone, three ships carrying pirates and their hostages were intercepted by the Navy, but all of the alleged criminals were released without charge.
Capt Reindorp said his personnel found it "very frustrating" and said there were a number of factors which made it very difficult to detain and prosecute pirates unless they were caught actually in the act.
He said witnesses and hostages often refused to testify, and it could be hard to tell pirates from hostages and ordinary fishermen.
Mr Bellingham said the UK was trying to build local capacity to bring prosecutions by channelling aid money into court and prison facilities.
Almost 200 people packed out Falkirk Crematorium for the humanist ceremony led by Marjory McGee.
Ms Bell, 25, was found critically injured on Wednesday 8 July in a car that had crashed off the motorway near Stirling on the previous Sunday.
She died in hospital four days after she was discovered.
It emerged after the crash that it had been reported to police by a member of the public on the day it happened but officers only attended the scene after receiving a second call from a different person three days later.
A review into the way the police handle calls in their control centres is to be carried out.
Ms Bell and her partner John Yuill were on their way home from a camping trip when they crashed down the embankment next to the busy motorway.
Lamara, who was found drifting in and out of consciousness, died from injuries which included broken bones and kidney damage caused by dehydration.
Many people were overcome with emotion as they arrived for the service, and it was standing room only in the crematorium as the song Hold Back the River was played.
Ms McGee told those gathered that the service was a chance to "remember, pay tribute to and celebrate the life of this vibrant and spirited young woman".
Ms Bell was described as determined and carefree during her childhood - "a typical wee girl full of innocence and wonder".
She loved the music of Peter Andre, and was fascinated by the night stars - her favourite television programme was The Sky At Night.
She gave birth to her daughter Alysha in 2006 and then to her son Kieran four years later.
Mourners heard she was a young mother "in heart and spirit" who enjoyed having fun with her children by singing karaoke, playing games and telling stories.
The service finished with the song Goodbye by the Spice Girls.
Ms Bell's family, including her parents Andrew and Diane, brothers Martin and Liam, and daughter Alysha followed as her coffin was taken to the burial ground for committal.
Four doves were released as she was laid to rest.
A funeral for Ms Bell's partner John Yuill, 28, who was found dead at the scene of the crash, was held on Thursday.
Members of Mr Yuill's family were in attendance at Ms Bell's funeral.
It takes its name from the late Sunni Cleric Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, who spearheaded the anti-Shia campaign which began in the country 30 years ago as a counter-movement to the Iranian Islamic revolution.
Mr Jhangvi was a founding member of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), a group blamed by many for introducing sectarian violence to the country.
Researchers say that the Islamisation policy introduced by Pakistan's former military leader, General Zia-ul-Haq, in the 1980s allowed the emergence of SSP in 1985.
The group resorted to violence against the Shia community almost immediately.
The campaign got bloodier when a rival Shia group, Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqah Jafferia (TNFJ) challenged it, resulting in the deaths of the top leaders of both sectarian groups, including Mr Jhangvi.
Within a decade the conflict led to fissures within the SSP and in 1996 LeJ broke away under the leadership of Riaz Basra.
He wanted to continue on the path of violence against Shias and rejected a call from other Sunni militant leaders to join mainstream politics and scale down attacks.
Calling themselves "Jhangvi" loyalists, the Lej - or Army of Jhangvi - began allying itself with the Taliban movement which was just taking over in Afghanistan.
Both the Taliban and the LeJ belong to the same orthodox, puritanical Deobandi tradition of Islam associated with the Islamic revivalist movement in the region.
The connection helped Mr Basra and his group to seek refuge in Afghanistan.
Government intelligence agencies have pointed to several LeJ militant training camps in Afghanistan. These camps were used not only to train anti-Shia militants but also as safe havens for Pakistani criminals and militants.
In August 2001, Pakistan's military leader General Pervez Musharraf banned a number of militant organisations, with LeJ top of the list.
In May 2002 Riaz Basra was killed, and analysts believe that the group began to develop links with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
Such fears were proved right when investigators found links between LeJ relating to three 2007 incidents in Pakistan which were all blamed jointly on al-Qaeda and the LeJ.
These included the kidnapping and beheading of US Journalist Daniel Pearl, an attack on French engineers in Karachi and a bomb attack on an Islamabad church.
After resuming on 357-5, Notts reached 430-9 before declaring ahead of lunch.
Amid some rain delays, they dismissed Gloucestershire for 149 - with Phil Mustard's 53 the visitors' only bright note - and enforced the follow-on.
Gloucestershire lost opener Chris Dent (2) to Luke Fletcher (1-7) and closed on 37-1 when bad light stopped play.
Some 3,000 Tunisian jihadists are thought to have gone to Syria and Iraq.
Tunisian concerns about home-grown militants have been heightened by last month's attack on a Tunis museum.
The country - birthplace of the Arab Spring protests - cut ties with Syria in 2011, where similar unrest had provoked a government crackdown.
Demonstrations in Syria spiralled into a civil conflict, with Islamist factions drawing in jihadists from across the Middle East and Europe.
After the emergence of Islamic State (IS) as the most powerful of the jihadist groups, several European countries re-opened channels of communication with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Mr Assad had earlier been criticised by Western governments for his response to the uprising against his rule.
Tunisian FM Taieb Baccouche told reporters on Friday that his country would not have an ambassador in Syria but would open a consulate or "put in place a charge d'affaires" there.
He said a consular presence in Syria would help Tunisia keep track of its citizens fighting alongside the Islamist militants.
He added that Syria was welcome to send an ambassador to Tunisia if it so wished.
Mr Baccouche also said his country would restore diplomatic ties with Libya, which has been racked by insecurity since the violent overthrow of Col Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
At least two of the Tunisian men who carried out a deadly attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis last month had trained in Libya.
Northern California could receive up to 15in (38.1cm) of rain over the next 16 days, with parts of the Sierra Nevada mountains getting up to 24in of snow.
The El Nino system, a warming trend in the Pacific Ocean, is expected to spur extraordinary weather across the US in the coming weeks and months.
The phenomenon is prompting warnings of flash floods and mud flows.
Light rain began falling across the region on Monday, but stronger storms are expected to hit the area on Tuesday, with at least two more systems expected on Wednesday and Thursday.
Much of the area in the storms path has fallen victim to wildfires in recent years, making the heavy rains more hazardous. After wildfires destroy vegetation, there is an increased risk of landslides and mudslides along sloped areas.
The concerns are shared in southern California, where wet conditions could put communities in the Los Angeles area at risk of flooding and susceptible to debris and mud flows. Between two and three-and-a-half inches of rain are expected through Friday in southern California.
Across the state, officials are issuing warnings for the storms and telling residents to clear gutters and anything that could hinder the flow of storm drains. Efforts are under way to shelter homeless people.
El Nino systems form every two to seven years when the warm waters of the central Pacific ocean expand towards South and North America. The current El Nino is the strongest since 1998 and is expected to be in the top three most powerful episodes ever recorded.
In recent weeks, the system has generated unusual weather across the US with unseasonably high temperatures in the northeast, uncommon winter tornados in the south, and a deluge of snow across the west.
The El Nino system has also generated intense flooding across South America, with Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil experiencing the worst flooding in 50 years, resulting the evacuation of more than 150,000 people.
In many ways the soggy deluge may bring some welcome relief.
California has been struggling with a four-year drought that has forced officials to enact a contentious water-savings plan. Residents have missed savings targets for at least two months in a row.
However, despite the forecast for heavy downpours, experts say the severity of the drought is such that one El Nino system will not be able to overcome it.
Police were called to Pebble View, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, by paramedics at 09:25 GMT on Saturday.
Ch Insp Kevin Mulligan said there were no suspicious circumstances and a report was being compiled for the coroner.
"This was sudden and unexpected," he said. "Our specially-trained officers are giving support to the family at this very difficult time."
No other details have yet been released.
|
Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench has donated £1,000 towards a fund for a statue of entertainer Victoria Wood.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Jeremy Corbyn has called for a major investment in skills to tackle a "lost decade" in which there had been an "explosion" of low-paid, insecure jobs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Pat Hickey is reported to be on his way back to the Republic of Ireland after four months in Brazil.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Wales' Olympic triathlon medal hopeful Non Stanford cannot predict whether compatriot Helen Jenkins or England's Jodie Stimpson will take the last Team GB place at Rio 2016.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Partizan Stadium was quiet, perhaps too quiet, as half-time approached.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Bank of Canada has apologised for removing an image of an "Asian-looking" woman from the design of a new $100 bank note.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Prosecutors in Brazil have begun investigating the deaths of about 10,000 fish that had been brought in to fill a huge freshwater aquarium.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Plans for 3,200 new homes in Leicestershire, described by opponents as "unviable", have been approved.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A lap dancing club where strippers "touched and fondled" customers has been refused a new licence.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A confetti-throwing protester has disrupted a European Central Bank (ECB) news conference, rushing on stage and screaming "end ECB dictatorship".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Conservative MP has been interviewed under caution over his election expenses, the BBC understands.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has been charged after schoolboy on work placement died following an industrial accident in Aberdeenshire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Reformed girl band All Saints have missed out on the chart top spot, with their comeback album Red Flag entering the UK chart at number three.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Worcestershire's Daryl Mitchell has been relieved of his position as county captain after six years in the role.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Anti-traveller measures are being installed on public land in Reading at a cost of £100,000.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Greece has submitted a revised reform plan to the European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Jordan Hugill scored a last-minute goal for Preston to rescue a point against Ipswich, a side that has twice attempted to sign the striker in the past two weeks.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
League One side Bury have signed Burton Albion midfielder Callum Reilly on a two-year deal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Apple has reported its first rise in sales in nine months after strong Christmas sales of the iPhone 7.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 51-year-old man who stabbed to death two fellow care home residents faces jail after prosecutors accepted his manslaughter plea.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Singer Katherine Jenkins and her husband Andrew Levitas are to produce a new children's animated TV show.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Barack Obama has warned of a "rise in a crude sort of nationalism" following the Brexit and US presidential votes.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
In a parliament often pilloried for its unruliness and childishness, last month saw a rare moment of cross-party accord.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A couple forced to postpone their Greek island wedding after half the invitees' British Airways flights were cancelled have finally said "I do".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The UK is preparing to give formal legal backing to the use of private armed guards on British merchant vessels to protect against piracy.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A funeral ceremony has been held for Lamara Bell, one of two people involved in a car crash on the M9 which police failed to investigate for three days.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) is one of Pakistan's most violent Sunni Muslim militant groups.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Division Two leaders Nottinghamshire moved closer to a fourth win in five games this season as they dominated day two against visitors Gloucestershire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tunisia says it plans to re-establish diplomatic ties with Syria in order to track its citizens who have gone to fight alongside Islamist militants.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Communities across California are bracing for two weeks of heavy rains generated by the El Nino system.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A two-year-old child has died suddenly at a house in Staffordshire.
| 37,332,494 | 15,110 | 893 | true |
Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson said Better Together agents took "tallies" of postal votes at sample openings held before the count.
Election rules state the results of these openings must be kept secret.
The Crown Office has now instructed police to conduct an investigation into the complaints.
The allegations surround comments made to BBC Scotland by Ms Davidson about 45 minutes after polls closed in the independence referendum on 18 September.
Ms Davidson told the Scotland Decides programme: "We have had people at every sample opening around the country over the last few weeks... and we have been incredibly encouraged by the results from that.
"Going into today, going by the postal votes that were cast, our side would have had a lead and I think that we have a confidence, I hope a quiet confidence, that the quiet majority of Scots have spoken today."
She said postal votes were not counted until after the polls closed, but added: "Different local authorities have had openings around the country. It is illegal to discuss that while any ballot is ongoing, so until 10 o'clock tonight no-one could talk about it.
"But there is people in the room that have been sampling those ballot boxes as they have been opened and they have been taking tallies and the reports have been very positive for us."
Speaking on the BBC's results coverage, Humza Yousaf, the Scottish minister for external affairs, also made reference to indications from "postal ballot sampling".
He told the BBC's Huw Edwards: "The intelligence we're getting is that in those die-hard, traditional Labour areas actually the Yes campaign is starting to break through quite strongly.
"That's initial postal ballot sampling, all the caveats thrown in, etc., etc.."
The SNP said Mr Yousaf was referring to sampling of postal votes after the ballot had closed.
Earlier sample postal vote openings, which were attended by agents from both campaigns ahead of polling day, were held to confirm that personal identifiers - the date of birth and signature - on the postal ballots matched those held on official records.
The ballot papers were supposed to be kept face down when postal voting packs were opened so postal ballot agents and observers were unable to see how people had voted.
A Crown Office spokesperson said: "We can confirm that Crown counsel has instructed Police Scotland to commence an investigation into alleged breaches of Schedule 7, Paragraph 7, of the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013."
The act states it is an offence to "attempt to ascertain at the proceedings in connection with the receipt of the ballot papers the outcome for which any vote is given in any particular ballot paper or communicate any information with respect thereto obtained at those proceedings".
Anyone breaching the law could face up to 12 months in prison or a fine of up to £5,000.
The Scottish Conservatives said they were unable to comment but the BBC understands there was a telephone conversation between Ms Davidson and the police on Friday.
Party sources said there was "no suggestion she was accused of doing anything wrong".
Complaints were initially made to the Electoral Commission, which said it had brought them to the attention of police.
A spokesman for Police Scotland said: "We can confirm that we have been instructed to commence an investigation into alleged breaches of Schedule 7, Paragraph 7, of the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013.
"Police Scotland will not comment on anyone who may or may not have been spoken to or interviewed as part of any ongoing investigation."
|
Claims that pro-UK campaigners breached electoral law by counting postal votes ahead of referendum polling day will be formally investigated by police.
| 29,489,288 | 755 | 32 | false |
The left-arm medium-pacer spent 10 seasons with Yorkshire, before joining Notts and helping them win the County Championship in both 1981 and 1987.
Following his first-class debut in 1969, Bore took 372 wickets in 159 first-class games in his career, plus a further 139 limited-overs wickets.
After retiring, Hull-born Bore coached at youth level for both counties' development systems.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Atkinson scored the BBC Goal of the Season in 1992-93 with a mazy run and deft chip against Wimbledon - and won the League Cup with Villa in 1994.
His old Villa Park boss, Ron Atkinson said the former player's death was "an absolute tragedy".
Aston Villa tweeted: "RIP Dalian Atkinson. You'll never be forgotten."
Former Villa defender Paul McGrath described the forward as "a huge part of the Villa family" and "a lovely kid and friend".
The Football Association said it was "saddened" by the death of the former England B international.
Atkinson began his career at Ipswich and played for Sheffield Wednesday and Real Sociedad in Spain before moving to Villa.
He scored 25 league goals for the Birmingham side between 1991 and 1995 then moved to Fenerbahce in Turkey and Manchester City, ending his playing career in South Korea in 2001.
Ex-Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu told BBC Radio 5 live: "When I arrived at Villa as a nervous kid he took me under his wing and was bit of a mentor for me. He was kind-hearted, always had a smile on his face and enjoyed life to the fullest.
"He was quick, powerful, he could score a goal and brought some great memories to the clubs he played for. I was privileged to play alongside him.
"I spoke to him in June this year and he was in good spirits. He had maybe fallen on some difficult times but he was a grafter.
"He played in Spain, wasn't afraid of challenging himself and pushing himself."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Another former Villa team-mate, Ian Taylor, said: "Just heard news re my old team mate Dalian. Deepest condolences to his family. Only spoke to him last week as well. Sad sad news."
Former Villa boss Ron Atkinson added: "He was a really popular player with team-mates. He was a really generous lad - sometimes too generous for his own good - but a good lad."
Darren Byfield, who began his career at Villa in the 1990s and is now manager of non-league Redditch, tweeted: "Dalian, what a legend. I really can't believe what I'm hearing, such a nice guy, always had time for the young lads growing up at Villa."
Ex-Liverpool striker John Aldridge played alongside Atkinson in Spain for Real Sociedad in the early 1990s and said: "I'm absolutely gutted to hear the news of Dalian dying. I can't take it in really - my thoughts are with his family. So sad. RIP my friend.
"I'll always remember when we beat Barca at the Nou Camp 3-1 after they lifted the La Liga trophy. Dalian ran them ragged. What a performance!"
Another of his overseas clubs, Turkish outfit Fenerbahce, said: "We are saddened to hear the news of the passing of our former player, Dalian Atkinson. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family."
David Hirst, who played alongside Atkinson at Sheffield Wednesday, said: "I saw the news and was thinking they had surely got it wrong. He was a great lad and a great character to have around the place.
"On his day he was unplayable and even on an off-day he could be unplayable because of his lightning pace. He was loud and fun to be around. He had an opinion, but who doesn't? It's very sad."
Current Villa midfielder Jack Grealish, 20, said: "RIP Dalian Atkinson. Loved watching videos of him and always remember his great goal vs Wimbledon. My thoughts are with his family & friends."
Police officers managed to corner the woolly-wanderer in a back garden in Priory Drive, Plympton, on Thursday morning.
Posting on Facebook the officers said it was "all good fun".
The animal is being cared for on a local farm until its owner can be found. In the meantime it has been baa-ed from further roaming.
More Devon and Cornwall news
A force spokesman said: "The woolly fella was running amok all over the area, it even attempted to get into the dentist surgery. We were reliably informed that no appointment had been booked."
Darren Twigger, 40, from Canley near Coventry, told Exeter Crown Court he had had "no intention of getting involved in a robbery or assault" and the plan had only been to buy drugs.
Mr Twigger is one of five people accused of attacking 43-year-old Stephen Crook at his home in Exeter in November 2013.
The men deny murder and robbery.
Mr Twigger said his only role had been to drive a group of friends to Devon to buy drugs in bulk to sell on for a profit in the Midlands.
He said he was temporarily unemployed and had agreed to drive the men in the hope of being paid for the favour.
The defendant said: "There was no mention of any robbery or burglary. I never had any intention of getting involved in any robbery or assault."
The court heard he was caught on CCTV buying knives shortly before the raid on Mr Crook's home in Alphington Road, but Mr Twigger claimed he did so at the request of the others because they wanted them for their protection.
The four men on trial alongside him are Bradley Richardson, 18, of Prior Deram Walk, Canley, Ryan Singleton, 26, of Howcotte Green, Canley; Anthony Martin, 22, of Gerard Avenue, Canley and Steven Webster, 40, of East Street, Okehampton, Devon.
Mr Twigger, of John Rous Avenue, is the fourth defendant to give evidence. Previously, Mr Richardson told the court he never went into Mr Crook's flat and Mr Singleton and Mr Martin both blamed others for the violence.
The defendants deny the charges and the trial continues.
The Emirates team, skippered by Walker, triumphed in the nine-month triennial race after finishing fifth in the ninth leg from Lorient to Gothenburg.
Team Alvimedica won the final leg to ensure all but one of the seven-strong fleet won at least one stage.
Walker, in his third round-the-world race, becomes the first British skipper to win the overall trophy.
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing secured top-three podium places in all but two of the legs and won two of them.
Team SCA, who became the first all-female crew in 25 years to win a leg of the round-the-world race, finished seventh.
The Swedish boat, skippered by Briton Sam Davies, were the only all-female crew in the race and the first to compete for 10 years.
The fleet of seven teams, sailing in a one-design Volvo Ocean 65 boat, encountered several dramas as they visited 11 ports across every continent.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Team Vestas Wind were rescued from shark-inhabited waters after crashing on a remote coral reef in the second stage from Cape Town to Abu Dhabi. They missed five legs while the boat was being rebuilt.
At the end of the first leg an ice exclusion zone was introduced after a 300-metre-long iceberg was spotted by organisers, while crews also had to cope with masts snapping in storms.
"Every team and every sailor has won this Volvo Ocean Race - that is the beauty of the event," winning skipper Walker said.
"To sail around the world in such high performance boats remains an amazing achievement that few people will ever experience.
"To share the highs and lows with team-mates creates experiences that will never leave you. Despite the dramas that have unfolded, every sailor will be returning home to their loved ones and every boat will return to harbour."
The 32-year-old announced on Facebook he has had surgery on the problem and will return to action in 2018.
Last month, the Swiss struggled and needed ice on his knee as he was knocked out in the first round of Wimbledon by Russia's Daniil Medvedev.
"I love this sport and I will work hard to get back to my top level and play many more years," said Wawrinka.
This season, the three-time Grand Slam champion reached the final of the French Open and the semi-finals of the Australia Open.
He added: "After talking with my team and doctor I had to make a difficult decision to undergo a medical intervention on my knee. This was the only solution to make sure I will be able to compete at the top level for many more years.
"This is obviously extremely disappointing, but I am already looking ahead and planning my recovery. I love this sport and I will work hard to get back to my top level and play many more years.
"I also want to take this opportunity to thank my fans for sending plenty of messages of support during the last couple of days. I will see you all in 2018."
Former world number one Novak Djokovic will also miss the US Open because of an elbow injury.
The owner says he takes full responsibility for the club's problems.
However, he did not clarify whether Paatelainen would stay on.
"In the near future many radical changes will be made to try to ensure our quick return to the top league," a United statement read.
Relegation from the top flight was confirmed after a 2-1 defeat by city rivals Dundee on Monday.
Thompson has promised sweeping changes to ensure an immediate return to the Premiership.
"Dundee United have let you, the supporters, down this season," his statement continued.
"I apologise unreservedly to all of you for our relegation. As the chairman the buck stops with me and I accept full responsibility for what has happened. The big decisions were mine and I got some of them wrong.
"I have backed managers with the third biggest budget in the league but the results have not been acceptable.
"Further changes will see increased fan representation as well as boardroom changes to revitalise and re-energise the club."
Former Finland boss Paatelainen, 49, replaced Jackie McNamara in mid-October, signing a two-and-a-half year contract.
United were bottom of the table at the time of his arrival, having picked up one win in their first 10 Premiership outings.
But Paatelainen, who had spells in charge at Hibernian and Kilmarnock, has overseen just five wins from 25 league matches.
The company will pay $830m (£581m) to investors who bought Merck securities between 1999 and 2004.
The lawsuit stemmed from statements Merck made about the cardiovascular safety of the painkiller Vioxx.
Vioxx was withdrawn from the market in 2004 after evidence showed it doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke.
In 2011 Merck pleaded guilty to federal charges of violating marketing laws related to its sale of Vioxx.
Federal officials accused the company of making false statements and illegally marketing Vioxx as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis to increase sales.
Merck said this latest settlement with investors did not constitute an admission of guilt by the company.
It still faced a number of individual lawsuits related to Vioxx.
Today's ruling means the advert must not appear again in "its current form".
Six customers complained to the ASA over the Amazon trial, saying that it was not clear "that a paid subscription would automatically start" if not cancelled during the free trial.
The ASA ruling does not influence current payments or refunds.
As well as upholding that complaint, the ASA also ruled that the price of the subscription was not made obvious enough, as it was not in the original advert.
A 12-month subscription to Amazon Prime cost £79.
Last month many users took to social media to complain about the service.
Reports suggested that Amazon Prime added 10 million new subscribers in the last three months of 2014 alone.
It was also claimed that Amazon Prime members now represent nearly half of all Amazon customers.
It's not known how many users there are in the UK, but Amazon told Newsbeat it's "millions".
The complaints to the ASA centred around a letter that was sent to customers with Amazon accounts, which included a plastic card, directing people to Amazon UK.
In their defence, Amazon UK's parent company, Amazon Europe Core Sarl, pointed to some "small text" at the bottom of the letter in the offer terms, which stated: "Paid subscription starts automatically after free trial unless cancelled."
They also said: "During the online registration process customers were again made aware that they would be charged a fee."
The ASA said that the small print was not enough to warn consumers that the trial would end in a paid subscription if not cancelled in time.
It was also ruled that the price of the subscription to Amazon Prime was "material information" that should have appeared in the advert.
Amazon have been told by the ASA that in future the automatic start of the paid subscription must appear in the main body of the advert. Customers should also be told about the cost.
If you want to avoid your free trial being extended to a paid service go to Your Account on Amazon and adjust your membership settings within 30 days of signing up.
You can cancel your membership in Your Account at any time.
Full refunds are only given if you've not used any of the Prime benefits.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube
"Misguided altruism" was "leading much of Europe into catastrophic error," Mr Abbott said during a speech in London.
As PM, Mr Abbott carried out the controversial policy of turning away migrant boats, sending them elsewhere.
Retired Bishop Pat Power said he was "ashamed" by the comments, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Bishop Power in particular objected to Mr Abbott's suggestion that a "wholesome instinct" to follow the Christian tenet of "love thy neighbour" had led Europe to feel obliged to accept more people fleeing conflict in the Middle East that they could cope with.
"People will make their own judgements but that's completely at odds with what's at the heart of Christianity," Bishop Power told the newspaper. "I'm certainly offended."
Father Frank Brennan, professor of law at Australian Catholic University, told 3aw Mr Abbott's comments were "outrageous".
He said German Chancellor Angela Merkel - who has won praise and criticism for her welcoming stance to migrants - should ignore the speech.
"I don't think she's helped in the least by an ex-prime minister who has been dumped at the other end of the world turning up and saying 'it's about time you got your naval vessels to start returning people to places like Libya'."
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop gave her backing to Mr Abbott, saying her country had a "very appropriate and strong and tough border regime".
Australian asylum: Why is it controversial?
Mr Abbott made the comments at the annual Margaret Thatcher lecture to an audience of governing Conservative party members and ministers, as Europe faces an unprecedented surge in the number of people trying to reach its shores.
The former Australian leader, who is Catholic, said his country was the only one to have successfully defeated people-smuggling.
Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's right-wing Ukip party, tweeted that the speech was "absolutely bang-on".
But others have given it a hostile reaction - political blogger Guido Fawkes said members of British Conservative party present had "winced" while listening on.
Social media users mocked the Biblical references in the speech using the #TheToneCommandments hashtag.
He rounded up some of the toughest and wildest longhorns in all of Texas. That's how he described them.
Others say the cattle were a docile bunch. And there are those who wonder whether this particular story is true at all. But never mind.
John Warne Gates - who would become known as "Bet A Million Gates" - took bets from onlookers as to whether the powerful beasts could break through the fragile-seeming wire. They couldn't.
Even when Gates's sidekick, a Mexican cowboy, charged at the cattle howling Spanish curses and waving a burning brand in each hand, the wire held.
Bet-A-Million Gates was selling a new kind of fence, and the orders soon came rolling in.
The advertisements of the time touted it as "The Greatest Discovery Of The Age", patented by Joseph Glidden, of De Kalb Illinois. Gates described it more poetically: "lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust".
We simply call it barbed wire.
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the economic world.
It is broadcast on the BBC World Service. You can find more information about the programme's sources and listen online or subscribe to the programme podcast.
Calling it the greatest discovery of the age might seem hyperbolic, even allowing for the fact that the advertisers didn't know Alexander Graham Bell was about to be awarded a patent for the telephone.
But while we accept the telephone as transformative, barbed wire wrought huge changes on the American West, and much more quickly.
Joseph Glidden's design for barbed wire wasn't the first, but it was the best.
Glidden's design is recognisably modern.
The wicked barb is twisted around a strand of smooth wire, then a second strand of smooth wire is twisted together with the first to stop the barbs from sliding around. American farmers snapped it up.
There was a reason they were so hungry for it.
A few years earlier, President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Homestead Act of 1862.
The act specified that any honest citizen - including women, and freed slaves - could lay claim to up to 160 acres (0.6 sq km) of land in America's western territories. All they had to do was build a home there and work the land for five years.
It sounds simple.
But the prairie was a vast and uncharted expanse of tall, tough grasses, a land suitable for nomads, not settlers. It had long been the territory of the Native Americans.
After Europeans arrived and pushed west, the cowboys roamed free, herding cattle over the boundless plains.
But settlers needed fences, not least to keep those free-roaming cattle from trampling their crops. And there wasn't a lot of wood - certainly none to spare for fencing in mile after mile of what was often called "The American Desert".
Farmers tried growing thorn-bush hedges, but they were slow-growing and inflexible. Smooth wire fences didn't work either - the cattle simply pushed through them.
Barbed wire changed what the Homestead Act could not.
Until it was developed, the prairie was an unbounded space, more like an ocean than a stretch of arable land.
Private ownership of land wasn't common because it wasn't feasible.
Barbed wire also sparked ferocious disagreements.
The homesteading farmers were trying to stake out their property - property that had once been the territory of various Native American tribes. No wonder those tribes called barbed wire "the devil's rope".
The old-time cowboys also lived on the principle that cattle could graze freely across the plains - this was the law of the open range. The cowboys hated the wire: cattle would get nasty wounds and infections.
When the blizzards came, the cattle would try to head south. Sometimes they got stuck against the wire and died in their thousands.
Other cowmen adopted barbed wire, using it to fence off private ranches. And while barbed wire could enforce legal boundaries, many fences were illegal - attempts to commandeer common land for private purposes.
As the wire's dominion spread, fights started to break out.
In the "fence-cutting wars", masked gangs such as the Blue Devils and the Javelinas cut the wires and left dire threats warning fence-owners not to rebuild. There were shootouts and some deaths.
Eventually, the authorities clamped down. The fence-cutting wars ended, The barbed wire remained.
"It makes me sick," said one trail driver in 1883, "when I think of onions and Irish potatoes growing where mustang ponies should be exercising and where four-year-old steers should be getting ripe for market."
And if the cowboys were outraged, the Native Americans suffered much more.
These ferocious arguments on the frontier were reflected in a philosophical debate.
The English 17th Century philosopher John Locke - a great influence on the founding fathers of the United States - puzzled over the problem of how anybody might legally come to own land. Once upon a time, nobody owned anything.
Locke argued that we all own our own labour. And if you mix your labour with the land that nature provides - for example, by ploughing the soil - then you've blended something you definitely own with something that nobody owns. By working the land, you've come to own it.
Nonsense, said Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an 18th Century philosopher from Geneva who protested against the evils of enclosure.
In his Discourse on Inequality, he lamented "the first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, 'This is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him." This man, said Rousseau, "was the real founder of civil society".
He did not intend that as a compliment.
But it's certainly true that modern economies are built on the legal fact that most things - including land and property - have an owner, usually a person or a corporation.
The ability to own private property also gives people an incentive to invest in and improve what they own - whether that's a patch of land in the American Midwest, or an apartment in the Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta), or even a piece of intellectual property such as the rights to Mickey Mouse.
The warrior monks who invented banking
How the invention of paper changed the world
Why the falling cost of light matters
The great intellectual property trade-off
It's a powerful argument - and it was ruthlessly and cynically deployed by those who wanted to argue that Native Americans didn't really have a right to their own territory, because they weren't actively developing it in the style that Europeans saw fit.
So the story of how barbed wire changed the West is also the story of how property rights changed the world.
And it's also the story of how, even in a sophisticated economy, what the law says sometimes matters less than matters of simple practicality.
The 1862 Homestead Act laid out the rules on who owned what in the western territories. But those rules didn't mean much before they were reinforced by barbed wire.
Meanwhile, the barbed wire barons Gates and Glidden became rich - as did many others.
The year that Glidden secured his barbed wire patent, 32 miles (51km) of wire were produced.
Six years later, in 1880, the factory in De Kalb turned out 263,000 miles (423,000km) of wire, enough to circle the world 10 times over.
Tim Harford writes the Financial Times' Undercover Economist column. 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy is broadcast on the BBC World Service. You can find more information about the programme's sources and listen online or subscribe to the programme podcast.
Iain Provan, 64; Elizabeth Allan, 63; and Len Stern, 71, died at the Jim Clark Rally in the Borders last month.
After the accident, near Coldstream, Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill ordered a safety review.
The Scottish government has now confirmed that Sir Jackie has agreed to take on a role in the study.
The review will focus on safety, in particular spectator safety, at all types of motorsport races, events and competitions that take place in Scotland, including bike races, kart and car rallies.
Sir Jackie will provide "expert input based on his decades of expertise of improving motorsport safety around the world".
Ministers have asked for interim recommendations prior to the Isle of Mull rally in October, with final recommendations by December 2014.
Sports Minister Shona Robison said: "The review of motorsport event safety is critical to make sure we learn lessons and never again have to witness the tragic events of last month, where three spectators sadly lost their lives.
"Sir Jackie Stewart has a distinguished record of improving safety for drivers in Formula 1, so I am very pleased that he has agreed to share his experience to ensure that all those who want to enjoy motorsport events in Scotland are as safe as possible."
Organisers of the Jim Clark Rally have also been informed that, as part of conditions for next year's rally, they must demonstrate to the satisfaction of Scottish ministers how any recommendations made by the review will be implemented.
While the designs are naff and the craftsmanship questionable, one UK designer is looking to make the festive fixture more sustainable.
The 30-year Christmas sweatshirt that is guaranteed to see you through three decades worth of festive frivolities.
Tom Cridland hoped it would make people question the "fast fashion" industry.
"I am told it is the world's first Christmas jumper to come with a 30-year guarantee," Mr Cridland told BBC News.
He hoped the guarantee would prompt people to realise that jumpers, and clothing more widely, were for longer than just Christmas and made people think about sustainable fashion.
"It is an idea that came to me as a business opportunity, not because I am some sort of philanthropist.
"It was of extremely high quality and at a relatively accessible price, yet I was effectively being priced out of the competition by the fast fashion retailers who were making clothes so cheaply and selling it on so cheaply that it was impossible for many smaller, independent brands to take a share of the market."
Mr Cridland said the concept of the 30-year guarantee, which he also offers on other ranges such as jackets and trousers, was more than having confidence in the fact the garments were well made and used durable fabrics.
"I think people need more than that these days, and they certainly need more than that to engage with a sustainable fashion brand," he told BBC News.
"While we may reap the marketing benefits from this, our customers also reap the benefits from this concept as well because if we make that pledge. The 30-year guarantee means that if anything should happen to the sweatshirt within 30 years, we will repair or replace them free of charge.
"We are essentially making a pledge that we are going to make our clothing as well as possible and to be a durable as possible. For the consumers' point of view, people are buying these sweatshirts with the intention of keeping them for 30 years.
"It is not that it is letting fashion trends pass them by because the only reason people would replace things like that is because they would wear out because they had been badly made by a fast fashion retailer."
Although the 30-year Christmas jumper will set you back £65, considerably more than what you would pay for one from the High Street but considerably less than the £24,000, which is the asking price for this year's purportedly most expensive seasonal warmer.
Mr Cridland felt that the 30-year sweatshirts' asking price represented good value for your hard-earned money.
"I would argue that the 30-year concept is cheaper than the ones from the fast fashion retailers," he said.
"If you are going to go out and buying a new navy sweatshirt every year or two, why not get one that is made from nicer materials, made by people who are paid a fair wage.
"In terms of cost-per-wear, if you are going to keep a garment like that for 30 years then it is going to be cheaper."
He explained that offering customers a 30-year guarantee was a pledge that he believed the garments and the materials they are made from would stand the test of time.
"If this clothing was exceptionally poor quality and this was not a claim we truly believed in, we would essentially be planning to go out of business - which I am not.
"Making that pledge has earned us the trust of a lot of customers."
Follow Mark on Twitter
The 11-year-old boy was among children beaten with a water hose by the assistant warden at a private Islamic school in Johor state, police say.
Excerpts from the boy's diary, published in Malaysian media, appear to describe systematic abuse.
He had been in a coma, and his father confirmed his death on Wednesday
The family had been saying prayers for his recovery at the time, he told The Star newspaper. The boy had been due to have his right arm amputated.
The boy and 14 of his classmates are believed to have been beaten with a water hose on 24 March for making too much noise in the school's assembly building, police say.
His diary said that if one student made an error at the school in Kota Tinggi, in southern Malaysia, the whole group would be punished.
It said they would often volunteer to be beaten first, so they could try to sleep before waking for prayers at three in the morning.
"Dear Allah, please open my parents' heart to allow me to transfer to another school because I cannot stand it any more," one diary entry quoted by the Malay Mail online newspaper said.
The assistant warden accused of beating him has been arrested and police have been looking at CCTV footage showing some of the abuse.
The case has shocked people in Muslim-majority country, one of the most affluent in South East Asia, and has led to calls from parents for tougher scrutiny of privately-run religious schools where students memorise the Koran.
The Federation of National Associations of al-Quran Tahfiz Institutions (Pinta), an umbrella group for religious schools, said it had seen CCTV footage which showed the boy being beaten on the soles of his feet.
But Pinta's president, Mohd Zahid Mahmood, told reporters the public should not to jump to conclusions about the case but allow the authorities to complete their investigation.
The school's head had declined to comment on the alleged beatings, citing an ongoing police investigation.
World number six Higgins punished a sloppy start by England's Hawkins, 38, making three breaks of 50-plus on his way to a 4-0 mid-session lead.
Hawkins, in his fourth Crucible semi-final in five years, rattled in breaks of 62 and 71 to get back to 4-2.
Scot Higgins, 41, won the seventh frame but missed a blue in the eighth and Hawkins capitalised with a 74 break.
Hawkins had said before the tie that if he didn't raise his game after an unconvincing quarter-final victory over Stephen Maguire, he would get his bum "smacked" by Higgins.
But that is exactly what happened in a miserable first mini-session.
The world number seven did not manage a break of more than 20 as he slipped 3-0 behind against the 28-time ranking event winner.
Higgins, playing in the semi-finals for the first time since his last Crucible success in 2011, missed a frame ball in the fourth and the Kent-based Londoner appeared to be poised to take full advantage only to run out of position and then miss a tricky pink while using the rest.
But Higgins was off target with several easy balls in the next two frames and Hawkins was able to cut the gap.
Higgins took a scrappy seventh frame and seemed set to lead by four overnight only to let in his grateful opponent.
Hawkins' fourth 50-plus break of the match ensured only a two-frame deficit and was greeted with a relieved puff of the cheeks as he walked off.
The first-to-17 tie resumes on Friday afternoon.
John Parrott, 1991 world champion:
Barry was scrapping all through the first session and he ended up in an awkward position on things.
To lose the fourth frame was a big kick in the teeth. He had done all the hard work and the break was brilliant until he missed the pink.
But having Terry Griffiths in his corner is a huge help to Barry. He has been there and done it and knows all about the emotions you go through.
To come back from 4-0 down will be a big relief and, looking at John sitting in the chair, he looked a little bit tired around the eyes.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Three-year-old Scarlett Kent was having breakfast when the vehicle slammed into the dining room, leaving her pinned against a wall by the dining table.
Her father Carl Kent said: "I believed the dining table saved her life".
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) later arrested an 18-year-old man over the crash on Dudley Road in Irlam, Salford, on Sunday morning.
A police spokesman said officers spotted the red Volkswagen Passat - which had been reported stolen the previous evening - at about 09:15 GMT.
Officers chased the car after the driver refused to stop, GMP said.
The 18-year-old, who was arrested on suspicion of the vehicle's theft, dangerous driving and failing to stop after a collision, remains in custody.
Mr Kent said he was washing up in the kitchen when he heard an "almighty bang".
"My daughter was screaming. I came in to see she had fallen off the chair and the next thing you knew, there's a car in my dining table," he told BBC North West Today.
"She was screaming, she was hysterical. I had to pick her up and get her away from the dining table and the chair. She was trapped obviously and very upset.
"We're still in shock to be honest. It's not really hit home. We've got no dining room - it's ruined Christmas really."
Police are appealing for anyone with relevant information to contact them.
The teenager was taken to St James's Hospital in the early hours of Tuesday after becoming ill at the Pryzm nightclub in the city centre.
A post-mortem examination showed she died as a result of hyperthermia and complications related to taking MDMA.
A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of supplying a Class A drug and has been bailed.
More on this and other West Yorkshire stories.
Det Insp Phil Jackson, of West Yorkshire Police, issued a warning about the substance, which the woman had taken in powdered form.
"This young woman's family are completely devastated at her death in such sudden and tragic circumstances.
"We are awaiting the outcome of further tests but at this stage it does appear she has died as a result of a reaction to the drug.
"We therefore feel it is important to highlight her death and warn other people who may be considering taking MDMA powder, or anything that is being sold as that, about the potential risks to their health."
However, there is concern about the effects the project could have on marine life.
The project, which is being developed by Gaeletric, is all about generating renewable energy.
The company plans to store compressed air in huge caverns under the Antrim coastline, in the area around Islandmagee.
When the compressed air is brought up again, it'll be mixed with gas to power turbines and generate electricity.
It's a new and developing technology which the EU has recognised as being among the first in its field. The EU is committing 6.5m euros to help make it a reality.
Although compressed air storage is a green form of energy, local environmental activists have said the way the storage caverns will be created could be a big problem for local marine life.
Gaelectric plans to create the air storage spaces by hollowing out salt deposits deep underground.
This will leave newly formed, empty caverns. The company plans to eject the unused salt out into the sea, just off the Northern Ireland coastline.
Environmentalists say that amount of salt in the water will create an area that's uninhabitable for sea life.
Gaelectric admits that the activity will over-salinate in the water, but say that the animals will move elsewhere and that the water will be back to normal in a few years.
Brogan Rafferty, 17, helped Richard Beasley lure victims with bogus ads for a nonexistent rural Ohio cattle farm.
Mr Beasley has pleaded not guilty to the charges, including the attempted killing of a fourth man.
Rafferty faces up to life in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on 5 November.
He was tried as an adult but will not face the death penalty because he is a juvenile.
Prosecutors argued during the trial that Rafferty was a quick student of violence and a willing participant in the killings, while defence lawyers say he went along with Mr Beasley's plan because he feared for his life.
The man who survived, 49-year-old Scott Davis, testified during the weeks-long trial, as the prosecution's star witness. He identified Rafferty as Mr Beasley's accomplice.
Mr Davis said he responded to a Craigslist ad to work as a farmhand, and met Rafferty and a man who called himself "Jack" for breakfast before driving to an isolated farm.
Prosecutors say that "Jack" was actually Mr Beasley, and that he urged Mr Davis into a wooded area to look for farm equipment.
Mr Davis told the court he heard a gun cock and turned around to find himself face-to-face with a handgun, but pushed it aside and was shot in the arm. He fled, found a house and called police.
The three men killed were Ralph Geiger, 56, David Pauley, 51 and Timothy Kern, 47. Officials say they were targeted because they were older, single, out-of-work men with backgrounds that made it unlikely their disappearances would be noticed quickly.
On Tuesday, Rafferty stood with his hands clasped behind his back and showed no emotion as the convictions were read.
The Ohio jury of seven women and five men took 20 hours to reach verdicts on 25 counts. Rafferty was acquitted of on a charge of identity theft.
Jury forewoman Dana Nash said it was a difficult decision because of Rafferty's age, calling him "a child", but that jurors were sceptical of some of the 17-year-old's testimony, saying they felt he contradicted himself.
Oil minister Bijan Zanganeh said Iran would only join discussions to cap output after its production reached four million barrels per day.
In February, Saudi Arabia struck a deal with Russia and other Opec nations to freeze oil output at January levels.
But Iran wants production to hit pre-sanction levels before beginning talks.
At the weekend, Mr Zanganeh said: "I have already announced my view regarding the oil freeze and I'm saying now that as long as we have not reached four million in production, they should leave us alone.
"When we reach this level of production, we can then co-operate with them."
In its monthly oil market report published on Monday, Opec said Iran produced 3.1 million barrels per day in February, a rise of 187,000 barrels on the previous month.
Brent crude prices fell 2.7% to $39.32. Oil recently rose above $40 per barrel for the first time this year.
Prices have sunk nearly 70% since reaching a $115 a barrel in June 2014.
However, Opec, the cartel of oil-producing nations, has refused to cut make significant cuts to output amid a slowdown in demand from large industrial countries such as China, coupled with the shale energy boom in the US.
In its most recent report, Opec said its output slowed marginally in February, by 175,000 barrels per day to 32.38 million, on lower production from Iraq, Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates.
Overall, it expects demand for 2016 to reach 31.5 million barrels per day, a fall of 100,000 barrels on its previous forecast, but a rise of 1.8 million barrels per day on last year.
Bjarne Schieldrop, chief commodities analyst at SEB Markets in Oslo, said a two million barrel-per-day surplus in oil supplies would continue to weigh on prices in the short term.
"We are likely to see $35 a barrel before we see $45 a barrel," he said.
Russia's energy minister, Alexander Novak, who met Mr Zanganeh in Tehran on Monday to discuss a separate oil and gas swap deal, was quoted as saying "Major oil producers shall co-ordinate with each other.
"However, since Iran's production decreased under sanctions, we totally understand Iran's position to increase production and revive its share in the global markets."
The 31-year-old joins New Zealand international Grant Elliott in the Foxes squad for the competition.
O'Brien has played 125 T20 games, scoring 1,980 runs with a strike rate of 132, and has taken 68 wickets at an average of 22.94, with an economy rate of just under 7.5 runs per over.
In 2011 he hit the fastest-ever World Cup century as Ireland beat England.
O'Brien, who played in the recent tournament in Australia and New Zealand, is the brother of Leicestershire batsman and wicketkeeper Niall and will be at Grace Road between 15 May and 26 June.
He has had previous spells with Gloucestershire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset and Surrey, and has played in the Bangladesh Premier League and Caribbean Premier League.
Durham Miners' Association general secretary Dave Hopper accused them of treachery towards their party leader.
Durham City MP Roberta Blackman-Woods, who resigned from Labour's front bench on Monday, rents an office in the association's headquarters.
She has been approached for comment.
Labour MPs voted 172-40 to pass a motion of no confidence in Mr Corbyn amid calls on him to quit, but Mr Hopper said the association would not "fete" people who, in his opinion, were "undermining the whole credibility of the Labour Party".
"We have taken the decision not to allow any supporters of the coup to grace the Durham Miners' platform because, obviously, Corbyn is the star speaker at that event and we don't want any embarrassment," he said.
The MPs in question were "certainly not welcome" at the official association function at The County Hotel but could "come under their own steam and stand in the crowd", he said.
The association would be "having a look at" Ms Blackman-Woods' rental contact and writing to her, he said.
"We will be looking very closely at all our connections with people who, in my opinion, have betrayed the Labour leader," he said.
The long-standing annual gala coal sees mining banners paraded through the city, past a platform at The County Hotel to a rally and speeches at The Racecourse.
Although Labour leaders had been regular speakers in the past, in 2012 Ed Miliband became the first to address the gala for 23 years.
Mr Corbyn, newly elected, spoke at last year's event and has been invited to attend again in July.
An amateur photographer spotted the mammal, thought to be extinct, in early July, and passed photos to the Shropshire Wildlife Trust.
There have been numerous reports in the county, but trust mammal expert Stuart Edmunds was able to verify the image.
"There is now a possibility that they may have been living here right under our noses for a long time," he said.
Pine martens are nocturnal, house cat-sized members of the stoat and weasel family.
There is a healthy population of at least 4,000 pine martens in Scotland, and small numbers live around Snowdonia, in Wales.
The wildlife trust believes the Shropshire marten had moved across from Wales.
LacPatrick is the second largest milk processor in Northern Ireland, behind Dale Farm.
The investment means its Artigarvan plant - formerly part of Town of Monaghan Co-Op - will increase capacity to 2.5 million litres of milk per day.
It will also underpin the future of more than 1,000 family farms that supply milk to the creamery.
The money will be used to build an evaporation tower at Artigarvan.
The company is expanding to meet demand in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
The expansion will mean 15 new jobs, whilst up to 150 construction workers will be involved in building it.
Work has begun already and is due for completion in April 2017.
The company, LacPatrick, was formed when two creameries merged in July. They were formerly Ballyrashane Co-Op, Coleraine, and Town of Monaghan Co-Op.
Women are only now earning the amount that men did in 2006, data from the WEF's Global Gender Gap report says.
It says progress on closing the gap has stalled in recent years at a time when more women are entering the workplace.
In fact, nearly a quarter of a billion more women are in the global workforce today than a decade ago.
In several countries, more women are now going to university than men but - crucially - this is not necessarily translating into more women occupying skilled roles or leadership positions.
The WEF report looks at whether men and women have the same rights and opportunities in each country in four areas: health, education, economic participation and political empowerment.
How equal are you? Click through to find out how your country ranks for gender equality
Nordic countries are still doing the most to close the gender gap overall, just as they were 10 years ago. They may not have achieved total equality, but Iceland (1), Norway (2), Finland (3) and Sweden (4) occupy the top four rankings out of 145 countries.
"They have the best policies in the world for families," says the report's lead author, Saadia Zahidi. "Their childcare systems are the best and they have the best laws on paternity, maternity and family leave."
Not far behind, though, is Rwanda (6) which sits above the US and the UK in the index. Its high score is down to the number of female politicians active in the country.
After the genocide there, a special effort was made to bring more women into politics. Now 64% of its parliamentarians are female. The country also has more women in its labour force than men.
Over the last decade one of the most dramatic changes has been in education. In fact, the report shows that a reverse gender gap is emerging in higher education, with more women in university than men in 98 countries.
100 Women season 2015
This year's season features two weeks of inspirational stories about the BBC's 100 Women in 2015 and others who are defying stereotypes around the world.
Like us on Facebook and follow us on using the hashtag #100Women.
Ms Zahidi says there are six times more women in university than men in Qatar, which has seen a strong push towards women's education in recent decades. In Barbados and Jamaica, two-and-a-half times more women are enrolled at university than men, she adds.
And as more women go to university, families want to see a financial return on that education. Sixty-eight countries in the world now have more women than men in skilled positions, such as doctors, teachers and lawyers.
But despite this, women still do not seem to reach the top positions in business, politics or public service in the same way that men do. The WEF believes only three countries have more women than men in leadership positions: the Philippines, Fiji and Columbia.
There may be some eyebrows raised that Saudi Arabia (134) scores more highly than Jordan or Lebanon. But Ms Zahidi is convinced that change is being made there under the surface.
"It's actually one of the countries that has made the most progress over the last 10 years," she says. "There's a pretty clear strategy in place by the Ministry of Labour to try to get more women into the workplace."
The global picture, though, is not always one of continual progress toward equality. A handful of countries have been moving backwards in the index: Jordan, Mali, Croatia, Slovak Republic and Sri Lanka.
And the authors say they are particularly disappointed that progress on closing the wage gap has been "stalling markedly" in the last few years.
The data suggests women are earning now what men were 10 years ago - a global average of just over £7,300 ($11,000; €10,400) compared with £13,500 ($20,500; €19,200) paid to men.
Ms Zahidi says this may be down to the fact there are much better data. "There's now a much higher awareness of the problem and some corrective measures have been put in place but perhaps they haven't yet paid off," she says.
So where does the fight for gender equality go next?
Ms Zahidi is convinced that attitudes still need to change in the home - not just inside governments or big businesses.
"Unless we start changing the culture around the division of labour at home there's always going to be that extra burden on women," she says. "That means we're not going to be able to maintain those high levels of women joining the workforce all the way through to middle management and senior positions."
They were unearthed from the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya, and date to 3.3 million years ago.
They are 700,000 years older than any tools found before, even pre-dating the earliest humans in the Homo genus.
The find, reported in Nature, suggests that more ancient species, such as Australopithecus afarensis or Kenyanthropus platyops, may have been more sophisticated than was thought.
"They are significantly earlier than anything that has been found previously," said Dr Nick Taylor, from the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) in France and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.
"It's really quite astonishing to think what separates the previous oldest site and this site is 700,000 years of time. It's monumental."
The first tools from the site, which is called Lomekwi 3, were discovered in 2011. They were spotted after researchers took a wrong turn as they walked through the hot, dry Kenyan landscape.
By the end of 2012, a total of 149 tools had been found, and another field trip in 2014 has unearthed more still.
They include sharp flakes of stone, sheared off from larger rocks, which were most likely used for cutting.
Hammers and anvils were also excavated, some of which were huge in size.
"The very largest one we have weighs 15kg, which is massive," Dr Taylor told BBC News.
"On this piece, it doesn't show the signs of actually having been flaked to produce other artefacts... rather, it was probably used as an anvil.
"It probably rested in the soil and the other cobbles brought to the site, which were intended to be smashed apart to make tools, were struck against this large anvil."
Dating of the volcanic ash and minerals around the tools suggests that they are 3.3 million years old.
Until this discovery, the oldest examples of this technology were the Oldowan tools from Tanzania, which date to about 2.6 million years ago.
The researchers say the 700,000-year time difference reveals how manufacturing methods and use changed over time, growing more advanced.
The scientists do not know who made the tools discovered in Kenya.
Until now, some thought that Homo habilis - known as "handy man" - was the earliest of our ancestors in the Homo genus to use tools.
But with Homo fossils dating back to only 2.4-2.3 million years ago, it now seems unlikely that this was the first toolmaker.
Other finds, such as animal bones found in Ethiopia with cut marks that date to 3.39 million years ago, also suggest tool use began before H. habilis.
Scientists now believe the 3.3-million-year-old implements were crafted by another, more primitive species.
Dr Taylor said: "There are a number of possible candidates at present.
"There was a hominin called Kenyanthropus platyops, which has been found very close to where the Lomekwi 3 tools are being excavated. And that hominin was around at the time the tools were being made.
"More widely in the East African region there is another hominin, Australopithecus afarensis, which is famously known from the fossil Lucy, which is another candidate."
Neither of these species was assumed to be particularly intelligent - they had both human and ape-like features, with relatively small brains.
However the tools suggest they may have been smarter than assumed.
Dr Ignacio de la Torre, from University College London's Institute of Archaeology, described this as "a game-changing" find.
"It's the most important discovery in the last 50 years," he told BBC News.
"It suggests that species like Australopithecus might have been intelligent enough to make stone tools - that they had the cognitive and manipulative abilities to carry tasks like this out."
Follow Rebecca on Twitter
In the advert she said her hair "feels stronger" and "full of life", with a "healthy shine".
The ASA received 40 complaints that the effects shown could not be achieved since Cole had extensions.
But claims that the product's benefits had been exaggerated were rejected.
The ASA noted that consumer testing, conducted by L'Oreal, appeared to demonstrate that the results were achievable by consumers who did not wear hair extensions.
It said: "We considered most consumers would interpret the ads to mean the product would have an effect on the look and feel of hair that was weak, limp, lifeless, dull or straw-like.
"However, they were likely to understand that individual results would vary according to their own hair type."
L'Oreal said results of its consumer tests on participants had found that the benefits of the product were achievable and had been recognised by the average consumer who did not have hair extensions.
The company said the adverts had not been intended to promise that consumers would look exactly like Cheryl Cole.
It added that the average consumer would understand that the effects would vary according to hair type and the style adopted.
But with only hours until a vote on a motion of no confidence in his leadership at Westminster, there are signs that his backing away from Parliament could be starting to fray.
Another member of the front bench, Andy Slaughter, has joined dozens of others in resigning. But this is different.
Mr Slaughter describes himself as a "comrade" of Mr Corbyn and decided to resign only after consulting with his local party activists who agreed.
His disquiet cannot be dismissed as the grumbling of an MP from a very different wing of the party. I understand he also turned down a promotion to the shadow cabinet, and decided to quit instead.
And the first senior figure in Labour local government is now calling for him to go. Dave Sparks, the former chair of the Local Government Association, has warned that if Mr Corbyn stays, Labour will be wiped out.
He told the BBC that if the leadership doesn't change leader, and change course, the party is looking at its support disappearing in England as it has melted away in Scotland.
But last night, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said that Jeremy Corbyn would fight to stay on.
Last night in Westminster, Mr Corbyn and his close friend and colleague Mr McDonnell seemed utterly determined not to budge. It seemed inevitable that MPs' only course was to challenge him as leader.
But other local council figures are expected to echo Mr Sparks and call for him to go. The wave of enthusiasm he built outside Parliament may be starting to recede.
If so, his confidence that he would win the likely leadership contest may prove to be misplaced.
The 17-year-old from Shropshire was given a caution for using threatening words, Thames Valley Police said.
The Northern Ireland player was hit in the face by the coin during the 20 February game against Reading after he went to give his shirt to a supporter.
It is thought no charges were brought due to a lack of evidence.
A spokeswoman for Thames Valley Police said: "A 17-year-old boy has been given a youth caution for using threatening or abusive words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour, likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
"No further action was taken in relation to throwing a missile on to a football playing area."
West Brom lost 3-1 to Championship side Reading in the fifth round tie at the Madejski Stadium.
Brunt, who has played 313 games for West Brom, said he was "disgusted" and "ashamed" at being hit.
Fans held a charity collection following the incident, raising £4,500.
He added that he would also seek to give security forces shoot-to-kill powers for suspects who evade arrest and those involved in organised crime.
It is unclear how easily he could enact such proposals, but analysts credit his success to his tough stance on crime.
He is set to be sworn into office on 30 June for a term of six years.
While official election results have not yet been announced, Mr Duterte has an unassailable lead. He will need the backing of Congress to see through his plans.
Profile: From 'Punisher' to president
Speaking at a press conference on Sunday in the southern city of Davao, Mr Duterte is also quoted as saying that he wanted to forge closer relations with China, and that he was open to direct talks over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
The Philippines has taken one of its claims to a court of arbitration at the Hague.
Mr Duterte's record as the crime-crushing mayor of the southern city of Davao, once notorious for its lawlessness, has earned him the moniker The Punisher.
"What I will do is urge Congress to restore death penalty by hanging," Mr Duterte told reporters. The Philippines abolished capital punishment in 2006.
"If you resist, show violent resistance, my order to police (will be) to shoot to kill. Shoot to kill for organised crime. You heard that? Shoot to kill for every organised crime," he is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.
Rights groups say hundreds of criminals were killed by so-called "death squads" in Davao during Mr Duterte's stewardship of the city. In 2015, Human Rights Watch described Mr Duterte as the "death squad mayor" for his strong-arm tactics in Davao.
Whether Mr Duterte is able to persuade Congress to back such policies remains to be seen.
Last week his spokesman put forward a series of proposals such as a ban on alcohol in public places and a "nationwide curfew" for children.
Mr Duterte was not afraid of courting controversy throughout his election campaign. He vowed to give himself and members of the security forces immunity from prosecution after leaving office, saying: "Pardon given to Rodrigo Duterte for the crime of multiple murder, signed Rodrigo Duterte."
On vowing to kill criminals
"Forget the laws on human rights... You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you better go out. Because I'd kill you. I'll dump all of you into Manila Bay, and fatten all the fish there."
On the rape of a female missionary
"I saw her face and I thought, son of a bitch. what a pity... I was mad she was raped but she was so beautiful. I thought, the mayor should have been first."
On the Pope's visit holding up traffic
"We were affected by the traffic. It took us five hours... I wanted to call him: 'Pope, son of a whore, go home. Do not visit us again'."
On taking Viagra
"I was separated from my wife. I'm not impotent. What am I supposed to do? Let this hang forever? When I take Viagra, it stands up."
"Duterte Harry" in quotes
Andrew Parker was making his first public speech since taking over as head of the UK Security Service in April.
Al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Pakistan and Yemen present "the most direct and immediate threats to the UK," he said.
He also warned of the damage done to British security by the leaking of classified documents from GCHQ.
Addressing the Royal United Services Institute in Whitehall, Mr Parker added the security services must have access to the many means of communication which terrorists now use.
He also revealed some of the fears and frustrations his service was experiencing over both the advances in technology, and those who leak government secrets into the public domain.
Intelligence officials in both the US and Britain have been absolutely dismayed at the wealth of secret data taken by the former CIA contractor Edward Snowden when he fled to Russia.
Some 58,000 of the files are from GCHQ, whose intelligence, Mr Parker said, had played a vital role in stopping many UK terrorist plots over the past decade.
Without mentioning Mr Snowden by name, he said ''it causes enormous damage to make public the reach and limits of GCHQ techniques".
Doing this, he added, handed the advantage to the terrorists.
He warned that terrorists now had tens of thousands of means of communication "through e-mail, IP telephony, in-game communication, social networking, chat rooms, anonymising services and a myriad of mobile apps".
Mr Parker said it was vital for MI5 - and by inference its partner GCHQ - to retain the capability to access such information if the Security Service was to protect the country.
However, some have argued that Snowden's revelations, which were published in the Guardian newspaper, have not harmed Britain and, in fact, opened a debate on the balance between privacy and security.
Henry Porter, a columnist with that newspaper's sister title the Observer, said: "The people who released and let go of these documents, of course, were the NSA in America.
"That's where the leak took place and we haven't published anything which jeopardised the security of this country."
In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "What we have done is shown how much surveillance we are under; legitimately under the laws that have been passed by this government."
A Guardian News & Media spokesman said: "A huge number of people - from President Obama to the US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper - have now conceded that the Snowden revelations have prompted a debate which was both necessary and overdue.
"The President has even set up a review panel and there have been vigorous discussions in the US Congress and throughout Europe
"Such a debate is only worthwhile if it is informed. That is what journalism should do."
But Mr Parker warned that threats to the UK are growing more diverse and diffuse. And he warned: "It remains the case that there are several thousand Islamist extremists here who see the British public as a legitimate target."
He explained that "knowing of an individual does not equate to knowing everything about them".
"Being on our radar does not necessarily mean being under our microscope," he said.
"The reality of intelligence work in practice is that we only focus the most intense intrusive attention on a small number of cases at any one time.
"The challenge therefore concerns making choices between multiple and competing demands to give us the best chance of being in the right place at the right time to prevent terrorism."
Mr Parker added: "We are not perfect, and there are always things we can learn, do better and sharpen up on."
With 30 years in MI5, Mr Parker was previously deputy director general and before that director of its counter-terrorism division at the time of the London bombings in 2005.
In his speech, he named al-Qaeda and its affiliates in south Asia and the Arabian peninsula as presenting "the most direct and immediate threats to the UK".
By that he meant primarily its elements in Pakistan and separately in Yemen, from where al-Qaeda has three times succeeded in smuggling explosives past security on to planes in the last four years.
Referring to the ongoing conflict in Syria, he said a growing proportion of MI5's casework concerned individuals from the UK who had travelled to fight there.
He said extremist Sunni groups in Syria were aspiring to attack Western countries.
This has long been a concern of Western governments - that British-based jihadists will one day return from the killing fields of Syria and turn their new-found skills on the population back home.
A number of people have been stopped at airports and some have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism.
"For the future, there is good reason to be concerned about Syria," he said.
Mr Parker said 330 people had been convicted of terrorism-related offences in Britain between 11 September 2001 and 31 March 2013.
He added that in the first few months of this year, there had been four major trials related to terrorist plots.
Chillingly, he reminded the public that these included plans for a 7/7-style attack with rucksack bombs, and named two other plots.
There were guilty pleas in each case, he said, with 24 terrorists convicted and sentenced to more than 260 years in jail.
In conclusion, Mr Parker said he did not believe the terrorist threat was any worse now than before. But it was "more diffuse, more complicated, more unpredictable".
The girl's remains were found in Manor Park, Church Hill, in Aldershot on Friday afternoon.
Detectives believe "Baby M" may have been delivered under a nearby oak tree and are still searching for her mother.
People are being asked to check footage and look for someone "in a distressed state".
More on this and other stories from across the South of England.
Officers believe Baby M may have been left in the park sometime between 16:00 BST on 14 May and 16 May.
They are urging anyone who may have been driving on High Street during that period to check footage for someone "walking uncomfortably, squatting or leaning against the trees" opposite Kwik Fit.
Making a renewed appeal to the mother, Ch Insp Debbie Brooks said: "We are really worried for your wellbeing and we want you to get the medical care that we know you need.
"Call us on 101 or go to a hospital."
A post-mortem examination has taken place, but no details of how Baby M died have been released.
A memorial service for the child was held in the park on Sunday.
|
Former Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire seamer Mike Bore has died, aged 69.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The football world has been paying tribute to former Aston Villa forward Dalian Atkinson, who has died age 48 after being hit by a police Taser.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A rogue sheep had a brush with the law and a ride in a patrol car after being found "running amok" in Devon.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has denied being part of a plan to rob a drug dealer who was stabbed to death during a raid on his home.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Briton Ian Walker's Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing won the 38,739-nautical mile Volvo Ocean Race.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
US Open champion Stan Wawrinka will not defend his title in New York later this month because of a knee injury.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Stephen Thompson has apologised "unreservedly" to Dundee United fans following relegation to the Championship, but manager Mixu Paatelainen's future remains unclear.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
US drugmaker Merck has agreed to settle a lawsuit with investors related to statements the company made about the safety of one of its painkillers.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Amazon Prime 30-day free trial advertisement was "likely to mislead" customers, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) says.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Prominent Australian Catholics have attacked a speech by ousted PM Tony Abbott in which he urged Europe to take a hard line on migrants.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Late in 1876, so the story goes, a young man named John Warne Gates built a wire-fence pen in the middle of San Antonio, Texas.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sir Jackie Stewart is to provide expert advice for a motorsport safety review ordered in the wake of the deaths of three rally spectators.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Christmas jumper has now become a staple of festive activities - from boozy office parties to essential wear when carving the turkey on the big day.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Malaysian schoolboy whose legs were amputated after allegedly being beaten by a staff member has died in hospital, local media report.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Four-time champion John Higgins has built a 5-3 lead over Barry Hawkins in their World Championship semi-final.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A toddler was left pinned between a table and a wall when a stolen car crashed into her home.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 19-year-old woman has died after taking ecstasy during a night out in Leeds, police have said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A project to store compressed air in caves under the County Antrim coastline has been given a huge EU grant.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A teenager accused of helping kill three men who responded to a fake job advert on the Craigslist website has been convicted of aggravated murder.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Oil prices have fallen by nearly 3% after Iran put off plans to join nations proposing a freeze on production.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Leicestershire have signed Ireland all-rounder Kevin O'Brien for this season's T20 Blast campaign.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Labour MPs who have resigned from the shadow cabinet and voted against Jeremy Corbyn have been told they are not welcome on the platform at the Durham Miners' Gala.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The first confirmed sighting of a wild pine marten in England for over a century has been recorded.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The LacPatrick Group has announced a £30m investment at its milk powder processing plant in County Tyrone.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The World Economic Forum believes it will take another 118 years - or until 2133 - until the global pay gap between men and women is finally closed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The world's oldest stone tools have been discovered, scientists report.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An advertisement for a L'Oreal product has been cleared after complaints that singer Cheryl Cole was wearing hair extensions, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Jeremy Corbyn's defiance has been built on his insistence that a small number of Labour MPs who have never believed in him are trying to unseat him in Westminster, and his position is buttressed by overwhelming support among the party around the country.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A teenager arrested after a coin was thrown at West Bromwich Albion's Chris Brunt during an FA Cup match will face no further action, police have said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said he will seek to return the death penalty, in his first comments to reporters since last week's election.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Thousands of Islamist extremists in the UK see the British public as a legitimate target for attacks, the director general of MI5 has warned.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Officers investigating the discovery of a newborn baby's body in a park are asking motorists to check dashcam footage.
| 39,796,683 | 15,151 | 1,014 | true |
Andrew Coates, 41, and assistant Polly Connor, 46, were preparing a display for a wedding reception near the shore of Lake Windermere when they died.
The wedding was held in the grounds of a luxury cottage in Ecclerigg, Cumbria, on 30 August 2014.
Explosions were heard three miles away, the hearing in Kendal was told.
It happened about 30 minutes after John Simpson, 61, wed Nicole Rothwell, 44.
Firefighters were called to Larch Cottage in mid-afternoon where they found the bodies of father-of-one Mr Coates and mother-of-three Mrs Connor, both from Kendal, near the entrance of an outbuilding.
Giving evidence Stewart Myatt, a fireworks expert from the Health and Safety Laboratory, said he could not find any evidence to say how any of the fireworks ignited.
The "most likely sequence of events" was a firework shell penetrated a partitioned wooden wall from outside and hit the back of a metal cabinet in the storeroom before bursting into flames, he told the hearing.
The outbuilding was an L-shaped single-storey wooden construction split into three compartments, also containing a garage and another storage room.
Mr Myatt said: "Going through the wall, through the cabinet and exploding seems to be the most likely, plausible mechanism where the people that were in there were rendered unconscious immediately, not able to do anything, not even to run to the door."
He thought Mr Coates, a builder, and Mrs Connor, a plumber and former racehorse work rider, would have entered the storeroom to either find shelter from exploding fireworks outside or to get firefighting equipment.
Mr Coates and insurance broker Mr Simpson were friends and had launched a joint business venture, Stardust Fireworks, with Mr Coates asked to organise the pyrotechnics for the wedding.
Both men were described as "incredibly safety conscious".
The inquest at Castle Green Hotel in Kendal continues with the jury expected to retire to consider its conclusions later.
|
Fireworks display organisers "most likely" lost consciousness when a single firework flew into a storeroom and exploded, an inquest jury heard.
| 35,379,625 | 466 | 36 | false |
The girl was cycling on the A71 at Burngrange Cottages, West Calder, at about 18:10 on Saturday when she was struck by a black Nissan Micra.
She was treated by paramedics before being taken to the Sick Kids Hospital in Edinburgh where she remains in a serious but stable condition.
Police have appealed for witnesses.
Sgt Roger Park said: "We have spoken to the driver of the vehicle, however I would appeal to anyone who witnessed the collision or indeed anyone who was in the area at the time and who has relevant information to contact police."
The accident happened at about 06:00 on Mauricewood Road. No other vehicle was involved. Police have appealed for witnesses to the crash.
The man is in his early 20s, 5ft 7in tall, with short light brown or fair hair.
He was wearing jeans and a dark coloured bomber-style jacket.
Deila said winning trophies remains in Celtic's hands and that he is unconcerned at Aberdeen moving to within a point of the league leaders.
The Norwegian has been criticised for the side's recent form.
"I feel pressure all the time," said Deila. "We want to win, I want to win. We have every opportunity again to win a lot of trophies this season."
The Celtic manager said it was important that the supporters continue to get behind the team.
"As I've said many times, I know why I'm here: it's to win trophies, to do something in Europe and to develop this team," he added. "That's what I'm going to do.
"We have every opportunity again to win a lot of trophies this season - I had two last year. Nothing is lost, so I'm really looking forward to the rest of the season.
"Supporters have their opinions and there are different opinions among the supporters.
"It's very important that they stand behind the team and I'm sure they are.
"We have everything in our hands, we don't need to think about anybody.
"The situation is clear. We have played one game less and if we win that we are four points ahead and that is a better situation than we were in last year."
Meanwhile, striker Leigh Griffiths, who has been sidelined with a calf injury, took part in light training and will be assessed ahead of Sunday's trip to Hearts.
And Ryan Christie, who was signed by Celtic from Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the summer then loaned back to the Highlanders, will be with Deila's side for the rest of the season.
The midfielder is currently recovering from a knee injury.
"He has arrived at the club and that is a positive," added Deila. "He is still injured but will start training around the end of January.
"He is very talented but he will have to fight with everyone else to get into the team.
"It is important to get him here, to this environment to get to know all the boys and staff and get used to the way we train and play."
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it had reviewed every aspect of air display safety.
Tony Rapson, the CAA's head of general aviation, said the cause of the Shoreham crash was still not known but from this year all air shows would have tighter requirements.
A vintage Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to the A27 on 22 August, killing 11.
The jet had been performing aerobatics at the annual Shoreham Airshow when it plummeted to the ground. This year's show has been cancelled.
The CAA is enhancing requirements for permissions to hold a display; training and checks for people overseeing displays; requirements relating to the experience, skill and health of display pilots; and the role of examiners who oversee display pilots.
Measures taken in the aftermath of Shoreham will also remain in place - they saw all Hawker Hunter jets grounded, ex-military jets restricted to fly-pasts over land and air shows subject to enhanced risk assessments.
Mr Rapson said millions of people attended air displays - more than 5.7 million in the UK in 2014 - and the CAA had looked at how it could make displays "even safer and even better".
He said this year would see a move towards formal training for flying display directors who would either have to attend a pre-season symposium or an individual briefing.
From 2017, a formal two-day course will be in place.
Mr Rapson said the Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) was investigating the Shoreham incident while the CAA had looked at regulations for all air displays.
He said: "We still don't know the cause of the Shoreham accident but when they [the AAIB] make recommendations, the CAA will respond."
The aviation chief explained restrictions and precautionary measures put in place following the Shoreham crash would remain in place because the CAA could not assess them until it had seen the AAIB's conclusions.
Both the CAA and AAIB have yet to make their final reports.
Colin Baker, one of the directors of Shoreham Airshow, said managers of the show had always complied fully with CAA regulations and entirely supported the ongoing CAA review.
He said: "We will closely examine both the updates announced today and the CAA's next report, due for publication after the AAIB investigation is completed, when we consider the future of the airshow from 2017 onwards."
The McKinsey Global Institute conducted the research showing more female employment would boost the economy.
It found $2.1 trillion could be added if the country raised its female employment ratio from 64% to 74%.
"Gender inequality is a pressing human issue, but also has huge ramifications for jobs, productivity, GDP growth, and inequality," the report said.
The report says 6.4 million new jobs would need to be added to the US, on top of the 10 million already projected to be added by 2025, just to reach the $2.1 trillion target. That would require businesses and local governments to invest $475 billion.
The US economy has added more than two million jobs for the last three years, but most have been low paying.
Opponents of government enforced equality programs often point to the high cost new regulations place on businesses.
To get the full economic benefit women would also have to occupy more high paid and full-time jobs. Women make up 46% of the US workforce, but currently contribute just one fifth of the country's annual gross domestic product (GDP).
Promoting more women to leadership and management roles and training them for higher skilled positions would boost their contribution to the economy, the study said.
Reducing the amount of time women spend on unpaid work is also essential. Between 1965 and 2010 labour force participation rate for women rose, but the time women spent on unpaid child care also climbed by a third.
In February, philanthropist Melinda Gates, addressing the impact of unpaid work called it a "hidden cost in society."
On Tuesday, San Francisco became the first US city to pass a law mandating fully paid parental leave.
The study's authors called for government action to address to paid parental leave, which is not guaranteed in the US, and improve childcare. They also said businesses should look at their hiring and performance evaluation practices to boost gender diversity.
The authors admitted that reaching the $4.2 trillion figures was unlikely because the "barriers hindering women from fully participating in the labour market make it unlikely that they will attain full gender equality within a decade."
In September, a research report by MGI said $12 trillion would be added to the global economy if gender equality was reached worldwide.
Thomas O'Hara, along with Daithí McKay, is alleged to have coached the loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson before his appearance at Stormont's National Management Agency (Nama) inquiry.
Mr McKay resigned as an MLA on Thursday and apologised for his actions.
The DUP has made a formal complaint to Stormont's watchdog.
Sinn Féin said it would welcome an inquiry to investigate the claims, which emerged after leaked Twitter messages between Mr Bryson, Mr McKay and Mr O'Hara were obtained by the BBC's Nolan Show and The Irish News.
The messages were exchanged before Mr Bryson testified at a finance committee inquiry, chaired by Mr McKay, into the £1.2bn sale of Nama's property loan portfolio in Northern Ireland.
The inquiry was set up last year due to political controversy over the deal.
DUP Chairman Maurice Morrow submitted his complaint to the Assembly Standards Commissioner, citing paragraph three of the Stormont code of conduct which emphasises the need for MLAs to act with integrity and not bring the assembly into disrepute.
The commissioner has the power to investigate former MLAs.
Mr O'Hara stood unsuccessfully as a Sinn Féin council candidate in Ballymena back in 2011.
Sinn Féin say they will cooperate with any investigation into the matter.
It is not yet clear if a formal complaint has been made - for the assembly commissioner to take action that has to happen within the next four weeks.
The clock is also ticking on Mr McKay's replacement - Sinn Féin would have to co-opt another party member to take over as an MLA within the next seven days in order to avoid triggering a by-election.
The inquiry was investigating an allegation made in the Dáil (Irish parliament) that a politician or political party in Northern Ireland stood to profit from the loan sale.
Last September, Mr Bryson used a meeting of the committee to name former DUP leader Peter Robinson as the individual he referred to as "Person A" in relation to the scandal.
The then first minister of Northern Ireland strongly denied he had sought to benefit in any way from the multi-million pound property deal.
On Thursday, Mr McKay said he accepted that his actions were "inappropriate, ill-advised and wrong".
Called Unheard Voices, the event in Inverness on 23 June is the first of its kind in the Highlands.
It will bring together academics, politicians, social workers and community activists.
Topics to be discussed include Brexit, integration, portrayal of Poles in TV dramas and mental health.
Historical links between Scotland and Poland will also be explored, such as the migration of Poles to Scotland after World War Two and the thousands of Scottish emigrants who went to Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Organiser Dr David Worthington, who is head of the UHI's Centre for History, said it was hoped to bring some difficult issues into the open.
He said: "Migration is a complex experience. The Polish case emphasises both positive and negative sides of that.
"There are very difficult issues for host communities and for migrants themselves. I don't want to shy away from that I think it is important to bring people together to talk about these things at the moment."
He added: "I think to do it in the Highlands makes sense, because I would like to think that within this region people are sensitive to issues around migration and are very aware of the historical background in terms of the experience of people from the Highland in relation to this mass movement of people we associate with the Clearances."
The A16, in Lincolnshire, was extended to Peterborough in 2010, after years of campaigning, delays and a public inquiry.
The speed enforcement cameras will be installed on the stretch of road between Spalding and Crowland.
John Siddle from the Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership said some drivers were using the road like a race-track.
"Because everything is cut back and it is a very flat area of the county there are no fixed points to gauge distance and speed of other vehicles approaching," he said.
"People are going for overtakes at high speed and what we call injudicious overtakes - which means it's going to go wrong."
A similar scheme on the A15 near Lincoln saw two fixed cameras replaced with average speed checks with the number of drivers caught speeding dropping from an average of 175 a week to 17.
In the five years since the cameras went live on the A52 near Grantham, casualties have fallen by 55%.
The average speed system will be installed on an eight-mile stretch of the A16 from the junction with A1175 near Spalding and the roundabout south of Crowland.
August 2011 - 22-year-old man killed in head-on collision overtaking another car
January 2012 - 78-year-old woman killed when she pulled into the path of another car
November 2012 - 52-year-old man killed when hit by oncoming car overtaking a lorry
April 2012 - 58-year-old cyclist hit and killed
May 2013 - 22-year-old man walking on the road hit and killed
December 2013 - 23-year-old man walking at night hit and killed
March 2014 - 37-year-old motorcyclist killed in head on collision by a car overtaking a lorry
May 2015 - 80-year-old woman killed in three-car crash at a junction
The Briton, who had a stroke aged 23 which led to her being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), won athletics bronze in the T38 100m and gold in cycling's C4-5 time trial.
"I am in a small minority as a black female with a disability," she said.
"But I've shown that even with conditions like MS, it's not the setback that it has to be."
In winning cycling gold in a world record time, the 25-year-old from Leeds became the first Briton since 1988 to win a medal in two sports at the same Paralympics.
Isabel Barr was the last Briton to achieve that feat, with medals in the shooting and athletics in Seoul.
Cox, who said she celebrated winning bronze on the track by spending the next day "plaiting people's hair and watching [the film] Coach Carter", now wants to inspire the next generation of Para-athletes from different backgrounds.
"There is nothing to be afraid of - just come out and show what you've got," she said.
"I've come out here and done it, I'm nothing special. You just have to have heart, passion, determination and self-belief."
BBC Sport's Nick Hope
"I really think Kadeena Cox's success could start a seismic shift in Paralympic, as well as Olympic, cycling and encourage more black athletes to try the sport.
"Given the obvious sprint power many black athletes are able to generate in track and field events, I know there are many in cycling who feel it would be a natural shift.
"To date I think it's been a cultural problem - much like we've seen traditionally in swimming, which is dominated by white athletes.
"However, that has begun to change in recent Games and in particular the Rio Olympics where USA's Simone Manuel became the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic swimming gold.
"Will cycling be the next sport to benefit from a change in views and attitudes towards old 'traditions' in sport?"
Theresa May is seeking agreement with 10 Democratic Unionist MPs after losing her majority in the general election.
There are suggestions the DUP could demand additional funding for Northern Ireland projects for its support.
Welsh Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford said Wales and Scotland should benefit in a similar way from any cash boost.
"I will have a problem with it if money which is being given to Northern Ireland for purposes that are devolved to Wales and Scotland," he told BBC Radio Wales' Good Evening Wales programme.
A long-running arrangement distributes extra money to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland using a mathematical formula when public spending goes up in England.
Mr Drakeford added: "As John Major has said, if this turns out simply to be cash for votes, then that is a very, very undignified position for the UK government to have put itself in.
"If there is money for purposes that only exist in Northern Ireland, that's one thing; but if Northern Ireland were to benefit for purposes we ourselves have to discharge here in Wales, we will expect to see a similar sum of money calibrated to our size and circumstances to come to Wales.
"It cannot possibly be that there is a separate flow of money to Northern Ireland only for responsibilities that are at the same time discharged in Scotland and in Wales."
The devolved government in Belfast is currently suspended.
A variety of locations are being used to gather tents, blankets, food and clothing due to be sent to Calais.
Over 400 people have pledged to help in Wrexham with groups collecting items in Newport, Cardiff and elsewhere.
Organisers at The Lansdowne pub in Canton said they wanted to help after watching news reports.
In Wrexham, Katie Wilkinson, 27, and friends set up a Facebook group, Wrexham to Calais Solidarity, calling for donated items.
Three collection centres have been set up in the county borough due to the "overwhelming and inspiring" support.
She said: "As the response has been so huge, we are now planning to go directly to the camp in Calais on the 19 September to join others from across the UK and Europe in a day of solidarity."
Ariana Faris, a psychotherapist from Cardiff, is flying out to the Greek island Lesbos on Saturday with her sister, a midwife, to help refugees and migrants there.
Explaining why they have decided to go, she said: "It was the thought that people on the island themselves are just gathering and offering what they can and that we too can do something."
David Cameron has announced the UK is to provide resettlement to "thousands" more Syrian refugees.
It will mean about 800 civil servants will be based in the village.
East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell said it should bring a significant number of new jobs to the area.
"It would be a really, long commute for many people who currently work at the headquarters in Belfast, so I imagine several hundred jobs will be created."
Sinn Fein MLA for East Derry Cathal Ó hOisÃn said the move could open up further opportunities for regeneration in the area.
He called on the Minister for Transport, Danny Kennedy, to consider changes to the Derry/Belfast railway line at Ballykelly.
"The railway line already runs through the site and the installation of a spur link and rail halt would not entail a major redesign of the work that is already being under taken."
Philip Kingston, who is the president of the Roe Valley Chamber of Commerce, said the move was good news for an area that had suffered big job losses in recent years.
"Some of these jobs will obviously be new jobs," he said. "Also some people will relocate and that means new people coming into the area with good jobs and spending power."
"The news has generally brought a feel good factor," he said.
However, a leading figure in the Northern Ireland farming community, Harry Sinclair, said there could be a downside to the move.
"The difficulty I see is that high paid civil servants who communicate with government a lot will spend up to three hours a day on the road travelling, so that is going to be an additional cost to the taxpayer."
The Department of Agriculture will move from Dundonald House in east Belfast to the site of the former Shackleton Army barracks in Ballykelly by 2015.
Locals in the Derry village said it is a much needed boost to the area.
"Since the army camp closed, about 1,000 jobs have been lost in this area and that was devastating to Ballykelly, so to have these jobs relocated is wonderful," one local man said.
He added that the question remaining for many people in the village is whether many jobs will be created or if most current employees will relocate.
A local woman said businesses in the area are hoping to benefit from the move.
"It comes at a time when things were closing down so it's what Ballykelly really needed," she said.
"I work in a hotel and it will boost businesses like that too."
About 10 firefighters used cherry pickers to reach the flames which broke out on the Grade II-listed Victoria Pier at about 16:30 BST on Friday.
North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the incident was under control but crews had been unable to determine if the blaze was extinguished because the tide has restricted access.
A crew will stay overnight and an investigation will start on Saturday.
Part of the structure collapsed into the sea last month and then it was further hit by Storm Doris three weeks later.
The 116-year-old pier was already closed to the public for safety reasons.
Work to demolish the damaged parts of the pier, which has been closed since 2008, began earlier this month.
The remainder of the seaward section is to be redeveloped into a shortened boardwalk with plans to restore its 1930s Art Deco pavilion also being looked at.
Conwy council voted to demolish the structure in 2013 and a report at the time said restoring the pier would cost more than £15m.
But demolition was refused by the Welsh Government in 2015.
Elections will be held for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Liverpool City Region, West of England, Greater Manchester, Tees Valley and the West Midlands.
The BBC's Listen Up project has been talking to young people about local politics and the issues that matter to them.
What messages did young people have for the mayors? Find out in our Listen Up podcasts
In Peterborough the group were divided over their feelings towards politics.
Ashley said: "As I've only just turned 18 the mayoral vote will be my first vote... I think I'm more interested in politics and how I can have my say."
Samantha, 21, said: "They'll say something and they don't do it. What's the point in saying it - you're not going to make this country better. I just think they lie."
There were concerns over the cost of living in Bristol, with 18-year-old Amelia sharing her family's struggle to find a home.
"I was living in rented [accommodation] with my mum for a few years, we looked around Bristol and couldn't find a house to fit all us in that was affordable.
"Me and my family we actually moved to Wales because basically we cannot afford to live in Bristol and we're all Bristol born and bred. It's really unfair we're being chased out of our own town… and it's really sad."
We asked students at Middlesbrough College for their thoughts on building a career and life in the area at the end of their studies.
They suggested the metro mayor should encourage entrepreneurial schemes in secondary schools and there should be more emphasis on private sector growth and investment in infrastructure.
Cory, 18, said: "There isn't the jobs and industry in this area.
"The reason unemployment is as high as it is is that people don't get the skills from education to go onto these jobs, but also because there aren't the jobs here in the first place for them.
"They can learn, they can get the skills - but they have to leave this area to get the job."
The young people involved in the workshop in Birmingham were keen for the mayor to shout about the skills and talents in one of the most creative, diverse and young cities in the country.
Dominic, 23, said: "One of the biggest selling points is the fact that because it's been neglected for so long it's a blank canvas. There's infrastructure here... it's just waiting for a revamp."
In Liverpool there was a debate about identity and whether the six council areas - Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral - could really be represented by one mayor.
At St Helens College Jess, 18, said: "There's nothing that governs us together, nothing brings us together,
"We are just apart and there's quite a few problems in St Helens as it is, but to be honest I feel like they just say you're a part of it now and then they'll focus on bigger areas rather than just St Helens."
And in Manchester the group focused on the challenges they face with public transport.
Lauren, 19, said: "I travel in to Manchester every day for university. At the start of the year I had to work out what the cheapest way to do it was.
"It was actually cheaper to buy a car, get the insurance and drive in every day, rather than getting the bus to the tram stop and getting the tram every day into Manchester."
Actor and filmmaker Femi Oyeniran, who led the workshops, said: "The young people had some very real and honest opinions about politics and I was glad to hear that lots of them are going to vote in this election which is really exciting.
"They were very keen to link the issues together and link the fact that all these things, if the mayor doesn't tackle it, could lead to long term problems in their area."
Gayle's final game will now be Friday's game against Surrey in Taunton.
The 35-year-old has scored 328 runs in three T20 Blast matches for Somerset, including 151 not out against Kent.
"Although slightly disappointed, his contribution to Somerset CCC during his stay has been immense," said Somerset director of cricket Matt Maynard.
Bijan Ebrahimi, 44, was killed outside his flat in 2013 after he was falsely accused of being a paedophile.
Avon and Somerset PCs Helen Harris and Leanne Winter were dismissed by a public misconduct hearing.
Both officers had been cleared of "misconduct in a public office" when the case came to trial in December.
Iranian-born Mr Ebrahimi, who was registered disabled, was wrongly suspected of being a paedophile by his neighbour Lee James.
He had called police to report being assaulted by James, days before he was attacked and killed outside his flat in Capgrave Crescent, Brislington.
Despite repeatedly calling police for help in the days before, the trial heard, Mr Ebrahimi had been seen as a "nuisance".
Avon and Somerset Police said the hearing had been conducted by "independent legally qualified chair" Emma Nott, who ruled both officers' actions had "amounted to gross misconduct" and her ruling was that both women be "dismissed without notice".
The force said it "abided by the decision of the chair". The misconduct hearing was held in public after the Home Office set new guidelines last year.
Chief Constable Andy Marsh "sincerely apologised once again to Bijan's family".
He said the force had "learnt a great deal and much had changed" since the "dreadful murder".
"Understanding and embracing difference, spotting vulnerability and closer joint working with our partners to achieve shared solutions to complex problems are at the heart of this change. We cannot do it alone.
"Soon after Bijan was killed we moved to a new way of working which places greater emphasis on local problem solving by neighbourhood managers working closely in the community, with the community and partners," he said.
PC Kevin Duffy and Andrew Passmore were convicted of misconduct at Bristol Crown Court in December and both were given custodial sentences.
Lee James was convicted of murder in 2013 and is serving a life sentence.
It has seen a rise of 3.5% in a year, and 13.7% over the past three years.
An estimated £173m boost to the Scottish economy comes annually from the sport.
"The racecourses are being rewarded with increased attendances through their brilliant promotion of the sport," said Scottish Racing chairman Sir Ian Good.
In their annual review, Scottish Racing also revealed that a record £6.7m was paid out in prize money, with £210,000 paid at the Scottish Grand National, second only to Aintree's Grand National.
Three of the course - Ayr, Hamilton Park and Musselburgh - were named among the top 12 racecourses in Britain by racehorse owners, with the other two being Kelso and Perth.
"The great strength of horseracing in Scotland is the united approach adopted by the five racecourses," said British Horseracing Authority chief executive Nick Rust.
"One of the success stories is how the racecourses attract runners from not only south of the border but also overseas. While the sport is in such capable hands, the future is bright for horseracing in Scotland."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Tyco BMW rider Martin took the honours in the two Superbike events, winning the feature race from Derek Sheils and Dean Harrison after Michael Dunlop came off without injury.
Martin held off Michael in Superbike race one, with Sheils in third place.
William Dunlop won both Supersport 600 outings, Harrison and Derek McGee taking up the runner-up spots, while Michael Dunlop won the Supertwins race.
William, who was riding the CD Yamaha which he will campaign in the international road races this season, saw off Harrison by five seconds in Supersport race one, Ballyclare's Jamie Hamilton completing the podium for the BE Cookstown Racing team.
James Cowton, McGee and Sheils made up the top six leaderboard.
Mar-Train Yamaha rider Harrison was third in Supersport race two, Hamilton and Sheils following home the Yorkshireman.
McGee was fourth in Superbike race one, followed by William Dunlop and Hamilton.
Sam Wilson won the 125cc race on a Joey's Bar 125cc Honda, ahead of Dungannon's Nigel Moore.
The Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) said a transition arrangement would be needed when a new agriculture policy is made.
UFU president Barclay Bell and chief executive Wesley Aston were addressing a committee of Irish senators who are looking at the implications of Brexit.
Mr Bell said any new support system should be based on productivity.
Environmental sustainability should also be considered, Mr Bell told the senators in Dublin on Thursday, adding: "The man producing the goods has to be rewarded for that."
He added that he would like to see a UK agriculture bill that would give farmers certainty about the amount of money available for future support.
About £300m a year comes to Northern Ireland farmers in subsidy payments.
Current support arrangements have been guaranteed by the UK government until 2020.
Sinn Féin senator Niall Ó Donnghaile said he was struggling to see any positives in Brexit and farmers were "dangling dangerously close" to a cliff edge.
Mr Bell said they had been given indications in recent discussions with Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire that the UK would be leaving the customs union.
He said the main issues for farmers in Northern Ireland, in addition to support were future trade arrangements, how farm regulation would work and the agri-food industry's ability to employ migrant labour.
Mr Bell said 65% of workers in Northern Ireland's meat plants were non-UK nationals and the factories would not be able to employ sufficient local staff if they were not available.
The labour issue was "low-hanging fruit", he said, which could be sorted out quickly with a clear statement of intent from the government.
He said a "red line" for farmers was that any food being imported into the UK market after Brexit was produced to the same high animal welfare and production standards.
He used the example of the United States where hormone-treated beef and chicken washed in chlorine are produced and consumed.
Mr Bell said it would be wrong to "export an industry" to countries where the same environmental and welfare standards did not apply.
Maria Villar Galaz, who was the niece of Spanish Football Association president, Angel Maria Villar, had been missing since 13 September.
She was forced to withdraw money from cash machines before being held for ransom.
Spain's foreign minister said the kidnappers had been paid, but less than they asked for. The remains of Ms Galaz were identified on Tuesday.
Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo told Spanish radio he had been convinced it would be "a matter of time before she appeared safe and sound".
"Unfortunately things did not turn out that way," he said.
The body of an unknown woman was found in the city of Toluca on Thursday, 15 September, two days after Ms Galaz' kidnapping, but she was not identified until the following Tuesday.
Two members of Ms Galaz' family and two Spanish police officers travelled to Mexico to secure her release, the AFP news agency reports.
Ms Galaz' uncle, Angel Maria Villar, has been president of the Spanish Football Association since 1988.
A former international midfielder, he has held a number of senior positions in UEFA and FIFA.
Media playback is not supported on this device
The 24-year-old hit 258 in Cape Town, reaching 200 off 163 balls, the fastest double century by an Englishman and the second fastest ever.
Stokes had made only one fifty in his previous 13 innings.
"I haven't really done much for a while so it was nice to kick on and make a big score," he said.
"I probably won't play like this ever again in my life, but I've done it once so at least I can say that."
After his innings at Newlands, Stokes added: "I normally say 'crikey' when I get to 30, to be honest, so I kept on looking at the scoreboard."
Stokes, whose 11 sixes was the most by an England batsman in a Test innings, hit 130 runs in the morning session as the tourists flayed South Africa before eventually declaring on 629-6.
When he was finally dismissed, Stokes had made the highest ever score by a Test number six, beating the 250 of Doug Walters for Australia against New Zealand in 1977.
Stokes was eventually run out after sharing a Test record sixth-wicket stand of 399 with Jonny Bairstow, who made his maiden Test century.
When England reached 600, Stokes said captain Alastair Cook asked him if he wanted to delay the declaration so he could chase a triple century.
"I said it doesn't really matter because I'm just trying to hit every ball for six anyway," revealed Stokes.
Listen - the moment Stokes reaches his double century
Listen - "Stokes batted like Gilchrist and Sobers"
Jonathan Agnew column: England lucky to have Stokes
Bairstow, the England wicketkeeper, made an unbeaten 150 to register a maiden century in his 22nd Test.
"It's probably the best day of my life," he said. "It's been a little while coming and I'm delighted to get over the line.
"It's fantastic, not only for myself, but my family as well."
Bairstow is the son of former England wicketkeeper David, who took his own life in 1998 at the age of 46.
"I was thinking of my dad and my grandpa, who passed away last year," said the 26-year-old.
"My mum was up there in one of the boxes, my sister as well. It's a special day for all the family... both here and up there."
South Africa moved to 141-2 at the close at Newlands, with captain Hashim Amla 64 not out and AB de Villiers, who was dropped by Joe Root, unbeaten on 25.
"We're massive favourites at the moment, we're so many runs ahead," said Stokes.
"De Villiers and Amla are the two big wickets, so we'll be looking to get them early tomorrow.
"It will be a big ask on a nice wicket, but we know that, once we get them, they can have a fragile tail with not many runs under their belts."
"It was a very intense show from Stokes and a crazy day of cricket," said Proteas opening batsman Dean Elgar.
"We tried various game plans against them, but it was one of those days where nothing went right.
"All you can do is take your cap off at the end of the battle.
"We were a little shell-shocked the way things were going."
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt said the deal brokered by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday was "not enough".
Qatar's government "cannot be trusted", they added, citing previous agreements.
The four have accused the emirate of supporting terrorist groups across the region. It has denied any wrongdoing.
Qatar was presented with a list of demands two weeks ago that included shutting down the Al Jazeera news network, closing a Turkish military base, cutting ties with the Muslim Brotherhood and downgrading relations with Iran.
But after receiving what they called a "negative" response last week, the four states said they would take further "political, economic and legal measures".
Mr Tillerson flew to Doha on Tuesday to sign a memo of understanding between the US and Qatar on terrorism financing that was proposed when President Donald Trump attended the Arab Islamic American Summit in the Saudi capital in May.
"The agreement which we both have signed on behalf of our governments represents weeks of intensive discussions between experts and reinvigorates the spirit of the Riyadh summit," Mr Tillerson told a joint news conference with his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani.
"The memorandum lays out a series of steps that each country will take in coming months and years to interrupt and disable terror financing flows and intensify counter-terrorism activities globally," he added.
Sheikh Mohammed said Qatar was the first country in the region to sign such an agreement with the US and called on the "siege" nations to follow suit.
Qatar has acknowledged providing assistance to Islamist groups designated as terrorist organisations by some of its neighbours, notably the Muslim Brotherhood and the Hamas movement. But it has denied aiding militant groups linked to al-Qaeda or so-called Islamic State.
Later on Tuesday, the Saudi-led bloc issued a joint statement saying that while it appreciated US efforts to combat terrorism, more needed to be done.
"It must be stressed that this step is not enough and the four countries will closely watch how serious the Qatari authorities are in their fight against all forms of funding, supporting and embracing terrorism," the statement said.
The Qatari authorities needed to do show their "seriousness in getting back to the natural and right path" and "comprehensively implement the just demands" of its neighbours, it added.
Mr Tillerson, who has said the demands must be "reasonable and actionable" and called for "constructive dialogue", held talks on Wednesday with the foreign ministers of the four states in the Saudi port city of Jeddah.
About 32 miles (51km) between London and Theale, Berkshire, would be widened in both directions to four lanes, using the hard shoulder.
Some motorists and the RAC have said the lack of a hard shoulder would leave motorists in a vulnerable position if there was a breakdown.
The Highways Agency said there would be refuges for broken down vehicles.
Senior project manager Andrew Hitch said converting the hard shoulder into a lane would also discourage motorists from stopping for non-emergencies, such as to answer their phones.
Smart motorways also use a range of new technology, including electronic signs, to vary speed limits in response to driving conditions.
They are managed and monitored by the Highways Agency's regional control centres using CCTV.
Steve Bowles, who regularly uses the M4 for his haulage business, described the lack of a hard shoulder as "scary".
"I want to deliver the cargo safely. I don't want to deliver it in a dangerous way on a dangerous motorway," he said.
Simon Williams, of the RAC, said the permanent use of the hard shoulder as a running lane would put lives at risk.
"The chances of being able to get into a refuge area are reduced because of the spacing between them, which is up to 2.5km," he said.
Similar schemes already operate on stretches of the M25 and M1.
The proposals, which went on public display earlier at Reading's Madejski Stadium, include upgrading or replacing 11 overbridges and five underbridges as part of the £700m project.
Arkadiusz Jozwik, 40, suffered head injuries in an unprovoked attack in Harlow, on Saturday night. He died on Monday evening.
Six teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of killing Mr Jozwik, whose death has shocked the Polish community.
The family of Mr Jozwik, also known as Arek, said he was a hard-working man who loved spending time with them.
Polish people react to the murder of Arkadiusz Jozwik
Essex Police have said that a suspected hate crime is just one of a number of lines of investigation.
In a statement, the family said: "We are all extremely devastated. This is obviously a very difficult time for us as Arek was taken from us so suddenly and unexpectedly.
"He loved IT and strategic gaming and enjoyed life as a bachelor."
Essex Police said Mr Jozwik was assaulted at about 23:35 BST on Saturday outside the TGF Pizza and Mr Luigi's takeaway shops in The Stow.
His friend, a 43-year-old man, suffered hand and stomach injuries. He has since been discharged from hospital.
Det Ch Insp Martin Pasmore told BBC Essex: "The widespread media are reporting this as a hate crime, but that is no more than one line of many inquiries that we're following.
"We must not jump to conclusions - let us do the investigation and get the facts right."
Harlow MP Robert Halfon said the killing would be "all the more disturbing and shocking" if the attack was motivated by Mr Jozwik's nationality.
In a statement published on Twitter, the Polish Embassy said it had been "shocked" by Mr Jozwik's death, and was liaising with Essex Police.
Ambassador Arkady Rzegocki visited The Stow, where the attack happened, to lay flowers, telling reporters his country and the UK must show solidarity in the wake of the death.
"We are shocked but we are also thankful for local support since the attack," Mr Rzegocki said.
Five 15-year-old boys and one 16-year-old boy, all from Harlow, were arrested on suspicion of murder. All but one 15-year-old have been bailed.
Councillors representing the New Forest National Park Authority voted in favour of instigating the Cycle Charter.
There are 30 clauses containing guidance for people organising cycling events in the New Forest.
The cap on the number of cyclists in large events has been called "discriminatory" by CTC, the national cycling charity.
New Forest National Park Authority chairman Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre said: "The vast majority of cycle events are under this threshold and have been operating without any complaint for many years.
"The figure of 1,000 has been well received by parish councils.
"We hope that all event organisers will follow the charter's criteria even if they don't agree with it all."
The charter will be sent to all cycle event organisers, the authority said.
The Safety Advisory Group for the forest will work with event organisers and review each event on a "case-by-case" basis.
Sam Jones, campaigns co-ordinator for CTC, said: "The cap in cycling numbers was loosely justified on safety grounds.
"It is therefore mystifying and incredibly frustrating that our amendment, which placed the Safety Advisory Group at the very heart of decision-making for each and every cycle event, was rejected.
"Instead, an arbitrary and discriminatory cap with no foundation in evidence will be implemented."
Dr Miho Janvier worked alongside colleagues in Paris and Buenos Aires to study a new kind of magnetic cloud emanating from the Sun.
The cloud is a smaller, distinct version of those caused by solar flares which produce aurora borealis on Earth.
The discovery comes as the Met Office launched a dedicated forecast centre to study solar storms.
The Sun is constantly releasing a "solar wind" of particles into the heliosphere, the area that defines the solar system.
Events on the surface of the star such as solar flares can send a storm of particles across the solar system at the speed of light, accompanied by huge magnetic clouds, which cause the aurora borealis and aurora australis effects in the Earth's atmosphere.
Such solar storms have also been known to knock out power supplies and present a radiation hazard to spacecraft and astronauts, and have become the focus of several studies.
Dr Janvier, a fellow in the division of mathematics at Dundee University, has identified a different kind of cloud emanating from the Sun, distinct from those kicked up during solar flares.
"We already knew there were these large magnetic clouds generated by solar flares," she said.
"We also knew that smaller magnetised structures existed, but what we have found is that they have a completely different origin.
"These smaller clouds have different characteristics which meant they must be generated in a different place, or in a different way.
"They must be coming from the Sun, but we are not sure yet where in the Sun's atmosphere they are being born."
Dr Janvier said it was important the new clouds are included in future studies of space weather and how it can affect Earth.
"The important thing is that these new structures we have identified should not be neglected when we are examining space weather and the potential effects it may have on us," she added.
"We have to extend our vision of what is happening in the solar system and what we want to understand and predict."
The study was carried out alongside Pascal Démoulin of the LESIA Observatoire de Paris in France, and Sergio Dasso at the University of Buenos Aires.
The European Space Agency is aiming to launch a probe into orbit around the Sun in 2017 to gain a greater understanding of solar physics.
"Hard drugs had been back in his life," he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, adding that crack cocaine was one of Michael's "favourite drugs".
Mr Georgiou grew up with Michael and the two referred to each other as cousins. He added: "I just think he took too much of something, mixed with antidepressants."
The star died aged 53 on Christmas Day.
A post-mortem examination was "inconclusive", police have said.
More tests are being carried out to determine what led to his death, which is not being treated as suspicious.
Mr Georgiou said he believed Michael's death was an accident.
"I believe he had suicidal thoughts, because his mental health was all over the place. But I don't believe this was suicide," he told the programme.
He described crack cocaine as one of Michael's "favourite drugs", adding: "I just think he took too much of something, mixed with antidepressants and other drugs he was on - with alcohol.
"I think his heart just stopped beating."
Mr Georgiou, an ex-music producer who toured with Michael until their falling out in 1998, said he wanted "to get to the truth of what happened, exactly what was in his blood at the time, who gave it [the drugs] to him, why did he have it again".
He said he had spoken to people who were close to the star towards the end of his life and believed Michael was "actually getting better... he was trying to lead a normal life again and I believe he was dragged back into the dark side".
He added that the recent reports the singer had taken heroin were "absolute rubbish", adding: "I know that was the one drug he never touched."
Mr Georgiou, who says he has a collection of unpublished songs written and sung by Michael, describes the singer as a "private person, an incredibly generous person, one of the nicest people you could ever meet".
He said Michael had found it "a relief" when an incident in 1998 - in which he was caught engaging "in a lewd act" by an undercover police officer in a public toilet in Beverly Hills - led him to open up about his sexuality.
The singer's friend described him as an "honest man" who "hated lying" and that he had felt like he was "pulling the wool over people's eyes".
Following several reports of acts of kindness performed by Michael that have come to light since his death, Mr Georgiou spoke of how he and the singer used to drive around the West End in London on Christmas Eve "with two Range Rovers full of food... and feed all the homeless".
He said on one occasion, when Michael was unable to attend a charity auction run by the Elton John Aids Foundation, he had told him to "just buy everything" when it became clear that others in the room were not bidding for items.
Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.
Two options have been put forward that would permit a zero rate of tax on sanitary products.
It comes amid the threat of a backbench rebellion following the Budget from Eurosceptic MPs over the tax, currently at the lowest rate allowed by EU law.
Chancellor George Osborne said the government "heard people's anger over paying the tampon tax loud and clear".
VAT is currently charged at the reduced rate of 5% on sanitary products - but more than 300,000 people have signed a petition calling for sanitary items to be exempted from tax altogether.
Mr Osborne had pledged to spend the proceeds of the tax on women's charities.
"We said we'd use the money to benefit women's charities and we've already distributed £17m to good causes across the country," he said.
"At the same time we said we'd fight for agreement to reduce the VAT rate to zero, and tonight all European leaders have welcomed our plan to do just that. We've achieved what no British government has even tried to achieve.
"It just shows how Britain can make a case for a reform that will benefit millions as a powerful, confident voice inside a reformed EU."
At the European Council summit in Brussels, the 28 leaders agreed a statement welcoming "the intention of the Commission to include proposals for increased flexibility for member states with respect to reduced rates of VAT, which will provide the option to member states of VAT zero-rating sanitary products".
BBC chief political correspondent Vicki Young said it appeared the government had managed to avoid a Commons defeat by reaching the agreement.
A great British victory or an obvious bit of spin? Number 10 says David Cameron has come to Brussels and won the backing of all EU leaders for his plan to abolish VAT on women's sanitary products.
With the EU referendum looming, the long-running campaign to get tampons zero rated is pulling in support from Tory MPs backing Brexit. A dicey vote on the finance bill loomed next week. Now the European Commission may have defused this political problem.
For months it has been listening to EU member states complain the existing EU rules on reduced and zero-rated VAT are too rigid and past their sell by date. The UK, of course, has a particular complaint about not being allowed to cut VAT on tampons below 5% and has asked for change.
Earlier, the Commission confirmed it will publish its "Action Plan" on VAT next Wednesday. It would include two options for change that would allow countries more flexibility over VAT. Hours later, Number 10 trumpeted that a line will be included in the Council conclusions stating EU leaders welcome the Commission's move "which would provide the option to member states of VAT zero rating for sanitary products".
So at some point down the line, the government looks set to scrap VAT on tampons. The EU has moved. But it was likely to do so whether David Cameron lobbied for the move here at this summit or not.
A number of Conservative MPs have threatened to vote for an amendment to the Finance Bill in the Commons on Tuesday to allow the zero-rating of women's sanitary products.
Those campaigning for Britain to leave the EU in 23 June's referendum have been keen to highlight the role of Brussels in setting VAT rates.
Mr Cameron raised the issue with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker at the start of the EU summit, Downing Street said.
Labour MP Paula Sheriff, who has tabled the Finance Bill amendment, said: "Women's sanitary products are not a luxury. George Osborne failed to take the opportunity in his Budget to say that he would take the action called for by Labour and feminist campaigners and seek to get the 'tampon tax' abolished."
The European Commission said it was working on two options that would allow member states more flexibility over setting VAT rates.
A Commission spokeswoman said: "EU VAT rules are not imposed by the European Commission. They are decided on and agreed unanimously by member states.
"Contrary to some media reports, tampons do benefit from reduced taxation."
She added that under current rules, member states were not allowed to apply a zero VAT rate to a product unless all other member states agreed.
"Zero rates are an exception and run against generally accepted VAT principles. Most member states tax sanitary products like tampons at around 20% or more," she added.
Nathan Gill faced pressure to give up his seat in Brussels over accusations of "double-jobbing" after being elected to the assembly last May.
But after losing a leadership challenge for the party in Wales to Neil Hamilton, Mr Farage intervened.
Mr Gill told a Cardiff tribunal he had always done what Mr Farage "asked me to do."
The politician, who sits as an independent AM for north Wales, made the comments while giving evidence to an employment tribunal in Cardiff brought by his former constituency manager, John Atkinson.
Mr Atkinson - a 67-year-old former Royal Marine from Llanpumsaint, Carmarthenshire - claims he was unfairly dismissed on disability grounds.
He was dismissed, along with all of Mr Gill's staff, in April last year. Some were later rehired.
Mr Atkinson, who worked from home in west Wales, told the tribunal he was not given a job because he needed a hip operation, claiming Mr Gill "knew at the time that I would be incapacitated for 13 months".
"In my opinion Mr Gill's explanation for my dismissal is that he was standing down as an MEP. This didn't happen therefore that reason doesn't exist any more," he said.
Mr Gill denies the claim and says all staff were treated equally.
He said he had employed a lot of people in his career before going into politics and had never dismissed someone because they were disabled.
"I am not stupid and I would never ever do such a thing," he said.
Mr Gill said that after losing the leadership vote to Mr Hamilton he was "in turmoil - I didn't know what I was going to do".
He described earlier wrangling within the party over choosing candidates for the Assembly election, when he faced a "hostile" national executive committee, saying: "It was literally the worst time of my life."
The tribunal continues.
On Saturday she enjoyed her favourite hobby - horse-racing - with a visit to Newbury Racecourse.
Gun salutes will be fired in London at 12noon on Monday, because her birthday falls on a Sunday this year.
Every year the Queen celebrates her actual birthday on 21 April and her 'official' birthday on a Saturday in June.
Past monarchs' official birthdays have often been held on a different day to their actual birthday.
The main reason is when their actual birthday is not in the summer.
Having the official birthday in summer time means there's a better chance of good weather for the king or queen's birthday parade, called Trooping the Colour.
This year the celebrations are happening on 15 June.
Hull City Council said plans to renovate Hull New Theatre would not be affected by its failure to secure support from the Arts Council.
The council wants to increase the venue's capacity and improve backstage facilities in time for Hull's City of Culture year in 2017.
The Arts Council said there had been "a great deal of competition" for funding.
The council, which is contributing £6.7m, to the project, said it was "actively exploring other potential funding options".
Councillor Steven Bayes, portfolio holder for UK City of Culture and Visitor Destination, said: "Whilst the news from the Arts Council is disappointing, the Council remains committed to the refurbishment of the theatre.
"The venue is very important to the city and is absolutely critical to our plans for 2017 and beyond.
"With any project of this scale and ambition, there will be setbacks from time to time, however, we are actively exploring other potential funding options."
An Arts Council spokesman said it was keen to support Hull in its role as UK City of Culture and wanted to "keep talking" about future bids.
BBC Talkback has a series of five in-depth interviews starting on Christmas Eve.
The subjects are Ian Paisley's widow Baroness Paisley, former BBC journalist - now nun - Martina Purdy, former SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon, former PSNI deputy chief constable Judith Gillespie and Northern Ireland football manager Michael O'Neill.
They will all give their thoughts on Northern Ireland society as well as their own lives.
Conducting the interviews is BBC Talkback presenter William Crawley.
"We always like to give people something different at Christmas. Instead of having highlights of the year, that kind of thing, it's an opportunity to get deeper into somebody's life, to find out a bit more about the textures of somebody's life, rather that just what we know about them," he said.
"It's a pretty diverse group of people and they have different perspectives about where this society is going.
"We've asked them to think of Northern Ireland in terms of New Year's resolutions - what are their hopes for this place, how do we improve this place?"
William said that all five had been great to interview.
"Some of them are really personal, some of them really open up and tell you about their personal life."
All five interviewees also chose five tracks of music and William said their choices told a lot about them.
"For example, you might think that a nun is going to chose Ave Maria - but not when the nun is Martina Purdy," he said.
"The songs are often very personal. For example Baroness Paisley chose a piece of music that was performed at the funeral of Ian Paisley, but was also performed at the wedding of one of her daughters."
He said there were a number of highlights that stood out from the interviews.
"A standout in the politics issue is Seamus Mallon talking about how the Good Friday Agreement came about," he said.
"He says all the parties were involved in two years of negotiations, but Sinn Féin, he says, had already done all of their negotiating before the beginning of the rest of the talks. They had negotiated with the British government, the Irish government and the American government, they had an understanding, they knew what they wanted, they knew what they were getting.
"So I said to him 'are you saying it was a stitch-up?' and he smiles and says something to the effect of 'that's one way of putting it'."
He said Martina Purdy's story is a much more personal and spiritual journey.
"That's the one I was, in a sense, most looking forward to, because the last time I saw Martina Purdy, she looked like the Martina Purdy I remember and she was a journalist," William said.
"Next time I see her, she's dressed as a religious sister looking very different - she describes it as a make-over in reverse.
"What a lot of people want to know is why would you do that. Why would you make that journey?"
The first Talkback interview will be with Martina Purdy on 24 December, followed by Seamus Mallon, Michael O'Neill, Judith Gillespie and Baroness Paisley from 28-31 December.
At 368 cases per 100,000 residents it amounts to an epidemic by World Health Organisation standards, but officials say the outbreak is not nationwide.
Relaxed prevention and an increase in home water storage have been blamed.
More than half of the cases were in Sao Paulo.
The number of cases there - the most populous state - has tripled since last year.
Nationwide there have been 235% more cases than in the same period (from January to 18 April) last year.
A total of 229 people have died of the disease.
Brazil has done much to counter the viral infection spread by mosquitoes which causes severe abdominal pain, vomiting and circulatory system failure.
Health Minister Arthur Chioro argued that figures for last year were exceptionally low, whereas the outbreak in 2013 had been a lot worse than now.
He said better results last year had relaxed prevention in some regions.
The BBC's Julia Carneiro in Rio de Janeiro said another factor for the rise was this year's severe drought which led to more people storing water at home.
The mosquito that carries the dengue virus breeds in containers with clear, stagnant water.
There is no vaccine against dengue, but Brazilian authorities say they are hopeful of producing one within the next year.
Scientists are also testing ways to tackle the mosquitoes' capacity to breed, says our correspondent.
In one such initiative last week, the city of Piracicaba released a first batch of up to a million mosquitoes - with a modified gene that keeps the males from reaching sexual maturity, causing the overall population to drop gradually.
Brazilian authorities believe the dengue outbreak has reached its peak as the weather is changing, becoming less favourable for the mosquitoes to spread the disease.
Dengue re-emerged in Brazil in 1981 after an absence of more than 20 years.
Over the next 30 years, seven million cases were reported.
The country reported 3.2 million cases of dengue and 800 deaths in the period 2009-2014.
The state-wide charging scheme means millions of residents have to pay for domestic supply for the first time.
The bills will have the most impact in urban areas, as rural dwellers who are not on mains supply have already been paying for water for decades.
The introduction of the controversial charges were a key part of Ireland's international financial bailout deal.
The domestic charging scheme is due to begin on 1 October, and the first bills will arrive at the beginning of January 2015.
Many Irish householders have objected to paying for their water supply, and have staged protests against the government scheme.
A number of protesters have been arrested for trying to stop the installation of water meters outside homes.
This week, seven protesters face going to prison for contempt of court, for refusing to accept a court order restraining them from "assaulting, intimidating or interfering" with contactors working to install the meters.
The Irish economy was brought to the brink of collapses as a result of the international financial crisis and was forced to accept a multi-billion euro bailout in November 2010.
The rescue plan was funded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Union (EU) and the European Central Bank (ECB) - jointly known as the Troika.
As part of the bailout deal, the Irish government made commitments to restructure its economy, and the introduction of universal domestic water charges was just one of the unpopular changes it agreed to introduce.
The government set up a new semi-state company, Irish Water, last year, which is gradually taking over all water provision services from the Republic of Ireland's 34 local authorities.
However, paying for water is nothing new to hundreds of thousands of Irish people living in rural areas, many of whom had to install their own water system themselves.
Piped water supplies were virtually unheard of outside towns and cities until the 1950s, and rural residents had to draw water from rivers and wells.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Irish government provided grants for groups of rural dwellers to work together to install water supplies in their own areas - known as group water schemes (GWS).
By 2002, about 45,000 households received their drinking water supply from a privately-sourced GWS, according the census carried out that year.
Amnesty had planned to launch a report entitled Azerbaijan: the Repression Games ahead of the inaugural European Games, due to be held there this month.
But Azeri officials in London said they were not welcome "at the present time".
Earlier, a British activist was deported from Baku after being detained on arrival in the capital on Tuesday.
Also on Tuesday, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was given one month to halt its operations in the country.
The crackdown comes just months before parliamentary elections.
Several activists and journalists have been jailed in Azerbaijan this year and last on charges including illegal business activity and hooliganism. Their lawyers say the trials were politically motivated.
The European Games, a multi-sport event along the lines of the Olympics, open in the former Soviet republic on Friday and run until 28 June.
Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty's deputy director for Europe and Central Asia, said the crackdown by authorities "only highlighted their desperate attempts to create a criticism-free zone around the games".
He added that the legacy of the event would be to "further encourage repressive authorities around the world to view major international sporting events as a ticket to international prestige".
In its new report, the London-based group said the government's campaign against activists had left Azerbaijan "without independent voices".
"Behind the image trumpeted by the government of a forward-looking, modern nation is a state where criticism of the authorities is routinely and increasingly met with repression," said the report, which was released on Wednesday.
Azerbaijan's price for hosting first European Games
What are the European Games?
Azerbaijan country profile
President Ilham Aliyev, who has ruled since his father died in 2003, denies accusations of abuses.
The energy-rich country sees the games as an opportunity to build its international profile and has set aside $1.2 billion (£800m; €1.1bn) for infrastructure, travel and accommodation expenses for some 6,000 athletes and delegates involved.
The move to block Amnesty's visit came as Emma Hughes of British-based activism group Platform was deported after being detained at Baku airport.
Platform said Ms Hughes had press accreditation to cover the games and was also planning to support political prisoners in the country.
She arrived on a flight from Rome on Tuesday but was detained after being told she was on a "red list" of people who could not enter the country.
Ms Hughes is the author of a Platform report entitled All that Glitters - Sport, BP and Repression in Azerbaijan, due to be published on Friday.
On Wednesday, she tweeted: "I'm back in London but 100+ prisoners of oil games are still jailed".
Azerbaijan's government is yet to comment on the claims made by Platform and Amnesty or the actions taken against them.
Theresa May has said that the UK is "enriched by the best minds from Europe and around the world".
She states that providing reassurance to them and to UK scientists working in Europe will be a "priority".
Mrs May's comments were made in a letter seen by BBC News that was written five days after she became PM.
The Prime Minister wrote to one of the country's leading scientists, Professor Sir Paul Nurse, who is director of the Francis Crick Institute in London and a former president of the Royal Society.
In the letter she states: "I wanted to write to you to make clear that the Government's ongoing commitment to science and research remains steadfast".
She adds that her government is committed to protecting science and research funding in real terms. Mrs May also tells the Nobel Prize winner that the reorganisation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy "does not signal any reduction in the very high priority I attach to teaching and research".
And crucially on Brexit she says: "I would like to reassure you about the government's commitment to ensuring a positive outcome for UK science as we exit the European Union. While we negotiate a new relationship with our European partners, we are not turning our backs on European scientists."
The UK receives £850m in research funds from the European Union each year. Full membership of one of the main EU funding programmes requires free movement of labour. British universities employ 30,000 scientists with EU citizenship.
There have already been reports of UK scientists losing out in EU grant applications and of EU citizens not taking up posts in UK universities because of the uncertainty around funding and the residency status of EU citizens following the referendum result last month.
Five days after the result Sir Paul said: "For science to thrive it must have access to the single market, and we do need free movement."
Mrs May's letter does not offer those commitments but Sir Paul said he was heartened to see that she wrote to him within days of taking office.
Sir Paul told BBC News: "The letter from the prime minister supporting science was most welcome and we look forward to working with her to achieve the best future for British science, which is crucial for the future of the UK."
A copy of the letter was sent to the President of the Royal Society Prof Venki Ramkrishanan, who also welcomed the fact that the prime minister is aware of the important of scientific research to the UK
"These are uncertain times, so having the new prime minister making such a positive commitment to science is very encouraging. She not only reaffirms the government's financial support for science at home but also to ensuring a positive outcome for science in the Brexit negotiations. I am looking forward to working with her and her colleagues to turn these words into action."
Follow Pallab on Twitter
|
A 10-year-old girl suffered serious head injuries after being involved in a collision with a car while riding her bike in West Lothian.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A biker has suffered serous head injuries after a crash in Penicuik.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Celtic manager Ronny Deila says he should be judged on results at the end of the season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Safety measures at all UK civil air shows have been enhanced following the Shoreham air disaster.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Gender equality in the workplace could add $4.3 trillion (£3 trillion) to the US economy by 2025, a study has found.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sinn Féin have suspended a party member implicated in allegations of coaching a witness who gave evidence to a Stormont inquiry.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) hopes to shed light on the issues affecting Scotland's Polish community.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A road which has seen eight deaths and 15 serious injuries in its first five years is to get average-speed cameras.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Double Paralympic medallist Kadeena Cox hopes her achievements in Rio can inspire fellow black athletes.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Any extra money for Northern Ireland under a Conservative-DUP deal at Westminster should also lead to more cash for Wales, say Welsh ministers.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Collection centres are being set up in Wales for donated items to help the thousands of migrants caught up in the crisis across Europe.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Politicians and public representatives in Londonderry have welcomed the Department of Agriculture's decision to move its headquarters to Ballykelly.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Fire crews have tackled a fire at the derelict Colwyn Bay pier in Conwy.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
England's first metropolitan mayors will be elected this week and for some young people it will be the first election they will vote in.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Somerset's West Indies star Chris Gayle is to miss the T20 Blast match against Glamorgan on Saturday and return home early because of an "immense workload".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two police officers have been sacked over how they dealt with a man who was murdered in a vigilante attack in Bristol three years ago.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Attendances at Scotland's five racecourses topped 308,000 visitors in 2015, the largest for seven years.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Guy Martin and William Dunlop have both won two races at the Cookstown 100.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Farmers in Northern Ireland cannot be "taken over a cliff-edge" without financial support after Brexit, their leaders have told Irish politicians.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Spanish woman kidnapped in Mexico last week has been found dead.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
England's Ben Stokes said he felt "under pressure" before his record-breaking double century on day two of the second Test against South Africa.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The four Arab states leading a boycott of Qatar say it will continue despite a deal between Washington and Doha to combat the financing of terrorism.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Safety concerns have been raised over proposals to turn part of the M4 into a "smart motorway".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The family of a Polish man who died in a possible hate crime in Essex have said they are "extremely devastated".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A voluntary charter restricting the number of cyclists in events to 1,000 has been approved for the New Forest.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A new form of solar cloud has been identified by research into "space weather" led by Dundee University.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
George Michael's childhood friend Andros Georgiou has linked the singer's death to drugs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
EU leaders have agreed a deal that will allow the UK to scrap the so-called "tampon tax", British officials say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Nigel Farage told a UKIP MEP not to stand down during an internal party row in Wales, an employment tribunal heard.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Queen celebrated her 87th birthday with her family at Windsor Castle on Sunday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An £11.7m theatre refurbishment project will go ahead despite a £5m funding bid being rejected.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A former political journalist turned nun, an architect of the Good Friday Agreement and Northern Ireland's football manager are among a group of prominent people opening up to BBC Radio Ulster over Christmas.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Brazil has registered nearly 746,000 cases of the mosquito-borne disease dengue fever this year with nine states experiencing an epidemic, the health ministry has announced.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Water charges are to be introduced for households across the Republic of Ireland within the next 24 hours.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Azerbaijan has blocked a visit by Amnesty International in which it planned to highlight alleged human rights abuses in the country.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Prime Minister has said that she wants to ensure a positive outcome for science in negotiations to leave the European Union.
| 34,692,778 | 15,648 | 977 | true |
The 25-year-old midfielder, who had a medical with the Premier League side on Friday, has signed a five-year contract.
Wijnaldum joined Newcastle for £14.5m from Dutch side PSV in 2015, playing in all 38 of the club's Premier League games last season and scoring 11 goals.
He is the Reds' seventh signing of the summer so far.
The others are:
It is understood Liverpool will pay an initial £23m with a further £2m in conditional add-ons.
Wijnaldum will join the Reds on their pre-season tour of America, where they will play Chelsea (27 July), AC Milan (30 July) and Roma (1 August).
He began his career at Feyenoord before moving to PSV Eindhoven and has made 30 appearances for the Netherlands, helping them finish third at the 2014 World Cup.
He scored on his Premier League debut in August 2015 and found the net a further 10 times during the season, including four in a 6-2 win over Norwich, but could not prevent Newcastle being relegated to the Championship.
Liverpool finished eighth in the Premier League last season and a 3-1 loss to Sevilla in the Europa League final ensured they will not be playing in European competition in 2016-17.
Klopp's side begin their Premier League campaign away at last season's runners-up Arsenal on 14 August.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.
|
Liverpool have signed Netherlands international Georginio Wijnaldum from Newcastle for £25m.
| 36,846,756 | 323 | 22 | false |
Morata, who rejoined Real in June after a two-year spell at Juventus, finished after Celta Vigo goalkeeper Sergio had parried Marco Asensio's attempted chip.
The visitors quickly equalised through Fabian Orellana's powerful finish.
But Real, who hit the woodwork three times in the match, won it late on with Toni Kroos' composed finish.
The victory maintains Real's winning start to the season after they defeated Sevilla 3-2 in the Uefa Super Cup and Real Sociedad 3-0 in their La Liga opener last weekend.
Barcelona will move above Real Madrid on Sunday if they beat Athletic Bilbao.
Real dominated the game at the Bernabeu but were given a fright by a Celta Vigo side who finished sixth in La Liga last season.
Luka Modric hit the bar from 25 yards, before Gareth Bale's long-range free-kick also hit the woodwork as a Real side, without the injured Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema, looked to make their dominance count.
Morata, who helped Real win La Liga in 2012 and the Champions League in 2014 during his first spell at the Bernabeu, put the hosts ahead before hitting the post moments later.
Real were ahead for six minutes before Orellana equalised in a rare Celta attack, but Kroos scored only his fourth La Liga goal in his third season at Real to win it.
Despite Ronaldo and Benzema missing through injury, there was still no place in Real's starting line-up for Colombian James Rodriguez.
Rodriguez, who joined Real in 2014 in a transfer that could be worth up to £71m, has failed to start a game this season and was only introduced after 69 minutes with the score at 1-1.
On Friday, Real coach Zinedine Zidane admitted Rodriguez's lack of playing time "could prove a problem" and admitted "some players" could leave the Bernabeu during the transfer window.
Zidane's quotes came after Spanish sports newspaper AS reported that Rodriguez would seek a move from the club if he did not start against Celta.
The transfer window closes on 31 August, with Real next in action on 10 September when they entertain Osasuna.
Match ends, Real Madrid 2, Celta de Vigo 1.
Second Half ends, Real Madrid 2, Celta de Vigo 1.
Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Mariano.
Attempt saved. James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gareth Bale.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Facundo Roncaglia.
Attempt blocked. Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mariano.
Corner, Celta de Vigo. Conceded by Raphael Varane.
Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pablo Hernández (Celta de Vigo).
Substitution, Celta de Vigo. Pione Sisto replaces Nemanja Radoja.
Attempt missed. Theo Bongonda (Celta de Vigo) header from the centre of the box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Celta de Vigo. Conceded by Marcelo.
Goal! Real Madrid 2, Celta de Vigo 1. Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez.
Marcelo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Orellana (Celta de Vigo).
Attempt saved. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez with a cross.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Facundo Roncaglia.
Marcelo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Orellana (Celta de Vigo).
Attempt blocked. Mariano (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Mariano replaces Álvaro Morata.
Substitution, Celta de Vigo. Pape Cheikh replaces Daniel Wass.
James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Cabral (Celta de Vigo).
Substitution, Celta de Vigo. Iago Aspas replaces John Guidetti.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Hugo Mallo.
Substitution, Real Madrid. James Rodríguez replaces Luka Modric.
Foul by Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid).
Theo Bongonda (Celta de Vigo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Real Madrid 1, Celta de Vigo 1. Orellana (Celta de Vigo) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by John Guidetti.
Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez with a cross.
Offside, Celta de Vigo. Sergio Álvarez tries a through ball, but John Guidetti is caught offside.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Lucas Vázquez replaces Marco Asensio.
Offside, Real Madrid. Luka Modric tries a through ball, but Daniel Carvajal is caught offside.
Álvaro Morata (Real Madrid) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Toni Kroos following a fast break.
Attempt missed. Casemiro (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Goal! Real Madrid 1, Celta de Vigo 0. Álvaro Morata (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Marco Asensio (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Luka Modric.
Offside, Real Madrid. Luka Modric tries a through ball, but Álvaro Morata is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Marco Asensio (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box is too high.
|
Alvaro Morata scored his first goal since returning to Real Madrid as he helped his team beat a stubborn Celta Vigo side and go top of La Liga.
| 37,179,134 | 1,594 | 38 | false |
Girls were not victims and were stronger and more feisty than they were often given credit for, said Cheryl Giovannoni, chief executive of the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST).
Ms Giovannoni said girls should be encouraged to take the sorts of risks boys were more likely to take.
They should also be taught to say no and not always be willing to please.
Speaking at the GDST's annual conference in London, Ms Giovannoni said a picture had been painted of girls feeling anxious and unhappy "without any of the coping skills they need to thrive in today's world".
"And don't get me wrong, I know that some girls are," she said.
"But overall, it's not a picture that rings wholly true for me, nor one that we should succumb to as yet another reason to wrap girls in cotton wool and protect them from a deeply evil world where they are preyed upon mercilessly.
"Not all girls are victims. I believe that many girls are far stronger, resilient, opinionated and feisty than they are given credit for."
Talking to journalists, Ms Giovannoni said parents often treated their sons differently from their daughters.
"Parents wouldn't hesitate to allow a boy to get an Uber home from a party but they are more reluctant to allow their daughters to.
"They are overprotective, they think boys can look after themselves - they don't necessarily think that girls can."
Ms Giovannoni said girls also needed to be confident about saying no.
"It's about not always being willing to please and to get approval. We have to make sure that people feel comfortable saying no when they believe that they are uncomfortable."
Young girls would eventually have to look after themselves, she added.
"Girls go off to university and if you haven't helped them to be confident and resilient and to have coping mechanisms they are going to university and they're going to have to cope on their own anyway."
GDST represents 24 independent girls' schools and two academies in England and Wales, educating 20,000 students and employing 3,700 staff.
The Scottish government acted after an inquiry into a serious Clostridium difficile (C. diff) outbreak.
Regulations have been put before Holyrood which would let Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) inspectors close wards to protect patients.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said the powers would be "a last resort".
A review of care at Vale of Leven Hospital in West Dunbartonshire found that C. diff was a factor in the deaths of 34 out of 143 patients who tested positive for the infection in 2007 and 2008.
Lord MacLean said NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde had "badly let down" patients, with the board apologising unreservedly for its "terrible failure".
The new system, announced by the government in 2015 and now set to go before MSPs, would see inspectors have the power to intervene and shut wards down in response to safety concerns ranging from cleanliness to staffing levels.
Ms Robison said Scotland had a "very robust scrutiny and inspection regime", with HIS carrying out almost 100 inspections each year.
She said: "Protecting patient safety is of critical importance and that is why we want to go further and give HIS the powers to close hospital wards if they consider it necessary.
"Let me be clear that this would only ever be used as a last resort, and in the majority of cases we would expect HIS to work with health boards to put in place improvements on wards first.
"But on the very rare occasions that inspectors have concerns about the safety of patients on a ward, they should have the powers to take firm and direct action."
The OECD has recommended stronger scrutiny of Scotland's health system amid fears HIS could "mark its own homework", calling for better arrangements for dealing with mistakes and poor performance.
The donation takes Dorset-based Julia's House's fundraising total to £3.1m of the £3.5m needed to open the hospice.
Chief executive Martin Edwards said it was "wonderful news for Wiltshire" and the pledge meant the hospice could open as early as autumn 2017.
In April, actor Robert Downey Jr helped raise nearly £1m for the project.
Other stars including film director Guy Ritchie, David Beckham and comedian Michael McIntyre have also helped raise money for Julia's House.
Mr Edwards said: "The £3.5m covers the cost of building or converting a property to create a hospice.
"The fundraising appeal doesn't close when the doors open."
The charity has not yet found a site for the new hospice but said it was looking in the Devizes area.
It already offers home-based community care in Dorset and South Wiltshire.
The hospice will allow it to extend its support county-wide to other families with life-limited children.
There is currently no equivalent service for children and families in Wiltshire.
Ms Villiers and the Irish minister for foreign affairs Charlie Flanagan held talks with the five Northern Ireland executive parties at Stormont.
The DUP proposed a budget as if welfare changes had already been implemented.
Sinn Féin said the British government had shown the least intent in reaching any resolution.
Back in December, the Stormont House Agreement was struck between the parties and the British and Irish governments. It is facing collapse over a failure to agree over welfare reform.
After Tuesday's talks broke up, Ms Villiers said: "We now face the real prospect of emergency budget provisions coming into operation by the end of July with a negative impact on frontline public services.
"Implementation of the Stormont House Agreement is the only way to get things back on track. The government is doing all it can to achieve this.
"The question is whether Northern Ireland's leaders are able to find a way to deliver on their side of the deal."
Mr Flanagan said he believed that "with political will, a way through the current challenges can be found," adding that finding a solution would "require exceptional resolve and leadership from all participants".
Ahead of the talks, the DUP announced that Finance Minister Arlene Foster would be bringing forward a new budget without the cuts of £600m that she had argued were needed if there was no deal on welfare reform.
DUP sources said that if the budget proceeds without the financial situation envisaged by the Stormont House Agreement underpinning it, either the Treasury would have to intervene or the Northern Ireland secretary would have to push welfare reform through via Westminster legislation.
Stormont sources told the BBC a "semi-fictional" budget could buy a bit more time for departments to continue in operation.
DUP leader Peter Robinson said it would be up to the other executive parties to decide if they wanted to accept his party's proposal.
The first minister said the parties had come "to the end of the road".
During a break from the talks, Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy said signs of political will for a resolution were "scarce".
"The people who have shown least intent in terms of approaching this with any sense of trying to bring a resolution are the British government, who are largely responsible for the crisis we find ourselves in," Mr Murphy said.
"There is a signal from the Treasury that the budget we had largely agreed, the 2015-16 budget, is going to be raided again. The Treasury have signalled they want in-year cuts."
He added that the British government "are under no illusion as to our opposition" to any suggestion that they could take back welfare powers.
Last week, the Welfare Reform Bill failed to pass at Stormont when Sinn Féin and the SDLP made a petition of concern, a blocking mechanism that meant it did not get the required cross-community support.
In March, Sinn Féin dramatically withdrew its support for the Stormont House Agreement.
The pink stretch Hummer caught fire on the A289 Wainscott bypass in Strood at 16:12 BST on Thursday.
The group of 10 and 11-year-old pupils from Shears Green Junior School in Gravesend were on their way to a bowling party organised by parents, Kent Online reports.
Nobody was injured. Firefighters confirmed it started accidentally.
A Kent Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: "The fire is believed to have started accidentally at the rear of the vehicle and destroyed the interior of the vehicle."
The Toomebridge rider overcame slippery conditions on his Aspar Ducati to secure nine points in the Netherlands.
Laverty has moved up one place to 10th in the championship standings on 48 points.
He came in 22 seconds behind surprise winner Jack Miller, with the Australian a 750-1 outsider with the bookmakers before the race.
Laverty, whose best result of the season was fourth in Argentina in early April, has finished in the points in every round of the championship.
Honda rider Marc Marquez was second in Assen to extend his overall lead in the series, with Britain's Scott Redding claiming the final place on the podium for Ducati.
Tory MP Andrew Tyrie claimed the organisation was presenting as fact CBI figures which estimate the benefits of being in the EU are worth £3,000 a year to the average UK household.
He said the data was an "inference".
Lord Rose hit back, accusing the MP of "calling my reputation into question".
Appearing before the Treasury Select Committee, the former retailer said he stood by the figure and separate calculations produced by the CBI that estimate that EU membership benefits the UK economy to the tune of about 4-5% of output.
During heated exchanges, Mr Tyrie said the figures were being given far greater weight and prominence than they deserved by the In campaign.
"You're leading the campaign with this number - it's one of the most important components to your case," he said.
"Economists have told us it is intellectually dishonest to persist with these claims. Don't you think you should take this back - and see if for the next four months we can have a campaigned based on something more reliable? Don't you think we owe the public something more reliable?"
Lord Rose suggested the MP had "impugned his integrity" and said his 45 years in business had given him first-hand knowledge of the subject of EU membership.
"I have worked in Europe, I have lived in Europe. I have imported to Europe, I have exported to Europe. I have hired people in Europe. I have fired people in Europe. I know Europe pretty well."
He added: "We will never arrive on a number we agree on... whatever the number is... there is a benefit that accrues from being in the EU."
The Conservative peer has also been criticised by Out campaigners after appearing to question whether an increase in wages for low-skilled workers would be a good thing.
Labour MP Wes Streeting asked Lord Rose whether "if free movement was to end after Brexit, isn't it reasonable to suppose we could see increases in wages for low-skilled workers in the UK just off the back of the economic impact of free movement on wages?"
Lord Rose replied: "If you are short of labour, the price of labour will go up. So yes, but that is not necessarily a good thing."
The Leave.EU campaign said the remark was representative of "Brussels' cheerleaders" wanting to "protect vested interests, not the public interest".
"Lord Rose isn't wrong to say that ending this exploitative system would 'not necessarily be a good thing' for the unscrupulous bosses and privileged elites who take advantage of it," a spokesman said.
"But for workers who would find themselves able to command a higher price for their labour, with rights which don't only exist on paper, it would be a very good thing indeed."
Sitting alongside Lord Rose during the hearing, the director of Britain Stronger in Europe Will Straw told MPs that he was satisfied with the statistics being used by his campaign and had checked with the CBI "to make sure the number is accurate".
"We're saying it's the average benefit to households and it outweighs the costs," he said. "I understand people will challenge it... we are satisfied the figure we are using is a central estimate of what the contribution of being in the EU is over a 40 year period.
"We have never claimed the cost of leaving would be equivalent to £3,000 per household per year. This is a series of studies looking backwards on the benefit of being in the EU since we joined in 1973. It is much more uncertain what the costs would be if we were to leave which is why we're been very careful about that."
Robert Thomson's letter had urged the European Commission to take a tougher approach to Google's market dominance.
But in a detailed response on its website, the search company said it "has done more than almost any other company to help tackle online piracy".
Google also defended itself against accusations that it uses its market position to stifle competition.
The Commission is currently in the process of deciding how far to curtail Google's market dominance in Europe.
Google's blog, posted by Rachel Whetstone, senior vice-president for Global Communications, argued that the internet offered more choice than ever.
"Because the competition is just one click away online, barriers to switching are very, very low," it said.
"Google is of course very popular in Europe, but we are not the gatekeeper to the web, as some claim."
News Corp had warned that some newspapers were in danger of going out of business, partly because of Google.
But Google said it "worked hard to help publishers succeed online" by generating new audiences and increasing advertising.
Countering accusations of piracy, Google said last year it removed 222 million web pages from Google Search because of copyright infringement and said that websites that regularly violated copyright were ranked lower in search results.
The riposte also points to the growing competition from mobile apps, which increasingly drive internet traffic, often bypassing Google.
The post made a cheeky final swipe at Mr Thomson's suggestion that Google's dominance was leading to "a less informed, more vexatious level of dialogue in our society".
It linked to a picture of a notorious front page of the Sun newspaper, owned by News Corp.
It was an edition of the paper from 1990 with the image of a two-fingered gesture and the headline "Up Yours Delors", referring to the then president of the European Commission, as the Sun called for a robust British approach to Europe.
Worcestershire, trailing by 80 runs overnight, were bowled out for only 129 just after lunch, losing wickets at regular intervals.
Lukas Carey (3-34) and Timm van der Gugten (2-39) provided accurate support for Hogan (5-38).
Glamorgan knocked off the 16 needed for the loss of one wicket.
It is the first time Glamorgan have won back-to-back Championship games since 2015, while Worcestershire's below-par batting in their second innings means they have lost two successive games after beginning with four straight wins.
It was an incredible transformation for Glamorgan after slumping to 58-6 on the first evening, before dominating the rest of the match.
Worcestershire's Australian spinner Nathan Lyon has now left the club with compatriot John Hastings returning from international duties.
Glamorgan captain Michael Hogan told BBC Wales Sport:
"We expected a day of graft and we approached it that way, but we bowled really well, everyone did their job and I couldn't ask for anything more.
"We caught everything and we built pressure after we didn't do that in the first innings, it was perfect.
"We were (under the cosh) on the first day, but some good tekkers from Andy (Salter), Jacques (Rudolph) played really well, Chris (Cooke) and Lukas (Carey) got us into a great position."
Worcestershire captain Joe Leach told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"We've had a very poor day and a session there having had a very good day one, thanks to Ben Cox's 93 which was a brilliant effort, he fought very hard as did Ed Barnard and then Josh Tongue's spell on Friday evening was international calibre.
"But from then it's been a catalogue of errors and we're not happy with it. To not even give them a score to get in the fourth innings is unacceptable. We draw a line under it and we go again first of all in the (One-Day Cup) semi-final then against Kent (in the Championship)."
Over the course of the show there were five million tweets using the top trending hashtag on Twitter #Eurovision, with a peak of nearly 65,000 tweets per minute when Ukraine was announced the winner.
Britain's entry featuring the duo Joe and Jake finished third from bottom in the contest.
Here is how Twitter users reacted to the extravaganza.
Australia were the runners-up and the map of Europe was temporarily redrawn.
Many were impressed by the Russian entry particularly with its clever presentation.
The new mix of jury votes and audience votes caused excitement.
But confused others particularly new viewers from the United States.
Host Graham Norton paid tribute to the late Sir Terry Wogan who presented the show for many years.
As did Pointless presenter, Richard Osman who delivered the results from Britain.
The entertainment during the interval was much commented upon, especially the performance of US singer Justin Timberlake.
When Malta awarded 12 points to Britain the country was thankful.
But Ukraine not only won the public vote, it prompted many tweets commenting on the flamboyant announcer of the country's results.
Compiled by Andree Massiah
Her England colleagues Tammy Beaumont (36) and Natalie Sciver (40 not out) helped Surrey to 133-6 after they had chosen to bat first.
Taylor and Eve Jones (26) gave Thunder a good start to their reply.
But they were all out for 100, with Rene Farrell (5-26) recording the second-best bowling figures in the WSL.
The Australian dismissed Taylor and Eleanor Threlkeld in a pivotal 14th over to set up victory, which maintained Surrey's 100% start to the competition, while Lancashire have lost both of their group matches to date.
Wicketkeeper-batter Taylor did not play in the 2016 tournament as she was taking a break from cricket while trying to overcome anxiety problems, and missed Thunder's defeat by Yorkshire at Headingley on Friday as she was attending a family wedding.
The Gateshead entertainer's act has stayed the same for more than 60 years, despite changing fashions and audience tastes.
He said he had never set out to poke fun at anybody and insisted he has never sworn on stage.
He would like people to remember him by saying "Bobby, he was one of the best", he said.
"Even if it's not true I'd like them to say it," he added.
Pattinson's mother, whom he called the "greatest comedian in the world", ran a variety show in the north-east of England.
"My mother always said be respectful of your audience," he said.
"If you make the ladies smile you are half way to satisfying the men."
He had not sworn on stage because he had not needed to, he said.
"I've proved that, if you have the ability to get laughs, why do it?" he said.
"I'm not a fool - I had a family to bring up. If I had to do blue comedy to get bookings to get money to pay for my life I would have done so."
Mr Pattinson said his best years were the 60s and 70s when "working men's clubs were overtaken by cabaret clubs which were a little more elegant".
Pattinson said he did not have the "confidence in drawing a crowd" anymore.
"I'm 81 years of age, I just think I am becoming a bit old news, although I can stand up and talk just as well as I ever have done," he said.
His last performance will be at the Customs House in South Shields on 4 November.
Jake Gosling was denied from close range by North Ferriby goalkeeper Owen Evans early on in a sign of things to come for the hosts who were beaten last time out by promotion rivals Lincoln.
Christian Doidge was then inches away from opening the scoring before Fabien Robert hit the woodwork with a 25-yard shot in the closing stages of the first half.
The chances continued to come and go for Forest Green and they paid the ultimate price as Reece Thompson finished at the back post to help North Ferriby off the bottom and revive their slim survival chances.
Forest Green sit third and now trail leaders Lincoln and second-placed Tranmere by four points, having played more games than both of their rivals.
Match report supplied by the Press Association
Kenya's independent Media Council is monitoring 80 radio stations, TV channels and newspapers round the clock to clamp down on "retrogressive utterances".
Mobile phones, the primary medium used to spread violent messages in the last election, are now subject to tight guidelines.
But in spite of these measures, no arrests have been made linked to online hate speech. Suspected hate-propagators have been acquitted after monitoring bodies failed to provide "compelling" evidence against them.
Colourful rallies full of populist rhetoric and jokes are a feature of Kenya's campaign culture. To get around the new rules, politicians are resorting to using coded language and ethnic stereotyping during rallies, whose subtleties are often appreciated only within the community.
Kenya's National Cohesion and Integration Commission has flagged up three key words in local languages that the Kikuyu, Luo and Kalenjin ethnic communities - who were at the centre of violence in the last election - use to insult each other.
The front-runners in this year's election reflect two of these groups: Prime Minister Raila Odinga, an ethnic Luo, is competing with deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, a Kikuyu.
Mr Kenyatta's running mate William Ruto is a Kalenjin. Both men are facing charges at the ICC over the 2007-08 violence, which they deny.
Another government body has banned the use of anything other than the official languages, English and Swahili, when sending political text messages, bypassing the more than 60 local languages spoken in the country.
The mobile phone is no longer a free-for-all disseminator of dubious content.
Anyone found guilty of fanning hatred through text message faces a hefty fine of up to $56,000 or three years in jail.
Mobile phone companies are now required to register all SIM cards and allocate unique internet protocol addresses to all the phones on their networks, to make it easier to track down culprits.
Politicians wanting to send bulk campaign text messages have to wait at least 48 hours before dispatch in order for their mobile service operators to vet the content and reject anything they believe could be inciting.
While monitors are seeking out and recording inflammatory statements at rallies, individuals are encouraged to report hate speech to the police via text.
And the government is promising to prosecute people using language it views as dangerous. Warning notices were sent this month to some 30 bloggers and social media users.
A number of politicians and musicians - mostly supporters of Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto - have appeared in court in the past year on charges of propagating "hate speech".
To counteract hatred, a media blitz of tolerance is flooding the airwaves.
Some radio stations have even been organising peace road shows, such as a rally on 15 February in the coastal city of Mombasa by Luo-language Ramogi FM.
The Luo heartland is in the western Nyanza region, but they have a significant presence in the key urban centres. A presenter told listeners that they were in Mombasa "to preach peace ahead of the elections".
As polling day draws near, popular stations are playing songs praising the virtues of patriotism and ethnic accommodation.
Kameme FM, one of the main Kikuyu-language stations, has also been airing a song which asks God to "hear our prayers and watch over our nation" since Kenyans were "rising against each other".
The Kalenjin-language Kass FM, meanwhile, is broadcasting a song calling for "love and cohesion". It urges the Kalenjin to "love your neighbours" and "if they wrong you, forgive them".
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.
Consultants are to be hired later this year to look at routes for a proposed new crossing to Anglesey.
Funding options to pay for the scheme are also to be examined.
Plaid Cymru welcomed progress on the proposal, saying current traffic congestion in the area causes "unnecessary misery" for commuters.
Currently, there are two Menai Strait crossings: the Menai Bridge, which was built by Thomas Telford in the 1820s, and Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge, which was opened to carry rail traffic in 1850 but rebuilt in the 20th century to also carry road traffic.
The A55 runs as a dual carriageway from Holyhead to the Britannia Bridge, where it is carried as a single carriageway road, before returning to a dual carriageway on the other side.
There have been proposals for a third Menai crossing for some time to alleviate traffic on the two bridges over the strait.
According to a Welsh Government document, Economy Secretary Ken Skates has now "agreed to appoint technical advisors to take forward the third crossing project".
He also decided to appoint "external support to advise on possible financial packages to fund the project".
Dyfed Edwards, Plaid Cymru council leader for Gwynedd council, said "it is absolutely key that there's a new crossing" if the new Wylfa Newydd nuclear plant development "comes into place".
"It's not just commuter traffic, it will be construction traffic as well," he said.
A Plaid Cymru spokeswoman said: "This is a project which we have long championed yet which is sadly still to materialise due to the Labour Welsh Government's lethargy on the matter."
She said: "Current traffic congestion causes unnecessary misery for commuters on a daily basis and there are already concerns over the existing two bridges' long-term resilience."
Russell George, the Welsh Conservatives' economy spokesman, said the project was "long overdue".
"The third bridge has been on the agenda for more than a decade", he said, referring to a consultation in 2007.
"Yet the Welsh Government have done nothing," he added.
"The time for announcements is over - action is what is now needed."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We are currently in the process of procuring consultants to carry out a route selection study for the third Menai crossing.
"This will appraise various options and designs for the third crossing and will include a public consultation.
"Construction could start in 2021 subject to gaining all the necessary statutory consents."
Consultants are expected to be hired in the autumn, with the study to take 18 months.
3 December 2014 Last updated at 15:17 GMT
The bomb exploded as the convoy travelled along the road near the airport in Mogadishu, police said.
A second blast targeted African Union (AU) troops about 25km (15 miles) from the city, but details are sketchy, a BBC reporter says.
Al-Shabab, linked to al-Qaeda, has often carried out attacks in Somalia and neighbouring Kenya.
On Tuesday, it killed 36 quarry workers near the northern Kenyan town of Mandera.
It has not commented on the latest explosions.
Here is the story - in 15 seconds.
London and the South East are the only places in the UK where income per head is back above pre-financial crisis levels, he said.
Net wealth has also fallen in places such as the North East of England.
But without action by the Bank, the regions could have faced economic contraction, he added.
"The UK, I think, is towards the bottom of the league table within Europe in terms of its degree of difference across regions," Mr Haldane told the BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed.
Britain's inequality map - stark and growing
He said that wage differences between regions of the UK could differ by as much as 50% and that the productivity gap between regions could be as much as 60%.
Mr Haldane also said there had not been much evidence of those gaps shrinking over the past few years.
"If anything these gaps, which are of long standing have nudged a little wider over the course of the UK's recovery," he said.
There was no single reason why there were such big and persistent differences between regions, he said.
But he thinks differing levels of skills and research and development could be partly to blame.
"Very much more of the research and development occurs, as you might expect, in those high productivity, high income regions of the country," he added.
Mr Haldane said regional inequality was among the most important issues facing the UK.
Reducing the gap could open up considerable opportunities, he said.
For example, he said that if the productivity levels of all companies could be brought up to the levels of those in the most productive parts of the UK it would boost productivity "by fully 20%".
"It would take the UK right up there to rival the Germanies of this world when it came to efficiency and performance," he added.
"That in turn I think would lift wages, it would lift incomes and would lead to a bigger pie as well as more equally redistributed one."
However, the Bank of England lacks the tools to tackle the problem, according to Mr Haldane.
"The tools we have at our disposal are, truth be told... few in number and rather blunt in impact. They tend to work by lifting all boats across the whole of the UK," he said.
Mr Haldane was giving a speech at an iron and steel research centre in Redcar, North Yorkshire.
Two registered security marshals will monitor the Loreburn Street rank from midnight until 04:00 each Saturday and Sunday until 21 December.
They will also be charged with maintaining order amongst revellers on 2 and 3 January.
If the trial is successful, it may be rolled out to other local towns.
Sgt Jim McLatchie, of Police Scotland, said the stewards, who are registered with the Security Industry Authority (SIA), will ensure that members of the public are kept safe.
"Repeatedly over the festive period we get reports of anti-social behaviour, disorder and persons acting inappropriately at the taxi rank in Loreburn Street, Dumfries," he said.
The officer, who is part of the community policing unit in Dumfries and Galloway division, added: "These stewards will seek to assist in maintaining order and minimising potential anti-social behaviour.
"The stewards, who will be easily identifiable by their high-visibility vests, will have direct contact with the police through radio link."
Although the marshals will not be directly employed by the police, they will be in radio contact and monitored through CCTV.
The scheme has been introduced by Dumfries and Galloway licensing boards, Police Scotland and the Dumfries and Galloway alcohol and drug partnership.
Sgt McLatchie said: "Operators and drivers are asked to engage fully with the stewards in order to assist in making Dumfries town centre, customers and taxi drivers alike, safer over the festive season."
Police Scotland and Dumfries and Galloway Council also issued a warning about using taxis and private hire vehicles that are not properly licensed.
They should all carry a license plate and drivers should have an identification badge.
Willie Taylor, service manager licensing, said: "Dumfries and Galloway Council will investigate genuine complaints against the holders of taxi and private hire vehicles licences relating to the condition of the vehicle and against drivers for unacceptable driving or conduct."
Its roads have hosted the Tour of Britain on a number of occasions while its forest trails are recognised as some of the best in the country.
Events including TweedLove, the Tour o' the Borders and the Enduro World Series have also boosted its profile.
Now the local authority has endorsed a five-year strategy which it hopes will ensure it is recognised as one of the UK's premier cycling destinations.
But how do they hope to achieve that goal?
A look at existing infrastructure throughout the region will aim to identify key areas for improvement.
This could include better signage and upgrades to routes in the area.
Market research is also to be undertaken to identify target markets and economic value specific to the Scottish Borders.
At present there are no accurate figures on what share the region takes of the tens of millions of pounds coming to Scotland through cycling tourism.
A clear figure would allow targets to become "meaningful and measurable".
"Little or no data exists specifically for the Scottish Borders, and this has been identified as a key issue going forward," concluded the strategy.
"Small pockets of data exist from a range of stakeholders but not enough to provide a complete picture."
The Scottish Borders is already home to a number of major events but it hopes to bring in even more.
A budget of £50,000 has been set aside to help promote it as a host for new international and national competitions.
The possibility of working with the Borders Railway to help support any events is also being explored.
"The growth in the number of cycling events continues to help raise the profile and provide plenty of content for social media," reported the strategy.
"In short, the area has a wealth of cycle tourism assets, albeit there are superior trails, events, road surfaces and infrastructure to be found elsewhere."
A dedicated marketing campaign hopes to increase awareness of the Borders as a cycling tourism destination.
Work to regularly update a website for cycling in the region is also highlighted as being an important element alongside related social media promotion.
Updated photography to show the region in its best light is also planned.
"This strategy has identified that the region has very good cycling assets in the shape of routes, trails, services and of course events, but they are currently under-promoted in what is an increasingly competitive environment," the report found.
"There is a need for the development of a brand to cover all of the cycling assets in the region."
There are hundreds of miles of cycling routes on mainly quiet roads across the Borders, including a good range of long distance routes.
They include:
It also has a wide range of shorter trails as well as world-class mountain biking with the 7stanes at Glentress, Innerleithen and Newcastleton.
The 32-year-old made 34 appearances for Paul Hurst's Shrewsbury last season, but lost his place to new signing Aristote Nsiala in January.
Ex-Brighton and Bristol City defender El-Abd left Town last week.
"Adam is a player I've always admired, going back to my playing days when he was a nightmare to come up against," said manager Gareth Ainsworth.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The 27-year-old had been adamant he would leave the club to be nearer to his two daughters in Argentina.
But a source close to the player told BBC Sport: "It will be impossible for Carlos to leave and he knows that."
He added that Inter Milan had made an offer for the striker, but it had fallen short of City's valuation.
The summer transfer window closes at 2300 BST on Wednesday.
Staying at Eastlands will mark something of a comedown for Tevez, who released a statement in July making clear his desire to leave City for family reasons.
A few weeks later, City thought they had agreed a deal with Corinthians for the sale of the striker, only for the Sao Paulo-based outfit to pull out because they could not finalise the transfer before the close of their international transfer window.
Inter Milan have also been consistently linked with the player, but instead opted for Atletico Madrid's Diego Forlan to replace Samuel Eto'o.
A combination of the fee wanted by City for Tevez and the player's salary demands seem to have warded off potential suitors.
Tevez is yet to start a game for City this season, with Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko preferred in attack by manager Roberto Mancini.
The forward has also lost the club captaincy to Vincent Kompany, while his place in the Argentina national side has again been taken by Aguero.
Tevez signed a five-year deal with City in July 2009, having moved to the club from Manchester United.
He submitted a transfer request last December, before withdrawing it and helping City finish third in the Premier League table.
The 47-year-old has stepped up from his role as academy director until the end of the season following Paul Clement's sacking on Monday.
Wassall told BBC Radio Derby: "It's a massive privilege to take charge of the first team for the next 16 games.
"It's a brilliant opportunity, working at a brilliant club with brilliant players and brilliant people."
Wassall, who played for the Rams between 1992 and 1997 and has spent the last seven years on the coaching staff, added: "Anybody would be a fool not to want this job.
"Outside the Premier League there are not many better clubs, probably in the Premier League there are not many better clubs. Every man and his dog would want that job."
Wassall has been told his job at the academy is safe but he is eager to prove he deserves to stay in the head coach role beyond the end of the season.
"I have nothing to lose," Wassall added. "I have been here seven years and have a great job and have another one now. It's a really exciting prospect.
"I have been told I am completely in charge of first-team affairs and we have to do the very best we can.
"We believe we have great players - we know we have. We are in a great position in the league and will give it our best shot.
"The application, desire, workrate and ability has shone though in training and I couldn't have been more delighted."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Chairman Mel Morris referred to the need to play in the "Derby way" in the statement that followed Clement's sacking.
"The Derby way is simple," Wassall said.
"We want to be hard to beat and make the iPro in to a fortress, but we also want to try to play attractive football and score lots of goals. That's easier said than done.
"I will manage the team how I want to manage the team.
"I will do it my way. We are in great position. I will not try to be different to anybody else; I will just do it my way."
Some critics thought Frenzy a return to form. But over the years, others have seen proof of the misogyny of which Hitchcock is sometimes accused.
Actress Barbara Leigh-Hunt played the victim in the film's murder scene. It still shocks, she says - but it was totally justified.
Recalling her early years as an actress, she says that 46 years ago she was busy on stage, radio and TV. She'd played major Shakespearean roles at the Old Vic and was, with her husband, the actor Richard Pasco, much in demand for poetry readings.
None of which, she admits, made her an obvious choice for a big role in an Alfred Hitchcock film.
"I was invited out to Pinewood Studios to speak with Hitch for about half an hour," she explains. "To me he was a cinematic god, but I was convinced it was a complete waste of time as I'd never even made a film.
"On my way home I called my agent from the station. I was astonished to hear they'd already been on the phone to say I had the part."
Hitchcock, the son of a greengrocer, was born in Leytonstone in east London in 1899.
A film-maker from the mid-1920s, at the beginning of World War II he went to Hollywood and became perhaps the greatest director of thrillers ever. He could manipulate an audience's sense of dread with an intelligence no one has matched since.
American academic Raymond Foery has made a study of Frenzy. "Universal was Hitchcock's home in Hollywood but his recent films for them - Torn Curtain and Topaz - had been disappointments," he said.
"So the studio was happy to see Hitchcock make a relatively cheap film in London. In fact Hitchcock had hoped to cast Richard Burton, but instead he settled on respected stage actors who wouldn't get huge Hollywood salaries.
"It's about a serial killer who works at Covent Garden vegetable market, which was soon to close. It's based on a novel which was neither a classic nor total trash, but Hitch's method was to buy a story which offered him a strong structure which he could then work up into something cinematic.
"There's less consensus on Frenzy than on any other Hitchcock film. I won't claim the movie rivals Psycho or Vertigo, but I do think it has a lot going for it. But after his death [in 1980], journalists and biographers started to dig into Hitch's attitudes to sex and women, with Frenzy often used as an example."
Barbara Leigh-Hunt recalled Hitchcock's team flagging up the violence in the screenplay. Her character, who owns a marriage bureau, is assaulted and strangled to death in her own office.
"They wanted to know if I was going to be upset. But I'd just played Lady Macbeth on stage so I didn't see how I could honestly object," she said.
"With me Hitch was remarkably kind and considerate. He knew it was my first film and that I was terrified. He had my chair placed beside his on the studio floor and he let me sit through rehearsals so I could get a feel for film.
"He loved corny jokes and wordplay. Once when we'd sat through a terribly slow rehearsal he said: 'Too many dog's feet! What do I mean?'
"And I said 'Pawses'… and he was thrilled that I understood his sense of humour. He was a courteous man: he was very angry when he discovered I hadn't been given a studio car to get me to and from Pinewood."
The plot, as in several Hitchcock films, centres on a man wrongly accused of a crime. In the film, Leigh-Hunt's former husband, played by the late Jon Finch, is found guilty of her murder and it seems the real killer will get away.
Leigh-Hunt recalled that Hitchcock grew discontented with Finch's performance.
"He told me he worked hard to keep up with new screen talent and that Jon had come to him with glowing recommendations. But he said he didn't find in Jon's performance the sympathetic qualities he had hoped for and which would make the audience care about the character's fate."
Discussion of Frenzy usually comes back to the long scene of sexual violence 40 minutes in.
Because of it Frenzy is the only Hitchcock film the British Board of Film Classification still gives an 18 certificate. Earlier Hitchcock classics such as The Birds and Psycho - both originally X-rated - have been reclassified over the years.
The actress recalls the murder scene took three days in the studio to shoot.
"It's pretty horrendous. About a week before Hitch said 'You've no objection to baring your breasts, have you?' I told him I certainly did, and in the end that scene and Anna Massey's nude scene were with body doubles.
"Barry Foster was playing the attacker and he and I discussed what we wanted to do. The assault as written was physically implausible, so Hitch told us what he wanted on screen and he was happy to leave to us some of the detail.
"But it was his idea that at the end I should be seen with my tongue lolling out - which in fact I couldn't do so it's a freeze frame.
"It's still a controversial scene even today, but I believe it was utterly necessary to show how hideous a man the murderer was and what he was prepared to do to women."
Professor Foery, who lectures at a university in Connecticut in the US, says Frenzy put Hitchcock back on the map as a film-maker.
"But it's true the murder is cruder than previous deaths in his films. The obvious comparison is with Janet Leigh being stabbed in the famous Psycho shower scene.
"Hitchcock pointed out that the knife, the blood and the nudity are largely what the audience pieces together in its mind. Psycho relies on suggestion in a way Frenzy does not.
"When I show my students certain films from the 1970s, I warn them they're about to see levels of violence and nudity they probably wouldn't encounter today.
"Possibly a major director now wouldn't allow a scene of sexual violence to go on so long as Hitchcock did in Frenzy - but I just don't accept that Hitchcock disliked women. There are strong female roles throughout his films and in his own career he relied on women."
Barbara Leigh-Hunt retains a huge affection for her time with Hitch.
After Frenzy the director told her he was planning to shoot a film in Scotland and that there would be a role in it for her. In fact his next film, Family Plot, proved to be Hitchcock's swansong and he retired immediately afterwards.
"So many people now try to psychoanalyse Hitch and people talk about his dark side," the actress says.
"I can only judge by what I saw and experienced but I found him a charming man. He was like everybody else - he wanted to be liked, he wanted to be loved."
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected].
The 25-year-old Londoner got two number ones last year as a guest vocalist on Clean Bandit's Rather Be and Route 94's My Love.
"To get a number one in my own name is one of the most insane feelings," she said.
The singer outsold her nearest rival, James Bay's Hold Back the River, by 40,000 copies.
Former number one King, by Years & Years, fell one place to three, with Rihanna, Kanye West and Sir Paul McCartney collaboration FourFiveSeconds at four.
Ellie Goulding's Love Me Like You Do remained at five.
Last week's number one - Sam Smith and John Legend's version of Lay Me Down, made for Comic Relief - fell to six.
Although Bay missed out on topping the singles chart, his debut record - Chaos And The Calm - went straight in at number one on the album chart.
The Official Charts Company said the album had combined sales of more than 64,000 and was streamed some 2,500 times over the past week.
Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour remained at two, with Ed Sheeran's X climbing one place to three - its 40th consecutive week in the top 10.
Seasick Steve's was a new entry at four with Sonic Soul Surfer.
Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly dropped four places from last week's number one to number five.
There were two other new entries in the top 10 - Laura Marling's Short Movie at seven and Cribs' For All My Sisters at nine.
While working as a detention custody officer, Mark Blake, 42, from Slough, was paid almost £8,000 for tips about Colnbrook in west London.
His tips resulted in 10 stories being published by the Sun newspaper over three years.
Blake had pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office in August before a retrial was due to get under way.
He was sentenced to 15 months in prison, suspended for two years, plus 100 hours of unpaid work.
In his sentencing, judge Mark Lucraft QC said he had taken account of a number of factors, including Blake's status as the primary carer of his two children, aged six and 13.
He said he had also considered the time since the original offences, which took place between January 2008 and December 2010.
Blake was prosecuted under Operation Elveden, the Met Police investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials.
Meanwhile, a former prison officer who was also arrested under Elveden has admitted selling information about singer George Michael's time in prison to the Sun newspaper.
A vote on the bill was postponed on Tuesday as Republican leadership seek to persuade rebels to back the plan.
Nine senators have said they will not support it, and the party can only afford to lose two for it to pass.
The plan has been widely criticised amid fears that millions will lose their health insurance coverage.
A survey published on Wednesday by USA Today suggests only 12% of Americans support the Senate plan.
President Barack Obama led an overhaul of the US healthcare system that has been deeply unpopular among Republicans, who have vowed to replace his signature law.
But the party cannot agree on a replacement - conservative Republicans say the Senate plan maintains too many elements of so-called Obamacare, while moderates believe it will hurt vulnerable people.
The president said on Wednesday: "I think we're going to get at least very close, and I think we're going to get it over the line."
He added that the final plan "would be so good, would be far better than Obamacare, and would be much less expensive for the people".
The latest round of polling, which shows approval numbers for the Senate healthcare reform bill hovering in the mid-teens, is deadly news for Republicans.
They're caught in a political pincer not unlike the one Barack Obama and Democrats faced during the Affordable Care Act battle of 2009. Back then, conservatives viewed the legislation as an unacceptable government takeover of US healthcare. Meanwhile, some on the left disapproved because they thought the efforts didn't go far enough. They wanted full-out socialised medicine, instead of market-based insurance reform.
That left-right combo of dissatisfaction made it hard for Obamacare to ever gain majority backing.
Trumpcare faces a similar dilemma - only it's much, much worse. Democrats universally despise the proposals. The not-far-enough/too-far divide exists almost entirely within Republican ranks. Moderates think the cuts go too far. Hard-liners want a full-out repeal. None of them are happy. That leaves only a slice of a slice of the public offering any kind of support for the bill.
Republicans legislators may yet close ranks and pass something, faced with the unappealing prospect of doing nothing after promising action for seven years. One thing is certain, however. Whatever they might agree on has little chance of garnering much popular support.
Will Trumpcare's unpopularity be fatal?
The 142-page Senate bill - the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 - imposes deep cuts to Medicaid, a government health programme for low-income Americans.
The bill also gives states more latitude in requiring insurers to provide essential medical benefits guaranteed under Obamacare, including emergency and maternity care and mental health services.
Details also include:
Nine Senate Republicans have announced opposition to the bill.
Some have criticised it for stripping protections for the poor and elderly, as well as access to women's health. Others on the right of the party say the bill still represents government overreach.
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.
The American Medical Association opposed the bill because, among other concerns, it says there will be higher costs for people on low incomes.
And 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".
Republicans reportedly want to make changes to the bill by the end of this week.
They will then send it to be analysed by the non-partisan Congressional Budgetary Office (CBO), which has said the bill in its present form would strip 22 million Americans of health insurance over the next 10 years.
Congress returns from the Fourth of July holiday on Monday 10 July, and there is a three-week window before the long summer break in which the Senate can vote on a new version.
It will then need to return to the lower chamber, the House of Representatives, for approval before being signed into law by the president.
A healthcare bill similar to the Senate version has already passed the House, but it was criticised by the president as "mean".
Fewster, 20, spent seven months on loan at York in last season, while Heardman, 20, trained with the Pools last week.
Pools manager Craig Hignett previously managed Fewster during the forward's time with Boro's under-13s.
"I know what Craig is all about and I knew when he went to York last season that he would do well and score some goals," Hignett told the club website.
"He's a finisher who comes alive in the box, his movement is good and he's a bit different from the other options we have in the squad so I'm delighted to get him.
"Both Tom and Brad are really hungry to prove themselves and that's one of the big qualities I look for in players."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The 54-year-old from Azerbaijan has been out of the game for 12 years, after turning his hand to politics.
He gained legendary status, becoming known as the "Beast of Baku" and dominated the sport for 15 years.
In a Facebook post he said: "This is not an end to my retirement from chess, only a five-day hiatus."
He added that any earnings from the competition will be donated to charity.
Mr Kasparov was selected as a wild card to compete in the Rapid and Blitz tournament against nine of the best players in the world.
The competition's format requires players to make moves much faster than in the ordinary game.
However, the current world champion, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, is not there.
In 1985 Mr Kasparov became the youngest-ever world champion, maintaining the title for 15 years.
He was a pioneer of using technology in the game, but was famously beaten by an IBM super computer Deep Blue in 1997.
Mr Kasparov stepped away from the sport in 2005, becoming a vocal opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He has taken part in significant demonstrations against the Russian leader and set up the Other Russia opposition group.
In 2013 he left Russia and moved to New York.
The Afon Rheidol river in Ceredigion has been chosen as the location for their return next year.
Should the move go ahead it could see beavers brought in from the UK and around Europe.
But farmers have raised doubts about the suitability of reintroducing the mammal.
Adrian Lloyd Jones, co-ordinator with the Welsh Beaver Project, said six potential sites had been in the running as an beaver "des res" but it had now been narrowed down and the Afon Rheidol was "looking the most favourable".
"I can't see any problems, but if there are then a couple of others are also suitable," he said.
"If all goes well we are aiming for release this time next year," he said.
The trust said beavers disappeared from Wales because they were hunted for their meat, fur and scent glands, and not because their habitats were destroyed.
The idea of returning European beavers to Wales' river valley was drawn up after more than five years' research.
The Welsh Beaver Project sees beavers as having "considerable benefit for biodiversity".
"(The) reintroduction of beavers to Wales is considered appropriate because of the important ecosystem services beavers can perform - managing wetland habitats, and helping to clean and control water resources, as well as boosting tourism and local economies," it says.
A baby beaver, known as a kit, born in Kent this week could also be one of the new inhabitants of the river next year.
Some farmers are sceptical though and Bernard Llywellyn, National Farmers' Union (NFU) rural affairs board chairman in Wales, said not enough was known about the effect the creature could have.
"There's a certain amount of evidence that in Europe, in particular, that quite considerable damage has been done but in truth we don't really know what problems there will be... and I don't think anyone else does either," he said.
"I haven't seen any evidence that they'll contribute anything to the eco-system.
"The history as far as introducing mammals in particular is not a particularly good one.
"We've seen the grey squirrel, rabbits and even mink so in reality there isn't much evidence to suggest they do any good at all."
Participants are given a 6ft (1.8m) tree, weighing about 10 kg (22lb), for the contest at Keele Christmas Tree Farm.
They must then throw it as far as possible and get the tree as high over a bar as they can.
One hundred trees are being used at the charity fundraising event to benefit the Help for Heroes campaign.
Each contestant has three attempts at the "long throw" and three at the "high throw... over a high jump bar like in athletics", with the scores being added together, organisers said.
The competition is being held over this weekend at the farm on the A525 near Keele for the first time.
Organiser Charlie Reynolds, 19, said earlier: "They get a tree to throw which they then give to the next person to throw.
"We've got 100 trees of the same size and weight over the two days, because over time branches will fall off and they'll get lighter.
"So after a while we'll change the tree to keep the weight consistent.
"In Germany they've been running a competition just after the main festive celebrations for about eight years, and always ask people to turn up with their old trees."
Minister Hakubun Shimomura said Japan wanted to teach its children "about integral parts of its territory".
The disputed territory includes islands in the East China Sea controlled by Japan but also claimed by China, and islands controlled by South Korea.
The disputes have caused tension between Japan and the two countries.
The revision approved by the Education Ministry will affect history and geography classes in junior and senior high schools.
It will say that islands in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, and the South Korea-controlled Dokdo islands, known as Takeshima in Japan, are "integral parts of Japanese territory".
"From the educational point of view, it is natural for a state to teach its children about integral parts of its own territory," Mr Shimomura said.
He added that "with the co-operation of our Foreign Ministry, we will explain the country's position to our neighbours".
South Korea has protested the move, with officials calling the meaning of the revision a "very serious" matter, says Yonhap news agency.
Seoul also planned to summon the Japanese ambassador to South Korea to lodge a complaint, Yonhap added.
The disputed islands have long been an issue in diplomatic relations between Japan and its neighbours.
The territory disputed with South Korea, which North Korea also claims, covers a small area but provides good fishing grounds.
The row has also come to symbolise historical grievances founded in Japan's colonisation of the Korean peninsula.
Meanwhile, the islands at the heart of the row with China lie in the East China Sea. Controlled by Japan, they are also claimed by Taiwan.
Tensions rose significantly in 2012 after the Japanese government bought three of the islands from their private Japanese owner.
Since then, Chinese ships have been sailing in and out of what Japan says are its territorial waters.
China has also declared an Air Defence Identification Zone over the islands - meaning it requires all aircraft flying through the zone to follow certain rules - a move roundly criticised by Japan and the US.
The 32-year-old Australia lock, who has captained his country for 16 of his 62 Tests, joined Harlequins in 2015.
Horwill, who previously played for Super Rugby outfit Queensland Reds, will succeed England scrum-half Danny Care as Quins skipper.
"I'm very humbled and honoured to be asked to captain such a great club," Horwill told Quins' website.
Care, who had led the side since replacing Joe Marler in 2015, said: "I feel that it is the right time for a freshen-up, and for someone else to take over."
Director of rugby John Kingston added: "I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Danny for his huge effort and energy whilst being captain of Harlequins.
"James has shown unconditional commitment to the cause since he arrived at the club. I am immensely looking forward to working with him as we seek to build on our Champions Cup qualification."
Quins finished sixth in the table in 2016-17, 14 points off the top four, after 11 wins and 11 defeats in their 22 league games.
Dale Gordon, known as Deezy, was involved in a fight with two men in Manchester at about 22:15 GMT on 15 November 2014, police said.
The 20-year-old died from head injuries in hospital the following day.
His mother Lynn Meecham said: "I have lost a young, talented, loving son and I hope in my heart there is someone out there who can assist the police."
"It only seems like yesterday as the pain has not gone away," she added.
A £25,000 reward is still on offer for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.
The two other men in the fight were described as both being mixed race, between 5ft 8in (1.7m) and 6ft (1.8m) tall and in their mid to late 20s.
One man was said to be of average to athletic build, wearing a hooded grey top with a darker hoodie over the top, and possibly something red underneath.
The other man wore a dark top, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.
They were seen leaving the scene in a grey or silver hatchback car.
Three men, aged 24, 28 and 32, were arrested on suspicion of murder but have been since released with no further action.
Det Ch Insp Paul Parker, from GMP, said police had made "good progress" with the investigation but "need that key witness to come forward".
He added: "Gorton is a very strong community and I am sure there is somebody out there who can provide that key piece of evidence that brings the offenders to justice.
"I understand that people can feel scared about providing information to the police... and I can reassure you we will treat the information you supply with the strictest of confidence."
Among the five legislative votes scheduled, Wednesday's vote on new national emissions caps for five pollutants is most likely to generate attention.
Not for the first time this year, the main political interest may lie in the motion votes - chief among which is a vote on the EU's strained relations with Turkey.
On Thursday, MEPs will vote on a draft resolution calling for the EU to freeze the country's accession talks following a failed coup against the government in July.
It comes as the main centre-left group last week abandoned support for the current talks following crackdowns against journalists and opposition politicians.
Although the vote will not be binding on EU governments, it could serve to further worsen relations between the bloc and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Here's a rundown of the main events this week…
European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi will join MEPs at the start of the day's sitting to debate the Bank's annual report for 2015.
Last year saw the ECB launch a massive bond-buying programme, known as quantitative easing (QE), in a bid to boost borrowing in the eurozone.
It also marked the first full year of the ECB exercising its new responsibilities for supervising the health of the eurozone's largest banks.
Critics of the QE programme have said it hits savers and widens inequality by boosting asset prices.
However Bank chiefs have said the programme has played an important role in supporting a still-fragile eurozone recovery.
After this, MEPs will debate proposed changes to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's international banking requirements.
There is some concern the changes could put some European banks at a disadvantage to their US competitors.
In the evening, MEPs will debate three non-binding motions that will be put a vote on Tuesday - the most noteworthy is a motion calling for greater military co-operation between EU states.
In the morning, MEPs will debate how EU debt and deficit rules should be applied next year.
The EU Commission said last week that the draft budgets of eight eurozone countries were "at risk" of not complying with agreed EU limits.
However some MEPs have criticised the EU executive for not taking punitive action against states that break the rules.
They will also debate new EU rules obliging tax authorities to automatically share certain bank account information to tackle money laundering.
After the lunchtime voting session, EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini will join MEPs to discuss the situation in Syria.
It comes as the Syrian government last week renewed air strikes and shelling on rebel-held parts of Aleppo, according to activists.
They will then debate relations with Turkey, which have been under strain since a failed coup against the government of President Erdogan in July.
A crackdown against opposition politicians, civil servants and journalists in the wake of the coup attempt has prompted increasing criticism from within the EU.
A topical motion which could call for the country's EU membership bid to be frozen will be voted on during Thursday's session.
After this, MEPs will debate draft motions on the EU's common security and defence policies, and efforts to counter "disinformation and propaganda" from Russia and Islamic State (IS) group.
In the evening they will also discuss plans for an EU "skills guarantee" scheme to boost literacy and numeracy skills among low-skilled adults.
The scheme would target those without a formal secondary education but too old to be eligible for the EU's youth guarantee scheme for under-25s.
The morning sitting will see MEPs debate stricter national emissions caps for five key pollutants, to apply from 2030.
MEPs agreed a compromise position on the new legal limits with member states at the end of June, which will be put to a final vote at lunchtime.
New limits for methane - as originally proposed by the Commission in 2013 - were dropped after opposition from some governments.
The winner of the annual LUX prize for European cinema will be announced at around 11.00 GMT, before lunchtime's voting session.
Among the motions to be put to the vote is one calling for the EU's recently-signed trade deal with Canada to be examined by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
The agreement was signed last month after seven years of negotiations - but still needs to be ratified by the European Parliament before it can fully come into force.
Eighty-nine MEPs have backed a motion asking for the Court to rule on whether the investor protection measures in the deal comply with EU law.
Without substantial support from the centre-right parties, it is unlikely to be passed.
After the voting session, MEPs will debate a proposal to grant €200m in EU loans to Jordan to help it cope with economic instability and refugee crisis.
A vote on whether to approve the loans will take place on Thursday.
They will also debate changes to EU rules governing cross-border pensions, also to be put to a vote on Thursday.
The evening will see discussions on non-binding motions to change the EU's VAT rules to clamp down on fraud, and calling for EU-wide sanctions on the traffickers of wildlife products.
The day's short sitting starts with a debate with European Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly about her department's work during 2015.
At lunchtime MEPs are likely to pass a motion backing her investigations into "revolving doors" cases involving EU ex-commissioners.
Ms O'Reilly recently raised concerns about the appointment of Jose Manuel Barroso as an advisor at US investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Last month an EU ethics panel cleared the ex-Commission President of breaching the EU executive's conduct rules.
The Ombudsman has hinted that she may open an inquiry given the "concern that continues to be expressed" about the appointment.
After this MEPs will debate this month's resolutions on human rights cases - this month relating to China, Brazil and Russia.
The motion on Turkey's EU membership bid will be voted on at lunchtime, along with a motion on the situation in Syria following the debate on Tuesday.
A short afternoon session will consist of a single short debate on access to energy targets in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Please note: This agenda is subject to modification at the opening of the session on Monday afternoon.
A guide to how the European Parliament's plenary sessions can be found here.
|
Parents and teachers should not "wrap girls in cotton wool", an independent schools' leader has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Inspectors could be given powers to close hospital wards to new patients from April, if the move is approved by MSPs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A charity is a step closer to building a new children's hospice in Wiltshire after an anonymous donor pledged £1m to the project.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers has said the situation at Stormont "looks increasingly grim", after talks broke up without agreement.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A limousine taking primary school children to an end of year party erupted in flames.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Eugene Laverty secured an impressive seventh-placed finish in a rain-affected MotoGP race at Assen.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Lord Rose, the former Marks & Spencer boss who heads the pro-EU campaign group Britain Stronger In Europe, has been accused of a "scandalous misuse of data" as he appeared before MPs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Google has responded to an attack by the chief executive of News Corp, who called it a "platform for piracy".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Glamorgan beat Worcestershire by nine wickets inside three days, as Michael Hogan picked up his third five-wicket haul in three games as captain.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
This year's Eurovision Song Contest dominated the conversation worldwide on social media, including tweets about Ukraine's win, the new voting system, and tributes to former host, the late Sir Terry Wogan.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
England's Sarah Taylor scored 34 on her Women's Super League debut but her Lancashire Thunder team lost to Surrey Stars by 33 runs at Old Trafford.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Veteran comedian Bobby Pattinson is retiring from stand-up performance at the age of 81.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Forest Green's automatic National League promotion hopes were dealt another blow as they were beaten by strugglers North Ferriby.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
In order to avoid a repeat of the nationwide violence following the previous elections, the Kenyan authorities are restricting campaign methods which use "hate speech" to whip up ethnic tensions.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Construction of a third crossing over the Menai Strait could begin by 2021 if it gets the go ahead, the Welsh Government has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
At least four people have been killed in a car bomb blast next to a UN convoy in Somalia's capital, police say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Regional inequality in the UK is becoming more pronounced, Bank of England chief economist Andrew Haldane has warned.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Stewards will patrol the main taxi rank in Dumfries over Christmas and Hogmanay in a bid to combat anti-social behaviour.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Scottish Borders is already proud of what it has to offer to cyclists.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
League Two side Wycombe have signed centre-back Adam El-Abd on a one-year deal after his release by Shrewsbury.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Carlos Tevez accepts it will be "impossible" for him to leave Manchester City before the end of the transfer window, BBC Sport understands.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
New Derby County head coach Darren Wassall says he would be a "fool" not to want the job on a long-term basis.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
In 1971 Alfred Hitchcock came home to London to make his penultimate film - the murder story Frenzy, about a serial killer in London.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Jess Glynne has topped the UK singles chart for the first time as a solo artist with her track Hold My Hand.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An ex-official who leaked stories about an immigration centre has been spared jail to care for his two children.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
US President Donald Trump has said he believes the Senate healthcare bill will "get over the line" and secure the votes it needs to pass.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Hartlepool have signed Middlesbrough's Bradley Fewster and Newcastle forward Tom Heardman on half-season loans.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has come out of professional retirement for a one-off tournament in St Louis, Missouri.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Plans to reintroduce beavers to the Welsh countryside after hundreds of years without them have moved a step closer.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A farm in Staffordshire is hosting what is thought to be the UK's first Christmas tree throwing competition.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Japan's Education Ministry says it is revising teaching manuals for schools to set out its ownership of disputed islands.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
James Horwill has been named as Harlequins' new captain ahead of the 2017-18 Premiership season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Police have appealed again for information a year after a rapper was fatally attacked.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A rather thin legislative agenda awaits MEPs at their monthly plenary sitting in Strasbourg this week.
| 40,278,074 | 15,756 | 1,021 | true |
Officers were called to the Wheatley area of Doncaster on Saturday when players called 999 after seeing what they thought was a theft taking place.
A police statement said: "I never thought I would write this headline but ‪#‎PokemonGo has helped fight crime."
The force said two men had been arrested on suspicion of burglary in relation to the incident.
Pokemon Go players search real-life locations for digital creatures.
The force said that following the emergency call officers arrived at the scene to find people "leaving the yard carrying their stolen goods".
"They were stealing decking, clearly wanting to enjoy the summer sunshine in luxury," the spokesperson said.
Pokemon Go, which has become a global phenomenon, was launched in the UK on Thursday.
A smartphone update of the Nintendo Game Boy classic, it encourages players to catch monsters via a combination of GPS and augmented reality.
Its popularity has prompted a series of safety warnings and reports of players finding themselves in dangerous situations.
|
Pokemon Go players "helped fight crime" after thwarting a burglary, South Yorkshire Police said.
| 36,818,998 | 216 | 26 | false |
The B-52 swooped over an air base close to the North-South border.
Pyongyang said it detonated an underground device earlier this week to widespread condemnation, but experts remain sceptical about the claim.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the test was an act of self-defence to prevent nuclear war with the US.
"It is the legitimate right of a sovereign state and a fair action that nobody can criticise," he was quoted by North Korean state media as saying.
Following the test, South Korea resumed broadcasting propaganda from speakers mounted on the border and the North countered with similar broadcasts.
The two sides are technically still at war, with the civil conflict that ended in 1953 concluding in a truce rather than a peace treaty.
The US is an ally of the South and said the B-52's flight was a response "to recent provocative action by North Korea".
Lt Gen Terrence O'Shaughnessy said the US was "steadfast" in its commitment to defending South Korea, and that includes "extended deterrence provided by our conventional forces and our nuclear umbrella".
Washington is considering sending an aircraft carrier to the region, Yonhap reported.
There has been no response yet from North Korea to the B-52's flight.
If may take weeks to confirm North Korea's claims to have tested a hydrogen bomb, but several experts said the blast was not large enough to have been from such a device.
The test angered North Korea's main ally China and the UN is working on new measures against Pyongyang, already internationally isolated from previous nuclear tests.
Three wards - Uphill, Berrow and Kewstoke - were closed earlier this week because of the winter vomiting bug.
Kewstoke ward was reopened on Friday but another outbreak has now led to the closure of Cheddar ward.
Visitors have been asked to stay away unless absolutely necessary and restrictions have been put in place.
Director of Nursing and infection control Chris Perry said: "Norovirus is extremely infectious.
"It is bought into the hospital from the community and so people coming into the hospital carrying the bug can easily transmit it to our patients.
"This is why we are urging people only to come here if their visit is absolutely essential."
The home side are looking to win the team title for the second time, while Argentina hope to improve on a record of four final defeats.
Marin Cilic plays Federico Delbonis in the opening singles on Friday, followed by Ivo Karlovic against Del Potro.
"We are hoping that this long quest for the cup title will come to an end," said Del Potro.
"They are at home and have a very strong team, but we are looking forward to a great weekend and we are also very proud to be in another final."
Croatia, who won the Davis Cup in 2005, have a significant advantage in terms of singles rankings, with number six Cilic and number 20 Karlovic lining up on day one.
Argentina will hope Delbonis can play above his ranking of 41, while Del Potro has been playing at a higher level that his current position of 38 as he makes his way back from several years of wrist injuries.
Del Potro was the last man to beat world number one Andy Murray when he helped Argentina defeat reigning champions Great Britain in the semi-finals in September.
"I'll have to be focused against Karlovic because one break of serve could cost me the match," added Del Potro before the final, which takes place on an indoor hard court.
"It is great to be in the final at this point of my career after so many injuries."
Former football World Cup winner Diego Maradona is expected at the Zagreb Arena to see whether Argentina can go one better than the finals of 1981, 2006, 2008 and 2011.
"It will be nice to have Maradona here but it makes no difference to us that he will be cheering on his compatriots," said Cilic.
"There is little or nothing between the two teams and hence our passionate fans can make all the difference."
Media playback is not supported on this device
The man, identified as soldier 'B', was giving evidence at an inquest into the death of 15-year-old Manus Deery.
The teenager was shot in the head in 1972 by a soldier named on Monday as William Glasgow, who died in 2001.
Mr Glasgow maintained that he fired at what appeared to be a gunman, but that the stray bullet killed the teenager.
The Deery family have always disputed the Army's version of events and believe the teenager was killed unlawfully.
On the evening of his death, Manus Deery's friends said the teenager was celebrating getting his first pay packet and was eating chips before he was shot.
On Thursday, three siblings of the teenager were at the inquest to see soldier 'B' give evidence.
The inquest heard that two Ministry of Defence (MoD) notes from 1972 classed the shooting as being outside the Army's yellow card regulations.
The rules stipulate when a soldier can open fire lawfully.
The court was also told that in October 1973 the Ministry of Defence received legal advice saying that the shooting could not be justified in law.
However, soldier 'B' told the court he believes the shooting did not breach breach yellow card rules.
The inquest heard that, on the day after the shooting, soldier 'B' gave a statement in which he described spotting a man through a telescope carrying a rifle in his right hand.
He said he told Mr Glasgow there was a gunman.
The inquest heard that Mr Glasgow also looked through the telescope and then fired at the gunman who he said had just gone into the entrance of an archway at the back of the Bogside Inn.
Giving evidence from behind a screen, and visible only to the coroner and the Deery family, soldier 'B' said on Thursday that his view of the archway was very poor.
He said he was looking over William Glasgow's shoulder when the shot was fired, heard shouting and saw people in the archway.
Soldier 'B' also told the court that he had never seen an SLR rifle - which he was carrying the night of the shooting - fitted with a telescope, and that they just had sights.
However, when asked again if his recollection was likely to have been better the day after the shooting, he replied yes.
When asked by lawyers by the Deery family how he felt when he learned of the death of the teenager, he said he had wondered how a 15-year-old had got in the way of what he thought was a gunman in the archway.
He was also asked if he had anything to say to Manus Deery's siblings, who were seated opposite him in court.
He replied: "I'm sorry about it, but that's all I can do at the moment."
The inquest continues.
The blaze at the Love Lei shop in John Street broke out in the ground floor of the building at about 17:00 GMT.
A 48-year-old women was taken to Sunderland Royal Hospital suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation.
The fire service said it still had three appliances at the scene and the road was shut between St Thomas' Street and Bedford Street.
At the height of the blaze the brigade said nine appliances had been used to bring the fire under control.
Leila Chen, 31, who owns the business, said: "A friend phoned me and said my shop was on fire, and I ran down. But we are not allowed in yet.
"I have owned the business since 2010 and this has never happened to me before, so I don't know what to do."
Her father-in-law Tony Swalwell, who owns the building, said: "It seems that the fire was somehow started in the units on the ground floor.
"At about 17:30 we got phone calls about the shop, one was from a lady who was in quite a bit of shock. She was then taken to hospital."
Media playback is unsupported on your device
8 September 2015 Last updated at 16:17 BST
She showed Jenny how to draw the mischievous characters Toothless and Hiccup.
The twelfth and final book in the series is out today and is called "How to Fight A Dragon's Fury".
Media playback is unsupported on your device
18 April 2015 Last updated at 14:18 BST
Two months ago, Charlie Pye was so convinced his team were heading for relegation he wrote to Villa Park to offer his services.
Sherwood wrote to the staunch fan saying although he had missed out on the position, the club would like to keep his CV on file in case of further vacancies.
Charlie, from Leamington Spa, had wanted his mother and father to be assistant managers, and demanded a modest salary of a signed football.
BBC Midlands Today's Ian Winter went to meet Charlie - captain of Norton Lindsey juniors.
The company wrote off $2bn from the value of undeveloped gas fields in the Rocky Mountains in the US.
It also blamed the profit slump on low oil and natural gas prices for the past two years.
Exxon's former chief executive, Rex Tillerson, is likely to become the next US secretary of state.
He is the first choice for the job of the newly-elected President Donald Trump.
"Financial results for the year were negatively impacted by the prolonged downturn in commodity prices and the impairment charge," said Darren Woods, who replaced Mr Tillerson as chief executive officer.
Despite this, the company's shareholders received $12.5bn in dividends for last year.
The gas field write-off is partly a response to pressure from the US authorities at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Last September it asked the company to explain why, in the light of the big fall in oil prices, it had not cut the book value of some of its assets, when the firm's main rivals had all done so.
At the time Exxon said it was "fully complying" with a request from the SEC for accounting information.
But the annual results fail to make any mention of the issue.
Brent crude, the international benchmark, finished 2016 priced at about $56.80 a barrel, down 48% compared with two years earlier.
Data released under the Freedom of Information Act shows in some places, more than 95% of houses waiting to be built received planning permission more than two years ago.
Peterborough MP Stewart Jackson said hesitant developers should be taxed.
But developers say it can take a long time to start building projects.
In Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, the latest figures show there are 7,402 houses with planning permission, on which work has not started.
Of these, 7,290 were granted permission more than two years ago.
In Harlow, Essex, 3,300 of 3,674 homes yet to be built have had planning permission for more than two years.
Mr Jackson, a Conservative, said developers should be penalised after a year, based on the capital value of the land, if they do not act on planning permission.
"It isn't satisfactory that there is some land banking, where big companies are sitting on land that should be developed for people to have homes," he said.
But John Stewart, from the Home Builders Federation, said there was no incentive for house builders to "sit on land" and that conditions imposed by planning authorities could often lead to a delay.
"Some of those planning conditions will need to be discharged before a developer is legally able to start on site," he said.
"If a house builder has got a planning permission that is actually implementable, and legally they can start on site, they will be on site very quickly."
The 35-year-old has been a regular competitor at the event and has five victories over the Orritor circuit.
The Lincolnshire rider missed last year's meeting as he opted to sit out the road racing season but is back in action in 2017 with Honda Racing.
Martin will also race at the Tandragee road races on 21 and 22 April.
He last competed in that event, run by the North Armagh club, in 2005, when he enjoyed a best finish of third.
His return to the North West 200 and Isle of Man TT was revealed in January.
Martin will take part in the Open and Cookstown 100 feature races on the all new SP2 Honda, having previously tasted success in the main race of the meeting as part of the Tyco BMW team in 2015.
The television personality has also been linked with taking in the Tandragee 100, which opens the Irish road racing season on 21 and 22 April.
The news of Martin's entry for the Cookstown will provide a major boost to the event, given the extra financial pressures that clubs are under because of escalating insurance costs.
Florin Neula, Alexandru Uzum and Eduard Zamosteanu are alleged to have installed a "card trapping" device and a camera on a bank machine in Scone.
They are said to have used the device to take cash from former St Johnstone footballer Nathan Lowndes in May 2015.
The three men denied seven charges against them, and the case was continued for trial.
Necula, 30, Uzum, 25, both of Edinburgh, and Zamosteanu, 27, are accused of possessing the card trapping device at various addresses between 20 May and 9 June this year.
Uzum and Zamosteanu are said to have installed the machine on an ATM in Scone on 20 May, and used it to steal the footballer's bank card and pin code.
Zamosteanu is then alleged to have used the details to operate an ATM and steal £200, before the pair then used it again to steal £10.
Necula and Uzum are accused of installing the device again at the same machine on 28 May in a bid to steal a bank card and pin code.
At Dundee Sheriff Court, Sheriff Alistair Carmichael continued the case to a sheriff and jury trial assize next week.
The 32 teachers in Enniskillen Royal Grammar School (ERGS) may refuse to teach the pupil as a result.
In a letter, seen by the BBC, the school admits "inappropriate images" of two members of staff were found.
The pupil was suspended for a total of 17 days as a result.
A letter from the chair of the school's board of governors, sent to teaching staff in early June, detailed the events.
In November 2016, "a memory stick containing inappropriate images" was found in the school.
The PSNI investigated and two female teachers were informed about the images.
It emerged that the images had been taken by a pupil in May and June 2015, but this had not come to light until November 2016.
The teenage boy was initially suspended for five days and later for 12 further days.
The case went to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) but it decided not to prosecute the pupil.
In a statement, the PPS said that the activities reported to them by police as having been committed did not constitute an offence in criminal law.
The PPS also said that the women teachers involved "were not observed doing a private act and therefore the evidential test in respect of the offence of voyeurism" was not met.
In the letter to staff, ERGS said the governors had considered whether to expel the pupil but decided not to after taking legal advice.
The school also said that it - along with other agencies - had carried out a risk assessment and drawn up safety and support plans for both the boy and the two female teachers.
However, the BBC has obtained letters to the school from the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) and the NASUWT in response.
The ATL has 24 members in the school while the NASUWT has 48.
The ATL said they were concerned there may be other victims "as yet unidentified" captured on video on the same memory stick.
They also said that the school should "revisit the question of whether to exclude the pupil concerned".
The NASUWT letter, meanwhile, outlined the impact on the two women teachers involved who are its members.
The union alleges that the governors were not sufficiently open with staff about the situation.
They wrote that the women involved were "sexually exploited and feel objectified" as "it remains a fact that videos were taken up the skirts" of the teachers.
The NASUWT are balloting their members in the school on whether to refuse to teach the pupil involved.
In a statement to the BBC, ERGS said that "given the complex and sensitive nature of this issue for all concerned, we are disappointed that this is being dealt with in the media".
"It is not appropriate for the school to comment further."
Sitcoms too do not appeal to black and Asian people as much as white viewers.
"Members of minority ethnic groups do not identify themselves in many of our most-watched narratives," said David Graham, of TV analysts Attentional.
Its research also found that minorities "have less to get excited about from mainstream channels" such as BBC One.
Viewing preferences among different groups were deduced using viewing data from the first six months of 2016.
The findings suggest black British viewers have a "modest preference" for Channel 5 and ITV Be - home to such shows as The Only Way is Essex and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Asian Britons are more likely to watch Sky Sports 2 due to its cricket coverage, while white European viewers tend to favour BBC Four and Film 4.
Factual dramas, football, cookery shows and US films are most likely to appeal to all audiences, the data suggests.
Overall, said Mr Graham, the research showed that "our broadcasting system seems to offer the range needed for different groups to explore their own special interests and cultures".
The findings are outlined in a short film posted this week on YouTube.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected].
India have taken over first place - but will relinquish it to Pakistan if they fail to win the final Test of their current series in West Indies.
Sri Lanka declared their second innings on 347-8 early on day five in Colombo, setting the Aussies 324 to win.
But only David Warner (68) resisted as spinner Rangana Herath took 7-64.
A week ago, there were four teams in with a chance of finishing August as the top-ranked Test side.
England's final Test defeat by Pakistan as their series was drawn 2-2 ended their chances and preserved Pakistan's hopes - while Australia's rested on avoiding a series whitewash.
However, Pakistan must now hope their great rivals India do not triumph in their fourth Test in Trinidad, which begins on Thursday. India lead the series 2-0.
Sri Lanka's success also means South Africa - who began 2016 as number one before losing to England in January - are down to seventh in the rankings.
ICC Test rankings predictor (external site)
Herath's 28 wickets at an average of 12.75 is the biggest haul for a left-arm bowler in a three-Test series.
Australia crumbled in 44.1 overs against an all-spin attack in the second innings at the spin-friendly Sinhalese Sports Club - indeed, only 17 of the 169.2 overs they faced in the match were bowled by seamers.
Shaun Marsh, a centurion from the first innings, added 77 for the first wicket with Warner but both fell to off-spinner Dilruwan Perera, and the rest of the Australia line-up could not cope with the wily Herath, who returned match figures of 13-145.
As well as being named man of the match, he was also chosen as man of the series as Sri Lanka regained the Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, named after the two most prolific spinners in Test history.
Australia are unbeaten in home Test series since losing to South Africa in December 2012, but have struggled further afield.
This was their third successive series whitewash in Asia, having lost 4-0 to India in 2013 and 2-0 to Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates in 2014, while they suffered Ashes defeats in England in 2013 and 2015.
Their only series wins away from home in that time were in West Indies (2015) and New Zealand (2016).
Scott Pruitt, a fierce critic of the agency, was approved by the Republican-controlled Senate despite Democratic attempts to delay the confirmation.
A judge in Oklahoma on Thursday ordered him to release, by Tuesday, emails he exchanged with oil and gas executives.
Democrats boycotted an earlier vote over his email refusal and claimed he was too close to energy companies.
They held the Senate floor through the night to put pressure on the chamber to delay the confirmation vote until the emails, which were exchanged while he was Oklahoma attorney general, were handed over.
But the Senate voted in favour of his confirmation by 52 to 46, and he was sworn in on Friday.
Mr Pruitt, 48, had refused to hand over the emails, at the request of a liberal watchdog, for more than two years.
Mr Pruitt is perhaps the most controversial appointment in the history of the EPA - the Oklahoma attorney general has spent years fighting the role and reach of the organisation he now heads.
Hundreds of former EPA staff members wrote an open letter against his appointment, some calling him an "unqualified extremist".
Environmental campaigners see him as an oil and gas industry stooge who is "lukewarm" on the threat posed by climate change - they fear that hard-won environmental regulations will be overturned.
Key among them is the 2009 ruling that greenhouse gas emissions endanger both the environment and public health. This underpinned many of the actions taken by President Obama to curb CO2.
With Mr Pruitt in place, it's likely that President Trump will rapidly push ahead with orders to overturn Obama's Clean Power Plan and his "Waters of the US" rule, something conservatives also see as an over-extension of federal power.
Mr Pruitt will probably attempt to cut through the "regulatory rampage" that Republicans believe the EPA has embarked on over the past eight years - but he needs to be wary of over-reach.
President Reagan appointed Anne Gorsuch Burford to reform the EPA back in 1981 - but after failed attempts to downsize, she was out on her ear two years later.
What is climate change?
Republicans predicted Mr Pruitt would reset the agency's goals.
"I have no doubt the Scott will return the EPA to its core objectives," said Oklahoma Sen James Inhofe, accusing the agency of "federal overreach, unlawful rule making and duplicative red tape".
"EPA has made life hard for families all across America," said Wyoming Sen John Barrasso, adding that Mr Pruitt would "bring much needed change".
Environmental groups said they feared he would loosen regulations on energy companies.
During his confirmation hearing he had said he disagreed with Mr Trump saying climate change was a hoax but he previously cast doubt on the overwhelming evidence that changes in the earth's temperature were down to humans.
"Scott Pruitt is the worst pick ever confirmed to lead the EPA," said Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
"We'll use every tool in the kit to stop him from harming our air and water, endangering our communities and surrendering our kids to climate catastrophe."
Mr Pruitt's confirmation means that President Trump has filled 14 of his 22 cabinet posts.
He has blamed Democratic obstructionism for not filling more of his key jobs by now.
She was attacked outside a women's hostel in Lucknow while getting water from a hand pump, police said.
The woman, 35, had been receiving round-the-clock police protection because of the previous attacks, which were linked to a property dispute.
Anger is growing at the authorities' inability to protect her.
She was allegedly gang-raped and first attacked with acid by two men in 2008, over a property dispute, the details of which are not clear.
The same two men are then accused of throwing acid at her twice more - in 2012 and 2013 - to try and get her to drop the criminal charges against them.
In March, she was attacked again while travelling on a train with her daughter. This time she was forced to drink acid.
Two men are facing trial for all of the attacks but were released on bail in April, the AFP agency reports.
According to government figures, there are hundreds of such attacks involving acid each year in India, although campaigners say the real figures are much higher.
The victims, who have to live with terrible disfigurements, are mainly women and are often targeted by jealous partners, campaigners say.
Despite a Supreme Court ruling in 2013 to regulate the sale of acid, critics say it is still widely and easily available.
The SNP leader has faced calls to reveal whether she will propose another referendum in her manifesto for the Holyrood election next year.
Unionist opponents have voiced concerns that another SNP landslide could be seen as a mandate for a second vote.
Speaking in Hong Kong, Ms Sturgeon said a referendum would happen "if and when the Scottish people decide".
Prime Minister David Cameron refused to consider another independence referendum this week, and indicated that any decision by the Scottish government to unilaterally decide to hold a referendum would not be legitimate.
Scottish Secretary David Mundell said on Monday that he did not believe "it is for the SNP themselves to determine whether the people of Scotland are in favour of having another referendum".
Ms Sturgeon was addressing the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club as part of her visit to the Chinese administrative region this week.
She said: "Two questions I get asked often these days - will there be another independence referendum and, if so, when?
"My answer is simple. It will be if and when the Scottish people decide and not a moment before.
"No politician can impose a referendum on Scotland, no matter how much some of us would like Scotland to be independent.
"And it's worth pointing out that the reverse is also true. If the Scottish people do vote in future to have another referendum, no politician has the right to stand in their way."
The first minister also told her Hong Kong audience that the way the Scottish independence referendum was conducted could offer up lessons on political engagement for the former British colony.
Ms Sturgeon stressed it would be wrong to draw direct parallels between developments in Scotland and the situation in Hong Kong, but said all protest should be "peaceful, democratic and positive".
The device, believed to have been planted by "violent dissident republicans", was discovered outside the officer's home on Wednesday.
The bomb was reportedly found under a car at Ardanlee and exploded as Army technical officers tried to defuse it; no one was injured in the blast.
Catholic and Church of Ireland bishops have condemned the attack.
The area remains cordoned off and about a dozen families have not been allowed to return home amid an ongoing security alert.
The vice-chairwoman of Northern Ireland's Policing Board said the attack "would be on the agenda" during a meeting with the Chief Constable, George Hamilton, on Monday.
"This was a live device that fell off a car and the community is very upset," said Debbie Watters.
"At our last board meeting, we were reassured that he (George Hamilton) did have adequate resources.
"Obviously in light of what has happened that is one issue we will question the chief constable on."
Despite the attack, Ms Watters added that she did not believe people would be dissuaded from joining the PSNI.
The Ardanlee bomb is the second attack on a serving police officer in as many months.
The device was intended to kill and inflict harm in the community, said the PSNI's Supt Gordon McCalmont.
"This was an attempt to kill one of my colleagues," he said.
"My thoughts are with my colleague and his family. You can imagine the impact this trauma will have on them."
Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry and Bishop Ken Good of Derry and Raphoe said the incident showed a "callous disregard" for life.
"There can never be any justification for such a crime," said the Catholic and Church of Ireland bishops.
"It was wrong. It was evil. And it showed a callous disregard for the lives not only of the police officer targeted by the bombers but of the officer's neighbours too.
"Our people want to move forward - together - to a better and brighter future. The bombers seem intent on taking us backwards and keeping us apart.
"They must not succeed."
Both Church leaders urged anyone with information on the "attempted murder" to share it with the PSNI.
Chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland Mark Lindsay said the officer had had a "narrow escape".
"This was an act of cowardice. It was reckless and wanton, and displayed utter disregard for life," Mr Lindsay told the BBC.
"These people are relics of the past and we could have been looking at total carnage yesterday. It was a narrow escape, it's a risk that goes with police officers day and daily.
"It's worth remembering that this Officer was singled out because of the job he does, which is to protect the entire community and rid us of this terrorist scourge."
Mr Ecclestone's offer was based on an existing provision in German law.
Earlier on Tuesday German prosecutors accepted the offer from the 83-year-old billionaire who dominates motor racing.
He went on trial in April, accused of paying a German banker 33m euros (£26m; $44m) to ensure that a company he favoured could buy a stake in F1.
He denies wrongdoing.
The ruling means he walks free from the district court in Munich and can continue running the sport. It also means Mr Ecclestone is found neither guilty nor innocent.
His personal wealth is put at $4.2bn by Forbes, which ranks him as the 12th richest UK billionaire.
If found guilty, he could have faced a 10-year jail term and the end of his decades-long dominance of motor racing.
A BayernLB banker, Gerhard Gribkowsky, was allegedly paid by Mr Ecclestone to ensure the F1 stake was bought by a company that he favoured, so that he would remain in charge of the sport.
Gribkowsky was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in 2012 for accepting bribes.
Mr Ecclestone says the payment was given to Gribkowsky after the banker threatened to make false claims about the F1 boss's tax status.
Prosecutors said Mr Ecclestone's advanced age and other mitigating circumstances gave grounds to accept the $100m offer.
Mr Ecclestone has attended most of the hearings in person and arrived at the courthouse on Tuesday in a limousine, looking relaxed and accompanied by his wife, Fabiana Flosi.
Asked by Judge Peter Noll if he could raise the $100m, Mr Ecclestone replied "yes". When asked if the payment could be made within a week, his defence lawyer, Sven Thomas, said: "That's do-able."
Judge Noll ruled that $99m would go to the Bavarian state coffers while $1m would be donated to a children's hospital. The sum is believed to be a record for such a payment.
Court spokesperson Andrea Titz said Mr Ecclestone: "The court did not consider a conviction overwhelmingly likely from the present point of view.
"With this type of ending... there is no ruling on guilt or innocence of the defendant."
Under German law defendants can in certain circumstances "buy" termination of a trial.
The legal proviso exists in order to ease the burden on the courts and to deal with cases where reaching a judgment could prove difficult.
However a lawyer quoted by the Spiegelonline website, Franz Bielefeld, said it was unusual for the clause to be invoked in mid-trial - more often it is done before a trial starts.
Former Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, of the Liberal FDP party, criticised use of the loophole in the Ecclestone case, saying it was "not just bad taste - it's really insolent".
She said it allowed rich people to go free, whereas the less well-heeled could face prison.
Joao Carvalho was taken to hospital after being beaten in a fight at the National Stadium in Dublin by Charlie Ward, a team-mate of UFC champion Conor McGregor.
The 28-year-old underwent emergency brain surgery and was in a critical condition for 48 hours.
However, a statement from his Vitor Nobrega team confirmed he had died.
Irishman McGregor, who was at ringside for the fight, said Carvalho "was a hell of a fighter and will be sorely missed by all".
"The fight was so back and forth that I just can't understand it," McGregor added.
"Nobody involved in combat sports of any kind wants to see this.
"It is such a rare occurrence that I don't know how to take this.
"To see a young man doing what he loves, competing for a chance at a better life, and then to have it taken away is truly heartbreaking."
Total Extreme Fighting, which organised the event, said it was "deeply saddened" by Carvalho's death.
"We extend our most sincere condolences to the family of Joao Carvalho and his team-mates in Team Nobrega," said Cesar Silva, the chief executive of Total Extreme Fighting.
"We'd also like to thank all sports fans for their concern and support.
"We will give whatever support we can to Joao's family."
John Kavanagh, who coaches McGregor, was in Ward's corner during the fight and asked people to respect the privacy of the Portuguese fighter's family.
Kavanagh also works with the Irish Amateur Pankration Association (IAPA), which represents MMA in the country, and said the group will be working with Total Extreme Fighting to establish "all relevant facts and event processes" in the incident.
She had been attempting to "zorb" between Northern Ireland and southern Scotland to raise money for Sport Relief.
She left the beach at Donaghadee at 06:30 and had hoped to reach Portpatrick harbour in Galloway.
The Blue Peter team said she was safe and was now back on dry land.
It had been estimated it could take her up to 14 hours to cross the 20 miles (32km) of open water for the Wave Runner challenge.
A spokesperson for Sport Relief said: "Lindsey's Sport Relief challenge was always going to be incredibly hard and zorbing many miles across the Irish Channel is a huge achievement.
"Whilst we were, in the end, defeated by the weather, we're incredibly proud of Lindsey and her efforts.
"Blue Peter is all about giving it a go and getting stuck in which is exactly what she did today. We hope her amazing efforts have inspired lots of children around the UK to do their bit for Sport Relief."
She had managed to travel 17 nautical miles before the attempt was called off at 16:20 and she was taken onboard a support vessel.
Despite the disappointment, the presenter was greeted by a cheering crowd of wellwishers when she arrived in Portpatrick.
"But I think the iPhone 7 is useless - you can't plug in a speaker when you play music and you can't charge it [at the same time]."
He's not alone. Earlier on Thursday Dixons Carphone said the appetite for new phones was pretty weak currently - one reason worried investors marked the shares down by about a fifth.
Dixons Carphone said customers are choosing to hang on to their existing smartphones for four to five months longer, and it is partly because Apple's most recent iPhone is not seen as appealing enough.
"For half the market, the Apple base more or less rejected the iPhone 7," said Dixons Carphone chief executive Seb James. "We have a much bigger iPhone 6 base - we have many customers holding on to the iPhone 6S even if the battery is on its last leg."
I'm an Apple fan myself, and I'm in the same boat as Mr Silver. I love my iPhone 6S, and while Tim Cook might think Apple had "courage" when it decided to remove the headphone jack from the iPhone 7, I - like many others - disagree.
I've had my iPhone 6S for almost two years, and I still love it. I'm eligible for an upgrade on contract, but why would I want one, when the phone I have now is just fine?
But even those whose phone is on its last legs still won't upgrade to the iPhone 7.
Asher Silver's phone has a hole in its corner, but he would rather just get another iPhone 6S.
Even those on the iPhone 5 - launched half a decade ago - are not in a great rush to upgrade.
Copywriter Kate Fairman, 26, says it's too expensive: "I've had my iPhone 6S for two months. Before that I had an iPhone 5S. I kept it for a long time because I couldn't afford a new phone and I had to wait to get an upgrade."
Dixons says price is a growing concern and people are not upgrading their phones as frequently because the handsets themselves have risen in price.
Although investors in Dixons Carphone were clearly spooked by the poor picture painted of mobile phone sales, chief executive Mr James is optimistic that the number of mobile phone contract packages will soon go up, because no phone will last forever, and few people want to pay the full price of a smartphone upfront.
Of course, the depreciation of the pound hasn't helped matters either, as the iPhone is priced in dollars, and the pound buys fewer dollars than it did before the Brexit vote.
That currency effect has also pushed up the cost of Samsung in the UK.
Windsor Holden, head of forecasting and consultancy at Juniper Research, says: "People are hanging on to their phones for longer."
"There's also been a slight increase in prices of high-end handsets. That will in turn have an impact on affordability."
In 2015 when the iPhone 6S was launched, there was a mad rush for gold and rose gold iPhones among the Instagram set, as the device was considered to be the "must have" accessory of the season.
Although the iPhone is still popular with core Apple fans, overall, the pop culture prestige of owning a smartphone is starting to die out, according to experts.
"If you take a developed market with a high penetration of iPhones, the coolness factor has gone down, because everyone already has a premium smartphone, compared to four or five years ago," says Roberta Cozza, a research director at Gartner.
"Overall, the sense of smartphones being a fashion accessory has diminished.
"Lifecycles have extended on smartphones. It's harder to sell a premium flagship device because users will not buy unless they see a meaningful difference to their daily experience."
Such is the status of Tehran.
No sooner was a landmark nuclear deal announced in Vienna on 14 July than senior officials started checking and changing their diaries to come here.
The first to reach the Iranian capital was Germany's Vice-Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel, who flew in with a 100-member delegation, including many captains of German industry and finance.
Now it's the turn of the EU's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, who's just arrived for her first official visit. Europe's top diplomat played a key role in the final stages of the intensive talks which stretched over nearly two years, sometimes hovering on collapse.
"It's good to be here," Ms Mogherini remarked as she slipped into a waiting black limousine bearing Europe's flag in a mid-length coat and an obligatory head scarf in shades of coral and pink.
In sparkling sunshine, the convoy of sleek Mercedes, flanked by motorcycle outriders, ferried Europe's top diplomat and her closest aides down wide, sweeping boulevards and through crowded streets towards the elegant mansion housing the foreign ministry for her first meeting of the day.
Her maiden drive through the capital takes her on a tour of the symbols that define Iran: the face of Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini painted on soaring walls; the iconic white monument built during the Shah's reign, now renamed "Azadi" or freedom; and the national flags that seem to flutter everywhere.
Tehran's streets are still festooned with the brightly-coloured bunting from recent celebrations from the Islamic Eid al-Fitr festival.
But this month, it was the news from Vienna of a deal that caused Iranians to take to the streets in an eruption of joy. Now they wait for results.
And Ms Mogherini wants to play a leading role in the implementation of the deal, which will also be demanding and difficult, to ensure the agreement holds: that Iran carries out significant curbs to its nuclear programme to cut off all pathways to any possible development of a nuclear bomb - and that world powers reciprocate with the lifting of sanctions.
And that's not the only reason why Iran will now be under the world's microscope. Even Ms Mogherini's itinerary underlines another concern.
Her diplomacy this week began in Riyadh with her first official meeting with Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, who on Monday condemned what he called recent "aggressive statements" by Iran.
That means Ms Mogherini arrives in Tehran fully briefed on the deep-rooted concerns in many Arab capitals over a nuclear deal they fear that will embolden Iran in its regional political ambitions.
Before she set out on her trip, Ms Mogherini told the BBC she hoped the deal could be "a great opportunity to open the country".
When I travelled to Tehran a year ago with her predecessor Catherine Ashton, no-one could say for sure if a deal would be done, but Tehran felt like a city willing it to happen.
Everywhere we went - from popular bazaars to business offices - Iranians approached us to say how much they hoped this long period of punishing sanctions would soon come to an end. Many expressed hope Iran would re-engage with the West, and take its rightful place at the world's top tables.
But there was also sensitivity among more conservative Iranians that the nuclear deal was a Trojan horse to allow the West to start meddling in Iran's internal affairs, including human rights and issues of personal and political freedoms.
And yet there were, and are, the slow but certain signs of change.
A year ago, European tourists were starting to trickle back in greater numbers. At the sprawling Grand Bazaar with its exquisite traditional mosaics, we ran into a group of delighted German tourists who were gushing in their praise of Iranian hospitality.
Now even countries like Britain, whose embassy has been closed since attacks on the property in 2011, recently relaxed its travel advice for most areas of Iran, saying there had been "decreasing hostility under President [Hassan] Rouhani's government".
A year ago, in bustling hotel lobbies, we met people from Asian and Arab and African countries who spoke of keen interest in a nation with a big population, and big potential. Iran, under sanctions, was already a destination in the diary of many officials and investors.
Now a fast-flowing stream of visitors is swelling with the arrival of more business executives from the West, as well as Russia, China and many other nations hoping to exploit business opportunities and make this new opening to Iran even wider.
When the EU in Brussels unanimously approved the nuclear deal earlier this month, Ms Mogherini again hailed this diplomatic triumph in resolving, peacefully, a major security problem of our time - without a shot being fired, without it being a zero-sum game.
So great was this sense of achievement that the EU's top diplomat moved to build on this momentum and establish a similar diplomatic forum to deal with an even more protracted problem: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But the challenges for the world's top diplomats on a still controversial deal are only beginning. We'll get an inkling of what lies ahead through official remarks on Tuesday, what we hear on the streets, and through the coverage in Iran's often outspoken media.
Ms Mogherini will hear even more behind closed doors with she meets Iran's top leaders on her one-day trip. And hours after Iranian officials bid her farewell, they'll welcome France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius to Tehran.
In September, Austria's president will become the first head of state to visit after a deal clinched in his own fine capital.
There's a real sense here that a page is being turned. But there's still no real certainty about how this new chapter will be written, even if most Iranians dare to hope there's a happier ending in store.
The Holey Artisan Bakery welcomed its first customers on Tuesday after opening in a "more secure" location.
The smaller cafe, in a shopping mall, is just a few blocks from the building where five armed men took dozens of diners hostage on 1 July last year.
The attack, claimed by so-called Islamic State, left 18 foreigners and four Bangladeshis dead.
The victims included nine Italians, seven Japanese, a US citizen and one Indian.
The country's authorities have said the attack was carried out by a local Islamist group and not IS.
The 10-hour siege, during which victims were shot or hacked to death, was seen by some as the culmination of a three-year long campaign of murders by Islamist extremists whose targets included foreigners, rights activists and members of religious minorities.
In its wake, a large number of Dhaka's small ex-pat community fled.
But those who stayed welcomed the cafe's reopening, with more than 1,200 people liking the announcement of Holey Artisan Bakery's return on Facebook.
"Feels like a tiny life renewal for Dhaka," posted expat Marilyn Watson, calling it a "joyful welcoming place".
The cafe's owners - who plan to turn the former lakeside building into a home for themselves - said they had received "overwhelming" support in reopening the cafe.
"We've reopened as we don't want to be held back by fear. The people's support has been overwhelming," Ali Arsalan told AFP.
Since the deadly assault, security forces have killed around 50 Islamist militants, including a man the police described as the siege mastermind, who died in a raid in August.
The 20-year-old Frenchman joined the club in July 2016 on a two-year deal, but did not play for the first team.
He spent a period of the 2016-17 season on loan at National League North club Bishop's Stortford.
Meanwhile, midfielder Rob Sinclair, who has made more than 100 appearances for the club, is among three other players who have been told they can leave.
Frenchman Fabien Robert and striker Rhys Murphy have also not been given squad numbers and will train with Forest Green's academy while they look for new clubs.
Esslemont and Macintosh - affectionately known simply as E&Ms - in Union Street closed in 2007.
Proposals could have seen the property converted into a 98-bedroom hotel, with a four-storey glass extension.
The store, established in 1873, closed with the loss of 100 jobs after receivers were called in.
Thomas Mair gave his name as "Death to traitors, freedom for Britain", when he appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Mrs Cox, 41, was shot and stabbed in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on Thursday.
Members of her family visited the scene on Saturday to read floral tributes and thank gathered crowds for their support.
Speaking in the village's market square Kim Leadbeater, Mrs Cox's sister, described the MP as "perfect".
Ms Leadbeater said the tributes paid to her sister had "genuinely made a difference" and helped the family through some "dark times".
"I could not watch the overwhelming outpouring of love without speaking on behalf of Jo," she said.
"Jo would want us to focus on that which unites us not which divides us. She will live on through good people in the world."
Mrs Cox, who was married with two children, was about to attend a constituency surgery when she was killed.
A 77-year-old man, who came to her aid, was also injured and remains in a stable condition in hospital.
Mr Mair, 52, faces charges of murder, grievous bodily harm, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and possession of an offensive weapon.
The defendant, who was wearing a grey tracksuit, refused to give his correct name and did not reply when asked to confirm his address and date of birth in court earlier.
He did not enter a plea and is next due to appear for a bail application hearing at the Old Bailey on Monday.
His lawyer, Keith Allen, told the court legal aid had been applied for.
The venue chosen for Thomas Mair's first court appearance was the most important magistrates' court in London. Deputy Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot was sitting.
Reporters from the broadcasters and Sunday newspapers and from overseas packed the press seats at the back.
As is almost always the case, the hearing was brief, but it had a key moment of drama - the moment the man in the dock was asked his name.
He stood, as asked, for what is normally one of the most mundane parts of the proceedings. Not this time.
"My name is death to traitors, freedom for Britain," he said.
Asked to repeat it, he said the same thing. Then he fell silent until he was taken from the dock and driven off to prison.
Vigils were held across the country on Friday evening in memory of Mrs Cox. Earlier in the day, David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn visited Mrs Cox's Batley and Spen constituency.
The prime minister said the country was "rightly shocked" by her death, while the Labour leader described the former aid worker as "an exceptional, wonderful, very talented woman."
Parliament will be recalled on Monday to allow MPs to pay further tributes.
A fundraising campaign started on Friday by friends and family of Mrs Cox has already raised more than £500,000.
The funds will support three causes her husband, Brendan Cox, said were close to her heart, including the The Royal Voluntary Service, HOPE not hate and The White Helmets.
Mr Carter said he would start his radiation treatment later on Thursday.
Mr Carter, 90, was recently treated for liver cancer, after which it was discovered the disease had spread.
He said he would "cut back fairly dramatically" on public works. "It is in the hands of God and I am prepared for anything that comes," he said.
A Democrat from Georgia, Mr Carter was a relative unknown in the US political world when he was elected president in 1976. He served from 1977 to 1981.
Mr Carter told a press conference on Thursday he had at first thought the cancer was confined to his liver and that an operation this month had completely removed it.
But an MRI scan the same afternoon showed four spots of melanoma on the brain.
"I just thought I had a few weeks left, but I was surprisingly at ease. I've had a wonderful life," he said.
"I have got thousands of friends and I have had an exciting and adventurous and gratifying existence."
Mr Carter said it was likely doctors would find cancer elsewhere in his body as his treatment continued.
But he said: "I feel very good. I have had no pain or debility."
Source: American Cancer Society
Since leaving the White House in 1981, Mr Carter has remained active, carrying out humanitarian work with his Carter Center in recent years.
Mr Carter's health has been closely watched this year.
In May, he returned early from a trip to observe elections in Guyana because he was "not feeling well".
Mr Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
The New Zealander, 32, will miss three matches, including a European Champions Cup trip to his former club Leinster.
Gopperth will also miss his side's next two home games, against Gloucester in the Premiership this Sunday and Toulon.
Wasps have already appealed against the length of Gopperth's suspension.
Gopperth caught Tait on the side of the head with a rabbit punch as he chased his own up and under in the 54th minute.
He did come back on the pitch again briefly after his time in the bin, but was replaced for the final 10 minutes by Alex Lozowski.
Gopperth was initially yellow-carded by referee Tim Wigglesworth on Sunday, before being summoned to appear before a three-man Rugby Football Union disciplinary panel at a Coventry hotel on Tuesday evening, for 'punching or striking, contrary to law 10.4(a)', to which he pleaded guilty.
The appeal hearing will be held on Thursday, before which the club are unable to make any further comment.
The former Junior All Black is in his second stint in the Premiership, having first left New Zealand in 2009 to sign for Newcastle, where he spent four years before moving to Leinster in 2013.
The game between Manchester United and Bournemouth was called off after the item was discovered close to kick-off.
A controlled explosion was carried out on the device, which police said was accidentally left by a private firm.
Greater Manchester Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd called for a full inquiry into the "fiasco".
He also told BBC Sport that United "need to apologise very, very seriously" to supporters of both clubs who were at Old Trafford.
Bomb disposal experts were called to the 75,000-seat stadium on Sunday after the replica device was found in a toilet.
The Premier League match has been rearranged for Tuesday at 20:00 BST and will be screened live by Sky Sports.
Lloyd called the situation "unacceptable" and demanded an inquiry to discover "how this happened, why it happened and who will be held accountable".
He added that "this fiasco" had:
Security Search Management & Solutions Ltd (SSMS) was the firm hired by Deacons Canines to test its sniffer dogs using fake bombs, the BBC understands.
Managing director Chris Reid said: "It is a very unfortunate situation and the consequences obviously were that a lot of people were inconvenienced.
"Fortunately, everybody was fine which is the most important thing."
The Premier League praised the way the incident was dealt with.
A statement read: "We would like to thank Manchester United's staff, the police and other emergency services for all their efforts today as well as rearranging the match for this coming Tuesday.
Media playback is not supported on this device
"Both Manchester United and AFC Bournemouth's management has been extremely helpful in reaching a swift resolution, which is the best possible given today's events."
United will refund all tickets and allow ticket holders from both clubs to watch Tuesday's re-arranged game for free, while Manchester United season ticket holders will also be given a credit.
It is a gesture that is estimated will cost United around £3m.
Bournemouth, meanwhile, are offering free coach travel to the match for fans with a valid ticket.
Club chairman Jeff Mostyn told BBC South Today: "They make sacrifices every single week and go to great expense travelling away."
The Sir Alex Ferguson Stand and the Stretford End were evacuated and sniffer dogs brought in.
Kick-off was delayed initially and shortly afterwards the match was abandoned on police advice.
A Greater Manchester Police (GMP) statement read: "Shortly before today's planned football fixture, staff from the Manchester United ground alerted police to a suspicious item that had been found in the toilets within the North West Quadrant, between the Sir Alex Ferguson stand and the Stretford End.
"Police quickly attended and explosive experts were called in to assess the item, which has been described as an incredibly realistic-looking explosive device."
A bomb disposal team carried out the explosion at about 16:30 BST.
Assistant chief constable John O'Hare said: "I am grateful to the Manchester United and Bournemouth supporters for their support and assistance today.
"Following today's controlled explosion, we have since found out that the item was a training device which had accidentally been left by a private company following a training exercise involving explosive search dogs.
"While this item did not turn out to be a viable explosive, on appearance this device was as real as could be, and the decision to evacuate the stadium was the right thing to do, until we could be sure that people were not at risk."
Manchester United's executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward said: "The club takes security very seriously and staff are regularly trained with the police and emergency services to identify and deal with these incidents.
"We will investigate the incident to inform future actions and decisions."
Cherries chairman Mostyn said the incident had left the players "immensely disappointed and despondent".
He added: "They had trained really hard throughout the week to play in one of the greatest sporting theatres in the world."
Just under two hours before the controlled explosion was carried out, an "operation red code" alert was issued over the public address system.
Fans were then advised that, because of the discovery of a suspect package in the north-west quadrant of the ground, the match was "abandoned" on police advice.
READ MORE: 'Scary but calm': Fans react to Old Trafford evacuation
Supporters who were still in the ground were advised to stay in their seats while the forecourt was cleared of fans who had been in the two evacuated stands.
United players were seen leaving the ground shortly after 16:30 BST.
BBC commentator Conor McNamara said he saw Bournemouth players and staff boarding their team bus outside Old Trafford around an hour later, before flying back to the south coast later.
Manchester United had started the day with an outside chance of qualifying for next season's Champions League by finishing fourth in the Premier League.
However, Manchester City's draw against Swansea in their final game means United are effectively out of the running. City are three points clear of their neighbouring rivals and possess a goal difference that is 18 better.
Media playback is not supported on this device
By Phil McNulty, BBC Sport chief football writer at Old Trafford:
"The first indications that all was not well at Old Trafford came when stewards swung into action and fans were evacuated from the Stretford End.
"Thousands of supporters were already inside the stadium when, in a well-organised drill, supporters in the giant Sir Alex Ferguson Stand were also moved out as a 'Red Code' operation was announced over the public address system.
"Those in the Sir Bobby Charlton Stand, where some had already gathered in the directors' box, and the East Stand, where the Bournemouth supporters were assembled, were told to stay calm and remain in their seats.
"Bournemouth's players had started their warm-up but they left the pitch swiftly once it became clear a security operation was under way as police moved in and a helicopter flew above the ground.
"Some Bournemouth fans were unhappy at the regular announcements to remain in their seats, especially after word had swept around Old Trafford that the game had been called off, but safety was understandably paramount.
"Once the official announcement was made to those still inside the stadium, there was an orderly exit, although roads around the ground remained cordoned off by police and stewards as fans were shepherded away from the area where police were carrying out an inspection of the suspect package."
Labour peer Lord Carter's report found nearly one in 10 beds was taken by someone medically fit to be released.
It said it was a "major problem" causing operations to be cancelled and resulting in the NHS paying private hospitals to see patients.
Union Unison said cuts to social care were a major cause of "bed-blocking".
Lord Carter identified the issue in a wider look at how £5bn could be saved by 2020.
His proposals called for better procurement and staff management, and savings to the drugs bill.
But delayed discharges are likely to be prove a more intractable problem as it is largely not down to the actions of hospitals.
Vulnerable and frail patients cannot be released if there is not the support in the community from home care workers or district nursing staff or a place in a care home.
While official statistics suggest about 5,500 patients a day are affected, the report said information provided by trusts estimates as many as 8,500 beds in acute trusts were being blocked.
It said if you take into account how much staffing and running a bed costs this works out at £900m a year.
But the true cost could be even higher. The report highlighted the growing trend to pay private hospitals to do NHS work, such as knee and hip operations, as a consequence of this.
Last year the NHS spent £11bn in the private sector - a rise of 11% on the previous year. Lord Carter said delayed discharges was likely to be a "contributory factor" in this.
Delayed discharges have also been blamed as one of the causes of growing waiting times in A&E as doctors struggle to find beds for patients who need to be admitted.
Meanwhile, Lord Carter said hospitals across England must end "stark" differences in spending and productivity, Lord Carter added.
He found the average cost of an inpatient treatment is £3,500 but said there was 20% variation between the most expensive trusts and the least expensive.
Lord Carter said: "My experience of the NHS and hospitals internationally is that high-quality patient care and sound financial management go hand in hand."
Hospitals consume £55bn of health spending - about half the annual budget. So a £5bn efficiency target is very ambitious.
But as a sign of the mountain the health service has to climb in the coming years, consider this: it doesn't even go a quarter of the way to achieving the overall savings the health service is aiming for.
In return for the extra £8bn it is getting this Parliament, the NHS has pledged to save £22bn.
It means the rest will have to come from people improving their lifestyles (and so preventing ill-health), moving care out of hospitals and into the community (which is cheaper) and keeping tight control on salaries. It promises to be a tough few years.
Read more from Nick
Follow Nick on Twitter
Lord Carter, who published an interim report in the summer, identified the following savings:
Each hospital has been set its own individual savings targets. These are not being released publicly although the progress trusts make will be monitored.
Ministers said they expected the savings to be made.
Christina McAnea, head of health for Unison, which represents many NHS workers including nurses, paramedics and administrative staff, said the report contained many good ideas.
However, she said the report failed to address the lack of social care in the community that was the "main reason why people can't be discharged".
"On average social care has been cut by around 25% and that has an almost immediate knock on effect in the NHS, because you can't discharge patients unless you've got the infrastructure back in the community to support them," she said.
"And that's where we've seen massive cuts, so it's about care workers, some community nursing, it's about health visitors."
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "This ground-breaking review will help hospitals care for patients, making sure every penny possible is spent on front line patient care and bureaucracy is slashed so doctors and nurses can concentrate on caring."
Shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander said: "This report is absolutely right to highlight the huge financial pressures that delayed discharges are placing on the NHS. However, ministers cannot shy away from the fact that this is a crisis in care that has happened on their watch."
Many religious leaders in Africa are regarded as superstars.
Take the pastors of Nigeria's mega-churches, for example. Their meetings pack stadiums across the continent. Their books are bestsellers in a society that is frequently accused of having a poor reading culture.
And in a country that lays claim to a huge percentage of Africa's most acclaimed moguls, entertainment personalities and intellectuals, the Facebook and Twitter pages with some of the highest number of followers are those of pastors.
A 2010 survey by the US-based Pew Research Center shows that "the vast majority of people in many of Africa's nations are deeply committed to the practices and major tenets of Christianity and Islam". Some 87% of Nigerians surveyed said religion was very important in their lives - compared with 19% in the UK.
Heads of State and other top government officials seek audiences with prominent clerics - referred to as "men of god" - sometimes circulating photographs of these encounters possibly as evidence of divine validation.
Hawkers peddle pirated DVDs of their sermons alongside Hollywood blockbusters and the massively popular Nollywood films.
Telecommunications companies offer ringtones in the form of prayers recorded in their voices. At one time or another, some pastors have taken steps to distance themselves from bulk text messages sent out in their names.
Text message instructions from renowned clerics are usually taken seriously in Nigeria, often going viral. They could be anything from a call to communal prayer at a specific time, or an injunction against retaliatory violence.
Profile: Nigerian preacher TB Joshua
Why do we rely on 'miracle cures'?
I sometimes joke that if the leaders of Nigeria's five largest churches merely hint that no-one should have anything further to do with Chinua Achebe, the author's fan base and book sales in his home country would instantly, unquestionably plunge and his works would eventually be struck off the national curriculum, regardless of how widely acclaimed he is around the world.
The pastors are sometimes accused of making themselves into gods.
But the matter may be largely out of their hands. One might as well castigate Michael Jackson or Oprah Winfrey or The Beatles for being worshipped by their fans.
Some observers view the power and popularity of religious leaders as a problem.
A 2005 BBC Who Runs Your World? survey found that Africans trusted religious leaders above other leaders.
Charlatans, who exist in every occupation, could take emotional and fiscal advantage of naive followers.
And one ill-timed word from a trusted pastor or imam could easily spur violence.
However, in many cases, religious leaders use their influence for good. They have been instrumental in mobilising lethargic citizens to the polls.
Back in 2007 when many Nigerians were convinced that their votes wouldn't count in the forthcoming general elections, I know people who queued for hours to register, simply because their pastors enjoined them to do so.
They play key roles in the battles against polio, HIV and sickle cell disease, with some religious organisations making it compulsory for couples to undergo genotype testing before marriage, thereby forcing them to face, in advance, the risk of giving birth to a child terminally ill with sickle cell anaemia.
Religious leaders also played key roles in tackling the recent Ebola outbreak in Nigeria by passing on relevant information and stressing the urgency of the situation from their pulpits.
The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, one of Nigeria's most influential Muslim leaders, set up an Emirate Council committee to provide information on the disease to local government heads, imams and similar bodies in northern Kano State.
Muhammad Sanusi II: Influential Nigerian emir
Nigeria's colourful new emir
The Roman Catholic Church nationwide altered its established pattern of administering the Eucharist, in order to reduce person-to-person contact with saliva and other bodily fluids as a way of combating Ebola.
Some in the secular West might be tempted to ridicule religious leaders, but in Africa they could accomplish greater good if their immense influence was harnessed in more structured and focused ways.
International organisations and other world leaders could collaborate with them to achieve development goals and to tackle crisis situations such as terrorism.
Take for example the Adamawa Peace Initiative (API), launched in 2012 by the American University of Nigeria in Yola, the capital of Adamawa, one of the states in north-eastern Nigeria badly affected by the insurgency waged by militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
The API comprises local religious, academic and community leaders who are committed to peace and harmony. Yola has so far escaped the violence plaguing much of the region.
Religious leaders, as long as they harbour no hatred towards any particular group, could also intervene in situations where politicians and diplomats may not be trusted, especially as their appeal tends to cut across ethnic and language groups - a very rare quality amongst African leaders.
The BBC survey showed that most Africans place religion above other factors, like ethnicity, when distinguishing their identities.
Regardless of anyone else's opinion of religious leaders, a significant number of Africans have clearly chosen to revere them, and that choice deserves to be respected.
Religion could turn out to be one of Africa's greatest assets.
|
The US has flown a B-52 bomber over South Korea in a show of force after North Korea said it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A further outbreak of norovirus has led to the closure of a fourth ward at Weston General Hospital.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Croatia are the favourites heading into the Davis Cup final in Zagreb, says Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A soldier who witnessed the shooting of a Londonderry teenager 44 years ago has told an inquest he does not believe it was in breach of Army guidelines.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A fire at a bridal shop in Sunderland is believed to have destroyed about 100 dresses.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
We caught up with How to Train Your Dragon author Cressida Cowell.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A six-year-old boy who applied for the job of Aston Villa manager was "pipped to the post" by Tim Sherwood, the club said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Annual profits at Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly listed oil and gas firm, fell by 51% to $7.8bn (£6.2bn) last year.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Thousands of homes in the East of England are yet to be built, despite developers having had planning permission for several years.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Guy Martin will return to the Cookstown 100 road races on 28 and 29 April on board a Honda Fireblade Superstock machine, the organising club have said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Three Romanian men are to stand trial accused of running a bank card skimming fraud in a Perthshire village.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The NASUWT union is balloting its members for industrial action at an Enniskillen school after it claims videos were taken up the skirts of two teachers by a pupil.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Popular dramas such as Call the Midwife and Silent Witness are not a draw for audiences from ethnic minorities, research suggests.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Australia lost top spot in the International Cricket Council's Test rankings after Sri Lanka won the third Test by 163 runs for a 3-0 series win.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
US President Donald Trump's nominee has been sworn in to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A woman in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who survived an alleged gang-rape and four separate acid attacks has been targeted again by an acid-thrower.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Nicola Sturgeon has said "no politician has the right to stand in the way" of another independence referendum.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Residents in Londonderry remain out of their homes after a bomb attack on a serving police officer.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A German court has agreed to end the bribery trial of Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone in exchange for a $100m (£60m) payment from him.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Portuguese mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter has died after an event in the Republic of Ireland on Saturday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Blue Peter presenter Lindsey Russell has abandoned her bid to cross the Irish Sea in a giant inflatable ball because of bad weather.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
"My iPhone 6S is falling apart," says 18-year-old student Asher Silver.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
When a city suddenly moves to the top tier of foreign ministers' travel itineraries, you know it has notched up new political significance.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Bangladesh cafe has reopened, six months after Islamic extremists killed 22 people during a hostage siege.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Goalkeeper Simon Lefebvre has left Forest Green Rovers after his contract was cancelled by mutual consent.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Plans to transform a famous Aberdeen city centre department store into a hotel and restaurant have been withdrawn.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The man charged with the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox has appeared in court and been remanded in custody.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former US President Jimmy Carter has revealed he is to be treated for cancerous tumours on the brain, in his first public comments on his illness.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Wasps stand-off Jimmy Gopperth has been handed a three-week ban for his late challenge on Leicester captain Mathew Tait in his side's 24-16 Premiership defeat at Welford Road on Sunday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An "urgent" inquiry has been demanded after a dummy bomb used in a security exercise caused a Premier League match at Old Trafford to be postponed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Delays in discharging patients out of hospital after treatment could be costing the NHS in England £900m a year, an independent review has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
In our series of letters from African journalists, writer and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani argues that most religious leaders play a positive role in Nigeria.
| 35,275,029 | 15,645 | 982 | true |
The England all-rounder, who was out for two months with a side strain, made 53 as the Bears closed on 293-8 at Lord's - a lead of 258.
There were also fifties for Matthew Lamb (71) and Jonathan Trott (54).
Ryan Higgins was the defending champions' best bowler with figures of 4-49, including the wicket of Woakes.
Bottom side Warwickshire, who are 47 points from safety, still face a huge battle to stay in Division One, but their batsmen finally found some form on day two after numerous collapses this season.
Having resumed on 12-0, the visitors were wobbling at 139-5 when Woakes came to the crease, but he took the attack to the Middlesex bowlers, hitting 11 fours to put on 102 with Lamb.
Lamb, 21, was equally as impressive in just his third first-class match, batting for more than three hours and facing 165 balls.
Woakes' dismissal, chipping medium-pacer Higgins tamely to mid-on, sparked a mini-collapse of three quick wickets, before Keith Barker's unbeaten 30 took the lead past 250.
The proportion answered in the target time fell from 77.9 percent in December 2015 to 47.3 percent in March 2016.
South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAMB) said it took more than 100,000 calls in March and the service "continues to be extremely busy".
SECAMB said it "recognises the need for improvements".
The figures are in a report for West Kent Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) which suggests "high call volumes, staffing issues" and GP out-of-hours "service failings" could be causes.
SECAMB said it was "working hard to recruit and retain more staff in order to improve performance".
It said last year 70% of calls were answered in 60 seconds and it had outperformed other regions on dealing with calls with a higher clinical risk.
Earlier this year, a report found "fundamental failings" at SECAMB over a scheme to delay response times for some NHS 111 calls.
Janice Kent of the Central Sussex Independent Patients Forum said it was "worrying as until a problem has been dealt with, you do not know how serious it is and if people are switching to 999 that will clog the system."
SECAMB took over the NHS 111 service for Surrey, Sussex and Kent in 2013 and uses call centres in Dorking and Ashford.
7 April 2016 Last updated at 11:39 BST
Kids at Morecambe Bay Community Primary school attached Sam to a helium balloon, a GPS tracker and a camera and released him into the sky.
He managed to reach the edge of space, with a maximum height of 15.5 miles above ground, before coming back to Earth.
The school has found the GPS tracker and the balloon - but Sam is nowhere to be found.
He was last seen flying above North Yorkshire, and the school is asking people to look out for him.
Media playback is not supported on this device
The team of Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter blazed round the track in 40.82 seconds, beating East Germany's record of 41.37, which had stood since 1985.
Jamaica were second in a national record time of 41.41, with Ukraine third in 42.04 and Nigeria fourth.
"That was a fantastic run by the US relay team but the exchanges weren't as crisp as yesterday's heats. They knew by bringing in Allyson Felix and Carmelita Jeter for the final they had speed and I think they decided to go with safer exchanges."
The USA team had failed to reach the final at the Beijing Olympics.
But after qualifying fastest for the 2012 final, they led from the start on a balmy night in east London.
Madison gave the US an electric start, with Felix and Knight maintaining the lead before 100m silver medallist Jeter stormed down the straight to capture the gold.
"I knew that these girls were going to run their hearts out," said Jeter. "I knew we were running fast.
"There was a cloud hanging over us with people saying 'they can't do this, they're going to drop the stick' but we did it."
The Jamaican quartet featured 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and bronze medallist Veronica Campbell-Brown, but they could not match the fierce pace of the world champions.
"It's an honour to be part of this team," said Felix, the 200m champion. "Who would have thought that we would have had a world record tonight? It's amazing. Our names are going down in history."
It was the second track world record at London 2012 after Kenya's David Rudisha set a new men's 800m mark on Thursday.
Henderson followed up after a Jason Cummings shot was saved as half-time approached in a one-sided contest.
Cummings finished well from a David Gray pass early in the second half to help the Edinburgh side move up to third in the Championship.
And McGinn completed the scoring, picking up a short corner before drilling in a low strike.
Match ends, Hibernian 3, Alloa Athletic 0.
Second Half ends, Hibernian 3, Alloa Athletic 0.
Martin Boyle (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Colin Hamilton (Alloa Athletic).
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by David Crawford.
Attempt saved. Marvyn Bartley (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Dominique Malonga (Hibernian) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Paul Hanlon (Hibernian).
(Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Robbie Crawford.
Attempt missed. Dougie Hill (Alloa Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Alloa Athletic. Conceded by Paul Hanlon.
Martin Boyle (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Colin Hamilton (Alloa Athletic).
Attempt missed. David Gray (Hibernian) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by David Crawford.
Attempt saved. Dominique Malonga (Hibernian) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Colin Hamilton.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Kyle McAusland.
Dylan McGeouch (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Connor McManus (Alloa Athletic).
Substitution, Hibernian. Dominique Malonga replaces Jason Cummings.
Substitution, Alloa Athletic. Iain Flannigan replaces Burton O'Brien.
Substitution, Alloa Athletic. Edward Ferns replaces Graeme Holmes.
Substitution, Hibernian. Islam Feruz replaces Liam Henderson.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Dougie Hill.
Attempt saved. John McGinn (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Hibernian. Martin Boyle replaces James Keatings because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Jason Cummings (Hibernian) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Goal! Hibernian 3, Alloa Athletic 0. John McGinn (Hibernian) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Liam Henderson.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Burton O'Brien.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Colin Hamilton.
Substitution, Alloa Athletic. Michael Duffy replaces Steven Hetherington.
Attempt missed. Liam Henderson (Hibernian) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Lewis Stevenson (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Colin Hamilton (Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Liam Henderson (Hibernian).
Jason Cummings (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dougie Hill (Alloa Athletic).
Attempt missed. James Keatings (Hibernian) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Tommy Wright's side are seven games unbeaten in all competitions, one point off third place in the Premiership and in the League Cup semi-finals.
"Obviously we would like to fill the stadium, but we can't do it for whatever reason," Craig, 28, said.
"The chairman has been on record as saying we've not got the biggest support, but they're passionate crowd."
Saints took all three points from Saturday's trip to Dingwall to face Ross County, with Dave Mackay's late free-kick ensuring a 3-2 win despite letting a two-goal lead slip.
"We've got a group of players who have got a lot of trust and belief in what the manager wants us to do," Craig told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"We've got a manager who's got a lot of belief, confidence, and he gives his players a freedom to go and express themselves.
"We've got the experience in the team to go to places like County when the conditions weren't great."
Saints' Michael O'Halloran won November's Premiership player of the month award and Craig is hopeful the 24-year-old will stay in Perth until the summer as they compete on three fronts, with the semi-final with Hibernian and a Scottish Cup fourth-round tie against Kilmarnock on the horizon.
"It's great to have him in the team because he gives you an outlet, he's a match-winner," Craig said of fellow Scot O'Halloran.
"He's very important to us, but take nothing away from the rest of the players.
"But you can't give Mikey or the manager enough credit. A lot is being said about him but he's not getting too big for his boots.
"He knows what he's got to do to stay in the team and we're going to hopefully have him until the end of the season at least."
The 51-year-old was in charge of the now-defunct Administrative Security Department (DAS), when the offences occurred between 2007 and 2008.
She was convicted of intercepting phone calls and abusing public office.
Those targeted were political opponents of Alvaro Uribe, who was president at the time.
Mr Uribe's former chief of staff, Bernardo Moreno, was given an eight year sentence for his involvement, to be served at his home.
Colombia's Supreme Court has also called for Mr Uribe to be investigated for his role in the scandal.
He is now a senator and the head of a right-wing opposition party.
The former president tweeted that he would answer the court on Tuesday and that he was saddened to hear about the sentencing of his former aides.
Mr Uribe has denied any knowledge of the illegal intercepts.
The allegations were made public in 2010, after Mr Uribe left office.
Hurtado fled to Colombia at the time and was granted asylum in Panama.
She turned herself over to the authorities in January after it was revoked.
Three of the accused are current employees of Prime Focus Technology, while one is a former employee.
Prime Focus, a Mumbai-based company that stores and processes the series for Indian streaming website Hotstar, had lodged a complaint with police.
The fantasy series is already the most pirated show in TV history.
Episode four of the seventh season was leaked on 4 August, days before it was due to air globally.
The show produced by HBO has seen several leaks over the years. Most recently a group of hackers said they had stolen 1.5TB of data, allegedly including episodes of Ballers, Room 104 and scripts from Game of Thrones episodes. On Monday they leaked some of the unaired material.
The arrests on Monday were related to the leaked episode, not the most recent hack.
After receiving a complaint "we investigated the case and have arrested four individuals for unauthorised publication of the fourth episode from season seven," Deputy Commissioner of Police Akbar Pathan told AFP news agency.
The four have been charged with criminal breach of trust and computer related offences and will be detained until 21 August, he said.
Kevin Nicks, from Great Rollright, Oxfordshire, got bored with his Volkswagen Passat and converted it into a shed on wheels.
Earlier, his unusual vehicle was clocked at an average of 70.8mph over two 100m runs during a day of record attempts near York.
Mr Nicks, 50, said he was happy to have achieved his goal.
He will now submit his results to Guinness World Records, which will decide if he has officially broken the previous record of 58.4mph.
Mr Nicks, who is hoping to use the vehicle as advertising space, said: "It's good to be getting the word out there, which will help as an advertising tool.
"I can say 'advertise on the side of the world's fastest shed'."
It took Mr Nicks seven months to transform his car, using steel beams and timber, and create his shed on wheels.
It is legal to drive on the road and can reach speeds of almost 80mph, he said.
Mr Nicks added: "I had the car sitting around and it was going to be scrap, but it was too good for scrap.
"It's fun, it makes everybody smile."
The record attempt was held at the 10th World Wheelie Championship at Elvington Airfield near York.
On Monday a man was beaten with metal bars and a wheelie bin set alight in an attack at a house in the Creggan area of Londonderry. Police have also linked Loyalist paramilitaries to a series of attacks in Coleraine and north Antrim.
ACC Stephen Martin told BBC Radio Foyle that community support is key to getting successful convictions.
"Often the person who is the victim and indeed witnesses won't cooperate with us."
"We understand the reasons, people are frightened, people feel intimidated, but without that cooperation of the victim it makes a prosecution virtually impossible," he said.
"If people come forward and tell us what they know we have shown ourselves very capable in a whole range of crimes of putting people before the court and securing a conviction but this is a difficult issue."
Responding to questions about a paramilitary-style attack in Derry, Mr Martin said the attack was nothing new to Northern Ireland.
"This was being done during 40 years of troubles and it doesn't work, it never worked all it does is brutalise people. Inflict injuries and turn families on families," he said.
"I don't think they're capable of acting with impunity but unfortunately they are able to carry these crimes much more frequently than any of us would wish.
"I would say to people that if they have concerns about any issues in the community there is only one place to turn to and that's the police."
Police stopped a Land Rover in Village Way, East Dulwich, which they believed was involved in a burglary.
When the officer opened the driver's door the car reversed quickly, taking the officer with him and crashing into other cars behind, the Met said.
He was taken to King's College Hospital with a suspected broken leg after the incident at 17:35 BST.
An officer at the scene told the BBC "one of the burglars ran over the officer deliberately."
A male passenger in the Land Rover was arrested and the driver fled on foot towards the train tracks at North Dulwich Station and remains at large.
Southern Railway said services were briefly brought to halt due a trespasser on the track outside of North Dulwich.
The trade deficit in goods and services worsened to £2.86bn from £1.54bn in January, the ONS said.
The deficit in goods was £10.34bn, up from £9.17bn in January, which was partly offset by a surplus of £7.5bn on services.
Goods exports were £23.16bn, the lowest total since September 2010.
That drop was largely thanks to weaker sales to the US.
For the three months to the end of February, the ONS said exports to the European Union were at their lowest since records began in 1998, leaving the EU goods deficit at a record high of £21.1bn, thanks particularly to a fall in oil exports.
UK trade figures show the extent of import and export activity. The figures could add to concerns that the UK economy remains too dependent on consumer spending, which accounts for more than 70% of economic activity.
Howard Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Global Insight, said: "The trade data are undeniably disappointing and deal a significant blow to hopes that net trade helped UK GDP growth in the first quarter."
However, he said trade was likely to improve in the coming months: "While UK GDP growth will likely remain largely reliant on domestic demand, it is realistic to hope that exports will increasingly benefit as 2015 progresses from a significant pick-up in eurozone growth."
David Kern, chief economist of the British Chambers of Commerce said: "Unless we see firm action to improve our export performance, it is not clear how we will sustain strong growth in the long-term.
"The UK's trade deficit with the EU reached a record high in the last three months, and while the EU is our largest trading partner, it is vital that we capture more of the export market in the fast growing economies beyond Europe."
Forward Loza, 22, and defender Twumasi, 26, both joined the National League club in the autumn from Norwich City and Newport County respectively.
Meanwhile, Maidstone have made Callum Driver, Jack Evans and Ben Greenhalgh available for loan moves.
The club say interest has already come in with moves set to be confirmed before the end of January.
A number of politicians, media commentators and members of the police force have suggested that Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger, in particular, had a role to play.
Undoubtedly, some of those involved chose to chronicle their exploits live - from the midst of the action - using mobile phones.
A few were apparently even foolish enough to upload pictures of themselves posing proudly with their looted haul.
Others offered suggestions for where might be good to attack next, leading the Met's deputy assistant commissioner, Steve Kavanagh to say he would consider arresting Twitter users who appeared to incite violence.
But some experts fear the extent to which technology is to blame may have been overstated.
In its coverage, the Daily Mail quoted one tweeter, AshleysAR as follows: "Ashley AR' tweeted: 'I hear Tottenham's going coco-bananas right now. Watch me roll."
However, AshleysAR's full, unedited quote on Twitter reads: "I hear Tottenham's going coco-bananas right now. Watch me roll up with a spud gun :|".
Suddenly the tone of the message becomes markedly less sinister. Ashley later threatens to join in with a water pistol.
Despite the claim of Tottenham MP David Lammy that the riots were "organised on Twitter", there is little evidence of their orchestration on the site's public feeds.
Looking back through Saturday night's postings, DanielNothing's stream offers some promise of substantiating the theory with his comment: "Heading to Tottenham to join the riot! who's with me? #ANARCHY".
But it is followed soon after by: "Hang on, that last tweet should've read 'Curling up on the sofa with an Avengers DVD and my missus, who's with me?' What a klutz I am!"
Another user - Official Grinz - appears to have been the first person to tweet the words "Westfield riot", referring to the west London shopping centre. Although his message seems to be tongue in cheek and there is nothing to suggest that he was more than observer, commenting on events as they unfolded on television.
The subject of a Westfield riot became widely discussed, but ultimately failed to materialise in the real world.
So why is the ratio of apparent incitement to action so low?
Freddie Benjamin, a research manager at Mobile Youth, believes that much of the online noise is just that.
"Once someone starts posting on a BBM group or Twitter, a lot of young people try to follow the trend," he told BBC News.
"They might not join the actual event, but they might talk about it or use the same hashtag which makes it sound like there is a lot more volume."
Such postings build what Mr Benjamin refers to as "social currency", elevating the messenger's sense of belonging to a group.
Away from Twitter's very visible feeds, there are perhaps more credible reports that rioters were using private communication systems to encourage others to join the disorder.
Following Saturday's trouble in Tottenham, a number of BlackBerry users reported receiving instant messages that suggested future riot locations.
BlackBerry's BBM system is known to be the preferred means of communication among many younger people.
Users are invited to join each other's contacts list using a unique PIN, although once they have done so, messages can be distributed to large groups.
BBM is both private and secure, partly due to the phones' roots as business communication devices.
For that reason it is hard to evaluate how much information was coming out of the riots or how many people were suggesting alternative targets.
But despite the closed nature of BlackBerry Messenger, police may still have a chance to examine some of the communications that took place.
Research in Motion, which makes Blackberry phones, issued a statement in which it promised to work with the authorities.
It pointed out that, like other telecoms companies, it complies with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) which allows law enforcement to gain access to private messages when they relate to the commission of a crime.
What will concern investigators most is the extent to which recipients acted on any messages sent out.
Dr Chris Greer, a senior lecturer in sociology and criminology at London's City University believes that smartphones will have aided those involved, but are unlikely to have persuaded reluctant recruits to join the rioting.
"I don't think it is having any impact on the motivation to protest in the first place," he said.
"But once people have mobilised themselves and decided to take to the streets it is certainly much easier to communicate with each other."
Dr Greer pointed to the example of the 2009 G20 riots in London.
A report into the police handling of the protests, produced by Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary (HMRC) found that technology had aided the rioters more than the police, he explained.
"Their methods of communicating with each other or pointing out where the police were at any given time and therefore where the protesters shouldn't be, and basically organising themselves was so much more sophisticated than the police."
It may turn out, after a more careful examination of the various messages being pinged around, that this was indeed a social networking crime spree.
The Met has indicated it is ready to act on any information it finds.
But that will take time and a more methodical study.
The extent to which investigators are able to sift out genuine rioters from the internet 'echo chamber' and then bring real world prosecutions will provide valuable lessons, both about the use and abuse of technology, and also law enforcement's capacity to deal with it.
The move will affect 14 dates in Asia and North America over the next three months.
Bieber has performed more than 150 shows since the tour promoting his 2015 album Purpose began in March 2016.
The tour grossed $93.2m (£71.5m) in the first half of 2017, with an average of almost 40,000 ticket sales per date.
The singer himself has not yet commented on the decision on social media, but unnamed sources told US media he was "just over it".
But a statement on his website read: "Justin loves his fans and hates to disappoint them.
"He is grateful and honoured to have shared that experience with his cast and crew for over 150 successful shows across six continents during this run.
"However, after careful consideration he has decided he will not be performing any further dates. Tickets will be refunded at point of purchase."
Most of Bieber's remaining dates were in the US, but he was also due to play in Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia.
Chinese officials said last week that the Canadian pop star had been banned from mainland China because he had engaged in what they described as "bad behaviour".
The new Rent Smart scheme requires anyone who rents out property in Wales to register or become licensed by 23 November.
But the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) said many were still unaware they need to do so.
Rent Smart Wales said landlords were given a year to register and it would not extend the deadline.
A Freedom of Information request by the RLA showed just 32,230 out of 130,000 landlords had registered by 18 October - those who do not comply can be fined.
The figures were released by Cardiff council, which is administering the scheme for the whole of Wales.
Douglas Haig, RLA director for Wales, said he was writing to Community Secretary Carl Sargeant to request a new deadline to allow time for landlords to be properly educated about what they need to do.
But Rent Smart Wales said there had been a large increase in numbers registering as the deadline approached and 46,300 out of 130,000 landlords had now registered and a further 11,400 had begun the registration process.
Mr Haig said communication had been "poor" with "very few" landlords aware of the scheme.
He said others were leaving it until the last minute because registration and licences run for five years from the date they are approved, not from 23 November.
The number of staff employed to carry out the scheme had also been "grossly underestimated", he added.
"I don't think it's asking a lot for the Welsh Government or Cardiff council to come forth with an education plan to get this information out there. That would be a sensible approach," he said.
A Rent Smart Wales spokesman said: "We have no intention of extending the deadline. However, we do recognise that, due the very high numbers of landlords visiting the website to register and apply for licenses, some are experiencing difficulties.
"The Rent Smart Wales team consists of 79 posts and the team are working hard to reduce waiting times for customers.
"Once the November 23 deadline for complying has passed, enforcement powers will be used in a sensible and proportionate manner."
RENT SMART FACTFILE:
Cook Island international Taia, 32, has previous Super League experience with Catalans Dragons.
Saints Head Coach Kieron Cunningham said Australia-born Taia's "big game experience" will help the squad.
"He is powerful and possesses a great offload" Cunningham added.
St Helens have only played one game this season - a 6-4 victory over Leeds Rhinos. - on the opening night of the 2017 Super League season.
Taia was named in the Super League Dream Team of 2015 whilst playing with Catalans, before returning to Australia where he began his career.
He captained the Cook Islands in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup and also appeared at Test level for New Zealand.
Cunningham said Greenwood's move to the Gold Coast Titans was a "good opportunity" for 23-year-old.
"We wouldn't want to stand in the way of any player wishing to ply their trade elsewhere.
"It's always difficult to lose a homegrown player and personally I will be sad to see him leave. I've worked hard with Joe to develop his game and help him grow as a person - and he has done just that."
Greenwood played 77 times for the Saints after joining from Saddlworth in 2012.
"Hopefully, one day after a successful NRL career, he will pull on the Red V again," Cunningham added.
Appleton, guided Oxford to automatic promotion from League Two and two Wembley finals in the Football League Trophy in his three years at the club.
The 41-year-old previously worked with Shakespeare at West Brom.
"Michael has already achieved great success and been acknowledged by many as one of the most talented coaches in English football," Shakespeare said.
Former Portsmouth, Blackpool and Blackburn boss Appleton added: "The opportunity to move to a Premier League club was something I felt that I couldn't turn down, which I hope fans will appreciate."
Shakespeare was confirmed as the Foxes' permanent manager on a three-year deal earlier this month.
He had taken temporary charge at the King Power Stadium in February following Claudio Ranieri's sacking.
Shakespeare is also looking for another first-team coach, with former defender Chris Powell a contender.
The investigation was launched after low-level radioactive material was released in February 2014.
It found an incompatible combination of nitrate salts and cat litter caused a breach in a container of waste.
The cat litter was used to absorb moisture in the waste.
More than 20 workers at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico were contaminated and the release forced the repository to close indefinitely.
Investigators believe that a thermal reaction inside the container forced the lid to pop.
Federal officials have said it could take years and more than $0.5bn to fully reopen the plant.
"We are reviewing the report and its findings now as we continue working to mitigate the risks of this happening again," the Energy Department said in a statement issued on Thursday.
Pep Guardiola suffered league defeats home and away to the same opponents in a single league season for the first time in his managerial career as City are left to fight for a top-four place.
Eden Hazard gave Chelsea a 10th-minute lead when his shot deflected off returning City captain Vincent Kompany past keeper Willy Caballero, who should have done better.
Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois was also badly at fault when his poor clearance to David Silva set up Sergio Aguero's equaliser after 26 minutes - but Chelsea were back in front before half-time.
They were awarded a penalty after Fernandinho tripped Pedro and even though Cabellero saved Hazard's spot-kick, the rebound fell kindly for the Belgian to score.
City, who stay in fourth, had the better chances in a tense second period, with Kompany's header bouncing back off the bar and John Stones shooting over from six yards in injury time. Chelsea, however, held on for a win that was even more vital given Tottenham's dramatic late comeback at Swansea City.
Chelsea's progress towards the Premier League title has been a tale of almost unbroken serenity since manager Antonio Conte reworked his tactical approach after successive losses at home to Liverpool and away to Arsenal in September.
This was arguably their biggest game since as it followed on from the shock home loss to Crystal Palace and it was against a Manchester City side with the talent and capability to make this night at Stamford Bridge a real test of nerve.
And so it proved as City, with Silva the orchestrator supreme, putting Chelsea's defence and their supporters on edge right until the final whistle.
Chelsea emerged triumphant thanks to the mixture of talent and resilience that has served them so well this season and the celebrations at the final whistle reflected just what a significant night this might prove to be.
Hazard provided the flourishes but manager Conte proved his pragmatism with the introduction of Nemanja Matic for Kurt Zouma at the start of the second half to attempt to lock down the win.
It worked to an extent but Chelsea also enjoyed good fortune as Kompany's header bounced back off the bar and Stones somehow scooped an injury-time chance over the top.
In the final reckoning, Chelsea showed the bloody-minded defiance of champions - and this is the sort of result that could earn them that crown.
If this meeting of two of the Premier League's superpowers and two elite coaches was meant to be an enjoyable experience, you would not have known from the body language of Chelsea coach Conte and his Manchester City counterpart Guardiola.
The Catalan, in particular, appears to lead an agonised existence in his technical area. The advocate of the joyous, beautiful game looks as if he is going through torture in almost every match.
He was slapping his thigh and remonstrating with backroom staff within 15 seconds of the kick-off and he was in regular dialogue with fourth official Bobby Madley, with Conte occasionally joining in.
It was, it should be stressed, another frustrating night for Guardiola when his team promised much and ended with nothing - although it concluded with a warm handshake for Conte, who also looked like he had endured a tough night.
Conte, by his standards, was relatively low key but the mask dropped at the final whistle as he pumped his fists in the direction of Chelsea's fans. This was a huge night for the Italian as he did the double over Guardiola.
Manchester City remain the great enigma of the Premier League - looking like they could score every time they attack but liable to concede at any moment.
Guardiola still has a goalkeeper conundrum, with Willy Caballero unconvincing and caught out by a routine deflection from Kompany for Hazard's first goal, while there is an air of permanent frailty at the back.
City's slim title hopes are now over and they must hunt a top-four place, aided by Bournemouth's late equaliser at Liverpool, and the FA Cup.
They must achieve one of both of those targets to stop this season ending unfulfilled before Guardiola tackles those goalkeeping and defensive problems in the summer.
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte told Match of the Day: "My look is tired because I feel like I played it tonight with my players. I suffered with them.
Media playback is not supported on this device
"But we must be pleased because we beat a strong team - the best team in the league. I think they have a great coach - the best in the world. To win this type of game at this time of the season is great."
Man City boss Pep Guardiola told Match of the Day: "It's an honour to have the amazing players I have. We come here to Stamford Bridge and play the way we have, with huge personality. I'm a lucky guy to manage these guys."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Chelsea travel to Bournemouth in Saturday's late kick-off (17:30 BST) while Man City host Hull City at 15:00.
Match ends, Chelsea 2, Manchester City 1.
Second Half ends, Chelsea 2, Manchester City 1.
N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
David Silva (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea).
Attempt missed. John Stones (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range is too high. Assisted by Vincent Kompany with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Thibaut Courtois.
Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nolito.
Substitution, Chelsea. Ruben Loftus-Cheek replaces Eden Hazard.
Foul by David Silva (Manchester City).
Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Gary Cahill (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Gaël Clichy.
Substitution, Manchester City. Nolito replaces Leroy Sané.
Vincent Kompany (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Vincent Kompany (Manchester City).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by John Stones (Manchester City).
Diego Costa (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Chelsea. Willian replaces Cesc Fàbregas.
Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right misses to the right following a corner.
Attempt missed. John Stones (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by David Silva with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by N'Golo Kanté.
Attempt blocked. Fernandinho (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.
Substitution, Manchester City. Raheem Sterling replaces Kevin De Bruyne.
Hand ball by David Silva (Manchester City).
Fabian Delph (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Fabian Delph (Manchester City).
Diego Costa (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Pedro.
Attempt blocked. David Luiz (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Vincent Kompany (Manchester City).
Diego Costa (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Vincent Kompany (Manchester City).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by David Luiz.
Fernandinho (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nemanja Matic (Chelsea).
Attempt missed. John Stones (Manchester City) header from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by David Silva following a set piece situation.
Vincent Kompany (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
The trio will all compete in the individual and men's team foil events.
The three also competed in the 2012 London Games, where GB finished sixth in the team event, and Kruse, 32, will be going to his fourth Games.
Kruse said: "It's the pinnacle of the sport so to be able to go out for my fourth Games is going to be brilliant."
Kruse, and Olympic squad reserve Marcus Mepstead, were part of the GB team which beat Italy to win the team foil gold at the European Games in 2015.
The GB team then secured its place in Brazil in February with a ninth-placed finish at the World Cup in Bonn.
Alex Newton, Team GB Fencing team leader, said: "The experience they all have is really important. It's a huge opportunity now.
"They are there by right and given the field and where they are within that, there is a real medal chance."
Fencing has been incorporated in every Games since 1896.
Great Britain have won nine medals, but none since Tokyo in 1964, a run Davis, 24, believes could be ended in Rio.
"I think it's realistic we could medal in both individual and team events," Davis told BBC Sport.
"We've beaten every single top team over the last two years and it's just who copes with the pressure on the day."
"Is there any one of the Royal Family who wants to be king or queen? I don't think so," he told Newsweek.
And he said the royals were doing it "for the greater good of the people".
The prince also spoke about walking in the funeral procession for his mother, Princess Diana, when he was 12, saying no child "should be asked to do that".
In 1997, Harry joined his father, the Prince of Wales, grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, 15-year-old brother, the Duke of Cambridge, and uncle, Earl Spencer, in the procession through the streets of London.
Harry, who recently said he had received counselling to cope with the death of his mother in a car crash in Paris, said: "My mother had just died, and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television.
"I don't think any child should be asked to do that, under any circumstances. I don't think it would happen today."
The Prince also talked about the role he and his brother are taking in what he called "modernising the monarchy".
He also paid tribute to his "remarkable" grandmother for letting the younger royals do things their own way.
"The Queen has been fantastic in letting us choose," he says. "She tells us to take our time and really think things through."
By Peter Hunt, BBC royal correspondent
This is an interview that will generate some sympathy - a prince still struggling with the death of his mother - and raise some eyebrows.
Such a reaction will be prompted by Harry's suggestion that the Windsors aren't exactly falling over each other to fill what his mother once called "the top job", when it becomes vacant.
The Queen's heirs, he implies, will take on a position of enormous privilege because they have to, not because they want to.
And despite the prince's important caveat that the royals do what they do for the greater good and not for themselves, his words have generated the Daily Mail headline "Harry: No Royal Wants Throne".
Prince Harry is on marginally safer ground talking about his mother's funeral even though his comments do contain an implied criticism of his immediate family. They could have decided in 1997 that he was too young to walk, so publicly, behind Diana's coffin.
There is one other striking aspect to this lengthy article. It contains no comments, by Harry, about his father.
Prince Harry told the magazine, which says it was given access to the prince for nearly a year, that he was "involved in modernising the British monarchy".
"It's a tricky balancing act. We don't want to dilute the magic. The British public and the whole world need institutions like it."
Harry praised Princess Diana for playing a part in showing him an ordinary life, saying people would be "amazed" at how ordinary his and Prince William's lives were.
"I do my own shopping. Sometimes... I worry someone will snap me with their phone. But I am determined to have a relatively normal life and if I am lucky enough to have children, they can have one too.
"Even if I was king, I would do my own shopping."
Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning
Monty was shot in his intestines while in a wooded area in Cheddleton, Staffordshire, on Christmas Eve.
The first shooting in the area, on 8 December, resulted in a cat being shot in the leg.
RSPCA inspector Charlotte Melvin said Monty's shooting, which has only just been revealed, is very concerning.
Monty's owner Diane Lockett said the family "miss him so much".
More updates on this story and others in Staffordshire
"We were supposed to have all of the family over at ours for a big Christmas dinner, but I couldn't face doing it because we were all so upset."
Ms Melvin said: "It is very concerning that someone deliberately targeted an innocent animal like this. Monty would have been in horrific pain as a result of this incredibly cruel act."
A person caught deliberately using an air gun to injure an animal can be up to six months in prison and a £20,000 fine, she added.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the RSPCA.
After beating Cheltenham in December, Tisdale said Woodman "could've played with a broken arm, he was that good".
However, the 34-year-old suffered that precise injury in Exeter's draw with Yeovil last Saturday.
Asked about the irony, Tisdale joked: "Maybe I won't mention that next time."
He continued: "He's as tough as old boots Craig, so I wouldn't put it past him (playing with the injury) - I've rarely seen someone break their arm so clearly and literally not mutter a word."
When making the injury claim three months ago, the Grecians boss was comparing Woodman to German great Franz Beckenbauer, who famously wore a sling in the 1970 World Cup semi-final against Italy, having dislocated his shoulder during the match.
"He won't be playing in a sling, that won't happen - it's going to be a while yet," Tisdale told BBC Sport.
"He's going to be out for a while, we don't know how long - there'll be a time when he could wear maybe a splint.
"I'm not sure what the rules are these days - [maybe] Gary Lineker-style in the World Cup, who knows what's possible."
Lineker played at the 1986 World Cup despite a broken wrist, while former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba appeared for Ivory Coast in the 2010 competition wearing a cast to protect a broken arm.
The 48-year-old suffered serious facial injuries in the attack at about 00:15 on Sunday in Saltcoats.
Police said the victim had challenged a man who he overheard abusing staff and women at the takeaway in Countess Street.
He needed stitches as a result of the attack and will be left with scarring.
The suspect, who ran off in the direction of Saltcoats train station, is described as white, in his 30s, 6ft tall, of stocky build and with dark hair. He was wearing a white polo shirt.
Det Sgt Paul Richmond, of Saltcoats CID, said: "From our investigations so far we know that the injured man had been in a local Chinese takeaway in Countess Street when he overheard the suspect being abusive to staff and women in the shop.
"When the suspect left the shop, the victim went outside and challenged him about his behaviour, however, the suspect turned on him and hit him in the face with a glass object before running off.
"He sustained a significant facial injury which required numerous stitches and will leave a permanent scar.
"Officers have been checking CCTV and speaking to staff and customers in the shop at the time of the attack, however, are still keen to hear from anyone who was in the area at the time of the attack, who saw it happen or who knows the suspect."
Paul Massey, 55, was found dead outside his Salford home on Sunday evening.
The security boss, who was jailed in 1999 for 14 years over a stabbing, died from a gunshot wound to the chest after being shot four times, police said.
His brother said he does not want "any repercussions", adding: "Let the police do what they've got to do... and I hope people can help them out."
"I'm fed up of hearing about people getting shot in Manchester, Salford, everywhere - we don't need it."
"It wasn't murder, it was an assassination - it was planned. There was no robbery, nothing like that - as far as I'm concerned, it was planned," he said.
He also appealed for "no disturbances" at the funeral, which will be held at a future date.
Several eyewitnesses saw the gunman approach Massey, who unsuccessfully stood to be Salford mayor in 2012, at about 19:30 BST as he got out of his silver BMW.
After opening fire, the shooter left on foot down the side of nearby St Anne's Church, police said.
Officers appealed for a teenager who was standing at a nearby bus stop to contact them.
Massey called emergency services from his driveway in Manchester Road, Clifton, telling them he had been shot.
The gunman was white, slim and wore a hat, which was possibly fisherman style, police said.
He also wore a face covering, a green or khaki long-sleeved top and combat style trousers tucked into black, lace-up boots.
Det Ch Insp Howard Millington said: "We believe this was a targeted attack on Paul and are still working to establish a motive for the murder.
"We are keen to speak to a girl who we believe is a potential witness to the shooting. She was stood at the bus stop on Manchester Road at the time of the shooting.
"She is described as about 16-17-years-old, Asian in appearance and of slim build. I would ask that she comes forward as she may have key information that can help our investigation."
Police patrols are continuing in the area and officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward.
Lee Edward Griffiths is facing five charges of collecting information which may be useful to someone who commits or prepares acts of terrorism.
The 26-year-old will appear before Westminster Magistrates Court on Thursday.
"Wales is still one of the safest places to live, work, and enjoy," said Supt Lee Porter, head of Wales' extremism counter terrorism unit.
"The public should be reassured that we will continue to work with all partners to keep our communities safe."
Mr Griffiths was arrested by officers from Wales Extremism Counter Terrorism Unit (WECTU) and West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit (WMCTU) on 19 January.
She claimed Rotherham MPs Sir Kevin Barron, John Healey and Sarah Champion knew about child exploitation in the town but did not intervene.
The case was sparked by a speech the Yorkshire and Humber MEP gave at UKIP's conference in September 2014.
Her attempt to obtain immunity from prosecution failed in October.
Ms Collins, who was sued by the MPs for libel and slander, had alleged that each of them knew many of the details of the exploitation yet deliberately chose to do nothing.
She made the speech a month after a report found that about 1,400 children in the area had been abused between 1997 and 2013.
Live updates on this story and others in Yorkshire
The High Court heard the MEP also expressed the opinion that the MPs had acted out of political correctness, political cowardice or political selfishness and were guilty of misconduct so grave that it was or should be criminal, as it aided the perpetrators.
Ms Collins had refused to withdraw her comments throughout the whole of the campaign, had not apologised and had repeatedly tried to delay the litigation.
Gavin Millar QC told Mr Justice Warby that the allegations had been the "talk of the tearoom" in Parliament in the run-up to the 2015 general election, and caused "extreme distress".
The judge said all three MPs found the experience "genuinely and significantly distressing".
He said: "They felt that their careers were at stake, and that their integrity was under serious attack."
Ms Collins argued she had made a political speech that did not contain any allegation of fact, but expressed an opinion to the effect that the MPs were likely to have known that sexual exploitation was a serious problem in the area.
She made an offer of amends which was accepted, but the amount of compensation could not be agreed.
He also predicted vehicles that could not drive themselves would become a "strange anachronism" before too long.
The tech entrepreneur's comments were made during an exclusive interview with the BBC at his design studio near Los Angeles.
Tesla vies with Nissan and BMW to be the world's bestselling electric-car brand, but currently runs at a loss.
An added challenge is that over recent months several of its engineers have been hired by rivals, including China-backed Faraday Future and Apple.
Apple has not formally announced it is working on a vehicle, although it did recently register several automobile-related internet domains, including apple.car and apple.auto.
Mr Musk said it was "obvious" that the company would try to make a compelling car of its own.
"It's pretty hard to hide something if you hire over a thousand engineers to do it," he said.
But he did not see the iPhone-maker as a threat.
"It will expand the industry," he said.
"Tesla will still aspire to make the most compelling electric vehicles, and that would be our goal, while at the same time helping other companies to make electric cars as well."
Mr Musk outlined a vision of a future where all cars would be electric and autonomous, and driving yourself would become a hobby rather than a necessity.
Tesla's Model S - a sports car that ranges from £56,000 to £85,000 depending on the chosen battery capacity and performance - has been one of the bestselling electric cars of recent years.
In recent months, its Autopilot feature has given the car a number of autonomous driving features:
Last weekend, it gained a new "beta" feature that allows owners to summon their car with their smartphone.
"[With] the current version of Summon, the car will come and find you if you're on private property," Mr Musk said.
"The car will exit the garage, close the garage behind it and come over to you.
"This is the first baby step - ultimately you'll be able to summon the car from New York if you're living in LA, and it will drive across the country, charge itself at the various locations and come to you."
This may sound like a vision of the distant future, but Mr Musk says it could be feasible in "a couple of years."
At both last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and this week's Detroit Motor Show, a number of other car makers have shown off innovations in electric vehicles and automated driving.
Mr Musk said electrification and autonomy were the two biggest innovations in the industry since the moving production line.
"In the long term, nobody will buy a car unless it's autonomous," he said.
"Owning a car that is not self-driving in the long term will be like owning a horse - you would own it and use it for sentimental reasons but not for daily use."
At this stage, Tesla produces only luxury models and is still making big losses.
Its founder admitted that its future would depend on the cheaper Model 3 version, which he said would go into production at the end of 2017.
"Unless there's an affordable car, we will only have a small impact on the world.
"We need to make a car that most people can afford, in order to have a substantial impact."
Mr Musk has two other businesses, rocket company Space X and energy supplier SolarCity.
Space X has also lost huge sums since it was founded, but last month it succeeded in landing its Falcon rocket upright after launching satellites into orbit.
Mr Musk now hopes to repeat the feat, using a floating barge in the Pacific Ocean as the landing pad.
He said making rockets reusable would transform the economics of the space industry.
"At the beginning I thought Space X and Tesla had a 10% chance of success. So, I'm quite surprised to see we're alive," he said.
"[It's] great, I wasn't expecting that."
Space X is in fierce competition with Blue Origin, the rocket business owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos - but when asked about the rivalry Mr Musk answered: "Jeff who?"
A Scottish Building Federation (SBF) survey found industry confidence improved after falling to a three-year low following June's EU referendum.
But 60% of respondents said they thought Brexit was driving up costs.
SBF said many firms expressed concern that some suppliers may be using economic uncertainty to increase costs artificially.
In the federation's latest quarterly Scottish Construction Monitor, companies reported a "noticeable" rise in the cost of bricks, timber and metal products such as doors and windows.
A total of 90% of those surveyed expected these costs to continue to rise over the next 12 months.
Nearly 50 construction firms took part in the survey between 1 and 12 October.
SBF director Vaughan Hart said: "At the moment, the construction industry is experiencing the same uncertainties as those facing the wider economy.
"In that context, I'm encouraged that our members' confidence seems quite resilient, having rebounded back into positive territory this quarter following last quarter's negative reading.
"In the current climate, it's important that we don't inadvertently talk ourselves into an economic downturn by over-analysing the economic indicators out there or jumping to conclusions about how the economy is performing when these aren't borne out by experience on the ground."
He added: "We need to remain vigilant against suppliers exploiting the current economic uncertainty to increase costs artificially.
"I would encourage building employers to bring any such practices to our attention so that we can raise these with government and make sure industry competitiveness isn't adversely affected as a result."
Last week, a survey by the Scottish Chambers of Commerce found a pick-up in construction activity in the third quarter.
It suggested both housebuilding and public sector contracts returned to growth, with almost 45% of all businesses in the sector stating that total sales had increased.
Chelsea midfielder Kante, 26, was given the award on Sunday after winning a vote by his fellow players.
Romeu, 25, returns from a two-match ban to face former club Chelsea on Tuesday.
"Kante brings the same qualities as Oriol for us because he's very consistent and in every game he gives good performances," said Puel.
Spaniard Romeu joined Saints from the Blues for £5m in 2015, having previously played for Barcelona, but is yet to win a senior international cap.
"Without [Kante] for Chelsea it's difficult and the same with Romeu, it's difficult for us without him," added Puel.
"I think he's not far off Kante, he's an important player for this team because he can do fantastic work to recover the ball and start the play.
"We are confident in him and, for me, he can look to getting in the selection with Spain."
He is the second of a group of spies who became known as the Cuban Five to be freed. They were convicted in 2001 on charges including conspiracy.
Gonzalez is expected to be deported within days to Cuba, where he and his fellow spies are considered heroes.
Prosecutors said the five had sought to infiltrate US military bases and spied on Cuban exiles in Florida.
Since their conviction, the men have been at the centre of a vociferous campaign by the Cuban government to free them.
Fernando Gonzalez, 54, was arrested in 1998 along with Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero and Rene Gonzalez.
The five were found guilty in 2001 of conspiracy and failure to register as foreign agents in the US.
Cuba has always maintained they posed no threat to the United States as they were only monitoring anti-communist exiles in Florida with the aim of preventing attacks by exiles on the communist-run island.
Fernando Gonzalez was originally sentenced to 19 years but his jail term was later reduced. At the time of his release in the early hours of Wednesday he had served more than 15 years in prison.
He is the second of the group to be freed after the release in 2011 of Renee Gonzalez.
Renee Gonzalez returned to Cuba to a hero's welcome and has been campaigning for the release of his fellow detainees.
Antonio Guerrero is set to be released in September 2017, while Labanino's release is due in October 2024.
Hernandez is serving a double life sentence as he was also convicted of conspiracy to commit murder over the shooting down in 1996 of two planes flown by a Cuban exile group, Brothers to the Rescue.
The pilots were on a mission searching for Cubans trying to flee the island by crossing the Florida Straits in home-made rafts. Cuba accused the planes of violating Cuban airspace.
The case of the Cuban Five has long been a source of tension between the US and Cuba.
The top-seeded team of Jamie Burdekin and Andy Lapthorne claimed wins in their singles matches in Toyko.
They will face Australia in Friday's final as they chase a fifth title in the event for players who have impairments in three or more limbs.
The GB men's and junior teams will play off for a bronze medal after losing their semi-finals.
Burdekin, the world number eight, beat Shota Kawano - ranked one place below him - 6-1 7-6 (7-4), before world number four Lapthorne overcame Mitsuteru Moroishi 4-6 6-1 6-4, meaning the doubles encounter did not need to be played.
"Tomorrow is going to be big," said Lapthorne, who was part of the winning GB team with Burdekin in 2009 and 2014.
"This match has been brewing for a while; there's a bit of spice between the two sides. I'm sure we want to win more than them.
"Hopefully Jamie can put us 1-0 up and I can go out and have a really good shot at world number one Dylan Alcott and wrap it up before the doubles."
In the men's semi-final, Britain's Alfie Hewett and Marc McCarroll lost their singles matches to higher ranked players in two-time Paralympic gold medallist Shingo Kunieda and Takashi Sanada from Japan.
GB men will face Australia and GB juniors, who lost 2-0 to the USA in their semi-final, will play the Netherlands in their respective bronze medal play-offs.
More than 12 million people - from Oregon to South Carolina - live on the path of darkness that the Moon will cut as it sweeps in front of the Sun.
Nearly four times that many live within a two-hour's drive. And then there are all the tourists who will flock to America to witness the spectacle.
It makes the eclipse a wonderful citizen science opportunity.
"By going out and looking at the Sun we take part in this time-honoured tradition of citizen science," says astronomer and artist Prof Tyler Nordgren from the University of Redlands in California.
"Edmund Halley during an eclipse in 1715 in London asked people to go outside, look up and see if they could see the total solar eclipse and measure the length of totality, and by that he was able to help refine the orbit of the Moon," he told BBC News.
You might think that with all the space telescopes trained on the Sun these days there is little the citizen or even the keen amateur can contribute. But total solar eclipses are special because they afford particularly favourable conditions to study the tenuous outer atmosphere of the Sun called the corona.
It is in this superheated "gas" of charged particles that the solar wind originates, and from which billions of tonnes of matter can occasionally burst towards the Earth to disrupt satellites, communications and even electricity grids.
The corona is outshone by the Sun's surface, its photosphere. And satellites will block out this glare using devices called coronagraphs or occulters. But these are usually so wide that they also obstruct a doughnut of light immediately above the edge of the star.
"The spacecraft block out not only the Sun but also a whole lot of light around it, otherwise there would be scattering all over the image. And so we have that whole region uniquely to observe in white light from the ground at total solar eclipse," says Jay Pasachoff from Williams College, a veteran of 65 eclipses.
And he wants members of the public to get in on the act.
One key project in the planning is the Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) project run by the National Solar Observatory.
It is making available 59 identical telescopes and digital cameras to universities, schools and astronomy clubs along the path of the eclipse (another 40 observing kits are available to purchase).
Participants are being trained to gather images of the corona from their locality that can then be spliced together with everyone else's to produce an uninterrupted 90-minute video.
Citizen CATE will rely on dedicated, calibrated equipment. But a similar venture plans to make use of the countless photos that will be taken on the day with general pocket cameras and smartphones.
The Eclipse Mega Movie Project is supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and a number of colleges, observatories, and corporations.
The initiative has a core band of photographers, but the public will be able to participate with the aid of an app that will offer advice on getting the best image quality and provide the means to upload pictures.
The 21 August event is the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in the US since 1918.
The Moon's shadow begins its journey across Earth's surface - the path of totality - out in the Pacific.
It makes landfall near Newport in Oregon at 10:16 local time (17:16 GMT; 18:16 BST); and leaves the continent close to the Atlantic coastal city of Charleston, South Carolina, at 14:49 local time (18:49 GMT; 19:49 BST).
The location that will experience full darkness for the "greatest duration" is just outside the town of Carbondale, Illinois. Totality there will last 2 minutes and 40.2 seconds.
So many people are expected to try to view the eclipse that the American Astronomical Society has set up a taskforce to advise urban and rural communities on how to prepare for the expected population surge.
Prof Nordgren works a lot with the National Parks Service: "I'm going to be at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in eastern Oregon.
"They have six parking spaces and a porta-potty, and yet they're expecting maybe 20,000 people to come there on that day."
And taskforce colleague, Angela Speck from the University of Missouri, added: "We need to have communities ready for the influx of people that are coming, and that means things like emergency services, road traffic control, food and water. Especially water - the eclipse is in August."
Nordgren, Speck, and Pasachoff were speaking here in Boston at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos
|
Chris Woakes hit a half-century on his return from injury against Middlesex to give Warwickshire a decent chance of a first Championship win of the season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The NHS 111 helpline in Surrey, Sussex and Kent answered fewer than half of calls within a minute last month, according to provisional data.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Pupils at a school in Lancashire have sent a toy dog 15 miles into the atmosphere as part of a science project.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The United States shattered a 27-year-old world record to win gold in the women's 4x100m relay at London 2012.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Liam Henderson and John McGinn scored their first Hibernian goals as Alloa were brushed aside at Easter Road.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Midfielder Liam Craig hopes St Johnstone's recent form can help attract more fans to McDiarmid Park.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The former head of Colombia's secret police, Maria del Pilar Hurtado, has been jailed for 14 years for spying on politicians, judges and journalists.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Indian police have arrested four people suspected of leaking an episode of the hugely popular TV show Game of Thrones before it was aired.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A gardener has completed an attempt to break the world record for the fastest shed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
One of Northern Ireland's most senior police officers has said that without victims coming forward it is "virtually impossible" to convict those behind paramilitary-style attacks.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A policeman is in hospital after being "deliberately run over" by a suspect fleeing officers in south London.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The UK trade deficit widened in February by more than expected, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Maidstone United players Jamar Loza and Seth Nana Twumasi have agreed contracts until the end of the season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Did social media and mobile telecommunications fuel this weekend's violence in London?
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Justin Bieber has cancelled the rest of his Purpose World Tour because of "unforeseen circumstances", his publicist has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Calls have been made for an extension to the registration deadline for all residential landlords in Wales.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
St Helens have signed back-row Zeb Taia on a deal until 2019 from NRL side Gold Coast Titans, allowing second-row Joe Greenwood to move in the opposite direction.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Oxford United manager Michael Appleton has joined Leicester City as Craig Shakespeare's assistant.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A mixture that included organic cat litter forced the closure of the only underground nuclear waste repository in the US, a team of government experts has determined.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Chelsea maintained a seven-point advantage over Tottenham at the top of the Premier League with a hard-fought victory over Manchester City.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
James Davis, Laurence Halsted and Richard Kruse will again make up Great Britain's fencing squad for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
No-one in the Royal Family wants to be king or queen, Prince Harry has told a US magazine, but adds: "We will carry out our duties at the right time."
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A cat has been shot and killed by someone using an air rifle, the second such attack on a pet in recent weeks.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale says Craig Woodman will be out "for a while" with a fractured arm, having previously quipped that the defender could play with such an injury.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man was glassed in the face after he went to the aid of women and staff who were being abused at a Chinese takeway in North Ayrshire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A convicted criminal once nicknamed "Mr Big" was shot and killed in an "assassination", his brother has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man from Swansea has been charged with terrorism offences.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Three Labour MPs have each won £54,000 High Court libel damages from UKIP MEP Jane Collins over remarks she made about Rotherham's child abuse scandal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tesla's owner, Elon Musk, has said it is an "open secret" that Apple is making a rival electric car.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Scottish construction firms have suggested that the Brexit vote is driving up building supply costs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Southampton midfielder Oriol Romeu is "not far off" Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year N'Golo Kante, says Saints boss Claude Puel.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
US authorities have released jailed Cuban agent Fernando Gonzalez from prison after he completed his sentence.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Great Britain's quad wheelchair tennis team beat hosts Japan 2-0 to reach the final of the World Team Cup.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
August's total solar eclipse in the US will almost certainly be the most watched such event in history.
| 40,851,635 | 15,218 | 1,021 | true |
Glasgow City Council has appointed CH2M Hill to design the bridge, with construction work planned for 2019.
A study will look at the feasibility for a crossing from Water Row in Govan to either Glasgow Harbour East or a location beside the Riverside Museum.
It is expected to cost about £10m and would be funded through the £1.13bn Glasgow region City Deal.
The bridge would open to ensure that vessels such as the Waverley were still be able to berth up-stream.
It is hoped the bridge will help the regeneration of Govan by creating a link to Glasgow University to the north, the QEUH campus to the west and Pacific Quay to the east.
Council leader Frank McAveety said: "Govan and Partick shared a connection for centuries, and with so much regeneration happening in both communities, the time has come for this bridge to further strengthen their development."
For at least 2,000 years, the area had importance as a location where it was once possible to ford the Clyde.
The social and economic connection was later maintained through cross-river ferries.
The historic Govan ferry was closed to passengers in the mid-1960s.
CH2M Hill (formerly Halcrow) has previously delivered a number of bridges across the River Clyde, including the Clyde Arc, the Dalmarnock Smart Bridge and the Tradeston Bridge.
Jonah scored 37 tries for New Zealand between 1994 and 2002 and was capped 63 times for the All Blacks.
He became a star all around the world after scoring four tries against England in the 1995 World Cup in South Africa.
He had been diagnosed with a rare kidney condition by 1996 which forced him to quit rugby.
Jonah had a kidney transplant in 2004, but the organ stopped working fully in 2011.
"Jonah was a legend of our game and loved by his many fans both here and around the world," said New Zealand Rugby chief executive Steve Tew.
The New Zealand great will be remembered for "changing rugby union", says former England head coach Sir Clive Woodward.
Froome, aiming to become the third man to win the Vuelta and the Tour de France in the same year, finished among the pack on the 207km stage.
Colombia's Esteban Chaves remains in second with Irish BMC rider Nicolas Roche in third.
Mohoric, 22, won the stage after making a break with 10km remaining.
Find out how to get into cycling with our special guide.
The UAE Team Emirates rider finished 16 seconds ahead of Poland's Pawel Poljanski who pipped Spaniard Jose Joaquin Rojas on the line.
"It's been a long time since my last big win," said Mohoric. "It feels great to get a victory again.
"I felt good in a breakaway the other day so I knew my shape was good."
Saturday's eighth stage sees the riders move on to Hellin where they will navigate a 199.5km course which includes an ascent up the testing Xorret de Cati followed by a slight uphill finish.
Team Sky rider Froome said: "Today was a lot more relaxed and we were more in control. Tomorrow is a really tough finish. It'll be a big battle tomorrow."
1. Matej Mohoric (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) 4:43:35
2. Pawel Poljanski (Poland/Bora-hansgrohe) +16secs
3. Jose Joaquin Rojas (Spa/Movistar) +16secs
4. Thomas De Gendt (Bel/Lotto-Soudal) +16secs
5. Alessandro De Marchi (Ita/BMC ) +27secs
6. Floris De Tier (Bel/LottoNL-Jumbo) +27secs
7. Jetse Bol (Ned/Manzana Postobon) +29secs
8. Luis Angel Mate (Spa/ Cofidis) +1:21
9. Anthony Perez (Fra/Cofidis) +1:32
10. Arnaud Courteille (Fra/FDJ) +1:32
1. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) 27:46:51'
2. Esteban Chaves (Col/Orica-Scott) +11secs
3. Nicolas Roche (Ire/BMC) +13secs
4. Tejay Van Garderen (US/BMC)+30secs
5. Vicenzo Nibali (Ita/Bahrain-Merida) +36secs
6. David De La Cruz (Spa/Quick-Step Floors) +40secs
7. Jetze Bol (Ned/Manzana Postobon) +46secs
8. Fabio Aru (Ita/Astana) +49secs
9. Adam Yates (GB/Orica-Scott) +50secs
10. Michael Woods (Can/Cannondale) +1mins 13secs
The 57-year-old posted a picture of himself and the document on Instagram, saying police had given it to him on Wednesday.
It was confiscated in 2011 when he was detained for 81 days without charge.
The artist said his first trip would be to Germany, where his son has been living for the past year.
He told Reuters although he is legally allowed to travel outside China, visiting other countries would still depend on whether they issue him visas.
But Ai added he was not surprised the passport was returned after 600 days.
"[The authorities] said they would return me my passport for many years," he said.
"They've never said they would never give it to me, except that it has dragged on for four years."
'Wonderful news'
Following the announcement, the Royal Academy of Arts said Ai -who is an Honorary Royal Academician - would travel to London in September for a landmark solo exhibition.
"This is wonderful news for Ai Weiwei, his family and for artists worldwide," said Tim Marlow, artist director and co-curator of the exhibition at the Royal Academy.
"We are delighted to announce that he will be joining us as we finalise the installation of his exhibition."
The show, which will include significant works from 1993 onwards - when Ai returned to China after a decade in New York - will also feature new site-specific installations.
Ai said police did not give him "any additional conditions or warnings" for the return of his passport, saying it was "very relaxed".
He added he could not say why authorities decided to return it to him now, but he took it to mean "there aren't any problems".
The artist was arrested in 2011 during a government crackdown on political activists. He was held over alleged crimes of bigamy and tax evasion, but was released without charge.
At the time, Ai's detainment caused outcry with many artists joining international calls for his release.
He was later given a 15 million yuan (£1.5m) fine for evading taxes, although the artist maintains the charges were politically motivated in retaliation for his criticism of the Chinese government.
The NSPCC's Childline counselled 11,706 young people for anxiety in 2015-16 - a 35% rise from the 8,642 in 2014-15.
Children as young as eight have contacted the charity, with girls seven times more likely to make contact for help about anxiety than boys, it said.
Issues raised ranged from personal and family problems to concerns about Brexit, the US election and Syrian war.
The NSPCC said the problem appeared to be getting worse, with provisional figures showing that from April to September Childline dealt with almost 6,500 cases where anxiety was cited as the main issue.
It said some youngsters talk to counsellors about problems in their day-to-day life, while others speak about disturbing events they have seen in the media and on social media.
The charity believes girls are particularly struggling with "the demands of the modern world".
"Their exposure to online media and the way they are using social media [is] placing increasing pressure on them to attain a 'perfect' life, which is completely unrealistic and ultimately making them anxious about their place in the world," a spokesman added.
This is a story supplied to the BBC by Childline. The girl's name has been changed to protect her identity.
Calleigh started dealing with mental health issues at the age of 11, including anxiety and depression.
"When I was at my lowest, I just wouldn't want to get out of bed," said the 17-year-old from London. "I'd stay there and hope I wouldn't wake up."
"There is a huge amount of pressure for teenagers growing up. I went to an all-girls' school and I think about 90% of my friends have all experienced depression and anxiety."
She didn't feel able to talk to her parents about the problems she was facing, but she turned to Childline online and was able to open up.
"I just typed away about how I was feeling and let it all out."
Three years of talking to the charity helped her build the courage to speak to her parents about what she was going through.
"I still have my ups and downs, but I'm doing much better taking one day at a time.
"People say that mental health has a stigma, but we have the power to break that stigma by talking to others about how we feel."
Dame Esther Rantzen, who launched Childline, which is marking its 30th anniversary, said children and young people are sometimes frightened and distressed by events in the wider world.
She said: "Seeing pictures of crying and bewildered toddlers being pulled from bomb-damaged homes upsets all of us.
"Often we fail to notice the impact these stories are having on young people.
"The good news is that so many children are able to express their anxiety to Childline, knowing that we will take them seriously, so that we are able to reassure them."
Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCC, which formally joined forces with Childline in 2006, said: "The world can be a worrying place but we need to ensure our children are reassured rather than left overwhelmed and frightened.
"It's only natural for children and young people to feel worried sometimes, but when they are plagued by constant fears that are resulting in panic attacks and making them not want to leave the house then they need support."
Source: NSPCC
We can use them to sing, shout and whisper sweet nothings. We can use them to activate gadgets and prove who we are to banks.
And now researchers believe they can also reveal whether we're getting ill.
A US start-up called Canary Speech is developing a way of analysing conversations using machine learning to test for a number of neurological and cognitive diseases, ranging from Parkinson's to dementia.
The project was born out of a painful personal experience for the firm's co-founder Henry O'Connell.
"It has been my pleasure to have as a friend for nearly 30 years a dear gentleman who was diagnosed six years ago with Parkinson's disease," says Mr O'Connell.
"My friend was told when the diagnosis was finally made that it was likely that he had been suffering from Parkinson's for over 10 years."
As with so many diseases, early diagnosis can play a crucial role in effectively managing the condition, but recent research highlights the difficulties in correctly diagnosing it, with doctors often struggling to distinguish the symptoms.
And the longer the condition goes undiagnosed, the more severe the symptoms become.
"During the years before his diagnosis was accurately made, my friend, suffering from muscle and apparent nerve-related pain, was treated in several medical facilities," says Mr O'Connell.
"The muscle and nerve-related pain were directly associated with a progressing Parkinson's illness. Because it went undiagnosed, proper treatment was delayed and his Parkinson's progressed potentially more rapidly than it would have under proper diagnosis and treatment."
Canary Speech developed algorithms after examining the speech patterns of patients with particular conditions, including Alzheimer's, dementia and Parkinson's.
This enabled them to spot a number of tell-tale signs both pre and post-diagnosis, including the kinds of words used, their phrasing, and the overall quality of speech.
For instance, one symptom of the disease is a softening of the voice - something than can be easily overlooked by those close to us. But Canary Speech's software is capable of picking up such small changes in speech patterns.
Fellow co-founder Jeff Adams was previously chief executive at Yap, the company bought by Amazon and whose technology subsequently formed the core of the tech giant's voice-activated Echo speaker.
The overall goal is to be able to spot the onset of these conditions considerably sooner than is currently possible. In initial trials, the software was used to provide real-time analysis of conversations between patients and their clinicians.
As with so many machine learning-based technologies, it will improve as it gains access to more data to train the algorithms that underpin it.
And as more voice-activated devices come on to the market and digital conversations are recorded, the opportunities to analyse all this data will also increase.
Some researchers have analysed conversations between patients and drug and alcohol counsellors, for example, to assess the degree of empathy the therapists were displaying.
"Machine learning and artificial intelligence has a major role to play in healthcare," says Tony Young, national clinical lead for innovation at NHS England.
"You only have to look at the rapid advancements made in the last two years in the translation space. Machine learning won't replace clinicians, but it will help them do things that no humans could previously do."
It is easy to see how such technology could be applied to teaching and training scenarios.
Voice analysis is also being used in commercial settings.
For instance, tech start-up Cogito, which emerged from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, analyses the conversations taking place between customer service staff and customers.
They monitor interactions in real time. Their machine learning software compares the conversation with its database of successful calls from the past.
The team believes that it can provide staff with real-time feedback on how the conversation is going, together with advice on how to guide things in a better direction - what it calls "emotional intelligence".
These tips can include altering one's tone or cadence to mirror that of the customer, or gauging the emotions on display to try to calm the conversation down.
It's even capable of alerting the supervisor if it thinks that greater authority would help the conversation reach a more positive conclusion. The advice uses the same kind of behavioural economics used so famously by the UK government's Behavioural Insights Team, also known as the Nudge Unit.
Early customers of Cogito's product, including Humana, Zurich and CareFirst BlueCross, report an increase in customer satisfaction of around 20%.
As the internet of things spreads its tentacles throughout our lives, voice analysis will undoubtedly be added to other biometric ways of authenticating ourselves in a growing number of situations.
Google's Project Abacus, for example, is dedicated to killing passwords, given that 70% of us apparently forget them every month.
It plans to use our speech patterns - not just what we say but how we say it - in conjunction with other behavioural data, such as how we type, to build up a more reliable picture of our identity. Our smartphones will know who we are just by the way we use them.
The big - silent - elephant in the room is how all this monitoring and analysis of our voices will impact upon our right to privacy.
Vincent Janssen gave the hosts the lead at White Hart Lane, scoring his first Premier League goal from the penalty spot after Robert Huth had felled the striker.
Spurs twice hit the crossbar - Dele Alli in the first half and Jan Vertonghen after the break - but had to settle for the draw as Musa caught them sleeping at the beginning of the second half.
Leicester had lost all four of their previous away games this season - for a goal difference of -10 - but they battled well and frustrated a Tottenham side lacking a cutting edge in attack.
The north Londoners, still unbeaten in the league this season, have now drawn a third successive league game and find themselves three points behind league leaders Manchester City, who beat West Brom 4-0.
Tottenham were still without injured influential defender Toby Alderweireld, while midfielder Eric Lamela was ruled out through illness, but the player whose presence they missed most was Harry Kane.
Manager Mauricio Pochettino included both Son Heung-min, scorer of four goals this season, and £17m summer signing Janssen in his starting line-up, but Spurs are not the same side in the final third without the England international's dynamism and ruthlessness as the lone striker.
It was difficult not to wonder what Kane, sidelined since September with an ankle injury, would have done with Christian Eriksen's cross at the near post two yards from goal after Janssen mistimed his shot and swept the ball across the face of the goal.
Janssen did score from the spot, as he also did in the EFL Cup defeat by Liverpool in midweek, and had chances to add to his tally - heading an Eriksen cross wide, then turning Huth adroitly and shooting a fraction off target.
The Netherlands international, who scored 27 times in the Eredivisie last season, did not play badly - Pochettino said after the match he was happy with his striker's performance - but he is yet to match the standards Kane has set.
Pochettino will surely hope this will be his team's final match without Kane, with the Argentine saying last season's top scorer could return for next week's derby against Arsenal.
"I know Harry Kane makes a huge difference. But what they did last season was stretch teams," said Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer. "They are not doing that at the moment and the pace in the final third is not as sharp as it could be.
"They have to get their sharpness back into the game and ask more questions of the back four."
Leicester's form away from the King Power Stadium has been poor this season, although three of their defeats were at Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea.
Tottenham dominated, in the first half especially, and ended the match having enjoyed 63% of possession. Understandably, Pochettino said at full-time that he was disappointed with the result.
But while the Foxes recorded a total of just three shots in the match - with only Musa's close-range equaliser from a Jamie Vardy cross on target - their success in stifling a Tottenham side who have now gone five games without victory deserved a point.
Indeed, the champions are the only side to score against Pochettino's men in open play this season and questions could be raised about referee Robert Madley's decision to award Tottenham a penalty.
Manager Claudio Ranieri is likely also to be pleased that he could once again shuffle his forward line - starting with Vardy, who was a substitute in last week's victory over Crystal Palace, instead of record signing Islan Slimani with one eye on the Champions League.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Tottenham face Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League on Wednesday before a Premier League match at Arsenal on 6 November.
Leicester travel to Copenhagen on Tuesday (19:45 GMT kick-off) where victory will guarantee their progress to the Champions League knockout stages. They will then aim to extend their unbeaten home run in the league to 21 matches as West Brom visit on 6 November.
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "Disappointed. We created chances. We dominated the game. But I am disappointed with the way we conceded the goal. It's hard to lose two points.
"I was disappointed for the goal as the way we conceded was a little unlucky. I am happy with the performance.
"We are still strong and unbeaten in the league, that is very important. It's true we are fighting and it's difficult to win games recently but the team showed it is strong enough."
On Vincent Janssen scoring: "I am very happy with him. Since the day he arrived his behaviour and performance is always improving. it's important to have confidence and trust in him."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri: "I am pleased with a point, with our performance. I saw the Leicester spirit, the way we stuck together and fought together. A very good performance.
"Until now we played with a singular spirit, today was a squad spirit and the performance was outstanding.
"Ahmed Musa is slowly understanding the Premier League. He is a good player but he must improve again."
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur 1, Leicester City 1.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 1, Leicester City 1.
Attempt missed. Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Christian Fuchs with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur).
Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Harry Winks tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.
Foul by Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur).
Jeffrey Schlupp (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Danny Simpson (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Danny Simpson (Leicester City).
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Harry Winks replaces Victor Wanyama.
Hand ball by Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur).
Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Victor Wanyama with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Danny Simpson.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Georges-Kévin Nkoudou replaces Dele Alli.
Attempt missed. Christian Fuchs (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Robert Huth.
Substitution, Leicester City. Leonardo Ulloa replaces Shinji Okazaki.
Foul by Mousa Dembélé (Tottenham Hotspur).
Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kyle Walker.
Foul by Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur).
Danny Simpson (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton replaces Riyad Mahrez.
Attempt missed. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner from a direct free kick.
Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Andy King (Leicester City).
Foul by Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur).
Andy King (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Leicester City. Jeffrey Schlupp replaces Ahmed Musa.
Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur).
Shinji Okazaki (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Danny Rose.
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, Leicester City. Danny Simpson tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.
King Arthur Pendragon claims the cremated bones, unearthed in 2008, are from members of the royal line and wants them reburied.
A licence allowing them to go on display expired last month, but has since been extended.
Mr Pendragon said the government had "reinterpreted" the law.
Since their excavation, the remains have led to new discoveries about Stonehenge.
Prof Mike Parker Pearson from University College London said the bones were buried over a period of 600 years, and include the remains of men, women and children.
His findings will be formally published in the Antiquity Journal next year.
If new scientific advances were made, he added, the licence allowed for future examination of the bone fragments.
The items will be held in storage until the bones are transferred to Salisbury Museum in April.
Mr Pendragon said he would will apply for the repatriation of the bones when they are moved to the museum, and will then apply for a judicial review.
He added: "We are not going to roll over on this and we are going to mobilise our supporters around the world."
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: "Every licence application is carefully considered on its merits.
"Having weighed up all the arguments put forward, Ministers found the case made by Professor Parker Pearson to be more persuasive than that put forward by those who opposed the application and have amended the licence as he requested."
Meanwhile, Mr Pendragon also told the BBC he planned to seek a change in the law to better protect pre-Christian human remains.
He will also address the issue at the Stonehenge winter solstice on 22 December.
The Space Centre in Preston thought it had secured £800,000 in grants, only to find they never existed.
The centre said it is in the process of expanding its premises to handle the demand for care in the region.
Lancashire police confirmed it was investigating allegations involving an ex-employee of the centre.
Alison Shorrock, centre manager, said the staff and people who used the facilities had been left "devastated" by the news.
"I was shocked as we thought the remaining grants were in place, but as we rang them one by one, to our absolute horror, we found out that there was absolutely no funding still to come. They had never heard of us.
"We were running around like children at Christmas because we were so excited at the possibilities that the new centre would bring for all the disabled people, and suddenly to have your hopes and dreams crash to the floor was one of the worst moments of my life."
The centre, on Pedders Lane, now say they need to raise £500,000 to pay off their immediate debtors, including those involved in building an extension to the building.
About 200 groups a month use the centre's facilities, which include multi-sensory areas.
It opened in 1993, with the company securing the building next door in 2011 to expand and build a further sensory room, due to open shortly.
A Lancashire Police spokesperson said: "We have been made aware of a report regarding financial irregularities made in relation to an ex-employee and inquiries are ongoing to establish the full facts."
The car was filmed driving on the Barton Bridge section of the M60 earlier this week by another motorist's camera.
Greater Manchester Police said it was "incredibly reckless driving" and it was investigating the footage.
It is thought the driver was travelling at 50mph (80km/h) at the time.
A police spokesman said: "Not only is this motorist a risk to themselves and a risk to others, the driver is committing a criminal offence by driving with an impaired windscreen.
"It takes just ten minutes to defrost a windscreen but a split second to cause a serious accident."
Nemo was caught on a branch and weighed down by its blanket trying to cross the river at the Equine Rescue and Rehoming centre in Aberfoyle.
Owner Kay Paterson tried to help the eight-year-old but was unable to move Nemo until a fire service rescue team arrived at the scene on Monday.
She believes Nemo was trying to follow Nola, an Irish sport horse.
Ms Paterson said: "We started to move a group of horses to another part of the field because the area they were in was really muddy with all the rain.
"I was going to go back for Nemo but it looks like he tried to follow and take a short cut across the river.
"He's usually so sensible, it's the first time anything like this has happened, so we're just so glad he's okay and is doing well."
Ms Paterson said Nemo liked to behave like a bigger horse and has a "little and large relationship" with 12-year-old Nola.
She said: "He's back with his friend now and was around Nola a lot today.
"We're going to keep him in one of the stables and because of his size he can't see over the door, but he knows that Nola is around and we'll keep them together from now on."
The new franchise will be called the West Coast Partnership and is scheduled to start on 1 April, 2019.
The operator will be responsible for services on both the West Coast Main Line from 2019 and running the initial HS2 services in 2026.
Construction of the HS2 line is scheduled to begin next year.
It is planned that HS2 will eventually link London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester.
The contract will run for the first three to five years of HS2's operation.
The West Coast franchise is currently run by Virgin Trains as a joint venture between Stagecoach and Virgin.
Virgin Trains is seeking a new short-term contract of approximately 12 months to continue operating West Coast services following the end of the current franchise in 2018.
The government will invite tenders for the new franchise in October or November next year, setting out what it wants from the winning bidder.
Transport Minister Andrew Jones said: "HS2 will be the backbone of Britain's railways, creating more seats for passengers on the West Coast and increasing capacity on the rest of the network.
"By combining the franchise we are ensuring we get the right people on board at an early stage to design and manage the running of both services in the transition stage.
"The new franchise will attract highly experienced companies, who have the right experience, which ultimately means a better deal for passengers - both now and in the future."
It is hoped that HS2 will reduce overcrowding on the existing network and generate economic growth across the country.
Critics say it is too expensive and will damage the environment, but last month the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling confirmed the government intended to press ahead with the project.
Sir David Higgins, chairman of HS2 Ltd, the company responsible for building the £55.7bn railway, said: "I have always been clear HS2 will not be a standalone railway but fully integrated with the wider network.
"It will provide a new backbone for our railways, modernising services to better serve towns and cities up and down the country."
Anthony Smith, chief executive of the independent watchdog Transport Focus, said passengers would be pleased to see a "co-ordinated approach to delivering services".
But he warned: "Less competition could too easily lead to premium pricing so passenger protection will have to be a priority.
"We will now be working with all bidders to share our detailed work on what current West Coast and future HS2 passengers want."
Mick Cash, general secretary of the RMT, criticised the decision to award the franchise to a private operator.
"This is a scandalous decision which will hand High Speed 2 over to the very private train operators who have failed so abysmally on the rest of our railway.
"Tens of billions of taxpayers money will have been spent funding High Speed 2, much of which will now be squandered on corporate welfare on an epic scale.
"Other high speed networks in Europe are publicly owned and Britain's should be the same."
Find out how you can join in and submit your images and videos below.
If you have a picture you'd like to share, email us at [email protected], post it on Facebook or tweet it to @BBCEngland. You can also find us on Instagram - use #englandsbigpicture to share an image there. You can also see a recent archive of pictures on our England's Big Picture board on Pinterest.
When emailing pictures, please make sure you include the following information:
Please note that whilst we welcome all your pictures, we are more likely to use those which have been taken in the past week.
If you submit a picture, you do so in accordance with the BBC's Terms and Conditions.
In contributing to England's Big Picture you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way that we want, and in any media worldwide.
It's important to note, however, that you still own the copyright to everything you contribute to England's Big Picture, and that if your image is accepted, we will publish your name alongside.
The BBC cannot guarantee that all pictures will be used and we reserve the right to edit your comments.
At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws collecting any kind of media.
The 69 year old has been under house arrest since 2005 in Senegal, where he fled after being deposed.
He denies charges of killing and torturing tens of thousands of his opponents.
The charges date from 1982, when Mr Habre came to power in a coup, until he was ousted in 1990.
"Through the agreement, we are setting the procedure by which the trial should take place," said Senegal's Justice Minister Aminata Toure after signing the agreement with African Union representative Robert Dossou in the capital, Dakar.
The deal comes a month after the United Nations highest court, the International Court of Justice, passed a binding ruling that Senegal must begin proceedings to try Mr Habre "without further delay... if it does not extradite him".
Senegal has so far refused four extradition requests.
President Macky Sall, who came to power in March, had indicated that he would be willing to prosecute Mr Habre in a special tribunal.
Alioune Tine, president of the Dakar-based African Assembly for the Defense of Human Rights, said Senegal had moved "one step close to justice".
"We're counting on Senegal and the African Union to move quickly now and to begin Habre's trial before even more survivors die," he said, in a statement released by Human Rights Watch.
Dubbed "Africa's Pinochet", Mr Habre was first indicted in Senegal in 2000 - but the country's courts ruled at the time that he could not be tried there.
His alleged victims then filed complaints under Belgium's universal jurisdiction law, which allows the country's judges to prosecute human rights offences committed anywhere in the world.
Profile: Chad's Hissene Habre
In 2005, he was charged by Belgium with crimes against humanity and torture.
There have been years of wrangling in Senegal over what to do about Mr Habre.
The government of former President Abdoulaye Wade changed its position on whether to try him several times - at one stage demanding international funding for a trial.
Last year, it unexpectedly announced that it would repatriate Mr Habre to Chad, where a court in 2008 sentenced him to death in absentia for planning to overthrow the government.
This plan was stopped following a plea from the UN, which feared he could be tortured on his return.
Mr Habre and his wife have kept a low profile in Dakar where he has lived in relative freedom, guarded by two security agents. He has occasionally been seen at a mosque for Friday prayers.
A 1992 Truth Commission in Chad accused Mr Habre of being responsible for widespread torture and the death of 40,000 people during his eight-year rule.
He was accused of carrying out a deliberate policy of terror to discourage any opposition.
Survivors of torture say that, among other things, they were subjected to electric shocks, near-asphyxia and "supplice des baguettes", when their heads were squeezed between sticks.
Akai Gurley was shot in the chest after he entered the stairwell of his apartment building last month.
The decision comes days after a grand jury opted against charging a New York policeman in the chokehold death of another unarmed black man, Eric Garner.
The decision has sparked protests across the country.
The US was already facing race-related unrest over the decision not to indict a white police officer who had shot dead a young black man, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri.
In New York City on Friday, protesters briefly laid down in Macy's flagship store, at Grand Central Terminal and at an Apple store.
Hundreds streamed along Fifth Avenue and other parts of Manhattan, with banners and chants of "Black lives matter" and "I can't breathe" - a reference to the words of Eric Garner as he was being restrained by a white police officer.
In other protests on Friday:
Protests were also held in other US cities including Chicago, Washington, Denver, and Boston.
Meanwhile, a memorial service was held for 28-year-old Akai Gurley in New York ahead of his funeral on Saturday.
At an earlier news conference, his mother tearfully demanded justice for her son.
Speaking alongside her, Kevin Powell, president of the advocacy group BK Nation, called the shooting part of a "series of modern-day lynchings".
In announcing the grand jury - a body that determines whether to bring criminal charges - Brooklyn's District Attorney Ken Thompson said it was important to conduct a full and fair investigation.
Police say Mr Gurley and his girlfriend had opened a door into the unlit stairway and an inexperienced officer on a routine patrol fired his gun.
The medical examiner has ruled that the death is a homicide. New York Police Commissioner William Bratton called the shooting an accident.
Civil rights leader the Reverend Al Sharpton had initially planned to speak at Mr Gurley's memorial service but later said he would pay his respects without making an address.
UN human rights experts earlier expressed "legitimate concerns" about US grand juries failing to charge the two policemen involved in the deaths of Mr Garner and Mr Brown.
In a statement, UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsak, said it was part of a broader "pattern of impunity" concerning minority victims.
Following the outcry over the Garner case, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered the city's 22,000-strong police force to be retrained in how to better communicate and remain calm when making arrests. They will also be fitted with body cameras.
US President Barack Obama welcomed the move and said "too many Americans feel deep unfairness" in how the laws were applied.
Activists have called for another march in Washington on 13 December, followed by a summit on civil rights.
13%
of the US population is black
28% of suspects arrested in the US in 2010 were black
32% of people killed from 2003 to 2009 in arrest-related incidents were black
42% of inmates on death row in 2012 were black
The hosts raced into a 2-0 lead through Sam Winnall and Marley Watkins but Everton responded with an acrobatic Kevin Mirallas strike and a Steven Naismith header.
Daniel Crowley drove the Tykes back in front but Romelu Lukaku swept home to send the match to extra time.
Marc Roberts put through his net before Lukaku ended the thrilling cup tie.
Conor Hourihane had rattled the bar with a curling shot in the second period of extra time, but the League One side's fatigue told as Everton wrapped up the victory.
But they were pushed all the way by an adventurous Barnsley side who forced the Premier League side into errors and posed a constant threat going forward.
The Toffees - for whom Chelsea target John Stones played the full 120 minutes against his former club - will now travel to Reading in the third round.
Everton made a statement by including Stones in their line-up.
The 21-year-old England defender has handed in a transfer request to try and force through a move to Chelsea, who have had a third offer of £30m turned down.
It was a clear signal that, for now, he is part of Everton's plans - but the stresses of his situation appeared to show on the youngster who has been outstanding so far this season.
Stones, back at his first club, was not his usual composed self and made an error of judgement when Winnall gave the home side the lead, inexplicably stepping over his goalbound shot.
The defender received a mixed reception from Everton's fans but he, and Roberto Martinez's side, came through unscathed - and now he must wait to see what the next move on his future will be before Tuesday's transfer deadline.
Everton manager Roberto Martinez has made the Capital One Cup a priority this season as this is the competition that has got away from the club over the years.
And he played a relatively strong side, with Lukaku up front and Stones and Phil Jagielka forming an established central defensive partnership.
There were still risks with some changes and it was reflected in the fact he needed to bring on Gerard Deulofeu and Ross Barkley to rescue a 2-0 deficit at half-time.
The inclusion of Aiden McGeady was mystifying, as proved by the young Spaniard's sensational game-changing display.
He said the move would "lift the millstone of debt" from students.
Of the other contenders, Yvette Cooper also backs a graduate tax, Jeremy Corbyn wants to bring back maintenance grants and Liz Kendall would focus on early years education.
Mr Burnham also insisted his plan to "renationalise" the railways line-by-line could "finance itself".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme the shadow health secretary said money generated would "go back into supporting the railway system".
Under his plans, private companies could still bid to run franchises as they expire, but public bids would be encouraged and the branding of trains, as well as tickets and prices, would be controlled by a new National Rail organisation.
The pledges on rail and tuition fees feature in Mr Burnham's new manifesto, which also includes:
In its manifesto for the 2015 general election, Labour said it would cut tuition fees in England from £9,000 to £6,000 per year from autumn 2016.
It said the move would be paid for by reducing tax relief on pensions for those earning over £150,000.
Mr Burnham's team say the graduate tax will be considered in detail by a new Beveridge-style commission, which would look at who should cover the shortfall of the money needed by universities in the short-term.
At-a-glance profiles of the four contenders
Mr Burnham was also asked about the success of left-wing candidate Mr Corbyn's campaign, after the Islington North MP was nominated by more constituency Labour parties than any other.
"Jeremy has lifted the debate, and I think that's a good thing," he said.
The Leigh MP, who has previously floated the idea of a new tax to pay for the rising cost of social care, also said his promises would involve "difficult spending choices".
8 January 2016 Last updated at 16:53 GMT
Police searching for Jordan Miers found a body in Swansea marina just before 10:30 GMT on Friday.
The children's football coach was last seen on a footpath near the River Tawe in the city at about 22:30 GMT on 20 December.
Simon Davies, head teacher at Mr Miers' former school, Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bryn Tawe in Penlan, Swansea, said Mr Miers was popular with both teachers and his friends.
Premier League clubs' spending has already surpassed £500m since the end of last season - and business analysts Deloitte say they are on course to set another new record by 31 August.
Teams spent a record £1.165bn last summer, rising to £1.38bn after the January window.
Football finance expert Rob Wilson says the market "hyper-inflation" means anyone selling to an English club is adding "at least 40%, if not 50%, to the deal".
And football agent Jon Smith says a £30m transfer - such as goalkeeper Jordan Pickford's move from Sunderland to Everton - is "the new norm".
This week Deloitte released its annual football finances, which revealed record revenues of £3.6bn for Premier League clubs in 2015-16 - and that was the year before an improved TV broadcasting rights deal kicked in.
It predicted that figure would be more like £4.5bn at the end of this coming season.
Its report also said overall debt is falling and forecast the 20 clubs combined would return to profitability in the coming years.
This transfer window comes a year after the new £5.136bn TV deal kicked in - a 71% rise on the £3bn negotiated in 2013.
In the 2014 window - also one year after the previous broadcast deal was struck - Lukaku, then 21, was sold by Chelsea to Everton for £28m. The Belgian forward's move to Manchester United is for an initial £75m, which represents a 168% increase in value in three years.
Also in 2014, Swansea signed Icelandic playmaker Sigurdsson from Tottenham for a reported £6.8m. The Welsh club now value the Leicester and Everton target at £50m - a 635% increase in value.
"Revenues keep going up, predominantly because of the rise in broadcast rights values," said Chris Stenson, a senior consultant from Deloitte's sports business group.
"Every Premier League club now has more money and are willing to spend that on players," he said.
"It is the wealthiest league in the world and increasing its value makes it more attractive to sponsors and commercial partners.
"So far we estimate Premier League clubs have spent about £500m in the transfer window, compared with £340m at the equivalent stage last year."
Once considered a landmark fee, £30m deals are now becoming more regular. There were 10 for at least that amount last summer, and already eight which could yield that much this time round.
Pickford became the most expensive British keeper in history after Everton paid £25m - rising to what would be a club-record £30m - to sign the 23-year-old from Sunderland. Everton also spent £30m to bring in Michael Keane from Burnley.
"There are players like him who would probably have been worth £12m a couple of years ago going for £30m," said Smith, formerly a players' agent.
"£30m is a very big number, but it's become the norm."
However Wilson, of Sheffield Hallam University, said it was unclear whether transfer values might still rise further over the next few years.
"I can't see the value of the English deal increasing because Sky and BT Sport haven't picked up the subscription numbers they were hoping for," he said.
"Logic therefore says the value of transfers won't rise over the next five years, although there is room for increased international TV rights packages."
Evans, 36, won 16 caps for New Zealand and has been one of the most successful overseas imports to the Premiership since moving to the Stoop in 2008.
He won a Premiership title in 2011-12 and holds Quins' scoring record, having amassed 2,217 points in 206 games.
"I couldn't think of a better place to finish my career," Evans said.
"This game has taught me everything, showed me things I could never imagine and introduced me to people that are not team-mates but family.
"I need to thank the clubs I have represented, the coaches - who have helped shape the player I am today - and the fans, both in New Zealand where it all started, and here in the UK, for their support and cheers."
Harlequins director of rugby John Kingston said: "The word 'legendary' is really over-used within the modern sporting world, but in the case of Nick Evans and his rugby playing career at Harlequins, it is the perfect description."
His final league game, fitness permitting, would be away to Northampton on 6 May, with Quins' hopes of a Premiership play-off place all but over.
It was found by a member of the public at Redcliff Bay in Portishead in March.
Avon and Somerset Police said forensic examinations of the remains had "revealed that they are most likely to be several hundred years old".
"Therefore there will be no further police investigation regarding this matter."
At the time the skull was found there was speculation locally that it could have belonged to a pilot who crashed a plane in Redcliff Bay in 1938.
However, local historian Sandy Tebbutt said it was "more likely" it had belonged to a sailor, as the bodies of mariners had washed up in the area over the years.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Scott Sinclair's class separated the teams at half-time, as he found the top corner from the edge of the box with a stunning finish.
Celtic finished strongly and Dedryck Boyata headed off the bar before Moussa Dembele made it two when he turned home Scott Brown's cut-back.
Stuart Armstrong added a late third with a tap-in.
Albion Rovers' approach was to try to crowd Celtic out. With the home side's defence sitting so deep, Celtic's most effective attacking ploy was to overload the flanks.
James Forrest, on the right, and Sinclair, on the left, encouraged this to happen by driving infield to make space for Cristian Gamboa and Kieran Tierney to surge beyond them from full-back.
Sinclair and Forrest saw plenty of the ball, with their movement and trickery a constant threat for the Albion defenders to contend with.
Sinclair saw one effort well blocked by Albion goalkeeper Ross Stewart before he made the breakthrough. His goal was a brilliant piece of improvisation, looping the ball over Stewart, who would have thought the ball was going over before it dipped sharply into the top corner.
Sinclair also created a chance for Forrest after the break, but the left-foot shot was stopped at the second attempt by Stewart. Gamboa also tried his luck from 20 yards but pulled his shot wide.
The home side only had one viable game plan to employ: defending deep, with the back four narrow to protect the penalty box and five players strung across midfield, to reduce the space for Celtic to attack into.
The ploy worked, since Celtic seldom managed to work the ball behind the defensive line, which was well marshalled by the Dunlop brothers, Ross and Michael, in central defence. The drawback was that the home side were unable to build passages of possession to ease the pressure they were under.
Paul Willis and Ross C Stewart swapped between the centre-forward and right-wing positions throughout the game, but were always isolated when up front. The midfield three of Gary Fisher, Mark Ferry and Ross Davidson worked manfully, but mental and physical fatigue became a factor.
As Celtic penned them in during the second half, Boyata headed off the crossbar and Jozo Simunovic's effort from close range was hacked off the line by Ross Dublin.
With Brown and Nir Bitton sitting deep in midfield, Armstrong had licence to surge forward from a more advanced position.
Hard running has been a feature of his play this season, and the energy and vitality of Armstrong's display was important to maintaining Celtic's intensity. He delivered a fierce shot in the first half that Stewart tipped over and he swept another effort towards goal after the break, but the ball flew above the bar.
Even when Armstrong was not bursting beyond the attackers, the threat was still posed. One run by Brown into the penalty area ended with his cut-back being converted by Dembele.
In the final stages, Armstrong jinked past two challenges on the edge of the area before drilling a shot on target that Stewart saved. Moments later, he would not be denied, clipping the ball high into the net from close range.
Match ends, Albion Rovers 0, Celtic 3.
Second Half ends, Albion Rovers 0, Celtic 3.
Goal! Albion Rovers 0, Celtic 3. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Patrick Roberts.
Attempt blocked. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Alan Reid (Albion Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Patrick Roberts (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alan Reid (Albion Rovers).
Foul by Patrick Roberts (Celtic).
Michael Dunlop (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cristian Gamboa (Celtic).
Gary Fisher (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dedryck Boyata (Celtic).
(Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Scott Sinclair (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kevin McCann (Albion Rovers).
Foul by Stuart Armstrong (Celtic).
Ross Gilmour (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Albion Rovers. Kevin McCann replaces Kyle Turnbull.
Goal! Albion Rovers 0, Celtic 2. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from very close range to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Scott Brown.
Substitution, Celtic. Patrick Roberts replaces James Forrest.
Substitution, Albion Rovers. Ross Gilmour replaces Mark Ferry.
Attempt blocked. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Alan Reid.
Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) hits the bar with a header from the right side of the six yard box.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Ross Stewart.
Attempt saved. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Moussa Dembele (Celtic).
Alan Reid (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
James Forrest (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ross Davidson (Albion Rovers).
Substitution, Albion Rovers. Calum Ferguson replaces Ross Stewart.
Foul by Moussa Dembele (Celtic).
Michael Dunlop (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Celtic. Callum McGregor replaces Kieran Tierney.
Attempt missed. Cristian Gamboa (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Gary Fisher (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Australian government sources identified a "potential security risk to Australian interests" in Bangladesh, according to Cricket Australia.
The squad, scheduled to leave on 28 September, will await further advice, while Cricket Australia is working on a "revised security plan".
The two-Test series is set to begin in Chittagong on 9 October.
Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said: "We want the tour to go ahead and are planning for that, but the safety and security of our players and support staff is our number-one priority and won't be compromised.
"We will wait to receive updated security information early in the week before confirming the team's travel arrangements."
Fifteen men have been named in the Australia squad, which is captained by Steve Smith and includes two uncapped players: Western Australia batsman Cameron Bancroft and Tasmania fast bowler Andrew Fekete.
The film is still in the early stages of development, but BBC Films said it would be a "fresh take" on the novel.
"[Iannucci] is a Dickens aficionado, so he wants it to be very authentic but it will have his own sensitivity," BBC Films' Christine Langan said.
The movie was announced as part of BBC Films' 25th anniversary celebrations.
Other new films set for production include two other literary adaptations - Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons and Julian Barnes' Booker Prize winning novel The Sense of an Ending.
The latter will be written by playwright Nick Payne, whose Royal Court play Constellations was a hit in the West End and on Broadway.
Rafe Spall, who starred in Constellations in London, will take the lead role of Captain Flint in Swallows and Amazons, which was last adapted for the big screen in 1974.
BBC Films said the new version will be set a few years later than the novel, but would remain "faithful" to the original story.
Oscar winner Colin Firth is also set to star in a film following the true story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst and his attempt to win the first single-handed round-the-world yacht race in 1968.
It will be helmed by The Theory Of Everything's director James Marsh.
Documentaries on singer Grace Jones and ballet dancer Sergei Polunin - who dramatically walked out on the Royal Ballet - are also in the works.
BBC Two will celebrate BBC Films' 25th anniversary with a week of its titles, including the premieres of Great Expectations and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, in May.
"We're so proud to celebrate 25 years of flying the flag for British film," Langan said.
"Since Anthony Minghella's unique Truly Madly Deeply, BBC Films has played a vital role in finding and nurturing the British talent at the heart of so many successful films. BBC Films stands not just for great British talent, but amazing British stories."
The student said he needed hospital treatment after he was blindfolded for several hours and tortured.
No-one at Punjab University responded to his cries for help, he said.
The five bloggers disappeared after they condemned extremism and the role of the military in Pakistan.
The university authorities say they are investigating the latest incident.
The Pakistan Herald Tribune said that Suhail Ahmad was abducted by more than 14 members of the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami group who forced their way into his Lahore hostel room on Monday evening.
Pakistan pressed over 'abducted' activists
Pakistan's bewildering array of militants
The student told the newspaper that a blanket was put over his head throughout his ordeal and that no security guards responded to his pleas for help.
He said he was only released when senior Jamaat-e-Islami members intervened on his behalf.
Last week hundreds of people held protests across the country to demand the authorities trace the activists, who disappeared earlier in January.
No group has said it is holding them.
Pakistan's parliament has expressed grave concern over their fates.
The government says it is investigating the case of one of the four, Salman Haider, who has campaigned against enforced disappearances in Balochistan.
Supporters of the men accuse the security services of having secretly arrested them.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says that the disappearances have alarmed liberals in Pakistan, where the military has long promoted a hardline Islamist narrative as a bulwark to protect its financial and security interests.
Salman Haider, a well-known poet and university professor, was last seen in Islamabad on Friday, two days after bloggers Waqas Goraya and his cousin Asim Saeed went missing in Lahore.
Two other bloggers, one named as polio sufferer Ahmed Raza Naseer, are also reported to have disappeared in or near Lahore.
Pakistan is one of the the world's most dangerous countries for reporters and human rights activists, and critics of the powerful military have been detained, beaten or killed.
They will be given about 12,000 rupees ($270) over a period of six months.
To be eligible for the scheme each woman will have to undergo regular health checks during her pregnancy and ensure vaccinations are up to date.
According to the UN, India has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world with 1,000 women dying every day because of pregnancy-related problems.
It says that a woman giving birth is 36 times more likely to die in India than her equivalent in a developed country.
Over a million women will benefit from the scheme which will cover most parts of the country and will cost the government nearly $223m.
To ensure that the money reaches eligible women the government has decided to transfer the cash directly into their bank accounts.
A recent assessment by the World Health Organisation and other UN agencies found that even though India is "making progress" in reducing maternal mortality, it is still a long way from achieving its target under the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
Raynes was sent off for an apparent elbow on Hatters forward Danny Hylton.
"Carlisle are a very good side with very good players, an excellent manager who I had a drink with after. I have no problem whatsoever," said Jones.
"I have not changed my mind and I have watched it eight times. For me that's a red card."
He continued to BBC Three Counties Radio: "It makes no difference to me whether it was upheld or rescinded because we don't play Carlisle in the next three games.
"But I'm very surprised that was overturned, to say the least, without getting into any trouble. They must have a different angle to watch I watched or a different perspective on football."
However, the Cumbrians manager Keith Curle has said he understands why the red card from the 1-1 League Two draw was rescinded.
"We all watched the game, we saw the incident live as it happened and the video evidence that backed up Michael stood his ground and his eyes were firmly fixed on the ball," Curle told BBC Radio Cumbria.
"There was a coming together of players but if anything it was probably more their player throwing himself into Michael and then to the ground, rather than being struck."
Police said the theft happened between 02:00 and 02:30 on Friday at Ness Plant on Forfar Road.
The forklifts taken were Manitou MLT643s.
Officers urged anyone with information to contact them.
The former cycling champion aims to ride in the Foxhunter Chase for amateur jockeys on Gold Cup day on 18 March.
Racehorse owner Andy Stewart has made Aintree Foxhunter runner-up Pacha Du Polder available for her to ride for the rest of the season.
Pendleton, 35, completed her first point-to-point race over jumps when finishing fourth in a race on Sunday.
Pacha Du Polder, a nine-year-old gelding, is trained by Chloe Roddick in Somerset.
"It's great that an owner of Andy's stature is putting his faith in me to ride one of his horses," Pendleton said.
She is looking to go from complete novice to riding at jump racing's showpiece fixture in the space of a year.
26 February 2015 Last updated at 17:08 GMT
Ed scooped the night's main award, album of the year, for his record X - which was the best-selling record of 2014 in the UK.
"I was really worried about this album," he said, accepting his trophy from actor Russell Crowe, "it took a long time to make."
He added it had been a "very, very good year for British music".
Watch Leah's report.
Westley (93) and Alastair Cook (39) put on 102 runs together before Liam Dawson (2-40) bowled Cook to leave them 103-2.
Varun Chopra (26) and Adam Wheater (30) made contributions before Ashar Zaidi smashed 72 not out off 40 balls to give Essex a competitive score of 304-7.
James Vince (68) and George Bailey (63) gave Hampshire a chance, but they lost regular wickets to end on 279.
Hampshire beat Kent to open their One-Day Cup campaign with a win on Thursday and started perfectly when Reece Topley bowled Nick Browne with his third ball, but Essex made progress through former England Test captain Cook and Westley.
The duo gave them a platform but the away side fought back to reduce Essex to 195-6, when Gareth Berg ran out captain Ryan ten Doeschate for just two runs.
That brought Zaidi to the crease and the all-rounder counter-attacked to great effect, hitting four sixes and six fours to push Essex's total beyond 300.
Essex top scorer Tom Westley told BBC Radio Essex:
"That's the beauty of Ash. It was a game-changing innings. He is made for those situations.
"Him and Tendo (ten Doeschate) coming in with 15-20 overs to go is very dangerous for the opposition but brilliant for us.
"The wicket of Bailey was crucial and Ravi getting Vince out was key as well because they had a nice partnership going."
Hampshire captain James Vince told BBC Solent:
"We weren't at our best. The main difference was we didn't have someone to go on and get a big score. Ideally you go on and get 80 or 100.
"I don't think 305 was a lot to chase. The way the boundaries are here, and it was a pretty good pitch, at the halfway stage we would have taken that.
"With the boundaries as small as they are, a few were leading edges went for six. That can happen. e'll take this one on the chin and hopefully bounce back against Middlesex on Wednesday."
Ryanair said the four were detained after they became "disruptive" during the three-hour journey, which departed Edinburgh at 10:40 on Thursday.
The airline said that the men had been removed and then detained by officers on arrival at the Spanish airport.
They added that the aircraft had landed normally.
In a statement, Ryanair said: "The crew of this flight from Edinburgh to Alicante requested police assistance upon landing in Alicante, after four passengers became disruptive in-flight.
"The aircraft landed normally and the individuals were removed and detained by police in Alicante.
"We will not tolerate unruly or disruptive behaviour at any time and the safety and comfort of our customers, crew and aircraft is our number one priority. This is now a matter for local police."
59-year-old Liam Adams had challenged a guilty verdict over a string of sexual assaults on his daughter Aine.
Adams, formerly of Bernagh Drive in Belfast, is serving a 16-year prison sentence for the offences.
A judge said the court had not been persuaded that the verdict of the jury was unsafe and dismissed the appeal.
That included all grounds of challenge, including claims about pre-trial publicity, lies and inconsistent evidence.
Liam Adams' abuse of his daughter was said to have been committed over a six-year period between 1977 and 1982.
Aine, who waived her right to anonymity, was between four and nine at the time.
Adams consistently denied the allegations throughout a second trial at Belfast Crown Court in 2013.
A jury of nine men and three women found him guilty of 10 offences against his daughter: three charges of rape, four counts of indecent assault and a further three counts of gross indecency.
Dismissed argument
Liam Adams' legal team went before the Court of Appeal to argue that those jurors were not properly directed on how to deal with widespread publicity in the case.
They claimed the level of press, television, radio and online coverage on both sides of the Irish border even before he went on trial turned his case into a national issue.
According to counsel for the appellant, a television documentary sparked widespread media attention.
The court also heard how Gerry Adams had revealed in an interview that his father subjected family members to sexual abuse.
Giving evidence as a prosecution witness at the first trial, the Sinn Féin president claimed his brother confessed to him that he had "molested" his daughter.
Counsel for Liam Adams contended that any jury member would have heard about the case and her client's earlier battle against being extradited from the Republic of Ireland by the time of the second trial in September 2013.
But judges rejected submissions that it put the safety of the conviction into doubt.
Liam Adams appeared by a prison video-link and his wife Bronagh and other relatives gathered in the public gallery.
None of them showed any emotion as all other grounds of challenge were thrown out.
It had been contended that guidance to the jury may have wrongly shifted the burden onto Adams to prove he was innocent.
A further criticism was levelled at the advice given on how to deal with the reliability of the alleged victim's account.
But the judges dismissed every argument, including claims that the defendant's case was not properly put to the jury.
|
A new pedestrian and cycle bridge, which would cross the Clyde to connect Govan and Partick, is being planned.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Jonah Lomu, thought to be one of New Zealand's greatest rugby players of all time, has died aged 40.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Britain's Chris Froome maintained an 11-second lead in Vuelta a Espana as Slovenian Matej Mohoric produced a brilliant break to win stage seven.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is free to travel again after authorities returned his passport after more than four years.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The number of young people in the UK seeking help for anxiety has increased sharply, a children's charity has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Our voices are amazing things.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Leicester City earned their first away point in the Premier League this season as Ahmed Musa levelled to secure a deserved draw for the defending champions at Tottenham.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A senior druid has vowed to seek a judicial review over a government decision allowing ancient human remains from Stonehenge to be kept in a museum.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Lancashire centre which provides services for disabled people faces possible closure after allegations of "financial irregularities".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A "reckless" driver has been captured travelling along a motorway in Manchester with the car windscreen almost entirely covered by snow.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Shetland pony rescued from a swollen river has been reunited with the friend it was trying to follow at the time.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A new rail franchise combining the current InterCity West Coast main line with HS2 high-speed services has been announced by the government.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Each day we feature a photograph sent in from across England.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Senegal and the African Union have signed an agreement to set up a special tribunal to try Chad's former leader Hissene Habre.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A US grand jury will be asked to decide whether to prosecute a New York police officer over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in Brooklyn.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Everton survived a major League Cup scare at Barnsley with two goals in extra time goal sending them through.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Andy Burnham is pledging to replace tuition fees with a "graduate tax" if he becomes Labour leader.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 21-year-old man who went missing after a night out in Swansea has been described as a "real gentleman".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Swansea's Gylfi Sigurdsson has been valued at £50m, Everton have spent £90m and Manchester United bought Romelu Lukaku for £75m - so is Newcastle boss Rafael Benitez right to call this summer's transfer window "a little bit crazy"?
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former All-Blacks fly-half Nick Evans is to retire at the end of the season, once his commitments with Premiership side Harlequins come to an end.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A human skull found on the coast near Bristol earlier this year is probably "hundreds of years old", police have said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Celtic eased past Albion Rovers at Excelsior Stadium and into the fifth round of the Scottish Cup.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Australia's departure for their tour of Bangladesh has been delayed because of "safety and security" concerns.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci is adapting a new version of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield for the big screen.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Pakistani student has said he was abducted and badly beaten by hardline Islamist students after posting tweets in support of five liberal bloggers who have gone missing.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Indian government has launched a major welfare scheme for pregnant women and breast-feeding mothers.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Luton Town boss Nathan Jones has said he was "very surprised" Carlisle United defender Michael Raynes' red card from Saturday's game was overturned.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two forklifts, each valued at about £50,000, have been stolen from a yard in Brechin in Angus.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Victoria Pendleton has been lined up to compete on a leading contender at the Cheltenham Festival.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith both walked away with two prizes at this year's Brit Awards.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tom Westley starred as Essex clinched a first One-Day Cup win of the season by beating Hampshire by 25 runs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Four passengers have been arrested by Spanish police after a disturbance on board a Ryanair flight from Edinburgh to Alicante.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A bid by Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams' brother to overturn convictions for raping his own daughter has failed at Belfast High Court.
| 39,065,796 | 16,044 | 1,008 | true |
A jack-knifed lorry on the A8 westbound at Newhouse in North Lanarkshire caused delays earlier but has now been cleared.
Visibility was poor on parts of the M74 through Lanarkshire and Glasgow and there were reports of cars losing control on the M77.
Traffic Scotland urged motorists to take care.
It said the A702 near Penicuik in Midlothian had been closed between Flotterstone and Mauricewood after "multiple" small accidents in the wintry conditions.
Scotland Transerv, which is responsible for maintaining the roads in south west Scotland, said it had 32 gritters out overnight.
Speaking earlier from Traffic Scotland's control centre, Stein Connelly, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the picture on the roads was "improving".
He said: "We have had some really serious drops of snow, particularly across the central belt.
"We had 158 gritters out last night. We were planning for this. We work closely with the Met Office and throughout the morning we have been working with Police Scotland."
He added: "Don't be complacent. Plan your journey and give an extra bit of space between you and the car in front just to be on the safe side."
The Met Office had issued a yellow "be aware" warning for most of central and western Scotland, which was in place until 10:00.
Forecasters said it was not unusual to see snow at the start of spring.
On average, the UK experiences more days of snow falling in March than December, the Met Office added.
Check out the latest travel news for Scotland
For regular travel bulletins listen live to BBC Radio Scotland and follow @BBCTravelScot.
In times of severe disruption you can also follow the BBC Scotland severe weather Twitter list of key sources.
Below are a number of other traffic information sources.
|
Rush-hour drivers faced snowy conditions in parts of Scotland after wintry weather hit overnight.
| 39,336,645 | 400 | 20 | false |
Mark Moore is joining Uber's Elevate division as its director of engineering for aviation.
Uber's interest in flying cars was outlined in a White Paper in October, which discussed vertical take-off and landing on-demand (VTOL) aviation.
It welcomed Mr Moore's appointment, adding its wider role was as a catalyst to the "growing VTOL ecosystem".
Uber is already investing in self-driving cars, with partnerships with Volvo and Daimler.
In its White Paper, Uber said that on-demand aviation "has the potential to radically improve urban mobility, giving people back time lost in their daily commutes".
"Just as skyscrapers allowed cities to use limited land more efficiently, urban air transportation will use three-dimensional airspace to alleviate transportation congestion on the ground."
It envisaged a network of small, electric aircraft that would take off and land vertically.
Mr Moore explored a similar concept in a paper published while he was at Nasa.
He said that electric propulsion was a "potential game changing technology" for aircraft, adding that the only thing holding it back was current battery storage.
Slovakian company Aeromobil is one of several working on a prototype flying car, which it is aiming to commercialise this year.
|
A former Nasa engineer has been hired by taxi-hailing firm Uber to help its research into flying cars.
| 38,892,390 | 272 | 24 | false |
Davies, who was injured in last month's defeat by Southend, has scored 11 goals in 30 games this season.
And the 29-year-old believes his injury held up contract negotiations.
"It's something me and the manager have been talking about for a couple of weeks, and if it wasn't for my injury, we probably would have got the deal done sooner," he told the club website.
"I've been focusing on rehabilitating properly from that, then we got down to business to get the deal done.
"The injury came at a difficult time, so for the gaffer to still want to give me a new deal was great."
Guinea qualified for the tournament for locally based players for the first time after three failed attempts by eliminating Senegal.
Angola lost at home to South Africa in the second leg of their qualifier, but still managed to progress thanks to an aggregate victory.
Hosts Senegal came from behind against Guinea on Saturday to triumph 3-1, but went out on away goals after losing the first leg 2-0 last weekend.
Zambia, Gabon and Mali also booked places at the biennial tournament, which Rwanda hosts from 16 January to 7 February next year.
(Ties played over two legs, home and away, except in Northern Zone)
Goals from Aboubacar Mouctar Sylla and Aboubacar Iyanga Sylla gave Guinea a 2-0 first-leg advantage over Senegal a week ago in a game switched to Mali because of the Ebola epidemic.
That advantage stretched to three goals just three minutes into the return match on an artificial surface at Stade Demba Diop in Dakar when Aboubacar Bangoura scored.
Sylvain Badji triggered a Senegalese recovery with a 13th minute goal and a late second-half brace from Ibrahima Sory Keita set up a tense climax.
A makeshift South African side regained some pride after a two-goal first leg defeat by snatching a stoppage time victory over Angola in Luanda in their return leg, although Angola went through 3-2 on aggregate.
After Fabricio Mafuta conceded an own goal, the hosts levelled before half-time when 'Gelson' - or Jacinto Muondo Dala - punished slack marking to fire past goalkeeper Wayne Sandilands.
Lyle Lakay scored the second leg winner six minutes into additional time off a fiercely-struck free kick that went in off the woodwork.
South African clubs refused to release national stars as CHAN matches are not staged on Fifa international dates, forcing coach Thabo Senong to pick out-of-favour first and second division footballers.
Gatoch Panom was a two-goal hero for Ethiopia as they came back from a 2-0 first leg deficit against Burundi to win 3-0 in Addis Ababa.
The midfielder scored twice within seven minutes to help Ethiopia go through 3-2 on aggregate.
Zambia booked their place in Rwanda with a 1-1 draw in Mozambique, giving Chipolopolo a 4-1 win on aggregate.
Festus Mbewe put Zambia ahead in the second leg, with Momed Hagi hitting a late consolation for the hosts from the penalty spot.
Gabon losing 1-0 to Chad in Libreville was a shock after they built a comfortable first-leg advantage in N'Djamena, although Gabon went through 2-1 overall.
Nassor Ndiguem scored on 70 minutes for the Chadians, but the visitors failed to strike again and force the tie into a penalty shootout.
Nigeria drew 0-0 away to Burkina Faso, but it was enough for the Super Eagles to go through 2-0 on aggregate.
Mali made the perfect start in Nouakchott with Moussa Bakayoko scoring five minutes into the opening half to cancel the 'away' goal Mauritania brought back from Bamako.
Mama Niass equalised on the stroke of half-time and a goalless second half gave the visitors overall success.
Democratic Republic of Congo, Morocco and Tunisia have also qualified and Rwanda are automatic entrants as hosts.
Two other second legs have been delayed until next week because of presidential elections in Ivory Coast and a presidency-related referendum in Congo Brazzaville.
Media playback is not supported on this device
The pair led for much of the race but were beaten to the gold medal by Poland's Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozlowska and Natalia Madaj, who won by 0.95 seconds, with Lithuania in third.
Grainger, 40, won gold in London after silvers in Sydney, Athens and Beijing.
The Scot and Welsh rower Thornley, 28, were not in the initial GB squad.
Their partnership was dissolved after they failed to make the podium at this year's European Championships.
They both tested for the women's eight but fell short of their team-mates' times and were made to wait before being confirmed in the squad for the double.
"I don't think anything could eclipse London because of everything that surrounded it," she said.
"But I remember at the start of this campaign feeling that if I could come out with anything, a medal of any kind, it would probably be my greatest achievement," said Grainger.
Thornley added: "I have been dreaming of winning an Olympic medal since I started rowing and so many times I was not sure it would ever happen.
"I had to find the right race with the right person and today was that race."
After winning gold in London with Anna Watkins, Grainger opted to have a two-year sabbatical before returning in September 2014.
Find out how to get into rowing with our special guide.
She and Thornley led by 0.64 seconds at the halfway mark of Thursday's final but the Poles powered through to win in seven minutes and 40.10 seconds.
Grainger's silver takes her past swimmer Rebecca Adlington's four Olympic medals, and level with tennis player Kitty Godfrey (nee McKane).
Godfrey, a seven-time major champion, won five Olympic medals in the 1920s, one gold, two silver and two bronze.
Four-time Olympic champion Matthew Pinsent: "Brilliant brilliant brilliant. One of the most amazing @TeamGB stories this year. Thornley/Grainger silver."
London 2012 gold medallist Alex Gregory: "Oh wow Katherine & @VickyThornleyGB just brilliant!"
Rower Polly Swann: "So incredibly happy for @VickyThornleyGB and Katherine. What a result!! Well done girls."
Five-time Olympic rowing champion Sir Steve Redgrave: "There were a lot of doubters and I was probably one of them. They just hadn't shown form like that. They believed in themselves and had the strength of mind to believe they could do it.
"They haven't trained as long as they had to walk away with silver but there was a doubt they would make the final.
"We all would have loved them to have won the gold but as I said to Katherine, that's the best medal she's ever won, because of everything that has happened around it.
"What she has done for the sport, for women's sport, is incredible. I am immensely proud of her.
"If you've had two years out, that is so tough to come back in an endurance sport."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.
The Belarusian was defeated in three sets by Serena Williams in Tuesday's Wimbledon quarter-final and faced post-match questions over her noise levels.
"I'm tired of these questions," she said. "It's annoying as guys grunt.
"I was practising next to Nadal and he grunts louder than me and nobody noticed it. Look at the good stuff."
Azarenka lost 3-6 6-2 6-3 in a high-quality match in front of 15,000 spectators on Centre Court and claimed the focus should have been on the standard of play rather than the noise levels.
She added: "Maybe it is time to put it aside and not talk about it all the time because this is not what is important when there are two players playing on Centre Court.
"Stop bringing up this ridiculous stuff. Let's put aside the noise, how she looks and look at the game. The game proved itself today."
Denmark's former world number one Caroline Wozniacki has recently raised the issue of sexism in the game, claiming women do not receive as many opportunities as men to play on Wimbledon's show courts.
"I would love to play on a big court," said Wozniacki. "The women really haven't gotten the opportunity here to play on the big courts. You only get one women's match on Court One and Centre Court.
"It's definitely different, that's all I can say. I think a lot of us women feel like we deserve to play on the big courts in front of a big crowd, as well."
Meanwhile, Williams' next opponent, Maria Sharapova, also deflected questions about her grunting during her victory over Coco Vandeweghe of the USA.
"I don't say anything. Do I have to?" said the Russian. "I have nothing to say. It's nothing new. It's not a new question."
Vandeweghe said afterwards that the noise from her opponent "didn't bother me whatsoever", but she did accuse her opponent of unsporting behaviour, claiming Sharapova had tried to put her off while she served.
"What I experienced, what I felt from her moving around in between my serving motion was not, I don't think, sportsmanlike," Vandeweghe said.
"She said she didn't believe she was doing it during the motion. I strongly disagreed."
Sharapova refused to be drawn on the accusations. "It is what it is," the 2004 Wimbledon champion said. "What she said, I'm not going to argue against her words."
Victory moved Accies five points clear of Kilmarnock who occupy 11th place with just eight games remaining.
"Today we've got three points which is a huge three points," said Canning.
"When you start looking to see how many points ahead you are, you start taking your eye off the most important thing which is the 90-minute performance."
It was Hamilton's first win in their last five league games and was timely with Kilmarnock losing against Aberdeen.
"We're fully focused on trying to win as many games as possible and whatever will be will be," continued Canning.
"At this stage of the season it's about points and performances kind of go out of the window.
"Inverness obviously put us under a lot of pressure. Defensively I thought we were reasonably solid. We changed the shape and went to five at the back to give us the extra man there.
"I don't think Michael McGovern has had many saves to make albeit we've been put under a lot of pressure, which means the guys in front of him have been doing their job."
Inverness CT manager John Hughes admitted a top-six finish may be beyond his side with them now five points adrift of sixth place.
Hughes told BBC Scotland: "We need to get back winning games.
"I trust these boys. We've had some strong characters missing.
"The same guys are going back to the well all the time. We need two or three back to take the weight off them."
Hughes felt his side were second best initially but came into the game strongly as time wore on with luck eluding his side when it counted.
He said: "I felt Hamilton maybe shaded it in the first 20 minutes. We had good strikes but you need to work the goalkeeper. Over the bar doesn't score you a goal.
"Second half it was all Inverness and they break on us and the ball ends up in the bottom corner in off the post.
"That's where were at right at this moment in time - us not getting the rub of the green."
Gloucester Services, Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital and Stanbrook Abbey near York were three of 46 projects named on the 2016 Riba National Awards list.
The eclectic list includes a London museum and an Essex housing estate.
A "shimmering stainless steel library" in Oxford, designed by the late Dame Zaha Hadid's firm, also made the list.
The Sir John Soane Museum in Holborn, central London, is one of several cultural spaces honoured, alongside York Art Gallery, Manchester's HOME and the Portland Collection in Nottinghamshire.
Eleven higher and further education buildings and four schools received the accolade, including the Bob Champion Research and Education Building in Norwich, Poole's Drawing Studio, Davenies School in Buckinghamshire and the City of Glasgow College.
The Scottish college was one of only four non-English projects honoured, the other being a house in Edinburgh, a research building in Glasgow and a health centre in County Down.
Riba president Jane Duncan said huge investment in education was this year's "stand-out trend".
"It is encouraging to see so much emphasis placed on the power of architecture to help institutions to attract students and stand out from the mediocre," she said.
She also praised the "strong selection of new housing developments" on the list.
"Too often we see projects which have cut corners in quality, which fails the people these new homes are meant to serve.
"I hope these achievements in housing inspire other developers."
Mae'r tri undeb yn dweud bod problemau yn deillio o'r cynnig ond mai dyma'r "unig ffordd gredadwy ac ymarferol i sicrhau dyfodol."
Mae'r cytundebau ar newid i'r pensiynau yn cael eu gweld yn hanfodol ar gyfer buddsoddiad gwerth biliwn o bunnau ym Mhort Talbot yn ystod y ddeg mlynedd nesaf.
Mae disgwyl pleidlais ar y cynnig presennol ddydd Llun.
Yn y gorffennol mae'r undebau wedi bod yn dweud mai penderfyniad personol i'r gweithwyr oedd y pensiwn.
Ddydd Iau nododd datganiad ar y cyd gan undebau Unite, GMB a Community nad penderfyniad ysgafn oedd yr argymhelliad newydd.
"Does neb yn dweud bod y cynnig heb ei broblemau. Rydym yn deall pryderon yr aelodau, yn enwedig ynghylch cynllun pensiwn Dur Prydain (BSPS).
"Ond dyma'r casgliad yr ydym wedi dod iddo ar y cyd - mae ein penderfyniad wedi cael cefnogaeth arbenigwyr ariannol - hyd y gwelwn ni dyma'r ffordd orau i sicrhau dyfodol."
Cafodd yr ymgynghoriad ar newidiadau i'r pensiwn eu cyhoeddi ym mis Rhagfyr gyda'r bwriad i osgoi diswyddo gorfodol am bum mlynedd. Hyderir hefyd y bydd y newid yn creu buddsoddiad am gyfnod o ddeg mlynedd.
Mae'r cynlluniau newydd yn golygu na fydd cyfanswm Tata at y pensiwn yn fwy na 10% ac ni fydd hawl gan y gweithwyr gyfrannu mwy na 6%.
Roedd y cynnig gwreiddiol yn cynnwys cynllun pensiwn newydd gyda chyfraniadau o 3% yn unig gan Tata a 3% gan y gweithwyr.
The cultural nights out for canines are organised by the five-star Park Hyatt Vienna, which allows people to check in with their dogs or cats, and aims to be as pet-friendly as possible.
If a guest wants a night out in the Austrian capital without his or her dog, but doesn't want the pooch to get lonely on its own in the hotel room, staff can step in.
In addition to the more usual requests for dogs to be walked, the hotel can arrange for an employee to take the animal to the theatre.
"If the pet wants to go to the opera by himself we will arrange their ticket if the opera allows it," says the hotel's general manager Monique Dekker.
"If he loves Madam Butterfly, then please go ahead."
Meanwhile, other guests with a dog once asked the hotel to arrange some exclusive transport just for their pet.
"We have had one dog that has been transferred by a limo because the guests were somewhere else, and they suddenly wanted their four-legged friend to come to where they were. For us the sky is the limit," says Ms Dekker.
While most pet-friendly hotels don't go to quite the levels of the Park Hyatt Vienna, it is in fact indicative of the big growth in recent years in the number of hotels that allow people to check in with their dogs, cats or other animals.
Bookings website Hotels.com says: "We have witnessed a huge increase in demand for pet-friendly hotels, and guests wanting to travel with their animals.
"Demand is growing year-on-year, with a large proportion of hotels across the globe now not only accommodating for pets, but also advertising this key feature."
Hotels.com says that a quarter of the 325,000 hotels it now lists around the world allow people to check in with their pets.
For most pet-friendly hotels, guests wishing to bring their pets with them have to pay an initial surcharge. For instance, the Park Hyatt Vienna's "Very Important Dog" programme costs €35 ($40; £27). Food and other services, such as dog walking or sitting, or a trip to the opera, are then charged on top.
The Milestone Hotel in central London has its own "pet concierge".
Georgia Wood, who holds the role, says the hotel does all it can to "make sure the pets have just as great a stay here as the guests".
She adds: "We send a pet preference form prior to someone's arrival, and I'll just ask for the breed of the dog, the size of the dog, if there are certain things the dog likes to eat.
"When we have this information, we can then, prior to your arrival, set up the room, set up the dog bed."
In addition to offering dog-sitting and walking, the Milestone has an extensive menu for dogs and cats, which can be ordered as room service 24 hours a day.
Dishes include "Woof Waffles" (two grilled potato waffles with a large Cumberland sausage, £5.50), and "Meaty Muncher" (chunks of steak in gravy, served with creamed mashed potatoes, £7.50).
Ms Wood says that the hotel hosts three or four pets in an average week. Mostly these are cats and dogs, but occasionally a guest will bring other animals, such as parrots and rabbits.
If a guest does arrive with a pet, they had better be sure that the animal is well behaved, because the Milestone - which is full of antique furniture - takes a £1,000 returnable deposit in case of any damages.
Christine Fulton, head housekeeper at the Chesterfield Mayfair Hotel in central London, says hotels that allow pets are generally much more welcoming. "It makes the hotel feel like a home," she says.
"Our team enjoy the novelty of having pets at the hotel, whether it is walking the dogs or babysitting animals while their owners enjoy time in London.
"Many of our staff are unable to keep a pet for various reasons, and this gives them a chance to have the companionship of an animal for a while."
Nadine Kayser, founder of dogs charity Wild at Heart Foundation, regularly travels throughout Europe with her husband and two rescue dogs Bally, a Romanian shepherd-mix, and Ivy, a Rottweiler-Labrador cross.
"The most important question we always ask is: do they allow dogs?" she says.
"Some allow them in certain parts of the hotel, which is fine for us, as long as they can sleep in the same room."
Back in Vienna, Simone Dulies, the general manager of the pet-friendly Hotel Bristol, takes her dog Brix, to work with her every day.
She says it isn't enough for hotels to tolerate pets, they have to make them feel genuinely welcome.
"[The welcome for pets] needs to be honest, otherwise you see it as just a bit of marketing," she says.
"My dog is like my baby, so if a hotel is nice to my dog, the same as it should be to a mum with her kids, then that's some major brownie points from me."
Paddy Mullan, from Londonderry, is in the French city on holiday with his girlfriend.
They were on the Promenade des Anglais when they saw the truck approaching.
"This lorry just mounted the kerb across the street from us, and the next thing all you could hear was banging and shouting and screaming," he said.
He said he had "never seen" such fear.
"There was a lot of panic at one stage because we were right in the mix when all this was happening," Mr Mullan told BBC Radio Foyle.
"There was a lot of confusion, misdirection, because we didn't know what exactly was happening, why it was happening."
The attack coincided with Bastille Day, a national holiday in France, and thousands of people had gathered on the streets to watch a fireworks display.
The couple had been in a nearby restaurant on the last night of their holiday, before going out onto the promenade to watch the fireworks.
As they walked back towards the restaurant, Mr Mullan said the truck "came out of nowhere" and started "ploughing" into the crowd.
"There were people running up, screaming and coming into the restaurant trying to get away, so we didn't know what it was.
"We didn't know if it was people on the ground shooting or if there was a bomb, or what was going on - we were just trying to get away."
Mr Mullan and his girlfriend then "bailed out" of the restaurant through a side exit and went through barriers into an apartment complex behind the building.
"We were pushing all the buzzers to try and get into the apartment blocks," he said. "Eventually we got in."
He said there were many others in the same building and lots of confusion but, after a while, a woman who spoke English explained to the couple what had happened.
"We were just desperately trying to get back to our apartment," he said.
"I've never seen fear like it in all my life and probably never will again."
Northern Ireland woman Laura McGarrity was at the beach when the attack happened.
"It was absolutely terrifying," she said.
"Hundreds of people were trying to scurry off the beach and run home not really knowing what had occurred."
But she said the attacks will not stop her from staying in the French city for the rest of her holiday.
Paul Sheridan, the principal of Model Primary School in Derry, watched the Bastille Day fireworks from further along the coast on Thursday night.
He visits Nice on holiday every summer and said the mood on Friday in the wake of the attack was one of "shock and sadness".
"Nice has always been synonymous with sunshine and sound, full of people and buskers on the promenade," he said.
"But today it was very noticeable how few people there were - it was silent.
"At one of the shopping centres there were security guards at the door checking bags - it felt like years ago in Belfast."
The revelation came during the trial of Hasan Bal, 25, who is charged with providing funding for a foreign terror group.
Mr Bal was refused bail when he made his second appearance before Waterford District Court on Tuesday.
Police objected to bail because of the seriousness of the offences.
They also said the accused was a flight risk.
Det Sgt Donal Donohoe told the court: "He no longer has a permanent address in this country."
He also said that, as part of the investigation, police made inquiries "through Interpol and other police forces, primarily the London Metropolitan Police and the FBI".
Mr Bal is charged with providing funding for a foreign terrorist group on 2 October 2015, and attempting to collect funding for a foreign terrorist group on 23 October 2015.
Mr Bal's solicitor Ken Cunningham said the accused's mother was willing to stand bail for him and allow him to live in her home.
Mr Bal's mother, Dr Caroline Ward-Fahy, said it was "very shocking" to be in this situation.
Insp Tony Lonergan asked her how she proposed to ensure, if her son was granted bail, that he would comply with his bail conditions.
"Since my son was born, when I tell him to do something, he will do it," she said. "He will do that as his duty to God because his mother is a very important part of his faith."
Judge Kevin Staunton said he had no doubt Dr Ward-Fahy was a genuine witness and a believable person, and said he accepted she was "shocked by the turn of events that has led her here".
He said he was "influenced greatly" by Det Sgt Donohoe's evidence about Mr Bal being a flight risk.
Judge Staunton refused bail and remanded Mr Bal in custody, to appear again in the district court on 9 May.
The blaze broke out in Queens Road in Somersham, Cambridgeshire, at about 20:00 BST on Monday.
The two people died at the scene, police said. Neighbouring houses were evacuated as the firefighters spent about three hours tackling the blaze.
Police said they were not treating the fire as suspicious. The cause is not yet known and the fire service is continuing its investigation.
More on this and other news from Cambridgeshire
Italian midfielder Bianchi, 25, joins on a four-year deal from Serie A side Sassuolo and spent last season on loan with Modena in Serie B.
"He can play on the left, right or in the number 10 position and he can score goals," said Leeds boss Dave Hockaday.
Senegal striker Doukara, 22, has arrived from Italian club Catania.
He was on loan with Serie B's Juve Stabia last season, scoring six goals in 20 appearances.
"He is a big, powerful and fast player with a hunger to succeed," added Hockaday. "He is exactly what we need at the club."
The Championship club's tally of signings this summer is now four following the arrivals of goalkeepers Marco Silvestri and Stuart Taylor.
The latest transfers come after Scotland international striker Ross McCormack left Leeds to join Fulham for an undisclosed fee, believed to be £11m.
Mr Thomas Moley, 49, of Cullaville Road in Crossmaglen, pleaded guilty to the charges at Newry Magistrates' Court.
He was given two three-month sentences, suspended for 18 months.
Approximately four tonnes of fuel laundering waste was found alongside a laundering plant during an inspection at premises he owned with his wife.
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency and the PSNI carried out the inspection on 15 July 2014, along with HM Revenue and Customs, which removed the majority of the material.
But a quantity of mixed controlled waste had also been left there, despite the site having no licence or authorisation to store, keep or treat waste.
Mr Moley was ordered to remove the waste from the premises in accordance with legislation, but failed to do so.
The judge ordered him to pay costs of £393.60 and his suspended sentences will run concurrently.
A survey of motorists suggests they will be more likely to buy polluting cars following a Budget change.
Environment groups say in a letter to the prime minister this is one of many recent changes to taxes and incentives that will push up CO2 emissions.
The government said it aimed to keep its promises on cutting CO2.
However, it added that energy policy urgently needed revision.
The AA and the green groups are disturbed by a welter of announcements in past weeks on the environment and energy.
In his Budget, Chancellor George Osborne announced that the nil Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) band for clean petrol cars would be restricted in future to electric vehicles.
This removes a tax break for clean petrol cars and hybrids, which will from 2017 attract the same VED as gas guzzlers.
The AA president Edmund King told BBC News: “If the government is serious about trying to get motorists to drive cleaner greener cars, this is really counter-productive.
“Drivers will not be given the same incentive to go for cleaner (petrol or hybrid) cars so there won’t be the same pressure on manufacturers to produce those cleaner models. We seem to be getting rid of an incentive that worked very well.”
The AA’s poll suggested 59% of drivers thought the VED changes penalised low-CO2 cars. A Treasury spokesman said the VED change would incentivise the very cleanest zero emissions vehicles.
The environment groups, meanwhile, are reeling from a slew of about a dozen policy shifts which experts say are likely to drive up CO2 emissions.
The government will cut subsidies to onshore wind, commercial solar power, and industrial biomass burning. It has scrapped the ailing Green Deal insulation scheme without a replacement, delayed a mandate for Zero Carbon homes, and reduced a tax on pollution. It has also imposed a carbon tax – the Climate Change Levy – on the very renewable industry it was designed to promote.
Some green campaigners say these initiatives and others comprise the biggest reversal of environmental policies in memory.
Energy Secretary Amber Rudd recently said the government would keep its commitments on climate change, but more efficiently.
“My priorities are clear. We need to keep bills as low as possible for hardworking families and businesses while reducing our emissions in the most cost-effective way.
“Our support has driven down the cost of renewable energy significantly. As costs continue to fall it becomes easier for parts of the renewables industry to survive without subsidies.”
A government source subsequently told us ministers had not calculated the likely cumulative effect of policy changes on the UK’s ability to meet its climate change laws.
In a public letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, the UK’s leading environmental groups said: “We welcomed the Conservative manifesto commitment to ‘being the first generation to leave the natural environment of England in a better state than that in which we found it’.
“Unfortunately, 10 green policies which could have helped you to achieve these goals have been cancelled or weakened.
“These policies were developed over many years, often with cross-party backing and the support and involvement of many businesses. Only one of these decisions, to end subsidies for onshore wind, was a commitment from your manifesto.”
Conservative-supporting newspapers have been calling for the reductions in subsidies for technologies like solar. A recent Telegraph editorial said: “The critics often talk about an environmentally sustainable energy regime, but overlook the fact the system must be fiscally sustainable too. Efficiency schemes, like renewable generators, will never be sustainable if they depend on public money.”
But firms in the clean energy sector are furious at the suddenness and extent of the proposed changes in taxes and incentives.
Adrian Scholtz from the consultancy KPMG told BBC News: “The truth is that some of the subsidies have been too high in the past. The government should have started tapering out subsidies a few years ago.
“But a technology like solar has been a great success. It’s made 70% gains in efficiency in the past few years, helped by subsidies. It’s likely to make 35% or more improvements to 2020. Soon it will be able to compete without subsidy – but if the government stops the subsidy now it will just kill the industry.”
The subsidy reductions stretch across most renewable energies, and a government source suggest more cuts are on the way for domestic solar power and renewable heating.
The waste firm Veolia have been hit by a de facto subsidy cut for the electricity they generate from landfill gas. They say they have invested around £10 million in new equipment on the promise of a subsidy through to 2023. This month they were told that subsidy would end in August.
Veolia’s Richard Kirkman told BBC News: “We are very angry that the government has made a U-turn on subsidies agreed until 2023 with just one month’s notice. This isn’t a way to run a government and give business the confidence to invest.
“There’s tens of thousands of jobs at stake in this sector – business can’t continue to invest if it doesn’t know where the government is going on policy.” He said the impact on household bills of renewables policies had been exaggerated.
The government has promised a “reset” of energy policy in the autumn. Analysts say there’s so much confusion over details it is impossible yet to predict the exact effect of changes on CO2 emissions – but that at first sight all the changes are likely to be negative.
They are very concerned about the prospect of major cuts to the energy efficiency budget – which, they say, offers the cheapest route to tackling climate change and energy security.
Friends of the Earth say they suspect that the chancellor has been persuaded by the “luke-warmer” analysis suggesting that climate change may not require urgent action. The Treasury spokesman said the Chancellor supported the policy outlined by Amber Rudd.
When pressed on the question of his attitude to "lukewarmism", a spokesman said it wasn't something the Treasury could provide.
Follow Roger on Twitter.
Media playback is not supported on this device
There was almost a sense of disbelief around the Stade de France at the break as the host nation walked off with a 4-0 advantage, two of the goals coming in the closing minutes of the half.
Olivier Giroud's low strike and Paul Pogba's powerful header from a corner had settled early French nerves and put their side in control.
Dimitri Payet scored his third goal of an increasingly memorable tournament for the West Ham playmaker with a precise low strike from 20 yards that skidded across the greasy surface before Antoine Griezmann deftly lifted the ball over Iceland goalkeeper Hannes Halldorsson.
After the restart Kolbeinn Sigthorsson stabbed home at the near post from Gylfi Sigurdsson's cross as Iceland refused to give in before France restored their four-goal advantage when Giroud headed in a free-kick.
Still, there was more to cheer for the excellent Iceland fans when Birkir Bjarnason headed a second for his side in the final stages of what has been a remarkable tournament debut for their team.
Didier Deschamps' side had only conceded twice in the tournament before meeting Iceland - both penalties - but they had not scored in the opening half of a match and only really shown in flashes that they can reproduce on the pitch the ability they appear to have on paper.
That changed at a wet but atmospheric Stade de France on Sunday.
Griezmann had not scored in 648 minutes of football for France at this ground but he ended that with his composed, delicate finish.
In some ways the goal was everything that was best about France; a patient 14-pass move that ended with a moment of invention to open up the opposition. A raking ball forward was superbly dummied by Giroud, completely bamboozling the Iceland defence and giving Griezmann a clear run at goal.
The goal took Griezmann to four in the tournament and he is now the highest scorer at Euro 2016, with Payet and Giroud among several players one behind.
But even though France were very comfortable winners, it was far from a flawless performance.
Iceland created several decent chances - Jon Dadi Bodvarsson shot over from a good position in the first half and Hugo Lloris made a brilliant save to stop a Sverrir Ingason header after the restart - in addition to their two goals.
After defeating the Republic of Ireland and Iceland in the knockout stages, France will face a very different challenge against a German side with a lot more attacking capability.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Portugal skipper Cristiano Ronaldo rather sourly remarked that Iceland would "not go on to do anything" after their 1-1 draw at the start of the group stage. How wrong he was.
Their exploits at Euro 2016 have not only done wonders for spreading the word about Iceland's modest population (329,000 in case you had not heard) but captivated a nation and been one of the feel-good stories of a tournament that has desperately needed them.
They not only defied the odds by qualifying from the group stage - including a dramatic late winner against Austria - but also deservedly eliminated England in a match that they will surely never forget before running into a red-hot France.
Under the calm and steady joint stewardship of part-time dentist Heimir Hallgrimsson and former Sweden boss Lars Lagerback they showed what can be achieved through determination and organisation.
Even after they were on the wrong end of a 4-0 half-time scoreline against Les Blues, they showed the character and passion to 'win' the second half 2-1, cheered all the way by their magnificent fans, who gave the tournament the incredible hand clap.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Inventive, alert and always involved, the Atletico Madrid star buzzed along and just behind the front line and was at the heart of so many good things for the French.
Iceland striker Kolbeinn Sigthorsson: "Our defending didn't work out as we wanted, but it's not strange that we're tired after so many games with the same squad. We got back into it in the second half, we showed a lot of character to do that, and we're really happy that we won the second half."
Iceland captain Aron Gunnarsson: "We are disappointed but incredibly proud. It's been an amazing experience. A lot of hard work has gone into this and the fans have been fantastic.
"[Speaking after the final whistle] They are still singing, it's unbelievable. The French have all left. They are still here. It just shows what we put into this.
"The first half was terrible, we managed to play better after the break. We decided we could not leave like that. We will learn from this. We are just starting."
France midfielder Dimitri Payet: "We managed to score a lot of goals, we scored quickly compared to previous fixtures.
"We have a lot of quality going forward. This was our best performance. We worked all week on Iceland's strengths, we were aware of that."
France striker Olivier Giroud: "We're very pleased, we scored five goals. Although we did concede a couple, we had a lot of fun and are pleased with our performance. We're going to try to erase a few of these small defensive mistakes, because against Germany we'd pay a heavy price."
It was not the end they wanted but Iceland can nevertheless return home with a lifetime of memories and a whole heap of new friends. They can look forward to World Cup qualifying in a group that contains fellow Euro 2016 sides Ukraine, Turkey and Croatia.
France can look forward to that tasty semi-final against Germany in Marseille. The winner of that faces Wales or Portugal back at the Stade de France.
12: France are still unbeaten in games with Iceland (W9 D3 L0).
17: France have not lost in their last 17 major tournament games played on home soil, winning 15 and drawing two.
5: France have scored five headers at Euro 2016 - a record by a team in a single European Championship.
4: France are the first team to score four in the first half of a European Championship game.
10: Olivier Giroud has scored 10 goals in his last nine starts for France. He has netted seven goals in eight games for Les Blues in 2016.
5: Iceland attempted more shots on target in this game than all four of France's previous opponents at Euro 2016 combined (three).
5: Iceland became the first team in history to name an unchanged starting XI in their opening five games of a Euros.
1: Samuel Umtiti was the first outfield player to win his first cap for France in a major tournament since Gabriel de Michele at the 1966 World Cup. He ended with a 100% pass accuracy from 77 passes.
Match ends, France 5, Iceland 2.
Second Half ends, France 5, Iceland 2.
Corner, France. Conceded by Sverrir Ingi Ingason.
Attempt blocked. Antoine Griezmann (France) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by André-Pierre Gignac.
Paul Pogba (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alfred Finnbogason (Iceland).
Attempt missed. Sverrir Ingi Ingason (Iceland) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Iceland. Conceded by Bacary Sagna.
Corner, Iceland. Conceded by Eliaquim Mangala.
Attempt missed. Moussa Sissoko (France) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.
Attempt saved. Kingsley Coman (France) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.
Goal! France 5, Iceland 2. Birkir Bjarnason (Iceland) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ari Freyr Skúlason with a cross.
Substitution, Iceland. Eidur Gudjohnsen replaces Kolbeinn Sigthorsson.
Foul by Eliaquim Mangala (France).
Kolbeinn Sigthorsson (Iceland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, France. Kingsley Coman replaces Dimitri Payet.
André-Pierre Gignac (France) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Birkir Bjarnason (Iceland).
Attempt blocked. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Iceland) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ari Freyr Skúlason.
Paul Pogba (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alfred Finnbogason (Iceland).
Foul by Antoine Griezmann (France).
Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Samuel Umtiti (France) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Samuel Umtiti (France).
Johann Berg Gudmundsson (Iceland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Antoine Griezmann (France) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland).
Substitution, France. Eliaquim Mangala replaces Laurent Koscielny.
Corner, France. Conceded by Hannes Thór Halldórsson.
Foul by Paul Pogba (France).
Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Antoine Griezmann (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kolbeinn Sigthorsson (Iceland).
Bacary Sagna (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Johann Berg Gudmundsson (Iceland).
Attempt blocked. André-Pierre Gignac (France) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.
Corner, Iceland. Conceded by Hugo Lloris.
Attempt saved. Sverrir Ingi Ingason (Iceland) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson with a cross.
Corner, Iceland. Conceded by Bacary Sagna.
Residents and correspondents in the second city, Bouake, described calm on the streets - a day after troops briefly seized the defence minister.
The rebellion had spread from there to other cities, including the commercial hub, Abidjan, but that city, too, is now quiet.
A deal was struck between the mutinous soldiers and the government on Saturday, though details are scant.
A correspondent for AFP news agency in Bouake said on Sunday that there had been no firing there since Saturday evening.
"Traffic has resumed this morning and the shops have reopened."
Ivory Coast profile
The mutiny began in Bouake early on Friday with soldiers firing rocket-launchers. On Saturday soldiers took over the army headquarters in Abidjan.
Protests also took place in the cities of Man, Daloa, Daoukro, Odienne and Korhogo.
President Alassane Ouattara went on national TV on Saturday night to announce a deal.
"I confirm that I have agreed to take into account the demands of the soldiers over bonuses and better working conditions," he said. At the same time he criticised the rebellion.
Aside from better pay, the agreement is reported to include an amnesty for the mutineers.
Defence Minister Alain-Richard Donwahi - who had gone to Bouake to negotiate with the protesters - was held for two hours there late on Saturday.
The mutiny raised fears of a resurgence of the violence seen during Ivory Coast's 10-year civil war, which ended in 2011.
Some of the mutineers were thought to be former rebels who joined the army after the conflict.
The rebels swept into Abidjan from Bouake in 2011, helping Mr Ouattara take power after his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo - now on trial at the International Criminal Court - refused to accept defeat in elections the previous year.
England goalkeeper Joe Hart's dreadful blunder allowed Gareth Bale's 30-yard free-kick to creep in and put Wales ahead just before the interval in Lens.
Manager Roy Hodgson's side were jeered off at the break and with England's campaign - and arguably his future - on the line, he gambled by introducing Jamie Vardy and Sturridge for the struggling Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane.
The roll of the dice worked as Vardy scrambled in an equaliser from close range after 56 minutes before constant England pressure saw Sturridge work his way into the area and poke past keeper Wayne Hennessey at the near post.
England move top of Group B and need a point against Slovakia on Monday to earn automatic qualification into the last 16, while Wales must beat Russia to guarantee a top-two finish.
When England left the pitch at half-time accompanied by abuse from their own fans, everything was on the line in this Euro 2016 campaign.
England were facing a humiliating first defeat by Wales since 1984 and the pressure was on Hodgson as his own future would have been in jeopardy if he and his team had made an ignominious exit from France.
He needed to be positive and inspirational, qualities his detractors have accused him of lacking in the past - but here it came off.
Out went Kane and Sterling and on came Sturridge and Vardy. It was all-out attack and the momentum shifted almost instantly as the second half was a tale of almost virtual England domination.
A different script might have been written had Sturridge not produced that late winner, but the bottom line is Hodgson's ploy worked.
It was not scientific - more a question of throwing everything at it and see what happens - but the desired result was achieved and England secured a win from a losing half-time position for the first time at a major tournament.
Hodgson gambled with England's Euro 2016 future and his own. Now he will hope the tournament is ignited for his team.
Wales had spent the week taunting England, light-heartedly at times, about a shortage of desire and passion, but Hodgson's side had the last word as Chris Coleman's players slumped to the turf in agony at the final whistle.
The fightback began instantly as Bale rallied around his desolate colleagues to form a huddle with captain Ashley Williams at the heart of it.
Williams addressed the team passionately and the main message will surely be that they are still right in Euro 2016 and this result, while damaging, is hardly fatal.
If Wales beat Russia in their final game, something they are eminently capable of doing, they will be in the knockout stages, a feat which can be regarded as a success in their first major tournament since 1958. Depending on England's final game, a draw might well suffice.
Wales were second best here, not offering enough attacking options around the world-class talent of Bale, but there is a resilience and unity about this team that serves it well.
They were outstanding defensively until that late twist. Their fate, however, remains in their own hands and this Wales team will not go quietly.
England escaped here - and they deserved the win - but this was not an entirely convincing performance and the first half was a wretched affair.
No wonder goalkeeper Hart ran the length of the field to join in the celebrations after Sturridge's winner because he was responsible for the anxiety that threatened to engulf England.
Is Bale now so deadly from free-kicks that he has a psychological edge even before he hits the ball?
Hart should have stopped Bale's powerful effort from distance, but the ball slipped through his hands as he dived full length to his left.
Hodgson must also decide what to do about Kane and Sterling, two players he defended from criticism after their performances in the draw against Russia.
Kane looks a jaded figure after a long season at Tottenham, while Sterling's confidence almost appears to be draining by the second. He missed an easy chance and felt the frustration of England's fans before he was taken off at half-time.
Hodgson must now surely find a system that incorporates Vardy and Sturridge from the start against Slovakia, presumably at the expense of Kane and Sterling.
For now, however, Hodgson can celebrate a victory that not only leaves England within sight of the last 16, but may well have saved his job.
England manager Roy Hodgson on his half-time team-talk: "We were doing OK but there were other aspects of our game which we could bring to the game.
"In the second half it was much more aggressive in terms of our attacking play. We were in a hair's breath so many times but it took until the 92nd minute.
"I have great empathy with Chris and the Welsh team because he must have been looking at a good draw. He will be today as I was on Saturday night."
Wales boss Chris Coleman: "A point for us would have been fantastic. Congrats to Roy - he made some good substitutions and we knew they would push us back.
"The guys showed great heart. They stuck into the game and, with 60 seconds remaining, to give up that point we worked so hard for, we are gutted.
"We are here to get through to the last 16. If you are from Wales, you always looked at this game because it is England, but for me it is the middle game of three. We have to show a reaction against Russia."
Match ends, England 2, Wales 1.
Second Half ends, England 2, Wales 1.
Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Wales) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Neil Taylor.
Goal! England 2, Wales 1. Daniel Sturridge (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.
Attempt missed. Gary Cahill (England) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Wayne Rooney with a cross following a corner.
Corner, England. Conceded by Ben Davies.
Attempt blocked. Kyle Walker (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Wayne Rooney.
Foul by Jamie Vardy (England).
Chris Gunter (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.
Corner, England. Conceded by Neil Taylor.
Foul by Kyle Walker (England).
Joe Allen (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Williams (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by David Edwards.
Attempt blocked. Wayne Rooney (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Daniel Sturridge.
Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Wales) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Neil Taylor with a cross.
Foul by Marcus Rashford (England).
Aaron Ramsey (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, England. Marcus Rashford replaces Adam Lallana.
Substitution, Wales. Jonathan Williams replaces Hal Robson-Kanu.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Sturridge (England) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Wales. David Edwards replaces Joe Ledley because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Daniel Sturridge (England) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Gary Cahill.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Joe Ledley (Wales) because of an injury.
Corner, Wales. Conceded by Jamie Vardy.
Corner, Wales. Conceded by Dele Alli.
Foul by Daniel Sturridge (England).
Joe Ledley (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Eric Dier (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Gary Cahill following a set piece situation.
Ben Davies (Wales) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Adam Lallana (England) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Davies (Wales).
Corner, England. Conceded by Ben Davies.
Attempt blocked. Adam Lallana (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Daniel Sturridge.
Goal! England 1, Wales 1. Jamie Vardy (England) right footed shot from very close range to the top right corner.
Kyle Walker (England) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Hal Robson-Kanu (Wales).
Corner, England. Conceded by Wayne Hennessey.
Attempt saved. Wayne Rooney (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.
Media playback is not supported on this device
The 25-year-old double Paralympic champion will be chasing her fourth consecutive world compound title.
This year, Brown won her first able-bodied British national title and competed at the World Championships.
"If I shoot to my ability I can come away with gold - but I can't be complacent," she told BBC Sport.
"It is a case of going there and making good shots and doing what I have been working on all year and hopefully everything will fall into place. It will be tough, but enjoyable as well.
"There is a lot of pressure on me as defending champion but not as much as there was in London. I wanted that gold so badly and I was so nervous when I was competing."
Brown's biggest challenge could come from team-mate Mel Clarke, who won silver in London, and the pair are part of a 10-strong GB team for the championships which also includes Beijing gold medallist John Stubbs, Richard Hennahane, Kenny Allen, Frank Maguire, John Cavanagh, Phillip Bottomley, Paul Browne and Sharon Vennard.
As well as the individual competition, Brown is hoping to team up with Stubbs in the mixed team competition which is now part of the Paralympic archery programme.
Brown, who has Complex Regional Pain Syndrome - which gives her chronic pain in her feet - admits that although the pain has an impact on her concentration, the sport helps her to focus on shooting her next arrow and not on her condition.
The Leicester University law graduate has already enjoyed a successful 2013. Her title at the ArcheryGB National Series finals in Nottingham was followed by a trip to Turkey as part of the GB team at the World Championships, where she missed out on a medal in the team compound event with Rikki Bingham and Andrea Gales after a play-off defeat by France.
However, Brown is hoping to use that experience in Thailand with qualifying starting on Saturday and the finals taking place on Thursday.
"Earlier this year we got a new head coach, Michael Peart, who changed my technique so it has been a frustrating year at times - but winning at the National Series gave me the confidence boost I needed for the Worlds," she said.
"To compete at my first able-bodied World Championships was amazing and I got to shoot on the finals field and I don't think I let myself down.
"I love competing and to have the chance to do that in able-bodied and Paralympic competition is great. But I never see myself as being disadvantaged by having a disability and I don't consider my disability when I am shooting.
"I'm focusing on what I can do rather than what I can't do. If I thought about what I can't do it would affect my life negatively."
Navinder Singh Sarao successfully argued he could not access bail of £5.05m because his assets had been frozen.
The US Justice Department (DoJ) wants him extradited on wire and commodities fraud and market manipulation charges.
He will return to his home for the first time since April.
The court forced him to disclose the whereabouts of his money and was told he had funds of more than £30m, £25.5m of it in Swiss accounts.
Mr Sarao told an earlier hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court that he had not "done anything wrong, apart from being good at my job".
The other bail conditions are that he must stay at his parents' address in Hounslow, west London, each night, and must not travel internationally or use the internet.
The court was also told that Mr Sarao had been diagnosed with severe Asperger's syndrome.
A full extradition hearing is scheduled for 24-25 September.
The DoJ claims that Mr Sarao and his firm, Nav Sarao Futures, made £26m ($40m) illegally over five years.
He has been accused of using an "automated trading program" to manipulate markets, and of contributing to the flash crash of 6 May 2010. On that day, the Dow Jones index lost 700 points in a matter of minutes - wiping about $800bn off the value of US shares - before recovering just as quickly.
He was granted bail in April. But one condition of bail was that he put up £5m - money which he could not access because of a worldwide freezing order granted in the US.
The announcement was made by a spokesman for the Popular Mobilisation (al-Hashid al-Shaabi), a force comprising dozens of Shia militias.
He said the operation would see government troops and militiamen move southwards from Salahuddin province and seek to cut off IS militants in Ramadi.
The provincial capital fell to IS this month after Iraq's army withdrew.
Since then government forces have been massing for a counter-attack in the western province, and they say they have regained some ground east of Ramadi in the past few days.
On Tuesday, fighting was reported south and west of Ramadi, as the Iraqi forces tried to cut off supply routes to the city.
The offensive has been welcomed by the Americans, with Vice-President Joe Biden pledging full US support, the BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus says.
But he adds that Washington remains uneasy about the prominent role of Shia fighters, many of whom are backed by Iran.
Separately, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius criticised the Iraqi government, saying Paris had joined a US-led coalition last year in carrying out air strikes against IS on the basis that Baghdad represented the interests of all groups in the country.
"There is no military solution without a political solution. In September, we linked the coalition's support to political commitments by the new Iraqi government, what we call an inclusive policy," Mr Fabius was quoted as saying by Reuters.
"This contract is what justified our military engagement and I say clearly here that it must be better respected," he added.
The Popular Mobilisation's spokesman, Ahmed al-Assadi, told a televised news conference that the operation to regain control of Anbar would be called "Labayk ya Hussein" ("At your service, O Hussein") - a reference to a revered Shia imam.
He said the operation would "not last for a long time" and that new weapons would be used in the battle that would "surprise the enemy".
Mr Assadi separately told the AFP news agency that a mix of security forces and paramilitaries would move into desert areas north-east of Ramadi, before encircling the city and preparing to retake it.
Islamic State is extremely good at public relations. It generates admiration and fear with each of the videos it issues - 360 within the last year, just about one a day.
The terror it generates through its gruesome execution videos does a great deal of its work for it. And people around the world believe that it is indeed carrying all before it.
By contrast, the Iraqi government has not been particularly effective at public relations. It has often been slow at telling people of its achievements, and foreign journalists in Baghdad sometimes have problems trying to find out what the forces are doing and how they are succeeding.
The result is that there has been real scepticism internationally about the Iraqi government's claims to be pushing IS back on almost all fronts.
Islamic State PR gloss masks Iraqi forces' gains
In an interview with the BBC on Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Ramadi might be recaptured "within days".
Mr Abadi also defended the decision of the 1,500 soldiers who had reportedly been stationed in the city to flee in the face of an assault by as few as 150 militants.
He explained that the soldiers had been fazed by Islamic State's shock tactics and did not lack the will to fight, as alleged by US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter.
"I am sure he [Mr Carter] was fed with the wrong information".
"They have the will to fight but when they are faced with an onslaught by [IS] from nowhere... with armoured trucks packed with explosives, the effect of them [being blown up] is like a small nuclear bomb - it gives a very, very bad effect on our forces," he added.
Fall of Ramadi a "defeat for American strategy"
IS seized parts of Ramadi, which is only 100km (60 miles) west of the capital Baghdad, along with the nearby city of Falluja and much of Anbar in January 2014.
The province - which is predominantly Sunni - covers a vast stretch of the country west from Baghdad to the Syrian border, and contains key roads that link Iraq to both Syria and Jordan.
The US had urged the government not to send Shia militias in Anbar in case they drove more of Anbar's Sunnis into supporting the jihadists.
But after IS took complete control of Ramadi, the Popular Mobilisation was deployed. On Saturday, it retook the town of Husayba, east of Ramadi.
Mr Abadi also told the BBC that the US-led coalition needed to help Iraq tighten control of its borders, as many IS fighters were slipping into the country from Syria.
In a separate development, Britain revealed on Tuesday that its Reaper drones had carried out successful air strikes on IS targets in Anbar between 22 May and 24 May.
The march is scheduled to take place on Sunday 7 August.
But the Parades Commission has banned it from passing the Lower Falls area.
The ruling follows trouble at last year's parade. The commission cited "deliberate breaches" of conditions for the 2015 parade and the "extremely high risks of public disorder" as reasons.
Three men and a woman were arrested after petrol bombs, stones and bottles were thrown at police after they stopped the parade entering Belfast city centre last year.
The Parades Commission said the group had not abided by parade conditions in the past and did not give enough assurances about this year's event.
However, the parade organisers said Irish republicans were being excluded from what should be a shared city centre space.
AIL spokesperson Gerard Fitzpatrick said: "We have absolutely no real explanation of why we cannot march into the city centre which is our city centre. We are told we live in a society of equals. Why can we not then march into our city centre?"
The parade's organisers expect to be in court for their challenge by the middle of next week.
Initial reports suggest the two-metre long object is very likely to be from a Boeing 777, Najib Razak said.
The Malaysia Airlines flight - a Boeing 777 - vanished while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014.
The search has focused on part of the southern Indian Ocean east of Reunion.
Oceanographer David Griffin, of Australia's national science agency, told the BBC that the location of the find was "consistent with where we think debris might have turned up".
There were 239 passengers and crew on board the plane when it went missing.
Mr Najib said French authorities were taking the debris to the southern French city of Toulouse - the site of the nearest office of the French body responsible for air accident investigations (the BEA) - to verify it as quickly as possible.
He said the location was consistent with drift analysis provided to Malaysian investigators.
"As soon as we have more information or any verification we will make it public. I promise the families of those lost that whatever happens, we will not give up."
Malaysia has sent a team of investigators and other officials to Toulouse and another team of experts to Reunion - a French overseas department.
Will this solve aviation mystery?
Aviation experts who have studied photos of the debris found on Reunion on Wednesday say it does resemble a flaperon - a moving part of the wing surface - from a Boeing 777.
All aircraft parts carry a serial number which should aid identification.
On Thursday, a municipal employee found what appeared to be part of a very badly damaged suitcase on the Reunion coast, according to local media (in French).
The item was found at Saint-Andre, the same location as the earlier debris, and by the same man.
A French police helicopter is now scouring waters around Reunion for other debris.
Search efforts for MH370, led by Australia, are focused on an area west of the Australian city of Perth - about 4,000km east of Reunion.
The Australian government has described the discovery of the wreckage as "a very significant development".
The wife of the in-flight supervisor for the missing plane, Jacquita Gonzales, told the BBC that she was "torn" by the news.
"A part of me hopes that it is [MH370] so that I could have some closure and bury my husband properly but the other part of me says 'No, no, no' because there is still hope," she told the BBC by phone.
Missing Malaysia plane: What we know
After MH370 disappeared from radar screens, experts analysed data from faint "pings" the aircraft sent to satellites to narrow down its possible location.
More than half of those on board the plane were Chinese citizens.
A spokesperson for China's foreign ministry said: "We have noticed the reports and are wasting no time in obtaining and checking the information."
A group of relatives of many of the Chinese passengers said in a statement that they wanted "100%" certainty about where the part is from, and that the search for the airliner should continue.
I am told that Boeing's engineers will be able to tell from the shape of the wreckage if it's from a 777 aircraft.
Second, it may have a data tag with a serial number. That will be directly traceable to MH370. Even if there isn't a tag, it should have a traceable manufacturer's stamp.
A very experienced investigator has told me it could have come off in a controlled ditching, where the pilot would have the flaps down and it would be vulnerable if it hit the sea. Equally it could have disintegrated at altitude.
Finally, there is some confusion over the serial number. Originally it was reported as BB670. Now it's suggested the number was BB657. According to the 777 maintenance manual that is the "right wing flaperon".
Follow Richard: @BBCwestcott
The tenacious deep-sea hunt for MH370
|
Rochdale striker Steven Davies has signed a one-year contract extension to keep him at the club until 2018.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Guinea and Angola caused the biggest shocks of the weekend so far as they qualified for the finals of the 2016 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Rwanda.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Katherine Grainger became Britain's most decorated female Olympian by taking silver alongside Victoria Thornley in the double sculls.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Victoria Azarenka has defended her on-court grunting and insists former men's champion Rafael Nadal is louder than her.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Hamilton Accies manager Martin Canning conceded that the 1-0 win over Inverness CT was a "huge result" in their fight to stay in the Premiership.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A grass-roofed children's hospital, an abbey, and a "tranquil" motorway services have been honoured by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Mae undebau wedi argymell gweithwyr Tata yn eu gweithfeydd dur yn y DU i bleidleisio o blaid cynnig fydd yn cynnwys newid i'w hamodau pensiwn.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
You may think it is barking mad, but in Vienna a hotel arranges for dogs to go to the opera without their owners.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Northern Ireland man who witnessed a truck crashing into a crowd in Nice, killing at least 84 people, has described the "panic" at the scene.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An Irish police investigation into the alleged funding of international terrorism involved the FBI, Met police and Interpol, a court has heard.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man and a woman have died in a house fire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Leeds United have signed Tommaso Bianchi on a permanent basis and Souleymane Doukara on a season-long loan.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A County Armagh man has been handed a £2,500 fine and given a suspended sentence for fuel laundering waste offences.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Automobile Association (AA) has joined green groups in warning that recent changes in energy policy will harm the climate.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
France scored five to bring a brutal end to the Iceland fairytale and set up an intriguing Euro 2016 semi-final against world champions Germany in Marseille on Thursday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A rebellion in Ivory Coast over soldiers' pay appears to have passed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Daniel Sturridge scored an injury-time winner as England came from behind to beat Wales and secure their first victory at Euro 2016.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Britain's Danielle Brown will be hoping to add to her list of honours at the World Para-archery Championships which start on Saturday in Thailand.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A UK trader accused of contributing to the 2010 US "flash crash" has been freed on bail after his conditions were changed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Pro-government forces in Iraq have formally launched an operation to drive Islamic State out of Anbar province.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The organisers of a republican anti-internment parade are to seek a judicial review of a ruling barring them from Belfast city centre.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Debris found on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is to be transported to France to find out whether it is from the missing flight MH370, Malaysia's prime minister has said.
| 39,045,308 | 16,268 | 744 | true |
Terri Spragg, 35, of Bettesworth Road, Ryde, Isle of Wight, was found guilty of seven counts of sexual activity with a child under 16 in December.
She originally received a 15-month sentence, suspended for two years.
The Court of Appeal has now jailed her for three years.
Solicitor General Robert Buckland QC MP described the original sentence as "unduly lenient" and referred the case to the Court of Appeal.
He said Spragg engaged in a series of sexual activities with the victim between 12 August and 1 November 2014, when he was 14.
The mother-of-four was caught after the victim's sister discovered messages on his phone, he added.
Speaking after the hearing on Thursday, the solicitor general said: "Gaining a child's trust and abusing it in this way is unacceptable.
"The original sentence failed to take proper account of the seriousness of the offence and the impact it has had on the victim and his family.
"I hope the court's decision to impose an immediate prison sentence sends a clear message to society that such offences will not be tolerated."
|
A former dinner lady who was spared prison after being found guilty of sexual activity with a child has now been jailed after her original sentence was overturned.
| 39,230,846 | 254 | 35 | false |
Montero picked up the injury after coming on as a substitute in the Swans' 4-1 home defeat by West Ham.
The 27-year-old Ecuador international has made 11 Premier League appearances for Swansea City this season.
Paul Clement's side are 16th in the Premier League, two points off the drop zone and play Burnley on Saturday.
|
Swansea City winger Jefferson Montero has returned to group training after being sidelined since Boxing Day with a hamstring injury.
| 39,130,131 | 79 | 35 | false |
Energy giant SSE has proposed constructing the Stronelairg scheme on land close to its Glendoe hydro electric scheme near Fort Augustus.
Last year, landscape charity the John Muir Trust (JMT) secured a judicial review of the Scottish government's decision approving the project.
A judge said the decision reached was "defective", but judges have now upheld an appeal by the government and SSE.
JMT, which has argued that the turbines would "destroy the character" of wild land in the area, said it was disappointed by the decision.
Three judges at the Court of Session in Edinburgh have held that the decision by the late Lord Jones last year must be recalled.
This now opens the way for the wind farm to go ahead.
Stuart Brooks, JMT chief executive, said: "Lord Jones, in the initial judicial review, found in favour of the trust's legal arguments that the Scottish government had not followed the correct planning process.
"The Inner House judges have disagreed with that assessment. We are now taking further legal advice and considering options."
He added: "We are grateful for all the support we have received from our members and the public, including over a thousand financial donations."
Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy Paul Wheelhouse has welcomed the judges' decision.
He said: "This project will create jobs and generate important economic benefits for the Highlands and Islands economy.
"The wind farm is designed to produce electricity equivalent to the needs of more than 100,000 homes - a vital boost at a time when Scotland, the UK and Europe all need to ensure a secure energy supply for the future.
"It will also produce a further boost to Scotland's work in leading international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
Boys aged five to 16 get on average £10.70 a week made up from pocket money, a paid job or paid chores. Girls are on £8.50 a week, data suggests.
The survey of 2,000 UK children by researchers Childwise also found boys were given more financial independence.
Parents were teaching girls and boys differently about money, it found.
The majority of children receive some sort of regular weekly payment, typically pocket money from their parents, data suggested. Only one in five had a paid job.
Researchers found that the difference between girls and boys' allowance becomes wider the older they get.
Boys aged 11 to 16 were on £17.80, while girls of the same age were on £12.50, a gap of £5.30.
Childwise research manager Jenny Ehren said: "The data points towards an early gender imbalance in the way parents educate their children about money matters and financial independence.
"Boys are more likely to be entrusted with regular cash payments, while girls are more reliant on other people buying them items, or managing money on their behalf."
She added that girls appeared to have less financial freedom than boys.
"They are more likely to have things bought for them, including expensive items such as clothes and footwear, and lower cost purchases such as toiletries, hair products and makeup," said Ms Ehren.
These extra purchases helped to bridge the income gap between boys and girls, but the approach to managing money matters was "noticeably different", she added.
The most popular pocket money purchase was sweets and chocolate, followed closely by crisps, snacks, soft drinks and going out, the survey found.
It also showed:
Ahead of a speech by shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, Mr Smith said his childhood was a "barbarous time".
"Rampant poverty and no healthcare were the norm of the Britain of my youth."
In a speech greeted with a standing ovation and widely praised on Twitter, he warned that the UK must "be vigilant" about the NHS.
"I came into this world in the rough and ready year of 1923," Mr Smith said. "I'm from Barnsley, and I can tell you that my childhood, like so many others from that era, was not like an episode from Downton Abbey."
"Instead, it was a barbarous time, it was a bleak time, and it was an uncivilised time, because public health care didn't exist."
Hospitals, doctors and medicine were for "the privileged few, because they were run by profit", he said.
"My memories stretch back almost a hundred years, and if I close my eyes, I can smell the poverty that oozes from the dusty tenement streets of my boyhood," he added.
Mr Smith recalled the "anguished cries" of a woman dying from cancer who could not afford morphine, and how his eldest sister had wasted and died from tuberculosis at the age of ten, and was "dumped nameless into a pauper's pit".
His generation was "galvanised" after the Second World War to become "the tide that raised all boats", and his experiences led him to vote Labour and for the creation of the NHS in 1945.
"My heart is also with the people of the present, who because of welfare cuts and austerity measures are struggling once more to make ends meet, and whose futures I fear for," he added.
"Today, we must be vigilant, we must be vocal, we must demand that the NHS must always remain an institution for the people and by the people."
"We must never ever let the NHS free from our grasp, because if we do, your future will be my past."
Mr Smith's speech, which garnered two standing ovations and an acknowledgement from Mr Burnham, was hailed as a "masterclass" by Labour activist Paul Richards.
"Use of imagery, inversion, triclons, anecdotes, pathos, calls to arms: Harry Smith's address was a speech-writers' masterclass," Mr Richards tweeted.
Steve Hawkes, deputy political editor, of the Sun, tweeted: "91 year-old Harry Smith shows Ed Miliband how to do it - rousing speech (from autocue) that gets delegates on their feet."
The Conservative and Lib Dem coalition government has increased NHS spending each year during the current Parliament and both parties committed in 2010 to the founding values of the NHS that no-one, regardless of income, should be deprived of the best care.
7 April 2016 Last updated at 19:53 BST
After the final whistle in March, Tyler was seen on camera helping officers clear up police tape from outside St James' Park after most of the 52,000 fans had left the ground.
The seven-year-old was given a signed football from the club and the chance to be a mascot when Newcastle United face Manchester City on 19 April.
Defence secretary Chuck Hagel has approved gender treatment for Pte First Class Manning, who was formerly known as Bradley.
The move came after the bureau of prisons rejected the Army's request to transfer her from a military facility.
She is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking classified files to Wikileaks.
Pte Manning has been diagnosed by military doctors with gender dysphoria, the sense of one's gender being at odds with the sex assigned at birth.
Following her conviction in July 2013 on 20 charges in connection with the leaks of military and diplomatic documents, Pte Manning requested treatment including hormone therapy, and to be allowed to live as a woman.
A lawyer for Pte Manning threatened in May to sue the Army if she was not given sex change therapy in military prison.
Nancy Hollander argued the military had an obligation to treat the soldier's "transgender issues", and she would not be safe if transferred to a civilian prison for treatment there.
Ms Hollander told the BBC that Pte Manning had not suffered harassment at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, even though her fellow inmates knew she was transgender.
In April, a judge granted her petition to change her name legally from Bradley to Chelsea, and according to a court filing by Pte Manning's legal team, a military doctor at Fort Leavenworth had approved a treatment plan by November 2013.
The US military is required to offer medical treatment to its soldiers, but Pentagon policy prohibits transgender people from serving openly in the military.
Pte Manning will not be discharged from the military until she has finished her prison term.
Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said earlier the policy on transgender service members should be "continuously reviewed" but has not said whether he believes the policy should be overturned.
A previous study by the Palm Center estimated there were 15,000 transgender US military members and 130,000 veterans.
Gerald Stockwell suffered a collapsed lung and fractures in the collision in Lechlade, Gloucestershire on 19 June.
The 66-year-old, from Swindon, was riding his Triumph Bonneville on the A361 when he was injured.
Police said a 31-year-old man, from Lechlade, had been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and failing to stop/report an accident.
He has been bailed until August while police carry out further inquiries.
A photo of Mr Stockwell in his hospital bed was released by Gloucestershire Constabulary on Tuesday in an attempt to prompt witnesses and the driver responsible to come forward.
Prosecutors are considering the claims linked to Fort Augustus Abbey.
The Crown Office said the reports were submitted to the fiscal in Inverness.
A spokesperson said: "The procurator fiscal has received reports concerning nine men in relation to incidents alleged to have occurred between September 1967 and December 1992."
The statement added: "The reports remain under consideration."
The former school was run by Benedictine monks but closed down in the 1990s.
The ceilings in all the rooms collapsed in the smash and engineers had to be called in to make the building safe.
The bus was in collision with a car before it hit the property on Keresley Road, in Coventry, near to a roundabout at about 07:00 GMT on Monday morning.
No-one was seriously hurt and the owners are not thought to have been in at the time.
West Midlands Fire Service crew commander Peter Sheppard said the crash had "knocked the building off its footing", causing the house to move "a couple of inches".
Latest updates for Coventry and Warwickshire here
The next door neighbours felt the effects of the crash. Jasmit Kapoor told the BBC she heard a "bang bang" and was very shocked.
"We opened the curtain and there was a bus inside the house," she said.
Bus passenger John Tate said his only concern was for the welfare of the bus driver.
"My main thought was the driver, was he alright. I was a bit scared for him, more than for me...I was walking so I knew I was alright."
The driver suffered a minor injury to his knee.
Emergency services moved the vehicle from the side of the house later that morning.
Only "a handful" of people had been on board.
In a statement, National Express Coventry said staff were "co-operating closely with the authorities in their investigations into this incident".
Scotland Under-21 international Hyam has yet to play for the Royals' senior side, but featured in one EFL Trophy game in January.
The 21-year-old made his professional debut on loan at Dagenham last season, playing in 16 League Two games.
He joined Portsmouth on loan in August, but failed to make a first-team appearance in three months at the club.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Willis, 26, won six matches last year to qualify before losing to seven-time champion Roger Federer on Centre Court in the second round.
Now ranked 387th in the world, he must win three matches to qualify.
Martin, the world number 146, beat top-15 player Lucas Pouille in straight sets at the 2016 French Open.
Willis will be second on Court 11 on Monday. If he beats Martin, 27, he could face fellow Briton Liam Broady in the next round.
Qualification runs from 26-29 June, with the main draw to be made on 30 June.
Willis has received a wildcard for the men's doubles at Wimbledon.
Seven Britons have been given wildcards for the singles: Naomi Broady, Heather Watson, Laura Robson, Katie Boulter in the women's draw, and Brydan Klein, Cameron Norrie and James Ward in the men's.
Wimbledon runs from 3-16 July.
Anthony Francis was attempting to "drift" in his Mercedes at the event on 8 August last year when he lost control, ploughing into the spectators.
Several other people suffered less serious injuries in the crash, Peterborough Crown Court heard.
Francis, 21, of Lambeth Walk, Stamford, pleaded guilty to six dangerous driving offences and was jailed for 18 months.
He was also disqualified from driving for two years.
Police were called at about 23:30 BST to an industrial area in Stapledon Road, Orton Southgate, where hundreds of people had gathered, the court was told.
Francis was arrested charged with five counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and one count of dangerous driving. He pleaded guilty to all the charges.
The car he was driving was made subject of a forfeiture order by the court.
PC Paul Nisbet, who investigated, said: "This was an horrific crash for those injured and for the many people watching and it is only luck that no-one was more seriously hurt or killed.
"The case should send out a clear message that those taking part in illegal events of this kind run a significant risk of being seriously injured, or worse, and if you happen to be driving, a prison sentence.
"We will continue to treat these events seriously and do whatever we can to prevent them happening in the first place."
Harry Campbell, 67, was found with stab wounds and head injuries at his house in Brookside, Boosbeck, in October.
A jury at Teesside Crown Court heard chef Glyn Sullivan, 41, from Whitby, was motivated by a need for cash to fund a heroin habit.
Sullivan, who had denied the charge, is due to be sentenced later.
The court was told Sullivan stabbed Mr Campbell with a 12-inch (30cm) kitchen knife, which was found at the scene, and then stole his Ford Fiesta.
Sullivan, from The Garth in Whitby, claimed he stole the car after others had carried out the attack.
But the court heard Mr Campbell's blood was found on Sullivan's watch and trainers.
The news was confirmed by European Tour Chief Executive George O'Grady on Thursday, with the Stormont Executive providing significant funding.
Royal County Down will host the event for the first time in 75 years, with the dates confirmed as 28-31 May, 2015.
The Lough Erne course will be staging the Irish Open for the first time.
Thursday's news will increase the optimism that the Open Championship could return to Northern Ireland for the first time since the only staging of the event in the province at Royal Portrush in 1951.
Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson attended Thursday's announcement at Royal County Down and he said talks are continuing with Open organisers, the Royal & Ancient, over the major championship.
"We are talking to them and we have been talking to them for some time," the First Minister told BBC Sport.
"We will continue to make every effort we can in order to bring the Open to Northern Ireland."
Media playback is not supported on this device
The Irish Open returned to Northern Ireland after a 59-year absence in a hugely-successful staging of the event at Royal Portrush in 2012.
Despite the feel-good factor after the 2012 Portrush event, within weeks R&A chief executive Peter Dawson appeared to ruled out an imminent Open Championship return to Northern Ireland.
"There would be much work to do for an Open ever to go to Portrush [again]," said Dawson in his July 2012 comments.
"We have been there before. It's always, to an extent, been on our radar and our championship committee, I'm sure, will continue to evaluate it."
Royal Portrush became the first Northern Ireland venue to host the Irish Open for 59 years in 2012.
The tournament was the first-ever sold-out event on the European Tour as huge crowds turned out to watch a field which included homegrown major winners Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke.
The Northern Ireland Executive provided funding in the region of £1.5m for the 2012 event and a similar investment will be required this time round although Tourism Minister Arlene Foster would be drawn on the sums involved.
Royal County Down is one of the most renowned links in the world and, with extra grandstands likely to be erected, crowds in excess of 20,000 are expected to flock to the Newcastle course each day.
The club staged the Senior British Open from 2000 to 2002 and the Walker Cup was also held there in 2007.
"There is one less week between the US Open and the Open Championship next year, so the dates we have selected at the end of May give us the best chance of getting the strongest possible field," said O'Grady.
"Rory McIlroy put the idea in my head at a European Tour event in Shanghai and it progressed from there.
"We will be showcasing one of the world's absolute great golf courses and there are some lovely vantage points. We want to bring as many people here as possible.
The European Tour chief also added that the Northern Ireland Executive had agreed to provide "help" with the running of this year's event at Fota Island in county Cork and further stagings of the tournament in the Republic of Ireland in the coming years.
Englishman Paul Casey was the winner at Carton House last year, while this year's tournament will be played at Fota Island.
O'Grady said at Thursday's press conference at Royal County Down that Fota Island is currently the favourite to host the 2016 Irish Open.
However, the European Tour chief did reveal that he had also held talks with new Doonbeg owner Donald Trump about the possibility of the event being held at the county Clare venue in the coming years.
Motorists called police at about 08:10 on Wednesday after spotting the animal near the St James Interchange at J29.
Police and a local farmer eventually captured the cow from behind the barrier on the westbound carriageway.
At the height of the incident, there was a significant delay to westbound traffic with queuing stretching back to J25A near Braehead.
Shailesh Vara said publishing the costs would be a "waste of time and effort".
He said the government wanted to "move ahead" after Justice Secretary Michael Gove scrapped his predecessor's proposals to overhaul the system.
Labour has called on the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to refer itself to the National Audit Office over the issue.
It also demanded an apology to those adversely affected.
Plans to slash the number of law firms allowed to do criminal legal aid work at police stations and magistrates' courts have been dropped, while an 8.75% cut to legal aid fees lawyers earn has been suspended for a year.
Mr Gove said the MoJ had faced too many legal challenges over the plans - it faced 99 separate legal actions over the proposals.
Lawyers had claimed the reforms could damage quality and access to justice.
The proposed cuts - drawn up by former Justice Secretary Chris Grayling - would have reduced the number of solicitor firms awarded "duty contracts" by about two-thirds from 1,600 to 527.
Asking an urgent question in the House of Commons on Friday, shadow justice minister Andy Slaughter said the abandoned plans were "an appalling use of taxpayers' money" that had presented an existential threat to the legal system.
He added: "How much public money and civil service time has been spent on the aborted tendering processes, the court cases and the consultations in the past three years?
"Will you refer your own department to the National Audit Office so it can be independently investigated? Will you apologise to the firms which have closed, laid off staff, or cut salaries faced with losing contracts?"
Mr Vara replied that "all shades of government... if they listen to people and if they feel a decision needs to be changed then they do make that change".
He added: "I don't recall previous governments wasting time and effort trying to calculate measures when they have made a change of direction.
"So as far as we're concerned this is a decision that's been welcomed by the profession, we're pleased about that, we want to look forward and move ahead."
Mr Gove's announcements were the latest in a series of reversals of policies brought in by his predecessor.
He pulled the UK out of deal to give prisons training advice to Saudi Arabia, having already scrapped the commercial arm of the MoJ that had sought the contract.
Mr Grayling's plans for "secure colleges" for young offenders were dropped, as were previously planned cuts to barristers' fees and a scheme to outsource the collection of fines by the courts.
Ben Edge, 25, was working without safety equipment in windy conditions in a quarry in Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester in 2014.
Christopher and Robert Brown, who admitted trying to cover up what had happened, were jailed for 20 months. Mark Aspin was sentenced to a year.
His mother Janet Edge blasted the men for their "abhorrent actions".
Speaking after the verdict, Mrs Edge said: "Ben was the most fun loving and hard-working man.
"He was like a breath of fresh air, always smiling with a huge friendly personality and would do anything for anyone.
"The sentence given to those responsible for Ben's death and for their abhorrent actions bears nothing compared to the life sentence that my family and I were given on the 10 December 2014.
"Nor does it do justice to an irreplaceable life."
Mr Edge fell from a structure he was helping to dismantle. He died from head injuries.
SR and RJ Brown Limited, of which brothers Christopher and Robert Brown are directors, was fined £300,000 at Manchester Crown Court after admitting corporate manslaughter.
Christopher Brown, 25, of Gollinrod Farm, Gollinrod, Bury, and Robert Brown, 32, of Lower Gollinrod Farm, near Ramsbottom, pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice and two counts of health and safety breaches.
A count of manslaughter for the brothers is to lie on file.
Aspin, 37, of Hameldon Road, Hapton, Lancashire, was jailed after admitting health and safety offences.
The company he is director of - MA Excavations Ltd, of Garden Street, Ramsbottom, which contracted out the work - was fined £75,000 after pleading guilty to two health and safety breaches.
Employee Peter Heap, 34, of Copthurst Farm, Barrowford Road, Padiham, Burnley, was spared jail after he followed orders to bring safety harnesses to the site after his colleague had fallen to try to conceal what had happened.
His four-month sentence for perverting the course of justice, which he had admitted, was suspended for two years.
As we've been reporting in the last few days, there's been a frenzied guessing game, stoked by some cabinet ministers themselves, over the future for the pay of nurses, teachers, police officers, and the rest of the five million or so people who work in the public sector.
In the aftermath of the election, some in cabinet argue that scrapping the pay cap would be a way of showing they had heard the electorate's call, proof they had listened to public concerns. No politician, not least one clinging on in a minority government, wants to appear deaf to the concerns of the public.
One senior figure arguing for a relaxation of the cap argues that the Tories have to get out in front of the issue, to neutralise it, before what could be a long, hot summer of political discontent, claiming that Cabinet is moving towards a consensus position to "scrap the cap", at least showing willing to accept the recommendations of the independent pay bodies as they report over the coming months.
But after an election defeat where the Tories ditched their core script on sound money, others are in a very different position.
One minister said, it would be "utter madness" to ditch a central part of their economic programme, their "record for stewardship", questioning whether an "utterly useless" election campaign should result in junking the economic discipline the government should be proud of.
Another questioned "the idea you can just walk away from the cap without serious consequences".
Yes, sticking to the cap causes the Tories political damage, but so might raising taxes, or making cuts somewhere else to do it.
Arguably the simpler part of the debate has been had - many public sector workers are feeling the pinch, and there is more and more pressure to remove the limit on pay rises. The more complicated bit, who or what would pay for the increase, is a conversation that's yet to happen.
Whatever Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have said in the last twenty four hours, don't expect anything to happen in a hurry. The first pay review body is not due to report for another few weeks. It seems unlikely that the government will announce any plan to either ditch the cap or promise to accept the decisions of the review bodies before then.
It's not in either Theresa May or Philip Hammond's DNA to make quick decisions. One of her allies reports there is simply no decision. But how they show they are in tune with volatile public opinion while going through a decision making process is not straightforward either.
The White House has called it an "enormous humanitarian tragedy".
Meanwhile, US officials have told the BBC that two Russian war planes were responsible for the attack.
Russia strongly denies involvement of its own or Syrian planes, and says the incident was caused by fire on the ground and not by an air strike.
"There are no craters and the exterior of the vehicles do not have the kind of damage consistent with blasts caused by bombs dropped from the air," a statement from the defence ministry said.
And the country's foreign ministry spokeswoman said the US government had "no facts" to support its claim, adding: "We have nothing to do with this situation."
Separately, an air strike hit a medical centre near Aleppo on Tuesday night local time, killing four medics working for the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (UOSSM), the group said.
The attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Touman also killed at least nine rebel fighters and was carried out by either Syrian or Russian warplanes, UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The rebels were from Jaish al-Fatah, an Islamist group not officially part of the Western-backed alliance but one that works alongside the Free Syrian Army, the BBC's James Longman in Beirut reports.
One nurse remains in a critical condition and the medical centre was completely destroyed, UOSSM said in a statement (in French), adding that more victims are feared buried under the rubble.
Speaking earlier about Monday's attack on the aid convoy, US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two Russian SU-24 attack aircraft were in the sky above the convoy at the precise moment it was hit in Urum al-Kubra.
The strike, they added, was too sophisticated to have been carried out by the Syrian army.
White House spokesman Ben Rhodes later said: "There only could have been two entities responsible, either the Syrian regime or the Russian government.
"In any event, we hold the Russian government responsible for airstrikes in this space."
The UN had earlier said it was "not in a position to determine whether these were in fact air strikes".
Eighteen of 31 lorries were destroyed and about 20 civilians were killed including a senior official of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent.
The attack prompted the UN to suspend all aid convoys in Syria.
The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, denounced the attack as a "flagrant violation of international humanitarian law" and said it could amount to a war crime.
Meanwhile, diplomats in New York were trying to save a week-old truce agreement brokered by the US and Russia which was declared over by Syrian military hours before the incident.
US Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking alongside his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, insisted the cessation of hostilities deal was "not dead", following talks with delegates of the Syria Support Group.
They are to meet again on Friday. And the UN Security Council is due to hold a high-level meeting on Syria on Wednesday.
Earlier, Ban Ki-moon, the UN chief, launched a stinging attack on Syria's government, saying it has killed the most civilians in the five-year civil war and continues "to barrel bomb neighbourhoods and systematically torture thousands of detainees".
Using unusually blunt language in his final address to the UN General Assembly, Mr Ban also said those who supported the opposing sides in the conflict had "blood on their hands".
Mr Ban called the attack on the aid convoy "sickening, savage and apparently deliberate" and called for those responsible to be held to account.
Syria's foreign ministry responded by accusing Mr Ban of flouting the UN charter.
It said the UN had "failed in its role" to find solutions to international conflicts.
Aid deliveries to besieged areas had been a key part of the cessation of hostilities.
France forward Antoine Griezmann gave Diego Simeone's side a first-half lead with a superb free-kick.
But Antonio Sanabria equalised for Abelardo Fernandez's men on 79 minutes before Castro tapped home Jony's low cross with a minute left on the clock.
With eight games left, Atletico trail leaders Barcelona by eight points.
Luis Enrique's side, who have a game in hand on Atletico, can extend their lead at the top of La Liga to 11 points if they beat Villarreal at El Madrigal on Sunday.
Atletico seemed on course for a fifth consecutive league win just before the half-hour mark, when Griezmann floated an inch-perfect free-kick from 25 yards over the wall and into the top corner of Ivan Cuellar's goal.
But the visitors, who played 120 minutes in the Champions League on Tuesday before beating PSV Eindhoven on penalties, lost their focus in the second half.
Sanabria equalised with a free-kick that deflected off Atleti midfielder Matias Kranevitter and past goalkeeper Jan Oblak.
Castro then hit the bar for Gijon following Sanabria's low cross from the left.
Atleti went down to 10 men for the final moments of the match, following an injury to defender Jose Gimenez after Simeone had already made his three substitutions.
Spain Under-21 international Castro took advantage to score the winner and secure a first league victory for Gijon since 31 January.
Gijon, who started the match in the bottom two and three points from a position of safety, remain in the relegation places following Granada's 2-2 draw with Rayo Vallecano on Saturday evening.
Godden has now scored eight times in his last eight games, and has 15 in total this season, with his penalty being sandwiched by strikes from Steven Schumacher and the excellent Tom Pett.
Sam Saunders went close early on, sending a free-kick from 25 yards narrowly wide with Jamie Jones left standing before Chairboys stopper Jamal Blackman had to push away Jobi McAnuff's curler.
However, the hosts went ahead on 25 minutes as McAnuff's cross was helped on by Godden and Schumacher was on hand to nod in from close range.
The lead was doubled just before half-time when Pett was tripped in the area by Dominic Gape, leaving Godden to send Blackman the wrong way from the spot.
The visitors were the architects of their own downfall for Stevenage's third, as Aaron Pierre was dispossessed on the edge of his own area by Pett, who rounded Blackman to score.
Match report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Stevenage 3, Wycombe Wanderers 0.
Second Half ends, Stevenage 3, Wycombe Wanderers 0.
Foul by Connor Ogilvie (Stevenage).
Alex Jakubiak (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Sam Wood (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Connor Ogilvie (Stevenage).
Sam Saunders (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Charlie Lee (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sido Jombati (Wycombe Wanderers).
Foul by Ryan Loft (Stevenage).
Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Stevenage. Dale Gorman replaces Tom Pett.
Hand ball by Ryan Loft (Stevenage).
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Charlie Lee.
Ryan Loft (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ryan Loft (Stevenage).
Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jobi McAnuff (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Luke Wilkinson (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aaron Pierre (Wycombe Wanderers).
Substitution, Stevenage. Kaylen Hinds replaces Josh McQuoid.
Substitution, Stevenage. Ryan Loft replaces Matt Godden.
Jobi McAnuff (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Sam Wood (Wycombe Wanderers).
Matt Godden (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Sam Saunders (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Jobi McAnuff (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jobi McAnuff (Stevenage).
Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Tom Pett (Stevenage) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Tom Pett (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dominic Gape (Wycombe Wanderers).
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Garry Thompson replaces Myles Weston because of an injury.
Hand ball by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Foul by Josh McQuoid (Stevenage).
Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Myles Weston replaces Scott Kashket.
Attempt blocked. Matt Godden (Stevenage) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.
GP Energy has submitted a planning application to explore underneath land near Commonwood Farm, Borras.
The company insists it is just exploratory drilling and has no plans for fracking - a controversial method of extracting gas from rock.
But North East Wales Against Fracking Action said local people were worried.
The plans by GP Energy to test drill a borehole to explore for coal bed methane underground will be considered by Wrexham council.
The site is two miles from the River Dee and opponents fear that the test drilling could eventually lead to hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking.
Resident Luke Ashley, spokesperson for the newly-launched action group, said the drilling could be "just the start of what could be the industrialisation of the countryside to the east of Wrexham".
"The test bore is to assess how much gas is present in the coal seams that stretch from Point of Ayr in Flintshire all the way down through Wrexham and into Cheshire and Shropshire," he said.
"If full-blown extraction of coal bed methane follows it could involve pumping thousands of litres of water and chemicals into the ground to force out the gas.
"We are incredibly concerned that this could leak into drinking water supplies in the nearby River Dee."
He added that the group would be lobbying councillors before the plans were discussed by the council's planning committee, possibly later this year.
A public meeting was taking place on Tuesday evening.
Fracking is a technique where water and chemicals are pumped into shale rock at high pressure to extract gas.
It was temporarily banned in the UK after it was blamed for two earth tremors in Blackpool in 2011.
Opponents claim water used in the fracking process will be contaminated and could enter domestic supplies.
But a UK government review has now concluded fracking is safe if adequately monitored.
Dart Energy, which owns GP Energy, last week told the Wrexham Leader that it had no plans for fracking in the Wrexham area and said the well at the drilling site would be cemented over once exploration had taken place.
A company spokesman told the newspaper: "Dart Energy can confirm the planning application is for the drilling of a coal bed methane exploration well which is temporary in nature and will be fully cemented upon completion of the operation.
"The purpose of the well is to extract a core (sample) from the coal seam in order to test the methane content in a laboratory.
"As with similar wells in the past, Dart Energy has no plans to frack this well and is not seeking permission to frack the well from either the local authority or the Environment Agency."
Wrexham council said the application would be considered by the planning committee in due course.
The two cities are the only ones left in the race for 2024 after Budapest, Hamburg and Rome withdrew.
Bid chair Casey Wasserman appeared to concede to Paris when he said: "We have never been only about 2024."
But a spokesman later told BBC Sport: "LA is the ideal host city for 2024."
He added: "LA is not conceding anything in the race for the 2024 Games."
Concerns over this apparent lack of interest in staging sport's biggest event, as well as years of bad publicity about spiralling costs and unused venues, has led the International Olympic Committee to consider taking advantage of these two strong bids by giving them a Games each.
Confirmation of the legality of that option is expected on Friday.
Wasserman issued a statement on Wednesday that appeared to concede the race.
"Even when the issue of a dual award for the 2024 and 2028 Games was initially raised, we didn't say it's 'LA first' or it's 'now or never' for LA: that sounds like an ultimatum," Wasserman said.
"We could have used that strategy but we didn't because we thought it was presumptuous to tell the IOC what to do and how to think. We're better partners than that.
"It has always been our contention that LA 2024 had to make as much sense for the Olympic movement as it did for the people of LA. And we've stuck to that premise.
"We don't believe in ultimatums - we believe in partnership; that's why we are willing to look beyond ourselves and ask the question 'how can LA best serve the long-term needs of the Olympic and Paralympic Games?"'
He said the LA bid requires no public funding and all the facilities are either built or being built anyway.
But the bid team later issued the clarification to emphasise they had not given up on LA hosting in 2024.
The Paris bid aims to mark the centenary of its last Games in 1924 and end a run of three previous failed bids, most recently in 2005 when London was awarded the 2012 Games.
Paris has also claimed it has to go first as the site it has earmarked for the Olympic Village will not be available for redevelopment after 2024.
The traditional vote to decide between the bidders is scheduled for the IOC session in Peru's capital Lima in September.
Peter Bell, a Governor for Southern Health, called for the motion to be discussed at an Extraordinary Board of Governors meeting on Tuesday.
But trust chairman Tim Smart cancelled the meeting for legal reasons on Saturday.
Mr Bell said the cancellation was "no laughing matter".
The meeting, which would have been held at Lyndhurst Community Centre in Hampshire, comes after a report found the NHS mental health trust failed to investigate the unexpected deaths of more than 1,000 people since 2011.
Responding to the cancellation, Mr Bell threatened the trust with legal action if it did not reconsider proceeding with the meeting on 17 May.
He said: "I am beginning to feel like the families who have being pursuing changes at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust appear to have been banging their heads on a brick wall.
"If this was not such a serious matter I would be laughing out loud at such tactics. But this is no laughing matter. This is deadly serious and I really hope that the interim chair begins to understand just how serious this is.
"Do we really need to resort to the courts in the first two weeks of your appointment?"
Mr Smart said the delay was "far from ideal" and that the resolutions put forward by Governors for discussion "did not comply with NHS Improvement guidance, and any vote would not be legally robust".
"I am determined that what we do everything correctly, whatever the short term difficulties along the way", he added.
The number eight suffered a knee injury on his Aviva Premiership debut for Bath on 3 September, but it was hoped he might be fit for Wales next month.
Bath do not expect the 25-year-old British and Irish Lion to start training until the middle of November.
Wales play Australia in Cardiff on 5 November, followed by Argentina and Japan before South Africa at the Principality Stadium on 26 November.
Faletau joined Bath from Newport Gwent Dragons in the summer, and made his debut in a friendly against Scarlets in August.
He has played 61 times for Wales, and one Test for the Lions in Australia in 2013.
Wales coach Rob Howley will also be without Gloucester's Ross Moriarty for the game against Australia because it falls outside World Rugby's international window.
Howley - in charge of the team while Warren Gatland coaches the British and Irish Lions - announces his squad for the autumn series on Tuesday.
He said more must be done to build trust among black and Hispanic people that police violence would be investigated properly.
Mr Obama was speaking in Washington after meeting activists, politicians and law enforcement officers.
It follows recent killings of black men by officers in Louisiana and Minnesota.
The killings triggered a revenge attack by a black army veteran who shot dead five police officers in the city of Dallas last week.
Dallas shootings: Who were the victims?
Who was the attacker?
Special report: US racial divide
"We're going to have to do more work together in thinking about how we can build confidence that after police officers have used force, particularly deadly force, that there is confidence in how the investigation takes place and that justice is done," Mr Obama said.
He suggested a set of practices may have to be established to ensure investigations are effective and fair.
"What's been apparent is that it's not enough just for us to have a task force, a report and then follow up through our departments.
"We have to push this out to communities so that they feel ownership for some of the good ideas that have been floating around this table," the president said.
On Tuesday, Mr Obama attended a memorial service in Dallas for the five killed officers and spoke to the families of the men killed by police in Louisiana and Minnesota, Alton Sterling, 37, and Philando Castile, 32, to offer condolences.
A day later, funerals were held in the Dallas area for two of the five officers, Lorne Ahrens, 48, and Brent Thompson, 43.
Later on Thursday, the funerals will take place of a third officer, Michael Smith, and, in the cathedral of St Paul in Minnesota, of Mr Castile.
BBC Hindi's Salman Ravi travels to the village in the eastern state of Bihar to meet the excited family that the woman, named Geeta, has identified as her own.
Geeta, who has speech and hearing impairments, was about 11 when she is believed to have strayed into Pakistan.
As the time nears for Geeta to be re-united with her family, excitement looms large in the Kabeera Dhaap village in Saharsa district.
Villager Janardhan Mahato has claimed that Geeta is his daughter, Heera, who was lost in a fair in Ludhiana city in the western Indian state of Punjab which shares a border with Pakistan.
Mr Mahato has been taken to India capital, Delhi, to meet Geeta when she returns from Pakistan on Monday.
The village, meanwhile, is anxiously waiting for her return.
Situated on an island on the Kosi river, Kabeera Dhaap lacks in even basic amenities like electricity and the only way to reach it is by boat followed by a 2km (1.24 miles) walk.
And the villagers say they have long been neglected by the authorities.
"Nobody ever comes to our village. It is difficult to reach and neither politicians nor officials ever visit us. Now Geeta has shot into fame and we hope her return will bring the attention of officials to our village," says Raj Dev, Mr Mahato's brother.
Since Geeta, now believed to be about 22, identified her parents and siblings in the photograph, at least two other families have claimed that Geeta as their own.
Authorities have said they will conduct a DNA test before handing her over to any family.
But the residents of Kabeera Dhaap village say they are absolutely sure of her identity and that they last saw Geeta when she was married and moved to Punjab with her husband.
"We are absolutely sure that Geeta is our Heera. We have seen her grow up in the village. We saw her get married and then she left with her husband for Ludhiana. We know the DNA test will establish our claim," said villager Edison Mahato.
Janardhan Mahato, who works as a farm labourer, searched for his daughter for five years in Ludhiana, the villagers say.
"When there was no clue, he returned home disheartened."
Efforts to find her family began in August after India accepted for the first time that Geeta was one of its citizens.
The family and the villagers recognised her after Indian television channels started airing her photographs.
"I am her elder brother. We have recognised her. Back in Pakistan, she has also recognised the photographs of our father and the family. Had it not been so, the government officials wouldn't have approached us," said Balram Mahato, Jagannath Mahato's eldest son.
In the village, recordings of Pakistani news channels, narrating Geeta's story, are played out on loudspeakers at the river bank and at the local temple.
Villager KP Sharma, 70, says many residents leave the village to work in other parts of the country because they have no opportunities at home.
"We have nothing here as you can see - no power, no clean drinking water, no roads, no medical care. The village has seen mass migration. This is the reason that Geeta and her husband migrated to Punjab. Most villagers work as farm labourers in different parts of the country."
"We hope Geeta brings us luck. Maybe we can get a bridge over the river to connect us to the rest of Bihar. Maybe we'll get electricity since so many journalists are visiting us now," another villager said.
Chief executive Derek Cartwright said one lone paramedic worked on his own for a few minutes as he tried to save lives before help arrived.
And a 999 ambulance operator who took the first calls from terrified parents later helped to deliver a baby.
This was because no ambulance crews were free to help the pregnant mother.
The baby was successfully delivered at home.
Mr Cartwright said: "One of our advanced paramedics was very close by and was on the scene on his own for a few minutes, which was a real challenge for him.
"There was also one individual who took one of the first calls, who by the end of the night helped a lady deliver her baby in her own home.
"The general public have been so appreciative. We've had our crews go out on normal calls that we get every day of the week such as people collapsing in the street, and been receiving rounds of applause from people.
"We've had our staff coming in to say 'I'll work for nothing today because it's needed' and we've had our staff saying 'I'll donate a day's pay to give the people who were the first in a day off' - it's brilliant."
Special report: Manchester attack
Who were the victims?
Veil of quiet respect descends on city
How do you crowdfund for someone you've never met?
Twenty-two people were killed and 64 injured in the suicide bombing at the concert by US pop star Ariana Grande at Manchester Arena on Monday night.
Jo O'Brien, a senior sister in the surgical department of Stepping Hill hospital in Stockport, said working Monday night was "the most upsetting thing I've ever been involved in".
She admitted "cuddling her Labrador and having a really good cry" when she got home after her shift.
Dr Peter-Marc Fortune, a consultant in paediatrics at Manchester Children's Hospital where up to 12 injured children were being treated said: "We've had fantastic support - people have very kindly sent in the most amazing amounts of sandwiches, pizzas and whatever."
Peter Harrison, 57, ignored a police warning to stay away from his wife Wendy when he pushed his way into her Gateshead home last July.
Harrison, the ex-agent of England striker Andy Carroll, admitted harassment at Newcastle Crown Court.
He was sentenced to nine months custody suspended for 18 months.
Harrison, who was dropped by the England striker just before his £35m move to Liverpool from Newcastle in 2011, was also ordered to carry out 175 hours of community service and pay court costs of £490.
The hearing heard that before the attack, Harrison had sent abusive messages to his wife before forcing his way into her home frightening his two children who went and "cowered" in an upstairs bedroom.
Judge Stephen Earl said: "You felt your wife loved those inanimate things more than you so it was your way of taking out your frustrations on something.
"The level of fear that it caused is incalculable."
The hearing heard Harrison, of Evergreen Close, Hartlepool, regretted what had happened.
Duncan Jones, defending, said: "He recognises now that his wife was unhappy but he had not appreciated that at that the time.
"He has accepted the relationship is over and there will be no repeat of the incident."
The court heard Harrison now works as a consultant selling European football expertise to developing clubs in China and the Middle East.
He previously appeared on the Panorama investigation into football in 2006, when the programme claimed he had paid bungs to managers.
Valued at just over £500m the company was being wooed by a clutch of private equity firms.
But "market volatility" killed the talks. Since then Micro Focus's fortunes have changed dramatically.
Last week it joined the FTSE 100 and on Thursday bought the software arm of Hewlett Packard Enterprise to become one of the UK's largest tech firms.
To complete the irony, the collapse of the Micro Focus talks in 2011 coincided, almost to the day, with Hewlett-Packard's disastrous $11bn takeover of rival software group Autonomy.
The remains of Autonomy, massively written down, are among the assets that Micro Focus is now buying for $8.8bn (£6.6bn) from Hewlett Packard Enterprise - a spin-off from HP's computer and printer business.
It is the latest and biggest purchase on Micro Focus's shopping list, drawn up by executive chairman Kevin Loosemore.
As part of the shopping spree, the Berkshire-based company has bought two other US software companies - Attachmate for $1.2bn in 2014 and Serena Software this year for $540m.
Mr Loosemore, who took the helm in 2011, said: "I contacted HPE in about February this year. We are in regular contact with most players in the mature software space, it's what we do, and HPE had just separated from HPI (Hewlett Packard Inc) at the back end of last year and I was personally intrigued as to what their new strategy was going to be."
The core of Micro Focus's business is this "mature software space", specifically linking old software technology to new.
So for instance, it can make old cash machines talk to the latest banking software, or connect a supermarket's old inventory control system to the latest generation of mainframes.
These businesses can be made to generate huge amounts of cash. Since 2011 Micro Focus has delivered annual compound shareholder returns of 39%. And its stated strategy is to deliver 15-20% returns to shareholders each year.
That explains why Micro Focus has little problem funding its acquisitions.
But its rise from mid-cap company to FTSE entrant and the near-doubling of its share price in the last year has taken many by surprise, so much so that many of the top technology analysts in London simply did not cover the stock.
One analyst said: "I think many have steered clear of it because it is a complex company, a kind of portfolio business and until recently was not considered big enough. But that will all change now."
However, Paraag Amin, technology analyst from Peel Hunt, has been watching the company for almost ten years. He explained that its strategy has been to buy up software that is "mature", i.e. no longer growing and about to be superseded by new products.
Software companies that were developed in the nineties have been "maturing" over the last five years and have fueled Micro Focus's dramatic acquisition programme and rapid expansion.
"Micro Focus has realised that as technologies mature and go into decline they, as a management team, can make them more profitable by supporting them and making them work in the new environment. You could call them asset managers of software products.
"For instance, Autonomy, which made up about 6% of HP's business will now make up over half of Micro Focus's business. But it is hoping it can take its profit margins from the 20-30% range up to 40% which is the average for Micro Focus's businesses."
Asked whether Micro Focus had the skill to hold together such a rapidly expanding group of companies, Mr Amin said: "It's exactly what they are good at, taking in declining companies, turning them round and supporting them."
Point of Ayr Colliery, near Prestatyn, closed in 1996 after more than 100 years of mining.
Most men from the adjacent village of Ffynnongroyw followed their fathers and grandfathers down the pit.
The memorial, alongside the A548, was officially opened by Delyn MP David Hanson on Thursday.
As they surged past shouting "Long live Fidel and Raul!" and "Down with imperialism!", a dancing choir sang songs from the revolution and President Raul Castro smiled and waved in greeting.
A huge poster on the wall of the National Library vowed that Cuba would never return to capitalism; workers carried banners proclaiming "Socialism or death!" or waved images of Lenin and Che Guevara.
They were familiar scenes on this Communist-run island, a highly organised annual show of support.
But Cuba is in the midst of major changes - cutting state employment and subsidies - making this an uncertain time for workers.
In a bid to ensure the system here survives, the government is attempting an urgent overhaul of the struggling, centrally-planned economy.
As a banner across Revolution Square put it, it is a drive to "preserve and perfect socialism".
The plan is to reduce the bloated state payroll by around 20%, or a million workers, and cut costs.
So far, a limited amount of private business has been permitted to absorb them.
More than 370,000 licences have been issued for everything from watch repairers to privately-run restaurants as workers abandon state salaries of around $20 a month, and strike out in business alone.
But earlier this month, a senior official indicated that bigger change was afoot.
"Within four or five years, between 40% and 45% of GDP will result from non-state production," Esteban Lazo told the Havana city government.
Today, the figure is around 5%.
The next stages might include an expansion of the co-operative system beyond agriculture to light industry. Highly educated - but low-paid - young Cubans hope the categories for self-employment will expand, to include professions like law or architecture.
For the moment it's the private restaurant sector that's most popular, offering the most potential for profit. But there are difficulties, including restrictions on advertising.
So one new entrepreneur decided to get creative this May Day.
"Whether we're state employees or not, we're still workers and marching on 1 May is a habit here," explained Sergio Alba Marin, owner of Pachanga cafe.
So the businessman handed staff bright red T-shirts and caps emblazoned with his logo, and they all joined the workers' parade.
Banner held high, they marched alongside a giant fake cigar representing the state firm Cohiba and a cage full of live hens, brought by workers at a state research institute.
"Of course it's an advert. We want people to see we're there, that we're present," Mr Alba said of his own efforts. "There are no TV adverts here, but we do what we can."
Meanwhile, in the still-vast state sector, Cuba is on efficiency drive.
"We must increase productivity at work, discipline and quality," trade union leader Salvador Valdes Mesa instructed workers in his May Day speech.
"We must make clear that making savings is a key source of funds," the unionist added.
In a sign of that policy in practice, this year's May Day parade was a scaled-down affair. There were fewer fixed stands and posters, and fewer workers too - meaning less state spending bringing them to the square.
In fact, the whole event was over in what locals called record time. The last worker had filed out of Revolution Square by 09:15, well under two hours after it all started.
The ECB carried out a security review in the country following a series of deadly attacks and consulted with players and officials on Thursday.
England play two Tests and three one-day internationals between 7 October and 1 November.
The matches will take place in Chittagong and Dhaka, where 20 hostages died when a cafe was attacked in July.
Australia postponed their Test tour of Bangladesh in October 2015 over security concerns.
Following Thursday's meeting, ECB cricket director Andrew Strauss said: "Safety and security of players and management are always paramount.
"We've received a thorough risk assessment, had excellent insight into the current situation and been fully briefed on security commitments.
"We discussed details with the players and management in an open meeting.
"They asked lots of questions, have time to ask more and will clearly want to take it all in - we understand that."
England limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan this week said no players would be forced to tour Bangladesh.
Strauss, who said England's touring squad will be named after the current limited-overs series against Pakistan, added that the ECB will "continue to monitor the situation right up to and throughout the tour".
More than 40 people have been killed in Bangladesh by suspected Islamists in the past three years, mostly targeting individuals.
July's cafe attack was on a larger scale than had been seen in the country.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office advice is that "there is a heightened threat of further terrorist attacks" in Bangladesh, although a similar threat level applies to many European cities, including London.
The Department of Infrastructure at the Northern Ireland Executive has proposed banning vehicles.
It said the plans were in the early stages of consultation.
Earlier this year, the County Antrim road was temporarily closed after high winds ripped up two trees causing them to collapse.
The department said it intended to publish a "notice of intention" to for the proposal in the autumn.
"Following discussions with Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council and other interested parties, the department has agreed to take forward an order prohibiting vehicles using Bregagh Road," it said.
The iconic tunnel of trees near Armoy has become a major tourist attraction since featuring in the smash-hit television series.
The trees were planted by the Stuart family along the entrance to their Gracehill House mansion.
The Royal Bank of Scotland's quarterly monitor found more firms expecting sales to grow over the next six months than the number expecting a fall.
Financial and businesses services showed signs of renewed strength in the past three months.
Repeat orders also looked healthy for tourism ahead of its busy season.
However, the survey of 500 Scottish businesses suggested that the oil industry slump was still hurting business in north-east Scotland.
The survey was conducted by the Fraser of Allander Institute, which released its own report this week warning that Scotland may fail to avoid a recession this year.
The RBS survey is more upbeat, with companies across the country expecting to see an increase in business volumes, sales and repeat business during the next six months.
Almost a third (31%) firms reported a fall in the total volume of business during the last quarter, compared with 30% who witnessed an increase in activity.
However, the balance of -1% represented an improvement of 18 points on the first quarter of the year.
The performance of financial and businesses services firms was especially strong, with more than one in five (22%) reporting an increase in business volumes.
Overall, a net 18% of firms which took part in the survey said they expected to see a rise in repeat business for the remainder of 2016.
Turnover was strongest within the central belt, where a net 4% of business reported sales growth. This compared with 11% of businesses across Scotland reporting a fall.
In total, a net 13% of firms said they expected sales to grow over the next quarter. Within services, the figure was 16%.
While one in three (35%) of firms enjoyed an increase in the amount of new business, areas strongly associated with oil and gas and agriculture struggled.
Both the north-east and the Highlands and Islands reported no increase in new business.
The report also found that exports had proved "challenging for all businesses".
Just one in five firms (19%) stated that export activity rose, while one in four (26%) saw it fall.
Fraser of Allander Institute director Graeme Roy said: "The latest Royal Bank of Scotland Business Monitor report contains some grounds for cautious optimism with many of the key benchmark indicators improving.
"However, uncertainty appears to be having an impact on some business activities - perhaps most notably capital investment which could have implications for long-term growth. The services sector continues to outperform manufacturing.
"Overall the performance of the Scottish economy since 2015 has been relatively fragile, although this report confirms that growth is likely to return and build momentum through the 2nd half of 2016."
Scottish Economy Secretary Keith Brown said the economy was facing challenges but the RBS survey was encouraging.
He said: "Despite facing subdued global demand and the impact of the oil price on our offshore industry, Scotland's economy has proven resilient and continued to grow - with recent independent forecasts pointing to further growth this year and next.
"Across the world, people are still choosing Scotland as a good place to do business, with record inward investment in 2015 - putting us ahead of all other parts of the UK outside London.
"Despite this, there is no doubt conditions remain tough for companies across Scotland. That is why we will continue to take concerted action to support our economy, creating a competitive business environment in which companies can flourish, creating and protecting jobs and stimulating growth."
|
A 67-turbine wind farm looks set to go ahead following a legal battle.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Boys receive £2.20 more pocket money a week than girls, a survey has found, suggesting the gender pay gap starts early and in the home.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Writer Harry Smith stole the show in Labour's debate on health and social care, reducing some delegates to tears as he recounted life before the NHS.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A boy who helped police clean up after the Tyne-Wear derby has been found after an appeal to trace him.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The US military will begin treatment for US document leaker Chelsea Manning for her gender-identity condition.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run collision in which a motorcyclist was seriously injured.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Nine men have been reported to the procurator fiscal in connection with alleged abuse at a former Catholic boarding school in the Highlands.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A house hit by a double-decker bus was knocked off its footing and moved a couple of inches.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
National League side Aldershot have signed Reading defender Dominic Hyam on loan until the end of the season.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Britain's Marcus Willis will play Slovakian Andrej Martin on Monday in the first qualification round for the Wimbledon main draw in Roehampton.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man who seriously injured five people when he crashed his car at a "cruise" event in Peterborough has been jailed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has been found guilty of the attempted murder of a pensioner, who was found stabbed and battered at his home in East Cleveland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Irish Open is to be staged in Northern Ireland twice over the next three years - at Royal County Down in 2015 and the Lough Erne resort in 2017.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An escaped cow that caused delays during rush hour on the M8 motorway near Glasgow Airport has been captured.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Calls to reveal how much public money was spent on abandoned proposals to reform legal aid have been rejected by a justice minister.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Three company bosses have been jailed following the death of a man who fell from a roof he was working on.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Will they or won't they?
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The US has said it holds Russia responsible for a deadly attack on an aid convoy near the Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Carlos Castro netted a late winner as La Liga strugglers Sporting Gijon came from behind to beat second-placed Atletico Madrid at El Molinon.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Matt Godden was on target again for Stevenage as they recorded a third win in a row with an impressive victory over promotion-chasing Wycombe.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An anti-fracking group is holding a public meeting after a multinational company announced it was to test drill for methane gas in Wrexham.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Los Angeles has not conceded defeat to Paris in the race to be named host city of the 2024 Olympic Games - but its bid leader has hinted it is open to hosting them in 2028.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A health trust criticised for putting its patients at risk has cancelled a meeting where a vote of no confidence in the executive board was expected.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Taulupe Faletau is set to miss Wales' autumn internationals through injury.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
President Barack Obama has said the US is "not even close" to where it needs to be in bridging the divide between police and the communities they serve.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An Indian woman found on the Pakistani side of the border more than a decade ago has returned home after recently identifying her family in photos sent from across the border.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
NHS staff offered to work for free and donate their wages to help the Manchester bomb victims, the North West Ambulance Service has revealed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A former football agent slashed his estranged wife's sofa with a kitchen knife because he thought she loved it more than him, a court heard.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Almost exactly five years ago the UK software group Micro Focus was on the verge of being taken over.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A memorial dedicated to miners who worked at the last deep pit to close in north Wales has been unveiled in Flintshire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tens of thousands of workers marched through Revolution Square in Havana in Cuba's traditional May Day celebration.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
England will tour Bangladesh in October despite security concerns, the England and Wales Cricket Board has confirmed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
It was made famous as the King's Road in fantasy drama Game of Thrones - but now the road through the Dark Hedges could be closed to traffic permanently.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
There are signs that the slowdown in the Scottish economy is coming to an end and business optimism is returning, according to a new report.
| 36,867,464 | 14,451 | 1,007 | true |
Walmart driver Kevin Roper, 35, from Georgia, has been charged with death by auto, and is due in court on Wednesday.
Mr Morgan is improving but still critical after the multi-vehicle crash on a New Jersey highway on Saturday.
He is expected to remain in hospital for several weeks but comedian James McNair, known as Jimmy Mack, died.
They were travelling in a limo bus when it was struck by the Wal-Mart lorry.
Morgan, 45, suffered injuries including broken ribs, a broken nose, and a broken leg.
Authorities said Mr Roper, 35 apparently failed to slow for traffic and swerved at the last minute to avoid a crash. Instead, his truck hit the back of the limo bus.
In all, six vehicles were involved in the accident, but no one from the other cars was injured.
In a statement released on Saturday, Walmart president Bill Simon said the company would "take full responsibility" if authorities determined one of its trucks had caused the crash.
"We're praying for the family and friends of the passenger who lost his life in the terrible accident," the statement said.
The driver of Morgan's vehicle, Tyrone Gale said he had been disorientated after his vehicle flipped over, and could hear the passengers in distress.
"I climbed around and heard Tracy screaming for help," he told ABC News.
"I climbed up on the body of the limo bus … but I couldn't reach them."
Morgan's assistant, Jeffrey Millea and comedian Ardie Fuqua Jr were also critically injured in the crash and remain in hospital.
Morgan was a series regular on Saturday Night Live for seven years and earned an Emmy nomination for best supporting actor for his role in the sitcom 30 Rock.
He is known for his outrageous impressions, including Mike Tyson and Oprah Winfrey, but struggled with alcoholism.
During one notorious live TV appearance in Texas, he removed his shirt and announced "someone's gonna get pregnant".
After being arrested twice for drink driving and ordered to wear an ankle monitoring device, Morgan said it took tough talk from his then-teenage son to sober him up.
He found an ally in fellow Saturday Night Live star Tina Fey, who wrote Morgan into her sitcom 30 Rock, playing an exaggerated version of himself, called Tracy Jordan.
Fey described his character as a "lunatic comedy star", whose antics frequently threaten to derail a comedy TV show, loosely based on Saturday Night Live.
Following Saturday's crash, Morgan's 30 Rock co-star Alec Baldwin said: "Let's hope for a full and speedy recovery for Tracy and the others involved in that crash".
Chat show host Conan O'Brien added: "Thinking about Tracy Morgan and his family today. Hoping for a fast recovery for this sweet and uniquely funny man."
Morgan's spokesperson, Lewis Kay, said Morgan's family was "tremendously overwhelmed and appreciative of the outpouring of love and support from his fans".
Police in the northern town of Bareilly say they used the instant messaging service to send out the boy's photo to several mobile phones in the area.
A man travelling on a train, who had received the alert, recognised the boy sitting near him and called the police.
India has more than 900 million mobile users and WhatsApp is hugely popular.
The app, used by more than 400 million people globally every month, was bought by social networking site Facebook recently for $19bn (£12bn).
By Tushar BanerjeeBBC Hindi, Delhi
WhatsApp is hugely popular in India because it is easy to use and carries no advertisements.
The service is available on Apple, Android and Blackberry platforms and it's dirt cheap - for the first year a subscriber pays nothing and thereafter, only 55 rupees (90 cents; 54 pence) every year.
India's two main political parties - the governing Congress party and the opposition BJP - are using WhatsApp to contact voters before the elections.
Public relations executives routinely communicate with their clients on this app and police in several Indian cities informally use it to reach out to wider groups.
In the case of the missing boy in Bareilly, police took a photo of the pamphlet which had a picture of the boy and his father's contact details.
It was sent by WhatsApp to the nearby police stations and the boy's family and relatives who then forwarded the message to everyone in their address books.
Daanish, the man who spotted the boy on the train, received the Whatsapp from a friend known to the boy's father.
"We used various ways to publicise the boy's story. We printed pamphlets and pasted them around Bareilly. We uploaded a digital copy of the poster on WhatsApp and sent it out as a chain message," senior police officer SP Singh told BBC Hindi's Tushar Banerjee.
"By chance, the message reached the right person," he said.
"The message reached Daanish who had boarded the Doon Express train from Moradabad town [90km or 56 miles from Bareilly]. He recognised the boy from his photo," Mr Singh added.
The boy's father Paramjit Singh said his son had left home at around 0700 local time (0130 GMT) on Sunday for a ride on his bicycle, but did not return for many hours.
"We called all our relatives and friends, but couldn't trace him. So we went to the police for help," he added.
It is not clear how the child ended up on the train and police say they are investigating what happened during the hours that he left home and was finally traced, our correspondent says.
There have been instances of families using social networking tools to trace missing people in other Indian cities too.
Last month, another missing 11-year-old boy in Uttar Pradesh was traced to the Delhi railway station after his family publicised his case on Facebook and WhatsApp.
Maamoun Abdulkarim confirmed there was a large explosion within its perimeter but said the basic structure of the 2,000-year-old site was intact.
But the extent of the damage is unclear with witnesses unable to get close to the temple.
Initial reports said the site had been partially destroyed.
Mr Abdulkarim, head of the Syrian Department of Antiquities and Museums, said "our information is provisional, but it indicates that any damage done was partial, and the basic structure is still standing".
Last week, IS blew up the much smaller Baalshamin temple at the site. However, Mr Abdulkarim says that the explosion at the Temple of Bel was "different" to the "huge quantity of explosives" used to destroy the Baalshamin.
However, he said they would have to wait for pictures to emerge as "witnesses can't get close enough to be sure what damage was done."
It was several days after the initial reports of the destruction of the Temple of Baalshamin that IS itself put out pictures showing its militants blowing up the site.
One Palmyra resident earlier told the Associated Press news agency there had been "total destruction" at the Temple of Bel.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said parts of the ancient temple had been destroyed.
IS militants seized control of Palmyra in May, sparking fears for the World Heritage site.
The world-famous Greco-Roman ruins are in the desert north-east of the Syrian capital, Damascus.
The Temple of Bel is dedicated to the Palmyrene gods and was one of the best preserved parts of the ancient city.
IS has previously targeted historical sites in areas under its control in Iraq and Syria, regarding their ancient temples and sculptures as heretical.
IS threat to 'Venice of the Sands'
Syrian ruins that influenced the West
Palmyra 'was archaeologist's passion'
Your memories of Palmyra
The German firm said it would create more than 1,000 jobs via a €700m (£500m) investment in new facilities and assembly line.
Porsche's Mission E, revealed as a concept car earlier this year, is due to go on sale by the end of the decade.
The four-door car's range will be 310 miles, and hit 62mph in 3.5 seconds.
This pitches the Mission E - a name unlikely to stay once the launch date nears - against Tesla's powerful Model S.
Porsche is owned by Volkswagen Group, currently embroiled in 'dieselgate', which has said it would invest in a range of all-electric and hybrid vehicles across its brands over the next few years.
Dr Oliver Blume, chairman of Porsche's executive board said putting Mission E into full development was the "beginning of a new chapter in the history of the sports car".
BBC business correspondent Theo Leggett said it seemed clear that the Mission E was a response to the rise of Tesla, the Silicon Valley brainchild of billionaire Elon Musk.
"The fast and luxurious Tesla Model S has already redefined what you can expect from an electric car, although the company is yet to make a profit. Now Porsche is joining the party. Battery power is suddenly looking rather fashionable," our correspondent said.
Porsche unveils its Mission E concept
Porsche said the car would be charged via an 800-volt unit specially developed for the vehicle, which is twice as powerful as today's quick-charge system.
The lithium-ion batteries integrated within the vehicle floor will have enough power for 80% of its mileage range range after 15 minutes charging, Porsche said in a statement. The vehicle can optionally be 'refuelled' wirelessly by induction via a coil set into a garage floor.
The four-seat car features energy storage technology derived from the Le Mans-winning Porsche 919 Hybrid race car.
The €700 Mission E investment was part of a €1bn spending plan on new facilities announced by Porsche on Friday.
The 26-year-old joins the Bluebirds from French Ligue 2 club Bourg-Peronnas and has already linked up with Neil Warnock's squad for pre-season training.
Born in the northern French city of Chantilly, Damour has represented France up to Under-20 level.
Damour has spent his career playing his football in France and Belgium.
His previous clubs include Strasbourg, White Star Bruxelles, Fréjus and Saint-Raphaël.
Damour said he was pleased to have signed for the Welsh club and was looking forward to the challenges of the forthcoming season.
"I'm very happy to be here, it's a beautiful place," Damour told the club's official website.
"I'm happy to come to play in the Championship, it's a very good opportunity for me and my career.
"I'm a midfield player. I am box-to-box. I like defending and attacking. I have so much energy to give."
Damour becomes the Welsh Championship club's sixth signing of the summer, following the arrivals of Neil Etheridge, Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, Callum Paterson, Lee Camp and Danny Ward.
Cardiff also announced on Thursday that veteran striker Rickie Lambert has had his contact terminated by mutual consent.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Nemanja Nikolic's 56th-minute penalty at a rain-soaked Aviva Stadium put the Poles ahead before Aleksandar Prijovic doubled the lead in injury-time.
Prijovic's 94th-minute second after breaking free leaves Dundalk up against it in Tuesday's return leg in Warsaw.
League of Ireland side Dundalk had looked composed before conceding.
Dundalk - the club that came from nowhere
Andy Boyle was penalised for the spot kick as he attempted to block a Steeven Langil shot after Nikolic had rounded Dundalk keeper Gary Rogers.
It looked a harsh decision but worse was to follow for Dundalk with virtually the last kick of the game as substitute Prijovic broke free to lift the ball over Rogers.
The Irish champions have already banked more than £4m for their European exploits although a place in the Champions League group stage would yield around £8m more for a Dundalk side who picked up £92,500 for retaining the League of Ireland title last season.
Dundalk do have the safety net of a Europa League group-stage spot even if they fail to overcome the Polish champions.
In front of more than 30,000 spectators, Dundalk started brightly with the lively former Derry City player Patrick McEleney heading over the best first-half chance in the second minute.
Legia struggled for fluency in the first period with Michal Kuchararczyk's 25th-minute half-volley - which flashed just wide - their only real attempt at goal.
Dundalk continued to look the more enterprising side immediately after the restart as Sean Gannon headed straight at Arkadiusz Malarz and Daryl Horgan fired straight at the Legia keeper.
But against the run of play, Legia were ahead on 56 minutes as Nikolic sent Rogers the wrong way from the penalty spot after Langil's shot had cannoned off Boyle's trailing right arm.
Buoyed by the goal, Legia took control with Kuchararczyk twice going close but Dundalk rallied late on as substitute Ciaran Kilduff blasted over with only two minutes left.
A 1-0 deficit would have seen Dundalk going to Warsaw believing that the tie was not beyond them, but after Prijovic netted in the fourth minute of injury-time as the Irish side did not even have the opportunity to kick-off again.
Dundalk manager Stephen Kenny: "It's a really appalling (penalty) decision to swing the game.
"Andy Boyle has thrown himself at it to try and block it - brave defender that he is.
"His hand is not in an unnatural position - his arm is close to his body, so it's certainly not a penalty.
"We were the better team up to that and there was no way we deserved to lose that game 2-0."
Legia Warsaw coach Besnik Hasi: "I'm really pleased we didn't concede. We scored two and could've scored more."
Match ends, Dundalk 0, Legia Warsaw 2.
Second Half ends, Dundalk 0, Legia Warsaw 2.
Goal! Dundalk 0, Legia Warsaw 2. Aleksandar Prijovic (Legia Warsaw) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tomasz Jodlowiec with a through ball.
Corner, Legia Warsaw. Conceded by Ronan Finn.
Stephen O'Donnell (Dundalk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mihail Aleksandrov (Legia Warsaw).
Attempt missed. Ciarán Kilduff (Dundalk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Ronan Finn.
Robbie Benson (Dundalk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tomasz Jodlowiec (Legia Warsaw).
Substitution, Legia Warsaw. Mihail Aleksandrov replaces Steeven Langil.
Foul by Ciarán Kilduff (Dundalk).
Lukasz Broz (Legia Warsaw) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Legia Warsaw. Aleksandar Prijovic replaces Nemanja Nikolic.
Substitution, Dundalk. Ciarán Kilduff replaces David McMillan.
Attempt saved. Thibault Moulin (Legia Warsaw) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Nemanja Nikolic.
Substitution, Dundalk. Robbie Benson replaces Chris Shields.
Substitution, Legia Warsaw. Michal Kopczynski replaces Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe.
Corner, Legia Warsaw. Conceded by Chris Shields.
Attempt blocked. Thibault Moulin (Legia Warsaw) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Igor Lewczuk (Legia Warsaw) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe.
Foul by Igor Lewczuk (Legia Warsaw).
David McMillan (Dundalk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Adam Hlousek (Legia Warsaw) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Adam Hlousek (Legia Warsaw).
Chris Shields (Dundalk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Tomasz Jodlowiec (Legia Warsaw) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nemanja Nikolic.
Attempt missed. Steeven Langil (Legia Warsaw) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Thibault Moulin following a corner.
Corner, Legia Warsaw. Conceded by Ronan Finn.
Substitution, Dundalk. Ronan Finn replaces John Mountney.
Offside, Legia Warsaw. Tomasz Jodlowiec tries a through ball, but Nemanja Nikolic is caught offside.
Offside, Legia Warsaw. Lukasz Broz tries a through ball, but Thibault Moulin is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Michal Kucharczyk (Legia Warsaw) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Daryl Horgan (Dundalk) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Igor Lewczuk (Legia Warsaw).
John Mountney (Dundalk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Dundalk 0, Legia Warsaw 1. Nemanja Nikolic (Legia Warsaw) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Andrew Boyle (Dundalk) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Penalty conceded by Andrew Boyle (Dundalk) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Steeven Langil (Legia Warsaw) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nemanja Nikolic.
Foul by Michal Pazdan (Legia Warsaw).
Dame Sally Davies said when she reaches for a glass of wine she questions whether she wants the wine or to raise her risk of breast cancer.
Speaking at a science and technology committee hearing, she urged other people to do the same.
It comes as official UK figures show alcohol-related deaths are rising.
Although alcohol-related deaths have fallen since peaking in 2008, experts are concerned the rates are going up again.
Data published by the Office for National Statistics show there were 8,697 alcohol-related deaths registered in the UK in 2014 - 14.3 per 100,000 of the population.
This compares to 14 deaths per 100,000 in 2013.
Dame Sally said: "I would like people to make their choice knowing the issues and do as I do when I reach for my glass of wine and think, 'Do I want my glass of wine or do I want to raise my risk of breast cancer?'. And I take a decision each time I have a glass."
Recent changes to official guidelines recommend both men and women should have no more than 14 units of alcohol spread over a few days.
The changes came about because of mounting evidence that there is no safe limit in terms of health risks such as cancer.
Previously limits were set at 21 units for men and 14 units for women per week.
Tom Smith, of charity Alcohol Concern, said: "These latest figures show that alcohol-related deaths are back on the rise.
"The figures also highlight the dangers of middle-aged drinking, with the highest number of alcohol-related deaths among 55 to 64-year olds."
Dame Sally Davies was speaking at a committee meeting to discuss the new guidelines among other health issues.
Public Health England experts say they are putting together a report on how to reduce the harms caused by alcohol.
The 24-year-old South African wing scored Dragons' only try against the Italian team, who had conceded eight against Ospreys a week earlier.
"A win's a win and any fan base should be happy with that," said Howard.
"We would like the supporters just to support us and not scrutinise everything we do."
Dragons face a much tougher test in their next Pro12 game when Munster visit Rodney Parade on Saturday, 17 September.
Howard, who joined the Welsh region from Northampton in the summer, spent three months with the Irish province in the 2014-15 season, making his debut at Rodney Parade.
He said the win over Zebre was more important than the quality of the performance.
"I understand that people have their opinions but at the end of the day it was four points - that's what we needed, that's what we were going for however it came about," he added.
Media playback is not supported on this device
"Every team makes mistakes and it's our responsibility to put it right and we're going to do that the best we can but we need the support instead of the scrutiny.
"It brings a lot of negativity.
"You want positive energy from the crowd. It spurs you on and makes you do better - makes you want to drive over the line and score that try, but when they're doing that it's a sapping kind of thing.
"We're going to need the support (against Munster) because you feel like you're under pressure not only from the other team but from the crowd for all your decisions."
Dragons finished third from bottom in the 2015-16 season - with only Zebre and fellow-Italian side Benetton Treviso below them.
Coach Kingsley Jones conceded the performance against Zebre was unimpressive - coming a week after a 29-8 defeat by Ulster.
The sand has been dredged by boat from a sandbank 20 miles (32km) out to sea, then pumped onto Colwyn Bay beach through a pipeline.
The work, which cost around £6m, has been taking place for the past couple of weeks.
Engineers say the beach once had more sand but it has been washed away over the past few decades.
Councillor Mike Priestley, Conwy council's cabinet member for highways, environment and sustainability, has said the work would protect the promenade, railway and A55 from flooding and boost the local economy.
The sand helps the sea defences by reducing the impact of the fierce waves which regularly batter the promenade, particularly during the winter months.
The work is part of a bigger project which has included a new sea defence structure further along the seafront to stop the sand being washed away in future.
There are also plans to pump more sand onto the beach in future.
Manannán Mac Lir, which is made out of fibre glass and stainless steel, was stolen from Binevenagh Mountain near Limavady in County Londonderry.
The statue had became a popular tourist attraction in the area since its installation about a year ago.
Sculptor John Sutton, who has worked on the award-winning Game of Thrones series, has spoken of his shock.
He said it would have taken a number of men with angle grinders several hours to remove the figure from its base.
"I'm very disturbed by this," Mr Sutton said. "It's unreal.
"Some statues are stolen for their bronze. But this was cut down at the base and the materials would not have been worth stealing.
"I made it out of clay first and then a silicone mould, before I cast it. It took me months and months to make and five or six men to carry it up there and install it.
"It was very heavy and would have taken a long time to remove."
Manannán Mac Lir is a sea deity in Irish mythology and is also said to have been the first ruler of the Isle of Man.
Manand is the old Irish name for the Isle of Man and as his surname suggests, he was the son of Lir, meaning sea.
People in the Limavady area tell of the presence of a sea god in Lough Foyle, County Londonderry, and the widespread practice of making offerings to deities in Celtic times.
Those who made off with the sea god left a wooden cross with the words 'You shall have no other gods before me' in its place.
Mr Sutton's £10,000 creation overlooked Benone Beach, Magilligan, Limavady and Donegal and was part of Limavady's sculpture trail.
"I was very proud of this. It was very popular with photographers," he said.
According to Limavady Borough Council's website, people in the area believe that the spirit of Manannán Mac Lir at Gortmore Viewing Point is released during fierce storms.
Some elderly folk in the area are still heard to remark "Manannán is angry today," when the River Foyle is rough and refer to the angry waves as "Manannán's seahorses."
According to mythology, Manannán had many magical possessions.
He had a horse that could travel over land and sea and owned a metal boat, which obeyed the thoughts of its sailors.
The police said they were notified of the theft at about 10:25 GMT on Wednesday.
"This statue of Manannán Mac Lir was in the area of Gortmore viewing point and is part of the Myths and Legends sculpture trail," Constable Nelson said.
"Anyone with any information about this theft is asked to contact Limavady police station on the non-emergency number 101."
German politics is suddenly looking a lot less predictable and potentially less stable.
It's all because of the astonishing success of the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany (AfD). Many German voters appear rattled by the large numbers of refugees and migrants arriving in Germany - 1.1 million in 2015 alone.
Politicians are now getting down to the nitty-gritty of coalition-building. But all the cards have been thrown up in the air so it's a question of seeing where they will settle. And it's going to get messy.
Papers say Merkel 'paying price'
Profile: Angela Merkel
AfD leader Frauke Petry
Each of the three regional premiers should be able to hang on to power.
Popular Green party Premier Winfried Kretschmann, of the south-western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, has shown that the Greens' success in what used to be a conservative heartland is not just a blip from a 2011 election held in the aftermath of Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.
Centre-left SPD Premier Malu Dreyer, of Rhineland-Palatinate, confidently saw off the CDU's promising rising star Julia Kloeckner by rather bizarrely doing a better job at imitating Mrs Merkel's centrist stance on refugees than the chancellor's own candidate.
CDU Premier Reiner Haseloff also held on in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, where AfD polled almost a quarter of the vote.
But this is far from a continuation of the status quo. They will have to govern with new, and in some cases untested, coalition partners.
Gone are the days of two major parties, one on the right, one on the left.
German politics has become splintered.
Smaller, more radical parties are gaining influence. And adventurous coalition combinations are now possible, including in Saxony-Anhalt, where a distinctly uncomfortable menage-a-trois between centre-right CDU, centre-left SPD and the left-wing Greens looks like the only feasible option.
The right-wing AfD's tough populist talk has attracted voters angered by the influx of migrants, chipping away at the traditional support base on both the left and the right - conservative voters who are disenchanted with Angela Merkel's pro-refugee approach as well as blue-collar left-wingers who feel nervous that state spending on migrants will undermine their own position in society.
The big question is what this means for Angela Merkel's stance on refugees. Closed borders along the Balkan route have effectively already slammed shut her open door invitation to Syrian refugees.
But Mrs Merkel's pro-refugee rhetoric has barely changed. She still believes Germany, and indeed the rest of Europe, has a responsibility to shelter people fleeing war. She refuses to contemplate a cap on numbers coming to Germany.
"We need a European solution and this solution needs time," she told journalists in Berlin on Monday afternoon.
So have these elections undermined Chancellor Merkel's leadership? Yes and no.
The gains of the AfD will certainly embolden conservative critics within her own ranks, who accuse her of betraying right-wing values, by dragging her party to the centre-ground.
Awkwardly, many of Mrs Merkel's supporters on the refugee issue are in opposing left-wing parties. Not a great help when it comes to managing her own political bloc.
But Angela Merkel still has no credible rivals within her government and no other party or politician has yet come up with a popular viable solution for the migrant crisis either.
Despite the success of the AfD, this election campaign has shown that her approach still enjoys the support of mainstream society.
It was the candidates, whether on the left or the right, who backed her approach who won out.
In Rhineland-Palatinate for example, voters were treated to the astonishing sight of a TV duel in which the centre-left Malu Dreyer argued with CDU Julia Kloeckner over who was most loyal to Mrs Merkel's position on refugees.
It is not so much Angela Merkel who has been punished by these elections, as her increasingly divided government.
The 25-year-old will join the newly promoted Premier League club on 1 July.
Albion's first-choice keeper, David Stockdale, turned down a new contract and is set to join Championship side Birmingham City.
Ryan, who has won 32 caps, is in the Australia squad for the Confederations Cup in Russia starting on Saturday.
He joined Valencia on a six-year deal from Belgian side Club Brugge in 2015, but made only 10 appearances for the Spanish side, spending last season back in Belgium on loan at Genk.
"I'm delighted that we've been able to attract Mathew to the club, and he will certainly be an excellent addition to the squad in time for our first season in the Premier League," said Brighton manager Chris Hughton.
"We're very much looking forward to working with him for the season ahead."
Ryan made his international debut in 2012 and played all three matches as Australia were knocked out of the group stages of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Roger Lewis was speaking as he marked 100 days in the job, after leaving the Welsh Rugby Union to take up the role.
Air passenger duty is being devolved to Scotland and Northern Ireland but remains a sticking point in discussions over new powers for Wales.
Rival airports such as Bristol say it would hand Cardiff an unfair advantage.
"Devolving that responsibility to Wales as it's been devolved to Northern Ireland, to Scotland, is only right and fair," said Mr Lewis.
"I think it will happen, because I think it will actually create a great opportunity not only for the airport, but also for the MRO - maintenance, repair and overhaul sector in Wales."
He said the UK was the second biggest player in the worldwide MRO business, with Wales sharing a 20% slice of that sector.
It includes the flag-carrying giant British Airways, which has recently confirmed its Boeing fleet would be serviced at its centre next to airport, where it employs about 600 people.
"This is so important for Wales, that we have an international airport that connects with that particular sector and that's why I think air passenger duty is part of the play to create a sustainable airport here that can play a broader role beyond passengers," added Mr Lewis.
He said he had held "generous" and "mature" discussions with UK ministers on the issue, including Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb, and praised the support from First Minister Carwyn Jones.
Looking ahead to the coming year, Mr Lewis said he wanted to target "significant passenger growth in 2016", building on a 13% growth in numbers in 2015, and announced the airport would be putting on four more routes with operator Vueling to Spain for the summer.
"It's about increasing the destinations for our passengers, giving them the best prices possible, at times that suit their needs, wrapped in a fabulous passenger experience here at the airport," he said.
The project to restore the Muslim Burial Ground in Horsell should be completed by the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WWI, on 4 August 2014.
Work on the Grade II listed structure near Woking is being undertaken by the Horsell Common Preservation Society.
Once restored, it will be used as a garden of peace and remembrance.
It is hoped the first phase of work, which has been part-funded by English Heritage, will be completed by November.
The ceremony was led by Imam Asim Hafiz, Muslim Chaplain to the British Armed Forces, and Reverend Ian Brackley, the Suffragan Bishop of Dorking.
Leader of Woking Borough Council, John Kingsbury, who also attended the event on Thursday, said the heritage site held significance "not only locally but also for the descendants of those who gave their lives in the First World War".
More than one million troops from pre-independence India fought for Great Britain during World War I.
Wounded soldiers were brought to hospitals in the South East.
Hindu and Sikh soldiers were taken to crematoriums, but Muslim soldiers did not have a burial ground until 1915. Woking's site was completed in 1917.
According to the preservation society, there were 17 burials at the site in 1917 and each was marked with a round arched headstone facing west, in accordance with Islamic tradition.
A cadet from the Sandhurst military academy was buried there in 1920, before the War Graves Commission took over the ground's upkeep in 1921.
During World War II, a further eight Muslim soldiers were interred at the site, including three from the Free French forces.
In 1968, after a spate of vandalism, all the burials were removed to Brookwood cemetery and the ground was de-consecrated.
The structure remains a Registered War Memorial.
The Dutchman, 33, became the first player in more than three years to score twice for Fenerbahce in the Kitalararasi Derbi.
He also scored for Feyenoord against Ajax in De Klassieker, for Arsenal against Tottenham and for Manchester United against Manchester City.
Fenerbahce are third in the Turkish Super Lig with Galatasaray in fifth.
Besiktas lead the table, a point ahead of Istanbul Basaksehir.
Meri Huws said 26 bodies must now meet Welsh language standards, making certain services available in Welsh.
The organisations involved include the Welsh Government, local councils and the three national parks.
The rules are intended to apply to further bodies in the future.
Some private firms are amongst the bodies that are due to come under the regulations at some point.
The regulations, which came into force on Wednesday, include requiring bodies to make it clear that they welcome correspondence with the public in Welsh and giving the language priority on bilingual signs.
They also give employees new rights to use Welsh in the workplace.
Speaking to BBC Radio Cymru's Post Cyntaf programme, Ms Huws said the changes were "exciting".
The Home Office said it would not conduct immigration checks on survivors and those coming forward with information.
Labour called for a wider "amnesty".
Meanwhile, ministers have ordered a taskforce to help run Kensington and Chelsea Council, which has faced heavy criticism for its handling of disaster.
The specialist team will take over the running of key services, including housing and the longer term recovery of the area in North Kensington.
At least 80 people died in the fire on 14 June.
The Home Office said its priority was to see residents "deal with the extremely difficult circumstances" so they could start to rebuild their lives.
In a written statement to Parliament, Home Office minister Brandon Lewis said: "Everyone affected by this tragedy needs reassurance that the government is there for them at this terrible time and we will continue to provide the support they need to help them through the difficult days, weeks and months to come."
He said extending the period of leave to remain for foreign residents affected by the fire would also allow them to assist the police and other authorities with their inquiries.
Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the government should give permanent residency to the residents.
"Some survivors have literally lost everything in this horrific tragedy, all their possessions, homes and loved ones," she said.
"The idea that on top of this they could be deported later is grotesque."
A statement from the Met Police said 250 specialist investigators were working on the inquiry into the fire and the last visible human remains were removed from Grenfell Tower on Monday.
Met Police Commander Stuart Cundy said there had been a total of 87 "recoveries" but, due to the "catastrophic damage" inside, that did not mean 87 people.
So far, 21 people have been formally identified and their families informed.
More inquests into the deaths of victims have been opened, with the Westminster coroner hearing the body of one of the oldest people to have been killed was identified by dental records.
Dr Fiona Wilcox was told the body of 84-year-old Sheila, formerly known as Sheila Smith, was found on the 16th floor, while Vincent Chiejina, 60, was recovered from the 17th floor and identified by DNA.
Earlier, housing minister Alok Sharma fought back tears as he told the Commons of hearing "harrowing accounts" from survivors, saying it had been the most "humbling and moving experience of my life".
Only 14 out of the 158 affected families have accepted offers of temporary accommodation but ministers say no-one will be forced to move.
Mr Sharma said 19 families "have not yet been ready to engage" in the process of being rehoused, while others were waiting for offers of permanent tenancy and many were still in hotels.
But he acknowledged some residents still had a "lack of trust" in the authorities.
Elizabeth Campbell, who is taking over as the new Kensington and Chelsea Council leader, denied the council was "being taken over by outside commissioners" after the government sent in a taskforce to run some of its services.
"We have asked people to come because we need more help because this is something on a national scale," she said.
"We will do absolutely everything we can as a council to help our community and to help our community heal."
The mood is tense in the area surrounding Grenfell Tower.
Many residents have been living in small hotel rooms, with four people crammed into each room.
They are desperately trying to carry on with their lives by taking their children to school and going to work. But the stark reality is that they are not in a place they can call home.
Both adults and children are having trouble sleeping, waking up to nightmares of the tower burning. One parent explained that his daughter kept drawing pictures of the building on fire.
Despite counselling sessions on offer at local community centres, residents say they want people to visit them at their hotel.
They feel the help should be coming to them. They say they should not be going in search of help.
Many are traumatised and feel they are not being treated like victims. This is causing hostility and anger towards the services.
Many have also turned down offers of temporary accommodation.
Residents say they want to move into somewhere permanent and nearby. Many explain they have been offered numerous places that simply are not suitable due to the size, location and disabled access.
The newly-elected Labour MP for Kensington, MP Emma Dent Coad, told Mr Sharma that some residents were being offered "totally unsuitable accommodation".
The retired judge chairing the public inquiry into the fire has promised to hear from people directly affected.
Sir Martin Moore-Bick, who has faced calls to stand down, initially suggested the inquiry may not be broad enough to satisfy survivors.
Launching a consultation document, the retired judge said: "I am determined to establish the causes of the tragedy, and ensure that the appropriate lessons are learnt.
"To produce a report as quickly as possible, with clear recommendations for action, I will listen to people and consider a broad range of evidence, including on the role of the relevant public authorities and contractors, in order to help me answer the important questions."
Earlier, the government said 190 buildings in England that underwent fire tests on their cladding - a renovation that is thought to have contributed to the spread of the Grenfell Tower fire - have failed. It also announced that cladding from one building had passed the test - the only sample to do so to date.
In the afternoon, emergency teams working on the shell of Grenfell Tower were temporarily withdrawn after sensors in the building showed it had shifted more than 5mm.
The public were said to be at "no risk" and the work later restarted.
But the use of air horns to alert crews was reported to have "upset" some neighbours of nearby blocks, prompting officials to say the practice would not be repeated in future.
Eden Hazard almost scored on his return, keeper Oleksandr Shovkovskiy tipping his attempt on to a post.
Chelsea had a strong penalty appeal waved away when Cesc Fabregas went down after a Serhiy Rybalka challenge.
Willian's free-kick hit the underside of the bar before Asmir Begovic denied Derlis Gonzalez in Ukraine.
Jose Mourinho's side have now won just one out of five in all competitions.
Yet this was a much improved display on the European stage by the reigning Premier League champions following their 2-1 defeat away to Porto on 29 September.
Porto's 2-0 win over Maccabi Tel-Aviv means Chelsea remain third in the group with four points from three games, one behind second-placed Kiev and three adrift of leaders Porto.
Relive the action from Kiev's Olympic Stadium as it happened
The build-up to the game was dominated by Hazard. Would the Belgium international start after being left out of the starting line-up against Aston Villa at the weekend?
Hazard was indeed restored to the midfield yet Mourinho sprung a surprise by playing Kurt Zouma at right-back for the first time in a Chelsea shirt while Cesar Azpilicueta was left-back.
Media playback is not supported on this device
That was to nullify the threat of Andriy Yarmolenko, who the Chelsea manager had identified as Kiev's danger man.
The tactics worked a treat as Yarmolenko rarely threatened and the Blues turned in their best 45-minute display of the season in the opening half.
Fabregas played in a more forward role, Ramires showed great energy in midfield, Willian was a threat from set-pieces and Diego Costa should have scored.
There will understandably be frustration from Mourinho and his players that they failed to turn their first-half chances into goals.
However, this could yet be a priceless point for the Blues in terms of qualifying for the last 16.
They are outside the top two qualifying spots at the halfway stage of the group campaign but two of their remaining three games - against Kiev and Porto - are at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea will also be confident when they travel to Israel to face Maccabi Tel-Aviv, bottom of the group without a point, on 24 November.
Dynamo Kiev coach Sergei Rebrov: "I am happy that we motivated ourselves to play against a very strong team. I think the guys deserved praise."
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho: "We are much more solid now.
"Two matches, two clean sheets. No problems defensively. The team was really solid and compact, the midfield really strong.
"We are recovering that compactness, solidarity, effort, tactical discipline - these qualities that are very important when you are not flying, you are not scoring goals, you are not playing with that confidence and attacking flair."
Chelsea's next Champions League fixture is against Dynamo Kiev at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 4 November. Before that they face West Ham United away (24 October) and Liverpool at home (31 October) in the Premier League.
Match ends, Dynamo Kyiv 0, Chelsea 0.
Second Half ends, Dynamo Kyiv 0, Chelsea 0.
Foul by Danilo Silva (Dynamo Kyiv).
Oscar (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Hand ball by Domagoj Vida (Dynamo Kyiv).
Attempt missed. Willian (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Corner, Dynamo Kyiv. Conceded by Gary Cahill.
Attempt blocked. Serhiy Rybalka (Dynamo Kyiv) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Domagoj Vida.
Corner, Dynamo Kyiv. Conceded by Kurt Zouma.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Aleksandar Dragovic.
Foul by Denis Garmash (Dynamo Kyiv).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Denis Garmash (Dynamo Kyiv).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Chelsea. Willian tries a through ball, but John Terry is caught offside.
Substitution, Dynamo Kyiv. Denis Garmash replaces Vitaliy Buyalsky.
Foul by Andriy Yarmolenko (Dynamo Kyiv).
Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Derlis González (Dynamo Kyiv) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Andriy Yarmolenko.
Substitution, Dynamo Kyiv. Moraes replaces Artem Kravets.
Vitaliy Buyalsky (Dynamo Kyiv) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Oscar (Chelsea).
Vitaliy Buyalsky (Dynamo Kyiv) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Oscar (Chelsea).
Derlis González (Dynamo Kyiv) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kurt Zouma (Chelsea).
Substitution, Chelsea. Oscar replaces Cesc Fàbregas.
Attempt missed. Domagoj Vida (Dynamo Kyiv) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Derlis González following a set piece situation.
Derlis González (Dynamo Kyiv) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kurt Zouma (Chelsea).
Vitaliy Buyalsky (Dynamo Kyiv) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nemanja Matic (Chelsea).
Kurt Zouma (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Domagoj Vida (Dynamo Kyiv) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kurt Zouma (Chelsea).
Foul by Danilo Silva (Dynamo Kyiv).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Vitaliy Buyalsky (Dynamo Kyiv) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Vitaliy Buyalsky (Dynamo Kyiv).
Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Peter Ball, 83, formerly Bishop of Gloucester and Bishop of Lewes, last month admitted abusing 18 young men in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
He was cautioned for one act of gross indecency in 1993 and resigned, but was allowed to work in churches until 2010.
Ball will be sentenced on Wednesday.
Survivors of sexual abuse have been highly critical of the Church's handling of the case, even before Ball pleaded guilty.
His latest arrest came in 2011 but only after a retired police officer working in safeguarding for Lambeth Palace found files relating to the case and passed them on to Sussex Police.
The Church said the review - which will be published next year - will examine its co-operation with the police and the extent to which it shared information.
"It will also assess the extent to which the Church both properly assessed the possible risk that Bishop Ball might pose to others and responded adequately to concerns and representations submitted by survivors," a spokesman said.
The archbishop of Canterbury in 1993, George Carey - now Lord Carey - was aware of the case at the time and has denied interfering in it.
Last month, he said he only contacted the Crown Prosecution Service after Ball had been cautioned, saying he wanted to "make sure justice had been done".
A lawyer representing four of Ball's victims said the Church "should no longer be allowed to police itself".
David Greenwood, head of child abuse cases at Switalskis Solicitors, said it needed to establish an independent body to "accept and investigate allegations of abuse".
Following Ball's guilty pleas at the Old Bailey last month, the Church offered an "unreserved apology" to victims of Ball, who was Bishop of Lewes between 1977 and 1992 and Bishop of Gloucester from 1992 to 1993.
Ball, now of Langport, in Somerset, admitted misconduct in public office by "misusing his position in authority to manipulate and prevail upon others for his own sexual gratification" in relation to 16 men between 1977 and 1992.
He also admitted indecently assaulting two victims between 1980 and 1983 and between 1990 and 1991.
Amnesty says oil companies often blame oil spills on sabotage in order to get out of paying compensation when in fact corroded pipes are the cause.
The report says the process of cleaning up the oil spills is completely discredited.
Shell said it "firmly rejects unsubstantiated assertions".
It highlighted the issue of theft of crude oil, which it said "remains the main cause of oil pollution in the Delta".
Oil spills are having an appalling environmental impact on the Niger Delta and they are happening at an alarming rate, says the BBC's Will Ross in Lagos.
By Will RossBBC News, Lagos
When I have met people in the affected communities in the Niger Delta, they have complained that their own input into the oil spill investigation process is often trumped by the word of the oil company, and they also cite intimidation by the security forces.
What is needed is a robust independent body to oversee the investigation because sometimes the oil companies are, to use a sporting analogy, playing the referee in a game in which they are themselves accused of committing reckless tackles.
Partly because of the rampant poverty in the oil-rich Niger Delta, the focus is on the money rather than on what is best for the environment. Some people are willing to cause an oil spill with the aim of gaining financially from the funds allocated to clean up the environment.
There are even cases where employees of a major oil company have tried to bid for a contract to clean up a spill. It is a tragedy but oil spills pay.
In its report, Amnesty identifies a "staggering" 474 spills in 2012 in one area alone, operated by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company - a subsidiary of Italian firm ENI.
Agip's head of operations in Nigeria, Ciro Pagano, told the BBC's Newsday programme that all the spills were recorded so there was little room for dispute.
He also said that Eni paid all compensation due to local communities, according to Nigerian law.
Working with a local human rights group, Amnesty studied the oil spill investigation process in Nigeria over six months.
It claims there is "no legitimate basis" for the oil companies' claims that the vast majority of spills are caused by sabotage and theft.
Members of the local community together with oil company staff and government officials are supposed to investigate oil spills, but Amnesty calls this Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) process "wholly unreliable" because, it says, the companies themselves are the primary investigators and the process lacks transparency.
It says this means that both the causes and severity of oil spills may therefore be misrecorded, sometimes meaning affected communities miss out on compensation.
"Sabotage and theft of oil are serious problems in the Niger Delta," the report acknowledges.
"However, international oil companies are overstating the case in an effort to deflect attention away from the many oil spills that are due to corrosion and equipment failure. Moreover, securing oil infrastructure against such acts is - to a substantial extent - the responsibility of the operator."
It says the majority of the report's findings relate to Shell as the primary operator in the Niger Delta - though it acknowledges improvements to Shell's JIV process since 2011.
It also points out that Nigerian Agip suffered more than double the number of spills as Shell, though it operates over a smaller area.
Mr Pagano accepted that it was a "very serious, complex problem" and called for all stakeholders to work together to solve it.
Shell said it "firmly rejects" the claims.
"We seek to bring greater transparency and independent oversight to the issue of oil spills, and will continue to find ways to enhance this."
It said the JIV process was a federal process the company could not unilaterally change.
Stolen oil, Shell said, costs Nigeria billions of dollars in lost revenue.
"Co-ordinated action from the industry, government, security forces, civil society and others is needed to end this criminality, which remains the main cause of oil pollution in the Delta today," Shell said.
It said it regretted "that some NGOs continue to take a campaigning approach rather than focusing on on-the-ground solutions that bring societal benefits".
Chris Limerick, 49, from Whitley Bay, had been receiving treatment ever since the collision on 20 January at the Number 1 industrial estate off Medomsley Road.
His Ducati bike was in collision with a Kia Picanto as the car turned next to a factory unit at about 17:30 GMT.
Durham Police said Mr Limerick died at St Oswald's Hospice in Newcastle.
Police said enquiries into the collision are continuing.
First-half tries from Luke Narraway and Sean Maitland had given London Irish a 15-8 lead at the break, with Ken Pisi crossing for the visitors.
George North and Kahn Fotuali'i tries put Northampton ahead and gave Jim Mallinder's side a five-point lead going into the last quarter.
But Irish stole victory after referee Ian Tempest penalised Saints late on.
Tom Coventry's side looked set for a seventh defeat in seven league games when winger Asaeli Tikoirotuma was sent to the sin bin for a poorly-timed tackle on Ben Foden with 15 minutes remaining.
But the hosts weathered Northampton's attacks despite being a man down and repeatedly kicked for touch and the corner in a bid to snatch victory.
Their patience was eventually rewarded after Jamie Gibson was shown a yellow card for failing to release Ofisa Treviranus.
The following scrum and drive led to the decisive penalty try as referee Tempest punished the Northampton pack for pulling the drive down.
Shane Geraghty kicked the simple conversion before Stephen Myler saw a late drop-goal attempt charged down in the closing seconds.
Irish move off the bottom of the table after Newcastle's defeat at Leicester while Northampton fell to their fourth defeat of the season, but a first in three games.
London Irish head coach Tom Coventry said:
"I haven't had a lot to smile about. It was a good sign that we could battle it out as we have been rolling over against other sides, but we showed a lot of backbone today.
"It was like Christmas Day today as we showed a lot of Christmas spirit to get there in the end.
"It was a definite shot in the arm as it's been a tough time and will give us a lot of confidence."
Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder said:
"We never really got into our game, we gave away too many soft penalties and they kept it simple and did the basics better than us.
"The referee went a bit early with the penalty try award, but we've no complaints.
"We've been inconsistent all season and have not been firing on all cylinders."
London Irish: Maitland; Lewington Hearn, Williams, Tikoirotuma; Noakes, McKibbin; Court, Paice, Franks, Symons (capt), Lloyd, Narraway, Cowan, Treviranus.
Replacements: Stevens, Smallbone, Aulika, Sinclair, Trayfoot, Steele, Geraghty, Mulchrone.
Northampton Saints: Foden; K Pisi, G Pisi, Burrell, North; Myler, Fotuali'i; E Waller, Hartley (capt), Hill Paterson, Day, Lawes, Gibson, Harrison.
Replacements: Haywood, A Waller, Denman, Matfield, Dickinson, Dickson, Hanrahan, Collins.
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.
The Sutton Trust's commission on fees looked at Budget changes such as replacing means-tested grants with loans and tying fees to inflation.
It also calls for a full investigation of the student finance system.
Ministers say students will have more cash for living costs under the plan.
The trust - which advocates social mobility through education - set up the Independent Commission on Fees in 2012 to monitor the effect of higher tuition fees.
This report comes after Chancellor George Osborne announced he was scrapping means-tested maintenance loans for poorer students and allowing universities to increase fees in line with inflation - if they demonstrate excellent teaching.
The commission contends that linking tuition fees to inflation could see them rise to £10,000 a year by 2020.
It examines the higher education finance system for England, which allows universities to charge maximum yearly tuition fees of £9,000.
These are paid through upfront, government-backed loans with repayments beginning once the graduate starts earning £21,000 a year.
The report says poor students could rack up loans of about £53,000 for a three-year course once the new maintenance loans are included.
It is assumed that students from richer homes would be helped financially by their parents.
However, it notes that since the change to higher fees of £9,000, only 5% of students are thought likely to pay back their loans fully by the age of 40, compared with half of students under the old system.
It questions whether the system is value for money for the student and for the taxpayer and calls for the Office for Budget Responsibility to conduct an investigation into this.
"The OBR should investigate the system as a whole including the impact of this latest measure on likely repayments.
"The remit of this investigation should include an analysis of how the costs of higher education are now being shouldered and to what extent this is both ethical and sustainable."
The commission, chaired by Will Hutton, cautions against any "substantive increases in fees" or "removing the cap" on fees completely.
It stresses that there is still an "insufficient understanding of the long-term effects of the debts incurred in this process".
Mr Hutton said: "Debt is likely to become a bigger issue. Under the current system, nearly three-quarters of students will fail to clear their student loans before they are written off after 30 years, and the large majority will still be paying off their loans well into their forties, figures that will increase with the abolition of grants and increase in fees.
"At the same time, it looks increasingly likely that any anticipated gains to the Treasury will be largely wiped out by these non-payments."
Previous research by the Sutton Trust found that the Exchequer is forecast not to recoup around 45% of its loans.
A Department for Business, Innovation and Skills spokesperson said: "We are committed to giving everyone the opportunity to get a degree, regardless of their background or ability to pay.
"Students will get more money in their pockets to help with living costs and lifting the cap on student numbers means that more people will be able to benefit from higher education than ever before.
"The Budget was clear that only institutions offering high-quality teaching will be able to increase tuition fees in line with inflation from 2017-18."
A performer shows off her costume at a carnival in South Africa's main city, Johannesburg, on Saturday...
Elaborate preparations are made before the colourful floats and troupes take to the streets for the annual festival - this year's celebrated 20 years of democracy in South Africa following the end of white minority rule in 1994...
In Ethiopia on the same day, people celebrated the 50th anniversary of the formation of the town of Arba Mintch, about 500km (310 miles) south of the capital, Addis Ababa. In the local Amharic language, Arba Mintch means 40 springs - the name given to the town because of its many springs.
Fans of South Africa's football team, some of them wearing the famous hand-cut and hand-painted hard hats known as makarapa, have some anxious moments during Wednesday's match between Bafana Bafana and Nigeria's Super Eagles. The match ended in a goalless draw...
On Saturday, a Sierra Leone supporter reacts during the 2015 African Cup of Nations qualifying football match between Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny stadium in Abidjan. Disappointment awaited him as Ivory Coast won 2-1...
At the same match, an Ivorian fan holds a sign to raise public awareness about the deadly Ebola virus...
With Liberia worst-affected by the virus, a health worker on Tuesday disinfects a taxi which had transported an Ebola patient to a treatment centre in the capital, Monrovia. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that taxis are a common cause of transmission of Ebola.
In Kenya's capital Nairobi on Thursday, sex workers protest outside the offices of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA). The women had gone to lodge a complaint with the watchdog body after a sex worker was alleged killed by a policeman...
A day earlier, a prayer is held for three elderly Italian nuns who were killed at a convent in Burundi's capital, Bujumbura. The Catholic diocese of Parma in Italy said the deaths appeared to have been "the tragic outcome of an armed robbery by a mentally unbalanced person".
On Sunday, at a qualifying African championship men's hockey match in Nairobi, a boy plays with a hockey ball during half-time. Kenya lost the game to Egypt 1-0.
In Rwanda's capital Kigali on the same say, a batsman shows his skills during a cricket match played at ETO Kicukiro, a former technical school where thousands of people were killed during the 1994 genocide...
On Saturday, a white stork feasts on a cricket it caught on the pitch during the One Day International cricket final between South Africa and Australia in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare...
The next day, planes draw a heart in the sky at the largest air show to be held in Zimbabwe in more than 20 years. The show, on the outskirts of Harare, saw the participation of international aerobatics team and formation displays.
While on Monday, a hadeda Ibis bird flies in front of the full moon rising over Johannesburg. It was the third and final "super-moon" of 2014. The phenomenon, which scientists call a "perigee moon", occurs when the moon is near the horizon and appears larger and brighter than other full moons.
The home secretary has called for tighter measures to single out those who have a case to stay from those who don't.
However, nobody knows how many illegal migrants are already in the UK.
In 2009 an academic study, relied on by the Home Office, estimated the figure to be between 417,000 and 863,000.
In 2010 the campaign group Migration Watch said it was closer to 1.1 million.
These are the most recent available estimates but how do illegal migrants get here and how do they evade detection?
Victor is in his early 20s, has piercing blue eyes and an edgy haircut.
He takes me on a tour of the properties he has worked on as a builder in London.
There's a large retailer in Regent Street, the hospital opposite the Houses of Parliament and numerous bars in Russell Square.
He's not directly employed by the construction companies. He gets his work via an agency.
In 2011, he made his way to Italy, where he paid traffickers £2,500 for a false passport.
But when he flew into London, immigration officers realised his papers were fake.
He was fingerprinted and sent back to Italy.
He got another false passport and tried again, but he was deported for a second time.
Undeterred, Victor tried to enter Britain from France by ferry. This time, he got in.
However, before he could start work on construction sites, companies required him to provide them with a valid national insurance number.
Instead of buying a set of fake documents, he paid someone to share their legitimate national insurance number with him.
"You find somebody who is British or [an] EU citizen and encourage them to help you, and we use their documents, photocopies, which would have our photographs on."
He says the other person is "selling their identity" to him.
I hear Ana's bold jewellery jangling down the corridor leading up to the room where we meet. She is a bubble of warmth and enthusiasm, with a thatch of thick black curly hair.
She first arrived in Britain in 2005 on a tourist visa from Brazil. When her visa ran out, she stayed on, working illegally as a housekeeper.
But in 2010, she was caught by immigration officers, fingerprinted and deported back to Brazil.
She quickly acquired a new Brazilian passport. Six weeks after being kicked out of Britain, she flew to Italy, where she paid a man £2,000 to accompany her back to the UK.
When they landed, her companion walked her through the immigration hall.
As she recounts this part of her journey, she bites her lip nervously.
"After showing a piece of paper to the immigration officer, we were let through," she says.
She doesn't know how or why she was allowed in.
She says she was just overjoyed, adding that she loves the UK.
Either immigration service systems failed to identify that Ana had been deported under her old passport or the person who accompanied her had arranged an "inside job".
However, that seems unlikely given she arrived at a busy airport.
She is now working as a nanny for a family who she says are aware of her illegal migrant status.
Can the UK Border Force deliver on the government's promises to make the UK an unattractive place for those who want to work illegally?
Hear BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme Working in the Shadows
Ali has seen better days. Shabbily dressed, with matted black hair, he is clutching a plastic bag of food and clothes donated by a local charity.
For the past two years, he has been sleeping rough in Southall in west London.
He is Indian and first arrived in 2006. He paid £8,000 to people smugglers to bring him to the UK. He says he was taken from Mumbai across Europe in cars and lorries and crossed the English Channel by ferry.
He was dropped off in London, where he has spent the past nine years working as a day labourer.
In the early hours of the morning, he waits on street corners hoping to get a job.
"I get picked up by anyone who needs labourers, it might be £40 or even £30 some days," he says.
Ali was arrested by immigration officers two years ago and was meant to be deported.
But when he first arrived in the UK, he destroyed his passport. It means the authorities cannot properly identify him or where he is from.
It therefore makes it very hard for them to know where to send him home. Added to that, some countries, including India and China, won't take people back unless they have the relevant paperwork to prove they are genuine nationals.
The irony for Ali is that he now wishes he could return home. Without a passport, he is stuck while the Indian authorities check his identity.
"It would be better if I had not come," he says.
Maria is from Brazil. Her working day begins at 06:00, when she is picked up in a van from a Tube station in south London along with about 10 other workers.
She will spend the next 12 hours working in the "shadow economy" as a domestic cleaner.
She gets £250 a week for 72 hours work. The hourly rate works out at less than £3.50 per hour, and the money is paid cash in hand.
Her employer, who is also Brazilian, won't tolerate people taking time off because they're sick, and there's no holiday pay.
"We only get 10 minutes to eat," says Maria.
"If we do more than 12 hours [work], we don't get paid extra. And if we ask the boss, she says, 'You know your rights.'
"We have no rights," she adds.
She came to Britain on a tourist visa but never returned home when it expired.
Maria knows she is being exploited but puts up with it for the sake of her 13-year-old son, who is desperate to stay in the UK.
He got a place at a secondary school in London four years ago.
When he started, the school asked to see his passport but not a residency visa.
Maria says checks have tightened and schools now want to see up an up-to-date visa, which he doesn't have.
Mother and son live in a single room in conditions she says are "horrible".
"He wants to stay here - but it's no life, it's miserable," she says.
|
The driver of the lorry involved in a fatal crash that injured comedian Tracy Morgan had not slept for more than 24 hours, according to court papers.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A missing 11-year-old boy in India has been found after he was spotted by a member of the public who received a WhatsApp alert sent out by police.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Palmyra's ancient Temple of Bel is still standing despite an attempt by Islamic State (IS) militants to blow it up, Syria's antiquities chief has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Porsche has given the green light to build an all-electric car aimed at challenging Tesla's dominance of the battery-powered sportscar market.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Cardiff City have signed French midfielder Loic Damour on a two-year deal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Dundalk's hopes of becoming the first Irish club to make the Champions League group stage look remote after defeat by Legia Warsaw in Dublin.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
England's chief medical officer says people must take personal responsibility for their drinking and consider cancer risks with each glass.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Pat Howard has called on Newport Gwent Dragons fans to get behind the team following their negative reaction to the scrappy 11-6 win over Zebre.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Half a million tonnes of sand has been pumped onto a Conwy county beach to improve sea defences and tourism.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Mystery surrounds the disappearance of a six-foot sculpture of a Celtic sea god from a mountainside.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
"I don't see it as an existential problem for the CDU, but I do see it as a problem," Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted as she summed up her centre-right party's poor performance in key regional elections in three German states on Sunday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Brighton and Hove Albion have signed Australia goalkeeper Mathew Ryan from Valencia for an undisclosed club-record fee.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Cardiff airport's chairman has called on the UK government to devolve passenger air taxes to Wales, in a bid to boost its business.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A prayer ceremony has been held to mark the beginning of renovation works on a World War I cemetery in Surrey built for Muslim soldiers killed in combat.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Robin van Persie added to his derby goals record by scoring twice to give Fenerbahce victory over Galatasaray.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
People should feel "confident" they can use services through the medium of Welsh at a number of public bodies, now new rules have come into effect, the Welsh language commissioner has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Foreign nationals directly affected by the Grenfell Tower fire are to be allowed to stay in the UK for 12 months regardless of their immigration status.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Chelsea twice hit the woodwork and were denied a penalty as they were held to a goalless draw by Dynamo Kiev in Group G of the Champions League.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Archbishop of Canterbury has commissioned an independent review into the way the Church of England responded to sex offence allegations made against a bishop 22 years ago.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Amnesty International has accused major oil companies, including Shell, of failing to report the true picture of oil spills in Nigeria.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A motorcyclist has died a month after being seriously injured in a crash in Consett.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
London Irish recorded their first Premiership win of the season through a late penalty try against Northampton.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Poorer students in England may be put off university by funding changes that could leave them with higher debts than middle-class graduates helped by their parents, a report says.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A selection of photographs from around the African continent this week:
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Among the thousands of refugees trying to enter Europe, some warn, are economic migrants exploiting their plight by trying to cross borders with them.
| 27,760,628 | 16,127 | 797 | true |
The suspects include judges, lawyers, academics and student leaders.
The attorney general alleges they formed a "secret society" with links to the Muslim Brotherhood that plotted to overthrow the government.
Human rights groups say the trial is deeply flawed and have called it a "mockery of justice".
Political parties and demonstrations are banned in the UAE, which comprises seven sheikdoms run by ruling families.
Several of its Gulf neighbours - including Bahrain, Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia - have seen pro-democracy protests inspired by the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011.
The activists were arrested last year during a campaign against civil society activists suspected of political dissent.
Many are connected to the Islamist group al-Islah, which the authorities say has links to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Al-Islah says it favours peaceful reform and denies links to the brotherhood.
They are accused of using the media and social networking sites to try to turn people against the UAE's system of government and ruling families.
"They launched, established and ran an organisation seeking to oppose the basic principles of the UAE system of governance and to seize power," the attorney general said.
Human rights groups say the trial is a sham.
They say the defendants were denied access to lawyers until the last two weeks before trial, and have not been shown documents detailing the charges and evidence against them.
They also say they have been subjected to bright lights, hoods and insults from prison guards while in custody.
"It appears the UAE authorities will drag scores of citizens through a shamelessly unfair judicial process that makes a mockery of justice," the international campaign group Human Rights Watch said in a statement.
It has urged US Secretary of State John Kerry to use his visit to the UAE this week to raise concerns over a fair trial.
The 94 are being tried in the UAE's highest court, which means the decision is final with no right of appeal.
Mr Yee, 18, has been detained in the US since he arrived at Chicago's O'Hare airport in December.
He came into the country on a tourist visa but told immigration officials he was seeking refuge.
Following Friday's ruling, he is expected to be released shortly.
The US Department of Homeland Security opposed Mr Yee's asylum application, but the immigration judge ruled in the teenager's favour.
Judge Samuel Cole released a 13-page decision, which said Mr Yee faced persecution in Singapore for his political opinions.
"Yee has met his burden of showing that he suffered past persecution on account of his political opinion and has a well-founded fear of future persecution in Singapore," Judge Coel ruled.
"Accordingly, this court grants his application for asylum."
Amos Yee is not the only one celebrating his US asylum win - many Singaporeans are pleased as well.
"Finally... hopefully it is the last we have heard of him," a Facebook user wrote in one typical comment online.
But some Singaporeans also sympathise with Amos, who has clearly struggled with the country's restrictions. "It's just his bad luck that he was born in Singapore," said another commenter on Facebook.
The teenage critic is one of Singapore's most controversial figures, where he is viewed with exasperation but also a measure of sympathy. Singapore is known for its strict rules on free speech, especially when it comes to race and religion - rules which the US judge said have been used by the authorities to constrain dissent, but which many in the city-state support.
Following Mr Yee's explosive remarks about the country's deeply-revered late leader Lee Kuan Yew and Christianity, Mr Yee had continued to fall foul of the law by breaching bail conditions and making further critical comments about religion.
Even by leaving Singapore he has committed an offence, as he is avoiding mandatory military conscription. While in US detention he had run into trouble for making remarks about Islam, according to his representatives.
But some Singaporeans also empathise with Amos, who has clearly struggled with the country's restrictions. "Congratulations Amos. He can now lead the free life he wants in the free world. It's just his bad luck that he was born in Singapore," said another commenter on Facebook.
Mr Yee's lawyer, Sandra Grossman, said he could be released as early as Monday.
In statement, Ms Grossman applauded the judge's decision and said, "The right to free speech is sacred, even when such speech is considered offensive."
In September 2016, the teenager was given a six-week prison sentence in Singapore after being found guilty of "wounding religious feelings".
He had posted a video critical of Christianity and Islam.
He was also jailed by a Singapore court for four weeks in 2015, for criticising Christians and for posting a video about the country's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
His video, posted on YouTube days after his death, compared the widely-respected founding father of Singapore to Jesus Christ.
Later, he posted a crude cartoon depicting Lee Kuan Yew and former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was one of his allies.
The posts provoked various police complaints, and Mr Yee was reported to have received violent threats.
He will hold talks with President Nursultan Nazarbayev on trade and plans to use the country as an exit route for UK troops leaving Afghanistan.
But he said he would address claims of torture, the imprisonment of government critics and limits on media freedom.
Mr Cameron is the first serving British prime minister to visit Kazakhstan.
But former PM Tony Blair has been working with the Kazakh government on political, judicial and economic reform since leaving office.
Mr Cameron is in the Kazakhstani city of Atyrau on the third leg of a trip which has already included Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He has been joined by representatives of more than 30 British businesses and said he hoped to sign business deals worth more than £700m while in Kazakhstan.
But while stressing the trip was predominantly about economic matters, he said: "Nothing is off the agenda, including human rights, and Britain always stands up for human rights wherever we are in the world."
Kazakhstan has been governed by Mr Nazarbayev since the Soviet era and has recently seen a big increase in foreign investment due to its vast oil and mineral reserves.
However, the president has been labelled a dictator by critics, and in an open letter to Mr Cameron, campaign group Human Rights Watch UK said the group had been documenting human rights abuses in Kazakhstan for more than 15 years.
"We are very concerned about the serious and deteriorating human rights situation there in recent years, including credible allegations of torture, the imprisonment of government critics, tight controls over the media and freedom of expression and association, limits on religious freedom, and continuing violations of workers' rights," it said.
Amnesty International UK's head of policy and government affairs, Allan Hogarth, also said: "Kazakhstan might be knee-deep in oil and gas wealth, but David Cameron shouldn't let lucrative energy deals prevent him from raising human rights during his trip."
Arriving on Sunday, Mr Cameron said he did not accept the suggestion that he might be putting trade before human rights.
"Kazakhstan is one of the rising economic powers in the world. I think it's very important that British business, British investment and British firms get a proper chance in Kazakhstan - they're doing that, I want to help them to do that.
"Other European leaders have been and I think it's high time a British prime minister went."
Kazakhstan's foreign minister Erlan Idrissov said his country was "very honoured and privileged to have such attention on the part of two prime ministers...Tony Blair and David Cameron".
On the issue of human rights, he said: "We are a young nation so we are making our first steps. We do hear criticisms.
"We do not feel absolutely unhappy about those criticisms. We patiently explain to our partners that we are not today a Jeffersonian democracy and that a Jeffersonian democracy is our ultimate destination."
A spokesman for Mr Blair said he worked with the government of Kazakhstan "on key areas of social, political and economic reform including rule of law".
"This work is entirely in line with the work of other international organisations (for example OECD and the EU) and Western governments and follows the direction which the international community wants Kazakhstan to take."
The spokesman added that a two-year contract "funds a team of high calibre experts in London and Kazakhstan and Tony Blair does not take a personal profit from this".
Earlier in his trip, Mr Cameron promised to "stand together" with Pakistan in the fight against terrorism, after holding talks with the newly re-elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif.
This came after Mr Cameron visited Afghanistan, where he met UK troops at Camp Bastion and held discussions with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Lord Justice Leveson called for a new independent watchdog - which he said should be underpinned by legislation.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller told the BBC "the gauntlet has been thrown down" to newspapers to outline how they would set up tough self-regulation instead.
A campaign has been launched calling on MPs to implement the proposals in full.
Leveson Inquiry witnesses Gerry McCann, the father of missing Madeleine McCann, and Christopher Jeffries, who was wrongly arrested for the murder of Joanna Yeates, launched the petition which is on the campaign group Hacked Off's website.
Lord Justice Leveson's 2,000-page report into press ethics, published on Thursday, found that press behaviour was "outrageous" and "wreaked havoc with the lives of innocent people".
He said the press - having failed to regulate itself in the past - must create a new and tough regulator but it had to be backed by legislation to ensure it was effective.
The report exposed divisions in the coalition government, with Prime Minister David Cameron opposing statutory control, unlike his deputy Nick Clegg, who wants a new law introduced without delay.
Following cross-party talks on Thursday night - which will resume next week - the Department for Culture, Media and Sport will begin the process of drawing up a draft bill implementing the Leveson recommendations.
Would:
Would not:
How new regulator might work
It is thought the draft legislation may be ready within a fortnight.
The prime minister believes this process will only serve to highlight how difficult it is to try to legislate in a complex and controversial area while Labour and the Lib Dems think it will demonstrate the opposite.
But the BBC's Norman Smith says Labour sources fear the government will produce draft legislation written in such a way as to discredit the proposals - "like something the Stasi [East German secret police] had written".
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Mrs Miller said: "Our concern is that we simply don't need to have that legislation to achieve the end of objectives and in drafting out this piece of legislation what we are going to be demonstrating is that it wouldn't be a simple two-clause bill."
She said Conservative ministers felt that legislation "would actually give the opportunity in the future to bring into question the ability of Parliament to stay out of the issue of free press and difficult for Parliament to not have a statutory framework on which they could hang further bits of legislation".
She went on: "At this point what we should be focusing in on is the fact that the gauntlet has been thrown down to the industry.
By Norman SmithChief political correspondent, BBC News Channel
Government sources say they expect to produce a draft "Leveson" bill within a fortnight.
However they expect the draft bill to underline their argument that any legislation would be much more unwieldy and extensive than envisaged by supporters of Leveson. They believe the draft bill will support their view that legislation would therefore be a threat to the freedom of the press.
Instead, ministers want the newspaper industry to come forward with their own plans for regulation "within months." It's also being made clear that if the industry fails to agree on an acceptable revised package..then "the legislative stick remains an option."
Earlier, Culture Secretary Maria Miller said alongside the issue of legislation, she had "very grave concerns" about some of the other details in the Leveson report -including on the role of Ofcom and rules on data protection.
Labour sources say they fear the government will produce draft legislation that looks like "something the Stasi has written" in an effort to discredit the Leveson proposals
"The press industry need to be coming back with their response to the Leveson report. Their response to how they're going to put in place a self-regulatory body that adheres to the Leveson principles and that is what I want to see moving forward swiftly."
Many of Friday's newspapers have praised Mr Cameron's opposition to law-backed regulation.
But Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger told the BBC "a bit of statute" was a price worth paying for an effective new system of regulation and that he believed the press could "live with most of" the Leveson proposals.
Mr Rusbridger, who revealed that he spoke to other editors on Thursday night, said: "I think about 80% of it is right and can be agreed on.
"It is right that is is open, that it is fair, that it's got sanctions, that it can investigate... that it's not picked from amongst the old cosy club."
But the father of Madeleine McCann - the young girl who went missing in Portugal in 2007 - said he would have liked the report to have gone further.
"Clearly the public want it, there's been a judicial review and I think the recommendations should be implemented.
"There's no good reason why they shouldn't be. That's my view and I think it's the view of all the victims," he said.
Mr McCann, who was the subject of what he called "unbelievably damaging" newspaper reports that suggested he and his wife killed Madeleine, added: "The press has been given enough chances, and in my opinion Lord [Justice] Leveson has given them another chance to put a structure in place which they are happy with."
Labour leader Ed Miliband has joined Mr Clegg in supporting a new press law.
He said many of the victims of sections of the press will be feeling "utterly betrayed" by the prime minister.
"I am going to stand up for people like the McCanns and the Dowlers who have been appallingly treated by sections of the press and who put their faith in David Cameron, put their faith in the Leveson Inquiry, and who are frankly I think astonished by what the prime minister has done," he said.
Mrs Miller is meeting members of the Hacked Off campaign on Friday afternoon and will discuss the position taken by Conservative ministers.
Pakistan beat fierce rivals India by 180 runs on Sunday to win the Champions Trophy for the first time.
The squad was greeted by jubilant fans at the airport after arriving back from London following their triumph.
And supporters then gathered in the street outside the home of Sarfraz, who held aloft the trophy from his balcony.
The incident happened at about 16:10 on Monday on Abercromby Place at its junction with Dundas Street.
A 73-year-old man was attempting to cross the road when he was struck by a silver-coloured saloon car, which then failed to stop.
It was last seen heading east along Abercromby Place. Police are appealing for witnesses.
The man sustained serious injuries and he was transported by ambulance to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh where he remains in a stable condition.
Sgt Iain Blain, of Police Scotland, said: "We are pursuing every line of inquiry in relation to this incident and we're eager to trace the driver of this vehicle.
"I urge anyone who can help identify this person to contact police immediately.
"Similarly, if you were in the area of Abercromby Place on Monday afternoon and saw the silver coloured saloon vehicle then please get in touch."
Owner Smurthwaite stepped down as chairman after the club were relegated to League Two last season before rejecting a £1.25m takeover from two local firms.
Fradley told BBC Radio Stoke that he will discuss any potential sale in the next two weeks.
"I will ask the question but the answer needs to come from him," he said.
"Right from day one, I've separated that issue with the owner. His strategy will be his strategy and I'll leave that to him."
Smurthwaite resigned after Vale's four-year tenure in League One ended last May, saying he had "seriously damaged the club."
However, Fradley believes that leaving off-field issues to the owner has allowed the club to stabilise, but cannot give a definitive answer on any offers considered to sell the club.
"I think that has give us some stability to get things going and give the players confidence that they can join the club," he said.
"I haven't seen Norman for a while. I will do shortly but he hasn't mentioned anything to me (about selling). I can't give an answer."
Theresa May promised housing would be offered to those in need by Wednesday.
The Grenfell Response Team says 139 formal offers have now been made.
But North Kensington Law Centre, which represents many victims, said some had been offered homes in other towers, other areas, or without enough rooms.
The fire on 14 June killed at least 80 people, although police say the final toll will not be known for many months.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, the prime minister said 158 families would be "found a home nearby" within three weeks, later saying they would be offered "rehousing" within three weeks.
The Grenfell Response Team said that target had now been met.
It said the remaining 19 families did not want to be contacted, or were out of the country.
However, a spokesman for North Kensington Law Centre - which represents more than 100 Grenfell victims - said many of the offers had been unsuitable.
Some of the firm's clients had been offered homes in other high-rise blocks, while some had gone to view a three-bedroom home only to discover it was a two-bedroom flat.
Many had been offered a year-long tenancy and would need to be permanently rehomed afterwards.
Many victims were "concerned the decision they make now could affect their long-term tenancy", he added.
"Doing that from a hotel room is difficult at the best of times, let alone when you are fairly traumatised."
He added: "These people do have various complex issues.
"We are dealing with very traumatised people, we have a limited housing stock, we are working to a tight schedule and there is also a sense of scepticism among some residents."
Only three of the firm's clients had accepted accommodation offers, he added.
Connie Cullen, from the homelessness charity Shelter, said people had often been unsure whether to take up residency agreements.
"It is often very difficult for people to know what the offer they are being offered means. So how long they might be there, what terms they are on, what rent they are paying.
"We are keen to see people offered like-for-like tenancies, housing and rent, so people retain the same security of tenure that they had before."
Ms Cullen said the demand for social housing following the fire was "unprecedented" but had highlighted a general lack of affordable housing in the area.
One tenant from the 10th floor of Grenfell Tower, who only gave his name as Antonio, is among those who has turned down the offer of temporary accommodation.
"We want to move to permanent accommodation so we can remake it and then we can call it home," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
In other developments:
It comes amid growing pressure for Sir Martin Moore-Bick - the judge leading the inquiry into the fire - to stand down.
Earlier, Labour's Emma Dent Coad, MP for Kensington, said he was "a technocrat" who lacked "credibility" with victims.
She said she had spoken to hundreds of people affected by the fire who were unhappy with Sir Martin's appointment.
On Monday, lawyers representing some of the families also called for him to quit.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn stopped short of demanding his resignation, but said he should "listen to residents", while Mayor of London Sadiq Khan warned he must urgently improve relations with the area.
But one senior minister, Lord Chancellor David Lidington, said he had "complete confidence" in Sir Martin, whom he believed would lead the inquiry "with impartiality and a determination to get to the truth and see justice done".
Former Lord Chief Justice for England and Wales, Lord Judge, also defended claims that Sir Martin was a "technocrat", saying it was his job to look at the evidence "unemotionally".
"He can't come and make an emotional finding. He's got to look at the facts and decide what happened," he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.
"That does not mean he's unaware of the emotional impact on those who were involved in it, but a judge can't make emotional decisions."
On Sunday, Labour MP David Lammy said a "white, upper-middle class man" who had "never" visited a tower block housing estate should not have been appointed.
Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning
Players from the top eight tiers of the English game are banned from betting on the sport under new rules which came into force on Friday.
"We are really proud of the integrity of the game in this country and it is really important people trust... what is happening on the pitch," said Horne.
"We want to keep our message as simple as possible - and it cannot be more simple that as a player you cannot bet at all on football."
Club employees and match officials are also restricted by the new rules, which prevent gambling on any football-related matters, including results, goalscorers, in-game play, player transfers, manager changes or promotions and relegations.
The Football Association will visit all clubs to talk about the fresh regulations and have produced a number of educational videos.
Players and stakeholders from clubs in the Premier League down to the Northern and Southern and Isthmian Leagues are affected.
The rules apply to bets made in person, online, on the telephone or with friends. Participants are also not allowed to instruct any third party to place any bet on their behalf.
Previously, participants were prohibited from betting on a match or competition in which they were involved or could influence.
Tottenham's Andros Townsend, Cameron Jerome - on loan at Crystal Palace from Stoke last season - and Dan Gosling, who has joined Bournemouth this summer, 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.
They took nearly an hour to score against a team four levels of the Scottish game below them.
Marvin Johnson thought eased their nerves, Scott McDonald headed a second.
And Chris Cadden added a late third when he slotted in Richard Tait's cut-back.
James McFadden, who once upon a time looked anything but future officer material, was making his debut as Motherwell assistant manager to replace Stephen Robinson, who moved to become manager of Oldham Athletic.
He helped oversee a stuttering performance in the summer drizzle by his team who desperately needed all three points if they had any plans to finish second in the group F behind Rangers.
It was all Motherwell from the start and Johnson - with a dazzling solo run - and Scott McDonald - with a lob - Chris Cadden, Ben Heneghan and Johnson again, could all have scored.
However, despite the relentless pressure they couldn't get the ball in the net in the first half.
It was remarkable, but the 'Shire - despite being swamped - held out and actually threatened with one shot of their own, from Derek Ure.
Fans of the home side and neutral observers would reflect that it couldn't go on like this, and neither it did.
Just eight minutes into the second half, Johnson, the outstanding player on the park, gave the Premiership side the lead with a turn and a low left foot shot from just inside the box.
McDonald added a second to calm the home support in a crowd of 2,503 and minutes before the final whistle Chris Cadden made it 3-0 against a now weary 'Shire to keep their team alive in the battle to finish second in the group.
Match ends, Motherwell 3, East Stirling 0.
Second Half ends, Motherwell 3, East Stirling 0.
Attempt saved. Marvin Johnson (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Motherwell 3, East Stirling 0. Chris Cadden (Motherwell) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Richard Tait.
Attempt missed. Craig Comrie (East Stirling) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Connor Greene.
Attempt saved. Lionel Ainsworth (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Lionel Ainsworth (Motherwell) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, East Stirling. Lewis Peddie replaces Dylan McGuigan.
Attempt blocked. Chris Cadden (Motherwell) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Craig Clay (Motherwell).
Paul Sludden (East Stirling) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ben Heneghan (Motherwell).
David Grant (East Stirling) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Motherwell 2, East Stirling 0. Scott McDonald (Motherwell) header from very close range to the top right corner. Assisted by Chris Cadden.
Substitution, East Stirling. Craig Comrie replaces Conor Hogg.
Attempt saved. Joe Chalmers (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Andy Grant.
Substitution, East Stirling. Paul Sludden replaces Adam Murray.
Attempt missed. David Grant (East Stirling) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Lionel Ainsworth (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Craig Clay (Motherwell) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Connor Greene.
Attempt missed. Stephen McManus (Motherwell) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Ross Fisher.
Attempt blocked. Lionel Ainsworth (Motherwell) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is blocked.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Darren Dolan.
Keith Lasley (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kristopher Faulds (East Stirling).
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Connor Greene.
Attempt blocked. Marvin Johnson (Motherwell) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Derek Ure (East Stirling) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, East Stirling. Conceded by Joe Chalmers.
Substitution, Motherwell. Joe Chalmers replaces Steven Hammell.
Substitution, Motherwell. Lionel Ainsworth replaces Dom Thomas.
Goal! Motherwell 1, East Stirling 0. Marvin Johnson (Motherwell) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Craig Clay.
Foul by Dom Thomas (Motherwell).
Kristopher Faulds (East Stirling) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Marvin Johnson (Motherwell) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Second Half begins Motherwell 0, East Stirling 0.
SentIntoSpace said it landed in Low Bentham, North Yorkshire about 50 miles from where it was launched, at about 13:30 GMT on Thursday.
"It was in decent shape, apart from the fact the lid came off when it landed and it had broken into two pieces," said Dan Blaney of the Sheffield firm.
Tracking software revealed the meat and potato pie attached to a weather balloon climbed to 29,500m (97,000ft).
It had been launched about two-and-a-half hours earlier from Roby Mill in Wigan, Greater Manchester before landing near the Lancashire-North Yorkshire border.
SentIntoSpace, who also attached a video camera to the box containing the pie and tracking device, wanted to find out whether "space travel" affects the molecular structure of pies - not to mention how they taste.
Mr Blaney said: "I have contemplated eating a bit of it but I'm a vegetarian."
St Helens-based Ultimate Purveyors were commissioned to make the pie.
The pie was launched to promote the World Pie Eating Championships in Wigan on 20 December.
Bond died in Florida after a short illness, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said in a statement.
US President Barack Obama said he had been "privileged" to have called Bond a friend.
Bond was also a writer, poet, politician and professor.
He co-founded the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee in the 1960s, organising anti-segregation protests and voter registration drives.
"Julian Bond helped change this country for the better - and what better way to be remembered than that," President Obama added.
The Southern Poverty Law Center described him as a "visionary and tireless champion for civil and human rights".
He was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives when black people became eligible to vote in the 1960s and served in the Georgia legislature for two decades.
He served as the SPLC founding president in the 1970s.
As board chairman of the NAACP in the 2000s, when asked by the BBC whether black Americans had achieved equality with white people, he said that they were "far, far from it".
"Black skin still acts as a mark of difference - for many white Americans, a negative difference," he said.
He continued to champion the cause in newspaper columns and on TV shows - even hosting NBC's late-night comedy show, Saturday Night Live.
"With Julian's passing, the country has lost one of its most passionate and eloquent voices for the cause of justice," the SPLC said in its statement.
"He advocated not just for African-Americans, but for every group, indeed every person subject to oppression and discrimination, because he recognised the common humanity in us all."
Mr Bond is survived by his wife, Pamela Horowitz, a former SPLC staff attorney, and five children by his previous marriage to Alice Clopton.
12 June 2016 Last updated at 00:13 BST
The US Supreme Court is to hear a case regarding abortion law in Texas. It is to decide on whether a 2013 ruling stating that abortion clinics meet certain requirements is constitutional.
Dozens of clinics have closed as a result of the ruling, and researchers say self-induced abortions may increase if clinics continue to close.
Women typically use a pill called misoprostol to induce their own abortions. Here, one young woman explains why she crossed the border into Mexico, where the drug is cheaper and easier to obtain without a prescription.
Watch I Carried Out My Own Abortion on BBC Three here .
James Buchanan, 50, failed to spot David McQuiston who was walking along the road with a shopping trolley in Dunoon, Argyll, in January 2015.
The pensioner had moved onto the road because the pavement was icy.
Buchanan was also ordered to perform 270 hours unpaid work. He admitted causing death by careless driving.
The High Court in Glasgow was told Buchanan, who has been a cab driver for 18 years, hit the trolley being pulled by Mr McQuiston, knocking him to the ground.
He died two months after the collision.
Judge Lady Carmichael told Buchanan he should have slowed down when the winter sunlight affected his ability to see.
"You drove for many years as a taxi driver without incident and I accept you are genuinely remorseful," she said.
"The harm you caused was devastating. He was a much-loved father and grandfather,"
The court heard that Mr McQuiston was returning home from visiting his wife, who had dementia, at the time of the accident.
Prosecutor Tim Niven-Smith said "the sun was low in the sky" with its brightness "reducing visibility" for motorists.
Mr McQuiston was not walking on the pavement but instead following the double yellow lines at the side of Argyll Road in Dunoon.
The 89-year-old - who lived in the town - was using a stick to help him and he was also pulling a dark shopping trolley.
Mr Niven-Smith said Buchanan failed to spot Mr McQuiston at the kerbside and his car hit the trolley. The pensioner fell and hit his head on the ground.
Buchanan immediately got out of his Seat Toledo and dialled 999.
He told one witness: "I could not see him. I did not mean it. It was the glare of the sun."
It was also noted a police car had to stop because of the glare.
Mr McQuiston was transferred by helicopter to an intensive care unit in Glasgow with fears he had a brain injury.
Following rehabilitation, he was sent to the Erskine care home in Renfrewshire.
Mr McQuiston died on 20 March 2015 after falling unconscious due to breathing problems.
It was found that he had died from a form of pneumonia, aggravated by the head injury.
Tony Graham, defending, said: "Mr Buchanan realises he has been responsible for the death of another human being. That will live with him for the rest of his life."
Ms Jara was censured over allegations that Peru's intelligence agency had for years gathered information on leading figures in business and politics.
President Ollanta Humala must now select a new prime minister and cabinet.
It is considered the biggest crisis of his presidency since he took office in July 2011.
In Peru, the president is the head of the executive, but analysts say having his number two deposed by the opposition-dominated Congress is a sign of his waning influence.
A recent opinion poll by Ipsos suggested Mr Humala's popularity rating had dropped to 25%.
It is the first time in half a century that Peru's Congress has deposed a prime minister.
Congress voted 72 to 42 to censure Ms Jara, with two abstentions.
The move follows the publication on 19 March in the Correo Semanal weekly of a list of Peruvians who had allegedly been spied upon by the National Intelligence Directorate (Dini).
The list included opposition politicians, journalists, business people, members of the military and their families.
The spy agency reportedly accessed information from Peru's national registry of properties to gather intelligence on thousands of Peruvians.
The large number of people on the list angered opposition members of Congress.
Ms Jara sacked Dini's director as well as its counter-intelligence and national intelligence chiefs the day after the allegations emerged.
She also ordered a thorough investigation and denied she had ever ordered the surveillance or used the information gathered.
But in a debate on Monday, opposition members of Congress argued she had failed to control the spy agency and should therefore be removed from her post.
Members of the governing Peru Wins party said she had been made a scapegoat and denounced the move as a "political ambush".
Ms Jara was approved by Congress less than a year ago by a majority of only one vote, the sixth prime minister to serve under President Humala in his four years in office.
Her predecessor resigned amidst a corruption scandal after less than five months in the post.
President Humala will now have to name a new prime minister, who will then have to be approved by Congress.
With a snappy new title in 'T20 Blast' and the majority of games taking place on a Friday night, the competition has also been rescheduled to spread out the fixtures.
BBC Sport looks at how the competition will work and previews the players and teams to watch.
The main aim for all clubs is to be among the four teams to make it to Finals Day on Saturday, 23 August at Edgbaston.
Birmingham Bears: Shoaib Malik (from 19 June), Jeetan Patel
Derbyshire Falcons: Marcus North, Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Durham Jets: John Hastings (after IPL)
Lancashire Lightning: Junaid Khan
Leicestershire Foxes: Ramnaresh Sarwan, Scott Styris
Northants Steelbacks: Richard Levi. Ian Butler
Nottinghamshire Outlaws: None
Worcestershire Rapids: Colin Munro, Saeed Ajmal
Yorkshire Vikings: Aaron Finch, Kane Williamson
All 18 clubs from Divisions One and Two will begin their journey in one of two groups of nine, south and north, with the top four from each group going through to the quarter-finals.
"This schedule has been designed to make the needs of the fans our number one priority, with nearly 70% of T20 group matches scheduled for Friday nights," chief executive David Collier told the ECB website.
"We are also excited about the role the T20 Blast will play in attracting a wider audience to our county game - with Friday nights providing the perfect opportunity for fans to combine a weekend night out with watching cricket."
However, the switch away from a three-week cluster of group games to an extended programme of fixtures has caused concern in some dressing rooms.
"It's a challenge from a coaching perspective," Nottinghamshire director of cricket and national selector Mick Newell told BBC East Midlands Today.
"In previous years we've been able to concentrate on one form of the game for a short period of time.
Media playback is not supported on this device
"Now four-day matches go onto Wednesday and we'll only really have Thursday to prepare for Friday. It means less practice, but it will have to be good quality practice when we do it."
agreed that the new schedule was not ideal.
"You want to be able to have specific training sessions and have a bit of time to prepare for the T20," he said.
"It will be really good to get the crowds in on Friday nights, but I think it's a real challenge for the players to find the time to practice their T20 skills in between the four-day matches."
Financial rewards may offset some of the on-field pressure points, and Gloucestershire chief executive Will Brown is in favour of the switch.
"The England and Wales Cricket Board have put a lot of thought into this and we now have the best schedule possible, with a majority of games played on Friday evenings and Sunday afternoons," Brown told the Bristol Post.
"This is the one thing that can make a big difference financially and it has come at the right time for county cricket. Twenty20 represents the biggest money-making area in the domestic game and is the only format that can significantly change a club's finances. For that reason alone, we need to make this work."
The list of stars signed up for the T20 Blast reads like a who's-who of international cricket, as almost every side has brought in a specialist to supplement domestic talent.
Big-hitters include and Indian Premier League stars Glenn Maxwell and Aaron Finch, who will feature for Hampshire and Yorkshire respectively, while bowling stand-outs include and Somerset's Dirk Nannes.
It is not just the imports who make the headlines.
Last year's top run-scorer was Craig Kieswetter at Somerset with 517, while Ben Stokes, hopes to return to fitness for Durham and add to his 22 sixes during 2013.
Essex Eagles: Jesse Ryder
Glamorgan: Jacques Rudolph
Gloucestershire Gladiators: Michael Klinger
Hampshire: Kyle Abbott, Glenn Maxwell (after IPL)
Kent Spitfires: Doug Bollinger
Middlesex Panthers: Daniel Christian, Chris Rogers
Somerset: Alviro Petersen, Dirk Nannes
Surrey: Graeme Smith, Robin Peterson
Sussex Sharks: Yasir Arafat
Northants were last year's winners, knocking off 192 to beat Surrey at Edgbaston.
That success was built on the powerful batting of Cameron White and Richard Levi, as well as the all-round skills of David Willey, who sealed victory in the final against Surrey with a hat-trick.
White is no longer with the county and both Willey and last season's skipper Alex Wakeley are struggling to overcome injuries.
Scotland's Kyle Coetzer will lead the Steelbacks this year and Levi's return adds flair to the batting, while they will be looking to New Zealand pace bowler Ian Butler to fill the wicket-taking gap in Willey's absence.
"The expectation is there now, when we went into the competition nobody really felt we had the chance," Levi told BBC Radio Northampton.
"If we do what we do as well as we do it then we have a really good chance.
"We've got a very similar squad to last year with one or two improvements coming in here and there. Hopefully the guys realise that."
Captain Ed particularly with the signing of Yasir Arafat adding to their bowling options, while Steven Finn is keen to impress for Middlesex and boost his international prospects.
Glamorgan coach Toby Radford says his side is 'champing at the bit' to get started, but Birmingham Bears, the name being used by Warwickshire this year, could be without Ian Bell for part of the competition because of England commitments.
Surrey reached the final last year and will rely heavily on the knowhow of South African pair Graeme Smith and Robin Peterson, while Roses rivals Yorkshire and Lancashire also have strong squads, who could push hard for a place at Edgbaston.
BBC Sport website will again broadcast live commentary of every match under a deal with the ECB.
All commentaries will stream online and there will also be coverage on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra.
The song, which features the BBC Concert Orchestra, will be used as the opening sequence for all the BBC's programmes for France 2016.
"It's a fitting tribute to one of France's greatest stars," said Chris Grubb, BBC Football creative lead.
Bizu, 22, has performed at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend.
She has also recorded sessions at BBC's Maida Vale Studios.
The song will feature in a special Euro 2016 preview show on Wednesday, 8 June on BBC One at 22:45 BST.
But before that you can listen to it on Breakfast on BBC One on Monday from 06:00 BST, while the song will also feature on the BBC iPlayer from Monday.
One year on, the Seagulls are in contention for promotion to the Premier League following a record-breaking start to the season.
Here, BBC Sport looks at how the 57-year-old has transformed fortunes at the Amex Stadium.
Hughton's predecessor Sami Hyypia was a left-field appointment by chairman Tony Bloom in the summer of 2014 - and one which backfired.
The Finn had a successful playing career with Liverpool but was exposed in what was his second managerial job, and he resigned in mid-December following a run of one win in 18 games.
Hughton, meanwhile, spent several years on the coaching staff at Tottenham, led Newcastle to the Championship title in 2009-10 and Birmingham to the play-offs in 2011-12 before going on to manage in the Premier League with Norwich.
"Chris knows this division and that is very important," said BBC Radio 5 live pundit Jason Roberts.
"To come from finishing 20th last year and be at the level they are now is a huge credit to him. A team that ended up down the division is now performing at a very high level.
"It is an opportunity for him to create history with Brighton."
Brighton's challenge for automatic promotion has been built on a 21-match unbeaten run at the start of the season, which saw them suffer only their first defeat of the campaign on 19 December against Middlesbrough.
"I always felt if we could start well and get some stability we could certainly fare better than last season and challenge that top six," Hughton told BBC Sussex.
"Would I have expected us to have gone on this run? The answer would have been no and it was a fabulous surprise, but something I think we have deserved.
"The fact we got a really good start gave the players an awful lot of encouragement."
It is Brighton's best start to a season and equals West Ham's post-war record of 21 games unbeaten at the start of a second-tier campaign, set in 1990-91.
Including a draw from the final match of last season, Hughton has guided Albion to their longest-ever unbeaten run in the league, surpassing an 84-year-old club record.
"In recent games they have fought back from losing positions," added former Reading striker Roberts.
"They would have liked a few more wins from their draws but that shows you a determination to not lose and not go down.
"That attitude is very hard to come by in this division, with so many games being so demanding on your body."
Brighton's dealings in the transfer market during the close season far surpassed their efforts in the summer of 2014, with their scattergun approach leading to David Burke leaving his post as head of football operations shortly after Hyypia's departure.
Goalkeeper David Stockdale and striker Sam Baldock are the only arrivals from that period who have regularly made the starting XI this season.
Since then the Seagulls have added quality, experience and youth - with midfielder Beram Kayal joining from Celtic, Albion legend Bobby Zamora returning to the club and James Wilson coming in on loan from Manchester United.
"The signings Brighton made last year were just not good enough," said former Brighton defender Adam Virgo. "They devalued the squad.
"It is a compliment to the board and the manager that they have gone out and bought quality this summer."
Hughton added: "For us it was always going to be about the summer and the players we brought in.
"We lost nine and had to bring in that many. In an ideal situation you wouldn't want to bring in so many at the same time. That was the real challenge."
Roberts, promoted from the Championship with Reading in 2011-12, believes Hughton's favoured 4-4-2 formation is a factor in Brighton's success.
"At Reading we had a similar outlook on the game. It was about the details and playing a formation everyone understood," said the 37-year-old.
"The way Brighton go about the game is on the front foot, home and away; putting the defence first, making sure everyone puts a shift in and then adding quality through the expressive players."
Meanwhile, Hughton says the club's infrastructure, with a 30,750-seater stadium and a new state-of-the-art training ground, is one which has helped him succeed.
"When I walked in, although we were a club that was down the bottom, it didn't feel like it," he said.
"There is a very good structure here and we have an excellent staff. It is very capable of going to the next stage. Ultimately the aim is to be a Premier League team.
"It wasn't as if I had to come in and change too much. I just had to try to change the fortunes of the team and what goes on on the pitch."
After defeat at home by Ipswich on Tuesday extended Brighton's winless run to five matches, the Seagulls are fourth in the Championship heading into their home match against Wolves on New Year's Day.
Hughton's priority as he starts his second year in charge will be to sustain their challenge for promotion - and he believes the backing from their supporters will be crucial if they are to have success.
"We are going through a difficult period and we are finding it hard," Hughton said.
"I think the fans have appreciated what they have seen in the first half of this season. They have been excellent - not only at the Amex but away from home as well, travelling in their thousands.
"It is about keeping that going and getting behind the team in the best way they can."
Robbie Williamson, 11, from Burnley in Lancashire, died playing a game of dare with friends on 22 April 2014.
He was using the pipe to cross the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in the town.
At Preston Crown Court National Grid admitted failing to guard the pipeline but said Robbie would have tried to access it if it had been protected.
The Health and Safety Executive carried out an investigation against the utility company which has responsibility for the cast iron pipe attached to Dugdale Bridge, near Lowerhouse Lane.
A post-mortem examination found Robbie died from drowning and a head injury. A verdict of accidental death was recorded at the inquest.
Following his death, National Grid installed protection on the pipe and have carried out a review of all the other pipe crossings it owns.
The firm as pleaded guilty to failing to discharge their duty in ensuring "as was reasonably practicable" the health and safety of others by exposing them to risk of injury.
A Newton hearing has been scheduled to take place on 8 December.
The hearing is held in front of a judge when the defence and prosecution dispute the facts on which the court would impose a sentence.
Tolchard topped his group in Delhi only to lose both his semi-final and bronze medal match on tie breaks.
He is in the
"This time I hope I can win my semi-final game and get a chance at a gold or silver, that'd be the ideal aim," Tolchard told BBC Sport.
"It was very difficult because I was going very well, I'd only lost one game all week."
Tolchard still has difficult memories of his semi-final with Welshman Robert Weale, and his subsequent bronze medal play-off loss to Northern Ireland's Gary Kelly.
"I lost the semi-final to a chap I beat in the group stage, which was rather ironic - he only just squeezed through and went on and won the gold so that was quite disappointing.
"I had to go straight onto play the bronze medal game and lost that on a tie break in the last end, so I suppose hopefully I'll just learn from it and this time it'll be a different result."
Andrew Tetsill, 42, of Camelon, Falkirk, and his son Craig were on an unclassified road leading to Wester Aberchalder near Loch Ness in May 2013.
It was alleged Andrew Tetsill overtook his 21-year-old son's bike where it was unsafe to do so.
Sheriff Margaret Neilson acquitted him following a trial in Inverness.
The trial at Inverness Sheriff Court heard that Craig Tetsill would have survived with head and neck injuries if he had been wearing a helmet.
In evidence, Andrew Tetsill told the court: "Craig was standing at the side of the road as I approached. I was in first gear doing about 10mph. I passed him and pulled over as far as I could.
"I checked my mirrors and heard a thump. I stopped the truck and got out and saw Craig with one leg in front of the rear wheel of his bike and the other on top.
"I was screaming for help and hysterical and then gave him CPR until the ambulance arrived. "
Craig Tetsill sustained a severe head injury and died soon afterwards despite efforts by his father and other witnesses to save him, the court heard.
Police collision experts alleged Andrew Tetsill had been driving too close to his son and calculated that he was travelling at 38mph and his son at 16mph to 21mph.
A collision report concluded that Craig Tetsill's bike had turned sharply to the right causing him to lose control.
The rear wheel of his father's truck then ran over the front bicycle wheel, causing the rear wheel to rise, and throw Craig Tetsill 5m up the road.
However defence counsel Barney Ross challenged police conclusions and the method used to calculate the figures.
Standing more than 132m (433 ft) high, the building south of John Lewis will be home to around 450 students.
It will be taller than Swansea's Meridian Tower, which is the current highest at 107m (351ft).
Council planners approved the move on Wednesday and the building is due to be completed in summer 2018.
It will have a shop or cafe at ground level, and a "sky lounge" available for hire.
Ex chief superintendant Gary Davies was alleged to have assaulted three women in busy train carriages travelling between Taunton and Bristol between December 2015 and May 2016.
The 54-year-old left the Avon and Somerset force in 2012.
Mr Davies, of Shoreditch Road, Taunton, denied all charges and was cleared by a jury at Bristol Crown Court on Friday.
He argued the touching happened due to overcrowding on the trains.
Media playback is unsupported on your device
12 December 2011 Last updated at 08:56 GMT
Stephen King was on his board, just off the coast of New South Wales in Australia when a shark came abit too close.
He managed to escape with just a few small grazes on his leg, but not before the shark took a bite out of his surf board.
Media playback is not supported on this device
De Bruyne, 24, has been left out of Friday's game with Schalke as talks continue over a move to City.
"We had to take it seriously. Finally we decided to start negotiations with City," added Allofs.
"But the deal is not already done. So hopefully we will find an end on Thursday night or Friday morning."
City have not responded to reports a £58m deal has been agreed for the Belgium international.
"During Thursday, we have gone on with negotiations and we've got closer to each other," added Allofs.
"He's had an astonishing, astonishing offer from City and we can't compete with that.
"I would prefer to keep him, not to get the money.
"But the money now is really the issue because Kevin was qualified with Wolfsburg for the Champions League and he was a key player and took the next step."
Former Chelsea midfielder De Bruyne, 24, joined Wolfsburg in January 2014.
Last season, the Belgium international scored 10 goals and provided 21 assists in the Bundesliga.
"At Chelsea, he was not that good and I know the story because I took him to Werder Bremen two years before and then to Wolfsburg," said Allofs.
"It will be very difficult - apart from Bayern Munich - to compete with the Premier League in the future."
The House of Representatives passed a Republican bill proposed by Speaker John Boehner, but that was quickly killed by the Democratic-led Senate.
Senate leader Harry Reid is now seeking a vote on a rival plan he proposed.
The US risks defaulting on its financial obligations if a federal budget deal is not struck by 2 August.
The Boehner plan includes some $900bn of spending cuts and would raise the debt ceiling by a similar amount.
However it would require another vote during mid-2012 and includes language in support of a so-called "balanced budget amendment" to the US constitution - both rejected by the White House and the Senate leadership.
The House vote was delayed from Thursday after Mr Boehner struggled to win over a number of staunchly conservative Republicans, including newly elected representatives who back the Tea Party.
The plan eventually passed the House by 218-210, with 22 Republicans and every Democrat voting against.
Before the vote, Mr Boehner said the plan advanced the "great cause" of a balanced budget amendment.
Mr Boehner appeared heated in front of his colleagues in the House, slamming his fist on a podium on Friday evening and calling for lawmakers to pass his proposal.
Mr Boehner said Republicans had tried their "level best" to reach a deal.
"I stuck my neck out a mile to get an agreement with the president of the United States," Mr Boehner said, referring to negotiations with President Barack Obama that twice broke down.
"My colleagues, I can tell you I have worked with the president and the administration since the beginning of this year to avoid being in this spot," he added.
By Mark MardellBBC North America editor
Read more of Mark's thoughts
"A lot of people in this town can never say yes," Mr Boehner said.
Shortly after the House passed its bill, the Democratic-led Senate voted to reject the Boehner plan in a late-evening vote on Friday.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused the Republicans of seeking to filibuster, or delay, proceedings by forcing a vote on his rival plan to achieve a 60-vote "supermajority" before passing.
Speaking after the Senate adjourned for the night, he accused his Republican counterpart of not being willing to negotiate.
"Unless there is a compromise, or they accept my bill, we're heading for economic disaster," he said.
The US government will start running out of money to pay all its bills unless a $14.3tn (£8.79tn) borrowing limit is increased by Tuesday.
Democrats say the Republican bill as passed would cause immeasurable damage to the economy because it would force Congress to vote on another extension of the debt ceiling early in 2012, a time when presidential election campaigns will be in full swing.
The White House quickly responded to the passage of Mr Boehner's bill, calling for a "compromise that avoids default and lays the basis for balanced deficit reduction".
Earlier, the White House said Mr Boehner was taking a dangerous approach with his proposal.
"Amend the constitution or default is a highly dangerous game to play," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
Meanwhile, Mr Obama accused House Republicans of pursuing a partisan bill that would force Washington into another debt limit fight within months.
"There are plenty of ways out of this mess, but we are almost out of time," Mr Obama said.
"The time for putting party first is over," he added. "The time for compromise on behalf of the American people is now."
Analysts predict a last-minute scramble for a compromise and razor-edge votes in both chambers, with the high-stakes game of legislative brinkmanship expected to continue all weekend.
The president backs Mr Reid's proposal, which would cut $2.2tn from deficits and raise the debt ceiling by $2.7tn.
The Boehner and Reid plans overlap in key ways, such as trimming spending over 10 years and shunning President Obama's call for tax increases on the wealthy and corporations.
Analysts have said international markets would be shaken if the US defaults and runs out of money to pay its bills.
It will be two weekends of enforced abstinence for followers of top-flight teams before they are back in action for the Scottish Cup fourth round on 21/22 January.
So how are the 12 clubs spending the break?
After a week off, a few are heading for sunnier climes to recharge the batteries and regroup for the second half of the season.
For Celtic, it's destination Dubai - with an average temperature of 19C, an average of eight hours of sunshine per day and just 10mm of rainfall expected this month.
Boss Brendan Rodgers is promising his side will be back for 2017 better than before.
Third-placed Aberdeen are also making for the city state of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The Dons have arranged a match against FC Bunyodkor of Uzbekistan.
Partick Thistle are the only other sun-seekers in the Premiership, with Alan Archibald's players migrating from Maryhill to La Manga in Spain for a training camp. They have also arranged a friendly game against Belgian side Lokeren.
Kilmarnock are taking more of a budget break. Lee Clark's team are going to Gateshead in the north-east of England (average temperature 7C) for a couple of friendlies. They play Gateshead and then Newcastle Under-23s in a closed doors game.
Rangers are on the road too. Mark Warburton's team are testing themselves against the club currently second in Germany's Bundesliga, Red Bull Leipzig - home to Scotland's Oliver Burke.
The rest are staying put - unless they book last-minute deals or set up bounce games.
"It's important to give the players a break, they'll have a few days off and then they'll get back to work next week," says Dundee manager Paul Hartley. "Our next game is St Mirren in the cup, we'd like to bring one or two players but one or two will probably have to go out too, but we've got four weeks to sort that out."
St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright is a fan of the winter break. "I'm all for more midweek games to try and free up maybe a longer break in the summer and maybe a longer break in the winter," he told BBC Radio Scotland last month.
Motherwell are among those staying in Scotland, choosing to channel their 'staycation' savings towards improving the squad for the last four months of the campaign.
Ditto the Highland clubs Ross County and Inverness Caledonian Thistle, with a Caley Thistle spokesman saying: "Aside from having a few days off to spend with family, there will be nothing out of the ordinary for the players and they're back in for training next week."
Hamilton Academical released players earlier this week as they set about shaping their squad for the rest of the campaign while Ian Cathro will have his first transfer window as Hearts head coach, commenting recently: "We are not ruling out any market.
"If you look at the history of this league, very few clubs are spending transfer fees. However, if there were unique circumstances that represented good value and it was an opportunity, I think this is one of the few clubs that could be in a position to do that."
"School is often where issues first become apparent, and a school is often a parent's first port of call if they are looking for support," said Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers.
Many schools already provided their own support on site, but in England a squeeze on school budgets and "chaos" in overloaded NHS mental health services posed significant barriers to getting young people the help they needed, said Mr Hobby.
This meant schools "often face serious difficulties in referring young people to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services", said Malcolm Trobe, interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders.
"There is simply not enough provision and families face excessively long waiting times," said Mr Trobe.
Both unions said it was crucial that the government's plans were adequately funded.
"Moves to make schools more accountable for the mental health of their pupils must first be accompanied by sufficient school funding and training for staff and should focus only on those areas where schools can act, including promotion of good mental health, identification and signposting or referrals to the appropriate services," said Mr Hobby.
Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT teachers' union, agreed that teachers were often the first to spot signs of mental distress in pupils.
"The step-change that is needed in relation to children's mental health will not be possible without recognition from government that schools and other services need the time, resources and funding which ensure that no child has their life blighted by mental ill health," said Ms Keates.
Police believe the incident in Dundonald Road, Irvine, at about 02:00 on Friday, was a targeted attack.
The 42-year-old victim was taken to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock before being transferred to Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
He was said to be in a stable condition.
Both suspects are white. The first man was about 5ft 3in tall with a stocky build, short blonde hair and was wearing blue jeans at the time of the attack.
The second suspect was about 5ft 9in tall and was wearing dark clothing.
Det Sgt Paul Richmond said: "We understand that this was a targeted attack, in which a 42-year-old man was left requiring hospital treatment, after being assaulted by two suspects who had forced entry to his home.
"Our inquiries are at an early stage to determine the circumstances surrounding the attack and to identify the two men responsible.
"It is possible you may have heard a disturbance from within the house, or witnessed two men running from the area or leaving in a vehicle following the incident.
"Anyone with information that may assist our investigation should contact Saltcoats Police Office through 101. Alternatively Crimestoppers can be contacted on 0800 555 111, where anonymity can be maintained."
This year has seen the body involved in a public row with groups of crofters.
Its board has made a public apology for its handling of this dispute and sought the resignation of its convener, who says he has done nothing wrong.
The minister made his comment in connection with legislation for the commission's elections in 2017.
Legislation has been approved by the Scottish Parliament for next year's election of commissioners to the board of crofting's regulatory body.
While Mr Ewing has not mentioned the issues faced by the present board, he said: "We want to see the commission focus on building on successful developments in crofting, refocusing attention on being an effective regulator and delivering an excellent service to crofters.
"To do this, we need people who care about the long-term future of crofting to stand for election, or re-election next March.
"It is vital that all crofters make their voice heard by voting in next year's election to ensure that the Crofting Commission represents and reflects the interests and diversity of our crofting communities."
His statement follows a meeting of the board in Inverness on Wednesday.
|
The mass trial is due to begin in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of 94 Islamist activists accused of plotting to seize power in the Gulf state.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee, who was jailed twice in his homeland for posting political and religious criticism online, has been granted asylum in the United States.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
David Cameron has said he will raise allegations of human rights abuses with Kazakhstan's president as he arrives in the country for an historic visit.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The press have been urged to take action over Leveson Inquiry recommendations to regulate the newspaper industry.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed has been mobbed at his home by fans celebrating the country's surprise victory in the Champions Trophy.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A pensioner is in hospital with serious injuries following a hit-and-run as he crossed an Edinburgh road.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Port Vale chairman Tony Fradley will meet with owner Norman Smurthwaite to clarify plans to sell the club.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
All Grenfell Tower fire survivors who want to be rehoused have been offered temporary accommodation, officials say, but only nine offers have been accepted and many are still in hotels.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
New rules which prevent players and coaches from betting on any worldwide footballing activity will help in the fight against match-fixing, says Football Association general secretary Alex Horne.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Motherwell feasted on possession against East Stirlingshire but made a meal of scoring goals in their Betfred League Cup tie against the Lowland League side.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A pie has "returned safely from space", organisers have said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The US civil rights activist and former board chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Julian Bond has died, aged 75.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
More than 100,000 women in Texas, US, have induced their own abortions, according to a recent study.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A cab driver who caused the death of 89-year-old man after being blinded by the sun has been banned from driving for three years.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Peruvian Prime Minister Ana Jara was forced to step down after losing a vote of confidence in Congress on Monday.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Big names, big hits and coloured kits can only mean it is Twenty20 time again for county cricket, and the England and Wales Cricket Board has given the competition a makeover for 2014.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Izzy Bizu's modern version of Edith Piaf's classic French song La Foule will be the theme tune for the BBC's Euro 2016 TV coverage.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
When Chris Hughton took charge of Brighton & Hove Albion on New Year's Eve 2014, he inherited a side languishing 21st in the Championship.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A utility company has admitted a health and safety breach after a boy died when he slipped from an exposed gas pipe and fell into a canal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
England bowler Sam Tolchard says he does not want a repeat of his 2010 Commonwealth Games disappointment when he takes to the greens in Glasgow.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has been cleared of causing his son's death by careless driving as they travelled separately by truck and bicycle from work.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 42-storey student accommodation will be Wales' tallest building after Cardiff council planners gave it the go-ahead.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A former police boss has been cleared of five counts of sexual assault.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A surfer has had a lucky escape after he was attacked by a shark.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Manchester City have made an "astonishing" wage offer to winger Kevin de Bruyne, claims Wolfsburg's director of sport Klaus Allofs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The US Congress has split along party lines as it seeks a solution to an ongoing deadlock over raising the nation's debt limit.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The festive season is over and for supporters of Scottish Premiership clubs it's cold turkey time - otherwise known as the winter shutdown.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Schools have long been at the front line when it comes to identifying and helping children with mental heath problems, say head teachers.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man is being treated in hospital after he was attacked by two men with weapons who forced their way into his home in North Ayrshire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Fergus Ewing has said the Scottish government wants to see the Crofting Commission "refocusing attention on being an effective regulator".
| 21,650,810 | 15,092 | 933 | true |
The migrants did not appear at reception centres to which they had been directed, the government said in a written reply to a question.
This may be because they have moved to a different country, gone underground or registered several times.
Those missing represent about 13% of about 1.1 million asylum seekers registered in Germany in 2015.
A spokesman for the interior ministry said a series of measures approved by parliament on Thursday would help address the missing migrants problem, AFP news agency reports.
These include plans for them to receive an identity document on arriving in Germany so that the authorities can store personal data under a common database and avoid making repeated registrations.
Germany moves to cut asylum claims
What next for Germany's new migrants?
German anti-migrant protests 'shameful'
Migrant attacks reveal dark side of Germany
The new rules also include measures to restrict family reunions for some migrants in addition to slackening the criteria used by the authorities to expel convicted foreigners.
This was a key measure put forward after New Year celebrations were marred when scores of women complained about being sexually assaulted and robbed by a crowd of predominantly migrant men.
Germany's main business associations are due to voice their concern over a potential collapse of the EU's border-free Schengen system at a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday in Munich.
They are expected to repeat their argument that migration can be a useful tool to replenish Germany's shrinking workforce.
On Thursday, the head of Germany's federal office for migration, Frank-Juergen Weise, said there were up to 400,000 people in the country whose identities were unknown to the authorities.
A special flight from Germany carrying 125 deported Afghans arrived in Kabul on Wednesday.
Afghans have become Germany's second largest group of asylum seekers, after Syrians, with 154,000 arriving in 2015.
Those arriving in Kabul all left voluntarily, German officials said.
|
Germany does not know the whereabouts of 130,000 asylum seekers who were registered last year, officials say.
| 35,667,858 | 419 | 23 | false |
Titled Endless, the record features contributions by James Blake and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood.
It is accompanied by a 45-minute, black and white video of the artist at a working on a construction project.
The record appeared early on Friday, almost three years after it was first announced.
In a statement, Apple Music said fans should "keep an eye out this weekend for more from Frank".
The release is also expected to include a printed publication called Boys Don't Cry, distributed in Apple's retail stores.
Endless is the first album from the R&B star since the award-winning Channel Orange in 2012.
The accompanying video in which (spoiler alert) the musician builds a spiral staircase resembles a live stream that first appeared on the artist's website two weeks ago, sparking a flurry of reports the album was due for release on 5 August.
When it failed to appear, Apple representatives told disappointed fans they were "waiting for the artist".
There is no apparent reason for the repeated delays to Ocean's album. He claimed to have completed it last year and at least one of the tracks dates back 20 months.
(At Your Best) You Are Love, a cover of the Isley Brothers' classic, recorded at Abbey Road, was initially posted on Ocean's Tumblr blog in January 2015, marking the anniversary of Aaliyah's birth. She had also covered the song on her debut album in 1994.
But according to Rolling Stone magazine, Endless itself is only a placeholder, with the star's "proper" new album due this weekend.
That record was previously called Boys Don't Cry, but Rolling Stone says the singer has scrapped that title in favour of an alternate title.
It's been called "Beyoncé-ing" - suddenly dropping an album on a digital service, with little or no fanfare.
This year alone, Rihanna, Kanye West and Radiohead have all done it. Beyonce, of course, had to go one better - bundling her album with an Emmy-nominated HBO special.
Why do artists prefer to do it this way? Two reasons: First, it reduces the risk of an album leaking, as it cuts out CD pressing plants, distributors, publicists and journalists - all of whom have been the source of leaks in the past.
Secondly it virtually guarantees publicity, without the artist having to consent to interviews or tedious promotional tours. Even better, if the album isn't up to scratch, you get acres of press coverage before the critics pounce.
But what does this mean for people outside the music industry bubble? How confusing must Frank Ocean's album release seem to the person who buys two CDs a year at Asda? Do they even know it exists? And, if they do, how do they listen to it?
The music industry is increasingly enamoured with these surprise releases but it would never happen for a blockbuster movie, which requires months of carefully-planned placement and positioning. For latest Harry Potter book, Waterstones ran a huge advance publicity campaign, along with a release date and price. That is almost unthinkable in music now.
Unless, of course, you're Adele.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email [email protected].
|
R&B singer Frank Ocean has ended months of speculation by releasing an 18-track visual album streaming exclusively on Apple Music.
| 37,128,770 | 754 | 27 | false |
On Friday Hayes also exchanged contracts to hand over power of London Wasps, who share Wycombe's Adams Park ground, to former player Ken Moss.
The Trust have taken control of Adams Park as well as the training ground.
I'm extremely confident the club are in the best possible hands
"The Trust are delighted to take control of Wycombe Wanderers, especially in the club's 125th year," said Trust chairman Trevor Stroud.
Stroud added: "The plan is to work to a break-even model which will secure a sound financial footing for the club."
Hayes himself believes the future of the club is in safe hands after relinquishing control.
"I've thoroughly enjoyed my time, first as managing director and then as owner, and my support for the club will continue to be just as passionate as ever," said Hayes.
"I'm extremely confident the club are in the best possible hands and wish the Trust every success in control of the club which I hold close to my heart."
|
Supporters group the Wycombe Wanderers Trust have successfully completed the purchase of the club from Steve Hayes.
| 18,657,039 | 224 | 25 | false |
Chasing 60 to claim their first win of the tournament, Ireland mustered only 47-7 in Dharamsala.
Paul van Meekeren twice claimed two wickets in two balls in figures of 4-11, and Roelof van der Merwe took 2-3.
Stephan Myburgh hit 27 off 18 balls and George Dockrell took 3-7 in the Netherlands' 59-5 after rain delayed play by two hours and 40 minutes.
Ireland, who lost to Oman in their opening game before an abandoned match against Bangladesh ended their hopes of qualification, finish bottom of Group A.
Bangladesh and Oman meet at 14:00 GMT in the final game of the first group stage, with the winners going through to the Super 10s, which start on Tuesday.
As well as seamer Van Meekeren bowled on a slow surface, the moment of the match belonged to Pieter Seelaar.
His catch to dismiss Kevin O'Brien for a second-ball duck - running to his left at deep mid-wicket before diving full length to hold on to a flat pull just above the ground - rivalled Sikandar Raza's leaping effort for Zimbabwe against Scotland.
It also sparked an Ireland collapse of six wickets for 16 runs, with Van Meekeren removing any doubt over the outcome by dismissing Max Sorensen and Dockrell in the final over.
"The catch swung the game in our favour," said Netherlands captain Peter Borren.
Ireland captain William Porterfield said: "We didn't see it home. We didn't play smart cricket.
"We haven't been good enough when we've been on the pitch. We haven't been up to scratch."
Detectives were called to Campville Crescent in West Bromwich at about 13:50 BST.
A man thought to be in 40s died at the scene, and another man in his 20s has been taken to hospital with serious injuries, West Midlands Police said.
He is described as being in serious but stable condition. Officers are appealing for information.
Det Insp Warren Hines said: "We do believe that these people are known to each and that there is no risk to the public.
"Inquiries are at an early stage and officers are looking at CCTV and taking witness statements. Forensic investigations are ongoing."
The search uncovered something else: a 6ft-long jungle python showing visible signs of addiction. It had apparently absorbed drug fumes and particles through its skin.
Seven months later, the "very aggressive" snake has returned to normal behaviour under the care of 14 prisoners selected to work in a wildlife care programme.
It is one of about 250 animals cared for at a minimum-security prison in Sydney which houses kangaroos, wallabies, possums, wombats and native birds.
The John Morony Correctional Complex has also taken in a handful of other reptiles seized during police raids.
According to one of the correctional officers, some criminals use venomous snakes to protect hidden stashes of guns and drugs.
The jungle python "which cannot be named due to legal reasons" will be resettled with new owners once the court case against the alleged drug traffickers is over.
Prison governor Ivan Calder said the wildlife programme, which has been running for nearly 20 years, also helps rehabilitate inmates.
"What we see with the men in our care in their approach to animals is that it softens them and it humanises them," he told the BBC.
"Giving the inmates the opportunity to care and take responsibility for animals is a major enabler in their rehabilitation and a major agent for behaviour change."
City councillors passed the proposal, which will see 440 homes built on the former Ingol golf course, at a meeting at Preston Guild Hall.
The decision follows the approval of the training ground proposal in June.
The meeting had been moved to the venue to allow more than 100 people, including several residents, to attend.
Planning officer Chris Blackburn said that whilst the plans could potentially "detrimentally impact" surrounding villages, the benefits - including the fact a third of the housing would be affordable - outweighed the cost.
In June, councillors rejected the initial plan, which they believed "would result in the merger of existing neighbourhoods and settlements, failing to protect their identity and local distinctiveness".
The Championship side made small changes to the proposal before resubmitting them, including increasing the amount of land for public space to create the largest public park in the city.
Council leader Peter Rankin said he understood the "considerable frustration and disappointment" felt by the residents who had been against the plan, but it would "greatly assist PNE as it sets its sights on the Premiership".
"I hope the creation of the first significant public park in Preston for many years... will reassure many of those who are currently concerned about the proposed development," he added.
A spokesman for Preston North End said the club was "delighted" with the decision and would "especially like to thank the thousands of our supporters who have backed us in this project".
"We will now start the hard work of turning the planning consent into reality," he added.
Matthew McDermott, 20, from Cornshell Fields, had been accused of committing grievous bodily harm with intent against Institute FC's Niall Grace.
The offence was alleged to have happened outside a city centre bar on 11 September 2016.
Mr Grace sustained serious head injuries from which he has since recovered.
A Public Prosecution Service barrister told Londonderry Magistrates Court on Thursday that the charge was being replaced by a formal caution.
Chelfham Mill School, near Barnstaple, which is privately run, has been closed by the regulator Ofsted.
A former student told the BBC he was forced to wear pyjamas all day when he broke the rules.
The school said it was committed to supporting the investigation.
It added it expected to stay shut for at least six weeks, but detectives have told the BBC their investigation is likely to take several months.
BBC South West's Home Affairs correspondent, Simon Hall, said: "Detectives say they're looking at recent claims of excessive restraint, along with some dating back several years.
"Officers told me a number of allegations had been made by pupils against a small number of members of staff."
One former student told the BBC that boys were "often restrained, and with some force", but they did not complain as they expected it.
He said "the humiliations were much worse" than being restrained and "pupils sometimes had to wear pyjamas all day, walking around school and at lessons", as one punishment if they misbehaved.
Another former pupil said: "It was like a prison for children. I can assure you the abuse is real. It happened to me and I still suffer from it now."
A team of detectives will be examining the school's records of forcible restraint of pupils, and interviewing them, along with staff.
More than 40 boys, aged seven to 18, with emotional and behavioural problems, study at Chelfham Mill.
The principal of the school, Katy Roberts, told the BBC: "I can assure you I am committed to supporting the investigation process."
In a statement, Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were "working closely with partner organisations including social services as this investigation takes place".
A US secret service investigation uncovered the sabotage plots by James Frazer-Mann, Cardiff Crown Court heard.
Frazer-Mann, 35, from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, admitted five charges of commissioning attacks.
He was handed a four-month suspended prison sentence, and ordered to carry out 180 hours of unpaid work.
The court was told that Frazer-Mann had been described as a "predator" online by customers of his short-term loans firm, Elite Loans.
Complaints about his operation were discussed in an online chat forum run by Consumer Action Group.
"He offered a hacker $100 (£80) to take a consumer website down," said prosecutor James Davies.
"He also made payments to another to orchestrate attacks against his competitors."
The court was told that payments of £2,000 were made to two computer hackers, through a payment system based in Costa Rica, to launch what are known as "Denial of Service" attacks on other payday loan companies.
"The effects of such attacks are significant as the companies are so reliant on their websites to generate business," said the prosecutor.
But Frazer-Mann's activities came to the attention of the FBI when they closed down the hackers' payment websites in 2013.
They found evidence of cash transactions linking the south Wales defendant to the hackers, and tipped off the National Crime Agency.
It led to the businessman's home in Barry being raided by cyber crime officers from Tarian - the southern Wales regional organised crime unit.
Mr Davies added: "He claims his company had initially been targeted by other companies. It's an area of business which is highly competitive and some use unethical practices."
Frazer-Mann pleaded guilty to five counts of commissioning or encouraging offences which prevent access to programmes or documents held in a computer.
Sentencing him, Recorder of Cardiff Judge Eleri Rees said: "Over a period of two years you resorted through revenge to try and disrupt websites.
"You were prepared to spend quite considerable amounts of money to achieve this end."
The firm Elite Loans has since ceased trading, and Frazer-Mann now works as a carpet cleaner.
Speaking after the hearing, the founder of Consumer Action Group Marc Gander said: "This shows the lengths these payday loans companies will go to in a bid to silence their critics.
"He was upset and contacted a hacker in the US. But it was a very stupid thing to do and it failed to work."
Responding to the sentence, Det Insp Paul Peters from the Tarian cyber crime unit said: "Criminal activity conducted online can have far reaching effects on businesses and individuals across the world.
"This case illustrates our commitment to identify and bring to justice those who commit offences online."
In a new scheme, launched on 20 July, nine out of ten families will see their benefits rise.
The move fulfils a major 2015 election pledge by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
But it also comes at a time of budget deficit and economic stagnation in the country.
Child welfare reform has been a pressing issue in Canada since the 1990s, with as many as 14% of the country's children living in poverty, according to national statistics data.
"The new Canada Child Benefit means more money for healthier groceries, kids' summer programmes, and back-to-school clothes," said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a statement.
But critics have pointed to the cost - approximately CA$22.8 billion (£13.2 billion) from the federal budget at a difficult moment financially.
Huge wildfires in Alberta have hurt oil production and Canadian exports performed worse than economists expected during the second quarter of this year.
Payments through the scheme are also fixed rate for the next four years, meaning parents will not see their benefits adjusted according to inflation.
Source: UNICEF
But optimists hope the pros will outweigh the cons.
The government estimates working-class families will receive an extra CA$2,400 (£1,386) a year on average through the new system.
Parents with children under the age of six will be eligible to receive CA$6,400 (£3,698) a year, while parents with children between the ages of six and 17 will be eligible for CA$5,400 (£3,120) a year.
The scheme is also more simple than the previous model, which involved Universal Child Benefit and two other benefits installations in tandem. The new scheme involves a single monthly payment and is weighted according to household income.
"We are punching well below our weight on child poverty," said Iglika Ivanova, Senior Economist for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, an independent think tank.
"I think this is a very positive step. It's incredibly generous. It's even slightly more generous then what many anti-poverty experts have been calling for."
If successful, Ms Ivanova said the new system could cut child poverty by up to 22% within a year, affecting the lives of 230,000 people.
A key test for the reform will be the impact it has on the lives of indigenous Canadians, who suffer greater levels of inequality.
As many as 76% of aboriginal residents in Manitoba and 69% in Saskatchewan live below the poverty line.
The National Post, a conservative Canadian news outlet, has given the new child benefit a lukewarm reception. The biggest change, they argue, will be felt by high-income families.
Those earning more than CA$180,000 (£104,000) a year will see their child benefits phased out entirely under the new initiative.
Economists say the full impact of the reform will not be known for a number of years.
High poverty among native Canadian children
Justin Trudeau: Is the honeymoon over?
Canada welcomes Syrian refugees
Trudeau joins gay pride parade
Warwick, Cardiff, Cambridge and Imperial College will demand either increased rates or full international fees from next academic year.
Peter Dunn, a spokesman for Warwick University, said favouring Channel Island students over those from other jurisdictions would be discriminatory.
Guernsey's Education minister said he would work on the problem with Jersey.
All other English universities have agreed to treat Channel Islands students the same as their UK counterparts when fees for new courses jump from just over £3,000 a year to a maximum of £9,000 from 2013.
Deputy Robert Sillars said: "We're trying very hard to bring these four [universities] back in line."
Mr Dunn said the decision had been prompted by a relaxation of rules regarding what fees can be charged by universities.
He said: "We are now left to decide what is equitable.
"We have to decide what that means in terms of the impact on other non-EU students who may see us offering something to Jersey and Guernsey which they don't receive."
A statement from Cambridge University read: "The university does not see any justification for maintaining a reduced rate of unregulated fee charged solely on the basis of particular domicile. To do so would be discriminatory."
Cardiff University will be charging students from the Bailiwick higher fees, but islanders won't be treated as international students.
A spokesperson for the university said the fees would be higher because Wales did not provide funding to Guernsey students.
Islanders who study for an arts degree would pay the same as home or EU students but those taking a science degree would pay more.
Imperial College justified its decision on financial grounds. A spokesperson told the BBC the increased fees were needed to meet the high cost of education at the college.
A control zone has been set up around Bridge Farm in Redgrave, near Diss, after the H5N8 Avian Influenza virus was identified, the government said.
A number of birds at the Banham Poultry-operated facility have already died and the remainder are to be humanely culled, officials said.
The Food Standards Agency said it was not a food safety risk to consumers.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said investigations were continuing into "the nature of the virus detected and to establish the possible source of the infection".
Banham Poultry, one the region's biggest poultry producers, said it did not own the farm but manages it.
It said the site did not produce meat but was a breeder farm.
On 23 February 2007, a 300-tonne Virgin Pendolino train was travelling at 95mph when it hit a "degraded" set of points on the West Coast Main Line and careered down an embankment.
An 84-year-old Glasgow woman, Margaret Masson, was killed and more than 80 other people were injured, some seriously.
To mark the anniversary BBC Radio Cumbria took the driver, the son of the woman who died and the track maintenance manager who failed to check the points back to the scene at Grayrigg in Cumbria.
Recalling the night, driver Iain Black said: "I think it took 13 seconds from coming off the line for me to be lying in the field facing the opposite direction.
"Obviously adrenalin takes over, and when the train was going down the hill I was still conscious until I got into the field and I got knocked out for a minute or two.
"I just found it unbelievable - you don't believe it is happening. My initial thought was, 'I'll be off work next week because there'll be an inquiry'. Little did I know I'd be off work for 18 months."
George Masson was told about the crash in a phone call.
He said: "I got a call from my son saying, 'Your mum's dead'. I said, 'What are you talking about? She's in Southport'.
"He said she was killed in a train crash. And then I got a phone call from Virgin Rail."
The company sent a taxi to take him to the hospital - where he was unable to see his mother in the morgue because the extent of her injuries was too severe - and later to the scene of the crash.
"Just being here, it does affect you," he said. "I've got tears coming out of my eyes, seeing the place again."
The derailment was caused by a "degraded and unsafe" set of points, which a Network Rail track maintenance manager had forgotten to check.
David Lewis, from Preston, told an inquest that he had previously flagged up safety concerns, telling his bosses that his team was under-staffed, with workers not given the right tools or enough time to carry out checks.
Speaking at the scene of the crash 10 years on, he said: "Obviously when I walked up there on the night, I looked at the bank and saw the train laid on its side and I didn't think many people were going to come out of that train alive.
"And after that I had the investigation, the police, I was arrested, I was suspended from work.
"To begin with it was a bit unreal, but as time went on I was bailed and re-bailed, and re-interviewed, and that went on for months before I was eventually released.
"By the time I had got to the end of that I was just basically clinging on, was in a deep hole, deep depressions, mood swings, because you don't know what's gong to happen to you.
"My marriage broke down. I had to sell my house and eventually I lost my job. It's affected me greatly in that respect.
"Obviously it wasn't like what these people have been through, but it was a bad time for me as well. At the end of the day I hadn't done anything wrong, which all came out at the trial."
Mr Black said to Mr Lewis: "I think it was a lot worse for you - life-changing for you. I got a few injuries that are going to be with me for life, but your life stopped."
Iain Black, from Dumbarton, recovered from his injuries, including a broken neck, but after arthritis affected the damaged vertebra he was forced to retire.
He said his wife still struggled with the memories of the night.
"While I was lying in the cab I phoned her and stayed on the line for two-and-a-half hours.
"At times I'd go quiet and she thought I'd died, and she found that hard to get over."
For the Masson family, the memory of their mother remains strong.
Her son said: "We do think about her and keep looking at pictures and everything else."
Mr Lewis has returned to working on the railways, but said that what happened was always on his mind.
Network Rail said that since the crash "valuable lessons were learned, which have contributed to the railway in Britain now being the safest major network in Europe".
Martin Frobisher, route managing director, said: "On the 10th anniversary of the Grayrigg incident, our thoughts are with the family and friends of Margaret Masson who tragically lost her life and with all those who were injured or affected by what happened."
So what does the anniversary mean for the three?
Iain Black said: "Every 23 February, at that specific time of night - about 8pm - me and my wife always remember it. Every year is as vivid as the one before. I'll never forget it."
George Masson said: "I lock myself away, don't talk to anyone."
David Lewis described it as "the night that changed all our lives".
He said: "It's very important that I've got to know these guys. It's helping us all to get over it. Great friendships come out of bad things."
A two-over-par opening round 74 meant the 19-year-old's level-par 72 was not enough to progress to the third round.
England's Mel Reid and Laura Davies, plus Wales' Becky Morgan also missed the cut.
Scotland's Catriona Matthew, 47, is seven shots behind leader Kerr, who won this event in 2015.
"I was in an OK position after halfway then I had a really bad finish, missed two short putts at 16, 17 and obviously three-putting the last," said New Zealand's Ko.
"I can't do anything about it. I tried my best to hopefully put myself in a better position going forward, but I can't do anything about it."
Ko is preparing to defend her title at next week's ANA Inspiration tournament, the first major of the season.
Syrian warplanes and troops are targeting militant positions on the city's eastern edge, activists say.
The UN's top cultural official said the IS advance was "very alarming".
Islamic State has ransacked and demolished several ancient sites in Iraq. Palmrya has already suffered damage during the Syrian civil war.
The Unesco World Heritage site is strategically located on the road between the capital, Damascus, and the contested eastern city of Deir al-Zour. It is also close to gas fields and home to a major airbase.
"Islamic State group jihadists are now 1km (less than a mile) from the archaeological site of Palmyra," the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, told the AFP news agency.
Using warplanes, he said, "the army is bombing the surroundings of Tadmor from the air", referring to the modern city adjacent to Palmyra.
Syrian state media confirmed the development on Friday, with state-run Sana news agency reporting that troops were "chasing" IS fighters to the north and east of Palmyra.
Palmyra: IS threat to 'Venice of the Sands'
On its own media outlet, Al-Bayan radio, IS claimed to have attacked a signals tower next to the citadel, setting fire to buildings there, as well targeting the military airport to the east of the town, an oil station and a gas company.
But Syrian officials said on Friday the militants had not yet managed to reach the ancient city, with the governor of Homs telling state media that the site was safe and protected by the Syrian army.
The country's antiquities chief has warned that if IS seizes Palmyra, it will destroy everything there, describing the current fighting as a "battle between civilisation and barbarism".
He has appealed for international intervention to avoid another cultural disaster following the recent destruction of Iraq's ancient sites by IS in Nimrod, Hatra and Mosul.
Outside intervention is highly unlikely despite huge international concern, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut.
With a large military base, vast weapons arsenal and major highway running through it, Palmyra is of high strategic value, which is why the Syrian government forces seem to be fighting so hard to defend it, he adds.
Meanwhile, Unesco chief Irina Bokova said on Friday the heritage site "should not be used for military purposes" and has appealed to both sides to protect it.
Since the IS offensive began on Tuesday, 73 soldiers and 65 militants have been killed, according to AFP. In addition to this, activists say at least 26 civilians were executed - 10 of them beheaded - after they were accused of collaborating President Bashar al-Assad's government.
Rising out of the desert and flanked by an oasis, Palmyra contains the monumental ruins of a great city that was one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world, according to Unesco.
The site, most of which dates back to the 1st to the 2nd Century when the region was under Roman rule, is dominated by a grand, colonnaded street.
The protesters accuse the government of trying to brainwash students with pro-China education and want the programme to be scrapped.
But the government says it is about building national pride and identity.
Protests have been rumbling for months, but built over the weekend before the start of the new school year.
A small number of activists have been taking part in hunger strikes.
The government wants schools to introduce the programme now and plans to make it compulsory by 2016.
But protesters - who comprise parents, students and teachers - say its core aim is to bolster support for China's communist rulers.
They have highlighted a government booklet that they say glorifies Communist Party rule in China while ignoring sensitive issues.
Some 8,000 people joined Monday night's protest, reports said.
On Tuesday Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung said it was premature to withdraw the programme, Hong Kong's RTHK reported
He said opponents of the programme should join a government-appointed committee on the subject and air their concerns there, the broadcaster said.
Deputy leader Carrie Lam said on Monday that more dialogue was needed on the issue.
"The important thing is to ensure that the public concern or the parents' and the students' worry about the so-called brainwashing will not happen," Reuters news agency quoted her as saying.
"But that will only be achievable by more communication between the various stakeholders and by putting the trust in the school sponsoring authorities and the individual schools."
The group was first banned in 2010, when it also used the name Islam4UK.
It had planned to protest in the Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett, then known for ceremonies honouring military personnel killed in Afghanistan.
The security minister said: "Terrorist organisations should not be allowed to escape proscription simply by acting under a different name."
James Brokenshire continued: "That is why we have today laid an order which will, from tomorrow, recognise the Need4Khilafah, the Shariah Project and the Islamic Dawah Association as aliases of the group already proscribed as both al-Ghurabaa and The Saved Sect.
"The group is also known as Al Muhajiroun. This means being a member of or supporting the organisation is a criminal offence.
"Al-Muhajiroun remains of significant concern to the UK and the international community, and this order will ensure that it cannot operate in the UK as Need4Khilafah, the Shariah Project and the Islamic Dawah Association."
Under the Terrorism Act 2000, a group can be banned if it "commits or participates in acts of terrorism, prepares for, promotes or encourages terrorism or is otherwise concerned in terrorism".
Groups can also be outlawed if they "unlawfully glorify the commission or preparation of acts of terrorism".
The Irish are unhappy they have yet to receive the written judgement of disciplinary officer Terry Willis after Stander's first Test red card.
"It's probably a situation where it's probably a little bit too late already [to appeal]," said Ireland skills coach Richie Murphy on Tuesday.
"We're in a situation where we're halfway through the training week."
Stander was sent off midway through the first half in Cape Town after he collided with Pat Lambie and caught the fly-half's head with his hip.
However, Joe Schmidt's Irish side regrouped from the setback to earn their first ever win over the Springboks on South African soil as they clinched a 26-20 victory.
"CJ obviously hasn't been training with the team," added Murphy.
"The process that he's gone through over the last three days has just taken forever. It's been very slow. So that's something that's probably gone against CJ at this stage."
The Irish also have to weigh up the risk of an unsuccessful appeal potentially resulting in an increased ban for the South African-born flanker.
Murphy hinted that Leinster's Rhys Ruddock is likely to be Stander's replacement at Ellis Park this weekend.
"Rhys Ruddock has had a really good season this year," said the Ireland skills coach.
Murphy is expecting the Springboks to significantly improve their display in Johannesburg after their error-ridden performance at Newlands.
"At times we were a little bit lucky at the weekend. South Africa knocked one or two balls on, got stripped once or twice in our 22," said Murphy.
"I think we need to park that now and move on to this week's challenge."
Ireland will clinch the series if they win in Johannesburg on Saturday ahead of the final Test in Port Elizabeth on 25 June.
The defender got forward to do what the strikers couldn't by forcing the ball past Falkirk goalkeeper Danny Rogers from eight yards.
That was particularly tough on someone who had made some important saves, including twice from Tony Andreu.
He also denied Scott Fraser with a fine block, but the winner was deserved.
United manager Ray McKinnon would be as relieved as he was pleased after seeing his side lose to late goals when the teams met at the Falkirk Stadium last month.
They haven't looked back since then and are now unbeaten in their last five league matches, taking 13 points in the process.
That has seen them significantly narrow the gap on Hibs at the top in recent weeks and McKinnon is determined to keep up the pressure on Neil Lennon's side.
Falkirk manager Peter Houston was disappointed to see his side lose for the second successive week but was much happier with the performance than they produced in defeat against Raith the previous Saturday.
In fact, if full back Luke Leahy had shown more composure when one-on-one with Cammy Bell in the second half, they might well have left with a win.
Houston is a realist, though, and he knows that if they can stay in contention for the promotion play-off places then they could yet play in the Premiership next season.
Dundee United manager Ray McKinnon: "We have gradually got ourselves into contention in this league.
"It has been a stop-start time with a lot of new faces and people gelling, but when we got into second place, we didn't want to give that up.
"We want to keep moving forward as a team and you could tell by the players' reactions at the end that it was an important victory."
Falkirk manager Peter Houston: "If we are being honest, a club this size is fighting for a play-off place as we can beat anyone in a two-leg game.
"We have beaten Dundee United 3-1 at the Falkirk Stadium and lost to them here with a late goal.
"That shows we are not too far away from a club that has got far bigger resources, far bigger budgets and can bring more quality in."
Match ends, Dundee United 1, Falkirk 0.
Second Half ends, Dundee United 1, Falkirk 0.
Attempt blocked. Robert McHugh (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Charlie Telfer (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lee Miller (Falkirk).
Substitution, Dundee United. Coll Donaldson replaces Scott Fraser because of an injury.
Substitution, Falkirk. James Craigen replaces John Rankin.
Goal! Dundee United 1, Falkirk 0. Mark Durnan (Dundee United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Paul Dixon.
Attempt blocked. Luke Leahy (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Falkirk. Robert McHugh replaces John Baird.
Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Cameron Smith (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk).
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Scott Fraser.
Foul by Charlie Telfer (Dundee United).
Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Scott Fraser (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk).
Substitution, Falkirk. Myles Hippolyte replaces Craig Sibbald.
Attempt missed. Simon Murray (Dundee United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.
Charlie Telfer (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Rankin (Falkirk).
Corner, Dundee United. Conceded by Tom Taiwo.
Tony Andreu (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk).
Paul Dixon (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lee Miller (Falkirk).
Foul by Willo Flood (Dundee United).
Luke Leahy (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simon Murray (Dundee United).
Luca Gasparotto (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Scott Fraser (Dundee United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. William Edjenguele (Dundee United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Charlie Telfer (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Sibbald (Falkirk).
Corner, Dundee United. Conceded by John Rankin.
Substitution, Dundee United. Simon Murray replaces Tope Obadeyi.
Substitution, Dundee United. Cameron Smith replaces Nick van der Velden.
The 13th seed lost 6-4 7-5 against the Latvian world number 48.
Konta fought back to 5-5 from 4-1 down in the second set and saved two match points, but was finally undone as Sevastova broke serve to win.
Sevastova, who retired in 2013 before making a comeback, will play Caroline Wozniacki in the quarter-finals.
Konta was bidding to become the first British woman in the quarter-finals in New York since Jo Durie in 1983.
She said: "I didn't play the tennis level that I maybe would have liked, but I competed the best I could.
"Right now I'm pretty tired," Konta told BBC Sport. "It is a very long season with the Olympics thrown in the mix.
"It was challenging but equally rewarding - it was a great experience to be part of Team GB.
"I've played a lot of very good matches and won a lot of them, so it's a good problem to have."
German second seed Angelique Kerber beat two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 6-3 7-5 to keep alive her bid to become world number one.
The result means Serena Williams will have to reach the final and, if it's against Kerber, win the tournament to prevent the Australian Open winner taking top spot in the rankings.
Kerber will play Italian seventh seed Roberta Vinci for a place in the semi-finals. Vinci, the 2015 runner-up, overcame Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine 7-6 (7-5) 6-2.
Playing in the first match of the day on Flushing Meadows' showpiece Arthur Ashe court, Konta struggled to impose herself in tricky conditions with half the court in bright sunlight and the rest shaded by the arena's new roof.
Her serve - usually among her most potent weapons - failed to make much impression on the dogged Sevastova, delivering only one ace and a return of just 45% of the points when she landed with her first attempt.
Konta's game was also littered with mistakes. She made 34 unforced errors compared to the mere six she committed in her win over Belinda Bencic in the previous round.
It appears that a globe-trotting second half of the season - including a run to the last eight at the Rio Olympics - might be catching up with her.
The 25-year-old suffered an on-court collapse during her second-round victory at Flushing Meadows and indicated she may not have fully recovered.
"I'm sure there are some remnants of it but it's not the reason I lost," Konta said.
"It's an accumulation of things. I have played a lot of tennis, especially in this space of time.
"I think it was just managing my energy levels and managing what I had left in the tank and really maximising that.
"Unfortunately it wasn't enough to play the kind of tennis I wanted to play."
Sevastova made the faster start to both sets, going 3-0 up in the first and 4-1 clear in the second.
And at the climax of the match, the 26-year-old kept her volatile emotions in check to convert a third match point and secure her first appearance in the last eight of a Grand Slam.
Her run also includes an eye-catching second-round win over Spanish third seed Garbine Muguruza and makes her the first Latvian woman to make a Grand Slam quarter-final since Larisa Neiland at Wimbledon in 1994.
"I had a lot of injuries. I was depressed and it just wasn't fun anymore," said Sevastova as she explained why she took a 19-month absence from the sport from May 2013. "But now I'm back."
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
"It is an indication of Konta's extraordinary progress in the past 12 months that this fourth-round defeat comes as a surprise and a disappointment.
"Sevastova played a canny match by dragging Konta around the court with drop shots and slice - forcing the British number one to save two match points before a shanked forehand ended the contest.
"Konta was, though, a long away from her best. She experienced breathing difficulties and a racing heartbeat in her second-round match against Tsvetana Pironkova - the first sign that a long and successful season had started to take its toll."
Ms Monroe sued the writer over two war memorial tweets she said caused "serious harm" to her reputation.
Ms Hopkins posted tweets in May 2015 asking her if she had "scrawled on any memorials recently".
Ms Monroe said that meant she had either vandalised a war memorial or "condoned or approved" of it.
Mr Justice Warby also ordered Ms Hopkins - a columnist for the Mail Online - to pay an initial £107,000 towards the campaigner's legal costs within 28 days.
He ruled that the tweets had caused "Ms Monroe real and substantial distress" and she was entitled to "fair and reasonable compensation".
The final costs figure has yet to be assessed.
Cheeky interruption for BBC guest
The biggest killer you may not know
UK a nation of 'mucus troopers' says TUC
After the ruling, Ms Monroe, who also campaigns over poverty issues, said: "It's taken 21 months but today the High Court ruled that Hopkins statements to/about me were defamatory.
"I sued her for libel, and I won."
The case arose after some Twitter users highlighted an anti-Conservative profanity daubed on a memorial to the women of World War Two during an anti-austerity demonstration.
In May 2015 Ms Hopkins tweeted: "@MsJackMonroe scrawled on any memorials recently? Vandalised the memory of those who fought for your freedom. Grandma got any more medals?"
The judge ruled that the tweet "meant that Ms Monroe condoned and approved of scrawling on war memorials, vandalising monuments commemorating those who fought for her freedom".
He found that a second tweet from Ms Hopkins "meant that Ms Monroe condoned and approved of the fact that in the course of an anti-government protest there had been vandalisation by obscene graffiti of the women's war memorial in Whitehall, a monument to those who fought for her freedom"
The judge added: "These are meanings with a defamatory tendency, which were published to thousands."
Jonathan Price, for Ms Hopkins, who is well known for airing controversial views, told the judge that "this relatively trivial dispute arose and was resolved on Twitter in a period of several hours".
He argued that "no lasting harm, and certainly no serious harm" had been caused to Ms Monroe's reputation.
Ms Hopkins had "mistakenly" used Ms Monroe's Twitter handle instead of that of another columnist who had written about the war memorial incident, he said.
Ms Monroe comes from a family with military connections - her father was in the British Army for seven years, while one of her brothers is a flying officer in the RAF.
The judge said he accepted Ms Monroe's unchallenged evidence that "as a proud member of a military family and a feminist" she was "sickened" by the graffiti.
He ruled that "whilst the claimant may not have proved that her reputation suffered gravely, I am satisfied that she has established that the publications complained of caused serious harm to her reputation".
He said their publication "not only caused Ms Monroe real and substantial distress, but also harm to her reputation which was serious".
Media lawyer Mark Stephens, of law firm Howard Kennedy, said Mr Justice Warby had set a "tariff" at £24,000 for Twitter libel cases, which would "undoubtedly encourage more claims".
He said: "The courts will allow robust debate and will consider posts and comments to see if they were meant as fact or a joke.
"But the fact remains that if comments cause serious harm, legal action is likely to follow."
The company brought in to cut fraud and error in the benefit system will not have its contract renewed by HMRC.
It follows complaints that it wrongly cut payments to hundreds of claimants.
On Wednesday, DUP MP Gavin Robinson said the 1,800 Belfast-based staff were not informed about the decision.
Speaking in the House of Commons, the Belfast East MP said: "Can I ask you to reflect how appalling it was that members of staff, many of whom are my constituents, found out this news last night by a tweet by the BBC - as opposed to any communication from Concentrix or indeed any statement to this House?"
Financial Secretary Jane Ellison told MPs: "The contract is not going to be renewed - it's not been terminated.
"To that extent, the consideration of whether any contract is renewed is something that takes place in the normal course of events.
"At the same time as we shine a light on areas where performance is unacceptable, it's also really important that we take the chance to reflect that many people are working hard to do their job as well as possible."
The contract awarded to Concentrix, worth between £55m and £75m on a payment by results basis, will come to an end in May 2017.
In the eight months until then, Concentrix will work on clearing outstanding cases, said HMRC.
Concentrix said it had operated "within the guidance set by HMRC".
In a statement, the company said it remained "committed to Belfast" and that it believes Belfast is "an excellent base for our operations in the UK and beyond".
It said the decision by HMRC not to renew its contract "in no way reflects upon the professionalism and determination of [its] staff".
"Our staff are our top priority and we will do everything possible to minimise any impact," it said.
Rolando Espinosa, mayor of the central town of Albuera, had fired at officers searching for weapons, police said.
The death comes after President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to step up his policy of killing suspected drug dealers.
A new stage in the crackdown was announced last week to include mayors and senior drug lords. The "war on drugs" has killed up to 4,000 people.
Mr Duterte, 71, was elected in May on a platform of preventing the Philippines becoming a "narco state" by sanctioning the extra-judicial killing of drug criminals who fail to turn themselves in.
The policy has faced strong criticism from human rights groups and put Mr Duterte at odds with the United States - a staunch ally of the Philippines.
But he won the election by a landslide and the controversial policy remains popular with many Filipinos.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in quotes
Duterte tells Obama to 'go to hell'
The woman who kills drug dealers for a living
There have been calls for Mr Espinosa's death to be investigated to determine in particular how weapons ended up in his cell and how the exchange of fire broke out.
He is the second mayor to be killed within two weeks. Samsudin Dimaukom died, reportedly in a gun battle, in the southern Philippines.
Both men were among officials named by Mr Duterte in August as having links to the drug trade.
Mr Espinosa gave himself up to police in August, was then released but was later re-arrested on drugs and firearms charges.
The company said 380 staff would be affected but they would be guaranteed redeployment at a nearby store.
M&S will also open 36 new stores over the next six months, creating more than 1,400 jobs.
Mr Rowe explained the six closures by saying that M&S was adapting to its customers' changing shopping habits.
"We are committed to adapting our business so that we stay in tune with our customers," he said.
The stores earmarked for closure are in Portsmouth, Slough, Warrington, and Wokingham, along with Simply Food stores in Monks Cross near York and Worksop.
In November, M&S said that following a "forensic review" of its store estate it was embarking on a five-year programme of store closures and openings.
The plans involve opening 200 new food-only stores, while selling clothing and homeware from 60 fewer stores.
Mr Rowe said on Thursday: "We will open new stores, some will reduce in size, some will move, some will close and others will convert to food-only."
M&S currently has 959 UK stores: 304 sell the full range of clothing, homewares and food; 615 are food only; and 40 are outlet stores which sell stock at a discount.
Like many other retailers, the High Street chain is grappling with changing shopping habits.
Richard Hyman, a leading retail analyst, said there would be many more store closures to come on the UK High Street, as retailers were getting diminishing returns from their conventional shops.
"When you look at the massive expansion of online sales in the past 10-15 years, alongside the same number of physical stores, something has to give," he said.
In September, M&S announced it would cut hundreds of jobs at its head office in London.
The Bantams dominated but were grateful for Jordy Hiwula's 53rd-minute equaliser after falling behind to Isaiah Osbourne's opener four minutes earlier.
Bradford almost led inside four minutes but Saddlers goalkeeper Neil Etheridge produced a superb instinctive save to tip over Mark Marshall's point-blank strike.
Etheridge also foiled Josh Cullen and Hiwula towards the end of the half but made the pick of his saves two minutes after the interval, clawing Cullen's 20-yarder out of the bottom corner.
And the hosts went in front with their first real chance of the game in the 49th minute, Osbourne drilling the ball into the bottom corner from just inside the box.
Hiwula levelled four minutes later as he was denied by the excellent Etheridge one-on-one but tucked the rebound into a gaping net.
Full-back Jason McCarthy had two chances to win it for Walsall, but his rasping drive was tipped onto the bar by City keeper Colin Doyle and his header from the resulting corner was blocked on the line.
Report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Walsall 1, Bradford City 1.
Second Half ends, Walsall 1, Bradford City 1.
Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Edwards (Walsall).
Romain Vincelot (Bradford City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Romain Vincelot (Bradford City).
Isaiah Osbourne (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Marshall (Bradford City).
Scott Laird (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Nathaniel Knight-Percival.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Nicky Law.
Attempt blocked. Andreas Makris (Walsall) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Walsall. Erhun Oztumer replaces Amadou Bakayoko.
Attempt saved. Marc McNulty (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Josh Cullen (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Franck Moussa (Walsall).
Attempt missed. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Walsall. Andreas Makris replaces Simeon Jackson.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Timothee Dieng.
Attempt saved. James Hanson (Bradford City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Nathaniel Knight-Percival (Bradford City).
Simeon Jackson (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Cullen (Bradford City).
Jason McCarthy (Walsall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. James Hanson (Bradford City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Franck Moussa (Walsall).
Romain Vincelot (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Simeon Jackson (Walsall).
Substitution, Bradford City. Haris Vuckic replaces Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila.
Substitution, Walsall. Franck Moussa replaces Florent Cuvelier.
Foul by James Hanson (Bradford City).
Jason McCarthy (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Jason McCarthy (Walsall) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Colin Doyle.
Attempt saved. Jason McCarthy (Walsall) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Nathaniel Knight-Percival.
Attempt blocked. Scott Laird (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Josh Cullen (Bradford City).
Police received a number of reports of young people setting pallets and rubbish on fire at the Leckey Road and Westland Street.
Petrol bombs and missiles were also thrown in the Bishop Street and Magazine Street direction.
There are no reports of any injuries or any serious damage caused.
A pizza delivery van was also hijacked in the Iona Court area by two masked men and set on fire a short time later at Fahan Street.
PSNI chief inspector Andy Lemon said: "The local residents in this area have suffered once again due to the reckless actions of these youths, some as young as 10.
"I want to reiterate our message to youths involved in this kind of activity that you run the very real risk of being arrested and getting a criminal record which could affect your life for a very long time.
"Parents need to know where their children are, who they are with and what they are doing.
"Police will continue to work closely with community representatives, local elected representatives and other statutory bodies to address these issues in the area.
"I appeal to anyone with any information about those involved in the disorder last night to contact police at Strand Road."
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness tweeted on Monday night that he "unreservedly condemned" those responsible for the attacks.
The incident happened at the Cuckoo Bridge near College Mains and Lincluden Road at about 21:30 on Wednesday.
A blue Mazda 2 was struck by a "wooden object" which shattered its windscreen.
The driver was able to park his car safely. Police are appealing for witnesses.
Scrum-half Larissa Muldoon moves from the replacements to the starting XV.
"There's a very strong spirit in this squad that's been developing nicely over the last few months," said Ireland head coach Tom Tierney.
"While the performances haven't been as accurate or as clinical as we would like, we've ground out four wins."
"That has set up a very big game this Friday evening," he added.
Ireland's relative continuity in selection is highlighted by the fact that props Lindsay Peat and Ailis Egan join Leah Lyons in the front row for the fifth successive game.
In the back row, flankers Ciara Griffin and Claire Molloy pack down with number eight and captain Paula Fitzpatrick for the sixth game in a row.
Second row Marie-Louise Reilly is set to win her 50th cap.
England will arrive in Dublin on the back of a huge win against Scotland and in the hope of pipping Ireland to the championship.
"From our point of view, we have a huge opportunity on St. Patrick's Day and for us it's about looking to rectify some of the areas of our game that we haven't been happy with over the past few weeks," said Tierney.
"If we can make those small changes, then Friday evening's game should be a great one."
Ireland women: K Flood (Leinster); H Tyrrell (Leinster), J Murphy (Leinster), S Naoupu (Aylesford Bulls), A Miller (Connacht); N Stapleton (Leinster), L Muldoon (Railway Union); L Peat (Leinster), L Lyons (Munster), A Egan (Leinster), S Spence (Leinster), M-L Reilly (Leinster), C Griffin (Munster), C Molloy (Connacht), P Fitzpatrick (capt) (Leinster).
Replacements: C O'Connor (Connacht), I Van Staden (Ulster), R O'Reilly (Connacht), C Cooney (Leinster), N Fryday (Connacht), M Healy (Connacht), N Caughey (Ulster), M Coyne (Connacht).
Under a deal agreed on Friday, the list must be approved by the international creditors in order for Greece to secure a four-month extension of its bailout.
"We won a battle, not the war," Mr Tspiras said on Saturday.
The deal is widely regarded as a major climb down for the PM, who won power vowing to reverse budget cuts.
He hailed the agreement as a "decisive step" that "achieved much" towards ending austerity, but added: "We have a long and difficult road ahead."
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens says the government is engaged in a hard sell to the Greek people over the deal with eurozone ministers and the IMF in Brussels.
The Greek cabinet is discussing the potential list of reforms, which must be approved before eurozone members ratify the bailout extension on Tuesday.
Analysts say a collapse of the deal would revive fears of an exit from the euro, a so-called "grexit" - something both the EU and Greece say they want to avoid.
Mark Lowen, BBC News, Athens
After the late-night deal comes the hard sell to the Greek public. A government elected by promising to reverse austerity and end the bailout has had a major climb-down.
It has had to accept supervision by its creditors - no moves without EU agreement - and a loan programme with conditions.
To its voters, the government will stress that it now has a say in which reforms it is willing to make.
The hard-left of the party won't like it, but the centre ground will, and Greece has staved off euro-exit for now. That is the success that the government will trumpet. But it is limited.
Saved from disaster - for two days
Linda Yueh: A deal, for now
Personality clash at heart of negotiations
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble stressed on Friday that there would be no payment of new funds to Greece until the conditions of the deal had been met.
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said he would work night and day until Monday to devise the list of reforms.
"If the list of reforms is not agreed, this agreement is dead," he admitted.
Greece's liberal daily Kathimerini warned on Saturday of "stifling" conditions attached to the deal in Brussels while the centre-left Ta Nea said both sides had made "compromises".
The Greek Communist Party (KKE) accused the coalition, which is led by its far-left rivals Syriza, of extending the bailout without getting the loan conditions changed.
"Ultimately the bill will be footed by the people, as it happened with all previous governments," KKE leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas said.
The government is already in trouble with its voters for seeking the bailout extension at all - something it swore it would never do.
On the streets of Athens, reaction to the deal in Brussels was mixed.
"I think it was positive in the sense that at least for now we can relax a bit," one man, Nikos, told the BBC. "We will have to wait see what will happen next."
But another man, Costas, dismissed the deal as a "somersault that the whole world will remember".
Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, head of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, said on Friday night that the deal was a "very important" step in the process of rebuilding trust between Greece and its creditors - the EU, the European Central Bank and the IMF.
So how can the modern office attract people to tumble outta bed and commute into work, especially when many employees could simply turn on their laptop and get things done? And how can that office make you more productive?
One idea, popular among new technology companies, is to mix work and play.
Stroll around the London headquarters of peer-to-peer money transfer service TransferWise in Shoreditch, London, and you see scooters, a hammock and, would you believe, one of these:
Companies like this say such an office helps create a culture where staff enjoy coming to work, and are more productive as a result. For others, office perks like a sauna are simply a load of hot air.
Twenty-somethings might enjoy the perks, says Clare Coatman, of trade union body the TUC, but they must be in addition to, rather than instead of, decent pay and conditions.
"Compare the cost of buying a ping-pong table to offering a living wage, rather than a minimum wage, and you start to cut through to the reality," she says.
"Perks are nice, but they do not pay the bills."
Taavet Hinrikus, founder and chief executive of TransferWise, says the aim of his firm's offices around the world is to "create an environment for people to do their best work".
Finding a premises that allowed everyone to work on the same floor was important, he says. After that, many of the ideas of how to furnish it came from the staff themselves.
The overwhelming view, and the resulting set-up, was a mix of areas that suited certain tasks. Various soundproofed phone booths are dotted around. There are traditional desks, soft seating ("the padded cell") and a kitchen with background music. Friday's playlist included Gregorian chant and the Bee Gees (separately).
Speaking in the Magic Roundabout meeting room, Inez Miedema, head of affiliates and partnerships at TransferWise, admits that her parents - during a tour of the office - saw people playing a football computer game and questioned whether any work actually got done.
Ultimately each team has performance indicators to ensure they are doing a good job and those failing to do so will be challenged.
The trendy office and flexibility at work helps to attract talent, she says, but it is far from the only attraction, not least pay.
There is a keen eye cast over competitors and similar businesses to benchmark the competitiveness of salaries. As the business has grown in size, so has the package of other benefits offered to staff.
The TUC's Clare Coatman says young people really want job security and pay progression - much the same as any other generation of workers. No matter how trendy the office, their focus was still on the job, not on the jest.
A report by accountancy firm PwC said career progression was the top priority for "millennials" - the term typically applied to those born between 1980 and 1999 - who expected to rise rapidly through an organisation. Some 52% of those asked said this was the main attraction in an employer, coming ahead of competitive salaries in second place (44%).
The trouble is, says Ms Coatman, that they have very low expectations of the workplace. This theory was echoed in a recent poll commissioned by the RSA which suggested that fewer than one in 10 workers thought that "all work was fair and decent".
As a result younger workers may choose to move to another job, rather than fight to improve the terms of their current roles, Ms Coatman says.
A small, start-up tech firm can quite easily make their office attractive to the young worker, but what about bigger, more traditional companies?
Many staff can carry the contents of their desk around with them, usually digitally on a laptop, says Philip Ross, founder and chief executive of UnWork.com, which promotes new ways of working.
Young tech-savvy staff, particularly, can work anywhere so why bother getting on a packed bus or sit in a traffic jam to get to a chicken-coop office?
"As a place for people, both employees and clients, it has to work hard to pull people in - there needs to be a compelling reason to come to work," UnWork says in a report about a recent project for a business in New York.
The office priorities for staff were "air quality, daylight, good acoustics, great coffee and food". The motivation for the business was a 30% cut in property costs per person, by using the space more efficiently.
Some of the vocabulary about modern offices - such as "app-centric workplace" and "collision coefficient" - may raise eyebrows among your average office worker.
Yet, the logic behind the lexicon is worth a closer look.
Mr Ross says that offices should allow people to move around and work with those engaged in the same "activities". The design of a building should encourage people to communicate in person, rather than by email or in formal meetings.
Meanwhile, an office app may suggest who in an organisation is free for lunch at the same time. Then, it will point out which of them are working on a similar project. Alternatively it may highlight that some have the same interests, such as running marathons, and match-make them for lunch.
However, Mr Ross argues that, among tech start-ups in particular, there has been a "rush to collaboration". The trend towards shared space means it can be difficult to find anywhere for staff to quietly get work done on their own.
In the end, he says, there needs to be areas of an office to fit different types of work.
That, it seems, may even include a sauna in the corner.
Disney subsidiaries Disney Enterprises Inc. and Pixar are suing Chinese companies G-Point, PPTV and Bluemtv for hosting images and posters of 'The Autobots', a Chinese film that was released in July 2015.
'The Autobots' was criticised last year at home and abroad for being visually similar to the Disney animated franchise 'Cars' but has only gained wide media attention since going to court on Tuesday.
Critics are sceptical over whether Disney will win the case, noting that China has ripped off overseas-produced cartoons before.
Thousands of Chinese social media users are talking about the case on the popular Sina Weibo microblog, saying that 'The Autobots' is a "blatant copy" and that they "support Disney".
Chinese papers have also noted similarities between the two productions, but with more carefully worded editorials. The Beijing Economic Daily says that the two films are visually "extremely similar", and highlights that this is not the first time it has happened.
China has been criticised in the past for copying a number of Japanese cartoons.
These include the 2011 production 'Train Hero', which was criticised for "suspected plagiarism" because of its strong similarities to the Japanese animation 'Hikarian' in 2011.
In 2007, a CCTV Children's Channel cartoon 'Big Mouth Dodo' was also criticised for its similarities to another Japanese production, 'Crayon Shin-chan'.
Videogame critics note that China has escaped punishment for replicating Disney products before.
On 13 June, US comedian and videogame critic JonTron remarked on the explosion of bootleg games and products based on Disney films.
In a YouTube video with over three million views, he says that Disney is not safe from "the curse of bootleg". He singles China out as being "farther away from US jurisdiction and much better at Disney bootlegging" than any other country, and says that it is able to produce products like 'Bear of the Interest', a toy that strongly resembles Winnie-the-Pooh, but has flashing eyes and is described in Chinglish on the box as a "high class weapon".
JonTron also notes the wider trend of bootleg online games based on Disney films internationally, and highlights the launch of questionable online games 'Elsa Frozen Brain Surgery' and 'Anna Cesarean Birth' [sic], based on the 'Frozen' franchise.
The case has perhaps comes as a surprise in China, given that its media regulator recently introduced strict new guidelines.
On 19 June, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) issued new rules on "foreign-inspired" shows in a bid to boost domestic production.
The Xinhua news agency said "the new regulation came as many TV channels rely on foreign programmes, with few original ones. The new regulation will boost self-innovation by Chinese TV channels".
Along with other mainstream outlets, it highlighted widely-praised programmes like 'The Voice of China', which was "inspired by The Voice of Holland", and 'Running Man', a variety show that is based on a South Korean series of the same name.
While China has been embroiled in a number of copyright infringement cases, in recent months some high-profile companies have lost cases against Chinese companies.
Electronics giant Apple was especially hard hit. On 17 June, the Beijing Morning Post noted that a regional court specialising in intellectual property rights had determined that the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were an infringement of a Chinese patent, the 100C produced by Shenzhen Baily.
National broadcaster China Radio International said that the court had added that "Apple must stop selling the products and providing related services".
In May, Apple also lost a trademark fight over the 'iPhone' name in China against a handbag and leather goods firm Xintong Tiandi, which had trademarked "IPHONE" in 2010.
Both moves came as a blow, as China is the second biggest market for Apple products.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.
The party's press release says there are around 800,000 housing association tenants who only have a limited "Right to Acquire" social housing. The Conservatives also say that around 500,000 housing association tenants currently don't have the right to buy their homes.
As the new policy would affect both of those groups, the Conservatives say that 1.3m people could benefit. But is this correct?
The first thing to note is that the housing landscape has changed considerably in recent decades. The government's English Housing Survey (EHS) said there were 3.9 million households in the social rented sector in England in 2013-14. At 17%, that was the smallest type of tenure and follows a long downward trend since the 1980s. That suggests that the proportion of potential beneficiaries from the Right To Buy extension is dwindling.
Of those who might qualify under the Conservative plan, not all will be in a position to buy their own home. The EHS said that 8.6% of people in the social rented sector were unemployed. That compares with 3% overall in England or 5.4% among private renters. In terms of economic activity, the survey said that only 23.9% of people in the socially-rented sector were in full-time employment, compared with 62.1% of private renters. The survey also said that just 25.2% of people in the socially rented sector expected to buy a property, compared with 61.1% of private renters.
The Conservatives could argue that this figure might change following today's announcement. And they might also take some comfort from the EHS survey, which showed that 73.8% of people in the social rented sector have been in the property more than three years and so would meet the eligibility criteria in terms of length of stay in the property. But given the relatively high unemployment rate, and relatively low rate of people in full-time work, it is perhaps less likely that all of the people who are potentially eligible will find themselves in a position to buy their home.
What's the truth behind the politicians' claims on the campaign trail? Our experts investigate the facts, and wider stories, behind the soundbites.
Read latest updates or follow us on Twitter @BBCRealityCheck
|
Ireland ended their World Twenty20 campaign with a 12-run defeat by the Netherlands in a six-over match.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a stabbing at a West Midlands home.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
When Australian police raided a crystal methamphetamine lab last year, they may have been expecting to seize kilos of narcotics, drug-making equipment and piles of cash.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Preston North End's revised plans for a housing development, which will fund the building of a new training ground, have received approval.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man who was accused over a "one-punch attack" on a Londonderry footballer has had the charge against him withdrawn.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An investigation into allegations of physical abuse of vulnerable boys at a residential school in Devon centres on restraint methods used by staff, the BBC understands.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A payday loans boss from south Wales paid hackers to launch cyber attacks against business rivals and a consumer complaints group.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Canada has overhauled its child benefits system and significantly increased the amount of money the state will pay out to families.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Four UK universities which intend to charge Guernsey students overseas fees are defending their decisions.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Up to 23,000 chickens are expected to be culled after a suspected case of bird flu in Suffolk.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ten years after a fatal train crash, three people connected with the tragedy have spoken of the night that changed their lives.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
World number one Lydia Ko missed the cut for only the second time in her career as America's Cristie Kerr opened a one-shot lead at the Kia Classic.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Syrian government forces are trying to drive back Islamic State (IS) from the ancient ruins and famous World Heritage Site of Palmyra in the Syrian desert.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Thousands protested outside government headquarters in Hong Kong on Monday, amid a row over a controversial national education programme.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The government has banned three groups it suspects of being aliases for the extremist organisation al-Muhajiroun.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ireland look unlikely to appeal against CJ Stander's ban from Saturday's second Test against South Africa.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Mark Durnan's first goal of the season eight minutes from time was enough to give Dundee Utd a win that keeps them three points behind leaders Hibernian.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
British number one Johanna Konta has been knocked out of the US Open in the last 16 by Anastasija Sevastova.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Food blogger Jack Monroe has won £24,000 damages, plus legal costs, in a libel action against columnist Katie Hopkins after a row over two tweets.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Staff at the Belfast offices of American contractor Concentrix discovered the firm was being dropped by the Government via social media, an MP has claimed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A mayor linked to the drugs trade in the Philippines has been shot dead in his jail cell by police.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Marks and Spencer has named six stores which will close as part of chief executive Steve Rowe's plans to improve the business.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bradford had to settle for a point for the second week running as they lost further ground on the top two with a draw at Walsall.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A number of petrol bombs and other missiles were thrown at police during trouble in Londonderry on Monday night.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A driver has escaped unhurt after an object thrown from a bridge over the A75 at Dumfries smashed his car windscreen.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Ireland women's team for Friday's Grand Slam decider against England at Donnybrook shows one change from that which defeated Wales 12-7 last weekend.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has warned of "real difficulties" ahead, as his government faces a Monday deadline to submit a list of reforms to lenders.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Dolly Parton sings that "you're just a step on the boss-man's ladder" - not much motivation for workin' nine to five.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A week after Shanghai Disney opened its doors, China has become embroiled in a high-profile copyright court case with the children's entertainment giant over the striking similarities of a cartoon.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Conservatives have said they would extend the Right to Buy for "up to 1.3 million tenants of housing associations".
| 35,797,404 | 16,249 | 934 | true |
Some 1,000 police officers were involved in searches that took place early on Thursday at Salafists' homes and meeting places in seven states.
A Salafist group called Millatu Ibrahim, based in the western city of Solingen, has been banned.
The raids follow clashes between police and some Salafists.
German authorities believe the Salafists want to create a Sunni Islamic caliphate opposed to Western democracy and that some of the group support martyrdom and using violence.
Raids took place in Bavaria, Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia, among other states.
In one of the raids, police removed items from the home of Salafist preacher Ibrahim Abu Nagie in Cologne.
The authorities have been monitoring Salafist campaigns to recruit supporters, including the distribution of free Korans.
There are believed to be about 4,000 active Salafists in Germany, the state-owned broadcaster ARD reports.
The BBC's Stephen Evans, in Berlin, said that Germany has a track record of violent Islamism, with some of the men who took part in the attacks of 11 September 2001 having worshipped at a Hamburg mosque.
But, he adds, most of Germany's Muslims, most of whom are Turkish in origin, shun violence.
|
German police have launched nationwide raids targeting ultra-conservative Islamic Salafists, suspected of posing a threat to public order.
| 18,439,914 | 282 | 32 | false |
The male swan, known as George, was injured when he was shot in Pittville Park, Cheltenham, last month.
More than £6,000 was raised to help pay for his treatment and for a reward to catch the person responsible.
Some of the cash will be used to build the purpose-built pools at the wildlife rescue centre where he was treated.
Last week George was released back on to the lake where he has lived for several years and is now doing "very well".
Caroline Gould, from Vale Wildlife Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre at Beckford near Tewkesbury, said: "He is eating well and in the water a lot, splashing about and loving being back, by the looks of it."
"Altogether, with gift aid, we've raised well over £7,000. It's absolutely amazing. It's unbelievable the support George got."
She said the money would be used to build "proper" rehabilitation pools.
"We can't just dig ponds because we're on a flood plain and we've got no drainage.
"They've got to be specialist pools with pumps and drains. It won't be a cheap job.
"We thought it would be nice to use the rest of the money, George's legacy, to give better facilities to patients like George."
A 15-year-old boy and a 48-year-old man, both from Cheltenham, were released on bail after being arrested last week under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.
|
Rehabilitation pools for injured water birds are to be built with money raised to help treat a swan that was shot through the head with a crossbow bolt.
| 38,884,703 | 327 | 35 | false |
Businessman Neil McArthur's £30m plan would see a footpath and cycleway run alongside six miles (9.5km) of tracks between Salford and Trafford.
The proposal also includes rebuilding three stations and reinstating the Cadishead Viaduct.
Mr McArthur said the "economic, social and environmental benefits" of reopening the line "would be huge".
The plans for the new line, which would run from Irlam to Timperley, and a report by Mr McArthur have been submitted to two councils, Network Rail as well as other transport bodies for consideration.
The businessman, who has proposed the idea through his charity, the Hamilton Davies Trust, said the nearby East Lancashire Railway, which runs from Bury to Rawtenstall, showed what could be achieved.
"The East Lancs heritage railway shows the demand with 200,000 passengers a year, so there is a local example to learn from," he said.
"We're asking the political representatives and transport bodies to join with us in exploring the art of the possible."
He added that as the entire route was owned by Network Rail, the realisation of his vision would be "reasonably uncomplicated".
Mr McArthur has previously financed the £2m restoration of the station at Irlam and his new plan would see stations rebuilt at Cadishead, Partington and Timperley.
The 22-year-old forward has made over 100 appearances since his Rugby Park debut in April 2011.
Having scored three goals in 33 appearances last season - often in a wide position - McKenzie is hoping to play a more central role.
"I'm looking forward to next season. There have been big changes at the club," he said.
"The whole place needed a revamp."
Manager Lee Clark is planning a major overhaul after keeping Killie in the top flight following a play-off final with Falkirk.
Eight out-of-contract players have moved on and another seven were placed on the transfer list, with Kevin McHattie, Mark O'Hara and David Syme having found new clubs.
She was speaking at Holyrood after last week's UK referendum resulted in voters backing to leave the EU by 52% to 48%.
Electors in Scotland, Northern Ireland and London voted to remain in the EU.
Ms Sturgeon, who will travel to Brussels on Wednesday for talks, said she was "utterly determined" to protect Scotland's relationship with Europe.
She will meet European Parliament President Martin Shulz and was hoping to talk to President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, but he said it was not appropriate at this time.
On Tuesday afternoon, Ms Sturgeon told MSPs that "all the impacts" of the referendum result needed to be set out and evaluated and "all of the options" open to Scotland in securing its relationship with the EU needed to be looked at.
Scotland's leader said the expert council would be chaired by Professor Anton Muscatelli, Glasgow University's principal and vice chancellor, and would have 17 members, including politicians, economists and constitutional experts.
Ms Sturgeon explained: "Members will consider the impact of proposed changes to the UK's relationship with the EU on Scottish interests and advise ministers throughout our negotiations on the best way to secure Scottish interests and objectives."
The SNP leader also said that while she was not seeking endorsement to hold a second independence referendum "today", she would put the option forward if it emerged as the only or best way to protect Scotland's place in the EU.
However, Scottish Conservative leader and Remain supporter Ruth Davidson fired a warning over a second independence vote.
She said: "You don't dampen the shockwaves from one referendum by lighting the fuse for another."
Ms Davidson also said that the Brexit vote was a "defining moment" in "our country's story".
Her speech included a message to EU migrants;. She said: "This is your home, we don't just need your labour, we want your brains, values, culture - we want you."
What might a second independence referendum be?
By Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland political editor
Remember that we are in deeply uncertain times. Nobody has a fixed idea as to what might emerge. We are all constantly pressing the refresh button on the BBC's excellent Online pages to find out who is the latest to resign.
But the chat at Holyrood - inevitably speculative - mostly seems to centre upon a possible indyref2 in spring 2018. I stress that is very, very far from fixed. Emphatically not, to quote the FM. It may happen in 2017 or not at all.
The 2018 timetable works like this. It is expected that the UK Government will initiate the Section 50 process of departure from the EU in autumn this year.
There then begins two years of negotiations about the terms of departure in which the UK will seek to obtain the best possible trade deal - consistent, presumably, with the Leavers' key demand that there must be substantial constraints placed upon freedom of movement to these islands.
That takes us to Autumn 2018 - unless all 27 remaining EU member states agree to an extension. At that point, either a deal is struck or an extension is agreed or the UK departs without a deal, resorting to WTO rules.
If Scotland is to be permitted to sidestep that departure, there would need to be a referendum within the two year period. There would need to be a clear vote in favour of independence in time to permit even the prospect of Scotland retaining / recreating EU membership. I stress, even the prospect.
Which points to Spring 2018 at the latest.
Read more from Brian
The debate which followed Ms Sturgeon's statement included responses from Labour, the Scottish Greens and the Scottish Liberal Democrats as well as the Tories and the SNP.
The first minister's motion - to explore options for protecting Scotland's relationship with the EU - was supported by 92 MSPs with 31 abstaining.
In her address to the chamber, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said her party would support the government's efforts "to not only mitigate the worst of Brexit, but to strengthen Scotland's ties with our European neighbours and allies".
She insisted that the priority "must be" to secure jobs and the rights of workers.
Patrick Harvie, co-convener of the pro-independence Scottish Greens, backed early preparations for another independence referendum.
He told the chamber: "It may be that after exploring all options far more people than voted Yes in 2014 may conclude that independence is the only way to achieve it.
"The 2014 [independence referendum] result is now fundamentally superseded."
Ms Sturgeon is expected to win cross-party support from the emergency debate which followed her statement.
On Wednesday, the first minister will travel to Brussels to meet Mr Shulz. However, there is no planned get-together with Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission.
The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrat Party, Willie Rennie, said he welcomed Ms Sturgeon "reaching out" to other parties.
However, he cautioned: "I immediately agreed to participate as long as it is not a cunning plan to deliver independence.
"I want to explore options; whether it is reverse Greenland; working with London, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar or some other arrangement.
"But we need to fully understand before we move ahead. And rushing head long to independence will undermine those efforts."
Cheshire East Council waived its rules when it granted three contracts to Core Fit Ltd, owned by the physiotherapist of former council leader Michael Jones.
A police investigation into misconduct in a public office is under way.
Mr Jones denied any wrongdoing when he stood down on 8 December. He was unavailable for comment.
Core Fit Ltd, which is owned by Amanda Morris, runs fitness classes in schools and was given contracts collectively worth £156,000 by the council.
A Cheshire Police spokeswoman said investigators would look into the awarding of contracts and "the involvement of all relevant individuals".
"The purpose of the investigation is to establish what happened and who was involved."
Mr Jones said at the time of his resignation that he was stepping down to avoid infighting within the Conservative group.
A panel of historians also revealed that 13 musicians were driven out of the orchestra for being Jewish or married to Jews.
The report follows claims of a cover-up by the world famous orchestra.
Austria is due to mark the 75th anniversary of its annexation by Nazi Germany on Tuesday.
The Anschluss (union) was complete when German forces marched into the country unopposed on 12 March 1938.
For decades the Philharmonic allowed only selective access to its archives.
But political pressure led the orchestra to commission three historians, led by Oliver Rathkolb, to delve deeper into the years 1938-45.
Mr Rathkolb also attempted to solve a mystery surrounding a ring of honour presented to Baldur von Schirach, a Nazi governor of Vienna, who oversaw the deportation of tens of thousands of Jews.
The ring, originally presented in 1942, was lost by Von Schirach but a replacement was given to him, apparently in late 1966, after his release from Spandau prison for crimes against humanity.
For years, historians have tried to uncover the identity of the man who gave Von Schirach the replacement ring.
According to historian Wilhelm Bettelheim, who was interviewed in a documentary film on Sunday, the man in question was Helmut Wobisch, a trumpeter who was a member of the Nazi party and later joined Hitler's notorious Waffen SS.
Wobisch was sacked in 1945 but resumed his career six years later.
Mr Rathkolb describes the interview as "very plausible".
The BBC's Kerry Skyring in Vienna says that - like Austria itself - the Vienna Philharmonic has been slow to get to grips with its past during World War II.
But for the first time historians have been given access to records detailing the orchestra's role as a Nazi propaganda tool and the persecution of its Jewish members, our correspondent adds.
Details revealed on Sunday showed that 60 of the orchestra's 123 musicians were members of the Nazi party - a much higher percentage than in the broader Austrian population.
Of the 13 musicians driven out of the orchestra for being Jewish or married to Jews, five died in concentration camps, others were deported, but none returned, the report says.
There are details too on how the orchestra's famous New Year's Day Concert had its origins as a propaganda instrument for the Nazis.
The historians' full report will be published on the orchestra's website on Tuesday - the 75th anniversary of the Anschluss.
The revelation that a replacement ring was given to Von Schirach after his release from prison came to light only recently. Von Schirach's son Richard wrote about it in a book in 2004 but refused to name the man who gave it to his father.
Orchestra Chairman Clemens Hellberg had initially been accused of failing to include details of the Philharmonic's Nazi links in his 1992 book Democracy of Kings, which is widely regarded as the orchestra's official history.
He has since said he did not have access to all the relevant documents when he wrote the book.
On Sunday Mr Hellberg said the historians' report was "long overdue". But, he added, "we know that we are together on the same path".
Xia Lin, whose clients include artist Ai Weiwei, was found guilty of fraudulently obtaining $700,000 (£550,000) to pay off gambling debts.
But supporters say he is innocent and that the move is designed to intimidate human rights lawyers.
Last year, China detained hundreds of rights lawyers, in what critics described as an organised crackdown.
Many lawyers have since been released - but several remain in detention, with their wives and families denied access to them.
China show trials: Win for politics of fear?
Maya Wang, Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, said the 12 year jail term was likely to send a "chill" through the human rights community.
She told AFP: "The sentence is shocking, not only because of its length, but also because it was handed down to a rights lawyer who has tried to protect himself by deliberately taking a low-profile, technical approach to his work."
Xia Lin is known for defending Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei.
He also represented fellow human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, who was detained after a private seminar discussing the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, while in 2009 he successfully defended a hotel worker who killed a local government official who had tried to rape her.
Xia Lin was arrested in November 2014, as he was preparing to defend Guo Yushan, a rights activist and head of a Chinese think tank.
'History will not forgive this': Media roundup by Kerry Allen, BBC Monitoring
Chinese state media have not reported on the 12-year sentence for Xia Lin, so social media users have mainly been learning of the news via independent publications, or word of mouth.
Luo Changping, a journalist at the independent Caijing magazine, posted a picture of Lin Ru, Xia Lin's wife, crying in someone's arms.
The image has been shared widely, with hundreds of sympathetic, yet resigned comments.
Many social media users refused to accept the verdict - but also acknowledged that the likelihood of a successful appeal was low.
User Zhanzhan080808 wrote: "Xia Lin is innocent", while user Liu Suli said: "I curse this court, and those behind it and their strength. History will not forgive this trial."
The trial against Mr Xia opened in June this year.
He was originally charged with fraudulently obtaining 10m yuan ($1.5m; £1.1m), but his lawyer Dong Xikui said the court eventually accepted a lower figure of 4.8m yuan.
However, friends say they loaned the lawyer the money willingly.
Mr Xia's wife, Lin Ru, said: "I firmly believe that my husband is innocent. So we need to appeal."
The Chinese Human Rights Defenders group called the sentence a "severe retaliation against a human rights advocate who defended the rule of law".
There was no immediate comment from the court.
Eleri Edwards, 32, made 10 allegations to ChildLine claiming she was a pupil at Ysgol Ardudwy in Harlech, Gwynedd.
A disciplinary hearing in Cardiff heard she told the charity Tudur Williams touched her inappropriately.
Ms Edwards was struck off indefinitely on Friday.
The hearing was told Mr Williams was "devastated" when Ms Edwards, who taught under the name Eleri Roberts, made the allegations via the charity's website after she was dismissed from his school.
Police interviewed Mr Williams, but investigations led to them concluding it was a hoax.
Detectives traced the reports to Ms Edward's computer and she was cautioned.
Ms Edwards was employed at a high school 55 miles (88km) away at Llanidloes, Powys, when she made the bogus claims. She has since left the school.
She told the hearing: "I was a good teacher and I'm honest. I apologise to Tudur Williams. He continued to work after the allegations which makes him a credit to his profession."
Richard Parry Jones, chairman of the professional conduct committee of the Education Workforce Council, said: "The nature of her conduct was too serious to consider a temporary order.
"She has failed to act with honesty or integrity and her conduct has breached key principles set out for registered teachers."
Speaking after the hearing, Mr Williams said: "She obviously decided to try to take her revenge on me personally.
"What she did was inexcusable and could have had a devastating effect on me personally and my career."
The Bank of Scotland examined house prices in towns within an hour's commute of Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
It measured them against average earnings, both locally and in relation to the nearest city.
Despite being almost 40 miles away, Motherwell topped the list as the most affordable commuter town to Edinburgh.
The North Lanarkshire town had an average house price of £130,268 compared to £225,133 in the capital.
Greenock was found to be the most affordable town in commuting distance to Glasgow, with an average house price of £120,927 compared to the Glasgow figure of £161,623. Motherwell came in second.
The report on Aberdeen found Arbroath - more than 50 miles and an hour's drive away - was the best value, with an average house price of £127,497 compared to £210,522 in Aberdeen.
The bank said commuters with a half-hour drive into Aberdeen faced average property prices of £234,143.
A separate study, How Scotland Lives, found that a shorter commute to work led to increased happiness, with those having less than a 15-minute journey claiming to be happiest.
Graham Blair, mortgage director at Bank of Scotland, said: "The length of the commute to work is a key factor when deciding where to set up home. Scotland has some great commuter towns where considerable savings on property can be made.
"However, the decision to commute is not one that should be made just on the finances. We know from our How Scotland Lives research that those who don't have to travel long distances to work are often happier.
"There are many things to take into account when looking for a new home, not just the journey time to work.
"Quality of schools, sense of space and sense of community are also important to many house hunters across Scotland."
Teams from Northern Ireland and Wales featured in this season's competition.
And Welsh side The New Saints will play St Mirren in Sunday's semi-final at the Paisley 2021 Stadium.
Sligo and Bray have been chosen after finishing highest of those Premier League sides not playing in European competition in season 2017-18.
Rovers were fifth and Wanderers sixth in 2016.
"Following discussions with the Scottish FA, both Bray Wanderers and Sligo Rovers will be entered into the Irn-Bru Scottish Challenge Cup for next season," the league confirmed on their official website.
The Challenge Cup features sides from the Scottish Championship and Leagues One and Two as well as teams from the Highland and Lowland Leagues.
Another new feature for 2016-17 was the inclusion of colt teams - under-20s sides - from Scottish Premiership clubs.
Queen of the South and Dundee United contest the first semi-final on Saturday before TNS face the Buddies the following day.
St Mirren v The New Saints will be broadcast live on BBC Alba and the BBC Sport website.
Last year, about 400 people were picked from a lottery draw to ride a flume in Flaxengate in the city centre.
After testing on Sunday morning, officials said the flume planned for Steep Hill was "much faster".
The Rotary Club of Lincoln Colonia event will take place on 17 July.
More on this and other local stories in Lincolnshire
Duncan Gerrard, from the Rotary Club, said: "We thought it best to keep testing under wraps until we were sure we could handle it safely."
He said: "The boffins tell me that twice the slope, which this is compared to Flaxengate, will go about four times quicker.
"We've no need for Fairy Liquid this year."
He added they would be using bales to help stop the riders at the bottom of the slope.
Riders will have the chance to buy £3 lottery tickets to secure a place at the event, which is aiming to accommodate about 700 people.
Thieves cut a 3ft-wide hole in the wall of the university's Oriental Museum and stole a bowl and figurine. Durham Police said it was almost certainly a well planned operation.
A police spokeswoman said both artefacts had now been recovered.
Officers have arrested five people in connection with the theft. Two men are still being sought.
The five people arrested are all from Walsall, West Midlands.
Durham University said the museum would reopen on Monday.
The stolen bowl dates from 1769 and has a Chinese poem written inside, while the figurine is of seven fairies in a boat and stands about 12in (30cm) high. Both are from the Qing Dynasty, China's last imperial dynasty.
Security at the museum is being reviewed.
The 23-year-old Sale Sharks winger had been a doubt for the two-Test series after suffering a foot injury during a recent training camp.
The ex-Samoa rugby league international qualified to play for England on residency in March.
"He's going well, he trained well with no repercussions so he's progressing nicely," said Jones.
"He hasn't had any discomfort from his foot. At first we were quite pessimistic about it but it's nice that it looks like he can go on tour and we can see what he can do."
New Zealand-born Solomona made a controversial cross-code switch from Castleford Tigers to Sale in December.
Harlequins' Marland Yarde remains with the England squad as cover, but Jones is confident Solomona will be on the plane on Saturday.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Jones admits Solomona still has a lot to learn in rugby union, but he has seen enough to be excited at his potential.
"We're only training at this stage," added Jones. "Certainly he's got a nice feel for the game and he can sniff out and score a try.
"He does that at training now - he's scored a couple of cracking tries at training where he just sees the opportunity, takes it and makes the right decision.
"He's got enough gas to turn that opportunity into points and that's the the beauty of him."
Tommy Taylor and Nick Schonert have been ruled through injury, while Tom Wood is suspended.
England are also monitoring the fitness of Chris Robshaw (ankle) and Nathan Hughes (neck) following Saturday's Premiership final.
Sam Underhill is also recovering from the shoulder injury he suffered in England's victory over the Barbarians on Saturday.
England are also missing a number of experienced players who are part of the British and Irish Lions squad touring New Zealand.
Their two-match series against Argentina starts on Saturday, 10 June.
MPs were told it was "not easy" to balance noise disruption with the economic impact of a reduction.
The Airports Commission has recommended a third runway but also a ban on flights between 23:30 and 06:00.
One committee member, Conservative mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith, criticised the "absence of clarity".
Giving evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee, Heathrow chief executive John Holland-Kaye said the west London airport could comfortably expand to include a third runway and still stay within environmental targets. He also added that road traffic would not increase.
He said night flights were "something that we are looking at and we will make a comment on in due course".
There are "huge benefits" for local communities in stopping arrivals scheduled between 04:30 and 06:00, he said, but there was also "a big cost" to the UK economy as they involve "valuable trading routes to the Far East, Singapore and Hong Kong".
He added: "It's not easy to resolve that. We are working on it. I'm confident that we will be able to find a way through that and that there's a real opportunity to significantly reduce night flying at Heathrow with expansion."
Heathrow's director of environment and sustainability, Matt Gorman, added: "We can reduce night flying at Heathrow.
"This is a significant change. We're not saying exactly what yet but it is a clear commitment."
Mr Goldsmith, the Richmond Park MP who has campaigned against a third runway, asked Mr Holland-Kaye if he expected the government to make a decision on expansion "in the absence of clarity from you on that very core condition" of night flights.
Mr Holland-Kaye said this was a question for the government, which has yet to announce its final decision.
Also giving evidence was Sir Howard Davies, who led the Airports Commission.
He said he did not want to "add or take away" anything from his report, adding that a fourth runway, which campaigners fear could follow if permission is granted for a third, would not be manageable "in air traffic terms" as the skies would become too congested.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson claimed the session showed Heathrow was "willing to undermine the Airports Commission in pursuit of its own ends".
Edward Samuel Fear, of Wellington Terrace, Newnham, appeared before Cheltenham magistrates charged with six counts of handling stolen goods.
The charges relate to six 4x4s found at a business park in Sling after police acted on a tip off from the community.
Further searches at another site have discovered five more of the vehicles.
Gloucestershire Police said they are working through the items, including the cars which are from around the country, and will make contact with the car owners.
The seamer, who had overnight figures of 2-17, returned to the pavilion with figures of 5-78 as the hosts closed on 159-7 - 109 runs behind Somerset.
Only 44 overs were possible with no play taking place after 15:00 BST at Scarborough's North Marine Ground.
Adil Rashid carries Yorkshire's hopes into day three with an unbeaten 30.
The only batsmen to score more than the England spinner were debutant Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Harry Brook, who each made 31.
The pair were at the crease at the start of the day and took their fourth wicket stand to exactly 50 before Brook was caught at second slip by Marcus Trescothick off Overton.
Tim Gronewald bowled Kohler-Cadmore off his thigh shortly afterwards to leave Yorkshire on 88-5.
Acting captain Tim Bresnan fell cheaply to Overton, who also removed Hodd after a seventh-wicket stand of 48 with Rashid.
The company had been ordered to help the FBI circumvent security software on Farook's iPhone, which the FBI said contained crucial information.
In a statement, Apple chief executive Tim Cook said: "The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers."
"We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand."
Since September 2014, data on the latest Apple devices - such as text messages and photographs - have been encrypted by default.
If a device is locked, the user's passcode is required to access the data. Entering an incorrect code 10 times will automatically erase the phone's data, if this option has been enabled.
Apple says even its own staff cannot access the data.
The FBI has asked Apple to do two things.
Firstly, it wants the company to alter Farook's iPhone so that investigators can make unlimited attempts at the passcode without the risk of erasing the data.
Secondly, it wants Apple to help implement a way to rapidly try different passcode combinations, to save tapping in each one manually.
The FBI wants to use what is known as a "brute force" attack, trying out every combination until stumbling across the correct one and unlocking the phone.
Farook is understood to have used a four-digit passcode which means there are 10,000 possible combinations.
Could Apple do what the FBI has asked? - Dr Steven Murdoch, cybersecurity expert
"It's difficult to say with any degree of certainty - Apple does not disclose enough about its operating system to know.
Other secure products such as smart cards are designed so that the security cannot be changed after they leave the factory.
Some devices such as bank computers wipe themselves if you try to change the software.
But phones are not designed primarily from a security perspective.
It's possible that forcing a new version of iOS onto the phone would wipe it. Apple may have designed it in this way - and it would certainly be the more secure way to do it."
Apple said the FBI's demands set "a dangerous precedent".
"The FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation," wrote Mr Cook.
"The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers.
"Opposing this order is not something we take lightly. We feel we must speak up in the face of what we see as an overreach by the US government."
Farook and his wife killed 14 people in the California city last December before police fatally shot them.
Analysis - Dave Lee, BBC North America Technology Reporter
Apple decided to enable encryption by default to avoid precisely this kind of ethical dilemma.
If it was impossible to access the data, the courts wouldn't even ask - so this approach by the FBI may have taken them by surprise.
What is striking about Apple's letter is that it does not say whether or not the court's demand is technically possible.
Some believe it is, via a process called a Device Firmware Upgrade.
In fighting the court order, Apple will have the support of its technology peers, and perhaps the majority of its users.
For the FBI, yet more frustration over an issue it feels Apple's skilled developers should be able to solve safely.
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter and on Facebook
"We have no sympathy for terrorists," said Mr Cook.
"We are challenging the FBI's demands with the deepest respect for American democracy and a love of our country."
The BBC SSO, Glasgow School of Art, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the University of Glasgow will all collaborate for the first time.
Director Graham McLaren will work with them to create performances, exhibitions and screenings.
They are all inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The idea is to look at how Shakespeare's words and stories continue to influence hundreds of years on.
The festival will culminate with one multi-media event at Glasgow University's Bute Hall and its atmospheric Cloisters on 23 April next year - the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.
Mr McLaren, the man behind critically-acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland productions including The Tin Forest and In Time O' Strife, will be curating and directing the work of students, professional artists and academics from all four partners for the final festival, Dream On!.
He said: "Thirty years ago I was taken to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (then RSAMD) by a wonderful, canny drama teacher to watch Shakespeare for free.
"I sat in the Old Athenaeum Theatre and, quite simply, a fire in me ignited and a lifelong love of this great institution started.
"You will understand then the real privilege I feel leading RCS students with such a remarkable array of local and international collaborators and artists in what is certain to be Scotland's most significant response to celebrate Shakespeare's 400th anniversary."
Prof Anton Muscatelli, the principal of the University of Glasgow, said he was proud to be hosting the event.
He added: "The University of Glasgow will play centre stage in what will be a creative, inspiring evening of performance, dance and music - a fitting tribute to William Shakespeare, a man whose own artistic skills and creativity helped shape the English language and English literature around the world."
Engineer Pascal Cotte has spent three years using reflective light technology to analyse The Lady with an Ermine.
Until now, it was thought the 500-year-old painting had always included the ceremonial animal.
Mr Cotte has shown the artist painted one portrait without the ermine and two with different versions of the fur.
Leonardo experts have described the new findings as "thrilling" and said the discovery raises new questions about the painting's history.
The Lady with an Ermine is a portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, a young woman in the Milanese court who was mistress to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan.
It is believed to have been painted between 1489 and 1490.
The Duke was Leonardo's main patron during his 18 years in the city, and he was nicknamed "the white ermine".
Mr Cotte, who is a co-founder of Lumiere Technology in Paris, has pioneered a new technique called Layer Amplification Method (LAM).
It works by projecting a series of intense lights on to the painting. A camera then takes measurements of the lights' reflections and from those measurements, Mr Cotte is then able to analyse and reconstruct what has happened between the layers of the paint.
Following the discovery, new theories have now been applied to the well-known portrait, including a suggestion the artist may have introduced the ermine into the painting to symbolise Gallerani's lover, later enhancing the animal to flatter his patron.
Another theory is that Gallerani asked the artist to add the animal into the painting, so that the Milanese court was made fully aware of her relationship with the Duke.
Mr Cotte said: "The LAM technique gives us the capability to peel the painting like an onion, removing the surface to see what's happening inside and behind the different layers of paint.
"We've discovered that Leonardo is always changing his mind. This is someone who hesitates - he erases things, he adds things, he changes his mind again and again."
Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford, said: "What Pascal Cotte is revealing in France is remarkable.
"It tells us a lot more about the way Leonardo's mind worked when he was doing a painting. We know that he fiddled around a good deal at the beginning, but now we know that he kept fiddling around all the time and it helps explain why he had so much difficulty finishing paintings.
"Leonardo is endlessly fascinating, so getting this intimate insight into his mind is thrilling."
The painting belongs to the Czartoryski Foundation and is usually on display at the National Museum in Krakow, Poland. It is currently hanging in nearby Wawel Castle while the Museum undergoes renovation.
The Lady with an Ermine was one of the star attractions at the National Gallery's 2011 exhibition, Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan.
The painting has previously undergone several examinations using X-ray and infra-red analysis.
Arrest warrants have been issued for more than 30 others, the attorney general's office said.
The investigation follows the discovery of mass graves, believed to contain the bodies of refugees, in jungle camps near the Thai-Malaysian border in May.
Many migrants endured arduous sea journeys before arriving in Thailand.
The suspects face charges including human trafficking, partaking in a transnational crime network, and bringing aliens into the kingdom illegally.
Most of those indicted are from Thailand, but several Myanmar and Bangladeshi citizens are also being held.
"We will not let influential people rise above justice," said Wanchai Roujanavong, a spokesman for the attorney general's office (OAG).
"The OAG has given priority to the issue, as it is a big group of people involving international systems. It has caused a lot of damage to the country as dead bodies were found," he added.
On the trail of Thailand's human traffickers
Doomed from the start
The suspects include local politicians, government officials, police, and Lt Gen Manas Kongpan, who once oversaw trafficking issues in south Thailand.
Thai authorities faced international pressure earlier this year to crack down on smugglers after images of thousands of migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar stranded at sea were shared around the world.
Migrants were also held in jungle camps under horrendous conditions while they awaited transportation elsewhere.
Mass graves were discovered in an abandoned camp in the southern province of Songkhla in May.
Thailand and Malaysia are desired destinations for members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority and economic migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.
An investigation by the BBC's Jonathan Head found entire communities in Thailand had been helping the traffickers.
The 33-year-old joins as a free agent on 1 July after turning down the offer of new terms at Burnley.
He was the Turf Moor club's player of the year as they won the Championship title to return to the Premier League.
"When I first found out there was an opportunity to come here, that got the blood pumping," Barton told the Rangers website.
"I'm fully aware of the situation the club has been in for the last few years but to be part of a group that is going to put this club back where it belongs was an opportunity, that if I didn't take, I would probably have regretted it for the rest of my life."
Barton, capped once for England, counts Manchester City, Newcastle and QPR among his former clubs.
He also played the 2012-13 season on loan in the French top flight with Marseille.
The experienced midfielder visited Glasgow last week.
"It was very simple. I came up, had a look around and was instantly impressed - both with what is happening at the club just now but also the history and tradition of the place," he explained.
"I went away with Rangers at the forefront of my mind, and I just knew I had to go and do it, and it was something I had to be a part of."
Barton spent one successful season with Burnley and used Twitter to explain his decision to leave.
"Thanks to all the Burnley fans and everyone connected to the club," he wrote. "Amazing support this year that will live with me for a lifetime.
"Toughest decision of my professional life to leave an amazing set of people and a phenomenal culture behind.
"Club is in a great place on and off the pitch with great custodians at the helm. Thanks again for the opportunity to represent your club.
"I was presented with an opportunity and challenge the competitive animal in me just could not turn down. Onwards and upwards now."
Rangers will play in the Scottish Premiership next season after comfortably wrapping up the Championship title.
Mark Warburton's side also won the Petrofac Training Cup and lost a dramatic Scottish Cup final to Hibernian at the weekend.
Barton becomes Rangers' fourth summer signing, joining Josh Windass, Matt Crooks and Jordan Rossiter.
BBC Scotland's Richard Wilson
"Barton has reinvented himself; in a shorthand way, he has gone from CCTV footage of fighting to being a guest on Question Time. So nobody ought to be surprised that on the verge of a return to the English Premier League, and all its riches and glamour, he has chosen to sign for Rangers.
"The offer of a two-year contract, as opposed to the shorter deal proposed by Burnley, would have helped, but Barton was genuine when he spoke of having already sampled life in the Premier League - particularly the slog of a relegation battle - and of seeking new experiences.
"At Rangers, he will hope to compete for trophies and be asked to be a figure of authority and know-how to help develop younger players."
'Barton challenge offers Rangers valuable asset'
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
New Zealander Gibbes has signed a three-year deal with the Lions, who play in New Zealand's Mitre 10 Cup.
His new role starts on 1 June, so he will still be with the Ospreys if they reach the 2016-17 Pro12 play-off final.
Gibbes said after almost four years in Swansea "the pull of home was too strong".
Media playback is not supported on this device
He added: "I'm definitely a better coach and a better person thanks to my time in this environment, and I'll always be grateful for he chance I've had to work with some quality people, but the pull of home was too strong.
"We've been through some tough times here over the last few years, but all with a long-term view to build something.
"We are starting to see the signs of that hard work coming through and I believe that this group can only continue heading in one way. I'm proud to have played a small part in that."
Gibbes joined Ospreys in 2013 after spending 10 years with Waikato.
Ospreys managing director Andrew Millward said: "There's no denying his influence here since 2013 and, importantly, how we have helped him develop at the same time."
Kieran Maxwell from Heighington, near Darlington, had his left leg amputated last March.
Colin and Chris Weir from Ayrshire stepped in to donate part of their £161m prize after hearing about his story.
The 13-year-old carried the Olympic torch in June.
Kieran was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer which affects fewer than 30 children a year, in October 2010.
His mother Nicola said he started "yelling and dancing" when he found about the donation.
Mrs Maxwell said: "He couldn't believe it. I am still pinching myself.
"What they have done for Kieran will be a small drop in the ocean for them but for him it will change his life.
"He can go back to being a normal boy. He can be himself. Words cannot describe what they have done."
Since losing his leg, Kieran has been determined to remain active and took part in the Torch Relay as it passed through Bishop Auckland, County Durham.
His family have been fundraising to buy a lighter replacement limb as Kieran's current one is heavy and restricts his movement.
The youngster stumbled to the ground when carrying the Olympic torch and was helped up before continuing.
Mr and Mrs Weir heard about Kieran's story through the grandmother of one of his friends and agreed to donate a five-figure sum.
Ewan Barr had told his grandmother, who lives near the Weirs, about Kieran's battle for a lighter leg.
She posted a letter to the couple and received a call three days later from the Weirs' assistant, offering them help.
The couple, from Largs, pledged to share their good fortune after winning the jackpot last July.
Mr Weir said: "When we heard about Kieran and his family's fantastic efforts to raise money for a new prosthetic leg, we had to help. It is a privilege to support him."
Toys from China, copper from Chile, T-shirts from Bangladesh, wine from New Zealand, coffee from Ethiopia, and tomatoes from Spain.
Like it or not, globalisation is a fundamental feature of the modern economy.
In the early 1960s, world trade in merchandise was less than 20% of world economic output, or gross domestic product (GDP).
Now, it is around 50% but not everyone is happy about it.
There is probably no other issue where the anxieties of ordinary people are so in conflict with the near-unanimous approval of economists.
Arguments over trade tend to frame globalisation as a policy - maybe even an ideology - fuelled by acronymic trade deals like TRIPS and TTIP.
But perhaps the biggest enabler of globalisation has not been a free trade agreement, but a simple invention: the shipping container.
It is just a corrugated steel box, 8ft (2.4m) wide, 8ft 6in (2.6m) high, and 40ft (12m) long but its impact has been huge.
BBC World Service's 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy programme highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the global economy.
You can find more information about its sources and listen online or download the programme podcast.
Consider how a typical trade journey looked before its invention.
In 1954, an unremarkable cargo ship, the SS Warrior, carried merchandise from New York to Bremerhaven in Germany.
It held just over 5,000 tonnes of cargo - including food, household goods, letters and vehicles - which were carried as 194,582 separate items in 1,156 different shipments.
Just keeping track of the consignments as they moved around the dockside warehouses was a nightmare.
But the real challenge was physically loading such ships.
Longshoremen would pile the cargo onto a wooden pallet on the dock.
The pallet would be hoisted in a sling and deposited in the hold.
More longshoremen carted each item into a snug corner of the ship, poking the merchandise with steel hooks until it settled into place against the curves and bulkheads of the hold, skilfully packed so that it would not shift on the high seas.
There were cranes and forklifts but much of the merchandise, from bags of sugar heavier than a man to metal bars the weight of a small car, was shifted with muscle power.
This was dangerous work.
In a large port, someone would be killed every few weeks.
In 1950, New York averaged half a dozen serious incidents every day, and its port was safer than many.
Researchers studying the SS Warrior's trip to Bremerhaven concluded the ship had taken ten days to load and unload, as much time as it had spent crossing the Atlantic.
In today's money, the cargo cost around $420 (£335) a tonne to move.
Given typical delays in sorting and distributing the cargo by land, the whole journey might take three months.
Sixty years ago, then, shipping goods internationally was costly, chancy, and immensely time-consuming.
Surely there had to be a better way?
Indeed there was: put all the cargo into big standard boxes, and move those.
But inventing the box was the easy bit - the shipping container had already been tried in various forms for decades.
The real challenge was overcoming the social obstacles.
To begin with, the trucking companies, shipping companies, and ports could not agree on a standard size.
Some wanted large containers while others wanted smaller versions; perhaps because they specialised in heavy goods or trucked on narrow mountain roads.
Then there were the powerful dockworkers' unions, who resisted the idea.
Yes the containers would make the job of loading ships safer but it would also mean fewer jobs.
US regulators also preferred the status quo.
The sector was tightly bound with red tape, with separate sets of regulations determining how much that shipping and trucking companies could charge.
Why not simply let companies charge whatever the market would bear - or even allow shipping and trucking companies to merge, and put together an integrated service?
Perhaps the bureaucrats too were simply keen to preserve their jobs.
Such bold ideas would have left them with less to do.
The man who navigated this maze of hazards, and who can fairly be described as the inventor of the modern shipping container system, was called Malcom McLean.
McLean did not know anything about shipping but he was a trucking entrepreneur.
He knew plenty about trucks, plenty about playing the system, and all there was to know about saving money.
As Marc Levinson explains in his book, The Box, McLean not only saw the potential of a shipping container that would fit neatly onto a flat bed truck, he also had the skills and the risk-taking attitude needed to make it happen.
First, McLean cheekily exploited a legal loophole to gain control of both a shipping company and a trucking company.
Then, when dockers went on strike, he used the idle time to refit old ships to new container specifications.
He repeatedly plunged into debt.
He took on "fat cat" incumbents in Puerto Rico, revitalising the island's economy by slashing shipping rates to the United States.
He cannily encouraged New York's Port Authority to make the New Jersey side of the harbour a centre for container shipping.
But probably the most striking coup took place in the late 1960s, when Malcom McLean sold the idea of container shipping to perhaps the world's most powerful customer: the US Military.
Faced with an unholy logistical nightmare in trying to ship equipment to Vietnam, the military turned to McLean's container ships.
Containers work much better when they are part of an integrated logistical system, and the US military was perfectly placed to implement that.
Even better, McLean realised that on the way back from Vietnam, his empty container ships could collect payloads from the world's fastest growing economy, Japan.
And so trans-Pacific trading began in earnest.
A modern shipping port would be unrecognisable to a hardworking longshoreman of the 1950s.
Even a modest container ship might carry 20 times as much cargo as the SS Warrior did, yet disgorge its cargo in hours rather than days.
Gigantic cranes weighing 1,000 tonnes apiece lock onto containers which themselves weigh upwards of 30 tonnes, and swing them up and over on to a waiting transporter.
The colossal ballet of engineering is choreographed by computers, which track every container as it moves through a global logistical system.
The refrigerated containers are put in a hull section with power and temperature monitors.
The heavier containers are placed at the bottom to keep the ship's centre of gravity low.
The entire process is scheduled to keep the ship balanced.
And after the crane has released one container onto a waiting transporter, it will grasp another before swinging back over the ship, which is being simultaneously emptied and refilled.
Not everywhere enjoys the benefits of the containerisation revolution.
Many ports in poorer countries still look like New York in the 1950s.
Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, remains largely cut off from the world economy because of poor infrastructure.
But for an ever-growing number of destinations, goods can now be shipped reliably, swiftly and cheaply.
Rather than the $420 (£335) that a customer would have paid to get the SS Warrior to ship a tonne of goods across the Atlantic in 1954, you might now pay less than $50 (£39).
Indeed, economists who study international trade often assume that transport costs are zero.
It keeps the mathematics simpler, they say, and thanks to the shipping container, it is nearly true.
Tim Harford writes the Financial Times's Undercover Economist column. The 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy programme was broadcast on the BBC World Service. You can find more information about its sources and listen online or download the programme podcast.
Chancellor George Osborne announced a £10m scheme to upgrade the Halton Curve rail line, linking Liverpool, Cheshire, Warrington and Wrexham.
The project is part of a £34m package to improve transport connections between Liverpool and Manchester.
Welsh Secretary David Jones said it showed ministers continued commitment to improving UK infrastructure.
He said the news would "enable an estimated 500,000 more people to access employment, educational and recreational opportunities".
"It will improve links to Liverpool John Lennon Airport and help stimulate further investment on both sides of the border," he said.
"Today's announcement shows this government's continued commitment to improving our infrastructure across the United Kingdom, which is crucial to our long term economic plan."
Passengers from Wrexham currently have to change at Bidston or Chester.
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said the chancellor's announcement would be welcomed by all companies in north Wales doing business with Liverpool.
Its regional chair Gwyn Evans said: "Projects such as this, and the £44m upgrade of the rail line between Wrexham and Chester, will make a real difference.
"However, there is still some way to go to provide north Wales with the transport infrastructure needed to keep our economy on track."
On average, there were 107 crashes annually between 2011 and 2015 compared to 70 each year between 2006 and 2010.
Cycling charity Sustrans said the increase in cyclists on the roads meant the lack of facilities was becoming increasingly obvious.
The Welsh Government said it was spending millions of pounds promoting safe cycling.
Cyclist Garry Ellis from Rhostryfan, Gwynedd, said the rule in the Highway Code which states vehicles must leave "plenty of room" when passing riders needed to be more specific.
"I ride a lot in Spain and France and vehicles there have to leave at least a 1.5 metre gap between them and bikes when overtaking. Because it's the law, people stick to it."
From 2011-2015, 536 cyclists were seriously injured, up from 350 between 2006 and 2010. In the same time, deaths went up from 24 to 27.
Wales spends £4 per head on cycling and walking compared to £20 per head spent in the Netherlands, where cycling is much more common.
Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Owain Doull, from Cardiff, said: "Cycling is such a big sport in the UK now and we need to facilitate that by keeping them safe, especially with cycle lanes and cycling roundabouts.
"If you look at Holland and Belgium the system they have there is amazing."
Natasha Withey, of Sustrans, told Radio Cymru's Manylu programme that a survey carried out in Cardiff in 2015 suggested 78% of people wanted more money spent to improve safety and introduce bike lanes.
"There are roads and areas where it's really difficult for cyclists," she added.
Cities like Cambridge have a reputation for being cyclist-friendly - about 33% of people ride their bike to work there compared to 4% in Cardiff, which has the highest figure in Wales.
Cambridge's local authority employs 12 full-time officers to look after its biking policies and network compared to one in Cardiff.
In 2013, the Welsh Government introduced an act which required councils to consider all requests from the public regarding improving opportunities for people to walk and cycle.
A spokesman said: "In 2016-17, we have allocated over £11m for local schemes, as well as £1.65m for those on trunk roads.
"Additionally, we're spending over £1.7m on active travel training and promotion. This includes funding for Sustrans to promote active travel in schools, support people to get to work in sustainable ways."
Members of the governing Workers' Party say his appointment will strengthen her beleaguered administration.
In becoming a minister, Lula will also have some legal protection.
Last week, prosecutors requested his arrest in a money laundering inquiry over a luxury sea-front penthouse.
The popular former president has denied any wrongdoing and says the claims are politically motivated.
Who is Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Why is Lula caught up in scandal?
Rousseff facing a perfect storm
As a minister, Lula could only be tried by the Supreme Court, placing him out of the reach of the judge in the southern city of Curitiba responsible for the inquiry.
Lula was briefly detained earlier this month after investigators said they had evidence he received illicit benefits from a kickback scheme involving state-oil company Petrobras.
Media reports, quoting unnamed sources, said Ms Rousseff and Lula would meet in the capital, Brasilia, on Tuesday. There has been no official comment.
Lula handpicked Ms Rousseff as a candidate to succeed him in 2010, and has not ruled out running again in 2018.
Ms Rousseff has faced increasing calls for her removal as a result of a corruption scandal at Petrobras and Brazil's worst recession in decades.
On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets calling for her to go. But the president has repeatedly said she will not resign.
She could, however, face an impeachment process in Congress, accused of masking the budget deficit, which she denies.
One of Lula's main tasks, the reports said, would be to negotiate with the main coalition partner in order to prevent an impeachment going ahead.
His appointment could also be seen as bringing some order to what many analysts consider a chaotic administration.
Dozens of executives and politicians have been arrested or are under investigation as part of a massive corruption inquiry named Operation Car Wash.
They are suspected of overcharging contracts with Petrobras and using part of the money to pay for bribes and electoral campaigns.
One of the lines of inquiry is that construction companies targeted by the operation could have favoured Lula in the development of the same Guaruja flat that led prosecutors to request his arrest.
The 35-year-old was reported overdue on Sunday night after going on a weekend trip from Portsoy in Aberdeenshire.
A kayak matching the description of his vessel was found on Monday evening near Lybster, about 50 miles away.
His sister Ellie told BBC Scotland she remained hopeful he had made it ashore to cliffs and would be found.
The search had resumed on Tuesday morning, with volunteers helping coastguards, and divers were also involved.
On Tuesday afternoon, volunteers found some kayak safety gear washed up on rocks on the Moray coast. It has not yet been confirmed it it is Mr Jackson's.
A paddle was also spotted in the water near to where the kayak was recovered off the Lybster coast.
Extensive searches are expected to continue for a third day on Wednesday.
His sister said from Australia: "I feel very strongly feel Dom is lying injured at the base of a cliff after attempting to climb out after becoming separated from his kayak and swimming to shore.
"He would be very familiar with sea cliffs like this. All his childhood holidays we climbed cliffs and rocks like this.
"I have a very strong feeling he will be found."
A Find Dom page has been set up on Facebook by friends.
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 morning.
The alarm was raised by his flatmate on Sunday night when he failed to return home as expected.
He is described as fit and active but relatively new to kayaking.
His father and brother joined a huge air, sea and land search on Monday involving several lifeboats, coastguard search teams and police.
A coastguard helicopter and a fixed wing aircraft have also been involved in the operation.
Insp Ewan Strachan said on Tuesday afternoon: "More than 30 volunteers have turned out to assist with coastal searches today despite the weather, and I cannot stress enough how much this has been appreciated.
"It also comes as no surprise given the community spirit in the area and the strength of feeling of wanting Dominic to be found.
"Moving forward, our search must focus at sea and immediate areas of the coastline - an operation which must be tackled by a highly specialist search team given the dangers and challenges of these terrains.
"These officers are trained in certain techniques and will be designated to specific areas as we enter our third day of this operation and continue to battle severe weather conditions.
"Our main priority is the public's safety and as such I would urge volunteers to consider other ways in which they can offer support to Dominic's family and friends at this terrible time.
"By no means does this mean we are scaling back our search - in fact our search now becomes more intensive - however we need the right people in the right places to give us the best possible chance."
Mr Jackson's green VW Transporter - which he was camping in for the weekend - was found in the Portsoy area.
Michael McDougall, 47, and Michael Mullen, 24, both from South Shields, are accused of shooting dead Tipu Sultan, 32, outside Herbs n Spice Kitchen in the town in April.
Mr McDougall, of Hylton Avenue, and Mr Mullen, of Hawthorne Avenue, also pleaded not guilty to possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life.
They appeared via video link at Newcastle Crown Court.
Mr Mullen is also charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, which he denied.
The men will stand trial on 23 February and remain remanded in custody.
Canadian and American researchers said tests had shown that "extraneous sound interfered with participants' performance, making their responses both slower and less accurate".
Some top tennis stars, including Martina Navratilova, regard grunting as unfair, or even as cheating.
Maria Sharapova and Rafael Nadal are among the game's big grunters.
The study, which appeared in the Public Library of Science ONE journal, tested 33 students at the University of British Columbia in western Canada.
Hundreds of video clips were shown of a player hitting a ball to either the left or right. The students had to determine the direction quickly, but on some shots were subjected to noises simulating grunting.
Lead report author Scott Sinnett told the BBC: "The findings were unequivocal. Basically, when the video clips did have a grunt, the participants were not only slower to react but they had lower accuracy levels. So they were basically slower and could actually be wrong-footed, if you could extend that to a real-world tennis court."
The report said the grunt could also hamper a receiver who was trying to judge the spin and speed of a ball from the sound made off the racket.
Mr Sinnett said: "The study raises a number of interesting questions for tennis. For example, if Rafael Nadal is grunting and Roger Federer is not, is that fair?"
Councillors on a scrutiny committee voted not to go ahead with the project and said the existing centre should be handed over to a leisure trust.
The decision will go before the council's executive board next Tuesday for final approval.
In February council officials advised the project was "no longer affordable".
A condition survey found the Waterworld centre could be maintained in its present state up until 2035, but it would be "very tired" after 20 years.
The leisure complex was opened by the Queen in 1998 after a major refurbishment of the the town's swimming baths.
But he might still be on the waiting list, enduring 12 hours of dialysis each day, if his mother, Nicola, had not run a Facebook campaign to find him a living donor.
Matthew is one of a number of UK patients who have bypassed the traditional NHS system of organ allocation, instead harnessing the power of the internet to find their own.
Transplant doctors fear this development could result in an unsavoury competition to attract donors online, in what some have called an "organ beauty pageant".
And they worry that it rips up the traditional health service ethos of equal access to treatment for all.
Consultant nephrologist Dr Adnan Sharif, from Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, says: "Somebody who is well-to-do, a professional, will be very good at promoting themselves," whereas poorer patients, perhaps from minority ethnic communities, will not have the same opportunities.
The woman donating organs to strangers
Woman with 100-year-old kidney from mum 'still going strong'
But Matthew's mother is unrepentant.
"I'm not going to lie, I think on Matthew's side was the fact he was a child," she says.
"In all walks of life, we use things to our advantage.
"If it meant that he didn't have to spend his life on dialysis, then I'd take it - I don't care."
There are 28,000 people on dialysis in the UK.
Some 5,000 patients are on the national waiting list for an organ transplant from a dead donor.
There is a permanent shortage of such kidneys.
But there is another option; they may get a kidney from a living donor, because most of us can live healthily with just one.
Living donors now make up a third of all kidney transplants in the UK.
Most are donated anonymously through a very successful NHS scheme.
But social media campaigns such as Matthew's can bring dozens of would-be donors to be tissue-tested for just one patient, squeezing resources.
Sue Moore, the lead NHS living donor coordinator in Birmingham, says: "You'd get people call out of the blue, and it was quite overwhelming really."
However, since Matthew's appeal was launched in 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the biggest renal centre in Europe, has adjusted to handling such pressures.
Matthew's mother argues publicity for his campaign increased awareness of kidney donation.
And some of the people initially tested for Matthew went on to give a kidney to someone else.
One was Alison Thornhill, who was touched by his Facebook appeal.
"If one of my grandchildren was in that situation, I would want somebody to step forward and be tested to see if they were a match for him," she says.
Alison wasn't a match for Matthew, but since she "was prepared to give a kidney to a little boy who I didn't know, it made sense just to go on and give it to somebody else who I didn't know who needed it".
Eighteen months ago, she went into hospital and became an anonymous donor.
Unexpectedly, she later got letters from the recipient, and from his mother, who wrote: "I don't know anything about you apart from the fact that you are a very kind and compassionate person.
"I will be eternally grateful to you.
"Kindest regards, a loving and thankful mother."
But some would-be donors want to choose precisely who receives their kidney.
Searching online, Gemma Coles identified a series of patients she wanted to donate to, though for various reasons it has not yet happened.
Asked why she wants to choose the recipient, she replies she has only one kidney to give.
"You have to be judgemental," she says.
"There's thousands of people, literally, needing a kidney, and more and more now their stories are available on social media, and it can feel you're being very critical of people's lives, trying to decide who to give and who not to."
If the transplant community was disturbed by Facebook kidney appeals, it was shocked by websites offering to match donors and patients, who can browse through profiles and photos.
Matchingdonors.com was set up in the US by businessman Paul Dooley as a non-profit venture.
It charges $595 (£464) for US patients seeking a donor.
In 2012, he brought the website to the UK, but this time, without charging any fees.
According to the regulator, the Human Tissue Authority, transplant centres must refuse operations involving a website that does charge fees.
Since Matchingdonors.com is free to use in the UK, there is no regulatory barrier to stop it brokering a transplant.
But chief executive Mr Dooley says not one such transplant has taken place in five years in the UK.
There are 73 UK patients waiting - some have found matches with potential donors, but none has had permission from their hospital to go ahead.
In 2015, he stopped stopped signing up British patients, because "there's no use them going to a gas station if there's no gas".
It seems the transplant community simply decided organ-matching websites were beyond the pale. But is this fair?
Prof Vassilios Papalois, who formerly chaired the British Transplantation Society's ethics committee, says the views of transplant teams must be respected.
"They have the autonomy to say that for us it's ethically objectionable," he says.
Asked if he is trying to provide the catwalk for an organ beauty pageant, Mr Dooley replies: "Every single person on our website who's an organ donor wants to choose.
"They want to say, 'I want to give to an old grandfather, 'I want to give to a single father,' and if that's what they consider a beauty contest, that's not a beauty contest, it's the choice of who you want to donate to."
The Organ Beauty Pageant is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, 2 May, at 20:00 BST, and repeated on Sunday, 7 May, at 17:00 BST.
Stephen Vullo QC said a 2014 jury which had convicted Mr Harris of a number of indecent assaults had "got it wrong".
This made him "vulnerable to people making accusations against him", Mr Vullo told Southwark Crown Court.
Mr Harris denies six indecent assaults and one sexual assault on victims aged 12-42, from 1971 to 2004.
In relation to one of the allegations, Mr Harris had faced alternative charges of indecent assault or sexual assault.
The jury has been instructed to consider a sexual assault charge in relation to this allegation.
The 86-year-old is currently serving a prison sentence for indecent assault on four females.
Closing the defence case, Mr Vullo said: "It's difficult to imagine a harder or faster or deeper fall from grace than that suffered by Rolf Harris."
The defence team has repeated Mr Harris's claims of innocence in relation to the earlier conviction.
Mr Vullo added: "The media frenzy has without doubt made him vulnerable to people making accusations against him. There is no doubt about that."
But each charge against Mr Harris "falls far below" the required standard to convict him, argued Mr Vullo, adding: "We say enough is enough."
Until last week Mr Harris had followed the trial via a video-link from prison, but he sat in the dock for the hearing on Wednesday.
In the prosecution closing speech on Tuesday, Jonathan Rees QC said: "It is striking that so many of the allegations involve Mr Harris getting away with a sly, quick grope right under the noses of people who did not notice.
"We suggest that Mr Harris was very good at getting away with it."
He argued that the previous conviction showed that Mr Harris "has a propensity and appetite for indecently assaulting females".
|
A railway line closed in 1964 could reopen as a heritage line for steam engines if new plans come to fruition.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Rory McKenzie is excited to be part of a much-changed Kilmarnock squad after signing a new two-year contract.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has set up a "standing council" of experts to provide her with advice following the Brexit vote.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A criminal investigation has been launched after a council leader resigned over criticism concerning his links with a fitness firm owner.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Almost half the musicians in the Vienna Philharmonic during World War II were members of the Nazi party, new research has revealed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Chinese rights lawyer has been jailed for 12 years - in a move his supporters say is designed to silence him.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A teacher has been struck off for pretending to a be a 13-year-old girl and making false sex abuse claims against her former head teacher.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Motherwell, Greenock and Arbroath are Scotland's most affordable commuter towns, according to a banking survey.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
League of Ireland sides Sligo Rovers and Bray Wanderers will play in next season's Irn-Bru Scottish Challenge Cup.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Organisers have tested a 100m (328ft) flume ride down one of the steepest hills in Lincoln to see if it is safe to be used by members of the public.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Chinese artefacts worth almost £2m that were stolen from a University of Durham museum have been recovered by police.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Denny Solomona is "expected to be fit" for England's tour to Argentina, says head coach Eddie Jones.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Heathrow bosses have given MPs a "clear commitment" to reduce night flights if a third runway is built, but would not say "exactly what" would be done.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has been charged with handling stolen goods after several luxury 4x4s and hundreds of car parts were found at a business park in the Forest of Dean.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Craig Overton completed his second five-wicket haul of the season as Somerset finished a rain-interrupted second day on top against Yorkshire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Apple will contest a court order to help FBI investigators access data on the phone used by San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Details of an ambitious Scottish celebration to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death have been announced.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A French scientist has revealed a major new discovery about one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous paintings, shedding new light on his techniques.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Thai prosecutors have indicted 72 people, including politicians and an army general, over the trafficking of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Rangers have announced the signing of midfielder Joey Barton on a two-year deal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ospreys forwards coach Chris Gibbes will leave at the end of the season to return to his native New Zealand as head coach of the Wellington Lions.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A teenager who lost a leg to cancer will have a life-changing operation after Britain's biggest lottery winners bought him a new prosthetic limb.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Perhaps the defining feature of the global economy is precisely that it is global.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A direct rail link between north east Wales and Liverpool is to be restored, after being lost in the 1970s.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Serious cycling accidents in Wales have risen by 50% in the past five years, compared to the five years before.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has accepted a key ministerial role in President Dilma Rousseff's government, media reports say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The search for missing Dominic Jackson is expected to resume on Wednesday, after his kayak was recovered from the sea off the Caithness coast.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Two men have denied murdering a takeaway restaurant owner.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The loud grunts of some tennis players can give them a real advantage over opponents, a scientific study says.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A plan to demolish Wrexham's Waterworld leisure centre and replace it with a £12m state-of-the-art facility looks set be abandoned.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Eleven-year-old Matthew Pietrzyk can now swim, run, have a bath and eat chocolate, all impossible before his kidney transplant.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A "media frenzy" has made Rolf Harris vulnerable to false accusations of indecent assault, his lawyer has told the former entertainer's trial.
| 39,424,802 | 15,649 | 984 | true |
The Tories also took a council from independent control and retained six authorities in Yorkshire as well as North Lincolnshire Council.
Labour retained control of five councils in Yorkshire and the Humber while gaining Bradford City Council.
Of the 21 local councils holding elections, 16 had not changed hands with two still to declare.
The Conservative Party won Scarborough Borough Council, which had previously been under no overall control, and gained nine seats at Richmondshire District Council, with eight coming from independents and one from UKIP.
Kirklees Council, Calderdale Council and North East Lincolnshire Council remained under no overall control.
In Rotherham, UKIP were expected to do well in the wake of the child abuse scandal but the party only managed to win three more seats, with Labour retaining control of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council.
The final result for Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council is expected later.
City of York Council, which had previously been under no overall control, is expected to declare its result on Saturday.
|
Labour and Conservative have both gained councils from no overall control by one seat each.
| 32,662,263 | 209 | 18 | false |
The eastbound exit at junction 4 of the M54 at Shifnal, Shropshire, remains closed while forensic teams continue to search for clues to the man's identity.
Police said the bones were human and were believed to be from the same skeleton as the skull found by maintenance workers on 20 August.
Tests determined the remains had been at the scene for at least two years.
A post-mortem examination proved inconclusive as to how the man died.
The latest discoveries were unearthed close to the surface and near where the previous remains were found, a spokeswoman for West Mercia Police said.
It will not be known if all findings represent a complete skeleton until the pathologists have completed their inquiries, she added.
Searches are expected to come to an end on Thursday evening and the M54 slip road will remain closed for unrelated road works, she said.
Ruth Appleby, from North Yorkshire, was told her daughter had died hours after being born apparently healthy in 1992.
She later learned that thousands of Spanish babies were taken and given up for adoption.
Mrs Appleby has pursued her case through the Spanish legal system without success.
"The last appeal that we did was to the constitutional tribunal," she said.
"When that was rejected that was considered there was no where else we could go, so it opened the door for us to the European Court of Human Rights."
More on this and other North Yorkshire stories
Mrs Appleby, from Catterick Garrison, gave birth at a hospital in La Coruna in northern Spain where she was living at the time.
The following day she was told her child had died.
When she returned to the UK in 2010 she had her daughter's remains exhumed for cremation but said the skeleton she saw in the coffin appeared to be that of a much older infant.
The following year she learned of the scandal of stolen babies in Spain and went on to report the matter to police in 2012.
In May, she travelled to Madrid with a number of MEPs from the European Parliament who were investigating the claims of child abduction.
Labour MEP for the North East, Jude Kirton-Darling, who has campaigned alongside Mrs Appleby, said: "The... decision to hear Ruth's case is a great step forward for both finding the truth about her child, and the countless other mothers who have had their children taken from them.
"One of the human rights which is defended in Strasbourg is the right to fair justice, a fair hearing in court.
"The second right that Ruth is really challenging on is her right to a family life. Her child has been gone for so long and that's a child that's missing from her family.
"It could be a massive precedent which will really blow open this whole scandal and allow people to finally get the justice they have been calling for."
Spain's 'Niños robados' (stolen children)
The suspect walked into the Wineflair store on the Upper Lisburn Road in Finaghy at 08:10 GMT on Saturday.
Police said a small amount of money was handed over.
The man was described as being in his 20s, about 5ft 5", of heavy build and wearing a red hat and red-hooded top.
PSNI Det Sgt Michael Hawthorne said: "I would appeal to anyone who saw a male matching this description in the Finaghy area this morning or who has any information which could assist us with our enquiries to contact detectives at Musgrave on 101 quoting reference number 300 26/11/16 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111."
In December 2011 the regions - Cardiff Blues, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets - imposed a salary cap of £3.5m a year when all four were posting losses.
The rise reflects improved finances, with extra money from Europe and a new deal with the Welsh Rugby Union.
Pro Rugby Wales declined to comment, but it is understood the decision was mutually agreed after a review.
It is hoped the extra cash will help the regions retain star players and potentially bring more "Welsh exiles" home.
Leigh Halfpenny, Jonathan Davies, George North and Luke Charteris are thought to be considering returning to Wales next season.
The Ospreys are hoping Dan Biggar and Alun Wyn Jones will agree to extend their current National Dual Contracts.
However, the regions - represented by Pro Rugby Wales - are expected to make building squad depth a priority, and not necessarily spend big figures on marquee signings.
The new ceiling - which is self-imposed - is still some way below that of England's Aviva Premiership.
Premiership Rugby Limited - the umbrella body that governs England's Premiership clubs - announced in October they would be raising their cap next season from £5.1m to £6.5m, and to £7m the season after that.
These figures exclude the salaries of two so-called "marquee signings" that remain outside the cap.
18 February 2016 Last updated at 15:07 GMT
Chris lives in Australia and his dogs perform tricks, jumping on his shoulders and back, as he rides the waves.
But he also travels around the country with them to help teach owners and rescue shelter staff how to look after their dogs better.
He teaches that exercise and discipline are really important for the wellbeing of dogs.
Watch Chris ride the waves with his dogs...
Mr Petro, a leading leftist seen as a potential presidential candidate in the 2018 elections, was banned from holding office for 15 years.
The mayor had violated the principles of the free market and endangered people's health, the prosecution said.
Thousands of people gathered in Bogota's central square to protest.
In 2012, rubbish was not collected for days after waste management changes.
Mr Petro, a former member of the revolutionary armed group M-19, called the decision a "coup" and urged the people to protest peacefully.
Shortly after the decision was announced by Inspector-General Alejandro Ordonez, protesters started gathering at Bogota's central Bolivar Square.
"I'm asking the world for solidarity. We're facing a coup against the progressive government of the city of Bogota," Mr Petro wrote on Twitter.
On his Facebook page, Mr Petro wrote that he had been condemned for having "de-privatised a public service".
The Colombian Constitution gives the Inspector General's Office the power to check the performance of those holding public office.
But the decision by Mr Ordonez sparked criticism from Justice Minister, Alfonso Gomez Mendez.
"We have to revise the constitutional norm that allows the destitution of an official chosen by popular vote," Mr Gomez told reporters.
Mr Petro's term started in 2012 and was supposed to end in 2016.
He is allowed to appeal against the decision to the Inspector General's Office or to the Council of State, a Supreme Court panel dedicated to public administration cases.
Inspector-General Ordonez had already sparked controversy by openly opposing gay marriage and the current peace talks with the Farc rebels.
Kevin Brown excelled on his Wire debut, scoring a try in the second minute.
Ryan Atkins and Matty Russell helped the hosts into a 20-0 lead and Tom Lineham also crossed before half-time.
Declan Patton added 11 points with the boot, while Corey Oates, James Roberts and David Mead replied for Brisbane.
Leeds' World Club Challenge win over Manly five years earlier had been the last time a northern hemisphere side had beaten one of their NRL counterparts, and Super League clubs had lost all six matches since the expanded World Club Series began in 2015.
Super League champions Wigan Warriors host NRL Grand Final winners Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the World Club Challenge on Sunday (15:00 GMT).
Brisbane, coached by England boss Wayne Bennett, do not begin their league season until 2 March and a lack of match practice appeared to contribute to their slow start, for which they were clinically punished.
Warrington made the perfect start when Joe Westerman raced 60 metres after charging down a kick and Brown, a winter signing from local rivals Widnes, darted over after Westerman had been hauled down short of the line.
Last season's beaten Super League finalists were 20-0 up after 19 minutes as Atkins powered over and Russell showed neat footwork to evade three Brisbane defenders.
Oates went over acrobatically in the corner for the Broncos but winger Lineham's score for Warrington, given after consultation with the video referee, helped the Wire to an 18-point lead at half-time.
Brisbane improved after the break and Roberts' 80-metre dash for a try gave the Australian side some heart, but Patton's drop goal and a fifth successful kick from the tee established a three-score advantage which was rarely threatened.
Warrington prop Ashton Sims told BBC Radio 5 live sports extra:
"We wanted to get Super League off to a good start. Not too many people gave us a chance but we know the belief in our squad and it was good to put a good performance out.
"I felt like our ball control was good, especially in that first 20 minutes, and our kicking game was great. That's a great way to kick-start our year.
"We wish Wigan and Cronulla all the best for Sunday. I had 11 or 12 great seasons in the NRL and I love that competition. May the best team win, but hopefully people will look a little bit differently at Super League after that result."
Warrington: Gidley; Russell, Evans, Atkins, Lineham; Brown, Patton; Cooper, Clark, Sims, Hughes, Savelio, Westerman.
Replacements: Westwood, Livett, Philbin, Dwyer.
Brisbane: Boyd; Oates, Roberts, Kahu, Mead; Milford, Hunt; McGuire, Gillett, Thaiday, Ofahengaue, Ese'ese, McCullough.
Replacements: Glenn, Pangai Jnr, Arrow, Fai.
Referee: Phil Bentham
The latest cases on Tycoch campus at Gower College follow another five across Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire.
Those cases are not related to the college outbreak.
But Public Health Wales is advising people who are not protected to speak to their GP to arrange a vaccination.
Students at Gower College are to be offered catch-up MMR jabs on Thursday.
Dr Jorg Hoffmann, consultant in communicable disease control for Public Health Wales, called the new cluster a concern.
"We now once again have evidence of community spread in the Neath and Swansea areas, resulting in two confirmed outbreaks and a significant number of cases which could not be linked to either of them," he said.
At the end of December there were 44 cases linked to four schools in the Neath and Swansea area.
The current outbreak follows the largest spread of measles in Wales since the introduction of the MMR vaccination.
There were more than 1,200 suspected cases in the same area between November 2012 and July 2013, resulting in one death and 88 people having to go to hospital.
Since then more than 70,000 catch-up doses of MMR have been given in Wales, but around 30,000 young people remain unprotected, Public Health Wales said.
People queued with their children outside special clinics for vaccinations set up during the height of last year's outbreak.
Measles' symptoms include a fever, tiredness, a runny nose, conjunctivitis and a distinctive red rash.
It is very contagious and can cause serious complications, and in rare cases, death.
Anyone who thinks they or their child has symptoms should can their GP or NHS Direct Wales on 0845 46 47.
Liam McMeechan, 23, left Tahir Ahmed with a fractured skull following the raid at A&A newsagents in South Trinity Road on 12 August 2016.
Mr Ahmed, who feared he was going to die, had tried to fight off McMeechan.
Earlier, McMeechan pleaded guilty to assaulting the shopkeeper to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement.
Accomplice David Allan, 50, admitted to a charge of attempted robbery and was jailed for 32 months at the High Court in Glasgow.
Lord Boyd jailed McMeechan for seven years - but he must first serve 414 days from a previous sentence.
The judge said McMeechan, who has a string of robbery convictions, was a "considerable menace".
McMeechan will also be supervised for two years on his release.
Mr Ahmed needed 14 staples for serious head wounds and has been left scarred for life.
The colourful sculptures have attracted people from across the world since they were installed eight weeks ago.
The free trail is run by children's hospital charity the Grand Appeal - much of the money is raised when the Shauns are auctioned in October.
While official figures are not yet ready, hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have taken part.
More than 200,000 maps have been given away and the trail app has been downloaded about 80,000 times - including in the US, Japan and Australia.
The sculptures of the popular Aardman character are individually painted by artists and some celebrities among others.
Before the Bristol trail began in July, another 50 Shauns were on display across London.
Fork lift trucks will move in from 17:00 BST on Monday to remove the steel-reinforced fibreglass figures, which, along with their concrete bases, can weigh three quarters of a tonne.
They will then be cleaned up before an exhibition of all the sculptures from Bristol and London at the Mall shopping centre in Cribbs Causeway, near Bristol from 12 September.
They will return to London for a second exhibition in Covent Garden, before the final auction in Bristol on 8 October.
John Hirst, chief executive of Destination Bristol, said the trail had given Bristol a boost, which was continuing thanks to Banksy's surprise Dismaland exhibition in Weston-super-Mare.
Daisy Mae Burrill died at Manchester Children's Hospital on 14 March, three days after being found at a property in Warren Street, Fleetwood, Lancashire.
A post-mortem examination revealed she died from a head injury, Lancashire Police said.
John Burrill, 30, from Gordon Road, Fleetwood, appeared for a brief hearing at Blackpool Magistrates' Court and was remanded in custody.
He is due to appear at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday.
A 29-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of causing or allowing the death of a child has been released without charge.
The baby was found at 06:30 GMT on 11 March and taken to Blackpool Victoria Hospital having suffered a suspected cardiac arrest.
She was transferred to Manchester Children's Hospital.
The two-vehicle crash involving a Range Rover and Toyota happened at about 07:30 GMT on Thursday on the A48.
A woman, 21, is being treated for serious injuries with officers supporting her family and a man who was driving the other car also being treated.
Gwent Police has appealed for witnesses.
It identifies gaps in future plans and spending commitments around flood risk, management of natural resources and the impact on public health.
Policies "do not exist at present" to adapt homes or other buildings to deal with projected higher temperatures.
The Welsh Government has welcomed the report and said it was taking action.
The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Evidence Report took over three years to write and involved hundreds of leading scientists.
It sets out the most urgent risks and opportunities arising from climate change, with a summary for each devolved nation including Wales.
The 2,000-page study is by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), an independent body set up by the UK government.
It included looking at areas such as future flood risk, the effect on natural resources, people, buildings, business, farming and wildlife, as well as looking at security issues and extreme climate change scenarios.
The report says the impacts of climate change are already being felt in the UK. Globally, 14 of the 15 hottest years on record having occurred since 2000.
Prof Lord John Krebs, chairman of the CCC's Adaptation Sub-Committee, told BBC Wales the risks the country faced were similar to those across the UK but that "poor quality infrastructure" was an issue.
"Wales is one part of the country with a lot of poor housing stock and we need to look at how we make those homes more resilient."
But Prof Krebs, once a zoology lecturer at Bangor University, said Wales was getting off to "a very good start" when it came to confronting the challenges posed by climate change.
He described the Welsh Government's Wellbeing of Future Generations Act as "a very good framework for working on this".
The Act obliges public bodies in Wales, such as local councils and the NHS, to consider the long-term impact of every decision they make on efforts to tackle climate change among other things.
The CCC reviewed current evidence and commissioned new research for this report.
Ministers in Westminster now have to formally respond with plans to tackle the issues raised, while the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish governments will also use the information to strengthen and develop their own laws.
The UK government has to compile risk assessments on climate change every five years and this will be presented to Parliament next year.
Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, said infrastructure in Wales must be "fit-for-purpose" and take account of future changes, including heat and severe weather events.
"More than 60% of people in Wales live and work near the coast, including in all our major cities and many important towns," she said.
"Already 222,000 homes are at risk of flooding and that figure is likely to increase together with the £200m estimated cost of putting it right.
"Flooding and coastal change must be seen as a priority with agencies working together to protect communities."
A Welsh Government spokesperson welcomed the report, saying it would will take time to consider its findings.
"We are aware of the importance of building resilience in our homes and communities, which is why we are taking measures to better protect these from the affects of climate change in the future.
"For example, we are investing almost £55m in flood defences this year alone.
"We have also strengthened legislation through our Environment (Wales) Act and Well-being of Future Generations Act to reduce the impacts of climate change and ensure the long-term risk from climate change are considered in decisions made by public bodies."
Nadia Eweida, a British Airways check-in clerk who had been suspended by the company for insisting on wearing a small silver cross, had been vindicated.
The court had accepted that the UK government and courts had failed to protect her right to express her Christian faith, and she had even been awarded 6,000 euros in compensation and lost pay.
The judgement confirmed that wearing a cross was a legitimate way for Christians to express their religious beliefs.
It will make it that much harder for companies to introduce unreasonable restrictions on the wearing of Christian and other symbols of faith at work.
But that is more or less all traditionalist Christians can find to applaud in the judgement from Strasbourg.
For a start Ms Eweida's was something of a special case.
The court pointed out that her cross had been too "discreet" to stand any chance of damaging British Airways' corporate image, and the company had changed its uniform policy to allow such symbols shortly after the row anyway.
It turned down the appeal of Shirley Chaplin, a nurse from Exeter, whose employer had said the cross she wore was unhygienic.
The court said it was not in a position to judge the risk to health, but its finding suggests that if a company could reasonably demonstrate a risk to health and safety it would be able to prevent staff from wearing religious symbols.
The court's decisions in the cases of the remaining two Christians also seem to hand considerable discretion to employers to decide policies for providing services and to require their staff to abide by them whatever their religious beliefs.
Lillian Ladele was a registrar for Islington Council in London, but lost her job after she refused to preside over civil partnerships.
She was able to manage for some time by swapping tasks with colleagues who were happy to officiate at the same-sex ceremonies.
But after a complaint was made to the council, Ms Ladele was told she had to perform civil partnerships.
Gary McFarlane was sacked by Relate after he refused to counsel gay couples about their sexual relationships.
He had been advising homosexual people about their relationships for some time.
Both Ms Ladele and Mr McFarlane had argued in Strasbourg for "reasonable accommodation" - a compromise in which an employer would find alternative staff without conflicting religious convictions to perform the task.
They stressed that no gay person had been denied either a civil partnership or counselling as a result of their refusal to provide them.
But, dismissing both cases, the court said employers could oblige all their staff to comply with a reasonable policy.
Secularists had insisted that to do otherwise in either Ms Ladele's or Mr McFarlane's case would be demeaning to gay people, and "retrogressive".
The judgement does not mean a company can ignore the religious views of employees but it can override them in order to achieve "a higher priority" - in this case making sure gay people get equal treatment in the provision of services.
Companies will be able to ask applicants for jobs what their position is on issues such as civil partnerships or sexual counselling for gay couples, and refuse them the post if their religious beliefs would prevent them from doing the work.
None of this means that the right of Christians, traditionalist or otherwise, to hold religious beliefs has been undermined by the judgement.
British courts have distinguished between the right to hold a religious belief - which is protected under the law - and the right to manifest or express it, where the protection is much more qualified.
Traditionalist Christians claim their rights to freedom of religious conscience have been steadily subordinated to the rights - especially of homosexual people - to equality.
The European Court of Human Rights allows generous latitude to Council of Europe states to make their own decisions about such developments as civil partnerships.
The UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission suggested that British courts had interpreted the law on manifestation of religion and religious discrimination too narrowly in the past.
Myriad cases have come before the courts concerning not just counselling or civil partnerships but such issues as the placing of children for adoption by same-sex parents and the turning away of gay couples from guesthouses.
The European Court of Human Rights' judgement set a legal seal on the numerous hearings in which Christians have tried, and failed, to defend their values against secular ones in British courts.
Occasionally judges have seemed scathing about the claims made by Christians.
Dismissing an earlier appeal by Mr McFarlane, Mr Justice Laws said legislation that protected views, simply because they were religious, would be irrational, divisive and arbitrary.
He added that religion was a "matter of opinion" that could not be proved and should not, therefore, be used as the basis for making law.
Rights are a matter of balance - the exercise of one person's rights can undermine those of another.
That balance has shifted during recent decades, and the influence of Christian teaching on British culture and law has steadily waned.
The European Court of Human Rights has left a milestone on the road to a secular society.
The protest followed clashes after an eight-year-old girl said she had been harassed on her way to school.
Some ultra-Orthodox in Beit Shemesh are seeking to segregate men and women.
President Shimon Peres has backed the protest, saying the "entire nation must be recruited in order to save the majority from the hands of a small minority".
He said the demonstration was a defence of the "character" of the state of Israel "against a minority which breaks our national solidarity".
'Afraid to go to school'
By Jon DonnisonBBC News, Beit Shemesh
By early evening thousands of demonstrators had gathered in Beit Shemesh, waving banners saying "Free Israel". People are angry at the growing influence of Israel's conservative ultra-Orthodox Jews and in particular their treatment of women.
It is a tiny minority of ultra-Orthodox who carry out such attacks. But many Israelis believe the country's character is at stake. They resent the fact that most ultra-Orthodox men don't work or serve in the army. Instead, the government gives them subsidies to carry out religious studies. One man here told me Jewish religious extremism posed a bigger threat to the country than Iran.
The Israeli government, so often critical of religious extremism in Islamic countries, has ordered a crackdown on intolerance at home. In this country there is often a debate about co-existence between Jews and Arabs. In Beit Shemesh, people were asking whether the varying strands of Judaism could co-exist.
Thousands of protesters gathered in Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, on Tuesday evening.
They held signs "reading "Free Israel from religious coercion" and "Stop Israel from becoming Iran" - a reference to the Islamist republic's stringent restrictions on women's freedoms.
"This thing is really big and we're fighting for something really serious," one protester, Kinneret Havern told Reuters news agency.
The rally was addressed by opposition leader Tzipi Livni, who said the protesters were "fighting for the image of the state of Israel".
"It's not just Beit Shemesh and not just gender segregation, it's all the extremist elements that are rearing their heads and are trying to impose their worldview on us," she said.
In his statement, Mr Peres said: "No person has the right to threaten a girl, a woman or any person in any way."
Tensions have been growing in recent years between Israel's secular Jews and members of the ultra-orthodox Jews who seek an strict interpretation of religious laws.
In Beit Shemesh, where the communities live in close proximity, there have been regular protests by ultra-Orthodox men outside a religious girls school against what they say is the immodest dress of the children.
Anger spilled over after a documentary was broadcast on national TV in which one of the girls, eight-year-Naama Margolese, said she was afraid to walk to school in the town because ultra-Orthodox men shouted at her.
In October, her mother told the BBC the children were facing daily abuse which was giving them nightmares.
"Whenever she hears a noise she asks, 'are they there, are they out there?'," said Hadassah Margoleese.
Other women have reported similar incidents in the town of 100,000, some 18 miles (30km) south-west of Jerusalem.
Sarit Ramon described the situation in the town, where religiously observant immigrants live alongside Israelis embracing a more modern lifestyle, as having been "catastrophic for years".
Beit Shemesh resident Alisa Coleman told the BBC that she had been called a prostitute when dressed in a short-sleeved T-shirt and a skirt.
Though underlining that this behaviour was carried out by only a tiny proportion of the community, she said what was happening in Beit Shemesh was "a microcosm of what's happening in the whole country".
On Monday, one police officer was slightly hurt and a number of Orthodox Jews were detained after a group of some 300 ultra-Orthodox residents pelted police with stones and eggs in an incident reportedly triggered after police tried to remove a sign ordering segregation.
After the clashes, ultra-Orthodox activists from Beit Shemesh issued a statement condemning the violence, but also accusing the media of initiating "deliberate provocations in order to make the peaceful, quiet and tolerant residents, who live their lives according to their beliefs, look bad".
Such clashes have become more frequent in Israel in recent years as the authorities have challenged efforts by ultra-Orthodox Jews to segregate women in public places.
The BBC's Jon Donnison in Beit Shemesh says the events have highlighted what is a growing religious divide in Israel.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews make up 10% of the population in Israel. The community has a high birth rate and is growing rapidly.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has concerns over the impact on nature sites and species ranging from water voles to bats under the plans as they stand.
Conservation groups have called it a significant blow to the £1bn project.
The objection comes as part of consultation into the "black route," aimed at cutting traffic congestion.
For the motorway to go ahead the Welsh Government would have to apply to NRW for various licences and permissions covering protected species, flooding and land designated for conservation.
But NRW stated it would object to the plans in their current form.
The concerns are centred around the impact of the proposed motorway around Newport on protected species including otter and dormice and Sites of Special Scientific Interest on the Gwent Levels.
The plans - first put forward 25 years ago - are for a 15-mile (24km) motorway and six-lane bridge over the River Usk to ease problems from the bottleneck at the Brynglas tunnels.
The consultation period for objections to the preferred "black route" option ended earlier this month.
NRW also assesses that the scheme's current draft orders and environmental statement "do not fully demonstrate that the consequences of tidal flooding can be acceptably managed".
The document from NRW's head of operations for south east Wales John Hogg said that the organisation could change its stance if its concerns are taken into account and additional information provided.
CONCERNS ABOUT IMPACT ON NATURE HABITATS AND SPECIES:
Further consultation documents from environmental groups, seen by BBC Wales, have accused the Welsh Government of undermining the credibility of its own laws, designed to promote sustainable development.
One of the most strongly worded responses comes from climate change scientists Dr Steven Glynn of the Sustainable Change Co-operative and Professor Kevin Anderson of Manchester's Tyndall Centre for Climate Research.
They write that "the M4 scheme is emblematic of a failure to acknowledge the challenges enshrined in the Paris Agreement" to limit global warming.
"If it proceeds it will illustrate the Welsh Government's disregard for its climate change commitments and the impact of unchecked emissions on future generations of Welsh citizens," they wrote.
The Welsh Government has argued that the relief road is justified and vital for Wales' economic future.
Speaking on BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme, First Minister Carwyn Jones said that the process of developing the "black route" was continuing and would go to a public inquiry.
"We will continue to look at this but there doesn't seem to be an alternative," he said.
"It has to be dealt with as it is the biggest traffic problem we have in Wales."
He dismissed the alternative "blue route" option as being too close to people's homes.
There are hopes work on the new motorway could start in 2018.
The Met Office issued five yellow "be aware" warnings for Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
It has forecast southerly gales and also heavy rain for parts of southern, western and northern Scotland.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued over 50 flood warnings where flooding is expected.
Deep standing water on the M9 motorway near Stirling closed the southbound carriageway for several hours.
Because of flooding at Kirkconnel, the railway line between Kilmarnock and Dumfries was closed.
There was further disruption to rail services in Ayrshire because of flooding on the line between Kilwinning and Saltcoats.
The East Kilbride line was also closed briefly because of flooding near Busby.
The M8 motorway was closed westbound at Hillington in Glasgow after portable cabins were blown off a lorry onto the carriageway shortly after 10:30.
And the A1 was closed in both directions at Dunbar in East Lothian after two lorries blew over at about 08:25.
In Dumfries, firefighters were asked to carry out a safety inspection of the police station roof, while the Whitesands area was flooded.
Pupils at Aberfoyle Primary School in Stirling had to be rescued by boat after the building was cut off by flooding.
The B829 Aberfoyle to Kinlochard road was flooded with almost a metre of water after the River Forth burst its banks.
Police and members of Trossachs Search and Rescue team are also at the scene.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service have said they rescued a total of 22 people from serious flooding in the area
Appliances from Bathgate, Aberfoyle and Balfron fire stations, and water rescue teams from Bathgate and Stirling fire stations, used a boat and rescue sleds.
Incident Commander Martyn Brandrick said: "This incident required specialist technical processes to ensure safe systems of work were implemented."
The weather picture for later in the week could see high winds and cooler temperatures bringing snow.
The BBC weather centre said the wet and windy conditions were related to the "remnants" of Storm Jonas that brought heavy snowfalls to the US.
The warm weather has been due to a tropical maritime air mass.
Live flood warnings from the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.
View the flood map by tapping on the image below
Tap here for up-to-date flood information.
Check if this is affecting your journey
Tap here for up-to-date travel information.
District Judge Kristine Baker's order came hours after Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson dismissed calls for an in-depth review.
Kenneth Williams, the fourth prisoner executed in eight days, convulsed and groaned, witnesses said.
His lawyers described his death on Thursday as "horrifying".
In addition to the examination, Judge Baker also ordered the preservation of blood and tissue samples from Williams's body.
Her decision came after Jason McGhee, a death-row inmate who had also been scheduled to die on Thursday, filed an emergency order.
He and three others who had been scheduled to die before the state's supply of sedative - part of the lethal injection used to execute prisoners - runs out have all won reprieves.
Earlier, Governor Hutchinson had rejected calls for anything more than a "routine" check into the execution, while Senator Trent Garner - who witnessed the execution - said Williams did not "seem in pain".
But Shawn Nolan, who represented Williams, filed a motion which argued that if "the [drug] midazolam fails to keep the prisoner under anaesthesia, the prisoner would be awake and aware but unable to move or speak or even open his eyes, so he would then look completely serene despite being in agony".
Williams was initially spared the death penalty when he was sentenced to life in prison for the 1998 murder of 19-year-old cheerleader Dominique Hurd.
After a month in the penitentiary, he escaped in October 1999 by hiding in a barrel used to carry kitchen refuse.
Not far from the prison, he encountered Cecil Boren, 57, on his farm.
He killed Mr Boren, shooting him multiple times, and stole his Ford F-150 pick-up truck.
Williams drove north to Missouri, where he led police on a chase that caused the high-speed death of 24-year-old delivery driver Michael Greenwood.
After being jailed, Williams became an ordained Protestant minister, and wrote his autobiography as well as a book warning against gang life.
The SNP benches have been packed as its 50 new MPs pour into the House of Commons for each maiden speech.
Mr Bercow praised the practice after Edinburgh East MP Tommy Sheppard's first remarks to the Commons.
He had previously told the MPs to "show some respect" after they broke Commons tradition by clapping their Westminster leader Angus Robertson.
The Speaker said: "I know I'll be joined by a great many colleagues in admiring the spirit of solidarity which motivates large numbers of members of one party to turn up at the same time.
"I say that in a spirit of genuine respect and so thank you for what you have said."
The SNP won a record 56 of Scotland's 59 seats at the general election.
During the first day of the Queen's Speech debate on Wednesday, Mr Bercow scolded the SNP group for clapping Mr Robertson.
He urged the delegation to respect the long-held ban on clapping in the Commons chamber - despite the rule sometimes being ignored.
In his maiden speech, Mr Sheppard offered an explanation for the incident.
He said: "Mr Speaker, you gave us a gentle rebuke yesterday for the applause we gave in this chamber.
"We take that with good grace. We know, of course, it is not traditional practice in the chamber but we didn't know just how unacceptable it might be found. We will refrain from doing that again.
"It will take us time to learn the processes that work here, it will take us time to get our feet under the table and it will take you time to get used to us. But I hope we will be able to do that in the weeks and months ahead."
The SNP group has begun calling "hear hear", as is traditional in the Commons.
Local Orange Order lodges marched past the Ardoyne shops in north Belfast early on Saturday morning.
Loyalists are now due to dismantle their protest camp at Twaddell Avenue. It was set up in July 2013 after the Parades Commission ruled Orangemen could not walk along the route .
600 police officers were involved in the security operation.
The Orange Order were allowed to march along the route after an agreement between Orangemen and the nationalist residents' association the Crumlin Ardoyne Residents Association (Cara).
Several dozen protesters from the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (Garc), who reject that deal, gathered at the Ardoyne shops as the parade got underway.
They chanted "walk of shame" but dispersed peacefully after the march passed.
A protest against the parade passed off peacefully on Friday evening. Over 200 people took part.
8 March 2016 Last updated at 09:15 GMT
"What I find depressing about the current debate at present is that everyone seems to think it is absolutely obvious what the answer is - the only thing is half of them seem to think we should stay in and the other half think we should leave," said Lord King.
People want to be given the arguments and the facts so they can make up their own minds, he explained, adding that this was not possible, if the campaign takes the form of slogans and PR.
Lord King said he had not made up his own mind over the referendum.
Watch the full interview on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel on Tuesday 8 March 2016 or on BBC iPlayer (UK only)
Actor Celyn Jones, who played Thomas in the film Set Fire To Our Stars, will read the poem after a university professor found it by chance.
A Dream of Winter was forgotten after it was published by a magazine in 1942, before Thomas found fame.
Dylan, who died in 1953, became one of Britain's most-loved writers with works such as Under Milk Wood.
Welsh actor Jones said the discovery of A Dream Of Winter was "incredible".
"When I got the call asking if I would do the honour and read it aloud, there was no way I could say no," he said.
"It's the literary equivalent of a lost Beatles track. It's a beautiful poem and is full of the classic Dylan traits."
The reading of the poem will take place in London on Friday at an exclusive event with an invited audience.
A painting, inspired by the poem, by artist Dan Llywelyn Hall - known for his 2013 portrait of the Queen - will also be unveiled.
The poem features eight verses of three lines and focuses on imagery of a birdless wood, snow and "singing statures".
It was published in the British periodical Lilliput, which went out of print just before WW2.
The magazine's archive was later acquired by the late porn baron Paul Raymond, who had no idea about the Thomas poem.
The poem was discovered when, last year, Swansea University Professor John Goodby was contacted by a teacher at his old school.
Allan Wilcox had found the poem on a ripped magazine page amongst the pages of a book on Dylan belonging to the professor's recently deceased English teacher.
The book was a Dylan Thomas collection, compiled by Professor Goodby and dedicated to his late teacher.
The professor said he didn't know anything about the poem and clipping.
"I had never come across the poem before - though there were fleeting references to it in some of Dylan's letters," he said.
"When I finally saw it I couldn't believe it."
Professor Goodby traced the clipping back to Lilliput before finding an untouched copy of the magazine.
"It is completely fortunate the way this poem was found again," he said.
"It is amazing it went undiscovered for so long, but at the time it was published the poem would not been as significant as it is now."
Swansea-born Thomas's other famous works include the poems Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night and And Death Shall Have No Dominion.
Although achieving a level of fame early in his career, it was through radio recordings, most notably for the BBC during the late 1940s, that brought him to the public's attention.
He went to the US in the 1950s, where his fame was growing, but the poet, known also for his erratic behaviour and drinking, died prematurely in New York at the age of 39.
Local elections in eastern Germany on Sunday gave the AfD 12.2% in Brandenburg and 10.6% in Thuringia.
The party entered a regional parliament for the first time two weeks ago in Saxony - another eastern German state.
The AfD is mounting a growing challenge to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats. It wants to scrap the euro and sees law and order as a priority.
The party is attracting right-wing supporters, while avoiding links with nationalist extremists.
The Social Democrats (SPD) won in Brandenburg with 32% and are set to remain in power in coalition with the socialist Die Linke who polled 18.9%.
The Christian Democrats (CDU), polled 33.5% in Thuringia, only a few points ahead of Die Linke, who won 28% of the vote.
Until now, the CDU has been in coalition with the SPD in Thuringia but could lose the state to Die Linke if the Social Democrats switch allegiances.
The staunchly pro-euro CDU refuses to form any coalition with the AfD.
The AfD was among many Eurosceptic parties which made large gains in the European elections in May.
The AfD, founded just over a year ago, has seven seats now in the European Parliament. Its MEPs sit in the same grouping as the UK Conservatives, demanding fundamental reform of the EU.
The party campaigns against bailouts for southern European countries, angry that taxpayers' money has been used to save the euro.
"We are the force that's renewing the political landscape," said AfD leader Bernd Lucke, 52, an economics professor.
"One can't deny it anymore: the citizens are thirsting for political change," he said.
The Republican presidential nominee told the forum the Russian president "has been a leader far more than our president [Obama] has been".
It came on the same day the chief of the Pentagon accused Russia of sowing the seeds of global instability.
Mrs Clinton, meanwhile, defended her judgment despite her email scandal.
The White House candidates appeared back to back on stage in half-hour segments at the Intrepid Air and Sea Museum in New York on Wednesday night.
Trump and Clinton quizzed - as it happened
Trump defends military sex assault tweet
Why Trump strikes a chord with Russians
Are there any Trump links to Putin?
Quizzed by NBC host Matt Lauer on his previous complimentary remarks about Mr Putin, Mr Trump responded: "He does have an 82% approval rating."
"I think when he calls me brilliant I'll take the compliment, ok?" added the businessman.
He said Mr Putin had "great control over his country".
Mr Trump also predicted that if elected in November, "I think that I'll be able to get along with him."
The property magnate recently drew sharp criticism when he urged Russia to dig up the emails that Mrs Clinton deleted from her email server.
Gabriel Debenedetti writes on the Politico website that neither candidate did much to advance their cause, with Hillary Clinton spending "a third of the time fending off questions about her emails" while "Donald Trump struggled to explain his secret plan to defeat the Islamic State."
Time agreed, citing "plenty of unilluminating blather spewed by both candidates". It said: "The most dispiriting thing was the grim view of the world the candidates gave Americans, with their relentless focus on fighting and terror... There was scant optimism."
One focus was on the performance of NBC moderator Matt Lauer. The New York Times pronounced that the "consensus afterwards was not kind". "Mr Lauer found himself besieged... by critics of all political stripes, who accused the anchor of unfairness, sloppiness and even sexism in his handling of the event."
Lauer's main miss, it seemed, was not to press Donald Trump when he said he had not supported the war in Iraq. Vox was among those pointing to a 2002 Trump interview with radio host Howard Stern that contradicts this.
Forum moderator Lauer suffers backlash
It is not the first time Mr Trump has made admiring comments about the Russian leader.
Last December he said it was "a great honour" when Mr Putin called him "a talented person".
Mr Trump's latest remarks came hours after US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said Russia "has clear ambition to erode the principled international order".
In a speech at Oxford University, Mr Carter also appeared to allude to suspected Russian involvement in hacking of Democratic National Committee computers in the US.
On Wednesday night, Mr Trump also courted controversy over sex abuse in the military.
He stood by a comment he made three years ago when he appeared to blame such assaults on the decision to allow women in the forces.
"It is a correct tweet," Mr Trump said of the 2013 Twitter post in which he remarked: "What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?"
The 30 minutes allotted to each candidate made the proceedings feel like the political equivalent of speed-dating.
And like speed-dating gone wrong, there was plenty of time for the participants to bury themselves with their words.
Mrs Clinton once again tripped up when discussing her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
Mr Trump found new and interesting ways to show his tenuous command of policy details and shower questionable praise on a US rival.
Read Anthony's analysis in full
Mrs Clinton, who appeared first on stage by virtue of a coin toss, found herself once again on the defensive over her private email server.
A US naval flight officer told the former secretary of state he would have been jailed if he had handled classified information as she had done.
The Democratic nominee replied: "I did exactly what I should have done and I take it very seriously. Always have, always will."
The former secretary of state vowed to defeat the Islamic State group, though she emphasised: "We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again."
Mrs Clinton also said her 2002 Senate vote in favour of the Iraq War was "a mistake".
But she said it meant she was in "the best possible position" to ensure it never happened again.
Mrs Clinton also pointed out that Mr Trump had once supported the invasion.
However, in his comments Donald Trump said: "I was totally against the war in Iraq."
NBC moderator Matt Lauer came in for intense criticism after the debate for not pressing Mr Trump on the statement.
Unusually for a US presidential candidate, Mr Trump made unflattering remarks about America's military leaders.
He said the generals had been "reduced to rubble" during President Barack Obama's administration.
Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton's forum offered a preview of the questions they will face in their three forthcoming presidential debates.
The first will be at Hofstra University near New York on 26 September.
Root hit 254 in the second Test against Pakistan at Old Trafford, then 71 not out as the hosts won by 330 runs.
It followed some soft dismissals which the 25-year-old says had led Ramprakash to question if he was "mentally in the right place to play Test cricket".
"That sort of hurt me. It was a good motivator," said Root.
The Yorkshire player's first-innings score helped England to level the series with Pakistan following a defeat at Lord's in the first Test, when two poor shots saw him out for 48 and nine.
"I knew I needed to put a really big performance in at Old Trafford so I worked really hard in practice and spoke to Mark Ramprakash," Root added.
"All he said was, 'It must be your mental approach to things because your game looks in good order'.
"It's actually exactly what I needed to hear and that's why he is such a good batting coach."
Meanwhile, fellow batsman Nick Compton, dropped for the Pakistan series, says the likes of Ramprakash are helping to establish an England team that will "ride away for a number of years".
The Middlesex batsman told BBC Test Match Special: "They've got a strong squad in all forms. It's a good team, they've really got the balance right - it's relaxed but its professional.
"I think [head coach] Trevor Bayliss clearly brought that to the squad, but of course there's a lot of professional people in there, like Mark Ramprakash and [assistant coach] Paul Farbrace, who does a lot of hard work behind the scenes."
The third Test against Pakistan starts at Edgbaston on 3 August.
England's 13-man squad for the third Test against Pakistan: Alastair Cook, Moeen Ali, James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow, Gary Ballance, Jake Ball, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, James Vince, Chris Woakes.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.
The newspaper said it had been unaware of Mr Barkley's heritage and there was "never any slur intended".
The 23-year-old footballer's grandfather was born in Nigeria.
The Sun said it had been contacted by Mr Barkley's lawyers, who had made a formal complaint about the piece.
In the article, published on 14 April, Mr MacKenzie said looking at Mr Barkley's eyes had given him a "similar feeling when seeing a gorilla at the zoo".
His eyes made him "certain not only are the lights not on, there is definitely nobody at home", he wrote.
Alongside the article, was an image of a gorilla next to a picture of the midfielder.
The columnist is currently suspended by the newspaper.
The Sun's apology, printed on page five of the paper, said that as soon as Mr Barkley's background was drawn to its attention, the article was removed from online.
The apology did not extend to other elements of the article, in which Mr MacKenzie suggested that the only people in Liverpool who could earn as much as footballers were drug dealers.
On Friday, Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson said Mr McKenzie would be facing questions from the police about the article.
Mr Anderson described it as a "racial slur... and something we won't tolerate".
A spokesman for Merseyside Police said its investigation was ongoing and officers would be speaking to relevant witnesses.
Mr MacKenzie was approached for a comment but is on holiday, although previously he has said it is "beyond parody" to describe his column as racist.
The Sun, which has previously apologised for the "wrong" and "unfunny" views of Mr MacKenzie expressed in the column, has said he will be "fully investigated" on his return.
The Sun apology in full:
"On April 14 we published a piece in the Kelvin MacKenzie column about footballer Ross Barkley which made unfavourable comparisons between Mr Barkley and a gorilla.
"At the time of publication, the newspaper was unaware of Mr Barkley's heritage and there was never any slur intended.
"As soon as his background was drawn to our attention, the article was removed from online.
"We have been contacted by lawyers on behalf of Ross Barkley, who has made a formal complaint about the piece.
"The Sun has apologised for the offence caused by the piece.
"We would like to take this opportunity to apologise personally to Ross Barkley."
Nationally, the nurses vacancy figure is 9% but at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, stands at 19%.
A BBC survey also found the hospital has the second highest shortage of doctors in the region.
The Royal College of Nurses says the shortfall is down to lack of training.
More on this and other Coventry and Warwickshire stories
There were 2,296 nurses vacancies in the West Midlands in December 2015, of which 484 were at University Hospital, Coventry.
These figures come from a Freedom of Information request by the BBC for NHS staffing figures across England.
Paul Vaughan, from the Royal College of Nursing, said: "Certainly in the West Midlands we need to be training more nurses. There's not a shortage of people who apply [to train as nurses].
"The government are now changing their NHS bursary scheme. Getting rid of the bursary scheme will potentially stop people from applying to be a nurse."
The Department of Health released a statement saying: "We want more home-grown nurses but currently two-thirds of people who apply for nursing are not accepted.
"Our changes to student support will create up to 10,000 more training spaces by 2020, and we are also running a campaign to get experienced nurses back to work."
But Mr Vaughan said he did not see how these changes would help.
"At a time when we need more nurses, why are they changing the system so radically?" he said.
On 1 December 2015:
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire had 484 posts (19%)
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust had 177 posts (16%)
The Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust had 46 nurse vacancies in 2014; this rose to 347 in 2015.
The University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust had 145 nurse vacancies in 2013, compared to 306 in 2015.
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire released a statement saying: "Despite challenges in recruitment nationally, we are confident that we provide our patients with safe, high-quality care.
"In addition to our permanent nurses, we also have access to a bank of staff to address any temporary shortages in staffing."
These FoI request figures are based on results from 16 NHS Trusts in the West Midlands who responded.
Two clubs, Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire and Appleby Eden in Cumbria, have yet to return to their grounds.
And 130-year-old Corbridge Cricket Club had to have their clubhouse demolished as a result of Storm Desmond.
The England and Wales Cricket Board distributed more than £1m in emergency funding to clubs last year.
And the ECB has also earmarked £1.6m for 2017.
The "Weather Warning" report, which comes from the Climate Coalition, is backed by more than 100 organisations including the WWF-UK, the RSPB, the National Trust and the Women's Institute.
Professor Piers Forster, director of the Priestley Centre for Climate, which analysed the report, said science could now show that climate change made the record wet weather in December 2015 more likely.
The University of Calgary transferred 20,000 Canadian dollars-worth of bitcoins ($15,780; £10,840) after it was unable to unwind damage caused by a type of attack known as ransomware.
The malware caused emails and other files to become encrypted.
One expert warned that the payout would encourage further blackmail attempts.
The move comes the same week Intel warned that ransomware infections were spreading at "an alarming rate".
More than 120 separate strains exist, many of which are frequently updated, making it difficult for security experts to offer a solution.
The University of Calgary told a local newspaper that more than 100 of its computers had been affected since it was attacked last month.
"The university is now in the process of assessing and evaluating the decryption keys," said the university's vice president Linda Dalgetty.
"The actual process of decryption is time-consuming and must be performed with care.
"It is important to note that decryption keys do not automatically restore all systems or guarantee the recovery of all data."
She added that the local police force was investigating the matter.
The university follows other high-profile bodies to have met cybercriminals' demands in recent weeks.
In February, the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid $17,000 to restore access to its system.
At the end of the same month, Melrose Police Department in Massachusetts paid $450 after it fell victim to a similar attack.
"It's very tempting for organisations to pay out the ransom because that might be the only way they can get their data back, but that makes it worse for everyone else because it encourages more people to set up schemes like the one used in the Calgary case," commented Dr Steven Murdoch from University College London.
"It would be better if nobody ever paid, although that's unrealistic to expect.
"What's making matters worse is a new trend.
"The hackers are threatening to publicly publish information they found on your computers if you refuse to pay, which acts as a double incentive to comply."
The University of Calgary has said there was no indication that "any personal or other university data was released to the public".
Dack took over as caretaker when former manager Justin Edinburgh left for Gillingham in February.
"The offer was there for me but I just felt that it was the right decision now for me to move," Dack said.
"I've had four fantastic years seasons at this football club and I've given my all in every season I've been here."
Former England captain Terry Butcher, ex-Mansfield boss Paul Cox, ex-Cheltenham manager Mark Yates and ex-England striker James Beattie are all understood to be in the running for the vacant post.
Dack would not be drawn on his reasons for stepping down but confirmed he does not have another job lined up to go to.
"That's personal between me and Howard [director Greenhaf] and the football club," Dack said.
"I decided that I've been here four years now, I've given everything for four years and... I just thought the time was right for me to pass the baton on and let someone else take the club on.
"I've come in and I've probably dealt with more in three months than most managers do in three seasons... it's made me a better person and a stronger person for it."
However when asked, the 42-year-old admitted he would like to be a manager elsewhere.
"Yes, that could be a possibility, but I would be a number two elsewhere as well," Dack added.
Dack will oversee Saturday's final League Two game at home to Oxford United on Saturday 2 May and is aiming to leave on a high, saying "I'm going to get three points".
County were promoted from the Conference Premier in 2013 under the guidance of Edinburgh and Dack, an achievement Dack says was one of his proudest moments at the club.
But the Exiles look set for a third season in the division despite last weekend's 2-0 away win over York.
Although Newport are just three points outside the play-off places with one game remaining, seventh-placed Plymouth have a goal difference of plus-18 over the Welsh side.
Mr Turnbull arrived in Washington after meeting Australian troops in Iraq and Afghanistan over the weekend.
Australia is the second-largest contributor of military forces in the fight against the IS group.
It recently declined a request from the US to increase its troop deployment.
As they went into talks in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Mr Obama said they would discuss "how we can strengthen our co-operation both in Syria and Iraq but also countering violent extremism globally".
"Australia will be a very important partner in that process."
The trip is Mr Turnbull's first official visit to Washington since taking office in September.
"The prosperity of the world and security of the world was founded on the peace and order in the Asia Pacific... underwritten by the United States and its allies," Mr Turnbull said.
This means that he's now free to compete in the World Championships in Beijing in August.
Farah, who won two gold medals at the London Olympics in 2012, insists that he's never taken drugs to improve his performance.
UK Athletics carried out an investigation after reports that Mo's coach Alberto Salazar supplied drugs to improve the performance of another athlete in 2002.
Salazar denies all of the accusations against him.
He's worked as a consultant for UK Athletics since 2013.
The eBay-owned business said it planned to launch the service in the US before April 2012.
Paypal's president, Scott Thompson, told the Bloomberg news agency that his firm would use its knowledge of its 103 million members' past purchases to tailor offers.
The move poses a challenge to the sector's two biggest players, Groupon and Livingsocial.
Daily deal businesses offer their members the chance to buy goods or services - from spa treatments and sushi to cheap flights and theatre tickets - at a steep discount.
Buyers are usually limited to using the coupons within a restricted time span.
The daily dealer business then splits the revenue with the organisation providing the goods. Companies may make a loss on the specific offer, but profit if customers return for repeat business.
According to the daily deal data aggregator Yipit, four of the biggest players
sold close to $210m (£135m) worth of coupons
in the US in October. The firms surveyed were Groupon, Livingsocial, Amazonlocal and Google Offers.
Mr Thompson said Paypal's service would be "different" because the firm would only offer unique and relevant offers rather than "bombard" its members.
A spokesman for the company hinted it might launch coupons in the UK soon after the US.
"We don't have any specific plans to bring this to the UK at this stage," said spokesman Rob Skinner.
"But Britain is Paypal's second biggest market after the United States, and the past shows that the big developments in the US tends to travel across the Atlantic to the UK very quickly."
Although analysts forecast growth for the sector, they have repeatedly warned that the firms involved are likely to face increasing competition because the barrier to entry is relatively low.
In the past two years KGB Deals, Time Out, Grabone, the Telegraph newspaper, Discountvouchers, STV and Mightydeals are among those to have started targeting the UK public with discounted coupon offers.
However, while it may be relatively easy to enter the market, some firms are finding it hard to replicate Groupon and Livingsocial's success.
"Daily deals are hard to do - the key to success is flawless execution of the sales process," said Shane Hayes, founder of the deal aggregator service Siftie.
"Groupon has proved it can do this and its barrier to entry is more than 5,000 local sales people knocking around doors of businesses around the world.
"What we will probably see is next is 'Daily deals 2.0' where things like better targeting, using consumer data, will be used to change consumers' experience of the phenomenon. This may give Paypal an opportunity."
In the meantime Groupon intends to maintain its lead by increasing its range of offers.
Earlier this week, the firm made headlines when it offered a pair of business class tickets to fly around the world with up to 10 stopovers. The asking price was $20,000 (£12,900).
|
More bones have been found near a motorway slip road where a man's skull was discovered last month, police said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A woman who believes her baby was abducted at birth by staff at a Spanish hospital is to have her case heard by the European Court of Human Rights.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A woman working in a Belfast off licence has been left shaken after being threatened with a knife during a robbery.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The four Welsh rugby regions have raised the amount they can spend on players' wages by £1m to £4.5m.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A former surfing champ has taken to the waves with his pooches to use surfing to train pets, owners and rescue shelter staff.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The mayor of Colombia's capital, Bogota, Gustavo Petro, has been sacked following allegations of mismanagement of the rubbish collection system.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Warrington Wolves achieved the first win for an English club over Australian opponents since 2012 as they beat Brisbane Broncos in the first match of the 2017 World Club Series.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Children and young people who have not had the measles jab are being asked to get vaccinated urgently after four new cases were confirmed in Swansea.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A thief who hacked at a shopkeeper's head with a machete during a robbery bid at an Edinburgh shop has been jailed for seven years.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Seventy Shaun the Sheep sculptures are being removed from sites across Bristol later, as the fund-raising trail ends.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man has been charged with murdering his two-month-old daughter.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A main road between Newport and Chepstow was shut after a crash which left a woman with serious injuries.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
More action is needed in Wales to plan for risks posed by climate change, a study by UK government advisers has warned.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
At first there seemed to be good news for traditionalist Christians in the judgement from the European Court of Human Rights.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Thousands of Israelis have held a rally in the town of Beit Shemesh against ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremism.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The statutory body in charge of the Welsh environment has submitted a 95-page objection to the M4 relief road.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The storm that brought near-record snowfall to the eastern US has caused heavy rain and high winds in much of Scotland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A judge has ordered a post-mortem exam on the body of a man executed by lethal injection who was reportedly in pain during his final moments.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Speaker John Bercow has praised SNP MPs for their "solidarity" - a day after rebuking them for clapping.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
One of the most bitter parading disputes in Northern Ireland in recent years has ended.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The former governor of the Bank of England, Lord King, has told BBC HARDtalk he is concerned about the level of debate over the upcoming referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A work by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas will be heard for the first time in more than 70 years at an event this week.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A conservative German anti-euro party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), has won seats in two more regional parliaments.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Donald Trump has showered Vladimir Putin with praise as he and rival Hillary Clinton took pointed questions from military veterans.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
England batsman Joe Root has put his career-best innings down to the "hurt" caused by batting coach Mark Ramprakash questioning his mental approach.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Sun has printed an apology to Everton and England footballer Ross Barkley over an article in which its former editor Kelvin MacKenzie compared him to a gorilla.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A fifth of the nursing workforce is lacking at a Coventry Trust, which has the highest nurses vacancies in the West Midlands.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Storms in December 2015 linked to climate change caused more than £3.5m worth of damage to cricket clubs in the UK, says a report.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Canadian university has paid hackers to restore access to data they had turned into the digital equivalent of gibberish.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Newport County caretaker boss Jimmy Dack has revealed he was offered the permanent manager's job but has opted to leave the League Two club instead.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
US President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull have discussed the "tumour" of Islamic State (IS) extremism in talks at the White House.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Bosses at UK Athletics have said they found no evidence that Mo Farah has done anything wrong after looking into claims that his coach gave drugs to another athlete in 2002.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Online payment service Paypal plans to enter the discount coupon market.
| 34,208,835 | 14,558 | 1,002 | true |
After a turbulent few campaigns of rebrands and relegation, the Bluebirds have stabilised on the pitch and currently sit eighth in the Championship table.
Despite a steady start to this term, however, Cardiff City Stadium crowds are dwindling.
Only 13,371 watched Cardiff beat Middlesbrough in October, the lowest league attendance at the ground since it opened in 2009.
That was no one-off. Instead, it was symptomatic of a malaise which had seen the previous three games attract gates of 13,980, 13,763 and 13,715.
Cardiff had an average crowd of 21,123 last season, while the figure was 27,429 when they were in the Premier League for the 2013-14 campaign.
So why, with the team enjoying on-field consistency, are the fans staying away?
A large part of supporters' disillusionment can be traced back to the controversial change to a red kit in 2012.
Although Cardiff returned to their traditional blue shirts in January, some fans have boycotted the club since the initial rebrand while others followed suit later.
"The red kit had a delayed reaction," says Ben James, a blogger who runs the 'View From The Ninian' podcast.
"Most fans were happy to put up with it as long as success was coming with it but, as soon as that started fading away, most fans lost interest.
"Most fans would admit, even when we were in Ninian Park, we've always had floating fans. Fans have always been a bit fair-weather.
"When the price freeze [on season tickets] went, a lot of fans took the decision alongside the terrible football and the overriding anger towards [owner] Vincent Tan over the red kit.
"It culminated in a perfect storm of two or three seasons which meant a lot of fans turned away from it."
If a residual disdain for the rebrand may be difficult to remedy, Cardiff will at least feel they can lure fans back with success.
Having lost only once at home this season, promotion remains a realistic aim, with the hope of strengthening in the January transfer window.
Asked about the falling attendances in September, manager Russell Slade was upbeat.
"Fans want to see a winning team," he said.
"Of course you want more and more numbers to come and watch your team and I'm sure in time, if we continue to progress, they will be there.
"I think we're playing a decent brand of football. I'm sure they'll come back if we can maintain it."
Cardiff have the third best home record in the Championship this season, but have scored only eight goals in their seven games.
As James argues, the lack of entertainment on the pitch has compounded the disenchantment originally caused by off-field issues.
For other supporters, the problem lies with the diminishing atmosphere in the stands.
Cardiff City Stadium was expanded to a capacity of 33,280 in 2014 but, as attendances dropped towards the end of last season, the Bluebirds decided to close the new section for this campaign, reducing the capacity to 27,978.
It was hoped the move would help condense the atmosphere, but some fans claim overly zealous staff at the stadium are spoiling their match-day experience.
As part of the Bluebirds Unite group, Sian Branson played a prominent role in the campaign for Cardiff to return to their blue kit.
"It's almost like a school trip to the library. You're constantly being monitored and told what you can and can't do," she says.
"That's not down to Vincent Tan," she added. "He and his representatives seem interested in what we have to say.
"The people involved in the day-to-day running don't seem to get it.
"The stewards need better training. They're constantly telling people to sit down."
Even a Severnside derby against Bristol City failed to rekindle the passion.
A crowd of 15,287 watched a dour 0-0 draw, in stark contrast to the 25,586 present when the teams last met at Cardiff City Stadium in 2013.
"We really don't understand why they can't let Cardiff City fans express themselves," adds Branson.
"Even people who've renewed their season tickets don't want to go down there and be treated the way fans are being treated. It's stifling.
"I work in Bristol and Bristol City fans at work were asking me 'What's happened to Cardiff City? The atmosphere's gone'.
The BBC has asked Cardiff City if they would like to respond to Branson's comments.
The bank said its next notes would be printed on polymer, replacing the cotton paper used for notes currently in issue.
The notes will be slightly smaller and will reuse the existing Bank of Scotland designs.
A one-off limited edition £5 note will be issued in November and auctioned to raise money for BBC Children in Need.
The circulation will be limited to just 50. They will feature designs from the winners of a children's competition which has just been launched.
The main replacement polymer banknotes will continue to feature Sir Walter Scott and The Mound on the front and the bridges theme on the back.
The images will be "adapted and modernised" so they are suitable for polymer.
The design of the polymer £5 note will be unveiled before the end of this year, with the notes due to be issued in the second half of 2016.
It will be followed about a year later by the polymer £10 note.
The announcement follows discussions with the Bank of England, which is due to bring plastic banknotes into circulation next year.
The Bank of Scotland is one of three in Scotland authorised to issue banknotes.
Managing director Robin Bulloch said: "Bank of Scotland has been issuing banknotes for over 300 years and we take seriously our responsibility to create good quality genuine banknotes that can be used with confidence.
"Polymer notes are cleaner, more secure, and more durable than paper notes.
"They will provide enhanced counterfeit resilience, and increase the quality of Bank of Scotland notes in circulation."
In March, the Clydesdale Bank announced it was issuing two million polymer £5 notes.
The new note features an image of the Forth Bridge and has been issued to commemorate the bridge's 125th anniversary.
The note also features a portrait of Sir William Arrol, whose company constructed the bridge among many other landmarks in Scotland.
The China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) named Wang Tianpu, an oil industry veteran and president of Sinopec Group, in a statement on its website.
Sinopec Group is the parent of Sinopec Corp, Asia's largest oil refiner.
A Sinopec spokesman said the firm fully supported the government's decision.
China's President, Xi Jinping, has warned that corruption threatens the survival of the ruling Communist Party.
His two-year anti-corruption campaign has brought down scores of senior officials in the party, the government, the military and state-owned enterprises.
China is stepping up inspections this year at conglomerates owned by the central government.
CCDI said in February it was targeting 26 of China's biggest state firms for inaugural inspections this year.
Earlier this month, Beijing said it was committed to stepping up public scrutiny of state firms' financial performance, as well as to improving leadership increasing transparency and fighting corruption.
The BBC's China editor, Carrie Gracie, says energy issues, and more particularly oil companies, are in the crosshairs of the authorities in China at present.
The oil industry was dominated for many years by Zhou Yongkang, whose trial could take place in May or June. He is the most senior member of the Chinese Communist party to date to face corruption charges.
In recent weeks, FAW group chairman Xu Jianyi, Baosteel vice-president Cui Jian, a general manager at China National Petroleum Corp and a top executive at China Southern Power Grid have been put under investigation for corruption.
Here is the full list of winners (in bold) and the nominees for this year's awards, which took place at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 9 April.
Best actor in a supporting role in a musical
Best actress in a supporting role in a musical
Outstanding achievement in music
Best new dance production
Outstanding achievement in dance
Best entertainment and family
Best theatre choreographer
Best musical revival
Best actor in a musical
Best actress in a musical
Best revival
Best new comedy
Outstanding achievement in an affiliate theatre
Best lighting design
Best sound design
Best costume design
Best set design
Best actor in a supporting role
Best actress in a supporting role
Best new opera production
Outstanding achievement in opera
Best actor
Best actress
Best director
Best new play
Best new musical
Special award
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected].
Joshua, unbeaten in 17 fights, was close to agreeing a bout with Wladimir Klitschko but the deal fell through.
Promoter Eddie Hearn blamed confusion over whether the WBA title vacated by Tyson Fury would be on the line.
American Molina, 34, lost his only previous world title shot against WBC world champion Deontay Wilder in 2015.
On the undercard, Dillian Whyte will defend his British heavyweight title against Dereck Chisora in an official eliminator for the WBC title.
Scott Quigg returns after breaking his jaw in a defeat by Carl Frampton in which he lost the WBA super-bantamweight title. The Briton's opponent is still to be confirmed.
And Ireland's London 2012 gold medallist Katie Taylor, who makes her professional debut on 26 November, will contest what will be her second professional bout.
Joshua, 27, defended his IBF heavyweight title for the first time with a seventh-round knockout of Dominic Breazeale in London in June.
"I'm expecting this to be the toughest fight of my career so far and I will be ready for an all-out war," he said.
"I saw Molina have a great fight with Wilder and he is now coming off a strong knockout win against Tomasz Adamek in Poland."
Former world champion Klitschko has said he wants to fight Joshua in "March or April".
The planned December bout fell through because the fighters "ran out of time", the Ukrainian's manager Bernd Boente has said.
Media playback is not supported on this device
The WBA is yet to state whether its vacant title would be on the line.
Fury has vacated the WBA and WBO titles he won by beating Klitschko in November 2015 to deal with his "medical treatment and recovery".
The Briton, 28, has admitted taking cocaine to deal with depression.
Joshua won the IBF belt by beating Charles Martin in April, a few months after Fury was stripped of the title for choosing to face Klitschko in a rematch over the IBF's mandatory challenger.
Two attempts to stage a rematch collapsed because Fury suffered an ankle injury and was then declared "medically unfit".
BBC Radio 5 live boxing correspondent Mike Costello
It's a comedown from Wladimir Klitschko for Anthony Joshua and fans alike but Eric Molina does rank as the Briton's highest-rated opponent yet.
The 34-year-old Texan failed in a world title bout last year when he was beaten in nine rounds by Deontay Wilder.
Molina showed commendable bravery that night but he appears devoid of any notion of how to avoid a punch and relies heavily on his resilience.
He is promoted by Don King, the man connected to Muhammad Ali, Joe Fraser and George Foreman all those years ago, but who, at 85, now belongs on the periphery of the glamour division.
Deborah Hitchins, 43, took rakes to the beach to make the giant sand field of remembrance.
Ms Hitchins, of Caldicot, Monmouthshire, marks Remembrance Day each year by doing an activity with her children.
"It gives us an important opportunity to open discussion," she said.
Her children Sam, 24, Abigail, 19, Elis, 12, Eden, 11, Mila, seven, Noah, four, and Arabella, 11 months, all joined in.
Ms Hitchins added: "It is important to explain the significance of why we wear poppies and it was a great way of bringing up the opportunity of talking about things around Remembrance Day.
"They were also very proud of their work and it was great to see."
Peaty, 21, who won Great Britain's first medal of Rio 2016 with gold in the men's 100m breaststroke, toured through Uttoxeter.
Peaty's nan, Mavis Williams, who captured hearts with her social media support of the swimmer, was among family members on the bus with him.
Hundreds of people lined the streets to cheer and applaud him.
On the steps of Uttoxeter's town hall, he said he would now look "to the future".
Peaty was presented with a "book of pride" which signed people from across the town.
He told BBC reporter Martyn Williams who travelled on the tour: "Uttoxeter has given me so much over the years. It's where I was born, I was born in this house and it is where my first club was.
"It's where is all started so it's important, obviously to recognise that and hopefully inspire the next generation of swimmers."
Mrs Williams, 74, expected many of her friends to be there. "It's going to stop a few minutes down the road [from their homes] so they can all see," she said ahead of the event.
Peaty broke his own world record in Rio by winning in 57.13 seconds, well clear of the field.
The success in August made him first British man to win an Olympic swimming gold medal since Adrian Moorhouse, who won the same event in Seoul in 1988.
Peaty, who also took silver in the men's 4x100m medley relay, displayed both medals.
For the three months to 31 August, Nike reported a profit of $1.18bn (£775m), up 23% from a year earlier.
Total revenues rose 5.4% to $8.41bn, with sales in Greater China up 30% to $886m.
The rise comes despite the slowdown in China's economy, which is heading towards its weakest growth in 25 years.
Several global retailers have been hit hard by slowing sales in China.
However, Nike said sales in China were "amazing" and it had seen a strong performance in all categories.
"While we are very mindful of the macroeconomic volatility in China, our brand has never been stronger and our marketplace has never been more healthy," said chief financial officer Andy Campion.
The results mark the ninth consecutive time that the company has beaten expectations for its profit.
It New York-listed shares were up 7.5% in after-hours trading in reaction to the results.
The full-back has not played since moving to France from Cardiff Blues on a two-year contract in the summer.
The 25-year-old had surgery on a dislocated shoulder in March, but has since developed a groin injury.
French newspaper Varmatin quotes Boudjellal saying: "We haven't excluded denouncing [terminating] his contract."
Halfpenny has won 52 Wales caps and three for the British and Irish Lions during the 2013 tour to Australia, where he was named man of the series.
But the Gorseinon product has not played any rugby since dislocating a shoulder during Wales' 28-19 Six Nations defeat by England on 9 March.
Boudjellal also claimed there is a thought that Halfpenny might have been injured when he signed for Toulon.
"Today, we must address this issue because we do need a world-class goal-kicker," he is quoted as saying.
"We are awaiting the medical update. The problem that we have now is that we think he may have arrived at Toulon with that injury.
"We are conducting an investigation."
Toulon's goal-kicking problems were underlined in their Top 14 home defeat against Stade Francais and the club this week announced the signing of star Argentina back Juan Martin Hernandez.
If the contract is terminated, it would raise the possibility of Halfpenny returning to Wales on a dual contract partly-funded by the Welsh Rugby Union.
Cardiff Blues and the Ospreys have both confirmed they are monitoring the situation.
Blues chief executive Richard Holland said: "Cardiff Blues offered Leigh Halfpenny a contract prior to his departure to Toulon and, of course, we would be interested if he became available, be that on a dual contract or a regional deal.
"We will be speaking to his representatives to find out the state of play regarding his contract situation and we will take things from there.
"We would be extremely keen to have back a player of Leigh's calibre and I am sure it would excite our supporters.
"If the reports are true, we are keen to explore this."
Ospreys head coach Steve Tandy also said they would be interested in bringing Halfpenny, who played youth rugby for them, to the Liberty Stadium if his situation changed.
"We'd always be interested in the quality of Halfpenny, but it's paper talk," Tandy said. "We'll keep our ear to the ground.
"We've got our recruitment that goes on, but it's something we're pretty comfortable with at the moment with Dan [Evans] and Fuss [Richard Fussell]."
Despite what marketers would have us believe, recycling inventions and the cross-pollination of technologies for new applications are at the heart of all developments in the 21st Century.
Special Report: The Technology of Business
Christmas shop boom creates returns headache
Edible edifice: The offices of tomorrow
Predicting technology in 2013
Sailing into the future of global trade?
Getting it right in 2013
Rise of the warehouse robots
Rather than waiting for light-bulb moments, true innovators today are looking at other sectors and applying existing technologies in unexpected ways.
Here's an example. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell is famously credited with inventing the telephone.
Many years later, in 2007, Steve Jobs introduced us to the iPhone. Despite all the hype though, the iPhone was not a new invention - it was just a much better telephone than any we'd seen before.
By the time the iPhone hit our shops, we'd already seen plenty of mobile versions of the humble telephone, and smartphones had been around since the 1990s.
The iPhone caused such a stir because it included a few perceived "firsts" - it was commonly regarded as the first touch-screen phone, for example. However, touch-screen technology itself wasn't new - it first appeared in the 1960s, and had actually appeared in other mobile handsets before.
Similarly, when Apple introduced the accelerometer to its mobile handsets, it was widely believed that this was a new technology.
Before the iPhone, accelerometers were already found in vehicles, medical devices, navigation systems and more - but, by applying this technology to their smartphones and aggressively promoting its benefits, Apple changed consumer perceptions of what was possible with a smart phone.
The reaction was overwhelmingly positive - just look at the abundance of popular iPhone apps that have been developed and sold that take advantage of the accelerometer's capabilities.
What Apple achieved with the first iPhone was truly groundbreaking, but it was the result of very clever innovation, with existing technologies applied in new ways. It was not a new invention.
In case there is any doubt, this type of innovation is absolutely a good thing.
It is the reason that the speed of technological progress continues to snowball.
Most industry sectors no longer work in isolation. Instead they learn from each other's successes and mistakes.
Using existing technology and applying it differently can also be a cheaper and easier way to get to market than "re-inventing the wheel".
Not so good, however, is the lack of recognition and awareness of these processes.
Consumers are presented with an "invention illusion", which is really little more than a marketing tool to give the impression of "breakthrough" products. This is a difficult cycle to break, particularly with the media's appetite for sensational stories, and it is hampering opportunities for credible companies without sexy stories.
It also means that many entrepreneurs are looking for innovation in the wrong places and pursuing new product design ineffectively.
There is a common misconception that great ideas come from a blank sheet of paper, but this is simply not true - good developers will come up with better, smarter product designs if they know what they are trying to achieve and where they can look for existing know-how.
The best ideas require information, not just inspiration, and this information should be drawn from a much wider pool of sector experience.
Worse still, some entire industries remain closed-off to this type of cross-sector innovation and this, partnered with constrictive supply chains, is stifling technological progress.
An example is the global automotive supply chain, which has historically been difficult to penetrate, as manufacturers have been closed-off from exposure to new ideas from technology providers.
Greater recognition for innovation and more opportunities to encourage cross-sector research and collaboration would be of huge benefit to the global technology industry.
Multi-sector product design and development consultancies are "innovation hubs" where the transfer of sector skills happens under a single roof, but this concept could be rolled-out on a national or even international scale with government or trade organisation-backed events and networks.
In the UK automotive industry, for example, the NMI Automotive Electronic Systems Innovation Network was established and gained real traction in 2012, specifically to tackle these issues and open up the innovation chain.
Ultimately, we should be proud of our ingenuity in applying existing know-how in completely unexpected and exciting ways.
In this hyper-connected world, insular industries will be left behind.
Paul Martin is chief technology officer at technology design and development consultancy Plextek.
MSF said at least 12 of its staff and seven patients, three of them children, were killed in the attack.
It said the strikes had continued for more than 30 minutes after US and Nato officials were told of its location.
US forces were carrying out air strikes at the time.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said the Nato force in his country had apologised for the bombing of the hospital. The Nato alliance has admitted its forces may have hit the hospital.
At least 37 people were seriously injured, 19 of them MSF staff.
MSF says that all parties to the conflict, including Kabul and Washington, had been told the precise GPS co-ordinates of the hospital in Kunduz on many occasions, including on 29 September.
After staff at the hospital became aware of the aerial bombardment in the early hours of Saturday morning, US and Afghan military officials were again informed, MSF said.
Reuters news agency quotes an MSF official as saying that frantic staff phoned military officials at Nato in Kabul and Washington as bombs landed on the hospital for nearly an hour.
The official said the first bomb had landed at 02:10, and MSF staff called Nato in Kabul at 02:19 and military officials in Washington a few minutes later, but the bombing continued until 03:13.
A spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, Col Brian Tribus, said: "US forces conducted an air strike in Kunduz city at 02:15 (local time)... against individuals threatening the force.
"The strike may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical facility."
In a statement, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said: "While we are still trying to determine exactly what happened, I want to extend my thoughts and prayers to everyone affected.
"A full investigation into the tragic incident is under way in co-ordination with the Afghan government."
The Afghan interior ministry said a group of 10 to 15 militants were found hiding in the hospital.
"They are killed, all of the terrorists were killed, but we also lost doctors," ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said.
The Taliban denied that any of its fighters were there.
A Taliban statement described the air strikes which hit the hospital as "deliberate", and carried out by "the barbaric American forces".
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein called for a swift, full and transparent investigation into the incident.
"This event is utterly tragic, inexcusable, and possibly even criminal," he said.
"International and Afghan military planners have an obligation to respect and protect civilians at all times, and medical facilities and personnel are the object of a special protection. These obligations apply no matter whose air force is involved, and irrespective of the location."
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) also strongly condemned the bombing.
"Such attacks against health workers and facilities undermine the capacity of humanitarian organisations to assist the Afghan people at a time when they most urgently need it," said Jean-Nicolas Marti, head of the ICRC delegation in Afghanistan.
MSF says that staff and patients critically injured in the attack on the hospital have been transferred to a hospital in Pul-e Khumri, two hours' drive away.
There has been intense fighting in Kunduz since Taliban fighters swept into the northern city on Monday.
Afghan officials said the government had regained control of Kunduz on Friday, but the Taliban denied the city had been retaken. Residents say many people are afraid to leave their homes.
US air power has been supporting Afghan government forces' efforts to regain the city.
In Badakhshan province, to the east of Kunduz, the Taliban have captured two districts in the past two days. The US embassy in Kabul has advised its citizens to leave the province.
Kunduz, with a population of around 300,000, is one of Afghanistan's largest cities and strategically important both as a transport hub and a bread-basket for the region.
The US-led Nato combat mission in Afghanistan ended in December 2014, but Nato forces remain for training and support purposes.
Nato's Resolute Support Mission, which was launched in January 2015, consists of more than 13,000 troops from 42 countries. The US contributes around half of these.
James Dicks said he screamed for help as he grappled with former friend John Watson in a cul-de-sac in Windsor.
The court heard Mr Watson had been lying in wait for Mr Dicks outside the home of his estranged wife.
Mr Watson, of Pirbright Camp in Woking, Surrey, denies attempted murder and kidnapping.
He also denies a charge of having a knife in a public place.
Reading Crown Court heard Mr Watson had been waiting for the father of two to emerge from the home of Lynsey Watson, with whom Mr Dicks had been in a relationship following the breakdown of their respective marriages.
Mr Dicks, 28, said he was "terrified" when he was overpowered and bundled into the back of a car with his hands and wrists bound with cable ties before being driven to a secluded spot.
The court heard Mr Watson had tried to wrap cling film around his face but he managed to break free and fight back, suffering stab and slash wounds before being saved by police.
Mr Dicks described being injured in the struggle as Mr Watson forced a knife against his chest.
Asked by prosecution counsel Daniel Fugallo if he was aware it was causing injury to his hands, Mr Dicks replied: "I didn't care."
Mr Dicks subsequently underwent surgery on his right hand.
Under cross-examination, Mr Dicks denied that he had produced a knife and attacked Mr Watson first.
The court heard the men became friends while stationed at Combermere Barracks, near Windsor, last year.
Mr Watson has already admitted one charge of having a bladed article in public.
The trial is expected to last two weeks.
Ellis, 30, has agreed to join the Black and Whites in November on a three-year deal from Australian side Wests Tigers.
The former Leeds Rhinos man announced in February that he would be returning to England for family reasons.
"He's possibly the biggest signing the club has ever made," director of rugby Shaun McRae told BBC Radio Humberside.
I said originally that I would maybe like to return to one of my old clubs or my home-town club Castleford but, when I looked at it and thought about it more, I realised I still really wanted to win things and achieve things and I really believe I can do that at Hull FC
"I'm delighted to say we've got his signature on a three-year contract.
"It's a clear sign of intent as to what this club wants to do and where we want to be."
"I still really want to win things and achieve things," said Ellis. "And I really believe I can do that at Hull FC.
"I was lucky to have a few clubs interested, but I've been listening to Hull and to the ambition they have got and the prospects they're trying to put in place for the future.
"And the bottom line for me was that it was a great time to be involved with Hull FC.
Leeds, St Helens and Huddersfield were all strongly linked with Ellis, who said only last year that he would eventually like to end his career back with boyhood heroes Castleford.
But, aside from any financial incentives offered by ambitious Hull, one factor for Ellis was that he has already worked with the Black and Whites' new coach Peter Gentle at Wests Tigers.
"I did a lot of research into the club and speaking to the likes of Peter, Adam Pearson and Shaun McRae, I really started to share their enthusiasm and I believe the club can be anything it wants to be.
Media playback is not supported on this device
"I said originally that I would maybe like to return to one of my old clubs or my home-town club Castleford but when I looked at it and thought about it more, I realised I still really wanted to win things and achieve things and I really believe I can do that at Hull FC."
Gentle added: "If we're looking to take this club to another level, we need the addition of one or two class players to bring out the best of the talented squad we currently have in place. We have definitely achieved that with the signing of Gareth.
"It's not only about what he brings to the team on the pitch, but having a world class player interacting with our young squad members will have a significant influence on their development and will enhance the culture we have at this club."
The ray, which can grow up to 7m (23ft) across, was thought to feed on tiny floating animals at the surface.
New evidence shows much of the ray's diet is made up of food from the deep.
The finding raises questions about the future of the giant manta ray, which is listed as a vulnerable species.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the fish is likely to become endangered unless its survival chances improve.
Giant manta rays are known to feed on zooplankton drifting on the ocean surface, but a new study suggests the animals could also be getting their food from the depths.
"This was a big surprise," lead researcher Dr Katherine Burgess told BBC News.
"We sometimes see manta rays feeding in surface waters so have always assumed this is where they were getting most of their food from.
"But results from our latest study show that these are just snacking events, and their main source of diet comes from somewhere else - most likely the deep sea [below 200m (650ft)]."
Researchers at the University of Queensland conducted biochemical tests on tiny muscle biopsy samples collected by scuba divers off Ecuador.
They found that 73% of the rays' meals were from about 200-1,000m below the ocean surface.
"We still think that manta rays feed predominantly on plankton (specifically zooplankton)," Dr Burgess said.
"Just we think the plankton they rely on do not live in surface waters.
"Which is why we rarely see these giant mantas feeding during the day in Ecuador."
She said there did appear to be some individuals targeting small deep sea fish as well.
The giant manta, the largest living ray, is found in tropical and temperate waters around the world.
It has been found as far north as southern California and New Jersey on the US west and east coasts and as far south as Peru, Uruguay, South Africa and New Zealand in the southern hemisphere.
However, populations appear to be sparse, highly fragmented and vulnerable to overfishing.
The ray grows slowly and produces only one offspring at a time.
"As such, any sort of fishery pressure can have a severe impact on populations, whether it be incidental or targeted," said Dr Burgess.
"At present, fisheries are increasingly going for species found in deeper waters as surface stocks of other species deplete.
"Giant manta rays are already classified as vulnerable to extinction on the IUCN Red list and their reliance on a deep sea food source is likely to lead to increasing numbers of these rays caught incidentally in these deep sea fisheries."
The research is published in the journal, Royal Society Open Science.
Follow Helen on Twitter.
Fast bowler Kemar Roach took 5-43 as Essex declared midway through the final day on 185-9.
Opener Kraigg Brathwaite (3) fell cheaply and a first-ball duck for Kyle Hope left the Windies on 15-2.
However, Roston Chase (50 not out) and Shai Hope (46) steadied the innings before both sides shook hands.
The tourists begin their three-Test series against England at Edgbaston on 17 August.
Geologists have penetrated 4,659m down, creating the deepest-ever volcanic borehole.
Their aim is to tap into the steam at the bottom of the well to provide a source of geothermal energy.
They recorded temperatures of 427C, but believe the hole will get hotter when they widen it in the coming months.
The Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) team also collected 21m of cores, which will now be analysed.
Gudmundur Omar Fridleifsson, from Icelandic energy company HS Orka, the lead funder of the scheme, said: "We got some beautiful samples - everyone is very pleased."
The project is located on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula, where a volcano last erupted 700 years ago.
I visited the site in December to see the huge rig, which stands out against the black lava fields. Inside a drill had been operating, almost continuously, since 11 August 2016.
The aim had been to reach a depth 5,000m, where the temperatures were expected to reach about 500C.
At this depth, molten rock mixes with water. But with the extreme heat and pressure, the water becomes "supercritical".
This means it is neither a liquid nor a gas, but it holds far more energy than either.
The idea is that when the steam is brought back to the surface and converted into electricity, it will create up to 10 times more energy as conventional geothermal wells.
As the geologists neared their 5,000m target, the drilling got more difficult, and the team decided to halt the operation once it reached 4,659m-down.
However at this depth, the scientists did find the pressure was high enough to see the supercritical steam they were expecting.
"We knew we had reached our goal, so we decided it was the right time to stop drilling. Mission accomplished," said Dr Fridleifsson.
Over the coming months, the next stage will be to pump cold water into the well, which will open it up.
Then they will wait for the well to warm up again. They think the temperatures could exceed 500C, which would make this the hottest borehole ever drilled.
Then the team will see whether it generates as much energy as they hope.
"We will start measuring and getting fluid chemistry from the deep samples. We have three more years to go before we conclude the mission." said Dr Fridleifsson.
The scheme also gives scientists an unprecedented look into the deepest depths of a volcano, and could help them to better understand how these systems work.
The IDDP project is funded by energy companies (HS Orka, Statoil, Landsvirkjun and Orkuveita ReykjavÃkur), Orkustofnun (the National Energy Authority of Iceland), the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), the National Science Foundation in the US and EU Horizon 2020.
Follow Rebecca on Twitter.
The figure is a smaller version of the statue which appeared one night in London's Kensington Gardens in 1912.
Scottish author J M Barrie himself commissioned the statue by sculptor Sir George Frampton.
Valued at between £20,000 to £30,000, the bronze replica - which was cast in 1920 - will be sold at Lyon and Turnbull in Edinburgh on Wednesday.
The anonymous seller said: "We are sorry to part with this beautiful statue - it has been in my family for nearly 100 years.
"We hope that it will be as loved by its new owners as much as it was by us."
Barrie, who was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, first used Peter Pan as a character in The Little White Bird (1902) and returned to him in a later stage play before expanding the story to produce the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy.
The original statue appeared in public with an announcement in The Times newspaper which read: "There is a surprise in store for the children who go to Kensington Gardens to feed the ducks in the Serpentine this morning...
"A May-day gift by Mr J M Barrie, a figure of Peter Pan blowing his pipe on the stump of a tree, with fairies and mice and squirrels all around.
"It is the work of Sir George Frampton and the bronze figure of the boy who would never grow up is delightfully conceived."
John Mackie, head of decorative arts at Lyon and Turnbull, said: "This famous statue is held in great affection all over the world - it is the iconic image of the boy who never grew up and a very beautiful work of art."
A house in Dumfries which helped inspire the Peter Pan story is to be converted into a national centre for children's literature.
Barrie moved to Dumfries in 1873 at the age of 13 and credited the "enchanted land" at Moat Brae, where he played, as being the basis for the story.
At one point the house was facing demolition but finance has come from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Creative Scotland and Dumfries and Galloway Council.
The conversion is due to be completed in 2018.
It was taken from the Skippers Bridge in Langholm at about 18:20 on Wednesday.
The scaffolding had been dismantled following the repairs and two men were seen loading it onto a lorry with a white cab at the side of the road.
The value of the scaffolding has been estimated at about £5,000. Police are appealing for witnesses.
Colin Waterfield, of Stonehouse Road, Norwich, was found guilty at Norwich Crown Court after a five-week trial.
The jury heard the victims were abused in Norwich between 1973 and 1995. The youngest child was four years old.
Norfolk Police said the victims had been left "psychologically scarred" by Waterfield's abuse.
He had denied all the charges against him, and was convicted of 24 counts and cleared of six offences.
Police began investigating Waterfield after being contacted by one of his victims.
During the trial, the court heart evidence from a police video recording of a female witness who said Waterfield had regularly invited children to his house from a children's home.
She said he videoed the children in his front garden after getting them to remove their clothes.
"It was abuse of the most horrendous kind," said Det Insp Paul Brown, who oversaw the investigation.
"The children involved not only suffered physical harm but many have been left psychologically scarred and as adults are struggling to come to terms with what happened.
"They have been extremely brave in speaking with officers about events which took place decades ago."
Waterfield will be sentenced on 17 January.
The 30-year old joined the Rossoneri permanently in 2012 following a loan spell while he was at Inter Milan.
Muntari had one more year left on his contract that he signed in 2014.
"AC Milan and Sulley Muntari would like to announce they have reached agreement to dissolve the player's contract with the club as of today," a club statement read.
He fell out of favour after former boss Filippo Inzaghi replaced Clarence Seedorf as coach of the seven-time European champions, making just 16 Serie A appearances last season, scoring twice.
His future at the club has been in doubt since May when he asked to be left of the Milan squad for a Serie A match away to Palermo.
Milan paid tribute to the battling midfielder, adding: "AC Milan would like to thank Muntari for the commitment and professional attitude shown during his time playing in the Milan shirt and wish him all the very best for the future."
He has not played for Ghana since being sent home from the World Cup in Brazil last year for indiscipline.
In a letter to the transport secretary, the London councils and Greenpeace said judicial review proceedings will begin if the government fails to comply.
The group said expansion plans were "unlawful" and a "fair and lawful consultation" had not been carried out.
The government said it would "strongly defend any challenge".
The 33-page letter has been sent by Hillingdon, Richmond, Wandsworth and Windsor and Maidenhead Councils, along with Greenpeace and a Hillingdon resident.
The group said they had set out a "comprehensive legal challenge" on the basis that "the government's approach to air quality and noise is unlawful".
They also said a correct consultation exercise had not been carried out by the government "prior to issuing its decision".
But a spokesperson for the Department for Transport said expansion "can be delivered in line with our obligations on air quality".
The spokesperson said: "We are confident that our process for decision-making is robust and will strongly defend any challenge."
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has directed Transport for London (TfL) to provide "expert advice and assistance" to the councils for any court proceedings.
Media playback is unsupported on your device
30 March 2015 Last updated at 13:12 BST
Also known as the "Fire volcano", the Colima volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in Mexico.
Local authorities have put the volcano on a yellow alert, meaning the the volcano is showing increased activity.
People who live nearby have been warned they should be ready for a possible evacuation.
Janice Farman, who lived with her 10-year-old autistic son, died of asphyxiation during Friday's attack.
She had been in the Indian Ocean country since 2004 and was working as a director of a data services group.
Police believe Mrs Farman was killed during a robbery by three men. One man has been arrested, local media said.
The BBC's World Service correspondent in Mauritius, Yasine Mohabuth, said she had recently moved to Albion, in the west of the island, an area previously known for burglaries.
He said: "A fight took place between the three robbers and the victim in the presence of her 10-year-old son.
"Police said that she was smothered to death in her bed.
"They had arrived at three in the morning. It was her son that alerted a friend. The burglars stole many things, including her jewellery and her car.
"Her son is now under the care of the child development unit because his father is abroad."
A post-mortem examination has since confirmed that Mrs Farman died as a result of asphyxiation caused by compression of the neck.
Mrs Farman's Nissan Tiida was later found by police at the side of the road.
She was originally from Clydebank in West Dunbartonshire and was working as the managing director of PECS (Mauritius) Ltd, a privately owned group of companies providing data services.
A colleague said that he had been contacted by her son in the early hours of Friday, who had told him that his mother was "not breathing".
In a post on social media, he wrote: "Just imagine.... He clearly had no idea what was going on and he was simply in a state of shock. We called the police and it was later confirmed she did not make it."
He referred to Mrs Farman as his mentor and claimed that "Mauritius was no longer a paradise."
In a statement from Mrs Farman's employer, Stephen Littlechild from PECS data services, said: "Last night our MD in Mauritius Janice Farman was brutally murdered in her own home.
"In view of these tragic events, we have decided to close our Mauritius office today, so we can make sure all our team have access to counsellors and as a mark of respect to a wonderful lady.
"Our thoughts are with Janice's family, friends and colleagues."
The British Foreign Office said it was in contact with local authorities in Mauritius about the case.
Gerard van Bohemen was speaking after the UN Security Council discussed the crisis in the rebel-held town near Damascus.
Earlier, an aid convoy brought food to 40,000 town residents who have been under government siege for six months.
The UN says it has received credible reports of people dying of starvation.
Simultaneously, aid lorries entered two towns besieged by rebel forces in the northern province of Idlib under a deal between the warring parties.
The situation in Foah and Kefraya is also said to be extremely dire, with an estimated 20,000 people trapped there since March.
The arrival of the aid was delayed until both sets of lorries were ready to enter.
Siege warfare in Syria
Syria's civilians living a 'life worse than death'
Speaking at the UN headquarters in New York on Monday, Mr van Bohemen said about 400 Madaya residents had to be urgently treated.
"They need medical evacuation on an urgent basis tonight and they want permission from the government of Syria to lift those people out," he was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
A few town residents were given permission to leave and could be seen with belongings awaiting evacuation.
In total, some 44 lorries operated by the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Syrian Red Crescent and the World Food Programme (WFP) reached Madaya from Damascus on Monday.
The convoy brought in food and medicines, as well as blankets, shelter materials and soap.
The distribution of supplies was expected to continue through the night.
Pawel Krzysiek, who is with the ICRC in Madaya, said after arriving: "The people... were coming every five minutes asking, 'Listen, did you bring food, did you bring medicine?'
"Some are smiling and waving at us but many are just simply too weak, with a very bleak expression, too tired."
Yacoub El Hillo, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Syria, told the BBC that UN staff saw starving children in the town.
One resident, Hiba Abdel Rahman, 17, told the AFP: "For 15 days we have been eating only soup.
"I saw a young man killing cats and presenting the meat to members of his family as rabbit. Some people went through garbage bins, others ate grass. We sought food from the fighters but they refused to give it to us."
Madaya, which is about 25km (15 miles) north-west of Damascus and 11km from the border with Lebanon, been besieged since early July by government forces and their allies in Lebanon's Shia Islamist Hezbollah movement.
Meanwhile, 21 lorries on Monday entered Another entered Foah and Kefraya.
They were carrying basic food items - including rice, vegetable oil, flour, sugar and salt - as well as water, infant formula, blankets, medicines and surgical supplies.
Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Sunday that a total of 28 people - including six children less than one year old - had died of starvation in Madaya since 1 December.
However, Syrian officials and Hezbollah have denied that there have been any deaths in the town.
"The Syrian government is not and will not exert any policy of starvation against its own people," Syria's UN ambassador Bashar Ja'afari was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
Rebel leaders were also accused of selling food to Madaya residents at exorbitant prices.
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.
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.
Security forces took about 800 Sudanese to Queen Alia International Airport on Wednesday but held deportations until Friday, citing "logistical reasons".
The Sudanese had been demonstrating for refugee status outside Amman's UNHCR offices for a month.
UNHCR said it was "gravely concerned" for their safety.
Three planes carrying 430 of the asylum seekers took off for Khartoum airport early on Friday, the refugee agency's Jordan spokeswoman, Aoife McDonnell, told AP.
"Some, if not many" are registered as refugees and asylum seekers with UNHCR, she said.
Local media reports that three who refused to board a plane died when police used tear gas against them. Jordanian authorities have not commented.
Elena Habersky, who taught some of the asylum seekers English while they were in Jordan, told the BBC that many of them had fled the genocide in Darfur.
"They're terrified. They told me if they go back to Sudan they will either be put in prison or be killed," she said.
Jordan's Information Minister, Mohammed Momani, said the Sudanese were in the country to seek medical treatment but then began "demanding to be recognised as refugees".
nan
Cardiff University's team uses damage sensors from aircraft wings to catch subsonic cracking sounds in joints before the disease fully develops.
They believe a disposable patch using them could save expensive diagnosis and treatment of advanced osteoarthritis.
A cheap screening tool is "the holy grail", they said.
Dr Davide Crivelli, of the School of Engineering, said: "The idea has got huge potential to change the way we diagnose osteoarthritis (OA).
"If we're able to link the sound signature of a healthy knee and a knee with disease, we will be able to lower the costs on society a lot."
He said he was "pretty confident" the patches could be widely used within a decade.
Arthritis Research UK estimates 8.75 million people in the UK have sought treatment for OA.
When human joints develop OA, they can make audible grating or clicking noises during movement due to damage - otherwise known as crepitus.
In the early stages of the disease, these rubbing noises are confined to higher, non-audible frequencies.
The team hope to exploit acoustic emission sensors, usually used to detect shockwaves created by damage in structures such as aircraft wings, to pick up these sounds using a thin patch worn on the skin.
Unlike typical laboratory devices previously developed, Dr Crivelli said his would be less chunky and with the use of cheap sensors - some as little as 10p - they could be entirely disposable.
This could allow detection, for example, in a GP surgery or at home using a self-monitoring app on a mobile phone or tablet.
Prof Cathy Holt, director of the university's musculoskeletal biomechanics research facility, said a cheap means of early diagnosis could be a real boon.
"The key thing is most people, once they have got joint pain, it's too late - they have got the disease already. Whereas, there might be points where we can intervene earlier," she said.
"So, the holy grail really is some sort of screening tool."
She said a cheap option could help save millions of pounds spent on diagnosis via X-ray and MRI scans, as well as improving the lives of patients through targeted, bespoke treatments.
There is currently no cure or drugs for osteoarthritis but people can use exercise or assistive devices to arrest the condition, if it is caught early enough.
The university believes a prototype could be ready within a year, with the realistic possibility of the product being in surgeries in seven or eight years, if trials are successful and a manufacturer can be found.
"If we can show proof of concept, there would be a lot of interest," Prof Holt said.
The council's executive committee voted to increase daytime operating hours from 07:00 to 19:00 and bring in a £1 overnight parking charge.
A permit for low income people will remain at £70 for six months after "concerns" raised in the consultation.
The council said it aimed to ensure every car park was well used and remained accessible to all.
Short-stay parking in Wigton has increased to 50p for the first 30 minutes and a new charge of £2.50 is being implemented for six hours.
The costs for the same period of time in long-stay car parks in Cockermouth and Workington is £4, with six hours in Keswick going up to £7.
In Mill Street, Maryport, parking will be free to use with a disc for a maximum of two hours.
Alex Boardman, who runs Alexandra's of Keswick clothes shop, said the difference in parking charges between Keswick and the surrounding towns "was not very fair".
She said: "I do think that they will have a damaging effect on local businesses.
"I'm worried... I still want my customers to be able to feel like they can still come to Keswick and be able to park reasonably."
Allerdale councillor Michael Heaslip, said: "This is not a blanket approach, but we've looked at each particular town and the categorisation of each car park.
"We have looked at the varied responses received and weighed the arguments up, so that where we found them convincing we have modified the proposals to address the concerns raised.
"The overnight charge means that visitors will no longer have to get up early to feed the machines, as they can pay in advance."
The changes will come into effect in April.
Liberty Steel re-opened the former Alphasteel plant in Newport on the day the UK government was holding its steel summit to discuss the crisis in the industry.
Sanjeev Gupta, the 44-year-old who set up Liberty while he was at Cambridge University, had kept workers on half-pay while he tried to get the mothballed site operating again.
They did not have to come to work and could take other jobs.
But it meant he had a skilled, knowledgeable workforce ready to start when the plant was up and running again.
So who is Sanjeev Gupta?
Born in India, the third of four children, he said he was "born into business" trailing his father around his companies.
At 14, he was sent to boarding school in Canterbury before heading to Cambridge to study economics.
It was not all theory though as he started an international trading business while studying.
Running up large phone bills while operating out of his student accommodation led to him being asked to find somewhere else to live by the university authorities.
Liberty now has an annual income of £3.5bn and has offices in London, Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Some critics have questioned his complex network of companies including those off-shore in the Isle of Man.
This is unremarkable, according to Mr Gupta.
What is transparent is that he has a very clear vision and it goes beyond steel.
He has picked up distressed companies including Tata in Scotland and parts of Caparo Steel with the idea that they can be moulded together to create an integrated business.
Sanjeev Gupta - a brief profile
Radio 4 Profile
Some concerns remain over his idea of moving Tata's Port Talbot site away from making steel from scratch to recycling from scrap.
Critics argue it could lead hundreds of job losses though supporters of the idea believe those workers can be retrained.
Energy is the other major industry the Gupta family has an interest in.
It owns the Uskmouth power station and is hoping to develop biomass as part of plans for an energy park around Liberty's Newport site.
Sanjeev Gupta also bought shares in the company behind the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon, with an aim of building bigger such projects at Cardiff and Newport.
The idea is that making energy more affordable for all will make the steel industry more sustainable.
But the UK government has been rolling back on its subsidies to renewable energy and it has launched a review over the potential benefits of tidal given its high strike price - the price guaranteed by UK ministers.
I have asked Sanjeev Gupta many times why he thinks the UK government will move back to greater support of renewables.
His answer has always been: "Because it has to."
I spoke to him last week and he outlined his thoughts on buying Tata Steel - including saving the giant Port Talbot plant.
He admitted the hot end of the works - its two blast furnaces - are the challenge, as they rely on importing raw materials from abroad.
Mr Gupta's vision is around making steel from recycled scrap, which the UK has so much of, it ends up exporting it.
But he is prepared to look at the economics of running the newer blast furnace number four - rebuilt only three years ago at a cost of £185m - while building a new electronic arc furnace to melt down scrap for steel.
"In the short term, probably we might only close the old blast furnace and keep the other one going and optimise it," he said.
"You can't build furnaces overnight; to build an arc furnace will take at least two years. If the economics for the arc furnace are compelling we'd shift the other one as well. It would be a step by step approach."
"Maybe there will be a possibility [the blast furnace] is sustainable. But instinctively I find it difficult because you're importing all your raw material from far-flung parts of the world rather than using material which is domestically available, but it's worth analysing."
Mr Gupta said he had been given assurances from Welsh Government it would help with the cost of retraining blast furnace workers during any transitional phase.
In terms of jobs, he said Liberty's culture was not to take on businesses which need to make big job losses and a "very, cursory look suggests there isn't a need for any major changes".
Mr Gupta said he ran his medium-sized operation like a small company - "we're young, agile, able to make quick decisions".
It includes former senior Tata people, who will help as he examines the detail. But in this instance, Mr Gupta warns the timescale will be months and that a deal within weeks would be "absurd".
"You couldn't conclude the acquisition of all of British steel within four weeks no matter what you try to do," he added.
"But the point is you'll go through certain hoops and hurdles and you'll come to a point when a deal is in the making and then you will have a few months to conclude it."
Obstacles include the £500m deficit in Tata's pension scheme.
"It's obviously a clearly identified issue which needs to be addressed but we need to spend some time and expertise on analysing what the implications and what the options are," he said.
"Everyone is aware it's an issue and I believe there will be a resolution."
Sanjeev Gupta's first song at his wedding was Kenny Rogers' The Gambler. His wife said of Tata: "It's a gamble but hopefully a calculated gamble."
With his positions on energy and Tata, Mr Gupta may be a bit of an educated gambler himself.
Roedd Katrina Evemy, 19, mewn cyflwr difrifol yn yr ysbyty yn dilyn digwyddiad yn ei chartref yn Rhodfa'r Graig brynhawn Iau.
Cadarnhaodd Heddlu Dyfed-Powys bod swyddogion bellach yn trin y farwolaeth fel achos o lofruddiaeth.
Dydd Llun fe ymddangosodd Dylan Hywel Harries, 21, yn Llys Ynadon Llanelli ar gyhuddiad o geisio llofruddio.
Cafodd Harries, o Banteg, Llanelli, ei gadw yn y ddalfa tan ei ymddangosiad nesaf yn y llys.
Mae swyddogion yn dal i apelio ar unrhyw dyst i gysylltu â nhw drwy ffonio 101.
Bath led 10-7 at the break with Rob Webber and Leroy Houston crossing for the visitors while Welsh responded through a Nic Reynolds converted try.
Sam Burgess scored Bath's third try after the break and Tom Homer kicked his first conversion of the match.
Houston and Alafoti Fa'osiliva added to the lead although Welsh at least had the final say with Opeti Fonua's try.
The defeat was Welsh's 18th straight loss in the Premiership as they make an immediate return to the Championship following their promotion last season.
It mirrors their fate in 2013, when they also lasted a single season in the top flight.
Bath, who close to within a point of Saracens as they chase a home tie in the play-offs, dominated early proceedings at a windswept Kassam Stadium with rain also making handling difficult.
Webber was first to cross, bundling over in the corner after a rolling maul from Bath but Homer failed to add the conversion. Soon after, Houston went over in the corner after a line-out went astray but the wind again disrupted Homer's conversion.
Welsh, who also lost Nathan Trevett to a yellow card before half-time, went into the break trailing by just three points with Reynolds going in under the posts.
Burgess scored Bath's third try, and only his second in rugby union, after the visiting team stole a Welsh throw at a line-out and with the wind behind him Homer kicked his first conversion for 17-7.
Houston scored his second try of the game with the number eight picking up from a scrum and forcing his way over as Bath earned a bonus point. An interception led to a fifth try soon after with Fa'osiliva the grateful recipient and Homer's conversion took the game further away to 29-7.
To their credit Welsh responded well to the set back and scored their second try of the game through Fonua with a catch and drive as Will Robinson's conversion made it 29-14.
There was a late yellow card for Dean Schofield but Bath were unable to add to their tally in the limited time remaining.
London Welsh head coach Rowland Phillips: "We had a lot of positives today and we will be looking to build on that performance.
"The club is too proud just to switch off and accept defeat.
"There is always speculation and rumour at this time of the season, but the key thing is that you learn your lessons. We know we are relegated but our ambition to come back is greater than ever."
Bath head coach Mike Ford: "Our timing was out as we haven't played for three weeks. However, the conditions were terrible and we've got five points with no injuries, so I'm satisfied as it's now in our hands as far as the league table is concerned.
"We now have Leinster on our mind and next week will be a totally different spectacle as we are going out there to play.
"We will have our five internationals returning but they'll be favourites as they have 50,000 behind them and have their 12 internationals back. We are looking forward to it as we've come from nowhere in Europe to be in this position."
London Welsh: Jewell, Stegmann, Reynolds, May, Awcock, Roberts, R. Lewis, Trevett, Britton, Cooper, Schofield, Down, McCaffrey, Kirwan, Fonua.
Replacements: Robinson for Roberts (66), Gilding for Trevett (66), Morris for Britton (53), Aholelei for Cooper (66), West for Down (58), Thorpe for McCaffrey (33).
Not Used: Rowley, J. Lewis.
Sin Bin: Trevett (34), Schofield (80).
Bath: T. Homer, Rokoduguni, Burgess, Eastmond, Woodburn, Devoto, Young, Auterac, Webber, Palma-Newport, Hooper, Day, Fearns, Faosiliva, Houston.
Replacements: Banahan for Rokoduguni (47), Agulla for Eastmond (63), Sisi for Young (66), Obano for Auterac (68), Batty for Webber (61), Garvey for Day (46).
Not Used: Lahiff, Cook.
Att: 3,946
The man was killed by a landmine while travelling in an armoured vehicle, the Elysee Palace says (in French).
The defence ministry said a convoy of vehicles was heading north from Gao to the town of Tessalit when a mine exploded under the lead vehicle.
Three other soldiers in the same vehicle were injured by the blast, it said.
President Francois Hollande expressed his "deep respect for the sacrifice of this young soldier in the service of our country".
Some 3,500 French soldiers are deployed to five countries in the Sahel as part of Barkhane, a French-led operation against militant groups that began in 2014.
France has had troops in Mali since 2013 when it launched an operation against jihadists who had seized the northern half of the country.
The party wants to pilot associations spanning more than one constituency and also centralise certain membership functions and create a single candidate list for UK and European elections.
Chair Lord Feldman said it would help channel resources into campaigning.
It follows a review launched in the wake of last year's election victory.
Despite the Conservatives winning their first majority since 1992, there were concerns that it struggled to match Labour's "ground campaign" in many parts of the country, in terms of mobilising activists to canvass and help get out the vote.
The party is now proposing a series of changes to how voluntary parties are structured at a local level which it says will give it a "stronger platform" from which to fight the next election.
It wants to encourage some local associations, which vary considerably in size, to combine to form multi-constituency organisations in the hope of boosting their financial strength and improving their capabilities.
Party members in those areas will be asked to vote on the plans while associations with more than 100 members and a "fully operational structure" will be able to opt out if a majority of members vote against.
Other changes would see constituency associations offer different levels of membership, with associated benefits, and for administration of membership to be centralised - although parties will be still be responsible for recruiting members locally.
The review panel has recommended an outreach programme to widen the pool of candidates for future UK and European elections amid criticism the party remains too middle class and, despite recent progress, has too few female MPs and that ethnic minorities continue to be under-represented in the parliamentary party.
Lord Feldman, a close ally of David Cameron, said the changes - which must be approved by the party's National Convention at its autumn conference - showed the party was "far from complacent" despite last year's victory.
"To continue to win elections, with the buy-in and support of our members, we need to adapt," he said.
"Currently, our associations spend less than a third of their total income on campaigning - that's not the right allocation of resources if we are going to run a really dynamic operation on the ground."
|
Controversy has been a constant at Cardiff City in recent years but, this season, it seems to be apathy which reigns.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Bank of Scotland has announced plans to introduce plastic £5 and £10 banknotes.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A senior executive at state energy firm China Sinopec Group is under investigation for suspected "serious disciplinary violations".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has won a record-breaking nine prizes at the Olivier Awards.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Britain's IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua will defend his title against Eric Molina in Manchester on 10 December.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A mother and her seven children have drawn a field of giant poppies in the sand at Porthcawl beach to mark Remembrance Day.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The success of Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty has been marked with an open-top bus tour in his home town.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Profits at the world's biggest sportswear maker, Nike, have beaten expectations, helped by rapidly rising sales in China.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Leigh Halfpenny's Toulon contract could be terminated because of the Wales and Lions star's injury problems, says club president Mourad Boudjellal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Today, with very few exceptions, there is no such thing as a truly new invention.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has condemned "in the strongest possible terms" deadly air strikes on its hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A soldier has described in court the moment he was threatened with a knife before being kidnapped by his Army comrade and love rival.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Hull FC have beaten off competition from a number of other Super League clubs to sign Great Britain and England forward Gareth Ellis.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Scientists say the giant manta ray, known as a gentle leviathan, is in fact a "predator of the deep" preying on fish and other animals.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
West Indies drew their rain-affected tour match against Essex as they began preparations for their Test series against England.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
An attempt to drill into the heart of a volcano in the south-west of Iceland is now complete.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A rare bronze sculpture of children's favourite Peter Pan is expected to fetch up to £30,000 at auction.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Thieves have stolen scaffolding worth thousands of pounds from repair works on a bridge in Dumfries and Galloway.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 70-year-old man has been convicted of "abuse of the most horrendous kind" against one woman and eight children over a period of almost 20 years.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ghana midfielder Sulley Muntari's contract with Italian club AC Milan has been ended by mutual consent.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Four councils have threatened to begin legal action if the government does not withdraw its support for Heathrow Airport expansion within 14 days.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Colima volcano in Mexico has been spewing out large columns of ash up to 2.8 kilometres into the air.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 47-year-old woman from Clydebank has died in Mauritius after being killed in front of her child during a robbery by masked men at her home.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Some 400 people in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya need to be urgently evacuated for medical treatment, says the New Zealand ambassador to the UN.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Jordan has deported hundreds of Sudanese nationals, despite warnings from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) that they face persecution in Sudan.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A selection of photos from across the African continent this week:
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Scientists are hoping to create a smart patch which could detect the early onset of osteoarthritis in patients' knees.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Plans to increase parking charges across Cumbria have been approved by Allerdale Borough Council.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
As the sales process for Tata Steel in the UK begins in earnest, attention has been increasingly turning to the only person to publicly express an interest in buying the Port Talbot works.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Mae'r heddlu yn trin marwolaeth dynes o Lanelli fel achos o lofruddiaeth wedi iddi farw yn yr ysbyty fore Mercher.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
London Welsh were relegated from the Premiership as Bath ran in five tries to climb to third in the table.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A French soldier has died during a military operation in northern Mali, the French presidency says.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Conservatives have put forward plans to change the structure of local party associations and the way that election candidates are chosen.
| 34,650,363 | 15,847 | 1,008 | true |
In all, 78% of UK households expect the Bank of England to raise interest rates within the next year, according to the Markit Household Finance Index.
And 48% anticipate a rate rise within the next six months, the highest percentage since July 2014.
The survey came out after a Bank of England policymaker forecast that rates would rise "pretty soon".
Prof David Miles made the prediction as he prepares to leave his role on the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which takes the decision each month.
Prof Miles told the BBC's Newsnight programme that the time to raise the bank rate from its current historic low of 0.5% was "coming".
"I don't think it's anything to worry about, it's a sign of health," he said.
Prof Miles voted to keep rates on hold this month, in his last vote on the MPC. He has been on the nine-strong committee since June 2009.
He said he was now more optimistic about the UK economy than at any time since he had joined the Bank.
"Within the UK economy, consumer confidence is strong, corporate confidence is pretty strong and the financial system is operating near normal now," he added.
But he said he expected the "new normal" for interest rates to be between 2.5% and 3%, "materially lower" than historically.
His comments come just days after fellow MPC member Prof Kristin Forbes warned that waiting too long to raise interest rates risked undermining the UK's recovery.
Earlier this month, MPC members voted 8-1 to keep rates on hold - the first time for months the decision has not been unanimous - and this, together with the comments from Prof Miles and Prof Forbes, suggests that the balance is shifting.
Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said that when rates start to rise, they will do so only gradually.
At a news conference last month he said the timing for a Bank rate increase was "drawing closer", but cannot "be predicted in advance". The decision would be determined by looking at economic data, he added, including wage growth, productivity and import figures.
Several economists interpreted Mr Carney's comments, and information in the Bank's recent Inflation Report, as a signal that any rate rise was likely to be put back from the end of this year until early 2016.
The Markit Household Finance Index also found that UK households saw their sharpest deterioration in finances so far this year in August.
They are slightly downbeat about their financial prospects for the next year, even as the country's economic picture improves.
"Improving economic fundamentals and gradually rising income from employment should continue to support household finances through the remainder of this year," said Tim Moore, senior economist at Markit.
"But the ongoing strains reported in August highlight an underlying fragility around the edges of the recovery," he added.
Hadiza Bawa-Garba, 40, was convicted of Jack Adcock's manslaughter at Nottingham Crown Court last November.
Jack, who had a heart condition, died at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 2011 hours after being admitted with sickness and vomiting.
She was seeking the right to appeal against her conviction.
Updates on this story and more from Leicestershire
The doctor was given a two-year sentence, suspended for two years.
Counsel for Bawa-Garba argued before three senior judges in London that her trial was unfair because the judge misdirected the jury.
But Sir Brian Leveson ruled: "We have come to clear conclusion that none of the grounds of appeal are, in fact, arguable".
He ruled the trial judge's directions to the jury could not be faulted and refused permission for a full appeal.
Jack's parents, Nicky and Vic, who live in Glen Parva, Leicester, were not in court to hear the decision.
RWE Innogy UK wants to build the power station on the Conwy Falls, south of Betws-y-Coed - one of the most scenic stretches of the river.
In March, the Snowdonia National Park Authority's planning committee rejected the scheme.
It followed opposition by environmentalists, anglers, canoeists and local businesses.
In the new application, the company has said it would provide a safer exit for kayakers above the falls, and that there would not be any major surges in flow which would affect fish stocks.
The glitz and glamour of the big Sin City hotels stand in marked contrast to the dingy, frontier-themed collection of buildings and parking structures, surrounded by strip malls and low-rent homes.
Across the street, oversized recreational vehicles pack a large open lot. Inside, the casino smells of stale cigarettes. An older clientele, many with canes and walkers, shuffle between the slots, gaming tables and $19.95 all-you-can-eat, steak-and-seafood buffet.
"I'll have a Miller Lite and a tall glass of ice," an elderly woman tells her bartender after grousing that they won't give her a free club soda unless she has a drink coupon, which are handed out to regular gamblers.
Once an hour some guests gather around an artificial waterfall to watch a small fountain and laser-light show that concludes with a patriotic montage set to Lee Greenwood's treacly ballad, God Bless the USA.
For Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio, however, this run-down casino is an essential part of his American Dream story. It's where his father, Mario Rubio, found a job in 1979. He had just been laid off from his apartment manager position in Florida.
Although he had experience as a lead banquet bartender in Miami, the South Beach hotel business was struggling.
So Mario left his family, including Marco, behind to seek work in the Nevada desert, where his wife, Oriales, had sisters who said economic prospects were better
Mario Rubio started off as a bartender's aide, but he was quickly promoted to a full bartender assigned to the casino's basement bowling alley. After six months of saving, the rest of the Rubio family moved to Nevada to join Mario.
It's a bit of trivia that the bar's current steward, Cuban immigrant Ruben Monteagudo, finds amusing.
"His father worked here?" asks Monteagudo, an employee at Sam's for the past 10 years.
Although he had never heard of Mario Rubio, he did know of Marco - and the potentially historic nature of the 2016 presidential campaign, with two children of Cuban immigrants, Rubio and Ted Cruz, seeking the Republican nomination.
"I don't know much about the history of the United States, but it would be good for the Cubans here," he said. "I would like for Rubio to be president."
Monteagudo, who arrived in the US 22 years ago, said he loves his new home - but he has a word of warning for his fellow immigrants.
"Some people, when they come here, think it's going to be so easy," he said. "But you've got to work really hard. This country gives a lot of opportunity to immigrant people, but only if you work."
A few hours later and a few miles away, at another, slightly newer casino on the outskirts of Las Vegas, Marco Rubio was painting a picture remarkably similar to Monteagudo's.
He makes his family's immigrant story a key part of his stump speech - adding that he knows the challenges Americans face and what it's like to have "ups and downs".
On Sunday night in Las Vegas, two days before Nevada's Republican presidential caucuses, he spoke once again of his childhood - and offered an extended recollection of the six years his family spent in Las Vegas.
"I'll never forget we landed here, I had never seen mountains before," he said. "They looked like cardboard cut-outs. My skin had never been so dry. But it was the place that allowed us to find the American Dream all over again."
"Las Vegas and Southern Nevada and the state, for us, will always be a place of new beginnings, and second chances and a new start."
The crowd in the packed ballroom cheered.
Rubio then pivoted to a message he hopes will resonate with voters in Nevada and across the US, as he fights a pitched battle against Donald Trump and Ted Cruz for the Republican nomination.
"It was here in Las Vegas that my parents taught me that it didn't matter that he was a bartender in Sam's Town and she was a maid at the Imperial Palace," he said. "I could be anything I was willing to work hard to become.
"That's not just my story, that's our story," Mr Rubio continued. "That's the story of our country, and that's the story of our people.
"I've never met most of you, and yet I'm confident in saying that your father gave up everything so you could have the chance to be all the things he never could," he said. "I'm confident in saying that your mother gave up her own dreams and hopes so you could one day have an opportunity she never had. Or maybe that's what your grandparents did for your parents. Or maybe that's what you're doing right now.
"Maybe you're the bartender at Sam's Town or the maid."
According to University of Nevada political science professor Eric Herzik, Mr Rubio's immigrant pitch has less to do with appealing to Nevada's minority voters, who overwhelmingly vote Democratic, than convincing the state's white voters that he can have broad appeal in the general election.
If he's counting on minority voters, he says, "he hasn't done a very good job looking at the Nevada electorate".
"The strategy is he's the candidate who can bring the party together and defeat Hillary Clinton," he says.
For the thousands who attended Mr Rubio's Sunday night rally, at least, it was a message that resonates.
"He appeals across the board to so many people," said Jennifer Barrier of Las Vegas. "I feel like he really is a genuine person and he really wants to make a difference."
Another Las Vegas resident, Glen Potter, said Mr Rubio represents the "future of America".
"He's a young man, he's smart, he has good policies," he said. "He just makes sense."
Tucked away near the front of the stage during Mr Rubio's speech on Sunday night was a small cordoned-off area for Mr Rubio's extended family, including an aunt and a handful of Mr Rubio's many cousins (his mother was one of seven sisters who came from Cuba in the mid-1950s, all of whom ended up settling in either Miami or Las Vegas).
"We lived right by each other," Michelle Denis said of Marco, whom she and the family refer to as "Tony", short for his middle name Antonio. "His parents had to work, so my mom would babysit. We'd hang out on weekends. They had a pool we'd swim in. We'd go on family trips together."
Not every cousin is on the Rubio bandwagon, however. Michelle's older brother, Moises Denis, didn't attend the Sunday night rally and, as a Democratic politician representing Las Vegas in the Nevada Senate, is on the opposite side of the political divide from his relative.
"We obviously were both raised the same way, and yet he's turned out a Republican, and I'm a Democrat," he said. "But our parents came here for the same reasons - they were pursuing that American dream and something better for our families."
Mr Denis still lives in the same neighbourhood where he and Marco Rubio grew up. His house is just a few blocks away from Rubio's childhood home, an unassuming one-storey structure. He says the area hasn't changed much from the early 1980s. It's largely made up of the elderly, immigrants and working-class families.
"There's a lot of hotel workers, a lot of construction workers," he says - the types of people whose behind-the-scenes labour keeps the glitzy casinos off in the distance running smoothly. "They're hardworking folks who have two or three jobs. They come from humble circumstances."
He says he's following the Rubio campaign closely and that Mr Trump's recent success, fuelled by anti-immigration rhetoric, is "a bit scary". He says he thinks national Republican politics, and the Trump phenomenon, is pushing all the campaigns, including his cousin's, to the right.
In the end, however, it's Mr Rubio's upbringing, which Mr Denis witnessed firsthand, that gives him hope.
"He knows what it's like to try to make ends meet, to try to provide for your families," Mr Denis says. "He definitely has a different perspective from some of the folks who may have had a more privileged life."
Nevada Professor Herzik says the Rubio campaign has spent more time and money in Nevada than any other candidate. And while Mr Cruz is pitching to the state's rural conservatives and Mr Trump is counting on angry, disaffected voters, the Florida senator is trying to win the party's mainstream support. He's nabbed endorsements from the state's popular lieutenant governor, Mark Hutchison, and its Republican senator, Dean Heller.
While Mr Rubio's campaign can survive a defeat in Nevada - and Mr Trump has solid leads in all the recent polls - a strong performance here would help convince Republicans that he's capable of fending off Mr Cruz and eventually toppling Mr Trump.
That may end up being a tall order, however, and it's Sam's Town Casino that once again offers a cautionary tale for team Rubio.
While bowling alley bartender Monteagudo may be a fan of his fellow Cuban-American, upstairs in the casino the view is decidedly different.
"Someone told me I had to vote for Rubio because his dad worked here," said Roy, who works the back bar. "Not on your life."
He said he's supporting Donald Trump, as one of the patrons looks up from his video poker game and nods in approval.
Across the casino floor, Richard, another long-time bartender, says he's also a Trump supporter.
"All politicians are crooks," he said. "But Trump's got the right idea."
Nevada is Marco Rubio's childhood home, the place he says gave his family a second chance at the American dream. Now he hopes it will give his campaign an opportunity for its first victory of the Republican campaign season.
On Tuesday, however, it may end up being Trump country.
The 25-year-old arrives from Leyton Orient, having spent time on loan at Ross County last season.
He made 16 appearances for the Staggies, including the League Cup final victory over Hibernian at Hampden in March.
Woods will provide competition for recent arrival Remi Matthews, who is on a season-long loan at New Douglas Park from Norwich City.
Accies may be in the market for a new central defender after it was revealed Jesus Garcia Tena will miss much of the season with a knee injury.
The 26-year-old was hurt in Hamilton's opening League Cup clash at Ayr United and has now been ruled out for at least six months with ligament damage.
Player-manager Martin Canning is also out injured with a facial injury.
"It is a big blow to lose a player of Jesus' technical ability so early in the season," Canning told the club website. "He is a great reader of the game and his skill set will be a big miss for us."
Pimco, an investment firm, considered acquiring the 850-property portfolio before its eventual sale in April 2014.
In a statement Pimco said it was contacted on "an unsolicited basis by third parties with a proposal relating to the potential purchase".
It did not identify the third parties.
The statement went on: "Pimco assessed the opportunity and followed its usual due diligence process, and as a result decided not to proceed with, or agree to any arrangement with those third parties."
Weeks later, Nama began a formal sale process that led to another US firm, Cerberus Capital Management, buying the portfolio for more than £1bn.
Nama has said it was "fully satisfied" that the process had delivered the "best possible return", with Cerberus being the highest bidder.
In its statement, Pimco said it did not take part in the tender process.
Dale's win - combined with Millwall and Southend losing - saw Keith Hill's side close the gap to three points between themselves and the top six.
The home side took the lead after 18 minutes with a terrific breakaway goal.
Jamie Allen and Joe Rafferty combined on the edge of the Dale area to free Nathaniel Mendez-Laing up the right flank. He outpaced Chris Stokes before dinking an inviting cross to the back post for Henderson to head past Lee Burge.
A similar break down the right channel saw Henderson return the favour, his delivery sitting up just as Mendez-Laing was poised to fire at goal and the chance slipped by.
The second goal arrived in the 52nd minute, Mendez-Laing slipping a neat pass down the middle for Henderson and he wrong-footed Burge with a clever first-time finish.
Coventry's misery was compounded when Ben Stevenson was stretchered off wearing a neck brace late on following an innocuous clash.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Delay in match Chris Stokes (Coventry City) because of an injury.
Foul by Ian Henderson (Rochdale).
Ben Stevenson (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Rochdale. Matthew Lund replaces Nathaniel Mendez-Laing.
Attempt missed. Andrew Cannon (Rochdale) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Chris Stokes.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Andrew Cannon.
Attempt blocked. Jamie Allen (Rochdale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Chris Stokes.
Substitution, Rochdale. Andrew Cannon replaces Joe Bunney.
Substitution, Coventry City. Dion Kelly-Evans replaces Jordan Willis.
Attempt saved. Callum Camps (Rochdale) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Keith Keane (Rochdale) because of an injury.
Foul by Callum Camps (Rochdale).
Gael Bigirimana (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Foul by Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale).
Jordan Willis (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Stokes (Coventry City).
Foul by Jimmy McNulty (Rochdale).
Marcus Tudgay (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Joe Bunney.
Substitution, Coventry City. Marcus Tudgay replaces Kwame Thomas.
Substitution, Coventry City. Ruben Lameiras replaces Kyel Reid.
Goal! Rochdale 2, Coventry City 0. Ian Henderson (Rochdale) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nathaniel Mendez-Laing.
Foul by Calvin Andrew (Rochdale).
Chris Stokes (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Second Half begins Rochdale 1, Coventry City 0.
First Half ends, Rochdale 1, Coventry City 0.
Jamie Allen (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Gael Bigirimana (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gael Bigirimana (Coventry City).
Attempt saved. Jamie Allen (Rochdale) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Chris Stokes.
Joseph Rafferty (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Politicians across Scotland held their Friday surgeries as normal despite the death of the Labour MP, who was shot and stabbed after holding a constituency surgery in Birstall.
Ms Sturgeon paid tribute to Ms Cox at a meeting of the British-Irish Council.
Vigil events have been held in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Addressing a crowd of more than 300 people who gathered in George Square in Glasgow on Friday evening, Scottish Labour Leader Kezia Dugdale spoke of her sadness and said Ms Cox had been one of the "bright hopes" in British politics.
She added: "I hope the loss of Jo Cox's life becomes a new beginning for our politics."
The first minister also addressed the crowd, describing Ms Cox as "clearly a remarkable young woman".
She added: 'I'm deeply sorry I didn't have the opportunity to know Jo personally."
In Edinburgh, about 60 people gathered at the Woman and Child statue on Lothian Road.
Labour's shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray and Scottish Conservative leader were among those paying their respects, with candles lit and flowers laid.
EU referendum campaigning has been suspended across the country.
Earlier, flanked by Scottish Secretary David Mundell and Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Ms Sturgeon said all at the British-Irish council wanted to "convey our heartfelt sympathies" to Ms Cox's family "and everyone who loved her".
She said: "As politicians we all value and are deeply committed to the openness and accessibility of elected representatives to the people we serve. It is in many ways the hallmark of our democracy.
"So events like yesterday's, although thankfully very rare, hit all of us as politicians very hard.
"But I think I speak on behalf of all of us when I say we are determined, and inspired by Jo Cox, to rededicate ourselves to the notion of politics and public service as a force for good."
Mr Mundell revealed he had been told by police of a "credible" threat to his life after MPs backed airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria last December, but chose to not make it public at the time.
He criticised the "vilification" politicians are subjected to, saying "we've come to accept abuse and name-calling as a matter of course".
But he said that "you can't let those people who want to disrupt our political system win by refusing to be accessible to the public".
Tributes to Mrs Cox have continued to pour in from around the world.
Her attacker is reported to have shouted "put Britain first" at least twice. A 52-year-old man, named locally as Tommy Mair, has been arrested.
The 41-year-old MP's husband, Brendan, said his wife had "believed in a better world and she fought for it every day of her life with an energy and a zest for life that would exhaust most people".
Flags were flown at half mast at the Scottish Parliament and on Scottish government buildings as a mark of respect to Mrs Cox, who had two young children and was elected as the MP for Batley and Spen last year.
Ms Sturgeon tweeted on Friday morning that "Politicians all over the country will hold Friday surgeries today".
She added: "We'll do so with heavy hearts. But it's what we do. May it never change."
Ms Sturgeon had been due to campaign alongside Scotland's three living former first ministers in favour of a Remain vote in the EU referendum, but the event will not now be held.
Her deputy, John Swinney, also took to Twitter to say: "Today I will do what I have done almost every Friday for 19 years - try to help constituents at my surgery. Today feels very different."
Labour's Ian Murray, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that there were concerns about abuse suffered by MPs - particularly on social media - but that Mrs Cox valued interaction with her constituents.
Mr Murray said he would have a police presence at his Edinburgh South constituency office on Friday morning to ensure the safety of his staff.
He said an assessment would be carried out on the risks of holding scheduled events over the weekend.
But he added: "It is absolutely right that we do what we have always done, and show the public that members of parliament are accessible."
Scottish Labour's leader, Ms Dugdale, has lodged a motion at the Scottish Parliament paying tribute to Ms Cox, who she knew through the Labour Women's Network.
The motion urges everybody to heed the words of Ms Cox's husband when he called on people to "fight against the hatred that killed her".
Ms Dugdale also called on people from all parties to work together to "conduct our public debate with good humour, understanding and her enduring spirit to make the world a better place."
The five men - aged between 18 and 25 - were convicted of conspiring to commit terrorist attacks on Pakistani soil and of funding banned jihadist groups.
They were arrested in the north-eastern city of Sargodha in December.
The case is one of several involving alleged "home-grown" American Muslim militants linked to Pakistan.
The men have been identified as Ramy Zamzam, of Egyptian descent, Waqar Khan and Umar Farooq of Pakistani descent, and Aman Hassan Yemer and Ahmed Minni, who are of Ethiopian descent.
None were known to law enforcement agencies before they disappeared in November from their homes in Alexandria, Virginia.
After the young men went missing one of their families found a farewell video message said to have shown scenes of war and calls for Muslims to be defended. This prompted their families to contact the US authorities.
By Syed Shoaib HasanBBC News, Karachi
The convictions will come as no great surprise to those following the case in Pakistan.
Anti-terrorism courts in Pakistan are usually sympathetic to the police, particularly as the country's anti-terrorism law gives more weight to circumstantial evidence. However, such convictions are usually overturned by higher courts in accordance with regular Pakistan law which brings out the deficiency in investigation.
The hearings can continue for years, long after pressure to get a sentence has passed. In recent times, several such high-profile terrorism verdicts have been overturned by superior courts. Therefore there is much hope yet for the Sargodha five, and their case is by no means over.
Later, when the families learned their sons were staying in Sargodha, at the house of a relative of one of the group, they gave the location to the FBI.
Prosecutors said the men were intending to travel to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban, and that they had also used e-mail and YouTube to contact an al-Qaeda operative called Sayfullah.
When they were arrested, they were in possession of maps of sensitive locations, suggesting attacks were being planned, prosecutors added.
The five men denied having any links to al-Qaeda and insisted they wanted to go to Afghanistan solely for charity work.
They also accused US FBI and Pakistani investigators of torturing them and trying to frame them. Officials have denied the accusations.
The judge found them guilty of two charges but acquitted them of three others.
He handed down two prison terms for each man - 10 years for criminal conspiracy and five for funding a banned terrorist organisation - which are to be served concurrently. They were also fined a total of $820.
A lawyer for the men, Hassan Katchela, said they would appeal.
"We are a bit surprised because we believed there was not a case for conviction," he told reporters. "We are confident and we are going to file appeals against these convictions in the high court."
Khalid Farooq, the Pakistani father of Umar Farooq, vowed to pursue an appeal as long as was necessary.
"It is a matter of great disappointment. We were not expecting it," he told reporters of the verdict outside the jail in Sargodha.
"We will go to every forum, from the high court to the international court. We will file an appeal in Lahore high court in seven days."
However, Deputy Prosecutor Rana Bakhtiar said he planned to seek longer sentences.
They have been presented with an opportunity to achieve full fan ownership, and their progress will be relevant to other leading clubs.
Four teams in Scotland are currently fan-owned - East Stirlingshire, Clyde, Dunfermline and Stirling Albion - while the Well Society and the Foundation of Hearts have clear routes to eventual ownership.
Rangers supporters are seeking to grow their stake in the Ibrox club, but along with fans at Motherwell and Hearts they have encountered similar issues.
The impetus for the organisations came from moments of financial crisis. The response of fans, over various time frames, was to sign up and pledge annual or monthly payments. Financial stability at the clubs, though, has curtailed memberships.
There remains a body of committed and hard-working supporters across Scotland campaigning towards fan ownership, but at individual clubs the critical mass is often absent. Hutchison has essentially challenged the Motherwell fans, and local businesses, to step up and support the club, having agreed to sell his 76% shareholding to the Well Society for £1.
The plan had been to originally transfer ownership over a five-year period, while Motherwell paid back the £1m that Hutchison invested in loans. As he acknowledged himself, though, the membership of the Well Society has plateaued, in part because of his presence - a wealthy individual with the means to be the club's financial safety net.
Yet the Society's membership levels are too low. They want 2,000 members paying on average £10 per month, but currently have a little less than 1700 members, some of whom are lapsed and no longer contributing financially. The aim for the yearly figure raised is around £240,000, but the current annual amount is around £96,000.
If the Society's ownership bid is to succeed, more fans need to sign up and commit to regular pledges, so that a cash reserve can be built up to cover the income fluctuations during the course of a typical season.
"The community-based, fan-owned club is the way forward for a club like Motherwell," said Douglas Dickie of the Well Society, who is now the Motherwell vice-chairman.
"We have a solid fan base of about 3,500 and we're getting support from local businesses, so there's a lot of people around us to help us achieve it.
"Nobody's kidding, it will be a lot of hard work, but we are dedicated individuals that are determined to make this work. From fans surveys we've been putting out, everyone is up for the challenge."
The Foundation of Hearts worked tirelessly to secure the club's financial stability and there remains, for now, a plan in place for Ann Budge to transfer ownership in 2019. However, the membership has remained fairly stable at around 8,000.
Rangers First saw an upsurge in members during the run-up to regime change in the Ibrox boardroom last year, but from around 14,000 contributors, they are now at around 9,000 active members.
In some countries in Europe, such as Germany, Portugal and Spain, fan ownership is part of the football culture.
Establishing it in Scotland, where clubs have tended towards sole, wealthy owners, has moved relatively slowly. Dundee, for instance, were owned by their fans, who then voted to accept an offer from Texan businessmen, who are now the majority shareholders.
In effect, fan ownership means more than 50% of a club being held by a group that operates along democratic, one-member, one-vote lines. Yet there are clearly groups of fans who are not motivated by the prospect of owning shares in their club, but who want to engage in other ways, such as buying tickets, merchandise, and media subscriptions.
"Results from our previous surveys show 91% of supporters in Scotland think community ownership can work," said Andrew Jenkin, the head of Supporters Direct Scotland.
"The days of the benefactors and white knights are ending and the only constant will be the community of supporters that attend week in and week out.
"Community-owned clubs require supporters to think about how clubs can be viable social enterprises which put competitive teams on the park every week, but also financially sustainable and deliver social and community benefit.
"Our research suggests that community ownership opens up a number of benefits to a club that are much harder to, or not possible to, achieve in privately-owned clubs and what we all need to do is raise awareness so supporters can be proud committing to community ownership bids which deliver real benefits."
Rangers supporters are about to be polled on a merger of the existing fan organisations into a single entity - Club 1872 - which would be independent of the club, hold an ownership stake that they would seek to increase to 25% and above, but also raise funds for other projects decided upon by members.
The hope is that it will be considered a membership rather than solely a fan ownership vehicle, with various membership benefits, to widen its appeal.
Different clubs will require different approaches, but key challenges are shared. Increasing the membership is the first obstacle, but for clubs there is the possibility of additional revenue streams.
For full fan ownership to succeed, there needs to be the cash reserves to help to fund even the most prudent clubs throughout the financial year.
Ultimately, though, for Motherwell, Hearts and Rangers, it is for the fans to decide what they want.
Truckers and young "roughnecks" from the oil fields packed the diner, which is known for its biscuits and gravy and massive portions.
But business is down 40% "since the oil went to hell" over the last 18 months, says Gil Edmondson, who owns Zingo's with his wife.
"If there's nothing going on at the oil fields, then there's not much going on here," says Edmondson. "That's our customers."
Black gold is the lifeblood of this blue-collar, conservative county - the heart of California's billion-dollar oil industry. This is the home of country music legends Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, who sang of the working man's blues.
Thousands of "nodding donkey" oil pumps dot the flat, blistering hot landscape.
It's a place where young men could earn a decent middle-class living in the oil fields without a university education; where the many orange, almond and grape fields have provided work for transients since Dust Bowl migrants came here for refuge in the 1930s.
It's also a place where Donald Trump's promise to "Make America Great Again" resonates.
"We need to bring companies back to America," says Dwain Cowell over breakfast at Zingo's. Regular customers nod in agreement as Cowell rails against the loss of the US iron industry to Vietnam, China and Japan.
Sporting a Zingo's baseball cap, Cowell holds court in one of the booths at the cafe - his booming voice rousing other customers as they bemoan the rise in crime over the last two years because of unemployment.
At 81, Cowell has done well running a refrigeration business for buses and trucks, and his children and grandchildren have gone to college. But he fears for the younger generation in Kern County, where more oil is produced than in any other county in the United States.
He believes the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton are pushing a global agenda and a global economy when "we should be putting America first" and protecting industry.
A retired oil man at the next table couldn't agree more.
"We can't all be computer geeks," he shouts.
The restaurant's tables are decorated with ads from local businesses - oil companies as well as the local mom and pop operations which service the industry: trucking, air conditioning, construction.
"My old man was laid off from the oil fields," a waitress named Crystal says. A customer says he was forced into early retirement. Another customer found work driving a truck for a fraction of the pay he was earning in the oil fields.
"Women are the only ones still working around here," another waitress says. "And our business is way down."
As other Americans embrace lower oil and gas prices with road trips, in Kern County every sector of the economy is suffering the effects of low oil prices and mass lay-offs in the industry.
A barrel of oil cost $100 in June 2014. US oil prices crashed to $27 a barrel in January - the lowest level since 2003. With prices now hovering at around $50 a barrel, oil producers are still holding off from rehiring many of the laid off workers.
Employment in Kern County's oil and gas extraction and well drilling is down 17.6% compared with a year ago, according to state figures released in June.
The overall unemployment rate in Kern County was 9.7% in May, more than double California's 4.7% rate and 4.5% for the US.
Not everyone in Bakersfield is a Republican, but it's hard to find Democrats at the local bars and diners. Local radio is dominated by conservative talk shows - Rush Limbaugh and local hosts who have many nicknames for the political elite: Killary, Crooked Hillary, Lyin' Ted.
President Obama is still "accidentally" called "Osama" and dismissed as a Muslim and a foreigner doing irreparable damage to America's standing in the world.
Many here feel excluded from the positive economic data being touted in Washington. Kern County weathered the 2007-08 financial crisis better than most: at a time of high oil prices many were getting into the oil industry while it was booming.
And the oil industry pays well.
At the peak of his career as an oil consultant, Patrick McGonigal earned nearly $300,000 a year. He lived the high life, owning a Corvette, a custom Harley and homes in Bakersfield, North Dakota and San Diego.
Now he's effectively homeless - couch surfing with family and friends. The Corvette, hog and homes long gone since oil prices tanked over the last 18 months - the worst drop in oil prices in a generation.
"We're all struggling," he says. If the price of oil doesn't dramatically rise, he says, many here don't know how they'll survive.
The downturn has hit every generation of McGonigal's family. His stepfather is also an oil man and was forced into early retirement. Several other family members are unemployed and living off their savings.
Many here feel like the government is leading the country into decline, by not protecting the oil and gas industry or doing more to support American manufacturing and farming.
A five-year long drought hasn't helped - agriculture is the other major industry here and it is suffering as farmers grapple with the cost of water.
This is also Steinbeck country - where the fictional Joad family came in The Grapes of Wrath after fleeing Oklahoma in search of a better life.
Instead of finding paradise, the desperate "Okie" migrants of the 1930s were treated with suspicion in Bakersfield, much the way Mexican farm workers are treated today.
Instead of a promised land of plenty, they struggled to find even low-paying, backbreaking jobs on farms and many starved to death.
Donald Trump's promise to build a wall between the US and Mexico is a popular prospect here.
Unemployed carpenter and oil field worker Derrick Nichols, 29, says it's difficult to get a job if you don't speak Spanish, which he doesn't.
In the middle of a hot day, he sits at the bar of the Long Branch Saloon in Oildale - a rough neighbourhood a few miles north of Bakersfield where gangs and drugs have created opportunity for some who have lost out in the oil economy.
He talks of the good old days in Oildale when he was a kid. There used to be a dairy just down the road and the river was clean and kids used to ride their bikes freely throughout the neighbourhood.
"Now we can't let our kids out of our sight. There's too many tweakers out there," he says of the drugs, which have destroyed so many lives here.
UN Special Rapporteur Baskut Tuncak said more timely information could have "perhaps even prevented this disaster".
At least 114 people died and another 700 were injured by massive explosions last week at a warehouse storing hazardous chemicals in Tianjin's port.
The cause it not yet clear, and a massive clean-up is continuing.
Thousands of people saw their homes destroyed or unsafe to return to.
Mr Tuncak called on China to ensure transparency in the investigation into the 12 August incident, and to adhere to international standards such as timely and effective dissemination of information in such disasters.
"This chemical disaster serves as yet another tragic example of the need of information about hazardous substances to protect, respect and realise human rights," he said.
"The lack of information when needed - information that could have mitigated or perhaps even prevented this disaster - is truly tragic."
He said there were "deeply disturbing" restrictions on freedom of press and on access to safety information, which could have increased casualties.
China's authorities have come under heavy criticism online, accused of not being clear about the risk of contamination beyond the blast zone, nor about why a warehouse containing dangerous materials was situated close to homes.
The warehouse, owned by Ruihai International Logistics, was less than 1km (0.6 miles) from at least three residential complexes, which flouted Chinese law.
Read more: The questions after the Tianjin blasts
Local officials appeared unprepared for questions and gave vague answers at the first few press conferences. State broadcaster CCTV cut off live broadcasts as journalists continued asking questions.
Discussion on the incident on microblogging network Weibo was also censored, as is usually the case with sensitive incidents.
But with continuing public fury - Tianjin residents have staged protests almost daily - local authorities have in recent days been giving more information on chemical contaminants in waste water and in the air.
Tianjin's mayor Huang Xingguo met the media for the first time on Wednesday, and pledged to relocate all chemical plants to an area 25km from the city centre.
Authorities have promised to compensate residents whose homes were destroyed or damaged by the blast.
State media have reported that Ruihai's owners Yu Xuewei and Dong Shexuan, have also been detained.
Permission will now be required for people to investigate the medieval fishing boat and two 18th Century merchant vessels in Devon.
Causing deliberate damage to the wrecks will also be classed as illegal.
Historic England said the status did not prevent people from "building sandcastles next to them".
More on the shipwrecks and other stories
For more stories and features about historical objects which lie beneath follow BBC England's archaeology Pinterest board here.
Head of listings, Joe Flatman, said the three wrecks on the west side of the Axe River and off Westward Ho! were a "small number of really significant wrecks" with two accessed by a walk down the beach creating a "perfect day out".
He said the status "won't stop people from walking over them and building sandcastles next to them, but will stop them from hacking off some wood for a barbecue".
Bill Horner, Archaeologist at Devon County Council said: "While these wrecks have been known about for some time and we have been monitoring their condition, it's great that Devon's maritime past is now being recognised."
The shipwrecks
The Axe Boat
Sally
A Severn Trow
The pair, a 27-year-old Algerian and a 22-year-old Nigerian, were arrested last month on suspicion of planning a terror attack in Göttingen, where they lived with their parents.
Raids on their homes uncovered a gun and a flag belonging to the so-called Islamic State group.
Charges were never brought, but the Lower Saxony interior ministry classified them as a threat to national security and requested their expulsion.
"We are sending a clear warning to all fanatics nationwide that we will not give them a centimetre of space to carry out their despicable plans," said the regional Interior Minister Boris Pistorius.
"They will face the full force of the law regardless of whether they were born here or not."
According to the ministry, this is the first time such a decision has been taken and opens up a debate around the rights of those who have committed a crime or, as in this case, are suspected of doing so, to remain in the country.
Germany, like many European states, subscribes to the idea of "jus sanguinis", where citizenship is determined by the nationalities of one or both parents but not by one's place of birth.
As such, being born in Germany provides no automatic right to remain in Germany.
However, since they had not been convicted of a crime, the Lower Saxony interior ministry had to argue that they nevertheless presented a security risk sufficient to expel them.
Rules on deportation are taken at a regional or state level.
In this case, the federal court was merely approving a request from the state's interior ministry.
The other consideration was whether deporting the men to their parents' country of origin presented a risk to their safety.
To date, there is no publicly available information on how either Algeria or Nigeria will deal with the men should the deportations go ahead.
A year ago, French President François Hollande had to drop a move to strip convicted terrorists with dual nationality of their French passport and deport them, after an outcry in his own party.
Human rights groups argued that being able to take away French nationality from convicted terrorists would create two classes of French nationality and was thus in contravention of France's founding principle of equality.
Read more from Reality Check
A national archive for the civil nuclear industry has opened on the north coast of mainland Scotland.
More than 70 years' worth of information and up to 30 million digital records are to be stored at Nucleus in Wick, Caithness.
They include papers, photographs and plans from nearby Dounreay, as well as Harwell in Oxfordshire, Trawsfynydd in Snowdonia and Sellafield in Cumbria.
Nucleus will also store local archives dating back to the 16th Century.
High Life Highland, an arms-length body of Highland Council, is helping to manage the site.
It said Nucleus had been designed to hold records in "ideal environmental conditions for generations to come".
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has had the facility constructed at a former RAF site.
Many of the documents, photographs and technical drawings relate to Dounreay, an experimental nuclear power complex 30 miles (48km) away from Wick.
Built in the 1950s, Dounreay is now in the process of being decommissioned and the site cleaned up.
The research, for Royal London Insurance, suggests that as many as 38,000 women from high-earning families could be affected.
Royal London said that mothers have lost £278m in eventual pension rights in the last two years alone.
The reason is that they have decided to stop claiming child benefit.
Stay-at-home mothers who claim the payments are given national insurance (NI) credits towards their pension, as if they were still at work.
But since January 2013, any parent earning more than £60,000 has had to pay all their child benefit back to the government, through the tax system.
As a result, some people are no longer bothering to claim it in the first place.
"It is vital that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) takes action to ensure that these women get the national insurance credits which should be theirs by right," said Steve Webb, policy director at Royal London, and a former pensions minister in the coalition government.
"Otherwise the cause of gender equality in state pensions will have been set back a generation," he added.
A parent who has not claimed child benefit for the last two years could lose £231 a year when he or she comes to receive their state pension, according to Royal London.
In response, an HMRC spokesman said families had always been able to submit a child benefit claim form to help protect their future right to the state pension.
"We provide specific information to all new mothers and on gov.uk," said a spokesman.
"If anyone is worried about their national insurance record, they can contact HMRC at any time to check how many years of credits and contributions they have built up."
How to be a mum and still get a good pension
The issue will not affect all mothers who do not claim child benefit.
Women who previously claimed it, and then stopped doing so, are protected by transitional arrangements.
"It is reassuring that there are transitional rules to keep the half a million stay-at-home parents in the system who were already getting child benefit when the rules changed and who then opted out," said Jon Greer, pension expert at Old Mutual Wealth.
"However, over time those people will become the minority."
Others will be able to make up their NI credits by returning to work.
To claim the new state pension in full, workers need to have 35 years of NI contributions.
Those who are affected are being advised to claim child benefit at the "Nil rate", by completing the form Child Benefit: CH2.
Now, she's under fire for being too establishment, too untrustworthy and not progressive enough - and her hair, clothes, and lack of charisma have always been targets.
She's had peaks of high ratings - as secretary of state, her approval rating was at 65%, and she's been voted the most admired woman in the world 20 times. But as soon as she runs for office, those numbers drop.
Throughout this campaign, the media has talked about an "enthusiasm gap" for Mrs Clinton - the idea that those voting for her only do so grudgingly.
A scandal over her use of a private email account as secretary of state has further dented her popularity and heightened perceptions that she cannot be trusted.
But here in Philadelphia, there is overwhelming enthusiasm for Clinton - especially now that she has been officially declared the nominee, and her rival Bernie Sanders has asked his supporters to coalesce behind her. (Not everyone has.)
During the Democratic convention in Philadelphia this week, speakers like Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, actress Lena Dunham and President Obama spoke with passion for Mrs Clinton, punctuated by rousing cheering from the crowds.
Here, those who have always held Clinton in high esteem feel that they are finally able to celebrate out in the open - and that the rest of the country, or at least half of it - may finally be catching on.
Standing among the California delegation on Monday night of the convention - as Sanders supporters shouted loudly for their candidate of choice and booed Mrs Clinton - Robert Camacho was standing proudly in Hillary T-shirt, holding a "Hillary for President" sign.
Mr Camacho, was a delegate for Mrs Clinton's first run in 2008 as well, when she lost in the primary to Barack Obama. He supports her because of her qualifications, her resume, her support for gay rights and her ability to evolve on issues.
Mrs Clinton sent him and his husband a letter on their anniversary a few years ago, he said, and he will never forget it.
"How much more amazing can that get?"
The convention is designed in part to re-introduce Clinton to undecided voters and convince those who dislike her to come around, at least long enough to cast their votes in November.
But for many here, their affection for Clinton has been life-long.
Bettina Hager, of Washington, said she has loved Hillary Clinton for at least 23 years - impressive, since she's only 31. She grew up hearing her mother saying Hillary should be president instead of Bill Clinton.
"It would be impossible for me to dampen my enthusiasm for her, because I have loved her for so long," Hager said. "The fact that she's able to run for the presidency after being in the public eye for so long says a lot about her character."
But no one said love is easy. Ms Hager said sometimes she hesitates to talk about her feelings about Clinton to avoid arguments
At least once in the past few months she's had to cut off conversations with friends - usually Sanders supporters - to avoid further conflict.
"What's really frustrating as a Hillary supporter is I know why I am a Hillary supporter and it's well thought out, but I have people trying to tell me that I just don't know what I'm talking about.
"For me sometimes, I end up saying I don't want to talk about it anymore, because it's unpleasant to have people fight with you," Hager said.
Some long-time Hillary fans said misogyny against her - and her supporters - has grown worse since the 2008 campaign.
"I'm really disappointed by how many people make claims that are not substantiated against her, and the misogyny… it was bad in 2008 and it seems to have gotten worse," said Marilyn Hafling, a Democratic volunteer from St Petersburg, Florida.
"This time almost everything is negative to the point of ridiculousness."
Jonathan Oriole, an alternate delegate from Florida, said he has been supporting Mrs Clinton for years. Alongside him was Shannon Dewitt, who wore a hat covered in pro-Hillary and pro-Democrat pins.
Both men are working with LGBT and Latino communities in Florida to help get out the vote for Mrs Clinton, and say in their communities, they're not seeing an "enthusiasm gap".
"Maybe we're in a bubble, but we have a lot of people who are very energetic [about Mrs Clinton]," said Mr Oriole.
That's not the case for Robin and Natalie Dauterive, a couple living near Austin, Texas.
They have been long-time Hillary fans, but being among so many conservatives in Texas can make it difficult.
"I'm gay, so I feel like it's my second coming out party as a Democrat, to be free to wear my Hillary shirt," said Robin, who was wearing a 2008 Hillary campaign shirt and plenty of colourful Hillary pins, standing next to her wife.
The two were one of the first couples to get married in Massachusetts when same-sex marriage became legal there in 2004.
"She's more progressive than people know and has a lot more foreign policy experience than Bernie," she said. "Obviously she's not infallible, but she's done so many things people don't even know about."
Walking through the airport in Austin before she left, she said a security officer grimaced at her Hillary shirt and said he "didn't want to hear Hillary's name right now".
"I was shocked," she said.
In Philadelphia, she's happy she can loudly support Hillary.
One former oil worker has told BBC Scotland companies will not hire him because they believe he will quit if the oil price rises again.
Colin McIntyre lost his job as a procurement manager a year ago.
An MSP has now passed evidence of the practice to the UK employment minister.
Thousands of people have lost their jobs since the oil downturn began.
Concerns have now been raised that some companies and recruiting agencies are actively excluding candidates from the sector.
Mr McIntyre said: "Explicitly I was told 'we are not interested in people from oil and gas at the moment. You'll just go back up to Aberdeen when the recovery starts'.
"I would just like people to see beyond the title and look at the skill set.
"I think a lot of people will be surprised how much skills and experience people in oil and gas have."
Aberdeenshire East MSP Gillian Martin has written to UK Employment Minister Damian Hinds.
She says she has seen "documentary evidence" of some level of discrimination against former oil and gas workers and she now wants an investigation into how widespread this is.
She wrote: "Many people who have lost their jobs in the oil and gas sector have been trying to find employment in other sectors of the economy.
"Examples suggest that companies are discriminating against these workers, regardless of their skills, based only on their past involvement in the oil and gas industry."
Scotland's Employment Minister Jamie Hepburn, who was also contacted, said: "These claims are deeply concerning and its absolutely right that Gillian Martin has raised this with the UK government, which has responsibility in this area.
"The north east has a highly-talented oil and gas workforce with skills that can be utilised in a wide range of different sectors, including renewables, construction, decommissioning and many others.
"The Energy Jobs Taskforce has brought together key partners to maximise employment opportunities and we have set up a £12m Transition Training Fund that has so far enabled more than 1,500 former oil and gas workers to receive support for training from the fund."
Ms Sturgeon will emphasise the long-standing ties between Scotland and the US in a letter to the president-elect.
The move comes just days after the SNP leader said she would "not maintain a diplomatic silence" in the face of "abhorrent comments" from Mr Trump.
Ms Sturgeon had backed Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House.
The first minister said she would also pen a letter to the defeated Democrat, praising her candidacy.
A spokesman for Ms Sturgeon said: "The first minister will be writing to Mr Trump on his election success and also to Hillary Clinton to acknowledge her contribution to politics and to greatly advancing the cause of gender equality.
"Scotland has deep and longstanding ties of family, friendship and business with the United States, and those links will endure in the months and years ahead."
The first minister, who last year stripped Mr Trump of his role as a business ambassador for Scotland, has faced questions over how her criticism of the president-elect could impact on Scotland following his election victory.
Echoing comments made by German chancellor Angela Merkel, she has said she will engage "positively and constructively" with Mr Trump but will not shy away from "standing up" for the principles of tolerance and diversity.
Former Cpl Mark Byles said some Iraqi prisoners were hooded with sandbags.
He said he saw well over 20 Iraqis dead on the battlefield and had killed "a handful" himself by rifle fire.
The Al-Sweady inquiry is examining claims - denied by the Ministry of Defence - that troops mistreated and unlawfully killed Iraqi detainees.
After his deployment to Iraq, the former corporal was awarded the Military Cross for "immense professionalism under fire" and bravery in leading an assault on an enemy position.
However, his experiences during the war had a major impact on the soldier's life, and he left the Army in 2008 suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Appearing via video link, Mr Byles said he had never spoken to the Sun, and had not killed up to 20 Iraqis as it reported - but that an account of his role in the battle in the Sunday Times had been accurate: "I could see some dead bodies and (four) blokes, some scrambling for their weapons. I've never seen such a look of fear in anyone's eyes before.
"I'm over six feet, I was covered in sweat, angry, red in the face, charging in with a bayonet and screaming my head off. You would be scared too."
He told the inquiry that he had taken the decision to fix bayonets, even though there had been no explicit order to do so, and used his rifle to kill several Iraqi insurgents pointing weapons at him.
However, Mr Byles insisted that he had not witnessed "any mistreatment of the Iraqi dead on the battlefield or in the vehicles".
"They were all treated with respect. All the injuries looked sustained from battle," he said.
Iraqi witnesses have claimed at the inquiry that some Iraqis were taken alive from the battlefield but later killed at a British camp outside Majar-al-Kabir in southern Iraq, an allegation denied by the military witnesses.
Towards the end of the fight, as he stormed a trench, Mr Byles admitted that he had to use force on the enemy "to get them to surrender".
He told the inquiry that he had had to use his fists and the back of his rifle because "they were standing up in the trench at the time, being violent, aggressive, still armed, wouldn't put the weapons down.
"I had to get them down onto the ground to prevent ourselves from getting shot, myself from getting shot and the others from getting shot," he said.
Mr Byles said detainees had initially had sandbags put over their heads, and were put in plastic handcuffs.
He said he did not recall any instruction saying that sandbags were not to be used to deprive prisoners of their sight.
He also described being issued with radios that could not communicate with one another, or on the frequencies provided, a point made by many of the British soldiers at the inquiry.
In 2005, Mark Byles's address was found on a potential "hit-list" compiled by market stall-holder Abu Mansha from Thamesmead in south-east London.
The trader was jailed for six years, and the court heard that he had singled out Cpl Byles after reading a story in the Sun newspaper describing how the soldier had led a bayonet charge in which he killed "up to 20" Iraqi insurgents.
The former soldier is one of more than 200 witnesses giving evidence to the inquiry in the run-up to Christmas. It is due to report back next year.
The public inquiry was set up in 2010 and is named after one of the Iraqi men, 19-year-old Hamid al-Sweady, who is alleged to have been unlawfully killed while being held after the battle.
Specifically, the inquiry is examining claims that 20 or more Iraqis were unlawfully killed at Camp Abu Naji military base on 14 and 15 May 2004 after being taken prisoner during the battle, and that several other detainees were ill-treated after capture.
That followed Saturday's 3-0 win at Nottingham Panthers, as the Welsh side bid for their first Elite League title.
Luke Piggott opened the scoring for Cardiff against Edinburgh, but Brandon Thompson levelled for the Capitals.
Andrew Hotham struck the Devils' winner in the middle period, as they spurned several chances to add further goals.
Devils' bid for the league crown was also boosted as second-placed Braehead Clan lost to Fife on Sunday.
Guillaume Doucet, Jake Morisette and Leigh Salters scored the Devils' goals against Nottingham, all assisted by Joey Martin, against the Panthers on Saturday, while netminder Ben Downs made 32 saves.
The league's leading scorer, Doucet, also scored four times in the midweek victory over Dundee Stars.
The 32-year-old intends to quit the saddle on the last day of the Flat racing season at Doncaster in November.
Turner, the first female British jockey to ride 100 winners in a year, said: "I have loved every second of my career as a jockey."
She has ridden two Group One winners at the highest level in Britain during her career but has suffered a number of injuries.
"I am really excited to be starting a new chapter in my life and am very much looking forward to the new challenges ahead," said Newmarket-based Turner, who will join the team at the At The Races television channel.
"I will continue to stay as focused as ever on my riding until the end of this season and will be hoping to ride as many winners as possible until then."
The Bees, by Laline Paull, joins titles by Rachel Cusk, Kamila Shamsie and Sarah Waters on this year's shortlist.
Ali Smith's Booker-nominated How to be Both and A Spool of Blue Thread, the 20th novel by American author Anne Tyler, complete this year's nominees.
Formerly known as the Orange Prize for Fiction, the £30,000 prize is open to any woman writing in English.
The winner of this year's prize will be announced at the Royal Festival Hall in London, on 3 June.
Last year's prize went to another debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Ireland's Eimear McBride.
Shami Chakrabarti, chair of this year's judging panel, called whittling down a shortlist from a longlist of 20 announced in March "the fantasy book club of a lifetime".
"The novels we shared and the shortlist we ultimately honour form a body of great women's writing to entertain and inspire for many years to come," said the director of Liberty, whose fellow judges include columnist Grace Dent and novelist Helen Dunmore.
Dunmore's A Spell of Winter won the inaugural prize, set up in 1996 to celebrate "excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the world".
This year's nominees are as follows:
Smith's novel, which dovetails two stories divided by 500 years, won the 2014 Costa Novel Award and the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize and was also shortlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize.
Cusk's novel, her eighth, tells of a female writer who goes to Athens to teach a writing course and was also shortlisted for this year's Folio Prize.
Shamsie's novel tells of two women who meet on a train bound for Peshawar in 1915, while Waters' work tells of a boarding house in south London in 1922.
Tyler's novel, which the 73-year-old author has said will be her last, explores several generations in the life of a Baltimore-based family.
|
The majority of UK households now expect interest rates to rise within 12 months, an influential survey has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A doctor who was convicted of the manslaughter by gross negligence of a six-year-old boy has failed in her bid for an appeal.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Fresh plans have been lodged for a controversial £12m hydroelectric scheme on the River Conwy.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sam's Town Casino is just a handful of miles from the famed Las Vegas strip, but it feels like the other side of the world.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Hamilton Academical have signed up goalkeeper Gary Woods.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A potential US buyer of the Northern Ireland Nama property portfolio has said it was pitched a sale proposal by way of an "unsolicited approach from third parties".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Ian Henderson's brace kept alive Rochdale's slim League One play-off hopes as already-relegated Coventry were beaten at Spotland.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Politicians have been "inspired to rededicate" themselves to public service following the death of MP Jo Cox, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Five Americans have each been sentenced to 10 years in jail by a court in Pakistan after being found guilty of terrorism charges, prosecutors say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Following the departure of Les Hutchison, the question for Motherwell supporters is what they want their club to become.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
It used to be tough to get a table for breakfast at Zingo's Cafe in Bakersfield.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The United Nations' top expert on human rights and hazardous materials has criticised China for a "tragic" lack of transparency on the Tianjin blasts.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Public access to three "really significant" shipwrecks will not be affected by government protection for the sites, Historic England has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
In a sign of Germany's hardening attitude to security issues, a federal court has approved an order to deport two men suspected of planning an attack in their home town despite the fact that they have not been convicted and were born in Germany.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tens of thousands of parents - and mothers in particular - are in danger of missing out on some of their state pension rights, according to a study.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Loving Hillary Clinton has rarely been popular - when she was first lady she was widely criticised for being too liberal, for refusing to bake cookies or drop her maiden name.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Calls have been made for a probe into claims of widespread discrimination against former oil and gas workers by employers out with the industry.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is to write to Donald Trump to congratulate him on becoming US president.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A UK soldier decorated for bravery in the 2004 Iraq battle of Danny Boy has told an inquiry prisoners he held were not mistreated.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Elite League leaders Cardiff Devils went seven points clear at the top of the table after Sunday's 2-1 home win over bottom side Edinburgh Capitals.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Leading British female jockey Hayley Turner has decided to retire.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A debut novel about a female bee is one of six titles to be shortlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
| 33,984,968 | 15,141 | 679 | true |
He faced charges after an incident in which he was Tasered by police responding to a break-in at his home in Esher, Surrey, last September.
Bent was also given a two-month curfew and 200 hours of compulsory unpaid work by the judge at Guildford Crown Court.
The 37-year-old striker had previously denied affray but changed his plea.
He had denied two other charges of possessing bladed articles, namely a meat cleaver and a kitchen knife, which will be left on file.
The court heard how Bent had called 999 reporting that he had heard intruders in his flat in Claremont Lane on 13 September.
Two police officers, backed up by armed police, were initially unable to gain access to the property and as they were about to force open the door, the former footballer emerged bare-chested.
Lee Harris, prosecuting, said he was carrying two chef's knives and was "wild with rage".
One of the officers Tasered Bent as he swung the knives in their direction, saying he could see the intruders.
No intruders were found, but police discovered a small amount of cocaine.
Bent later admitted taking "two or three lines of cocaine" and expressed "genuine remorse" for the circumstances.
Andrew Henley, defending, said his client was no longer using cocaine and had self-medicated with the drug.
Judge Stephen Climie told Bent that he had lost his good character and his self-respect but praised him for his work with a youth football team.
The two-month night-time curfew will prevent him from leaving his home address between 21:00 and 07:00.
Bent must also pay each of the officers £500 compensation.
Marcus Bent's career
|
Former Premier League footballer Marcus Bent has been given a suspended 12-month prison sentence after admitting affray and possession of cocaine.
| 35,554,390 | 412 | 30 | false |
Fellaini, on his 100th United appearance, was introduced in the 85th minute to help see out the win but his first meaningful action was to commit a clumsy foul on Idrissa Gueye in the area, and Baines made no mistake from 12 yards.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic's sixth goal in five games had earlier put United on course for just a third Premier League win in 11 matches.
The 35-year-old Swede struck with a sweet first-half lob that hit the bar and post before finally deigning to cross the line - although Everton goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's will be unhappy with his decision to rush from his area.
United, with manager Jose Mourinho back on the touchline after his midweek ban, also saw Ander Herrera crash a shot off the frame of the goal in the second half.
However, it might have been a different story had referee Michael Oliver shown a red card to United defender Marcos Rojo for a wild, two-footed lunge on Gueye with just 15 minutes gone.
That was the prelude to a bruising encounter for the out-of-form Toffees, who lost Seamus Coleman and Yannick Bolasie to injuries before they rallied for a point late on.
United have now dropped seven points as a result of goals conceded in the final 10 minutes of league games this season - more than any other side.
That statistic contributed to United's tally of 20 points from 13 games at kick-off, their worst haul in the Premier League era.
Despite their frustrations in the league, they were good value for their goal when it arrived towards the end of a largely listless first half.
Anthony Martial's long ball forward was the cue for Stekelenburg to needlessly charge from his goal, giving Ibrahimovic an opportunity to score that he would not have had if the keeper had stayed at home.
As it was, Stekelenburg so nearly got away with it.
Ibrahimovic's effort bounced up and on to the bar, back down in front of the line and then spun sideways into the post.
Time seemed to stand still as the ball dallied and danced on the line, but it finally crossed just as Ramiro Funes Mori ran in to hack clear.
The visitors were unlucky not to find themselves further ahead when Herrera struck the bar in the second half, after which Everton came more into the match as an attacking force, with Kevin Mirallas, Gueye and Enner Valencia all forcing David de Gea into action.
United looked to have weathered the storm and for good measure threw on Fellaini to add extra steel at the back in what time remained - but the Belgian, signed from Everton for £27.5m in 2013, suffered a rush of blood in his own box to gift the hosts a point.
Everton's strong finish to the match was in stark contrast to an opening 45 minutes during which they managed no shots on target.
And if there was any sense of injustice over Rojo's tackle on Gueye - which referee Oliver only deemed a caution - it did not translate itself to greater urgency in their play, despite their run of just one win in eight games at kick-off.
But as the game wore on, so Everton's threat increased.
Their flurry of shots after the break transformed De Gea from a mere bystander to a central figure in proceedings - with his first stop from Mirallas' powerful drive the pick of the bunch.
Fellaini's mistimed tackle on Gueye was lucky in a way but just reward in another, and after Baines planted the ball home to De Gea's right there was only one team in the running to take all the points.
Valencia saw a shot blocked within moments of the restart before Baines let fly from 20 yards with a fizzing drive that De Gea had to punch away to safety.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho: "We were the best team by far, but we didn't win. We had chances for a 2-0 and had the ball against the post and then we conceded a goal in the last minute.
"I notice my team trying always to play the 90 minutes in the same way, but that is not always possible because your opponent tries to react, which they did a little bit in the last 10 or 15 minutes.
"I am concerned because we don't get results we deserve.
"When my team is playing well the results are important. I am pleased my team is playing well. It is a problem that our position in the table is not a reflection of our performances."
Everton manager Ronald Koeman: "The whole team performance was positive and we showed great organisation from the start. We made it difficult for United to create anything.
"We went 1-0 down through a mistake which was disappointing, of course. One point was the minimum what we deserved.
"We made the subs and we took risk with four strikers on. David de Gea made one or two unbelievable saves and we could have scored earlier. It was a fair result. We're still unbeaten at home, so we are very happy."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Manchester United conclude their Europa League Group A campaign away to Ukraine's Zorya Luhansk on Thursday (18:00 GMT), before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Sunday (14:15). Everton's next outing is a league match at Watford on Saturday (12:30).
Match ends, Everton 1, Manchester United 1.
Second Half ends, Everton 1, Manchester United 1.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by David de Gea.
Attempt saved. Leighton Baines (Everton) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Idrissa Gueye.
Romelu Lukaku (Everton) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.
David de Gea (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by Romelu Lukaku (Everton).
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Michael Carrick.
Attempt blocked. Enner Valencia (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Goal! Everton 1, Manchester United 1. Leighton Baines (Everton) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
David de Gea (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card.
Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card.
Penalty conceded by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Everton. Idrissa Gueye draws a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Manchester United. Marouane Fellaini replaces Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Michael Carrick (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Enner Valencia (Everton).
Substitution, Manchester United. Marcus Rashford replaces Anthony Martial.
Attempt saved. Enner Valencia (Everton) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Mason Holgate with a cross.
Paul Pogba (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gareth Barry (Everton).
Offside, Everton. Romelu Lukaku tries a through ball, but Gerard Deulofeu is caught offside.
Phil Jones (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ashley Williams (Everton).
Corner, Everton. Conceded by David de Gea.
Attempt saved. Mason Holgate (Everton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Gerard Deulofeu with a cross.
Foul by Matteo Darmian (Manchester United).
Gerard Deulofeu (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Idrissa Gueye (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Leighton Baines.
Attempt saved. Idrissa Gueye (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin Mirallas.
Attempt blocked. Gareth Barry (Everton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Anthony Martial (Manchester United).
Mason Holgate (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Paul Pogba (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Gareth Barry (Everton).
Substitution, Everton. Enner Valencia replaces Yannick Bolasie.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Yannick Bolasie (Everton) because of an injury.
Substitution, Everton. Mason Holgate replaces Seamus Coleman because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
|
Leighton Baines rescued a late point for Everton against Manchester United after substitute Marouane Fellaini conceded a costly penalty against his former club at Goodison Park.
| 38,121,198 | 2,078 | 45 | false |
"The thing that's so sad is to imagine that mother singing that story to her at a time when you were losing culture and the last thing that baby was, was safe," Mr Turnbull told indigenous journalist Stan Grant.
A teary-eyed prime minister makes for easy news copy, and the video quickly spread across websites and social media.
But the story of this lullaby is not as simple as it first seems, and in fact it's one of many clues helping to revitalise a language.
Tyronne Bell and Glen Freeman are from the Ngunawal people, the traditional owners of the land on which Canberra's Parliament House stands.
The cousins, who once helped Mr Turnbull prepare a speech in Ngunawal, were the source of the story, the prime minister's office confirmed.
Mr Bell said Mr Turnbull was referring to an enigmatic figure named Black Maria, a Ngunawal woman who lived in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales in the 1800s.
In 1930, the Moss Vale Post newspaper interviewed a very old woman who remembered listening to Black Maria's singing as a child.
"Black Maria, as she was called by the whites, possessed a very attractive voice and seated on the ground she often entertained the white children with lullabies, beating time with two sticks," the article said.
Four lines, purportedly from Maria's favourite song, were transcribed phonetically into the article. Mr Bell said these lines did not make sense in Ngunawal, as the people who transcribed them did not understand the language.
The story is further complicated by the identity of the woman who recalled Black Maria's lullaby. Mr Turnbull, it appears, made the assumption she was Black Maria's daughter, but this is not mentioned in the newspaper article. It's entirely possible that she was one of the white children who listened to Maria's songs.
What we do know is that Maria's alluring voice still resonates almost two centuries later.
Although the meaning of the original lullaby cannot be discerned, those four lines of inaccurately transcribed text helped inspire Mr Bell's late father to publish a book in the Ngunawal language, based on the legend of Mununja the Butterfly.
It is a love story about a young girl who escaped marriage to the evil Gunga and stayed close to her family and country forever under the protection of a beautiful butterfly, Mununja.
Mr Bell's father envisioned that the book, which included the Black Maria story as source material, could be used in schools to lift awareness of the language.
In the 1800s, Aboriginal people displaced by increasing British colonisation were moved to missions. They were often forbidden from speaking their mother tongue or following cultural traditions, meaning many cultures were lost forever.
But now, even elders are learning their language "from scratch". Mr Bell, Mr Freeman and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (ATSIS) launched a pilot project to teach Ngunawal two years ago.
Mr Bell and Mr Freeman started their project after a list of 30 words in Ngunawal was found two years ago. Since news of the project travelled to others in the Ngunawal community, they have collected more than 300 words.
There is increasing awareness of the importance of protecting indigenous languages. When he made his address to parliament in Ngunawal, Mr Turnbull announced A$20m ($14.8m; £10.5m) in funding for language preservation programmes.
Dr Marcus Woolombi Waters, a sociology lecturer at Griffith University, is of the Kamilaroi people. He says embracing indigenous languages is not only vital for Aboriginal identity and belonging, but can help create much-needed understanding for non-Indigenous Australians.
"That's not just healing Aboriginal people, that's letting Australians become inclusive in thousands of years of connections themselves," Dr Waters said.
|
Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was recently filmed wiping tears from his eyes as he told the story of an Aboriginal mother singing a lullaby to her child.
| 35,693,904 | 878 | 41 | false |
Tournament favourites Germany were dumped out on penalties after they were held to a 1-1 draw with Mali after extra-time.
Julian Brandt's volleyed opener appeared to put Germany on course but the game changed when Hany Mukhtak's second-half penalty was saved by Mali keeper and captain Djigui Diarra.
Mali equalised through Souleymane Coulibaly's diving header and were later let off the hook when Mukhtar missed an easy chance, resulting in the need for spot-kicks.
Both sides scored their first three penalties, before Mali's Adama Traore had his penalty saved and Brandt blasted his shot over.
Mali then made it 4-3 and claimed victory when Niklas Stark missed for Germany,
Coach Faneri Diarra dedicated the win to the supporting public in Mali, adding his side never doubted they had a giant-killing performance in them.
"With young kids in this tournament, there are always surprises," he said. "Our confidence has been rising throughout the event and our results have risen too."
Mali will meet either the United States or Serbia on Wednesday.
Senegal's passage to the semi-finals was less dramatic, securing their spot with a 1-0 win over Uzbekistan.
Mamadou Thiam scored in the 76th minute to give first-time qualifiers Senegal a meeting in the last-four with five-time champion Brazil on Wednesday.
Senegal had never won a match in the final qualifying stage for an under-20 tournament until this year.
After being denied for much of Sunday's match by Uzbekistan goalkeeper Dilshod Khamraev, Thiam combined with Remi Nassalan for the winning goal.
"`It was a very tough match as I was expecting,'' Senegal coach Joseph Koto said. "I can tell you one thing (Sengal's capital city) Dakar isn't sleeping right now.
"At first everyone expected us to get smashed, 5-0, 6-0, 7-0 at every match we played but the team actually progressed through the rounds and now everyone watches the matches.''
|
Mali shocked Germany and Senegal beat Uzbekistan to book their places in the Under-20 World Cup semi-finals.
| 33,123,980 | 498 | 30 | false |
Nicholas Salvador killed 82-year-old Palmira Silva in September last year.
The 25-year-old believed he was seeing demons and "ran amok" through back gardens in Edmonton, north London before the attack, the court heard.
He will be detained indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital.
Recorder of London Nicholas Hilliard QC told Salvador: "It is established beyond any doubt that you killed Mrs Silva in an attack of extraordinary brutality and ferocity.
"You thought you were encountering some demonic force which had taken on a human form. You could not have been more deluded.
"Nobody who saw it could forget the mild and trusting way Mrs Silva approached you over the wall while you were brandishing a knife."
He said Mrs Silva was a "gentle, intelligent" woman who deserved to live her life "in peace and with security, proud in the achievements of others".
The Old Bailey heard Salvador vaulted into Mrs Silva's garden and, after a brief exchange, stabbed her repeatedly before cutting her head off.
Her granddaughter Christina Silva said: "You don't really know how to comprehend this happened, you still to this day think it is a big nightmare and you think you're going to wake up and everything will be fine."
She added: "Every day I wake up and replay the attack on my grandmother in my head. Since the attack I have completely changed from the person I used to be.
"The thought of being alone in the house terrifies me."
Mrs Silva's daughter, Celestina Muis, said her mother's death had devastated the whole family who "no longer feel safe".
She said: "Palmira had a full life, loving her children, grandchildren and great grandchild. She was very much the glue that held us all together.
"Our lives have been torn apart knowing what happened to my mother."
Mrs Silva's family wiped away tears and hugged each other as the verdict was read out in court.
CCTV footage showed Salvador killing two cats before targeting Mrs Silva. He lost his job three days before the incident, and smoked skunk cannabis, the court heard.
His trial heard two psychiatrists agreed he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.
When he carried out the killing, he believed Mrs Silva was a supernatural entity, either Adolf Hitler back from the dead or a demon who had taken the form of an old lady, jurors heard.
He was staying with friends three doors away from the Italian-born grandmother's house in Nightingale Road when he went on the rampage.
Salvador was remanded in custody at Belmarsh prison but, due to his mental state, he was moved to high-security Broadmoor Hospital.
Enfield Inspector Doug Skinner said the there were children playing in nearby gardens when Salvador was jumping over fences.
"We genuinely thought he would kill those children and we were filled with utter terror," he said.
In court, Salvador's barrister Bernard Richmond said he was regarded as a decent man, when he was not unwell.
He said: "Mental illness in whatever circumstances can be terrifying for the person and one of the things we have to bear in mind that, after this case is finished, he will have to continue, as his mental state improves, coming to terms with the horror of what he did when he was unwell."
Video of Louis Head shows him yelling "Burn this [place] down!" before last week's riots over perceived racial injustice in the Missouri town.
He spoke as a grand jury announced no charges for a white police officer who shot and killed the unarmed teenager.
The incident sparked a nationwide dialogue about race relations.
St Louis County Police spokesman Brian Schellman told US media on Tuesday authorities want to talk to Mr Head about his comments amid a larger investigation into arson and looting during the Ferguson protests.
Twelve commercial buildings were destroyed by fire that night, after the jury's decision was announced.
Family attorney Benjamin Crump has called Mr Head's recorded comments "raw emotion".
The officer who shot Brown in Ferguson, Darren Wilson, resigned from the force over the weekend.
The policeman said he had feared for his life, but Brown's supporters said the teenager was attempting to surrender when he was shot.
Some witnesses said the 18-year-old, who was unarmed, had his hands up.
The investigation into Mr Head comes one day after President Barack Obama requested $263m (£167m) to improve police training, pay for body cameras and restore trust in policing.
"This is not a problem just of Ferguson, Missouri. This is a national problem, Mr Obama said. "But it's a solvable problem."
Shannon was nine when she disappeared from her home in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, in February 2008.
She was found 24 days later and her mother Karen was jailed for kidnapping.
The Kirklees Safeguarding Children Board review found there was "little leeway" for social services and other agencies to intervene.
In a statement, Alison O'Sullivan who chairs the board and is director for children and young people at Kirklees Council, said Shannon's abduction was "an unusual, unexpected and challenging event".
She added: "The involvement of many agencies over many years, all of that coming together could not have predicted the abduction of Shannon by her own mother.
"So I guess the question that's been in many people's minds, could this have been predicted, could it have been prevented?
Matthews was jailed after being convicted of kidnapping her daughter
Neglect fear over Shannon
Shannon Matthews timeline
"Very clearly, the serious case review says that actually it couldn't have been predicted and it couldn't have been prevented."
She said the review had found that the threshold for taking Shannon or her siblings into care had not been reached.
She said the council accepted and agreed with areas of criticism in the report.
Last year, Matthews, then 33, was jailed for eight years for her part in what a judge described as a "truly despicable" plot with Michael Donovan, in whose flat Shannon was found.
Donovan, who was the uncle of Shannon's stepfather, was also jailed for eight years.
She was found in his flat in Lidgate Gardens, Batley Carr, West Yorkshire, in the base of a bed. She had been drugged and forced to adhere to a strict list of rules while held captive.
Prosecutors said Donovan, then aged 40, kept Shannon imprisoned as part of a plan he and Matthews had hatched to claim a £50,000 reward offered by a national newspaper.
Kirklees Council announced a serious case review after Matthews and Donovan were convicted in December 2008.
Shannon's mother had refused to take part in the review, the report said.
The review concluded that the family's history was characterised by "neglectful parenting interspersed with periods of adequate parental care".
It confirmed that Shannon and one of her siblings were placed on the child protection register in 2002 but were removed in late 2003.
According to the report, they were put on the register for a number of reasons, including their mother's failure to prioritise "their need for a consistent and secure parental relationship over her own need for relationships with a number of male partners".
It said the reasons for the move related to Matthews's "failure to ensure safe and adequate parenting", with regard to a number of factors.
These included "protecting them from contact with individuals who posed a risk of physical and/or sexual abuse", ensuring they went to school and providing a comfortable home environment.
It said social workers had on occasions intervened but the impact of the "low-level neglect" they investigated was unlikely to be sufficient for care orders to be imposed.
No individuals had or would face disciplinary action because there were no "significant failings", the panel said.
Research firm Markit said its Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) surveys for April pointed to growth of just 0.1% in the month.
The latest PMI survey indicated the UK's services sector grew at its slowest pace in three years in April.
The services PMI reading fell to 52.3 from 53.7 in March.
A reading above 50 indicates growth.
Ahmed: Why is the UK economy in a funk?
Earlier this week, similar surveys from Markit suggested manufacturing activity contracted in April for the first time in three years, while construction activity grew at its slowest pace for nearly three years.
Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, said the surveys were a "triple-whammy of disappointing news".
"Some of the slowdown may be attributable to the early timing of Easter, though April also saw an increase in the number of companies reporting that uncertainty about the EU referendum caused customers to hold back on purchases, exacerbating already-weak demand linked to global growth jitters and ongoing government spending cuts," he said.
"The deterioration in April pushes the surveys into territory which has in the past seen the Bank of England start to worry about the need to revive growth."
Jobs growth in the services sector was also the slowest since August 2013, reflecting a recent weakening in the labour market as a whole.
Employment in manufacturing contracted in April and official data has shown that the number of people out of work rose for the first time since mid-2015 in the three months to February.
David Noble, head of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), which produces the PMI surveys with Markit, said: "The looming EU referendum has had a profound effect on the [service] sector, keeping prices relatively stagnant and delaying new orders.
"At the other end of the supply chain, the National Living Wage has compounded cost increases, resulting in the overall rate of input price inflation hitting a 27-month high.
"Together, these factors have squeezed margins while fewer than half of businesses expect to grow over the next 12 months."
Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight, said: "There is now compelling evidence that heightened uncertainty ahead of June's referendum on EU membership is taking an increasing toll on economic activity.
"A much weakened set of April purchasing managers' surveys for the services, manufacturing and construction surveys follows on from consumer confidence weakening to a 16-month low in April and the CBI reporting lacklustre retail sales"
More than 200 civilians left, joining hundreds allowed out since the truce was agreed on Friday.
But concerns remain over the fate of men of military age who face questioning by the Syrian authorities.
Meanwhile, talks between the warring sides have continued in Geneva, with no sign of any breakthrough.
In other developments:
Meanwhile sharp words have been exchanged by Washington and Moscow after Russia again objected to a draft UN Security Council resolution - this time, one that would call on all sides to allow aid workers access across Syria.
That was criticised by US President Barack Obama, who called Russia a "holdout" and suggested that by blocking the resolution it too was responsible for "starving civilians", along with Syria.
A Russian foreign ministry spokesman dismissed the criticism as a "biased distortion", highlighting Russia's role in helping achieve the ceasefire in Homs and insisting Russia was as concerned about the humanitarian situation in Syria as Washington.
But the BBC's Nick Bryant at the UN in New York says that although Russia has rejected this present draft, it has not slammed the door on an alternative resolution.
Government troops have besieged Homs for 18 months.
By Lyse DoucetChief international correspondent
The "humanitarian pause" in the Old City of Homs is a rare glimmer of light in a dark and devastating war. The UN says the mission has already helped a "significant" number of people to leave the besieged area and a "limited" amount of aid is getting through.
The UN's resident humanitarian co-ordinator, Yacoub El Hillo, told me they were "baby steps" that, he hoped, could lead to the "giant steps" that were needed.
But a rare truce also meant to build trust is exposing deep enmities. The longer the mission goes on, the more sensitive it becomes.
Some pro-government forces are vehemently opposed to an operation that is allowing fighters to escape an area that has been the focus of heavy fighting for nearly two years. And the opposition is angry that young men who leave are being taken in for questioning.
More than 100 have been released, but more than 200 are still being held. In Syria's brutal conflict, even humanitarian pauses cannot escape the cruel logic of war.
Lyse on the ground in Homs
Evacuations over the weekend were facilitated by a three-day truce, which was then extended until Wednesday, though the relief operation was halted by a day on Tuesday due to logistical reasons.
Nearly 200 parcels containing flour, rice, vegetable oil and other foodstuffs were delivered on Wednesday.
The UN's local humanitarian co-ordinator, Yacoub El Hillo, and Homs Governor Talal Barazi said more than 200 civilians had been taken out of Homs in Wednesday's operation.
But hundreds of civilians remain trapped inside the Old City.
Mr Barazi said an extension to the current ceasefire, due to end late on Wednesday, could be agreed.
UN agencies have also expressed concern over the fate of dozens of men who were taken in by Syrian security personnel after they fled Homs.
Mr Barazi said 111 men had been questioned and released, while 190 others were still being held.
"I just want to say I hope that that the bigger percentage will all be released," he told the BBC.
"They are living in a shelter in very good conditions."
The Syrian authorities said the screening was necessary to weed out "terrorists".
In Geneva, Syrian government and opposition negotiators met face-to-face again on Wednesday.
The opposition proposed a transitional governing body (TGB) be set up to oversee a UN-monitored ceasefire across Syria and steer it out of the nearly three-year war.
It would expel all foreign fighters, allow full humanitarian access and achieve a political solution to the war.
But regime representatives refused to discuss the plan, saying it was broaching political questions prematurely, reported AFP news agency.
UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has lamented a lack of progress in the talks - bringing forward a meeting with Russian and US officials by one day to Thursday in an apparent attempt to get them to apply pressure to the opposed Syrian sides.
The first round of talks ended last month with no firm agreements and both sides trading insults.
Meanwhile, the bloodshed continues inside Syria, with the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights saying Syrians are being killed at a faster rate than ever.
The British-based group, which has links to the opposition, said at least 4,959 people had died in the three-week period since 22 January, when the first round of Swiss talks began.
The opposition wants the government to commit in writing to the 2012 Geneva Communique, which called for the formation of a transitional administration with full executive authority.
President Bashar al-Assad's government has ruled out any transfer of power.
The civil conflict has claimed more than 100,000 lives and has driven 9.5 million people from their homes.
The bird, called Pamana, was found in a forest in the south, close to where it had been released.
There are thought to be only 400 pairs of Philippine eagles left in the wild.
Whoever shot it could be jailed for up to 12 years and fined up to 1 million pesos (£39,000; $61,000).
Pamana, whose name means "heritage" in Tagalog, was first brought into the Philippine Eagle Center in 2012 with gunshot wounds, and spent the next three years recuperating, reported ABS-CBN News.
She was released at the forest in Mount Hamihuitan on 12 June - the Philippines' Independence Day. Her tracking device later indicated she had stopped moving.
She was found on Wednesday in an advanced state of decomposition, said the Philippine Inquirer.
"Unfortunately, one person with a gun thinks he can shoot anything," the Philippine Eagle Foundation's executive director Joseph Salvador told reporters.
The Philippine eagle is considered critically endangered because of the loss of its natural rainforest habitat and hunting.
Evan Mosey scored the winner with four minutes, 25 seconds of overtime left, two days after the Panthers had beaten the Welsh side 6-1 in the Elite League.
The victory keeps alive Corey Neilson's fourth-placed Panthers side's hopes of a league-and-cup double this season.
It was a fourth consecutive defeat in all competitions for Cardiff.
The Panthers had the best chance in a cagey first 20 minutes when Robert Lachowicz hit the side-netting with the Devils on a powerplay midway through the period.
Cardiff, who beat Sheffield Steelers 2-1 in last year's final, improved in the second period with player-coach Andrew Lord shooting narrowly wide.
The Welsh side, second in the Elite League behind leaders Sheffield, applied plenty of pressure in the final period of regulation time, but could not find the breakthrough.
The Panthers came agonisingly close to finding a sudden-death winner with Stephen Schultz and Brad Moran both striking the woodwork, while Devils' Ben Bowns made a string of fine saves.
But Cardiff's netminder could do nothing to stop Mosey's powerful, long-distance strike into the top corner, as the game threatened to go to penalty shots.
The Devils had beaten Belfast Giants 8-4 on aggregate in the last four while hosts Nottingham saw off Sheffield Steelers to reach the final.
Nottingham now travel to Coventry Blaze in the league on Wednesday, 9 March.
Cardiff's next game is against Belfast Giants in the Elite League on Saturday, 12 March - the Devils' first match at their new home, the Ice Arena Wales.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri says he wrote the curriculum - in English, Arabic and Urdu - to counter and undermine the extremists' arguments that they speak in the name of Islam.
It was unveiled at a launch in London on Tuesday.
"This isn't a process that started yesterday. That radicalisation began to happen 30 years ago," he says.
"You can see this gradual process of grooming by extremist groups such as IS and we must address that, and the arguments used by IS to justify their criminal, terrorist activities.
"You have to tell young people that IS and others are giving them the wrong interpretations of Islamic concepts such as jihad.
"Many young people don't have the scriptural or textual knowledge to interpret their religion properly and Islamic State exploits the emotions and the idealism of the young, although this ideology has nothing to do with the Koran.
"So this curriculum goes to the source material of Islam, and answers the questions young people are asking."
At least 700 Britons are estimated to have travelled to Syria and Iraq, many of them to join IS.
Five years ago, Mr Qadri issued a fatwa or teaching declaring that suicide bombers were unbelievers.
He is keen to help prevent more young people sharing the same fate as the young Britons who have died after joining IS, and would like his curriculum to be taught not just at mosques and Islamic institutions but used in state schools across Britain.
"This curriculum is for parents, teachers, and students, so that young Muslims may become aware of the false interpretations being spread by IS.
"But this is not a battle of 'you versus us' because the young people who went to fight for IS are our children, our future, our sons and daughters.
"We are working for cohesion and for inclusion, not to exclude or divide, and we want to make clear that the violent and extreme activities being carried out by IS in the name of religion are totally in violation of the Koran and Islam."
Mr Qadri, head of the global Minhaj ul-Quran religious and educational organisation, plans to take his curriculum to Pakistan, India, the Middle East and the US.
The move comes a few days after Prime Minister David Cameron called on Muslim communities to do more to stop young people being radicalised by groups such as IS - also known as ISIS - saying some Muslims were quietly condoning extremist views.
He was criticised for those comments by Baroness Warsi, the first Muslim to serve in a British cabinet.
She spoke at Tuesday's launch, telling an audience of imams, police, politicians and academics that the government should consider using the curriculum in all schools.
"The British Muslim communities are a pivotal part of the solution," she says.
"British Muslim communities do not quietly condone IS - they condemn it and this curriculum has been created to help ensure that people have the necessary material to challenge the ideological arguments that ISIS are producing.
"I think it is important for government to now engage with Muslim communities and engage with this curriculum as well.
"What you're seeing here today is people of all faiths and all theological backgrounds within Islam getting together to say 'we condemn ISIS', and it's important to acknowledge that and all the work that is being done up and down the country."
However, will Muslims in Britain and elsewhere be listening to Mr Qadri or following his curriculum?
Matthew Wilkinson, a Muslim theologian and educational philosopher based at UCL Institute of Education, and director of research project Curriculum for Cohesion, believes the launch marks a small but significant step "because it has come from the heart of the Muslim community".
It has some "from a significant and renowned scholar of Islam, and addresses the problem of Islamist violent extremism from within the theological traditions of Islam... and that's important", he says.
Mr Wilkinson believes the process of de-radicalisation will take a long time, perhaps a generation or two "of good education and political solutions".
However, some other Islamic scholars fear Mr Qadri's political work in Pakistan may detract from his overall message, and suggest that his influence could be limited to his own tradition and may not reach out to those within Islam who scorn the Sufi tradition.
Those with the loudest voices and best timing will pass the first stage of the Lawn Tennis Association's (LTA) training course to become an umpire.
The courses are held at the National Tennis Centre - a stone's throw, or a mishit forehand, from Richmond Park in south-west London.
Anyone can take the test, but only those with some specific qualities pass.
Eyesight is obviously important - umpires must have 20/20 vision, corrected or uncorrected.
So is knowing the rules of tennis.
In the US, the United States Tennis Association has put its rule guide online, with 230 pages of questions such as what to do if a player grunts too loudly or injures their opponent, and where a player should place their towel.
Emily McGuinness passed the LTA's line umpire course in 2014 and is now on their development scheme for star umpires of the future.
The recruits have set up a WhatsApp group in which they regularly test each other on the rules of the game.
She says having a loud voice is crucial to being a good umpire.
"It is quite unnatural for most people to shout really loudly, so it takes a while to get into the habit of that."
Umpires need good reaction times because players hate it when an official makes a late call.
But they must not be too quick - some aspiring umpires fail the course because they call before the ball lands.
Reaction times are particularly useful when tracking a 157 miles per hour serve by the American John Isner, then ducking out of the firing line after making the call.
Most umpires have a day job that does not involve being on a tennis court.
There are umpires who also work as medical doctors, university professors, priests and a NASA engineer.
Father Paul Arinze, a Catholic priest from Wisconsin, US, has umpired matches at Wimbledon, the Australian Open, the US Open, and last year's Olympic Games.
He says being used to talking in front of a congregation helps him control his nerves during tennis matches.
When players are angrily questioning a call, he can keep his cool. After all, he is a specialist in forgiveness.
"I understand how players react in the heat of competition and that they do not mean what they say," he says.
"It is important not to make the situation worse - even if you know you are in the right."
Umpires can discipline a player for breaching the rules, and they are given a list of swear words in different languages to listen out for.
Players have calmed down since the days when John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors and llie Nastase threw tantrums at an umpire in front of millions of TV viewers.
But the job still has its dangers. Earlier this year, Arnaud Gabas ended up in hospital after Canadian player Denis Shapovalov accidentally struck him with a ball and fractured a bone under his left eye.
Umpires need total concentration to track the ball over the course of a match.
"I had not realised how much effort it is to focus for that long, it is different to sitting at your desk working on a computer," says Ms McGuinness, who also works in marketing for the charity CARE International.
Fr Arinze says umpiring has improved his concentration, which helps him to carry out his duties as a priest.
"When I counsel someone, they can speak for a long time but I maybe only need to reply to 20% of what they say, and it is important that I do not miss that part," he says.
If an umpire has a good match, they will barely be noticed by spectators.
But there are exceptions. Swedish umpire Mohamed Layani, who is regarded as one of the world's best, has a cult following among tennis fans.
His distinctive call of "fifteen-love" has even been sampled in a rap song.
Global education
Get in touch with the Global education series.
Continuing professional development is an important part of umpiring. Officials are watched every match and given feedback on their performance by more senior umpires.
Officials start out as a line judge, and those with the best scores progress to calling the score from the tall umpire's chair.
Major tournaments like Wimbledon are hardest to umpire - there are bigger crowds and better players who hit the ball harder and faster.
Dr Kris Jaeger-Helton, an engineering professor at Northeastern University in Boston in the United States, rose through the ranks to become a chair umpire alongside her studies.
She says she tries to build trust with players and students alike.
"One time, when a player arrived at court and said: 'I'm glad you're doing my match, you always look out for us,' I wanted to bring that tone to the classroom as well," she says.
Whether in the classroom or officiating a tennis match, "it is better to conduct the activity rather than to have to be in charge or control it".
She adds that, although training engineers and chairing tennis matches need to be taken seriously, "sometimes it is okay to lighten up a little".
"You've got to enjoy what you do and let it show in the balance," she says.
The Lawn Tennis Association's information about becoming a match official.
David Bolt, who was director of intelligence at the now-defunct Serious Organised Crime Agency, replaces John Vine who stepped down in December.
The Home Office said Mr Bolt, who is chief executive of the International Federation of Spirits Producers, will take up the role "as soon as possible".
Home Secretary Theresa May said he was an "excellent candidate".
"I am confident that he will carry out his duties with diligence, vigour and objectivity," she said.
Mr Bolt was deputy director general of strategic intelligence at the National Criminal Intelligence Service between 2001 and 2006.
He was executive director of intelligence at the Serious Organised Crime Agency between 2006 and 2010.
Mr Vine, who had complained to MPs that the impact of his work was compromised after Mrs May took control of the publication of reports, stepped down more than six months earlier than planned.
During his six years in the role, some of the reports Mr Vine published were highly critical of the immigration system.
I was close to the entrance of the tunnel and what struck me was the robotic attitude of the security guards. People had travelled far to come to the festival. When the security stopped letting people in, they started pushing, so there was lots of pressure and screaming. I saw people going blue in the face. I was arguing with a guard to let the people in, but no amount of persuasion and reason could get through. It was a horrific display of mismanagement and stupidity. I'm depressed beyond belief.
This was a nightmare. I saw one girl they were trying to resuscitate and she had broken legs. Her boyfriend was near her but there was nothing he could do. They put a cover over her in the end. This is the first time I have seen people die. Someone needs to go for jail for this because people died for absolutely nothing. The moment I got there, I knew it was going to be a nightmare because there were too many people and the area was way too small. I lost my friends during the night but thankfully they're all safe.
I'm on holiday and decided to go to the Love Parade spontaneously. The stampede reminded me of a heavy metal concert, only here, there was nobody to help. The number of people that I saw lying on the floor was ridiculous. They had stamp marks on their faces. It wasn't until I saw people being resuscitated that I understood how serious this was. I don't even know if they were alive or dead. Simply unbelievable: the police and security personnel were more concerned with keeping people away from the edges, rather than helping them.
We had one very tragic case [here at Duisburg's BGU hospital]. A young girl from Italy was brought here, very disorientated, she said she had been momentarily unconscious, but was otherwise only slightly injured. She had lost all her hair and was missing her friend. She was here only for a short time to get looked after, and then she just waited here to be transferred to her hotel in Oberhausen. While waiting here, she was informed by the police that her missing friend had indeed died in the stampede.
It was hell. The tunnel was dark, it was full. Something happened - whether someone tripped or someone fell I don't know. But there was a stampede to get to the other end and those who fell… well, many of them never got up again.
I have never seen anything like it. I saw 25 people piled on top of one another, a huge heap. I cried.
The people couldn't get any air. I saw the dead there. One person was completely pale and I wanted to give him some water but a medic said that wouldn't help him - he was already gone.
I saw police on the bridge just standing there and they didn't do anything.
I was standing between the two bridges and saw that more and more people kept coming through. They walked into each other and tried to run up stairs and to climb up a flood defence. It was an absolute panic situation. Nothing went forwards, nothing went backwards. We couldn't do anything.
It was quite mixed. There were some who were quite hysterical and were crying. There were some who helped, who offered to help but the majority were just helpless and stood in the crowds. They couldn't do much.
At some point the column [of people] got stuck, probably because everything was closed up front, and we saw that the first people were already lying on the ground.
Others climbed up the walls and tried somehow to get into the grounds from the side, and the people in the crowd that moved up simply ran over those who were lying on the ground.
I was lucky. I found a hole to escape through but two women were killed right next to me.
Both my legs were trapped - then, thank God, somebody helped me up, then I helped another up... and then, kind of by luck, we were pushed back out of the crowd.
Nothing was possible, no mobile phones, the networks were overloaded. Nothing worked. My family is just happy that I returned home in one piece, because they were worried. They all phoned me later. I just found it all very bad.
And I cannot understand that there was only this one way through which we were let into and let out of. That it turned to panic in a situation like this is fully expected.
We were standing in the middle of it. More and more people were trying to get to the grounds.
We were almost through the tunnel and were standing at the entrance, but [the crowd] went no further. We went back through the tunnel, and my girlfriend and I could scarcely breathe. We had to use our elbows to get through. We told the police that it would soon come to a mass panic.
That was around 45 minutes before the accident. There were already people pushed together in rows.
The 10-metre (32.8ft) Man Engine will travel the length of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site to mark the 10th anniversary Unesco heritage status.
The puppet is the same height as a double decker bus when in "crawling" mode but more than twice that height when standing.
It was launched in Tavistock and will reach west Cornwall on 6 August.
More updates on the giant puppet, and other Devon and Cornwall news here
The machine is the brainchild of Will Coleman, founder of Golden Tree Productions, and is named after a mechanism used to move miners up and down to working levels.
10m
Height when standing (32.8ft)
4.5m
Height when crawling (14.8ft)
40 tonnes Weight with accompanying vehicle
130 miles Distance travelled in two weeks, Tavistock to Geevor
10 Cornish Mining World Heritage Site areas visited
Media playback is not supported on this device
A Fifa taskforce has recommended switching the event to winter because of hot summer temperatures in Qatar.
That move has provoked plenty of criticism but Neville thinks it could be hugely beneficial to England's hopes of winning the tournament.
He believes players will be fresh and ready to take on the world's best.
"We normally go into a World Cup at the end of a long, hard, nine-month season when our players are absolutely dead on their feet," Neville, who won 59 caps for his country, told BBC Sport.
"For an England team, this might be the best thing that's ever happened."
The former Manchester United and Everton defender added that he would be "licking my lips" if he was England boss Roy Hodgson because "we'll have the freshest ever national team going to a World Cup".
Tuesday's recommendation is expected to be ratified by Fifa's executive committee in Zurich in March.
The proposal has been backed by Uefa president Michel Platini, the Confederation of African Football and Concacaf - the confederation responsible for football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. The Asian Football Confederation president is Sheikh Salman.
Serbian Football Association vice-president Savo Milosevic called it a "good decision" as it would coincide with their winter break.
But it has prompted an angry response from a number of influential football figures, among them Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, who has accused Fifa of "damaging" the traditions of the English game by disrupting the Christmas schedule.
Neville, however, believes the positives outweigh the negatives for the English game and the national team, whose one and only World Cup success came in 1966.
"We've cried out for a long time for a mid-winter break," added Neville. "Maybe this will give us a great chance of winning a World Cup."
England striker Wayne Rooney has played an average of 50 matches for club and country in the seasons preceding the last three World Cups.
In 2022, a typical England player at a club competing in the Champions League could expect to have played only 14 matches games between the start and the season and the end of October.
"In this country, we are very traditionalist," added Neville, who played for England between 1996 and 2007 but never made a World Cup squad.
"We like to have our 10 weeks off over the summer, the games over Christmas, but the game is changing now. People don't like change, but they have to get used to it."
Neville also thinks the summer heat in Qatar would have proved prohibitive had the tournament remained in its traditional slot.
Temperatures in the Gulf state can exceed 40C in June and July, while those in November and December drop to around 25C.
"I visit Qatar two to three times a year and to play it in the summer months would be impossible," said BBC pundit Neville, who also works for Doha-based broadcaster Al Jazeera.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Neville conceded that the process by which Qatar was awarded the World Cup in 2010 before the timing of the tournament had been agreed was "all wrong".
He is also concerned at how a winter World Cup will impact on the FA Cup, but has challenged English football bosses to come up with a schedule that will suit all parties.
"Maybe FA Cup replays will have to be sacrificed, which would be a shame because it's a fantastic competition," said Neville.
"It's up to the Premier League and the FA to work out the best possible plan so that nobody suffers, so that everybody - clubs, managers and owners - is getting everything they want in terms of the correct amount of fixtures, the correct amount of time with their players and amount of time afterwards so players can recover."
Dr Jones, a lecturer in sports biomechanics and strength and conditioning, believes end-of-season fatigue is mental as well as physical.
"At the tail end of season you've got so many competitions finishing," he said. "Players are often playing twice a week in that time. These are big games that are mentally hard to recover from so it might be easier in November when the games are not so critical.
"Two games a week on top of what's already been played, be it 30 or 40 games, will have a cumulative effect. There are other factors, not just the physical timing of the World Cup. I think a chunk of it can be mental."
Mike Penning said it did not "make sense" to have different premises.
It comes as new plans are published to get the services working more closely.
There are also proposals for police and crime commissioners (PCCs) to oversee fire brigades, which could include choosing an officer in charge of hiring and firing fire and police staff.
This top officer post would be open to senior officers from both the police and fire service. They would hold the rank of chief constable - and to allow this the government would remove the current rule that holders of the rank must have served as a constable.
PCCs would get responsibility for fire services "where a local case is made", the Home Office said.
In most parts of England, police, fire and ambulance services have separate control centres and when someone rings 999, they have to tell an operator which service they need.
Emergency services in some areas - including Northamptonshire and Hampshire - are already working on joint schemes, but the Home Office wants more and is introducing a "statutory duty" on the three services to collaborate.
In Northamptonshire, police, fire and ambulance services are sharing "training, premises and a joint operations", the Home Office said. In Hampshire, senior police officers now operate out of the Hampshire Fire and Rescue HQ.
Mr Penning, minister for policing and fire, said: "It simply doesn't make sense for emergency services to have different premises, different back offices and different IT systems when their work is so closely related and they often share the same boundaries."
He said he would also like PCCs to take responsibility for their local ambulance service, but at this stage the Home Office is only planning to extend PCC powers to fire brigades.
The plan for PCCs to oversee fire services was called "dangerous" by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) when it was suggested last year.
It said the move would be a "costly experiment with no guarantee for success".
Steve White, chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said: "Officers from both emergency services already do pull together, working alongside week in, week out, as has been evidenced most recently by the appalling floods.
"So why the burning need to change the law? It's like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut."
Paul Hancock, Cheshire's Chief Fire Officer and president of the Chief Fire Officers Association, said combining control rooms was "absolutely a good thing".
He said there were "fantastic examples" of emergency services working together across the country, and he welcomed PCCs taking control of fire services when there was a "local case".
But he said there were "some concerns" within the fire service about losing its "unique brand and reputation" due to being associated with the police.
The government's plan also includes abolishing the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority and giving its responsibilities to the Greater London Authority.
The infant mortality rate was 3.6 deaths for every 1,000 live births, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Some areas saw rises, including the East of England, north east England, West Midlands and parts of South Wales.
The ONS said improved healthcare was partly behind the fall.
There were 2,517 infant deaths - deaths of children under one year old - in England and Wales in 2014, compared with 2,686 in 2013 and 6,037 in 1984.
Respiratory and cardiovascular problems were the most common causes of infant deaths, responsible for 41% of the total.
The ONS figures showed that between 1984 and 2014 the mortality rate for children aged 1 to 14 years dropped by 64%.
There were 10 deaths per 100,000 children in 2014, compared with 28 per 100,000 three decades earlier.
Cancer and diseases of the nervous system are the most common cause of death for children aged 16 and under, the ONS reported.
The rate of stillbirths increased in Wales, rising from 4.5 for every 1,000 births to 5.2 between 2013 and 2014.
It also increased in England in the South West, East Midlands, West Midlands and South East.
The England average was unchanged, at 4.6 stillbirths per 1,000 babies. The North East saw the biggest fall in England from 5 stillbirths per 1,000 babies to 4.3.
In a report on the figures the ONS said: "Infant mortality rates have decreased in England and Wales since the early 1900s. More recently, over the past 30 years, the rate of decline has varied; the decrease between 1984 and 1994 was more than double the decrease recorded in each of the latter two decades.
"Since 1984, when the rate was 9.5 deaths per 1,000 live births, there has been a 62% fall in the infant mortality rate in England and Wales.
"General improvements in healthcare and more specific improvements in midwifery and neonatal intensive care can partly explain the overall fall in mortality rates."
A spokeswoman for the Lily Mae Foundation, which supports parents and families following stillbirths and neonatal deaths, said: "The statistics for infant mortality being at their lowest ever in England and Wales are great news and seem to suggest that something is being done correctly.
"Sadly when you then look at the rise in stillbirth figures in specific areas of the country including the West Midlands it highlights that either the improvements are not being made nationally, or that there are other factors that are playing a large role in theses figures.
"My main concern with a significant regional variation is that there are other demographic and socio-economic factors that may contribute to these higher rates in specific areas regionally.
"Whilst improvements are being made these figures highlight that there is still a lot of work to be done to lower the stillbirth rate consistently across all regions of the UK."
The Department of Health said it has made a number of investments to cut the number of stillbirths, neonatal deaths, maternal deaths and neonatal brain injuries.
Health Minister Ben Gummer said: "Although progress has been made, the death of a child is always a tragedy and we know that more needs to be done to address variation.
"We've committed to halve the number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths by 2030 - investing in improved training for staff, new safety equipment and making sure hospitals review and learn from every tragic case."
The Crime Survey for England and Wales reported 7.5 million crimes against households and adults in that year, the lowest level since it began in 1981.
Separate police figures showed a 2% fall in crime for 2013, with increases in areas such as fraud (25%) as well as a 17% rise in reported sex offences following the Jimmy Savile scandal.
Ministers said the figures were "good news" and showed reforms were working.
The CSEW report, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), estimates crime levels based on how many people say they have been the victim of a crime.
The survey suggested crimes against households and adults in the year ending in December 2013 were down 15% compared with the previous year.
By Danny ShawHome affairs correspondent, BBC News
These figures come as no surprise - crime has been falling almost continuously since the mid-1990s.
What is unexpected, however, is the size of the reduction: the 15% fall is the biggest percentage decline since the survey began 33 years ago.
The 22% drop in violence is also substantially more than in other years - reinforcing recent findings from Cardiff University's study of people treated for crime-related injuries.
The only statistics which tell a different story are those compiled by police forces. But these should be treated with an abundance of caution - not just because of concerns the figures have been fiddled but also because they hinge on whether victims report crimes to police or not.
Mark Easton: The truth behind the rise in sex crimes
The ONS said the reduction of crime measured was driven by a fall in offences - including household theft, which was down 25% and overall violence, which fell 22%.
Reports of vandalism fell 15% over the course of the year.
The figures also suggested there were 762,000 crimes experienced by children aged 10-15 in 2013 - down 13% compared with 2012.
BBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the fall in crime came as no surprise.
But he said the size of the reduction - the biggest since the survey began - was "unexpected".
Meanwhile, the police figures on reported crime for England and Wales showed a fall across most of the main categories of crime, with 3.7 million offences recorded in the year ending December 2013 - down 2% from the previous year.
However, increases in some categories were recorded, with incidents of shoplifting up 6% and violence against a person rising by 1%.
The latter is thought to reflect improvements in recording and possibly a rise in public reporting.
The rise in fraud comes after a move to centralise the recording of the crime.
And allegations against high-profile figures, including those surrounding the late DJ Savile, were linked to a jump in recorded sexual offences.
Crime Prevention Minister Norman Baker said: "Under this coalition government, overall crime is down by more than 10% according to both the independent crime survey and police-recorded crime.
"Today's statistics are more good news and the evidence is clear: police reform is working and crime is falling."
Adam Pemberton, assistant chief executive at Victim support, said the group welcomed the fall in crime.
But he added: "It is important to remember that for many of the victims of 7.5 million crimes committed last year, the impact will have been severe and long-lasting."
Chief Constable Jeff Farrar, head of crime statistics for the Association of Chief Police Officers, said the figures confirmed the impact that prominent operations on sexual abuse and fraud were having.
The figures do not cover Scotland and Northern Ireland.
In June last year, the Scottish government said there had been a 13% drop in recorded crime in the year to March 2013.
In Northern Ireland, crime fell by 2.9% in 2012/13 compared with the previous year, according to statistics.
Pauline Cafferkey's family also thanked the public for their support and hospital staff for their kindness.
The nurse from Glasgow is being treated at London's Royal Free Hospital.
Ms Cafferkey was diagnosed with Ebola in December having volunteered with other UK NHS staff for the charity Save the Children in West Africa.
The family statement said: "We would like to thank all our friends, family and the members of the public who have contacted us with support following Pauline's diagnosis with Ebola. We have been very touched by the kind words.
"Pauline continues to be in a critical condition at the Royal Free Hospital. We want to thank all the staff caring for her for their kindness, support and compassion.
"Pauline's condition could remain the same for some time and we would again ask for her and our privacy to be respected."
Ms Cafferkey, 39, is being treated with experimental drugs and has received blood plasma from another British nurse, Will Pooley, who recovered from an Ebola infection last year.
She had travelled home to Scotland via Casablanca, Morocco, and Heathrow Airport in London.
She was initially screened at Heathrow, where her temperature was normal, despite telling officials that she felt unwell.
Her temperature was taken a further six times within 30 minutes, but it was normal each time and she was cleared to fly on to Scotland.
Ms Cafferkey was then placed in an isolation unit at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital after becoming feverish, before being transferred by RAF Hercules plane to London on 30 December, and taken to the Royal Free's specialist treatment centre.
Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, such as blood, vomit or faeces.
The virus has killed more than 7,800 people, almost all in West Africa, since it broke out a year ago.
The World Health Organization says the number of people infected by the disease in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea has now passed 20,000.
The company was one of several fund managers to suspend redemptions from property funds worth £18bn in the wake of the UK's Brexit vote last month.
The value of Aberdeen's fund was cut by 17%, leaving it worth about £2.7bn.
Most investors who wanted their money back had now asked for their redemption orders to be cancelled, a spokesman said.
Martin Gilbert, Aberdeen chief executive, said: "The market may take time to find its level. Investors should be aware that the price may be adjusted on a daily basis to reflect the funds' requirement to provide liquidity and the need to protect all investors."
The firm will sell some property assets to meet redemption requests.
Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "Investors should be very wary of dealing under these conditions. Those selling the fund are probably already expecting the worst, so it's buyers who stand to be most disappointed if the price suddenly jumps up."
Ten commercial property funds run by the likes of M&G, Aviva, Standard Life, Henderson, Canada Life and Threadneedle that were mostly aimed at retail investors have all imposed restrictions on redemptions following market turbulence after the referendum vote.
Last week, Legal & General cut the value of its £2.3bn ($3bn) UK property fund by a further 10%, following a previous 5% reduction.
Five funds - Aviva, Henderson, M&G, Standard Life and Threadneedle - remain suspended.
Meanwhile, a Bank of England report found that banks reduced lending to the commercial property sector for the first time in four years ahead of the EU referendum amid fears over a collapse in prices.
The Bank's credit conditions survey revealed that the availability of loans for the sector fell sharply in the second quarter of this year - the first fall since the same period in 2012.
Banks are expected to place further restrictions on lending to the sector, according to the report.
Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has warned about the outlook for the commercial property sector because prices were expected to be hit by the Brexit decision.
Some analysts fear price falls of up to 20% - some distance from the falls of about 44% recorded during the financial crisis.
It emerged on Tuesday that the Bank was given advance warning by the Financial Conduct Authority about the likelihood of property fund suspensions.
Baptiste, 30, joined Boro last summer but has yet to make a competitive appearance after suffering a double leg fracture in a pre-season friendly.
The 30-year-old previously had spells at Mansfield Town and Blackburn and was a member of the Blackpool team that won promotion to the Premiership in 2008.
He will be available for Tuesday night's game against Burton Albion.
"Following an injury, he is now fit and raring to go and will make a valuable contribution in the remaining months of the season," Sheffield United manager Nigel Adkins told the club website.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The government has agreed on a new law to criminalise "insulting and slandering the good name of Poland".
The ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) has a clear majority in parliament.
Phrases like "Polish concentration camps" will be punishable by up to three years in jail. Millions died in Nazi German camps on Polish soil.
Under the new law it will be illegal to suggest "publicly and contrary to the facts" that Poles participated in, or bore any responsibility for, the crimes of the Third Reich, a Polish Justice Ministry statement said (in Polish).
Millions of people, mostly Jews, from across Europe were killed in six German-run extermination camps in occupied Poland.
Further Holocaust atrocities were committed in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos in Poland.
The country was occupied by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945. The murders wiped out 90% of Poland's pre-war Jewish population.
The ministry statement said the new law "will effectively combat the lies detrimental to the good image and good name of Poland, reproduced mainly by foreign media".
How the Holocaust unfolded, year by year
Why did ordinary people commit atrocities in the Holocaust?
Polish leader vows anti-Semitism fight
There were, however, some Polish atrocities against Jews and other civilians during and after the war.
In 1941, Polish villagers in Jedwabne, perhaps at the instigation of the Nazis, rounded up more than 300 of their Jewish neighbours and burned them alive in a barn.
And 42 people, most of them survivors of the Holocaust, were murdered in 1946 in Kielce, 150km (93 miles) south of Warsaw.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said "mismanagement" of the project had left customers "angry and frustrated".
It warns "similar flaws" could impact on planned electrification schemes on Midlands and TransPennine routes.
Network Rail claimed it had "learnt lessons" and major projects no longer start before being "properly scoped".
However, doubts have been expressed that the plan to electrify the London to Cardiff line can be delivered by December 2018 and to a budget of £2.8bn, while the PAC described a £1.2bn increase in costs "in the space of a year" as "staggering and unacceptable".
Among its recommendations it said the DfT and Network Rail should reassess the case for electrification section-by-section and fund schemes "only where worthwhile benefits for passengers could not be achieved otherwise at lower cost".
The committee added Network Rail needed to produce "realistic cost estimates" and have "robust and detailed" plans.
Meg Hillier MP, chair of the PAC, said mismanagement of the Great Western programme has hit taxpayers hard and left many people angry and frustrated.
"This is a stark example of how not to run a major project, from flawed planning at the earliest stage to weak accountability and what remain serious questions about the reasons for embarking on the work in the first place.
"The sums of public money wasted are appalling - not least the £330m additional costs the Department for Transport will have to pay to keep the trains running because of delays to electrification."
Network Rail said the modernisation was agreed in 2009, "long before the scale of the work was properly understood".
"Network Rail and Department for Transport (DfT) have learnt the lessons from the poor early planning of this project," a spokesman said.
"Today we do not take forward major projects until they are properly scoped, properly planned and we have a robust estimate of what the cost will be."
The 10 letters were penned between 1951 and 1960 to her mentor and lifelong friend Sir Felix Aylmer.
They reveal details of a dramatic decade of the actress's life as she rose from an unknown ballerina to Hollywood fame.
They had been estimated to sell at the Bonhams auction in London for up to £4,000.
In one letter, the actress wrote that "with a heavy heart" she had broken off her engagement to socialite James Hanson.
"It is all very unhappy-making," she said. "I fear I thought it possible to make our combined lives and careers work out."
It was followed by joy at finding her future husband, actor Mel Ferrer, whom she married in private in 1954.
"We want to keep [the wedding] a dark secret in order to have it without the 'press'," she wrote.
At the same auction, Freddie Mercury's personal song writing notebook sold for £62,500, while a Dalek from BBC series Doctor Who sold for £16,250.
A rare album cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band signed by all four members of the band sold for £74,500.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email [email protected].
The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) said a new "flexible, simple and competitive" system should be created.
It argued the existing system did not reflect current economic conditions.
The Scottish government said it was "doing everything" within its powers to support the economy.
It said that included "action to maintain a competitive business rates regime".
The call by SRC came in its submission to a review of rates which is due to report to the Scottish government in July next year.
SRC was one of a number of organisations which called last month for a hike in tax rates for big firms to be reversed.
In its submission to the review, the lobby group called for regular revaluations of business premises to ensure the system "better reflects the economic conditions", and a single assessor - instead of the current 14 - to carry out assessments.
The SRC also wants to see poundage rates reduced to ensure they are "at least competitive with the rest of the UK", as well as a commitment to set a Scotland-wide poundage rate rather than devolving that power to local authorities.
The organisation said there should also be a "fundamental review" of existing exemptions, with the aim of creating a simpler and fairer system with fewer exemptions and reliefs.
SRC director David Lonsdale said: "We now have the opportunity to create a modern business rates system which promotes economic growth, investment and productivity.
"We believe the review should create a rates system which is flexible, simple and competitive."
He added: "Scottish government figures show that 10,000 jobs and 1,700 shops have been lost in the last seven years in the industry.
"In that time revenue from rates has grown by 42.5%. This is not sustainable, and without urgent reform up to a quarter of Scotland's shops will be at risk of closure, with the consequent impact on the Scottish economy."
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "We are doing everything within our powers to support our economy, including action to maintain a competitive business rates regime - for example, our small business bonus has already delivered over £1bn in savings for smaller firms.
"We commenced an external review precisely so we could engage with business and explore how rates can better reflect economic conditions and support growth.
"We warmly welcome the contributions of the business community to that process."
Fitton, twice a Lakeside semi-finalist, missed six match darts before Harbour hit double six to reach the last 16.
Three-time runner-up Tony O'Shea is also out, beaten 3-0 by Welsh 12th seed Jim Williams in the tournament's opening match.
It is the third year running that unseeded O'Shea has lost in round one.
Craig Caldwell of New Zealand will play the defending men's champion, England's Scott Mitchell, in round one on Sunday after the Kiwi thrower beat Scotland's Alan Soutar 3-1 in a preliminary-round match.
Middlesbrough's Glen Durrant, the number one seed, faces Welshman Dean Reynolds in the final game of Saturday's evening session.
In the women's draw, reigning women's champion Lisa Ashton made it safely through to the last eight.
The 45-year-old from Bolton dropped just one leg in her 2-0 win over England's Paula Jacklin as she began her quest for a third consecutive women's world title.
Media playback is not supported on this device
The Panamanian-registered Modern Express began listing last Tuesday and all 22 crew members were airlifted off the vessel after a distress call.
Efforts to tow it have failed, but another attempt will be made on Monday.
If it fails, the ship will strike France's south-west coast between Monday night and Tuesday morning.
Bad weather hindered rescue efforts on Sunday, two days after a tow line to the 164m (538ft) vessel was broken in rough seas.
The ship, which is carrying 3,600 tonnes of timber and digging machines, is now listing at an angle of between 40 and 50 degrees.
Emmanuel De Oliveira, of the Atlantic Maritime Prefecture, said it was now "totally impossible to put the cargo ship upright".
Around 300 tonnes of fuel are on board, French authorities say. The Sud-Ouest newspaper reported (in French) that emergency measures would be put in place if the ship runs aground in order to contain the fuel and remove it.
In 2002, the Prestige oil tanker sank off the coast of northern Spain, spilling 50,000 tonnes of oil and polluting thousands of miles of coast.
At 11:00 (10:00 GMT) on Sunday, the Modern Express was about 100km (60 miles) from the south-western French coast, between Bordeaux and Biarritz.
The magic lantern slides were once owned by hot air balloonist and photographer Cecil Victor Shadbolt.
He collated them for a lecture called Balloons and Ballooning he gave some time between 1882-1892.
There are also 37 colourful non-photograph slides as part of the collection.
Dominic Winter Auctions in Gloucestershire expects the images to be sold for up to £10,000.
The Argentina centre-back, 27, was one of three Swans players the club received offers for in January, according to chairman Huw Jenkins.
But Fernandez, who played a major part as Paul Clement's side beat relegation rivals Leicester City on Sunday, said he was pleased to stay.
"Probably in the next week I will sign a new contract," said Fernandez.
Fernandez, who joined Swansea from Napoli in August 2014, did not reveal which clubs had been keen on signing him last month, but said assurances from the Swans had helped make up his mind.
"They said I was very important for the team. They are confident in me," he said. "The offers came in, the club said no and I am happy to stay."
Against the Foxes, Fernandez's defensive partner Alfie Mawson, opened the scoring with an impressive volley.
Fernandez said he was enjoying playing alongside Mawson after the Swans initially struggled to cope with the loss of former captain Ashley Williams, who joined Everton in the summer.
"Alfie works hard every day on the training ground," said Fernandez.
"I try to stay compact and help him next to me. He's got a lot of potential. He's a young guy. He will play in the Premier League for many years I hope.
"He tries to score goals like that in training, but that one was amazing."
The win over Leicester meant Swansea leapfrogged their opponents and are now 15th in the table, four points above the relegation places.
"We have a long way to go, but we are doing things in the right way," added Fernandez, whose side are away at leaders Chelsea next (25 February, 15:00 GMT kick-off).
Zane Gbangbola died at his Chertsey home during the winter floods of 2014.
An inquest ruled it was due to carbon monoxide poisoning from a petrol pump dispersing the water, but his parents blame toxic fumes from the landfill.
Surrey County Council has now written to residents offering to replace sealed air bricks that might retain gases.
The authority said its records showed occupants had installed flood protection products in 2014-15 with a government grant.
"Since then, the Environment Agency has told us that products which restrict airflow beneath a building's floor, such as self-closing air bricks or air bricks with covers, may not be suitable for properties, like yours, which are close to a current or historic landfill site," the letter said.
It added that the council was "offering to make a contribution of £65 per air brick towards removal and replacement with a standard air brick, or the installation of an alternative flood protection product".
Zane's parents, Kye Gbangbola and Nicole Lawler, have demanded an independent public inquiry into their claim their son was killed by a hydrogen cyanide gas leak from the former landfill site.
Mr Gbangbola, who was paralysed from the waist down in the same incident in which Zane died, said the council's letter raised concerns that "migrating landfill gases" could build up beneath nearby properties.
"This is essentially what we've been saying all along," he said.
"The letter came after Zane's inquest and of course now it's quite clear that what we've been saying has been a problem from the outset."
In response, Surrey County Council said in a statement: "The Environment Agency brought to our attention that self-closing air bricks may not be suitable for a limited number of properties.
"As a precautionary measure we wrote to affected homeowners with this information and offered to help them with the cost of replacing this product."
Spelthorne Borough Council, whose area includes Chertsey, added that it related to potential risks from landfill in general and not specifically to the site in Chertsey.
Four protesters and two policemen died in clashes that followed the closure of roads into provincial capital Lahore.
Mr Qadri was due to hold a large demonstration in the city on Sunday but told supporters to abandon the plans.
The event was partly to protest against the deaths of at least eight Qadri supporters in at a rally in June.
The cleric said that the latest clashes began on Friday when police tried to stop convoys of protesters gathering near his home in Lahore.
Representatives for Mr Qadri claimed that seven of his supporters were shot dead by police.
After the deaths, the cleric called on his supporters to abandon the planned rally in Lahore.
Police said they fired tear gas and that about 20 officers were wounded, in addition to the two who were killed. Around 500 protesters were also arrested, police said.
Qadri supporters briefly abducted six police officers, before releasing them unharmed.
Mr Qadri, who until recently was based in Canada, returned to Pakistan in June and is one of Pakistan's most prominent political and religious figures.
He leads the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) party and has condemned the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as corrupt.
Mr Qadri says he plans to lead a peaceful revolt against Mr Sharif, who he says has failed to solve basic problems such as unemployment and frequent electricity outages.
At least eight people were killed when police in Lahore used live ammunition against his followers last month.
Correspondents say there is widespread suspicion in Pakistan that Mr Qadri's return was encouraged by Pakistan's powerful military, following recent tensions with the prime minister.
Mr Qadri has called for a military-backed government to take over from Mr Sharif, but has denied being supported by the army.
Opposition politician Imran Khan is also due to lead a large demonstration in Islamabad on Thursday.
He says there were irregularities in the last year's parliamentary elections, in which his Tehreek-e-Insaf party came second.
Police have already blocked off many roads around Islamabad ahead of Mr Khan's protest.
Ben Woollacott, 19, died in 2011 after being dragged from the Woolwich Ferry while mooring ropes were being untied.
The then company in charge, Serco Ltd, was fined £200,000 for failing to ensure the safety of its crew.
Mr Woollacott's father Steve said his son, from Swanley in Kent, "will always be with us".
"Being out on the river, it's like he's here, it's like his spirit is still here," he added.
The family has worked on the river for years, with the 19 year old being the sixth generation of Thames "watermen".
"We often hear the Woolwich Ferry calling up so we'll always hear Ben's name when they make their river crossings," Mr Woollacott's father said.
A report by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch in 2012 found Mr Woollacott suffered head injuries and was most likely dragged violently against the side of the ferry by the rope, which had tangled in the vessel's propeller.
He drowned despite his life jacket bringing him to the surface and the quick actions of his colleagues, it said.
The new vessel, costing around £20m, is being constructed by Polish boat builders Remontowa and will enter service in 2018.
The new ferries will form part of a range of new river crossings in east London recently announced by the mayor of London.
|
A man who beheaded an elderly woman in her garden in an attack of "extraordinary brutality" has been cleared of murder on the grounds of insanity.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
US police are investigating the stepfather of black shooting victim Michael Brown for inciting illegal activity during protests in Ferguson.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The abduction of Shannon Matthews could not have been foreseen by social services involved with her family, a serious case review has concluded.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
UK economic growth is "near stalling", partly due to uncertainty over the EU referendum, according to a closely-watched survey.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The UN-backed evacuation of civilians and delivery of aid has continued at the besieged rebel-held Old City of Homs.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A rare Philippine eagle has been shot dead just two months after it was released into the wild following treatment for a previous gunshot wound, Philippine conservationists say.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Nottingham Panthers saw off defending champions Cardiff Devils in overtime to lift the Challenge Cup for the sixth time in seven years in Sheffield.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Pakistani Islamic cleric has launched a "counter-terrorism" curriculum to combat the message of Islamist extremist groups such as Islamic State (IS), in an effort to help stop young people becoming radicalised.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A group of people are yelling the word "out" as an instructor drops a tennis ball next to a painted white line.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A former crime-fighting chief has been announced as the next chief inspector of borders and immigration.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Eyewitnesses and emergency workers have been recalling the deadly stampede at an entrance tunnel at the Love Parade music festival in the German city of Duisburg.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A giant puppet of a Cornish miner has taken its first steps on a 130-mile journey.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Staging the 2022 World Cup in November and December may be the "best thing that's ever happened" to England, says former international Phil Neville.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Police, fire and ambulance services in England should share control rooms to improve their response to 999 calls, a Home Office minister has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The number of babies dying before their first birthday in England and Wales is at its lowest ever rate, new figures have revealed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Overall crime in England and Wales fell by 15% in 2013, official figures show.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A British nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola after returning from Sierra Leone could remain in a critical condition for "some time", her family have said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Aberdeen Asset Management has lifted the suspension of its multi-billion UK commercial property fund.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sheffield United have signed Middlesbrough defender Alex Baptiste on a 93-day emergency loan.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Poland's conservative government says anyone who uses language that implies Polish responsibility for Nazi German atrocities will face jail or a fine.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The electrification of the Great Western rail line has been described by MPs as a "stark example of how not to run a major project".
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A collection of letters written by Audrey Hepburn has sold for £11,250 - more than twice its estimate.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Scottish retailers have called for the business rates system in Scotland to be "fundamentally reformed", claiming up to a quarter of shops could close if the current arrangements continue.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Seventh seed Darryl Fitton is out of the BDO World Championships, losing his first-round tie to fellow Englishman Dennis Harbour in a sudden-death leg.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A stricken cargo ship is heading towards the French coast but there are hopes it can be towed to safety before it runs aground.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Dozens of aerial images of England in the 1800s, said to be among oldest surviving examples, are being offered for sale.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Swansea City defender Federico Fernandez says he is set to sign a new contract at the Premier League club.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Modifications have been offered to properties close to a former landfill site which was blamed for causing the death of a seven-year-old boy.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
At least six people have been killed in Pakistan's Punjab province, in clashes between police and supporters of anti-government cleric Tahirul Qadri.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The father of a teenage deckhand who died after falling from a ferry has said it is "very special" that a boat will be named in his honour.
| 33,239,870 | 15,928 | 938 | true |
The cinemagoers, who were attending an international film festival in the city of Trivandrum in Kerala, were later freed but they face charges of "failure to obey an order issued by a public servant, thereby causing obstruction or annoyance to others".
And at a cinema in Chennai on Sunday, eight people who did not stand for the anthem were assaulted and abused, police said. The eight were later charged with showing disrespect to the anthem.
The arrests and reports of assault follow last month's Supreme Court ruling that the national anthem be played before every film and that audiences stand while it is played - and they make it clear that authorities are taking the ruling seriously.
"If we did not sit on chairs, I thought we would lose the seats," one detainee told the Indian Express.
The controversial ruling - cheered by the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP - comes at a time of routine demands on Indians to display patriotism, and this is not the first time people have been targeted for not respecting the national song.
In October, a disabled man who had been carried from his wheelchair to a seat, described how he was assaulted by other members of the audience for not standing for the anthem.
In the past three years, people have been thrown out cinemas and even charged with sedition for not standing up for the anthem.
A 1971 law makes any obstruction to the singing of the song "or causing disturbances to any assembly engaged in such singing" punishable by a three-year prison term and/or a fine.
But October's Supreme Court ruling gives national authority to what was previously a rash of loosely-followed, state-specific laws.
The ruling says that the anthem must be played in all cinemas, accompanied by an image of the Indian flag, and everyone must stand. It also stated that the doors must remain closed to prevent people from entering or leaving. The court later amended the ruling to exempt disabled people.
Critics of the Supreme Court ruling have called it a case of judicial overreach and an attack on freedom of expression.
Political scientist Suhas Palshikar said the ruling threatened to turn "citizens into subjects". Gopalkrishna Gandhi, a former diplomat, wrote: "The national anthem is not a traffic signal that has to be respected. It is not a tax that requires compliance. It is not a test that has to be submitted to."
National anthems are seen as tests of patriotism around the world. In Japan, school teachers have been warned for not standing up during the anthem. In Mexico, a woman was fined for mixing up the words.
And in the US, the Star-Spangled Banner has a long-standing association with protest. In September, American football player Colin Kaepernick said he had received death threats over his refusal to stand for the anthem in protest against the treatment of black people by police.
"Some of the right, committed to nationalistic politics, naturally see the anthem as a vital issue," Kevin Kruse, a professor of history at Princeton University, told me. "This has been true in past moments too, especially in times of war - the anthem being politicised during the Vietnam era, for instance, leading to the 1968 Olympics protest."
But what is unsettling in India, said political scientist Suhas Palshikar, is that state-ministered patriotism "often tends to give way to unruly vigilantism or authoritarian state machinery, or both".
The 23-year-old, who was said to be a target for Arsenal, has agreed a four-year deal with the French champions.
Wolfsburg said both clubs had agreed to keep the financial details of the deal confidential.
"He's an outstanding footballer," said Wolfsburg boss Valerien Ismael. "I hope his move to France provides him with a fresh challenge."
MyShake was launched for Android devices in February and has now been downloaded over 200,000 times.
Enabled phones have recorded hundreds of quakes all over the globe since then - some as small as magnitude 2.5.
These more sedate tremors were picked up in Oklahoma.
Traditionally, this US state has not been considered earthquake country but seismic activity has increased as a consequence of local oil and gas production.
Prof Richard Allen from the University of California at Berkeley said MyShake had become a useful tool for residents to monitor what was occurring in their region.
"These are induced earthquakes due to wastewater pumping. So there are lots of issues around what might happen, how big these earthquakes might be - and there's been a lot of pushback.
"We want to empower people to understand what the process is," he told BBC News.
The MyShake app relies on a sophisticated algorithm to analyse all the different vibrations picked up by a phone's onboard accelerometer.
This algorithm has been "trained" to distinguish between everyday human motions and those specific to an earthquake.
It works in the background - much like health apps that monitor the fitness activity of the phone user.
Once triggered, MyShake sends a message to a central server over the mobile network. The hub then calculates the location and size of the quake.
"MyShake is performing better than we'd hoped," said Prof Allen.
"We are actually recoding very small magnitude earthquakes, down to magnitude 2.5 in places like Oklahoma and California. We're recording the bigger earthquakes - the Ecuador quake in April, M7.8, is the largest so far; and also really deep earthquakes, down to depths of 350km.
"So, from a scientific standpoint, it’s starting to produce this incredible dataset and we’re just beginning to understand what we can do with it."
Prof Allen was speaking here at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
He came to announce a new version of the app that now pushes notifications to users.
This is a key next step because the idea eventually is to use the detections being made by devices to issue alerts.
In a dense network, the phones closest to the epicentre would sense the oncoming shaking and then tell cells further afield of the danger heading their way.
The early warning might only amount to a few seconds, but that would at the very least give people the thinking space to start to adopt the famous safety routine - to "drop, cover and hold on".
MyShake is not there yet.
The notifications now being issued with the new app version are being served from conventional seismic networks, and they arrive some minutes after the event.
But as more and more phones join the MyShake system and the Berkeley team improves its detection algorithm, the big switch to an early warning mode should be possible.
UC Berkeley developer and graduate student Qingkai Kong reported to the AGU meeting on performance of the app.
He showed how phones could readily detect the first seismic waves to arrive at a user’s position - the so-called P-waves. These less destructive vibrations run ahead of the far stronger and more damaging S-waves.
Being able to distinguish between the two is at the heart of early warning capability.
"We already have the algorithm to detect the earthquakes running on our server, but we have to make sure it is accurate and stable before we can start issuing warnings, which we hope to do in the near future," said Kong.
The v2 release of MyShake is now available in the Google Play store. An iOS version should be ready for download in springtime.
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos
Mazembe were 2-0 up inside the first 26 minutes thanks to goals from Ben Malango and Rainford Kalaba.
SuperSport launched their fightback with Aubrey Modiba hitting straight back after Kalaba's strike and Teboho Mokoena hitting a second-half equaliser for the South Africans.
With Guinea's Horoya beating Mounana of Gabon 1-0 on Saturday, Group D is now tight with three teams level on points.
Horoya, Mazembe and SuperSport all have five points at the half-way stage of the group phase.
In Group B, Tunisia's CS Sfaxien moved back to the top of their pool with a comfortable 3-0 win over Platinum Stars of South Africa.
Nigeria's Kingsley Sokari opened the scoring after 10 minutes, Karim Aouadhi extended the lead before the half hour mark - and the win was rounded off by Maher Hannechi early in the second half.
Sfaxien lead the pool by a point from Mouloudia Alger.
Also on Sunday, Zambia's Zesco United beat Recreativo Libolo 1-0 in Ndola to go two points clear at the top of Group C.
A goal from Idris Mbombo was enough to give the Zambians the victory.
Group winners and runners-up will qualify for the quarter-finals.
French newspaper La Voix Dunord revealed a judge in the city of Valencienne renamed the child Ella after the parents failed to turn up to a court date in November.
The court's decision noted that Nutella was the trade name of a spread.
"A name like that can only lead to teasing or disparaging comments," it stated.
In a separate case, another family from Raismes, who named their child Fraise (Strawberry), were also told the name could be detrimental to the child.
The parents then re-named their child Fraisine, an old French name.
Many countries restrict baby names, including Germany, Sweden, China, Iceland and Japan.
In Iceland, there is a list of 1,853 female names, and 1,712 male ones, and parents must pick from these lists or seek permission from a special committee.
In 2007, a New Zealand couple blocked from naming their baby 4Real instead settled on calling him Superman.
And in Germany in 2002, officials refused to allow a Turkish couple living in Cologne to name their baby boy Osama Bin Laden.
The UK has much more liberal rules on baby names.
There are no restrictions on parents, apart from exceptional cases, when an official can refuse to register it if the name is deemed offensive.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube
Gwent Police officers were called to Tregwilym Road, in Rogerstone, at about 08:50 BST on Friday.
They say the 39-year-old man has life-threatening injuries and is being treated at the city's Royal Gwent Hospital.
Four men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and are being questioned by officers.
On 28 March, 1979, a combination of mechanical failure and human error led to a partial meltdown at the nuclear power plant in central Pennsylvania.
The accident caused no injuries or deaths but provoked widespread fear and mistrust among the US public.
The anniversary comes as Japan grapples with radiation leaks from its quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.
People gathered at the plant near Middletown in the US state of Pennsylvania early on Monday morning, offering prayers for those in Japan affected by the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, local television reported.
Among the roughly 30 people there were anti-nuclear power demonstrators.
The accident occurred about 4am in the Three Mile Island plant's Unit 2. The plant's Unit 1 continues to generate electric power.
The vigils came as Japan announced that highly radioactive water had been found for the first time outside one of the reactor buildings at the Fukushima nuclear plant, which was severely damaged by an earthquake and resulting Tsunami on 11 March.
President Putin's phrase leapt from the front pages of Russian newspapers on Wednesday morning, along with furious commentary on Turkey's downing of a Russian fighter plane.
"Vladimir Putin has warned Erdogan about the consequences," another headline roared, as Russians absorbed the news that one of the pilots on board the Su-24 jet had been killed.
Worse still, he was shot at as he attempted to parachute to safety from his burning plane. A marine was then killed during a rescue attempt.
Since the start of its air strikes in Syria almost two months ago, Russia has received repeated warnings from Turkey over border violations.
This time, Russia insists its jet never left Syrian airspace though it has yet to produce what it calls the "objective" proof of that.
But even by Ankara's reckoning, the plane was only over Turkish territory for 17 seconds, raising questions here about the scale of the response.
Turkey, the argument goes, was under no threat.
An angry crowd surrounded the Turkish embassy today, throwing eggs and stones, yelling at those inside they were "murderers".
"Every country understands that hitting a military jet can start a war," politician Gennady Gudkov told Ekho Moskvy radio station, saying that is why every possible warning step is taken before shooting a plane down.
Many commentators here have cast doubt whether that happened in this case.
"There was no warning. Not via radio, or visually. There was no contact at all," the surviving co-pilot of the plane told journalists, safely back at Russia's airbase in Syria after his emergency mid-air ejection.
He says the jet was shot down from behind.
"If they had wanted to warn us, then they could have shown themselves - flown in parallel," Captain Murakhtin said.
Unconfirmed audio recordings have now been released by the Turkish military, said to be orders for the plane to change course. But the co-pilot insists he did not enter Turkish airspace "even for a second".
Russia's foreign minister has called the decision to shoot down the plane a "planned provocation", without speculating on Turkey's supposed motive.
But President Putin has already accused Ankara of siding with Islamic State (IS) by hitting the Russian jet; he also claimed some in Turkey are benefitting from the illicit sale of IS oil exports.
Clearly furious, he has threatened "serious consequences". After all, these are the first military casualties for Russia since air strikes began in Syria.
But so far concrete measures have been limited.
Russia has broken off military contacts with Turkey but diplomatic channels remain open.
The foreign minister spent a fraught hour on the phone to his Turkish counterpart today, but his conclusion was critical: "We do not intend to go to war with Turkey," Sergei Lavrov assured the world.
Instead, ministries have been ordered to report back to the Kremlin on any projects involving Turkey, for a decision on possible sanctions.
The future of a pipeline project could be in doubt and there have been calls for flights to Turkey to be suspended.
Meanwhile, tourists have been warned against travelling there for "security reasons". Last year, Turkey was the destination of choice for over three million Russian holidaymakers.
On the ground inside Syria the changes have been more immediate.
A cruiser has been despatched to help bolster air defences around the Russian base.
The sophisticated S400 anti aircraft system is also being deployed and Russian planes will now be protected on bombing raids by fighter jets.
The message to Turkey and its allies is clear: don't dare try it again.
As for the rescued co-pilot, he says he is impatient to return to the skies.
"I want to stay here," he said, referring to the Russian airbase. "I want payback for my commander."
Here, BBC News looks at the causes of the unrest and how it has developed.
What sparked the protests?
The unrest began on 28 May as a protest to stop the demolition of one of Istanbul's rare central green spaces. Gezi Park is located in Taksim Square, the heart of the modern city and a focal point of huge symbolic value to many Istanbul residents and Turks with secular leanings. The development plans envisage building a replica Ottoman-era barracks and a mosque on the square, in a city already well-served by Islamic houses of prayer, critics say. Tempers were already high after police stopped leftist marchers holding a May Day rally on the square this year.
How did the anger spread so fast and so far?
Originally, just a small group of protesters "occupied" Gezi Park but after riot police moved in to clear them out with tear gas and water cannon, the unrest mushroomed into huge demonstrations in Istanbul. On 1 June, thousands of people streamed towards the square across the Bosphorus suspension bridge. Solidarity protests have erupted in 78 Turkish towns and cities and public sector trade unions staged a sympathy strike. The government has since admitted that police overreacted. To date, at least 5,000 protesters have been injured across the country, many of them seriously. The Turkish Human Rights Foundation has said the number of deaths in the protests has risen to four. It says a man who died of a heart attack days ago had been exposed to "too much" tear gas. Two demonstrators and a policeman have also been killed. The government says 600 police officers have been injured.
Who are the protesters in Istanbul?
They range from young, secular-minded women students to football fans, from the urban middle class to "the typical urban poor youth", according to the BBC's Paul Mason, who has been reporting from Istanbul. A committee set up to negotiate with the government, the Taksim Solidarity Platform (TSP), is composed of academics, architects and environmentalists. No particular leader has emerged yet. It is also unclear how much influence the secularist opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has on the demonstrators, despite government allegations that it is playing a key role.
What are the demonstrators' demands?
The TSP has asked for the scrapping of plans to redevelop the park, the sacking of police chiefs in Istanbul and other cities, a ban on the use of tear gas and the release of detained protesters.
What other grievances are at work?
Some see a creeping Islamisation of their secular state by the AKP under its powerful leader, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Days before the unrest began, a bill to ban the late-night sale of alcohol in shops was passed by parliament. Protesters have been holding up cans of beer and mock-toasting Mr Erdogan as a gesture of defiance. He has also sought to roll back the constitutional ban on the Islamic headscarf, to ban adultery and kissing in public. Others are outraged by what they see as his authoritarianism - and a campaign against his critics in the media. Supporters of Turkey's traditionally secular status are opposed to his campaign to depower the military and his peace process with Kurdish militants. Others are equally concerned about his policy of supporting the opposition in Syria.
Is this a Turkish Spring?
Turkey is not comparable to those Arab countries which had never known democracy. Firstly, the government owes its legitimacy to three successive election victories. The AKP won the last polls, in 2011, convincingly with international monitors generally satisfied that they had been conducted fairly. Secondly, Mr Erdogan and his party appear to still enjoy a bedrock of support in the wider country. A Pew opinion poll taken before the protests suggested that 62% of Turks took a favourable view of him, though it found this support falling sharply in the Istanbul metropolis, and among secular Turks in particular. Thirdly, under the AKP, Turkey has enjoyed economic growth as well as growing prestige as a regional power.
Any other comparisons?
It is tempting to compare the Turkish protests with the unrest in Moscow after the 2011 Russian general election, when resentment at rule by the same party for more than a decade boiled over. In Russia, the protesters ultimately failed to connect with the wider public and the movement rapidly declined.
How has the Turkish government reacted to the protests?
Prime Minister Erdogan has said that, even though he is a devout Muslim, he is committed to Turkey's secular laws and he denies any charges of autocracy. But he and his government have consistently taken a tough stance. He recently asked: "Were we supposed to kneel before them? They can call me harsh, but this Tayyip Erdogan won't change." He has also vowed to press ahead with the Taksim redevelopment plans and dismissed the protesters as extremists. However, he is scheduled to meet a group of government-selected activists for talks. Riot police fought running battles with pockets of protesters in Taksim Square overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday. By the morning, the square was bulldozed and largely deserted.
What reaction has there been abroad?
The US, which has held up Mr Erdogan's Turkey as an example of Muslim democracy from which other Middle Eastern countries could learn, has expressed concern about events and urged dialogue between government and protesters. The German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has said the Turkish government is sending the wrong signal at home and abroad, describing pictures from Taksim Square as "disturbing". He said he expected Mr Erdogan to "de-escalate the situation, in the spirit of European values".
Could Mr Erdogan lose his own party's support?
It is difficult to see how the party the prime minister founded would turn against him. There is little sign of differences emerging among party leaders. However, President Abdullah Gul, Mr Erdogan's old AKP ally, has taken a more conciliatory line towards the protesters, saying "democracy does not mean elections alone".
The council started to provide portable urinals two years ago following complaints by local businesses.
The move was welcomed by many traders in Wind Street, which is popular with drinkers, but the problem has not gone away.
From Friday, police will start handing out fixed penalty notices.
"Urinating in public is a major irritation to authorities and businesses who are left to clean up their own doorways and streets after people under the influence of alcohol feel it is acceptable to treat the city centre like a toilet," Ch Insp Dean Thomas said.
"It is certainly not acceptable and I am pleased the police are able to work with the council in enforcing fixed penalty notices against those caught in the act."
The pilot operation between the council and police is aimed at ensuring the public knows urinating in the street will not be tolerated.
The council deploys portable urinals every weekend in the city centre at known problem areas and says they are well used.
But not everyone chooses to use them, prompting the latest move follow a warning two years ago that anyone caught would be fined or arrested.
Bruno Nunes, owner of Peppermint bar and Bambu Beach bar, welcomed the action.
"The impact of this action will be felt not only by those hit in the pocket, but the many others who will hear about the tough stance being taken," he said.
Council cabinet member June Burtonshaw said: "Public urination is a contentious issue that has been troubling authorities, organisations and businesses working together to create a cleaner, healthier and safer city centre.
"We've tried the soft approach, which has had some effect, but now it is time to get tough. Urinating in shop doorways, alleys, lanes or bushes is not acceptable.
"There are toilets provided in every night-time venue, as well as the additional portable urinals on the streets. If people still can't control their bladders, they could find themselves with a hefty fine."
Similar toilets are used in other UK cities including Manchester, Bristol, Cambridge and London.
Wind Street has come under fire in recent months being dubbed "an area of drunkenness and debauchery" and a "magnetic attraction" for drinkers.
In response, the council has introduced a policy curbing new pub and club licences in the city centre.
Soldiers from the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) Kineton Station, accompanied by a band, marched from Warwick Castle to Pageant Gardens in the town.
Kineton Station has a permanent staff of more than 200 military personnel.
The parade was followed by an open day at Marlborough Barracks, Southam.
Farhan Mirza, 38, of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, is charged with voyeurism, blackmail, theft and fraud.
Cardiff Crown Court heard he filmed women exposing parts of their body without their knowledge before demanding money.
Mr Mirza, who denies the charges, said all of the women had consented to being filmed.
Prosecutor Tim Evans said Mr Mirza, who works at the Usk campus of Coleg Gwent in Monmouthshire, had lied about being a wealthy doctor.
His three alleged victims were all Muslim women and the court was told they had been targeted because of the "terror" and "embarrassment" they would have felt.
The first woman was described as a doctor from Pakistan who Mr Mirza had formed a relationship with.
The jury was told she spent thousands of pounds on him, and he asked several times to film them having sex, but she declined.
She later discovered a video of them having sex on Mr Mirza's computer, along with copies of her passport and visa.
Mr Mirza told police he kept records to "keep someone like her on a straight path".
The court heard he continued to demand money and eventually sent her a "horrific" and threatening video with images of death on it.
It was at that point she went to the police.
When Mr Mirza's phone was examined, two other alleged victims were discovered who he had met through a dating site, the jury was told.
He asked one woman to intimately examine her to help her with her medical problem. He also demanded money, promising to "make her famous" by using a secretly filmed video.
The court was shown a video of a third woman dressed in a towel after a shower, which the prosecution said she never consented to.
The court heard Mr Mirza demanded expensive gifts from her and promised to marry her.
He denies all the charges and the case continues.
Ronan Costello, of Huddersfield Giants Under-19s, died three days after he suffered a severe traumatic brain injury against Salford Red Devils on June 11.
Bradford Coroner's Court heard Mr Costello slipped during a tackle and hit his head on the ground.
Assistant coroner Philip Holden said: "This was a tragic death of a really promising young rugby player."
He added that the teenager was "doing what he loved".
Live updates on this and other stories from West Yorkshire
Mr Costello, who started playing rugby league at the age of six and signed professionally in 2015, suffered the brain injury after being tackled by Salford's Adam Jones and Aaron Moore.
The inquest was told the tackle was not malicious.
Mr Jones described his tackle as "perfectly good", but said he had considered giving up rugby after the "extremely traumatic" incident.
The inquest heard Mr Costello had the ball and appeared to "slip or stumble" as he was tackled before his head or chin came into contact with Mr Jones's shoulder, causing him to fall backwards.
The back of his head hit the ground and he lost consciousness and began fitting.
After medical treatment on the Huddersfield's Dram Centre pitch, Mr Costello was airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary for brain surgery but was pronounced dead on 14 June.
A police investigation found the death was not suspicious.
Ronan's father, Martin, said he did not hold Salford players responsible for "a tragic accident".
A statement on behalf of the family added: "He loved playing rugby league and was proud to play for Huddersfield Giants."
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."
Compiled by BBC Sport's Andrew Aloia and Matt Newsum.
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.
Journalist sues Iran over 'torture'
Iran's teachers' leaders warn of jail threat
Woman asked to stop Iran Olympic protest
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".
More on this and other Hull stories
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.
Media playback is not supported on this device
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."
Media playback is not supported on this device
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.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.
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.
Read more: Skirmishes, charm and wads of notes
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.
|
Twelve people were arrested on Monday evening at a cinema in India, after they remained seated while the national anthem played.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Wolfsburg forward Julian Draxler has agreed to join Paris St-Germain for a reported 42m euros (£35.75m).
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The researchers behind an app that turns a smartphone into an earthquake detector say they have been thrilled by the take-up and performance of their citizen science network.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The African Confederation Cup holders TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo drew 2-2 at home to South Africa's SuperSport United on Sunday in the latest Group matches.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A French court has ruled that a baby cannot be named Nutella because it is against the child's interest.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man is in hospital with stab wounds following an alleged murder attempt at a garage in Newport.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Dozens have gathered at Three Mile Island to mark the 32nd anniversary of America's worst nuclear accident.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
"A stab in Russia's back by the accomplices of terrorists."
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Turkey has been gripped by the biggest street protests since the Islamist-leaning Justice and Development Party (AKP) took power more than a decade ago.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Revellers will receive £75 fines if they are caught urinating in streets and doorways instead of using open-air urinals in Swansea city centre.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Soldiers have taken part in a parade to celebrate the 75th anniversary of an ammunition depot.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A college worker has gone on trial accused of blackmailing women he met on a dating site with intimate videos.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The death of a 17-year-old rugby player was "accidental", an inquest has ruled.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A "callous fraudster" who conned an elderly woman out of £160,000 by convincing her he would invest her savings has been jailed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Welsh settlers asserted dominance in Patagonia by portraying Wales as a small country filled with moral giants, an academic has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Injury-ravaged, bottom of Super League and without a win in 2016 - Leeds Rhinos face an enormous World Club Challenge task against a North Queensland Cowboys side led by a modern-day rugby league great.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A government minister has apologised for saying he had to "watch the pennies" on his almost £90,000 salary.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Tim Sherwood has been appointed manager at Aston Villa, signing a contract at the club until summer 2018.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A writer and human rights activist has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment in Iran for penning a story about stoning.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Myanmar has invited the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres to resume its work in Rakhine state, which has been plagued by sectarian violence.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Greggs has dropped its legal battle against having to provide toilets in its branches with seating.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A campaign group says its proposal for a new home in Filton near Bristol, for the last Concorde to fly is the "only feasible solution" to save it.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Great Britain's Andrew Willis narrowly missed out on a medal in the men's 200m breaststroke as Dmitriy Balandin of Kazakhstan won Olympic gold in Rio.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Enforcing a smoking ban in cars with children present could prove "difficult", the Law Society of Scotland has said.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A Milton Keynes artist who claims to have hidden a cheque for £8,000 in an art gallery has urged the public to "take care" while searching for it.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A government security check on a new report into the loyalist murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane will further undermine the credibility of the document, his family have claimed.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A volunteer first aider who helped save a man's life following a road crash in Conwy county is urging others to learn basic life saving skills.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Flip flops depicting Mahatma Gandhi have been removed from sale on Amazon after they caused anger in India.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A man and his pet ferret have walked the length of Hadrian's Wall to raise money for research into motor neurone disease, which killed his mother.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
A 23-year-old man has been charged in connection with a road collision that killed a two-year-old girl in Coupar Angus last October.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
The Grangemouth community warning system, which alerts the public in the event of a major toxic gas release, will be tested on 7 June.
[NEXT_CONCEPT]
Sports Direct's embattled owner Mike Ashley says it will be best for him to go if he fails to fix the company.
| 38,298,821 | 15,522 | 1,020 | true |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.